Karin Tower

After Natashi left, perhaps because Big Man had given some instructions, Kashius spent the night safely inside the car.

Just as dawn was beginning to break the next day, Kashius, who had been sound asleep, heard a "tap, tap" at the window.

He opened his eyes and rolled down the car window, then saw Big Man, A-Feng, and Natashi standing outside, looking at him.

From Big Man's bloodshot eyes, it was easy to tell he had not slept that night. And it was not just him—even A-Feng and Natashi were the same.

Their eyes were filled with red veins, their faces exhausted.

"Uh... uncle, what are you doing?" Kashius asked, somewhat puzzled.

With this setup, could it be that what I did to Natashi yesterday hit her too hard, and now her whole family's come to settle the score with me? Kashius thought in some alarm.

Big Man looked left and right, seeming still a little hesitant. But under the looks from A-Feng and Natashi, he gritted his teeth and knelt down in front of Kashius. Right after that, A-Feng and Natashi also followed Big Man and knelt down.

"Uncle? What are you doing?"

Seeing this, Kashius was even more confused.

Under Kashius's questioning, Big Man looked nervous and said in an earnest tone, "Kashius, yesterday, we already heard what Natashi said."

Then what is this supposed to be? I bullied your daughter, so why are you kneeling to me? Shouldn't you be trying to fight me to the death? Kashius was even more confused when he heard that.

Big Man continued, "Since the Guardian of Earth was able to grant you a human body, then your relationship with the Guardian of Earth must be very good. And so, I beg you here: could you take my Feng'er to the Guardian of Earth and ask the Guardian of Earth to train him?"

Huh? You've got to be kidding me!!! At Big Man's request, Kashius froze on the spot.

He had never expected that the lie he had told yesterday to shake off a certain girl would be believed so casually by them. This was just far too easy to fool, wasn't it? Were people on the grasslands really this simple and honest?

Kashius expressed deep doubt about that point.

"Uh... uncle, how do you know what I said wasn't a lie? Or that I didn't just say it to get away?" Kashius looked at Big Man, the corners of his lips curling slightly into a somewhat meaningful smile.

"What? Then you were lying to me? I knew it. You said that because you hate me!"

At that moment, before Big Man, who was kneeling on the ground, could speak, Natashi at the side cut in first.

Shit, not good! After Natashi said that, Kashius secretly sensed that things were going wrong.

Sure enough, a certain girl's eyes reddened instantly, tears already beginning to gather, looking as if they would spill out in the very next second.

"Natashi, stop making trouble." After reprimanding Natashi, Big Man spoke firmly to Kashius. "I can be sure that what you said was true! Because you know that the immortal atop Karin Tower is Korin! I once had the good fortune to climb Karin Tower and meet Korin.

"And from Korin's mouth, I learned that very few people have climbed Karin Tower. Naturally, even fewer know that the immortal is a cat.

"But, Kashius, not only did you know that the immortal was a cat, you also mentioned the Guardian of Earth! That left me no choice but to believe you."

Listening to Big Man's words, Kashius frowned slightly. To be honest, he really had not expected that the big guy in front of him had actually climbed Karin Tower. After all, in the plot, that white cat had never mentioned that such a person existed.

Just as Kashius was still thinking, Big Man continued, "At the time, I used some methods that are hard to talk about, which made Korin agree to teach me cultivation. But because my talent was limited, I didn't master much of it."

When Kashius heard this, he could not help taking a few more looks at the big guy.

Hard to talk about? Looks like this uncle isn't as honest as he appears on the surface.

As for Big Man's approach, Kashius neither approved nor opposed it. After all, when necessary, one did what was necessary. If there were a need, Kashius might also choose Big Man's way of doing things: stopping at nothing to achieve his goal!

At that moment, Big Man's expression showed some regret as he said, "Even so, with the immortal's help, I also learned how to sense the size of another person's ki."

"The size of ki? Don't joke around! How is that possible!!!" Hearing this, Kashius could not help roaring out loud.

What kind of joke was that?! Sensing the size of ki? Did he know how many martial artists there were on Earth? And how many people had learned ki?

Forget you—even that cat on Karin Tower might not necessarily be able to do it!!!

"I'm not joking, Kashius. What I said is true! And it was through this method that I knew you possessed power even greater than the immortal's! It is precisely because of that that I believed what you said!!!"

Perhaps affected by Kashius, Big Man's voice also began to grow louder.

"In that case, come feel it for yourself! See whether this is the ki you're talking about!"

After getting out of the car and putting the sports car into a Hoi-Poi Capsule, Kashius slowly retreated more than ten steps under everyone's gaze.

"Wahaha~!"

Following Kashius's loud shout, an astonishing vortex of power suddenly erupted from his body. The fierce gale generated from him began spreading in every direction.

In an instant, wild winds rose and the space shook. Wave after wave of suffocating aura burst fully from Kashius's body.

Big Man, the grassland youth A-Feng, Natashi, and the surrounding tribespeople were all forcibly pressed flat to the ground by that pressure.

Each of them looked as wretched as could be.

Kashius actually did not know how strong his own power was either. He only knew that after his battle with Kid Goku, his combat strength had increased greatly.

And because he had gone to take the driver's license test and buy a sports car as soon as he left the hospital, he did not know just how strong he was now.

"Ka... shius~! Stop! Hurry... stop!"

At that moment, Natashi's broken voice reached Kashius's ears.

Looking closely, Kashius saw Natashi, Big Man, and A-Feng being pressed by his aura until they were panting, covered in sweat, their whole bodies looking as if they had been drained for a long time.

Seeing this, Kashius stopped and helped Natashi up.

However, the latter was clearly far too weak. After Kashius helped her up, her whole body followed the momentum and collapsed against him.

That instantly made Kashius unbearably awkward. As for his hands, putting them down was no good, but if he did not hold on, Natashi would fall. Truly, he was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

"Kashius... I... was right about you after all! You really are... unbelievably strong." Big Man struggled to his feet, staring at Kashius in shock.

"So I'm begging you again. Please, take my son to the Guardian of Earth, or to the immortal at Karin Tower, and let an immortal guide his training. I'm begging you." As he spoke, Big Man actually ignored everyone around them and dropped to his knees in front of Kashius, then began kowtowing to him.

"Dad!" A-Feng lay on the ground, watching Big Man with tears streaming down his face.

This man was his father!

"Dad!"

At that moment, Natashi softly called out to Big Man, then lifted her head and looked at Kashius with pitiful, beautiful eyes.

Looking at Natashi's face, covered in fine beads of sweat, and feeling the warmth of the young girl's body, Kashius sighed and nodded.

The moment the girl saw it, she somehow found strength from nowhere and hugged Kashius tightly, then kissed him on the cheek.

At least two thousand meters above the ground, Kashius looked at the pillar before him that pierced deep into the clouds and slowly sighed.

Up there was where that cat lived, right? Sigh. He really did love making trouble for himself.

At that moment, Kashius was carrying the prairie youth A-Feng in his right hand. On the day A-Feng turned sixteen, he left home, left his tribe, and left the great prairie behind.

Following Kashius, he came here to Karin Tower to take a master and learn martial arts.