Give Me Three Months

Still, that said.

It was not enough to avoid fighting and competing, to desire nothing and seek nothing. Even someone as cautious as Shi Yi could not avoid fighting and competing, much less remain free of desires.

As long as people lived in this world, unless they truly isolated themselves from society, they could never avoid competition. They merely fought over different things.

Women, resources, power.

Though life was always this helpless.

Shi Yi would never gamble his life against someone else's for some supposed great opportunity, betting on whose luck was better and forcibly entrusting his life to something as illusory as luck.

He did not like gambling.

He had disliked it since childhood.

If he wanted something, he would make a legal trade.

If they refused to trade, then he would take it.

He only had one life.

Why insist on gambling it?

In a sense, Ten Celestial Passages was gambling. Nine Celestial Passages was already the limit for living beings in this world. Even Pure-Blooded Lifeforms could go no further.

To open Ten Celestial Passages, one could only gamble with one's life—gamble on whether one could transcend the limit of Nine Celestial Passages between life and death, undergo Limit sublimation, and open Ten Celestial Passages.

Nine was the ultimate number; ten defied the heavens.

To defy the heavens.

One had to gamble with one's life.

It depended on whether Heaven would grant you that chance.

Whether you were Heaven's beloved son.

"Of course I understand. With Nine Celestial Passages, one can be called a king; with Ten Celestial Passages, one can be called a sovereign and fight across realms. They are not something Nine Celestial Passages can compare to. Throughout history, very few have broken through to Ten Celestial Passages."

Shi Yi's gaze was exceedingly serious, and his words brimmed with confidence.

He still remembered.

Back when he was in Martial King Manor, he had not merely indulged in the privileged life of a Royalty Descendant. He had also read countless ancient texts concerning cultivation.

After all, strength reigned supreme in this world. In the eyes of the strong, the weak had no right to speak. You could pretend to be a pig to eat a tiger, but you could not truly be nothing more than a pig.

So although Shi Yi claimed that he could not endure hardship, he would never pass up an opportunity to increase his strength. Otherwise, he could not have wielded one hundred thousand jin with a single arm.

Of that one hundred thousand jin, ninety thousand had been cultivated through medicinal baths accumulated over many years.

The final ten thousand came after he underwent the True Blood Baptism of the Flame Kirin and successfully broke through.

Shi Yi's ability to reach one hundred thousand jin of divine strength in the Blood Moving Realm showed that he only complained about hardship with his mouth. In truth, none of his cultivation had fallen behind. Only then could he possess strength comparable to the strongest cub of a Pure-Blooded Ferocious Beast.

"Do you truly think you can do it?" the Willow Deity asked in confusion.

She did not understand where Shi Yi's inexplicable confidence came from. Diligently cultivating to raise one's realm was one thing; that was still within her understanding. But reaching the pinnacle as well?

If it were truly that easy.

Wouldn't she become invincible simply by entering seclusion for a few million years?

"Willow Deity, you will never understand the kind of potential a man can unleash once he becomes serious. No matter how impossible something may seem, there will still be a chance for it to happen."

As he spoke.

Shi Yi activated his Nine Celestial Passages. Nine volcanic craters appeared in the void, like nine resplendent Great Suns hanging overhead.

With Nine Celestial Passages, one could be called a king; with Ten Celestial Passages, one could be called a sovereign.

Originally, he had thought that opening Nine Celestial Passages would be enough. There was no need to gamble his life for Ten Celestial Passages.

But the Willow Deity had made such a promise, while also looking down on him and believing that he could not accomplish it.

He had to prove to her that nothing in this world was absolutely impossible.

Of course.

Shi Yi was cautious by nature. He would not gamble with his life, much less gamble with his life for a woman. If he won, that was one thing; if he lost, she would run off with someone else.

He had no desire to do something so foolish.

Then why was he so confident before the Willow Deity?

The reason was simple.

Shi Yi already had his own idea of how to break through to Ten Celestial Passages.

In his previous life, on Azure Blue Planet, he had been a fan of Primordial Chaos. He might not have known much about the details of Perfect World, but when it came to Primordial Chaos, he knew it like the back of his hand.

