Cheng Shi was Cheng Shi, and he would never give up his greed over a little Yin-Yang teasing.
Even though he knew this greed was the trigger that stirred the tides of the Sea of Desire, if a treasure had been placed right in front of him yet he was forbidden to take it, then why hadn't they simply killed him when he was about to step into the Sea of Desire?
So at the very least, The Great One atop the Bone Throne supported him taking Lele'er's corpse.
Besides, was he taking this giant tree for himself?
Fishbone Hall was so cold. Shouldn't he find some firewood and light a fire? What if The Great One caught cold? Who else would protect him in the future?
Could that unreliable God of Merriment do it?
No!
So Cheng Shi made his move, swinging an axe straight at Lele'er's ankle.
To be honest, he had barely used any force. He only wanted to test whether an ordinary axe could break through the defenses of a herald's body. But to his surprise, the blow not only opened a crack in the withered giant tree large enough for a person to lie in, it also shook something utterly unimaginable from the sparse canopy.
A ball of light flashing with multicolored radiance fell from the sky and landed directly in front of Cheng Shi. Only after getting closer did he realize that within the light were two intertwined drops of water, pointing in opposite directions.
Slender streams connected them, while their rounded bodies repelled each other. The radiance within the drops constantly stretched and warped, tangling and twisting until they looked like an alien hourglass.
Cheng Shi had seen such an eerie, grotesque shape only on one thing before, so he immediately took out