Chapter 00114: We Have Many Demons Here
# We Have Many Demons Here
Chapter 114
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 114: We Have Many Demons Here
While Lei Lei was locked in a battle of wits with the air, Li Chengxi was thinking about something else entirely…
It’s so tough for students these days, isn’t it? She just bought a box of pen refills a few days ago, why is she buying another one already? How much homework must she have? Her fingers are probably going to break from all that writing.
Li Chengxi recalled his own three years of high school, when he too would head to school while the stars were still out and return home under the stars.
People talk about the beauty of youth, but all he remembered now was the suffering.
But then another thought occurred to him: I escaped that sea of bitterness years ago.
His mood instantly brightened.
After Lei Lei left, Li Chengxi looked down at the screen.
Initially, Yang Yiyi had been a little embarrassed to accept Great King Shanying’s Black Iron Wooden Staff, but after Li Chengxi worked on it and brought it back, she fell in love with it and couldn't put it down.
This was hardly surprising.
Yang Yiyi had been a disciple for many years but had never touched a real weapon.
In the past, she had only used unsharpened iron strips or wooden swords for her sword practice.
Great King Shanying also looked at the Black Iron Wooden Staff with great longing, but since he had already promised to give it to Yang Yiyi, he didn't want to go back on his word.
He seemed a little conflicted.
In the end, he channeled his conflict into pointing out all the improper aspects of Yang Yiyi’s staff technique.
As Li Chengxi watched them practice, he had other things to attend to on the side.
He controlled the Jade Tablet to float behind a group of watching little monkeys, then zoomed in the game camera and pressed the Alt key.
Just like in the fantasy script, the Alt key highlighted interactable objects in the scene.
Li Chengxi found a nearby stone.
This time, instead of right-clicking to check its properties, he left-clicked it twice.
The stone he selected vanished in the blink of an eye.
When Li Chengxi clicked on the ‘Sumeru Realm’ icon, he could see the stone he had just picked up now appeared in the backpack.
At this point, Li Chengxi closed the game, opened it again on his phone, tapped on the ‘Sumeru Realm,’ and reached for the phone screen.
It was slightly different from reaching into the screen normally; his hand felt a somewhat sticky sensation as it entered the ‘Sumeru Realm’.
Other than that, it was just like usual.
Li Chengxi easily pulled the stone out.
“The experiment is a success. This counts as a portable space, right?”
As long as he had an electronic device like a phone or computer with him, Li Chengxi could retrieve items stored in the Sumeru Realm anytime, anywhere.
The only part he was less than satisfied with was that the operation was a bit cumbersome, and it seemed to be ineffective on living creatures.
Li Chengxi tried to stuff the mantis Yang Yiyi was using for reference into the Sumeru Realm, but there was no reaction at all.
Then again, while this function was a portable space for Li Chengxi, for Yang Yiyi, it was not only a portable space but also much simpler to use.
It seems Yang Yiyi really is the protagonist.
Li Chengxi was just Yang Yiyi’s cheat.
That didn't matter, though.
When Li Chengxi acted as the Demon God in the fantasy script, he was basically Viola's cheat as well.
One cheat, multiple uses.
After trying a few more times, Li Chengxi put the stone back.
His eyes casually glanced at the Sky-Upholding Stone, which seemed to be fixed within the Sumeru Realm.
He couldn't take that thing out, but it was obvious that this item, like the Ring of the Demon King, was an important object.
And so, Great King Shanying, who was in the middle of instructing Yang Yiyi on her staff technique, heard Li Chengxi’s voice emanate from the Jade Tablet:
“Have you ever heard of the Sky-Upholding Stone?”
“The Sky-Upholding Stone? Never heard of it. What is that?”
He looked back at his little monkeys, and they all shook their heads as well.
“What does it look like? We have plenty of stones here in Peach Blossom Valley.”
“It’s like jade… You don't know what jade is? Um… it's a kind of white stone, a bit translucent, with red lines running through it.”
