I'll give you 143 holy apes.

In the meantime...

That mysterious 'general' was defeated, and his defeat was crushing.

At first, he had been very confident and in high spirits, and he even used his secret technique—the [Mysterious Principles of Space]—to drag 'Venerable White' into his 'spatial semi-world'. He had been confident to the point of boasting with that purple-robed cultivator that he could take care of Venerable White in five breaths.

Actually, he indeed had the strength to be this confident. He had used a secret technique to create this spatial semi-world, which was a type of 'domain'. In this domain, he could control all space. As long as he was inside his domain, killing a Venerable within five breaths was surely possible!

Thereupon, that general guy appeared inside the domain in his real form. His true form was that of a colossal gorilla wearing golden armor and holding a saber-shaped bronze mirror in one hand.