When Earth Awakened, I Became a Sword Saintess

Chapter 171 : The White Ape's Cave

171: The White Ape's Cave

Early in the morning, Xia Yuyin was resting in a cave.

She suddenly sensed a weak wave of Primordial Energy approach her cave, but after a brief pause, it left.

"Hmm? Could it be a weak Alien Beast that just happened to pass by?"

Since it didn't enter the cave and left, Xia Yuyin didn't pay it any mind.

Wait... At this moment, Xia Yuyin remembered something and decided to get up and take a look. Her precious fairy attire was still drying at the cave entrance.

She picked up her longsword and walked to the cave entrance to look. The fairy dress on the vines was hanging properly, and the bra was there too, but... the panties, originally hanging on the far end, were gone!

She saw a whitish figure flash by on an ancient tree not far away, quickly leaving.

A White Ape!?

"Stop!" Xia Yuyin immediately gave chase at high speed.

Xia Yuyin was quite familiar with this type of Alien Beast, the White Ape. In the God-Devouring Chess, it was rather lecherous. Could it be the same in reality?

Xia Yuyin leaped onto an ancient pine on the cliffside, chasing at high speed. The White Ape was greatly alarmed upon seeing her, chittering desperately as it swung from one ancient tree to another to escape.

Although Xia Yuyin couldn't swing through the trees as nimbly as the White Ape, she was much faster. She chased it on the ground, leaping onto large trees and boulders from time to time.

She saw that in the distance, the desperately fleeing White Ape was indeed holding a small piece of white cloth with a thin strap between its coarse, simian fingers.

"Stop right there! Drop it!" Xia Yuyin's Primordial Energy erupted.

The White Ape was terrified, its fur standing on end in panic. It jumped down the slope for its life, but by the time Xia Yuyin reached the slope, the White Ape was nowhere to be seen.

However, the White Ape had underestimated Xia Yuyin's keen senses. She was already tracking its aura in her mind. While its form could be hidden, this young White Ape did not yet know how to suppress its presence, and Xia Yuyin had already perceived its hiding place.

"Oh?" Xia Yuyin sensed many similar auras in that direction, none of them particularly strong.

She leaped down the slope, passed through a screen of bushes, and found a stone cave. The cave was quite large, and she could enter it easily.

Xia Yuyin carefully inspected the cave entrance. Besides Primordial Energy, a strong scent of a White Ape troop wafted from within. Sensing no danger, she charged in directly, sword in hand.

Xia Yuyin burst into the White Ape's cave and found it filled with more than a dozen White Apes, large and small. The male apes hid one by one against the cave walls, but their eyes stared fixedly at Xia Yuyin's slender, graceful figure.

White Apes were also humanoid creatures with intelligence. They considered themselves nearly equal to humans and knew very well how to appreciate human beauty.

Only then did Xia Yuyin realize that in her haste, she had chased out wearing only her small white underwear.

Ordinary beasts wouldn't care, but these White Apes were intelligent, and their eyes were clearly lecherous.

"What are you looking at!" Xia Yuyin fumed, striking down with her sword.

Crack!

A large rock in the cave was sliced in two. The large White Apes were shocked, crying out, "Screech-waa!"

Xia Yuyin immediately locked onto the White Ape that had stolen her underwear, chasing it and cornering it at the back of the cave.

"Hmm?" Xia Yuyin discovered that hidden at the back of the cave were many ancient artifacts. At a glance, she saw several Shi-Tier weapons and even a few Low-Grade Law-Tier artifacts, though some were damaged. Even the damaged ones still retained a trace of spiritual essence.

"Still haven't dropped it!" Xia Yuyin's field of energy pressed directly down on the White Ape. "Do you want me to cut you? Then you can forget about ever competing for the throne of this ape troop again.

A cold, fierce glint shone in Xia Yuyin's eyes, her presence as majestic as a queen's.

The White Ape was so frightened its fur stood on end. Reluctantly, it handed Xia Yuyin's panties to her. Xia Yuyin hooked them with the tip of her sword and retrieved them. Fortunately, she had chased quickly, so the White Ape hadn't done anything strange with them, but since they had been touched, they definitely needed to be washed again. Xia Yuyin didn't like washing clothes and was quite angry.

