Chapter 769: A Dignified Welcome
While the new envoys here had already heard of the beasts being able to speak, seeing it in person was vastly different. Among the ones who had seen them before, only Minister Ting and one person each from the Luguo kingdom and the Pale marble kingdom were there. Everyone else was new.
Patriarch Bing raised his eyes and finally understood why guardian Yun had repeatedly told him to keep his demeanor during the visit. He had not expected the millennium forest to have such a power.
It was already enough to overpower most of the kingdoms and sects around it. Perhaps only the Frozen Cloud sect had power to contest it, but Patriarch Bing didn’t think that after the massacre.
‘Who is the true being behind them all…?’ Patriarch Bing thought.
Yun Bai had given him some hints about it, but had not stated it outright, telling him that if the being deemed it worthy he will show himself to them and if not, no one could force him to reveal himself.
The rest of them gazed at the beasts, finding them to be quite strong too. Even if they were at the Nascent soul realm and some were below them in cultivation base, there was something to these beasts that stirred a feeling of unease within them.
Shirong though, was feeling something different.
‘This aura… while it is not like that… there is still some level of semblance…’ he thought to himself.
“Hmm… seems like everyone seems to be here. Just on time, as planned.” The Emeraldine Sky Light Monk Ape spoke.
“And who might you be?” One of the envoys asked.
The person who had spoken was actually the envoy from the top sect, the Cang Lan sect!
The beast looked at the old man and gave a little smile.
“I am merely one of the many subordinates under my king. But my king has given me a name. I am the Emeraldine Sky Light Monk Ape.” He introduced himself.
The elder from the Cang Lan sect seemed intrigued and stroked his beard.
“An ape beast that is a monk… interesting.” The elder said while he looked at the others.
He could see four more ape beasts there, that looked the same kind, but still looked different than the Emeraldine Sky Light Monk Ape.
“And are they the same as you?” The elder from the Cang Lan sect questioned.
“No, we have been named as the Emeraldine Monkeys by our king.” The leader of them answered.
“Emeraldine as well…” Someone muttered, seeing the similarity in the name.
All the monkey beasts were wearing robes, thus the crystals on their body were not directly visible. Even for the Emeraldine Sky Light Monk Ape only the crystal on his forehead was visible.
“Come, let me take you all to the site of the meeting.” The Emeraldine Sky Light Monk Ape spoke.
“Alright, we’ll be in your care.” Minister Ting replied.
He had understood his position here and knew that it was best for him to act as the ‘cushion’ between the two parties so as to keep the peace. It wasn’t that he was doing this willingly, but rather he had to do it.
After all, if the discussion failed and something happened, it was the powers next to the Millennium forest that would be in the most trouble. The others could simply leave and would be fine for the most part.
The envoys followed behind the Emeraldine Sky Light Monk Ape while the other beasts continued behind them as well. There were various beasts in it, along with the monkey beasts, like bird beasts and insect beasts.
The ones that were missing here though, were the former kings of the forest. Namely the beetle king, the two ape beast kings, and the Twin Lights Liger King. But even then, there were plenty of Nascent soul realm beasts here.
Even the Club tailed lizard had joined in this meeting to drive up the numbers. It was possibly her first time acting in a plan of Lin Wu’s and she was rather excited about it too.
A few of the more weak minded envoys that had a lower cultivation base couldn’t help but feel intimidated by the beasts. One of the beasts that was a scorpion, kept on snapping its sharp pincers every so often, scaring the envoy who was at the very back.
After an about ten minutes of walking, the envoys were brought to the place of the meeting. This was of course, none other than the shrine of the Sky Brights Daoist.
It had changed greatly since its older days and had been repaired expanded. Now it had several different buildings within its compound, along with what looked like training and teaching grounds.
The envoys all looked around, finding it to be rather new.
“Was this all… made by them?” Lian Xiaojian wondered.
This was the question that everyone had. After all, they would never think of seeing this level of architecture from beasts. Even if it might have been and old inheritance ground, they could tell the difference between old buildings and new constructions.
“This was indeed built by us.” One of the Emeraldine Monkeys confirmed.
The main building of the shrine was built in a different style than the rest and had ancient carvings on it. It was not changed and only some restorations were done so as to return it to the old look.
The system helped greatly in this, as it had access to the old records of it. Replicating the same look was merely a matter of time. Of course, the addition of the formation arrays like the past was something only Lin Wu could do with the assistance of the system.
Regardless of whatever the shrine looked like, a goal had already been achieved; showing the ‘cultured’ skills of the beasts.
Having brought them to the shrine, the Emeraldine Sky Light Monk Ape gestured them to take some seats. The seating arrangement wasn’t bad either, and they were provided with soft beast furs to use as cushions.
