One More Person?

The shattering of the stone knife was certainly painful to watch.

But when Shi Yi took out the Runic Bone Fragment inscribed with the Original True Understanding and used it as a bone knife to carve up the Li Fire Bull Demon's body, the towering Willow Tree not far behind him nearly could not resist lashing him with a willow branch.

Shi Yi did not understand, and neither did Stone Village. They could not be blamed for that.

This Runic Bone Fragment had been brought down from the Upper Realm by the Willow Deity. She knew very well how valuable it was. It did not merely record the Original True Understanding; the bone fragment itself was also a supreme treasure refined by an unparalleled great being.

The Runic Bone Fragment in Shi Yi's hands, like his Qilin Treasure Technique, was incomplete. It was merely one-third of the supreme treasure, and no one knew where the remaining two-thirds had ended up.

And in the Willow Deity's eyes, the only beings worthy of being called great beings were Emperors.

Above Immortal Kings stood Immortal Emperors.

Unfortunately.

In ancient times, Immortal Emperors had merely been a legend. There were only rumors that the other end of the Boundary Sea concealed an opportunity to break past the King realm and become an Emperor, but no one knew whether it was true even now.

All of this was far too distant from the current Shi Yi. The Willow Deity even felt that with Shi Yi's temperament, let alone becoming an Immortal King, it would be difficult for him to become an immortal at all, much less an Immortal Emperor above Immortal Kings.

Naturally, Shi Yi knew nothing of the Willow Deity's thoughts, nor did he know he had nearly been whipped again. He eagerly held up the Runic Bone Fragment and used it as a bone knife to carve at the Li Fire Bull Demon's remains.

It really was something. No one knew what kind of bone this Runic Bone Fragment was made from, but it was incomparably sharp and indestructible. The body of the Li Fire Bull Demon, an Ancient Descendant, was as fragile as tofu before it.

Just as Shi Yi was getting more and more enthusiastic, the Willow Deity's distinctive voice suddenly rang out.

"Shi Yi, do you know the true value contained within the Runic Bone Fragment in your hand?"

"Value?"

Shi Yi looked at the Runic Bone Fragment in his hand with a puzzled expression. He had already used his Double Pupils to imprint the Original True Understanding recorded upon it into the deepest part of his soul.

At present, its only value was replacing the stone knife.

"This Runic Bone Fragment is the sole original copy of the Original True Understanding. It records the first volume of the Original True Understanding, the God Guiding Chapter."

"Many great sects, undying Dao Lineages, and long-lived Noble Families in the Upper Realm possess copied versions of it. At most, it can be cultivated to the Human Dao Peak. Beyond that lies immortality."

"Unfortunately, the second volume of the Original True Understanding, the Transcendence Chapter, also known as the Immortality Chapter, has never appeared in the world, and no one has ever obtained it, much less the third volume, the Ultimate Chapter."

By the end, there was a trace of regret in the Willow Deity's voice. If she could obtain the third volume of the Original True Understanding, the Ultimate Chapter, she was confident she could break past the King realm and become an Emperor without entering the Boundary Sea.

The Boundary Sea was filled with danger. Worlds and universes within it were endless, and even Immortal Kings had a high chance of falling there. Unless necessary, she was unwilling to take such a risk.

The Willow Deity was not afraid of entering the Boundary Sea, nor did she fear the unknown. For one who pursued the Dao, hearing the Dao in the morning and dying that evening was enough.

But if there was a safe way to break past the King realm and become an Emperor, yet one deliberately went to the Boundary Sea to seek death, then there was something wrong with their brain.

"The sole original copy?"

Shi Yi looked at the Runic Bone Fragment in his hand. When he watched the Perfect World animation in his previous life, he had only cared about watching the female leads. He truly had not noticed that this thing in his hand was actually the sole original copy.

A few minutes later.

"So what if it is the sole original copy?"

Shi Yi muttered before continuing, "I have already memorized all the Original True Understanding scriptures recorded on it. If this Runic Bone Fragment really gets damaged by accident, then so be it. What in this world is eternally indestructible anyway? Besides, if it breaks that easily, it means it was not much to begin with."

After saying that.

Shi Yi continued using the Runic Bone Fragment in his hand as a bone knife to carve up the Li Fire Bull Demon's remains, utterly unconcerned that it was the only original copy of the God Guiding Chapter, the first volume of the Original True Understanding.

What Shi Yi did not know was this.

Although many great sects in the Upper Realm possessed copies of the God Guiding Chapter, the first volume of the Original True Understanding.

As the original copy, it was hard to say whether it contained some hidden scripture that no one had discovered.

Generally speaking.

Anyone else who obtained the sole original copy of the Original True Understanding would cherish it carefully. Only Shi Yi did not care about such things. He believed in making full use of everything and did not have so many convoluted concerns.