"Why aren't you scramming?"

For the sake of the White Apes from the God-Devouring Chess, Xia Yuyin spared the White Ape's life. The troop of White Apes cautiously retreated to the cave entrance, but Xia Yuyin did not leave.

Her chest rose and fell slightly. She gazed at the treasures the White Ape clan had collected over many years, her gaze turning cold. "Hmph, this serves you right for stealing my underwear!"

Xia Yuyin bent down. Her fair left hand, with its slender jade-like fingers, gently caressed the dark, long handle of a single remaining Low-Grade Law-Tier bronze hammer, which still contained a trace of a treasure's power.

She activated her secret absorption art.

A moment later, the bronze hammer grew dim and lifeless. Having long been unable to withstand the ravages of time, it cracked and shattered, turning into an ordinary piece of material.

The apes watched, dumbfounded.

Ding, a little Yuan Essence absorbed from the ancient hammer. 28 points remaining to upgrade the Chess World Core's tier.

"Hmph, this feeling is actually quite nice," Xia Yuyin said with a faint smile.

A young, spirited White Ape warrior, who had planned to train with this hammer to protect his clan, watched as it withered from Xia Yuyin's absorption art. It flew into a rage and tried to charge, but was held back by the White Ape chief and a few elder apes.

This beauty in her underwear... a few of the elder apes knew she was the terrifying being who had recently defeated Xi Xi, the original lord of the surrounding several miles. Who would dare provoke her? And the fury she had erupted with upon having her underwear stolen was even more frightening. Besides, the White Ape had stolen Xia Yuyin's underwear, so it was in the wrong...

"Very good, it seems this trip wasn't a waste after all."

Xia Yuyin opened her jade-like hands and cast a wide-range absorption technique on the pile of various weapons and treasures the White Apes had painstakingly collected.

From the various weapons and treasures flowed a faint, silver-white mist-like essence, dotted with specks of starlight, which converged into Xia Yuyin's hands and was absorbed by her.

"Mmm..." Having absorbed so much essence at once, Xia Yuyin felt it was a bit overwhelming. Her face flushed slightly, and she let out soft pants.

Watching this tall woman so pleasurably absorb the entire clan's collection, watching their treasures and heirlooms turn one by one into scrap iron, fragments, and ash... the White Apes could do nothing but weep inside.

Xia Yuyin had already glanced over these so-called treasures and weapons. There was nothing worth taking, so she directly absorbed all the essence from them, obtaining a total of 12 points of Yuan Essence.

"Consider this a lesson. If anyone dares to steal my underwear again, it won't be as simple as today." Xia Yuyin turned around, sword in hand. A faint blush still lingered on her face, but her expression was a cold, stern warning.

The White Apes, possessing some intelligence, could roughly understand Xia Yuyin's meaning. They lowered their bodies slightly, assuming a submissive posture, not daring to show their anger.

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At dusk, in a canyon several thousand miles southwest of the Two Realms Gate in Lingdu, far from where Xia Yuyin was.

Here, the waterways were complex, the canyon towering and deep. By a small river with a slightly swift current within the canyon, two young women had been washed ashore. One had disheveled white hair, while the other's long, dark hair, streaked with deep blue, was half-submerged in the clear, cold water.

Hua Yuanjing and Lianyue, having fallen into a waterfall, had been washed here overnight by a tangled, torrential current. It would be extremely difficult to trace them from upstream.

At this moment, their clothes were tattered, their skin fair, their faces beautiful. Though both were unconscious, they still held hands.

From the riverbank came heavy, chaotic footsteps.

One by one, large, muscular, dark feet, thicker than their waists and with a greenish tinge to their skin, stepped onto the riverbank, surrounding the two dazed young women. They were clearly not human feet.

Just then, the large feet parted to make way. A pair of slender, beautiful legs clad in dazzling, reflective high-heeled leather boots made from Alien Beast hide stepped forward, their sharp heels crunching on the gravel.

"Hmph, the ones I want to find, I can't. The ones I don't want to find, they deliver themselves right to my door."