Shi Yi's entire body jolted at the sudden cry of "cousin."
He lowered his head, memories churning endlessly. After thinking for a long time, he finally recalled that on his mother Yu Yuexian's side, there seemed to be a distant relative.
A younger female cousin related by blood more than three generations removed.
"The door isn't locked. Come in," Shi Yi said.
The moment his words fell.
With a click.
The door was gently pushed open by a hand, and a girl of fifteen or sixteen walked in.
She was young, yet remarkably well-endowed. Her thighs were fair and slender, like two pillars of white jade.
She wore a long green dress, with two bun-shaped knots atop her head, giving her an inexplicably adorable air.
Her name was Yu Zimo. She was related to Shi Yi's birth mother, Yu Yuexian, through their collateral family line. She could call Shi Yi by his given name or address him as cousin.
In private, she naturally called him by name. But now, considering that Shi Yi's seniority was above hers, she had no choice but to call Shi Yi, who was several years younger than her, cousin.
"So it's Zi... Cousin Zimo. Have a seat."
Shi Yi waved a hand, and the Cavern Heaven behind him appeared. Soon, a wooden chair of middling height landed before Yu Zimo.
This was wooden furniture he had personally made back when he was still in Stone Village in the Great Wilderness. He had put thought into every piece.
Chairs, tables, stools, pots, bowls, ladles—nothing was missing. Shi Yi stored all these miscellaneous items within the space of his Nine Celestial Passages.
Not in his Ten Celestial Passages. Though the Ten Celestial Passages contained a Small World, a small universe, they were filled with Earth, Water, Fire,