The Great Wilderness, at the entrance to Stone Village.
As Jiang Chen finished speaking, it was as if something unseen had been stirred. Golden lotuses bloomed across the void, strange phenomena appeared one after another, and invisible laws seemed to resonate.
All the Myriad Dao thundered, and heaven and earth trembled.
"Zero Sequence..."
At the sound of that title, not only were all the Douluo Continent's people behind the Sky Screen stunned—even Jiang Chen's young attendant froze on the spot, nearly unable to react.
Yet under the gaze of the countless onlookers, Little Shi Hao blinked. His bright, dark eyes had held nothing but curiosity, but when he heard those six words—"Beast Milk delicacies, as much as you want"—they lit up at once, and he nearly started drooling.
"R-really as much as I want?"
Little One swallowed. In his mind, he was already imagining himself sprawled in an ocean of Beast Milk, with a roasted roc leg in his left hand and a steamed dragon palm in his right.
But when he heard the words that followed—"become my disciple"—a hint of wariness flashed in his big eyes.
"Become your disciple?"
Little Shi Hao instinctively took two steps back. Then he kicked off with his little feet and zipped behind Willow Deity's charred, thick trunk, nimble as a startled squirrel.
He poked half his round little head out from behind the trunk. His big eyes darted about as he sized up Jiang Chen. Then he puffed out his cheeks and shouted earnestly:
"No!"
"I already have a master. Little One's master is Willow Deity!"
"Willow Deity isn't just Little One's master. Willow Deity is Little One's family, too!"
"And besides..."
After speaking, Little Shi Hao sniffled and said, looking rather aggrieved:
"Grandpa Village Chief said that people from outside the Great