“I haven’t noticed. We usually hang around in the trees and don't pay much attention to the stones on the ground. I’ll have my monkey offspring keep an eye out from now on.”
Li Chengxi also felt it was unlikely he would find the second piece so quickly.
It was an important item, after all.
The first one could be considered a beginner's bonus, but the next ones wouldn't be so easy.
“Oh, right. I remember you said this is Peach Blossom Valley, and that it was created by an Immortal. Do you know where that Immortal is?”
“How would I know that? It’s all just legend, from who knows how many years ago. Aren’t you an Immortal too? Maybe you know him.”
If I were a real Immortal, things would be much simpler, Li Chengxi thought to himself.
It was Yang Yiyi who came to Li Chengxi’s rescue:
“Since the dawn of heaven and earth, countless beings have become Immortals. It’s impossible for Brother Li to know all of them.”
This reasoning easily convinced Great King Shanying.
Let alone what the Immortal Realm was like, even among the animals in this Peach Blossom Valley, Great King Shanying couldn't possibly know them all.
“Have you ever left Peach Blossom Valley?”
“No. I hear it's extremely dangerous outside. If you leave, you can never come back.”
Great King Shanying pointed to the peach forest behind him and said:
“We have food and drink here, living freely and happily. Why would we leave?”
The life of a monkey was truly simple.
Listening to him made Li Chengxi a little envious.
“Speaking of which, you’re not quite like the demons I know.”
Yang Yiyi lowered her staff and said:
“Many of the demons outside enjoy eating people.”
“People? What are people?”
“Like her, the ones with no fur.”
“Oh, so hairless monkeys are called people outside. First time I've heard that.”
Terrifying Upright Ape.
Calling them monkeys didn't seem wrong.
“But you don’t look like a peach. Why would demons want to eat people?”
“I heard from my Master and Senior Martial Sister that demons who eat people can greatly increase their cultivation. But this act goes against the harmony of the heavens, and demons who eat people all end up dying miserably.”
“That must be a crooked path. One must cultivate their skills themselves. All this talk of greatly increasing cultivation is just taking shortcuts.”
This monkey actually had a very upright moral compass.
This wasn't the kind of unenlightened simplicity from never having left the valley; rather, Great King Shanying had thought it through himself and concluded that eating people was an unorthodox path.
He had noticed it before.
This monkey was straightforward in his conduct—one was one, two was two—and on top of that, his values were very sound.
Honestly, he was more human than many people.
Speaking of which, something suddenly occurred to Great King Shanying.
“By the way, we could go ask the Black Bear. He's about a hundred years older than me. Maybe he knows what a Sky-Upholding Stone is.”
“Is he a demon too?”
“That's right. There are about twenty or thirty demons here. We all live in our own territories, and occasionally we get together to make friends through martial arts.”
What the hell? He actually heard the phrase ‘make friends through martial arts’ from a monkey’s mouth.
“And this is also a good method. Yang the Hairless Monkey (Yang Yiyi: I have a name!) is making slow progress just by practicing like this, but I saw that her reaction in a real fight is very quick. Instead of forcing her to grind it out, we might as well have her spar with the Black Bear. She might improve even faster.”
Great King Shanying was right.
Li Chengxi had noticed it too.
Yang Yiyi’s regular fist practice was rigid and mechanical, she was merely at the stage of knowing the moves.
But her performance in the duel against Great King Shanying earlier was excellent, which indicated she was the type who learned quickly through practical application.
“Alright, where is that Black Bear? Let’s go pay him a visit.”
“Not far. Just past that waterfall over there, up the mountain, there’s a pear forest. His place is right next to the mountain wall.”
“Then let’s go.”
“No problem! Children, let's go! Let's go have some fun with the Black Bear!”
As Yang Yiyi listened to Li Chengxi and Great King Shanying arrange her life so clearly, she suddenly had a bad premonition.
This Black Bear… he isn’t going to be exceptionally good at fighting, is he?