Great Demon Sun Wukong

The feeling of paralysis grew stronger, and if it weren't for those heavy corpses of the ape-like ferocious beasts trapped in the middle, Monk Jing Sha probably wouldn't have had the ability to stand. By this time, those ape-like ferocious beasts were almost all dead, and even the ones still alive had lost the ability to continue fighting.
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He bit down hard on the tip of his tongue, hoping to stimulate his body with pain, but apart from the pain at the tip of his tongue, it was indeed of no use to the numbness of his body. Gradually, Monk Jing Sha had sobered up from the recent frenzied state of killing. The Monk Jing Sha within and beyond the slaughter were completely different; one was a brutal Asura, the other was indeed an honest monk.

As he withdrew from the state of killing, the malicious aura on Monk Jing Sha's body slowly dissipated. Looking around at the situation, Monk Jing Sha also felt some remorse. He was very clear about his own condition; once he started killing, he almost lost all reason, which was an advantage as it greatly increased his combat power, often allowing him to defeat much stronger enemies. However, the disadvantage was equally clear: he simply did not care about traps.

But when encountering those inescapable apes, even the most cautious person would have no way out. The only thing one could do was to flee for their life, to flee desperately. However, Monk Jing Sha did not choose to run, but to fight. In this condition, if no one came to his rescue, Monk Jing Sha was likely to die here.

As he regained consciousness, Monk Jing Sha first chanted a Buddha's name, then, looking at the corpses scattered all around, he actually closed his eyes and began to recite the Rebirth Mantra! This scene appeared very strange. A person who had just been in a frenzy of slaughter suddenly turned into a monk full of Buddha's power and compassion, reciting the Rebirth Mantra among a pile of corpses to release the departed spirits.

Looking at the face smeared with blood and the ground covered with half-severed limbs, while feeling the compassionate Buddha's power on Jing Sha's body, it was all extremely contradictory and eerie! Yet before Monk Jing Sha could finish reciting the Rebirth Mantra, the ground suddenly began to tremble slightly. Suddenly, Monk Jing Sha heard three miserable screams not far away.

He hurriedly opened his eyes and looked around, but saw nothing. Then, using his compassionate Buddha's power to sense, Monk Jing Sha's face suddenly changed, turning very ugly, extremely ugly. Because within the range of his Buddha's power, his three fellow monks were already dead. Moreover, there was a group of unknown ferocious beasts fighting over the corpses of those three.

At this moment, Jing Sha's expression became incredibly fierce, but the Buddha's power within him became even purer and more refined! It was as if a Buddha had transformed into a demonic Asura, yet his own Buddha's power did not change at all. Without making Monk Jing Sha wait long, under his angry gaze, the trees in front of him suddenly collapsed to both sides, and then seven or eight black gorillas, three to four meters tall, leaped out.

And behind them, an even larger number of giant gorillas were rushing towards this place; it was just that these seven or eight were the strongest and fastest. Watching these few gorillas pounce on the pile of corpses like mad to start eating the corpses of the ape-like ferocious beasts, it wasn't actually eating, it was swallowing, because these black gorillas didn't chew, they tore off large chunks of flesh and swallowed them whole.

Soon, one gorilla noticed Monk Jing Sha's head, the highest point on the pile of corpses, because at that time Monk Jing Sha was squeezed in the middle, with only his head exposed. Looking at the sudden appearance of a human head, the black gorilla seemed a bit taken aback, then opened its gaping maw and bit toward Monk Jing Sha's head.

Monk Jing Sha wanted to evade but was unable to move due to the paralysis and being squeezed tightly in the central mass. Thus, he could only watch helplessly as the gorilla swallowed his head. Perhaps the gorilla thought it was just a human head, so it opened its mouth wide and swallowed Jing Sha's entire head.

After biting down randomly a couple of times inside its mouth, the gorilla tried to swallow, but since Monk Jing Sha's head was still attached to his body, it couldn't be swallowed. After several unsuccessful attempts to swallow, the gorilla suddenly opened its mouth wide again and this time bit down hard, as if it intended to bite off Monk Jing Sha's head at the neck. The biting force was tremendous; after all, the biting force of the jaw, whether in humans or animals, is very powerful. Coupled with the gorilla's sharp, long teeth, if this bite had been successful, despite the toughness of Monk Jing Sha's body, even if it did not bite clean through, the outcome would not be much better.