"Actually, the God Guiding Chapter, the first volume of the Original True Understanding, has an auxiliary scripture called the Myriad Spirits Diagram. It is also part of the Original True Understanding. Cultivating it together with the God Guiding Chapter may allow one to comprehend the power to turn decay into magic. However, the Myriad Spirits Diagram has been lost for a long time, which has led to far fewer disciples of those great sects in the Upper Realm cultivating the God Guiding Chapter," the Willow Deity said softly.

"Myriad Spirits Diagram? Turning decay into magic? What does that have to do with me?"

Shi Yi hesitated for a moment. He felt that he did not have the luck to encounter the Myriad Spirits Diagram, so he might as well live well in the present. He picked up the Runic Bone Fragment and got back to work.

Seeing this.

The Willow Deity did not speak again. She also felt that Shi Yi had no connection to the Myriad Spirits Diagram and did not seem like someone blessed with great fortune. The chance of him obtaining the Myriad Spirits Diagram in the future was practically nonexistent.

But what she overlooked was this.

The fact that Shi Yi had met her this time and spent three years coming to know her was itself a tremendous stroke of fortune.

Perhaps because she had fallen into the mortal world for too long, even she was beginning to forget how noble she had once been.

She was not a god. She was an immortal, and immortals stood above gods.

Gods would one day reach the end of their lifespans, but immortals possessed endless longevity.

Several hours passed.

As dusk approached, Shi Yi finally finished carving up the Li Fire Bull Demon's enormous remains. Beef, tripe, bones, and tendons were piled into a small mountain.

There was no helping it.

The Li Fire Bull Demon was, after all, a colossal creature over ten meters tall, while Shi Yi was only a small child holding a palm-sized Runic Bone Fragment.

Even though the Runic Bone Fragment carved through the Li Fire Bull Demon's more than ten-meter-tall remains as easily as a knife through tofu, it was still no easy task.

At the very least, it could not be finished in a short while.

The people of Stone Village naturally helped as well.

But even with iron knives, more than a dozen burly men sweated through an entire afternoon of work, broke over a dozen iron knives in succession, and only managed to cut off a few taels of beef.

Because the several barrels of Ancient Descendant true blood Shi Yi had given them had created a future for Stone Village, the simple villagers sincerely wanted to do something for Shi Yi. But in the end, they discovered that their hearts were willing while their strength was lacking.

Still, they had confidence. As long as Stone Village's next generation underwent a True Blood Baptism with this Ancient Descendant true blood, Stone Village would surely develop and become a Tribal Clan in the Great Wilderness.

The Stone Village villagers' thinking was basically correct.

Because the Tribal Clans of the Great Wilderness that now numbered in the tens of millions could all be traced back to little villages that had gradually developed in ancient times.

Once Stone Village's next generation underwent the Ancient Descendant True Blood Baptism, breaking through to the Celestial Passage Realm would not be effortless, but it would be as easy as eating and drinking.

Stone Village was small, but it had hope.

Now, the Old Clan Leader Shi Yunfeng roughly understood why the Willow Deity had told him to keep Shi Yi back then. This youth from the outside world truly could reverse Stone Village's harsh reality of accumulated poverty and weakness.

Though the Willow Deity was mysterious and powerful, she had never interfered in the affairs of their village. If they wanted to develop the village, they had to go out into the world rather than remain in the village, idling away their lives and enjoying the Willow Deity's protection.

The Great Wilderness, the Vast Mountain Range, Stone Village.

Night had fallen. Countless pairs of eyes appeared outside Stone Village. They had caught the scent of Ancient Descendant true blood emanating from within Stone Village and smelled the scent of flesh and blood from the Ancient Descendant's remains.

Yet when they looked at the Willow Tree in the very center of Stone Village, the owners behind those eyes could only forcefully suppress their frenzied bloodlust, lest they become the next targets to be slain by willow branches.

Their arrival had been inevitable.

The Ancient Descendant true blood and the Ancient Descendant remains had previously been stored within Shi Yi's Cavern Heaven, so their aura had not leaked out. Now that they were being openly carved up in the center of Stone Village, the creatures craved them so badly they wanted to rush inside.

It was not as if none had acted on that impulse, but they had all become corpses by now.

On the eastern side of Stone Village, beside a small stream, inside a modest house.

The sound of bubbles bursting rose from a pot.

A small iron pot sat over a stove. Oil and water splattered within it as bubbles burst one after another. Bright red chili peppers, emerald green Sichuan peppercorns, and many mushrooms floated on the surface.

There was nothing strange about these seasonings appearing. Just as creatures such as qilins, pixiu, phoenixes, and Vermilion Birds were also recorded on the Azure Blue Planet, these seasonings were merely ordinary things.

For example.

The Azure Blue Planet had rice and wheat. Could other worlds and other universes not also have crops like rice and wheat?

Naturally not. Many things were interconnected across All Heavens Myriad Realms. The key was whether one could discover the uses of those crops.

"Yi Gege, the water is boiling. We can eat now, right?"

Hu Niu sat beside Shi Yi, holding chopsticks with an earnest little air. She was drooling with greed.

"There is one more person." Shi Yi shook his head.

"One more person?" Hu Niu's eyes were filled with confusion.