The more he heard, the angrier Tepid Scholar became and the more his face fell.
Even though she had a point, he absolutely refused to be swindled like this. So he didn't back down and accept her extortion just like that. He began arguing with her, hoping to use the power of logic to overpower her unreasonableness.
While the two Dao Lords were negotiating, the dragon picked up the black wind that the black monkey had left after its death. Then he walked over to the last monkey.
The last monkey was a white monkey. It wasn't grayish like the silver monkey. It was white and without blemish.
The Dao Lords watching from above saw the dragon walk over to the white monkey next. With their hearts in their throats and the world frozen over as if to witness this scene, the dragon laid his hand on the white monkey.
An invisible power enveloped the white monkey and began ravaging it with the power of time. In a flash of white light, the white monkey began fragmenting.
