Shen Gongbao's Doubts

"Who would have thought that the child of fortune in this great calamity would be you, a stone spirit monster."

Beasley noticed that the gray-robed Daoist seemed to say something to him, possibly some kind of quest clue. However, because the stone monster's body had no hearing, Beasley did not hear a thing.

Beasley saw the Daoist seemingly stroke the beard on his chin.

"I actually forgot that, with your body, you can't hear what I'm saying." Shen Gongbao looked at the dumbfounded stone spirit monster beneath him, then at the little rabbit demon that had already fled. A golden radiance appeared in his hand and went straight into the stone monster's body.

After being illuminated by the golden light, Beasley inexplicably gained a certain insight.

He suddenly discovered that the scenery around him seemed to have undergone some kind of change.

To put it in one sentence—when he looked at mountains, they were no longer mountains; when he looked at water, it was no longer water.

In Beasley's eyes, the entire world had undergone some kind of transformation. It became more real, yet also somewhat unfamiliar.

And as Beasley was puzzling over this, a voice reached his mind. Beasley abruptly realized that he had gained hearing.

He heard the rustling of the breeze passing through the woods, the panicked cries of the rabbit spirit in the distance, and even the sound of dew gathering overhead and falling.

Not only that, besides sound, he had also gained a sense of smell. He could smell the earth around him, as well as the fragrance of the surrounding grass and trees...

"Though I see that you are a stone spirit monster born of nature, your foundation is shallow, and you possess only Qi Refining cultivation. Let me ask you: do you have