Simply put.

Shi Yi could discuss Pangu Creates the World, the Dragon Phoenix Initial Tribulation, the Witch Demon Calamity, the Human Emperor Calamity, the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, and finally Journey to the West, which he was not sure even counted as a calamity.

Though the worlds were different.

The principles were connected.

Shi Yi felt that certain Daoist theories from the Primordial World.

Could also bear fruit in this different world.

That was why Shi Yi spoke with such confidence and believed that he could break through to Ten Celestial Passages.

"Shi Yi, are you really this obsessed over such a matter?"

Though the Willow Deity had long guessed it, her tone was still somewhat strange.

The reason she had made that promise was to see whether Shi Yi was that sort of person. She had not expected him to truly be so fixated on it. The possibility of becoming intimate with her human Law Body had actually given rise to such a powerful obsession within him.

Over countless millions of years.

This was the first time she had encountered someone as strange as Shi Yi.

He could actually develop an obsession over something as simple as physical desire.

"Willow Deity, give me three months. I will certainly break through to Ten Celestial Passages. When that time comes, I hope the Willow Deity will fulfill her promise and grant me the chance to remain by your side."

As Shi Yi spoke, he noticed Hu Niu waving at him from nearby. After saying this, he leaped directly down from the Willow Tree's canopy, took Hu Niu's hand, and left.

Over the past two years.

Shi Yi had suddenly shot up in height and looked exceptionally spirited. He had even gradually awakened a man's abilities. Unlike two years ago, he was no longer willing but powerless.

Of course, it was only a gradual awakening. He would not fully awaken until he was twelve, and would not mature until sixteen. For now, the seed had only begun to awaken.

The same was true for Hu Niu. After two years, she had become a beautiful young girl.

Though she had lost her adorably simple, tigerish demeanor, she had gained the air of youth.

The only thing that had not changed was.

Her waist-length black hair.

Whenever she stirred the blood and qi throughout her body to activate a Treasure Technique, the three thousand strands of jet-black hair behind her would rustle in the wind.

For some reason, whenever Shi Yi saw this, he always felt as if an inexplicable gaze were watching him. It was as though some indescribable existence, somewhere beneath the River of Time, was staring fixedly at him.

"Yi Gege, that Suan Ni Precious Technique is so difficult. No matter how I try, I can't learn it. I've clearly studied it very hard, but whenever I try to use the Suan Ni Precious Technique, I always fail at the last moment."

Hu Niu complained as she tightly hugged Shi Yi's arm. She had already regarded herself as Shi Yi's woman and absolutely would not allow any of the other girls from Stone Village to approach him.

"Don't rush. You only broke through to the Celestial Passage Realm not long ago, and you currently have only one Cavern Heaven. First stabilize your cultivation, then slowly study the Suan Ni Precious Technique. There is no hurry."

Shi Yi rubbed Hu Niu's head, his tone exceptionally patient, like a gentle big brother soothing her discouraged mood over cultivating the Treasure Technique.

Over these past two years.

It was not only Hu Niu who had improved greatly. Every young man and woman of Stone Village who had undergone a baptism with the true blood of Ancient Descendants had basically broken through from the Blood Moving Realm to the Celestial Passage Realm.

Although their physical bodies did not meet the standard, and they had not attained one hundred thousand jin of divine strength in the Blood Moving Realm, making them unable to cultivate the Original True Understanding, they could still cultivate the methods of Martial King Manor without issue.

Giving a man a fish was not as good as teaching him how to fish. Shi Yi still hoped that Stone Village could grow strong on its own and protect itself. He could not truly remain in Stone Village for his entire life.

"Shi Yi, though I do not know where your confidence comes from, three months is a very short time. I will wait and see. I hope you can give me a surprise."

As she watched the backs of Shi Yi and Hu Niu leave, the Willow Deity's voice rang out through the silent void.

"I certainly will not disappoint the Willow Deity," Shi Yi replied without turning his head.

It seems you truly have a way, the Willow Deity thought.

At some point, she seemed to have grown increasingly curious about him.