"After my cousin came back, we finally had a full meal."
The next morning, the little boy got up early.
He had eaten so much the night before that his little belly was still round and full. His face glowed with happiness.
The little boy's father had gotten up, too. After drinking the divine medicine and enjoying a hearty meal the night before, he seemed to have made a full recovery.
He couldn't help sighing. It had been years since he'd eaten his fill.
The night before, he'd kept pulling his cousin aside to thank him.
Seeing his cousin and the boy wolfing down food like starving ghosts, the immortal cousin had been busy preparing medicinal liquid and hadn't eaten any himself, leaving it all for the two of them.
He was filled with remorse. If only he'd known, he would have come back sooner.
His cousin and nephew had endured so many years of hardship.
The place where the little boy Ajie lived was called Myriad Dragon Mountain.
The area was surrounded by a hundred thousand mountains, with all kinds of dangerous magnetic fields, ferocious beasts, and fierce birds within and beyond them.
Danger lurked everywhere.
The locals relied on generations of experience to hunt in the mountains and return safely.
Anyone unfamiliar with the area who ventured in had a very high chance of perishing.
The immortal cousin was named Zhou Chen. To reach the third level of the Tathagata Realm in just over a decade showed that his talent was no small thing.
He was the personal disciple of an elder of the Lesser Star Sect, and the Sect Master had even appointed him the next Great Protector of the sect.
But the mountains were simply too dangerous.
He'd been gone for over a month and