The fiery fire ape let out an angry roar upon seeing the cat-shaped beast escape.

He glared in the direction Zhou Yu had fled.

"Kid, don’t let me catch you again!"

With that, he turned and chased after the cat-shaped beast!

Not long after the fiery fire ape left, Zhou Yu’s figure silently appeared in the forest.

Watching the fiery fire ape’s disappearing silhouette, a glint of sharpness flashed in Zhou Yu’s eyes.

The sudden appearance of this cat-shaped beast and fiery fire ape made Zhou Yu sense something unusual.

However, as he had been in the forest for some time, he was out of the loop and didn’t know what had happened.

After pondering for a long time, Zhou Yu shook his head, then he raised his arms.

The silver magic artifact on his arms was now damaged.

A look of regret appeared in Zhou Yu’s eyes.

He had hoped to use this as a trump card.

Unexpectedly, it was broken by the fiery fire ape in just one encounter.

It seems it won’t last for many more uses.

Zhou Yu, somewhat disappointed, put away the pair of arm protection magic artifacts, then prepared to leave.

However, just as he was about to leave, a voice suddenly called out.

"To withstand a blow from Ye Guang, you’re not as weak as you look, human ant!"

Upon hearing this voice, Zhou Yu shivered, and his hair immediately stood on end.

He immediately became fully alert and looked around.

In an instant, several fiery shadows appeared.

These fiery shadows all transformed into humanoid shapes.

They were all fiery fire apes!

The leading fiery fire ape seemed a bit smaller than the one before, but his skin wasn’t entirely black like the previous one.

This fiery fire ape’s skin was a bronze color, giving an extremely oppressive feeling.

At this moment, this fiery fire ape was looking at Zhou Yu with a half-smile.

Behind him were two others.

These two looked similar to the previous fiery fire ape, only that they were a male and a female.

Three fiery fire apes!

And the leader gave Zhou Yu a sense of impending death.

This indicated that the leader’s strength far exceeded that of the previous fiery fire ape.

At this moment, Zhou Yu’s heart raced, and his mind raced with thoughts on how to escape.

At the same time, he kept a close eye on the three fiery fire apes.

Just then, the leading fiery fire ape was about to make a move.

Zhou Yu was also prepared to risk everything in a desperate struggle.

But at that moment, one of the fiery fire apes suddenly intervened:

"Lord Xu Zhao! Wait!"

"This person lurking near the Tomb of Death might know the situation inside."

"Now, experts from the human race are also here. If I control him and infiltrate using his identity, we might gain unexpected advantages!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Zhao nodded.

"Fine."

"Let’s do as you say!"

Hearing Lord Xu Zhao’s agreement, the fiery fire ape showed an excited expression.

He looked at Zhou Yu, licked his lips, and the next moment, lunged at Zhou Yu.

Along with him came a wave of scorching flames.

Seeing this, Zhou Yu immediately activated his Heavenly Gang Body and punched fiercely at the fiery fire ape.

The next moment, without any hesitation, he turned and fled.

Zhou Yu’s blow only slightly stalled the fiery fire ape before it was incinerated by the terrifying heat.

Seeing Zhou Yu escape, the fiery fire ape’s smile grew even more sinister.

"Lord Xu Zhao, I’ll be back soon!"

With that, he transformed into a fiery shadow and gave chase.

"Ye Ling, you’re too playful."

"The human race is very cunning, don’t let them deceive you!"

Xu Zhao scolded with a cold face.

At the same time, he raised his hand and pointed in the direction Zhou Yu fled.

Buzz! 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

In an instant, Zhou Yu felt an indescribable oppressive terror engulf him.

He hardly had time to react before a searing pain exploded in his mind.

The next moment, Zhou Yu let out a muffled cry of pain, collapsing and convulsing.

At the same time, the fiery fire ape caught up.

He stood before Zhou Yu, looking down on him, eyes filled with mockery.

"Hmph, just an ant trying to escape from Lord Xu Zhao."

"Even your human race’s Divinity Transformation Realm experts are ants before Lord Xu Zhao!"

With that, he extended his hand, and a small ape-shaped flame appeared in his palm, heading towards Zhou Yu’s forehead.

At this moment, terror gripped Zhou Yu’s heart.

He had already overestimated the leader fiery fire ape but still underestimated him.

Without any time to react, the opponent’s attack overwhelmed him.

Could this be a Level 5 Demon Beast?

No, maybe even a Level 6 Demon Beast!

Zhou Yu had no idea what happened to provoke such a powerful Demon Beast.

But of course, he had no time to think any further.

As the ape-shaped flame headed for his brow.

Zhou Yu instinctively felt something was wrong and tried to dodge, but the pain in his Sea of Consciousness left him powerless.

Buzz!

In an instant, the ape-shaped flame entered Zhou Yu’s brow.

Zhou Yu felt as if his Sea of Consciousness was consumed in flames, and his consciousness gradually sank into darkness.

Moments later, Zhou Yu suddenly stood up.

He twisted his body and then, with a look of disdain, said:

"The body of this human ant is too weak."

"I feel like using any force might cause it to shatter."

Upon hearing this, Xu Zhao said calmly:

"This human ant’s body is already decent."

"If it were someone else, they might not have withstood my blow."

Ye Ling, controlling Zhou Yu, chuckled.

"Indeed."

"Though weak, it is barely usable."

"However, this ant isn’t entirely useless; at least its Primordial Spirit is not weak and somewhat strange."

Although strange, Ye Ling didn’t dwell on it. Instead, he looked in another direction.

"Lord Xu Zhao, Ye Guang went after the Purple Tiger. There shouldn’t be any issues, right?"

"That Purple Tiger seems to possess a Divine Blood lineage, which is quite extraordinary!"

Xu Zhao replied calmly:

"It’s just a juvenile beast. It won’t escape."

"Just wait here."

Ye Ling, controlling Zhou Yu’s body, nodded, then sat boldly on the ground, and began to wait.

After about ten minutes, a sound came from the forest.

Xu Zhao and the others turned to look.

A fiery fire ape appeared.

It was the fiery fire ape named Ye Guang who had chased the Purple Tiger earlier.

Ye Guang was holding the head of the cat-shaped beast in his hand, a strange light flickering in his palm.

Under the control of that light, the cat-shaped beast was powerless to resist.

Upon appearing, Ye Guang saw ’Zhou Yu.’

His face turned angry.

"It’s you!"

As he spoke, he was about to strike.

Just then, ’Zhou Yu’ spoke up.

"Ye Guang, don’t get excited, it’s me!"

"That ant’s Primordial Spirit is already extinguished by me!"

"Hehe..."