Necropolis Immortal

us! But when we can’t even protect the monster spirits by our side, what right do we have to speak of ideals?”

Indelible pain flashed through her eyes.

Boom!

An enormous wave reared in the North Sea as a gray figure stood up from the depths.
It was an enormous monkey several thousand kilometers tall, towering over the waves like a hulking mountain.
Its fur was gray and two black flames burned in its faintly golden eyes; it wielded a mammoth wooden club that almost overturned the entire North Sea when it was raised.

“What in the?!” Goldenlight shot to his feet and summoned the Divine Seaquell Staff into his hand, taking his true form as a scarlet ape.

Silverlight remained in human form but stood up as well, ready to fight.
This giant monkey was no friend to suddenly appear in front of Levitating Island like this.
Its presence was also terrifying—it dwarfed the two scarlet apes, despite them reaching peak human king realm!

“Who are you?!” Silverlight demanded from the giant monkey.

“Wuzhiqi of the Huai River.” The monkey voiced a few simple syllables that were different from modern language, but they came with his will and so the two scarlet apes could still understand him.
[1]

“Interesting, interesting!” Wuzhiqi grinned broadly.
“To think that I would meet two descendants right upon breaking free of my seal, and that one of them would be a female!”

“Wuzhiqi?!” Silverlight gaped.
“Connate demon god Wuzhiqi, first monkey beneath the heavens!”

Wuziqhi was a connate demon god born of the Huai River and accustomed to raising all manner of trouble.
There was no wrongdoing he didn’t try.
Taiyi had subdued him at some point and dubbed him river god of the Huai River.
In the great wilderness, the Huai River was the second greatest water system of the land.
That made Wuzhiqi’s position even greater than river god Bingyi of the Yellow River.

Everyone had thought him dead, but here he was, alive and well!

“I, am, your ancestor!” Wuzhiqi stared fixedly at Silverlight.
“Good, good, very good! Mine bloodline has declined in this age, but to think that I’ve run into a descendant! The days of mine tribe’s flourishing are within sight.”

He reached out and grabbed at Silverlight.

“How dare you!!” Goldenlight swung his metal club forward to smash it down on the big monkey’s head.

BAM!

Goldenlight flew backward after a muffled impact and splashed down far into the distance.

“Little monkey, you are my descendant so I do not wish to take you to task.
I will eat you if you offend me again,” Wuzhiqi cackled, his hand wrapped around Silverlight.
Shrinking to the size of a regular human, he set foot onto Levitating Island.

“This is… the work of Tushan and that she-demon Ah Zhi!” Taking a close look at the island’s layout, the monkey cackled again.
“I have yet to find shelter after breaking free of Di Jun’s seal.
This shall do.” [2]

He tapped the center of Silverlight’s forehead between her brows, forcing her back into scarlet ape form.

“Scarlet apes… are not purebloods.
There are too many bloodlines from other races mixed within.” Wuzhiqi smacked his lips together.
“But no matter, my bloodline is domineering.
The offspring you and I produce will still be my children and pureblood, gyakakakaka!!”

Blanching, panic chased dread chased horror in Silverlight’s eyes.

1.
Wuzhiqi is a supernatural being in Chinese mythology popularly depicted as a monkey-like aquatic demon and first described in the early 9th century.

2.
Di Jun, also known as Emperor Jun, is one of the ancient supreme deities of China known primarily through five chapters of the Shanhaijing.
Di Jun is also associated with the agricultural arts, either directly or as the progenitor of other innovators of farming practice, including especially his son, Houji, the Zhou ancestor.