Xingtian

"What nonsense are you talking about?!"

Cang Xuan's cheeks reddened after hearing Xu Yanwu's words, and she angrily kicked him in the face.

Thanks for the hospitality... no, wait, wind! Grant my wish!

Xu Yanwu promptly reined in his perverted thoughts and shouted his current wish in his heart.

"Whoosh—!" "Ah!"

The moment Xu Yanwu's wish came true, a fierce gust swept through, violently flipping up the two sisters' skirts...

Mm, Cang Xuan's was black, and Danzhu's was white... very fitting for their personalities...

"Pretty nice... no, I mean, you believe me now, right?! I really can see the future!"

Xu Yanwu shouted at the two sisters.

"Shut up! Shameless old pervert!"

"Shut up already!"

The two sisters clutched their skirts, their faces flushed crimson. The wind had come too suddenly; before either of them could react, their skirts had been flipped up. Worst of all, there was a man right in front of them.

"What did you see?"

For the first time since meeting Xu Yanwu, Cang Xuan showed an expression, her face full of humiliation.

"Black and white... ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!"

Before Xu Yanwu could finish, Cang Xuan grabbed him by the ear and lifted him up. "A shameless old pervert like you belongs locked inside a Cryo-sleep Pod!"

Bang!

Cang Xuan threw Xu Yanwu straight into the Cryo-sleep Pod and shut its door.

"Huh? Hey!"

"You're really just leaving me here? At least take me with you! I want to go lick... I mean, see Ji Xuanyuan! Let me out!"

Listening to the footsteps outside grow farther and farther away, Xu Yanwu felt like crying, though he was also worried about the two girls.

"They should be fine, right... They're warriors with Stigmata, after all... surely they can't even fail to get out of a forest..."

"Damn it... if only my body were here... where exactly is my body now..."

---Far, far away at this moment---

"Jiang Zhu, what are you looking at? Why did you suddenly run over here?"

On the cliffside, a girl dressed in orange-yellow clothes and adorned with many luxurious ornaments cradled a sword in her arms as she spoke to the red-haired youth standing at the edge. "The wind is so strong up here. Be careful not to fall."

"Huh? It's you, Ji Xuanyuan."

Jiang Zhu suddenly snapped out of it and waved his hand. "It's nothing. I just suddenly thought of something..."

As Jiang Zhu waved his hand, the tiny crystal in it shimmered beneath the light.

"Jiang Zhu, that is...?"

Ji Xuanyuan asked curiously.

"You mean this?"

Jiang Zhu froze for a moment, then waved the crystal in his hand again. "This is an object passed down through generations of the Shennong Clan."

"In the legends of our Shennong Clan, a very, very long time ago, the Shennong Clan was invaded by many monsters. Some were even as huge as mountains, and countless members of our clan died then."

"It was at that time that the mountain our Shennong Clan depended on suddenly shattered, and a headless warrior walked out from within the broken mountain."

"That warrior fought the monsters barehanded for ten days and ten nights. In the end, he used the monsters' shells as shields and the horns on their bodies as weapons, slaying every last monster beside the shattered mountain. But in the end, that warrior also fell, eventually turning into this Liuli in my hand."

"To thank him, our Shennong Clan passed this Liuli down through the generations and gave that warrior a name..."

"What name?"

Ji Xuanyuan looked utterly curious,

tilting her little head as she looked at Jiang Zhu, wanting an answer from him.

After hearing Ji Xuanyuan's question, Jiang Zhu did not answer immediately. Instead, he raised his head to look at the sky before finally uttering two words.

"Xingtian!"

Ji Xuanyuan crouched beside Jiang Zhu, listening as he told the legend of his clan. She could not help but feel a little hopeful. "Is that story true? That Xingtian sounds really amazing, to be able to kill so many monsters..."

Jiang Zhu scratched his head rather foolishly. "Actually, I don't know whether the legend is true or not. I only heard my father tell me about it when I was little. It's just that this Liuli suddenly started trembling today, so it reminded me of the story."

"Maybe the legend is true?" Ji Xuanyuan cupped her little face in her hands. "If only I were that powerful too..."

"Xuanyuan, you're already very powerful. You can kill such formidable monsters."

"But I'm still not strong enough. Otherwise, everyone in the tribe wouldn't have to live such hard lives."

Seeing Ji Xuanyuan looking somewhat downcast, Jiang Zhu's face reddened. After struggling for a long while, he finally managed to say, "You'll definitely be able to do it! I believe in you!"

"Jiang Zhu? You..."

"Ji Lin! Lianshan! The food is ready in the tribe! Hurry back!"

A girl's shout suddenly rose from below the cliff, interrupting what Ji Xuanyuan wanted to say.

At the mention of food, Ji Xuanyuan's eyes visibly lit up. She shouted down from the cliff, "Got it, Chi Yuan! We're coming down now!"

Jiang Zhu had been feeling a little disappointed, but the next moment, the girl who had made his heart race countless times held out her hand to him. "Jiang Zhu, let's go. We're heading back to the tribe to eat."

Jiang Zhu blanked out for a moment, then foolishly placed his hand in the girl's palm. "Okay..."

---Xu Yanwu inside the Cryo-sleep Pod---

"Ah—" Xu Yanwu suddenly opened his mouth wide and let out an earth-shaking sneeze. "Achoo!"

Xu Yanwu helplessly rubbed his nose against the inside of the Cryo-sleep Pod. "Having no hands is really inconvenient. Say, does sneezing mean someone is thinking about me? Could it be Danzhu and Cang Xuan?"

"But why does my heart feel strangely stuffed up, like I just got force-fed dog food..."

"Forget it, forget it." Xu Yanwu hurriedly shook his head. "I should figure out how to get out of this Cryo-sleep Pod..."

As he spoke, Xu Yanwu concentrated his consciousness. "I want to move from this Cryo-sleep Pod to a spot roughly one meter outside it!"

Wish Fulfillment activated once more after Xu Yanwu spoke, and his head suddenly appeared outside the Cryo-sleep Pod.

"Yahoo! Success! Looks like I'm getting more and more skilled at using this ability." Xu Yanwu gave a small cheer and hurriedly flew upward into the sky. "I should hurry up and find those two sisters. Seriously, they just left me behind and locked me inside the Cryo-sleep Pod..."

"Couldn't they have used their brains for once? If I could get in... didn't that mean I could get out..."

Muttering to himself, Xu Yanwu looked down upon the land from high above, and his heart could not help but tremble.

Having lived in cities all his life, when had Xu Yanwu ever seen such a vast forest? It was enough to dazzle his eyes...