**Monkey Head Gang.**

The corpses of the monkeys were all laid out in one place, arranged in a row.

The gang’s upper echelons gathered, each looking at the numerous monkey corpses on the ground with grim expressions.

An elder lowered his head, examined them for a moment, and then performed a series of hand seals, extracting the toxins from the monkeys’ bodies.

The toxin was pitch-black, floating in the air like a plume of dark smoke. The air seemed to grow faintly scorching.

“It’s fire poison.”

“This will be difficult to investigate.”

Mount Fire Persimmon was permeated with boundless geothermal heat, crimson flames, and fire poison.

It could be said that fire poison was extremely abundant. During the period when Mount Fire Persimmon was not sealed off, as long as cultivators entered the Crimson Flame Demon Melting Caves, they had the ability to condense fire poison.

With such abundant raw materials, it was very convenient for cultivators to create fire poison, making it difficult for the Monkey Head Gang’s high-level members to follow this clue for investigation.

Yuan Er’s face was very gloomy.

He had just mobilized all the elders, expounding on the gang’s current major crisis. At a time when monkeys were urgently needed to demonstrate their value, a third of his monkey pets had died!

The elders all looked at Yuan Er.

Their gazes held worry, but also expectation and scrutiny.

Compared to his father, Yuan Yi, Yuan Er had not been in power for many years. He had not accomplished much, and could not win over the masses.

Now that the entire gang was facing a crisis, could this young cultivator steer the ship?

“Gang Leader, what do we do now?” one elder asked directly, testing him.

Yuan Er thought for a moment: “The monkey pets cannot be reduced!”

“If we can’t demonstrate our value, the Fire Persimmon picking business will no longer be ours.”

“Hurry up and search, go buy other monkeys to replenish our strength!”

The elders frowned.

“Even if we do that, we won’t be able to train these monkeys to maturity in a short time.”

“It’s better than nothing, I suppose.”

“No, I think being hasty will only make things worse. If the training isn’t enough, and these monkeys fail to harvest the fire persimmons during the Fire Persimmon Festival, causing the Fire Persimmon Forest to explode, the result would be even worse for us!”

“You might not know it yet, but there are very few monkeys on the market, and many monkeys near Immortal City have also been hunted,” an elder said.

“Is that so?” The others were surprised, and Yuan Er also cast an inquiring gaze.

The elder who spoke nodded: “Recently, the Demon Hunter Association has received a large number of orders to capture wild monkeys alive.”

“Even on the black market, monkey pets are being bought at high prices.”

Yuan Er immediately narrowed his eyes: “Who is buying them?”

“Could this be the same party that poisoned our monkey pets?”

The elders frowned in thought.

They all felt a chill.

“Gang Leader, someone is targeting us.”

“This is a scheme, someone is setting a trap to harm us!”

“Who could it be?”

An elder stared at Yuan Er: “Gang Leader, the enemy is pressing us to this extent, what are you hesitating for?”

“Find them, kill them!”

“If the old Gang Leader was still alive, he wouldn’t hesitate.”

Yuan Er’s face was ashen, and he almost blurted out: “Bullshit!”

How could they fight?

According to the current situation, the force that poisoned their monkey pets was most likely Flying Disc Workshop.

Workshop owner Chen Cha was the very artificer who designed and manufactured the Mechanical Firecracker Monkeys.

If the Monkey Head Gang performed poorly during the Fire Persimmon Festival, then his Mechanical Firecracker Monkeys would take the opportunity to seize the market, win the business of picking Fire Persimmons, and make a huge profit.

Chen Cha was not the key; the key was Fei Si behind him.

Fei Si, the Golden Core cultivator, was vicious and ruthless. Anyone who lived in Fire Persimmon Immortal City for a long time knew this.

Yuan Er was extremely worried that his investigation would lead him to Chen Cha.

Then he would be in an awkward position.

Pursuing the matter was definitely impossible.

But not pursuing it would make him seem weak and cause disappointment. His position as gang leader would be severely shaken.

Immediately, Yuan Er stared intently at the elder who proposed starting a war, filled with the impulse to strangle him.

He knew that this elder had always coveted the position of gang leader.

That’s how gangs were.

It was not a family, nor a sect. There was no bloodline, nor the bond of master and disciple. It was all about interests. Whoever was strong would be in charge; whoever could lead everyone to make a fortune would be the leader!

The elder was skilled at playing politics. With a single squeeze, he put Yuan Er in a dilemma.

Yuan Er rapidly pondered in his heart, putting on a thoughtful expression: “That’s not the focus right now.”

He looked at the many monkey corpses on the ground: “Many of these monkeys are my Monkey Uncle’s monkeys and monkey grandchildren. With such a big thing happening, we must first ask for his old master’s opinion.”

In an instant, the tense atmosphere of squeezing and coercion disappeared.

Although the old Gang Leader Yuan Yi had passed away, he had left behind his spirit pet – Yuan Dasheng!

This Fire Melted Demon Ape was a trusted aide who fought side-by-side with Yuan Yi, starting from scratch and building the Monkey Head Gang’s foundation step by step. Now, it was the mainstay of the gang!

At the mention of Yuan Dasheng, all the elders were stunned.

Most of them couldn’t help but feel a deep sense of awe in their hearts.

Yuan Er secretly breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and left: “Monkey Uncle is sleeping, I’ll go wake him.”

Everyone hurriedly said: “Let Monkey Grandpa sleep until noon, don’t disturb his sweet dreams.”

Yuan Er insisted: “That’s for you guys, I can wake him up without any problems. Don’t follow me, in case my Monkey Uncle gets upset and beats you up.”

Yuan Er left leisurely, his back revealing a hint of smugness.

Many elders couldn’t help but slander in their hearts: “He really is relying on the ape’s power!”

Yuan Er went into the tent.

He saw an old ape lying on its side, fast asleep.

It was huge, with thick, deep red fur, and an extremely burly body.

It was covered in scars of all sizes, adding to the old ape’s vicissitudes and fierce temperament.

Yuan Er subconsciously lightened his footsteps, came to its side, and gently called out: “Uncle Dasheng, Uncle Dasheng.”

“Da Sheng, Da Sheng…”

Yuan Dasheng’s breathing was long and steady. In each call, he vaguely dreamed of his old master, Yuan Yi.

Yuan Yi was dressed in rags, disheveled, and holding a wooden bucket as he came back, his face full of joy: “Look what I begged for!”

“It’s leftovers from Rouge Red Pavilion! I went at just the right time, they hadn’t thrown them away yet, and I snatched back a big bucket!”

“We’re in for a treat, we’re in for a treat.”

Yuan Yi ran to the ape’s side and placed the wooden bucket on the ground.

“The name I gave you is really good! Da Sheng, Da Sheng, you can eat so many leftovers every meal, how lucky!”

When the ape was still growing, its appetite was huge.

It had long smelled the aroma, and could not wait to plunge its head into the bucket and eat wildly.

Soon, it had devoured all the food.

It had just sat down when it heard Yuan Yi’s stomach rumbling.

It was immediately stunned.

Yuan Yi grinned: “Hehe. I’ve already eaten, I’ve already eaten!”

The ape’s cheeks were bulging high, that was the last mouthful of food.

It slowed down its chewing.