Chapter 11657 — A Situation Even a Child Could Solve
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It was dark comedy at its finest.
In the silence of the crowd, the seconds ticked by one after another.
More and more crimson apes came down through the spatial gate, and in the blink of an eye their number had reached double digits, trending toward triple.
Yet under the solution Wei Zhao had proposed, no one felt any real sense of crisis.
From beginning to end, all they had to do was move them together, two by two, facing each other.
Far from panicking, everyone even began observing them up close with keen interest.
Outer-realm demons were indeed a tremendous threat, but every appearance of theirs was a cataclysm that shook heaven and earth. Unless one possessed special means like the Heavenly Dao Academy's to track their traces, the chance for those present to encounter them was truly rare.
Especially creatures like these crimson apes before them—apart from the ancient text Zhang Tailing had mentioned, they had never been heard of anywhere else.
Every last person present immediately threw themselves into the study with relish.
After all, outer-realm demons belonged to an entirely different power system from theirs; any discovery at all might yield enormous inspiration for their future cultivation.
Harnessed properly, what lay before them was a stroke of fortune that could not be sought, only encountered.
Still, the scene of the tall elder having half his body gnawed away was, in the end, right before their eyes.
Even relaxed as they were, no one dared let down their guard completely.
Zhang Tailing raised his head to look upward and warned in a low voice: "Could there be other demons behind this spatial gate?"
That single sentence brought the goosebumps back to everyone's skin.
These crimson apes might have been solved by Wei Zhao's wildly imaginative approach, but their terror was very real.
For one thing, even knowing their weakness, if only the last one of them remained and came biting after them, every last person present would be haunted by it for a lifetime.
Who knew, after all, whether these crimson apes possessed other monstrous abilities besides invincibility through petrification?
Any other demon would surely be of no lesser tier.
If, when the time came, they could not find the weakness in time—or if the creature simply had no such obvious weakness at all—what then?
The crowd exchanged glances.
The short elder proposed: "We still have to find a way to shut the spatial gate!"
Wei Zhao studied it for a moment. "Easier said than done. It won't be so simple to close, will it?"
One sentence silenced them all again.
If the gate were easy to close, Zhang Tailing would have closed it long ago—why drag it out until now?
At this point, Qi Zhuiyun suggested: "Why don't we try a spatial seal?"
At those words, everyone's eyes lit up at once.
The ancestral hall was cut off from the world and could not be opened for three days—that was, in essence, a spatial seal of the highest order.
Only, everyone had previously been thinking of how to escape this place, of how to break the spatial seal—never of doing the reverse.
At least in theory, this line of thinking was somewhat feasible.
They put it into action at once.
"It's contracting! It really is contracting!"
Seeing the spatial gate begin to shrink at a visible rate, everyone was instantly elated.
Once the spatial gate closed, these crimson apes on the scene would be utterly useless—or rather, they would become a rare strategic resource.
After all, such ready-made and intact samples of outer-realm demons likely could not be found anywhere in the entire Inner Royal Court.
As long as they could be kept under control, every crimson ape present was a mysterious mine, and no one could predict how many treasures might be dug out of them!
The short elder immediately proposed: "Right now there are exactly sixty ape-demons here, no more, no less. We five are all witnesses, so let's split them evenly—twelve each. How about that?"