Where Did the Scripture You Chant Come From?

"Big Brothers, thank you for your help some time ago. Not only did you save me in my moment of peril, you even helped me avenge my son in the end."

An Adult Pixiu over a hundred meters tall, imposing and majestic, slightly bent its forelegs and knelt before Bi An, with the body of a jackal and head of a dragon, and Ya Zi, with the body of a tiger and head of a dragon.

Ya Zi had the body of a jackal and the head of a dragon.

Bi An had the body of a tiger and the head of a dragon.

Both Pure-Blooded Ferocious Beasts possessed true dragon bloodlines.

They were far stronger than the Adult Pixiu.

They were not merely close friends; they had also sworn brotherhood long ago.

Ya Zi was the eldest, Bi An the second, and the Adult Pixiu the third.

"Third Brother, we are brothers. It is only right for brothers to stand up for one another. Why be so polite?" Bi An asked, his eyes as large as hills.

Bi An, with a tiger's body and dragon's head, had always been righteous and chivalrous. He could never stand seeing humans or beasts bullied. Back in the Heaven Domain of the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm, he often upheld justice for humans and beasts alike.

After humans killed Little Pi Xiu, they had even attempted to surround and kill the Adult Pixiu. This thoroughly enraged the righteous Bi An, making him unable to resist going on a killing spree.

"Third Brother, why are you kneeling? Get up!" Ya Zi roared, as if heaven and earth were collapsing.

"Big Brother, I..."

The Adult Pixiu stood up, its eyes full of grievance.

Ya Zi ignored it and said calmly, "Since humans are so despicable and shameless, so fond of exterminating their enemies, then we shall be despicable and shameless for once as well. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. They brought this upon themselves."

"If Martial King Manor were not located in the Stone Country Imperial Capital, where we cannot act beneath the Stone Country Human Emperor's very nose—hmph! I would not have spared even the old, weak, women, and children of Martial King Manor!"

Ya Zi, with the body of a jackal and head of a dragon, had a fierce temperament. He loved slaughter and battle, repaying every kindness and avenging every grievance. Whenever he sought revenge, bloodshed was inevitable. He had long wanted to use humanity's shamelessness against shameless humans.

"By the way, Third Brother, didn't you go seize the Mountain Treasure? What, you failed to get it?"

Bi An walked over to the Adult Pixiu. His equally towering hundred-meter body exuded a faint but invisible true dragon's might, while his hill-sized eyes were filled with curiosity.

"An accident happened. I did not get it."

Thinking of Shi Yi, the Adult Pixiu looked somewhat dejected. After ten days and ten nights of bloody battle across a hundred thousand miles of the Great Wilderness, it had actually failed to defeat a Young Supreme who had forcibly raised his strength through external means.

"Vermilion Bird and Zhu Yan have already left. Of the Four Great Ferocious Beasts of the Great Wilderness, only Qiongqi and the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow remain. Could they have stolen your Mountain Treasure?"

A fierce light flashed in Ya Zi's eyes. So long as the Adult Pixiu nodded, he would immediately kill his way into the Great Wilderness and seize back the Mountain Treasure that Qiongqi and the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow had taken.

The Eight Regions of the Lower Realm—Heaven, Earth, Mystic, Yellow, Cosmos, Void, Flood, and Wild—had no formal ranking. Yet Ya Zi, who came from the Heaven Domain, truly held the Four Great Ferocious Beasts of the Great Wilderness in little regard.

Truly powerful ferocious beasts should roam freely across all Eight Regions, not hide in the Wild Domain and rule the Great Wilderness, even making up some so-called Four Great Ferocious Beasts of the Great Wilderness. It was utterly embarrassing.

Besides.

In Ya Zi's view, Vermilion Bird and Zhu Yan at least had the Fire Kingdom and Stone Kingdom behind them. The Heaven Swallowing Sparrow and Qiongqi were merely wild beasts; they could be killed without even knowing how they died.

"Big Brother, it was not them. They had been holding back and refused to emerge. In the end, the Mountain Treasure was seized by a Young Supreme with Ten Celestial Passages," the Adult Pixiu said, gently shaking its head.

"A Young Supreme with Ten Celestial Passages? Could he be a prodigy from the Upper Realm?" Bi An sharply inhaled.

"His surname is Shi," the Adult Pixiu said softly.

"Shi... the Double Pupil User, Shi Yi?"

Ya Zi immediately thought of someone, someone whose fame had risen rapidly throughout the Stone Kingdom.

It was no wonder he reacted so quickly. Shi Yi's identity as a Double Pupil User was truly known to everyone in the Stone Kingdom. He was not only the pride of Martial King Manor, but also the pride of the Stone Kingdom.

Although Shi Yi had vanished for five years, his disappearance had not caused him to fade from public memory. Instead, many believed that Shi Yi, this Double Pupil User, was preparing something monumental.

"That is him. Martial King Manor's direct grandson, the reincarnation of an Innate Saint, the Double Pupil User Shi Yi. Not only did he successfully open Ten Celestial Passages, with the aid of external means, he could even fight me to a standstill."

