Role Reversal

The dust settled, and the smoke dissipated.

The Stone Skin Monkey stood beside the pit, holding the leg of the silver humanoid creature in its hand. It dragged it out of the pit.

"Dead?"

Fire Cloud Sparrow stared in disbelief, exclaiming, "Holy crap, this is too powerful! Is this still the power that humans possess?"

As a descendant of Primordial Remnant, the Fire Cloud Sparrow possessed power that surpassed that of over 90% of the ancient Ferocious Beast.

The Stone Skin Monkey took out a large pair of scissors and began to disembowel itself. Although it was a humanoid creature from the Spirit Clan, it had no lingering fear of this.

"Brother Ye Feng, it's yours now." The Stone Skin Monkey handed the dissected skeleton to Ye Feng.

"Mm." Ye Feng nodded.

The skeletons of the Spirit Clan beings resembled humans in appearance, yet were fundamentally different. They lacked several human ribs and had some peculiar small bones.

Ye Feng flipped his hand, summoning the Heavenly Flames Green Lotus Earth Core Flame, Heavenly Flames, and used it to refine the bones of the human beings. Finally, it was refined into five drops: one for Ye Feng, one for Shi Hao, one for Shi Er Meng, one for Shi Qingfeng, and one for Stone Skin Monkey.

As for the flesh of the silver humanoid creature, it was cooked in one pot by Shi Hao.

"Shi Hao, are you free of any psychological trauma now?" Ye Feng asked with a smile.

"Good food should not be missed." Shi Hao smiled and sprinkled some spices into the large pot.

"Wow, they really eat them?" Fire Cloud Sparrow stared in disbelief. As Ferocious Beast, it was always the Ferocious Beast that ate humans, never humans. It felt like the roles were reversed. After a pause, it looked at Ye Feng, remembering the Heavenly Flames Ye Feng had just possessed, and asked, "Shi Hao, Stone Skin Monkey, Shi Er Meng, Shi Qingfeng, you all have the surname Shi. You wouldn't happen to be from Stone Village in the Great Wilderness, would you?"

"Have you heard of our Stone Village?" Shi Er Meng asked.

"Of course I've heard of him. My idol, Vermilion Bird Venerable, transformed into human form because of Stone Village. This is widely known in the Fire Nation." Fire Cloud Sparrow paused, then said, "Ye Feng, are you even more powerful than him?"

"Of course." Shi Pihou looked at Ye Feng with admiration and continued, "When I was in the Moving Blood Realm, my single-arm strength was 450,000 jin, and I had to break through to the Cave Heaven Realm. Now I have opened three Cave Heavens in the Cave Heaven Realm, and my single-arm strength is 800,000 jin. But Brother Ye Feng's single-arm strength reached one million jin when he was in the Moving Blood Realm."

"What, a million catties?"

Fire Cloud Sparrow stared in disbelief.

"The limit of strength for the Moving Blood Realm is 50,000 jin."

The disciple of the Heaven Mending Pavilion asked skeptically, "Does he really possess the strength of a million jin at the Moving Blood Realm?"

"Of course. I can testify to that as well," Shi Er Meng said.

"Ye Feng, no, brother, how about I take you as my brother and acknowledge you as my boss?" Fire Cloud Sparrow asked, her heart pounding.

It has been proven that the weak will always try to depend on the strong for survival. Even the young Fire Cloud Sparrow, a remnant of the Primordial Remnant, is no exception.

"Not interested," Ye Feng said indifferently.

"Brother, think about it and give me a chance."

"You should find someone else."

"Someone else...?" Fire Cloud Sparrow's expression shifted, a glint of light flashing in its eyes as it looked at the Stone Skin Monkey had just defeated the silver humanoid creature, and said, "Brother Er Meng, can you give me a chance?"

"I already have a contracted offspring. Old Bei is my contracted offspring. You should find Er Meng." Stone Skin Monkey politely declined Fire Cloud Sparrow and continued, "If you follow me, you can only become my servant and sign Master-Servant Contract with me. I suggest you find Er Meng instead; his strength is not much different from mine."

"Er Meng?"

Fire Cloud Sparrow looked at Shi Er Meng.

Without Shi Er Meng refused, saying, "You're too inadequate. I have no interest. You're not even Pure-Blooded Creature. If you insist on following me, I might agree to sign Master-Servant Contract with you."

Well!

Ye Feng was taken aback.

The Fire Cloud Sparrow possesses the bloodline of the Vermilion Bird, belonging to Primordial Remnant. It has not yet grown up, but once it does, and perhaps even be reborn from the ashes, it will surely evolve into the Vermilion Bird.

However, such a strange creature did not even catch Shi Er Meng's eye.

Ye Feng paused for a moment, then felt relieved and smiled.

These days, Shi Er Meng has been following him around, and what he eats most often are Primordial Remnant. Ye Feng has spoiled his appetite, and ordinary things really don't catch his eye.

"What is Master-Servant Contract?" Fire Cloud Sparrow asked curiously.

"Brother Ye Feng said it's a kind of constraint. Once signed, the master will have the power of life and death over the servant. If the master dies, the servant will die. If the servant dies, the master can still live." Shi Er Meng simply explained to Fire Cloud Sparrow what Master-Servant Contract was.

"What? This is so unfair to me?" Fire Cloud Sparrow clicked its tongue in surprise.

"You can give up," Shi Er Meng chuckled lightly. His indifferent demeanor suggested that he truly had no desire to possess the Fire Cloud Sparrow.

Fire Cloud Sparrow pondered for a long time, constantly trying to bargain with Shi Er Meng. But Shi Er Meng firmly rejected him every time.

"All right."

The Fire Cloud Sparrow glanced at the food being cooked. It was only Ye Feng and his companions' temporary mount, and it tolerated it for the sake of the food, accepting to become Shi Er Meng's servant.

Under Ye Feng's guidance, Shi Er Meng and Fire Cloud Sparrow signed a contract. Fire Cloud Sparrow officially became Shi Er Meng's servant.

"Can I not call you Master? I am, after all, Fire Cloud Sparrow, a variant whose bloodline is closest to that of the Vermilion Bird Venerable. Can I call you Big Brother? The word 'Master' will only make other birds laugh at me," the Fire Cloud Sparrow asked awkwardly.

"Can."

Shi Er Meng nodded generously. He smiled and said, "Anyway, you're not my first servant. Many more alien species will become my war servants in the future."

"Then... can I become their leader?" the Fire Cloud Sparrow asked cleverly.

"That depends on how devoted you are to me."

"Brother, I will always be loyal to you. I will do my best to complete whatever you ask me to do."

Fire Cloud Sparrow dreamed of the future and excitedly expressed its true feelings.

"You've become my servant, and I haven't prepared any gift for you. Here, take this."

Shi Er Meng generously flicked his finger, bestowing the droplet of liquid, refined from the skeleton of a silver humanoid creature, upon the Fire Cloud Sparrow.

"Thank you, brother."

The Fire Cloud Sparrow happily opened its mouth and swallowed the droplet in one gulp, its eyes gleaming with satisfaction.

The other disciples of the Heaven Mending Pavilion were utterly dumbfounded by this scene. The human race had actually taken in an ancient remnant as a war servant?

Hiss~

The other disciples of the Heaven Mending Pavilion gasped in shock.

In the past, humans were a lowly race, with only two choices in the face of ancient remnants: to be eaten or enslaved. Now, an Primordial Remnant has become a human's... war servant.

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have believed it was true.

The roles of humans and ancient remnants have been reversed.