Slapped Repeatedly, Tang Hao Thrown Out of the Village, Angry Villagers!

"Hoo, hoo..."

Tang Hao gasped for air, his clothes already soaked through with sweat. The hands that had once pummeled Zhao Wuji were trembling violently, the webs of his thumbs split open and dripping with blood.

He had been attacking for a full ten minutes, yet he felt as though he had been scratching the surface of a Primordial Divine Mountain.

"Uncle, stop messing around."

Little One looked at the disheveled Tang Hao before him and offered some well-meaning advice, his grape-like eyes filled with sincerity.

"Grandpa Village Chief said that outsiders should be polite."

"Besides, your killing intent is too heavy. If you keep acting like this, the Sacrificial Spirit will get angry."

"Sacrificial Spirit?"

Upon hearing these words, the already exhausted Tang Hao let out a cold snort, a flicker of mocking contempt flashing in his eyes.

He straightened his back and loosened his aching joints.

Although his hands were still trembling, his tongue remained sharp:

"Don't try to scare This Seat with some Sacrificial Spirit!"

"I've been observing for the past few days. Isn't your village's so-called Sacrificial Spirit just that Eight-Treasure Chicken that likes to wander around the village entrance?"

Having said that, Tang Hao sneered with utter disdain:

"It's just a chicken, and it dares to call itself a Sacrificial Spirit? Once I fully adapt to the rules of this world, I will surely take its place!"

As soon as these words left his mouth, the previously innocent and carefree Little One's expression changed drastically, and he became instantly displeased.

Although he didn't know why this uncle would claim the Eight-Treasure Chicken was the Sacrificial Spirit, he only knew that in Stone Village, the Willow Deity was their faith—a divine spirit that could not be profaned!

"I won't allow you to insult the Sacrificial Spirit!"

"You're a bad person!"

With that, Little One moved.

There were no superfluous movements, no flashy techniques; he simply took a step forward and slapped him across the face.

"BOOM!"

The next second, the air was blasted apart, emitting a thunderous explosion!

Tang Hao didn't even have a chance to react before his vision went black. The bones on one side of his face shattered instantly, and his entire body was sent flying backward on the spot.

"THUD!"

Dozens of meters away, dust billowed into the air.

Tang Hao once again landed head-first with pinpoint accuracy, driving himself even deeper into his exclusive human-shaped crater.

This time, he couldn't even twitch. His head was buried deep in the dirt, his two legs sticking straight up into the sky like a radish planted upside down.

"Oh my, isn't that the beggar uncle?"

Just then, a burst of giggling rang out.

Pi Hou, Snotty Kid, and the others had just run out of the village and happened to catch this familiar scene, causing them to double over with laughter.

"Hahahaha, I'm dying of laughter!"

Pi Hou pointed at Tang Hao in the pit and said to the children who had just arrived:

"Look at this big fool, he actually dared to make Little One angry?"

"Doesn't he know that Little One is the only person in Stone Village to have reached the extreme of the Blood Moving Realm, with a single-arm strength of one hundred and eight thousand catties?"

"Exactly, exactly!"

Snotty Kid, standing to the side, sniffled and said with a look of contempt:

"Don't let his three-year-old appearance fool you. His pure physical strength is comparable to the cub of a pure-blooded primordial vicious beast! He could easily lift a small mountain!"

"This uncle actually wanted to fight Little One? He's practically asking for death!"

Hearing everyone say this, the simple-minded Er Meng, who had been quiet until now, walked over. He looked at Tang Hao's leg dangling in the air and muttered with some dissatisfaction:

"Telling you to bully Little One! Telling you to be bad!"

As he spoke, Er Meng raised his foot and kicked him without the slightest hesitation.

"CRACK!"

A crisp sound rang out. Tang Hao's leg, which had already been broken into three sections, was now completely pulverized, bending at a bizarre angle.

"AHHH!!!"

The intense pain radiating through his body caused the unconscious Tang Hao to scream once more, before his eyes rolled back and he fainted again.

"Oh no, this is bad!"

However, just as the children were surrounding Tang Hao and pointing at him, Little One suddenly looked as if he had seen a terrifying monster. His small face turned deathly pale, and he took off running.

"Huh? What's wrong with Little One?"

Seeing this, Pi Hou and the others looked back with curiosity.

The result was shocking enough to make one jump.

At the entrance of the village, a sturdy little girl named Hu Niu, dressed in animal skin, was carrying a giant, unidentified beast leg bone—many times larger than her own body—over one shoulder, marching toward them with a ferocious aura.

"Who dares to bully little Hao-hao!"

"Watch me smash his skull with one blow!"

Seeing Hu Niu about to charge in, the other children immediately panicked.

"Quick, stop her!"

"If that club lands, the uncle is going to be turned into meat paste!"

In an instant, Pi Hou, Er Meng, and the others turned green with fear and rushed forward.

In the end, it took all of them working together to barely wrap their arms around Hu Niu's legs, desperately dragging back the rampaging humanoid tyrannosaurus.

Amidst this chaotic scene, the charred willow tree that had been standing silently at the village entrance saw its single, glowing green branch sway gently once more.

Then, an invisible consciousness swept across the area.

As for the ant lying in the pit, harboring evil intentions and even plotting to take another's place, the Willow Deity did not even have the interest to spare it a second glance.

Although disgusted, the Willow Deity believed that evil would eventually be punished by heaven; a dignified Immortal King-level titan would not lower herself to tangle with a mere ant.

"Hum..."

In the void, the Willow Deity's branch swayed lightly.

The next second, a crystal-clear, emerald-green willow leaf radiating a faint vitality drifted slowly downward, eventually landing lightly on the center of Qian Renxue's forehead as she struggled to endure the gravity.

"This is..."

As the willow leaf touched her, it instantly merged into Qian Renxue's body.

Feeling this power, Qian Renxue looked up in a daze.

In an instant, the world's gravity that had been crushing her, making it hard to breathe and threatening to shatter her bones, miraculously vanished!

Not only that, but a cool and gentle energy coursed through her entire body, bringing with it an indescribably wondrous sensation.

Qian Renxue tried to move her legs, then stood up with an expression of pure disbelief.

She could... actually move!

Moreover, she felt light all over, as if a thousand-pound burden had been lifted, and she had completely adapted to the gravity of this world!

In the village not far away, although Pi Hou and the others were still bickering and had not noticed that Qian Renxue was now moving freely, a new caption suddenly appeared on the Sky Screen:

[Announcement: Qian Renxue, explorer of the Douluo Plane, has shown reverence and received a casual blessing from the Willow Deity, the Sacrificial Spirit of Stone Village!]

Seeing this announcement, the entire Douluo Continent erupted once again.

Beyond marveling at Qian Renxue's good fortune, what shocked them most was that no one had expected the Sacrificial Spirit of Stone Village to be that sickly-looking willow tree!

Thinking of this, many people on the Douluo Plane could not help but swallow hard, their eyes glued to the image on the Sky Screen, desperate to see what this so-called Sacrificial Spirit blessing actually did, terrified of missing a single detail.

Meanwhile, behind the Sky Screen, at the entrance of Stone Village in the Great Wilderness.

"What's going on? Why all the noise?"

A flurry of hurried footsteps approached, and the old village chief, Shi Yunfeng, arrived with several sturdy, ox-like adult villagers in tow.

Seeing the chaotic scene before them, the adults all frowned.