Ji Yen knew the Li clan will send people soon, since the rain and the storm stopped some time ago.
So, he started working on the traps. Ji Wen also helped him making the traps.
Since he can not make a perfect traps without proper hands, he decided to ask the demon monkey for help.
After making some small traps, he headed for the demon monkey's territory.
Some minutes later, he arrived at the demon monkey's territory.
To Ji Yen's shock, the territory was filled with marks of blades and broken rocks.
Seeing all that things, Ji Yen had a bad feeling. He thought something bad might have happened to the demon monkey.
So he flew faster towards the monkey's home tree.
Along the way, he saw many signs of fighting and struggles. Those things made him even sure of his thought.
To no one's shock, when Ji Yen reached the monkey's home tree, the tree was already broken. With several branches torn of the main tree.
Not only the tree, even the place looked like it just went on several different dimensions.
The signs of fighting was intense at the place, with dried up bloods all over the place.
But when Ji Yen looked closer, he realized the bloods are mostly of human cultivators. One some of the dried bloods belong to the demon monkey.
That made Ji Yen felt a little relief.
But that also made him even sure that the monkey had an accident. Most likely it got kidnapped.
The situation was difficult for Ji Yen to deal with. He did not know the monkey that much.
He wants to save the monkey but he doesn't know what to do.
Of course, if he knew where those people took him, he would atleast try to save. He was the only one he could trust enough to partnered with him besides Ji Wen.
Ji Yen kept his thoughts back to his mind and started searching around the place for clues. Any clues that can lead him to the monkey.
If the monkey was in some dangerous place, of course he would not risk his life to save. He is not an idiot, he barely knew the monkey. But if the monkey is found to be in some loose area, he would atleast try.
After looking around for quite some times, he found some clues of the people that attacked the monkey.
From his investigation, Ji Yen found the people who attacked the monkey must have used blades.
And there were atleast 7 people in the group. They are not that strong, mostly at layer 1 of Mortal Foundation Realm or semi warriors. Last but not the least, one of them used a blade that can heat up to take down the monkey.
The last clue made Ji Yen realized something. He quickly asked the system. "Tell me if the tail of Red Tail Monkey is use in making weapons for humans?"
The system casually sent a message.
[Every part of the body of Red Tail Monkey is useful for making weapon, not just for humans but also for other species. And the most important part of the body that can be use for making weapon is the tail.
The tails are useful in making Mortal Grade weapons. It is because the tails can heat up when cultivators channel their energies.
Lastly, the tails are mostly use for making blades.]
After reading the message, Ji Yen finally understood why those people attacked the demon monkey.
That was because Red Tail Monkey are rare. And their body is treasure for making weapons. In that forest, only about 20 of them might be alive.
And only the monkey happened to live near the outskirts of the forest.
The realization made Ji Yen felt a little uncomfortable. But all in all, he did not feel that much sad. He was just uncomfortable at the fact that his only ally got kidnapped. And maybe even dead.
Feeling a little uncomfortable, he left the place. Before he left, he did not even bother to mark the territory. His mind was occupied with many things.
As he left the monkey's territory, on the way he thought of many things.
Ji Yen then finally decided that it was useless to set up the traps wait for the humans and lure them.
He felt the whole process is a waste of time.
Maybe he might stopped the first group then the second. But he can not be always on guards against them.
He knows how those human heads thinks. A commander or a leader of the humans will never stop firing his shots.
One way or another they will find the tree and they will never stop until they find the tree.
So, Ji Yen decided it will be a waste of time to try to entertain those humans, instead he will cultivate hard in his spiritual cave to become even stronger.
He doesn't want to end up the same fate as the demon monkey. And that tree is going nowhere and it will take a year for the five petal tree to bear fruits again.
By that time, he will be way stronger than before.
As he kept thinking those thoughts, Ji Yen flew back to Ji Wen. Then he stopped him for setting up the traps.
Confused, Ji Wen asked Ji Yen why not.
Ji Yen simply told him that it is a waste of time for them to play with the humans. So instead they will just focus and keep on going with their daily routine. And the humans will continue their search for the spiritual tree.
Just like that Ji Yen and Ji Wen both left the five petal tree area and went back to their cave.
There they resumed their daily routine like any other day.
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Time went on.
Nearly a year has passed since both Ji Yen and Ji Wen went into seclusion.
During those times, the Li clan searched the whole territory of the wolves. And they finally found the five petal tree.
(Next chapter: The Ji birds vs the Li clan members)