But at this very moment, Monk Jing Sha was completely immobilized. Feeling the sharp pain from the gorilla's teeth, Monk Jing Sha sighed softly, then faintly said, "Shui Hua Tian Mu, Yu Ti Zhu—Water Curtain of the Heavenly Realm, Pillar of the Body."

With this faint voice, just as the gorilla's teeth had touched Jing Sha's neck, a thin column of water suddenly erupted at his feet. This water column, clinging to Monk Jing Sha's body, burst upward forcefully. And the force of the water pillar was so great, it struck the gorilla's face and body in the blink of an eye.

Without any hesitation, the immense force of the water column sent the gorilla flying into the air. However, as the gorilla's mouth was about to clamp shut, so its two sharp teeth left two gashes on either side of Monk Jing Sha's face, extending from his chin to his temples.

Looking at him, it seemed Jing Sha's entire face had been sliced open!

Yet to such a wound, Monk Jing Sha seemed utterly unaware, only unconsciously flicking his tongue out to lick the blood beside his chin when it began to flow. Surrounded by a column of water, Monk Jing Sha had, for now, eluded imminent danger but could barely manage to stand erect. Movement, however, was out of the question.

The water column, having appeared, did not dissipate but instead spun rapidly while gradually expanding. The ferocious monkey-beasts that had surrounded Monk Jing Sha were all caught by the spinning water and sent flying away. Before their bodies even touched the ground, they were snatched up and devoured by hordes of black gorillas rushing behind.

For them, the bodies of the hefty monkey-beasts, each weighing tens of thousands of pounds, were no different than ordinary fruit. Though there were many monkey-beast bodies, the black gorillas ate swiftly, leaving almost nothing behind as they cleaned up the surrounding carcasses of Monk Jing Sha.

But these gorillas had enormous appetites. Just over eighty of them consumed the bodies of three to four hundred monkey-beasts without showing any sign of satiation. Instead, their eyes were bloodshot, making them seem even hungrier than before.

With no more monkeys left to eat, all that remained in the field besides the gorillas was Monk Jing Sha, standing centrally. He could sense even more ferocious beasts sprinting towards them. These gorillas must have just happened to be nearby, which is why they could arrive so promptly.

What Monk Jing Sha didn't realize was that these black gorillas had been following the black monkeys all along, and this was simply their way of hunting. They would herd the monkey-beasts into the territory of other ferocious beasts, instigating a battle amongst them, before swooping in to seize the spoils and capture the survivors.

Strangely enough, while the monkey-beasts feared almost nothing in this Patrolling Celestial World, they were particularly terrified of these gorillas. In the presence of the gorillas, they were as docile as rabbits.

Monk Jing Sha, encircled tightly by the gorillas, displayed an expression neither sorrowful nor joyful. Gone was the ferocity from the killing, and absent was the sanctity from chanting Buddhist scriptures. The monk now presented a demeanor calm as still water, without a ripple of disturbance.

Monk Jing Sha stood still, while the gorillas had grown restless, yet although impatient, not a single one stepped forward. They scratched their ears and cheeks, or bared their teeth towards Monk Jing Sha at most.

Soon, the gorillas that had been crowding around Monk Jing Sha began to stir, and slowly made way for a path in one direction. Monk Jing Sha noticed this odd behavior of the gorillas, but he didn't believe they were letting him go.

Indeed, down that pathway, a small monkey appeared at a leisurely pace. The sight of this monkey slightly unsettled Monk Jing Sha's usually unperturbed mind. It would have seemed normal for a more formidable demonic creature or beast to emerge from this group of fierce gorillas as their leader, for the gorillas themselves were brutal enough. Hence, an extravagant leader would make sense.

But now a skinny, yellow-furred little monkey about half a meter tall was wobbling out from among the towering gorillas over two to three meters high, which was quite beyond Monk Jing Sha's understanding. Could it be their leader's child? Looking back, he saw the gorillas had closed the path behind them again.

As he gazed at the frail little monkey beneath his feet, who amusingly nibbled on a fruit of some sort, Monk Jing Sha found himself at a loss for what to do.

What if he accidentally stepped on and killed this little monkey? Would the gorillas go berserk?