Chapter 11653 — Zhang Tailing Is Left Speechless
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With its heaven-high level, it had never once failed.
This was the first time in all his experience.
Still, that said, from the World Will's perspective he could at least make out some traces—at the very least, it was not a total blank.
Wei Zhao observed in silence for a while, and when the crimson apes moved again, his hypothesis was immediately confirmed.
"They only move when no one is looking at them. The moment any gaze falls on them, they instantly enter their petrified invincible state."
Hearing this, Zhang Tailing seemed to think of something, and his expression turned incomparably grim.
"I once read in an ancient text that there is said to be a kind of outlandish fiend whose whole body is invincible, and which only human gaze can restrain. The instant that gaze is averted, they pounce and devour their prey clean."
"And their favorite prey is human cultivators."
At these words, a collective chill ran through everyone present.
The crimson apes before them clearly fit the description.
Given the level of everyone present, against an ordinary outlandish fiend, even if it lunged and bit, they might not have taken it seriously.
After all, with their defenses, ordinary attacks could not even break through.
But having witnessed with their own eyes the strangeness of these crimson apes, not to mention the three ancestors of the Prince of Qi's Estate, even Wei Zhao—whose foundation was a mid-grade divine body—dared not make such a guarantee.
He had seen their petrified invincible state clearly enough. The all-around defensive power of a mid-grade divine body was formidable indeed, but compared with these crimson apes, it was plainly not enough.
By the same token, once they were allowed to move freely, their attack power would likewise be nothing to scoff at.
One misstep, and every last person present could well end up ground up in the jaws of these crimson apes.
"One each—keep an eye on one apiece. We absolutely cannot let them move again!"
The gaunt elder at once proposed in a low voice.
Everyone responded at once in unspoken accord.
Apart from the tall elder, who because of his angle could not see the three crimson apes behind him, that left, besides the madwoman Li Hongshou, Zhang Tailing and four others—five people in all—more than enough to watch three crimson apes.
But then, everyone discovered another problem.
Blinking.
Blinking is humanity's most primal instinct. At a level like that of a Venerable, one can already dispense with many necessary physiological activities, including eating and sleeping—but blinking was not among them.
In fact, had they not encountered monsters like these crimson apes, no ordinary cultivator would ever have thought to train in such a respect.
After all, the more primal the instinct, the harder it is to overcome.
And the crux of it: even if you spent every ounce of your strength and finally succeeded in overcoming the blinking instinct, never needing to blink again for the rest of your life—what would be the point?
The instant of a blink meant the crimson apes could move.
Even with everyone's gazes staggered, there would always come a moment when they all blinked together.
The result was that the three crimson apes drew ever closer to the tall elder, whose back was to them!
Though the tall elder said nothing aloud, from the expressions of the others he could tell that his prospects were now bleak indeed.
The crux was that he could not perceive the crimson apes' movements at all; everything depended on his own imagination and wild guesses.
Suspecting every shadow, his pressure was magnified without limit.
Such terror was enough to shatter the mental defenses of any expert.
And then, a fourth crimson ape descended.