The Adult Pixiu was too embarrassed to admit that, by the end of the battle, it was already somewhat unable to defeat him. It could only shamelessly claim they were evenly matched, preserving what little face it had left.

"This child will surely become a great threat in the future," Ya Zi said without hesitation.

"It is not that he will become a great threat in the future. If he truly can fight Third Brother to a standstill, then he is already a grave threat now," Bi An said.

"Big Brothers, Shi Yi's growth is astonishing. In a few more years, I fear I will no longer be his match."

The Adult Pixiu gave Ya Zi and Bi An a warning in advance, because it felt that if they fought again next time, it might truly be unable to defeat Shi Yi.

"We have killed so many people, and Shi Yi has quite a few blood relatives among them. We have already reached a point where only death can end this."

Ya Zi bared his blood-filled maw, slowly raising his massive head as he calmly gazed eastward.

He knew.

The east was the direction of the Stone Kingdom.

"But that is the Stone Kingdom. With the Human Emperor there, we cannot possibly barge in. Unless we can capture one of Shi Yi's relatives again, we may be able to lure him out and kill him."

Although Bi An was righteous by nature, when faced with irreconcilable matters, he would not hesitate or drag his feet. Instead, he was far clearer-headed than most.

"Big Brothers, I have a plan!" the Adult Pixiu suddenly said.

Elsewhere.

Far away in Martial King Manor of the Stone Kingdom, Shi Yi still had no idea that he had become a grave threat in the eyes of others.

He had become a thorn in their side, someone they were desperate to eliminate. They had even begun preparing schemes and plots against him.

Just as Shi Yi was preparing to cultivate, a willow branch extended from the void and dragged him into a pitch-black rift.

The next instant.

Shi Yi's vision spun. When he opened his eyes again, Willow Deity was before him.

"Teacher, where is this place?"

Shi Yi swallowed and looked around. This space was only about a hundred square meters, with clear mountains, beautiful waters, and lush trees. Yet outside, Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind raged.

The so-called Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind were all things in the world.

It was said.

When a great world was destroyed, it would turn into the primordial Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind.

The foundation of Yin Yang Chaos and the principles of the Five Elements Eight Trigrams all lay within them. To recreate Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind was to utterly shatter a great world and reassemble it into a new one.

"This is your own world. Can't you sense it?"

Willow Deity sat on a tree stump. Before her stood a stone table holding simple tea and pastries. Beneath it lay a Runic Bone Fragment, a black sphere, and several pieces of precious bone.

"Of course I can sense it. I just can't believe it. The changes are too great!"

Shi Yi was not lying. When he had just opened the Tenth Celestial Passage, everything had been chaotic. Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind were chaotic, and the Yin Yang Chaos and Five Elements Power were chaotic as well.

Chaos. Disorder. A complete mess. Though this Tenth Celestial Passage encompassed everything in the world, everything within it was in disarray, so chaotic that Shi Yi could not distinguish anything at all.

What was Chaos?

What was Yin Yang?

What were the Five Elements?

Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind ran rampant.

East, south, west, and north were reversed.

Space and time drifted without stability.

In short.

This was a world of unimaginable chaos. Though it contained everything, everything was disordered. If it could not be sorted out, it would inevitably become an obstacle on Shi Yi's path of growth. It might even trap him forever at Ten Celestial Passages, leaving him unable to advance another step.

Indeed.

Shi Yi's Ten Celestial Passages were unprecedented and unsurpassed. The Ten Celestial Passages evolved from the Thirteen Scriptures were unimaginably powerful, far surpassing the Ten Celestial Passages opened by Young Supremes of the same generation in the Nine Heavens Ten Earths.

But all things in the world followed cause and effect.

While Shi Yi's Ten Celestial Passages were powerful, they had also become a sturdy lock, firmly sealing off his path forward.

Unless.

Someone sorted out his Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind, sorted out his Yin Yang Chaos, and sorted out his Five Elements Power, forcibly opening that lock, he would become the first Young Supreme to be trapped to death at Ten Celestial Passages.

Fortunately, Shi Yi had always treated Willow Deity well.

He had been attentive and considerate.

He had obeyed her every word.

Not enough to make her fall for a little brat like Shi Yi, but enough to accumulate quite a bit of goodwill, to the point that she acknowledged in her heart that Shi Yi would be qualified to walk beside her in the future.

Therefore.

This Tenth Celestial Passage, once a chaotic Celestial Passage,

had not only been thoroughly sorted out, but had even begun to show signs of life.

Shi Yi could clearly sense that the grass beneath his feet and the trees in the distance were all real, not illusions meant to deceive the eye.

In truth.

This, too, was cause and effect. Without Willow Deity's promise, Shi Yi would not have forcibly opened Ten Celestial Passages. And with Willow Deity here, Shi Yi did not need to worry about the problems he would encounter in the early stages of cultivation.

"Shi Yi, tell me. Where did the scripture you chant come from?"