Setting Out Again

Yuan Tian played with the Golden Dragon Scissors for a while, then forced out a drop of vital blood. With a point of his finger, a stream of spiritual energy carrying the vital blood shot straight toward the Golden Dragon Scissors. The blood vanished in an instant, and a spiritual connection, like that of shared bloodlines, rose within him. The Golden Dragon Scissors had recognized him as their master. With a joyful cry, the Golden Dragon Scissors flew around the small island for a while. At that moment, an auspicious cloud appeared above Yuan Tian's head. The Golden Dragon Scissors flew into his auspicious cloud and hung within the halo behind his head, swimming about without rest. At times, they manifested as savage golden dragons, roaring without end; at other times, only the golden scissors could be seen, wreathed in clouds, with waves of auspicious light flashing around them. Within the auspicious cloud, a painting and a book flickered in and out of sight, adding boundless mystery.

"Congratulations, Boss, on successfully refining a top-grade magical treasure." Pang Heng had awakened while Yuan Tian was refining the Golden Dragon Scissors, though his injuries had not yet fully healed.

"Haha, Pang Heng, you're awake? This magical treasure may not be called top-grade, but its power cannot be underestimated." Pang Heng had awakened while Yuan Tian was examining the Golden Dragon Scissors, and Yuan Tian had not noticed at first. As for Pang Heng's praise, Yuan Tian accepted it without the slightest courtesy.

"Of course, of course! Just look at who refined it. Who are you, Boss? You're one of the top experts of the Primordial Wilderness! Naturally, the magical treasure you refined is not to be taken lightly." Seeing Yuan Tian's delight, Pang Heng immediately laid on another round of flattery.

"Mhm, mhm, exactly, exactly!" Yuan Tian possessed none of the awareness that modesty was a traditional virtue, and accepted every bit of Pang Heng's flattery wholesale.

Thus, one of the two shady brothers flattered while the other accepted it, filling the little island with a foul, smoky miasma that stank to high heaven.

"By the way, Pang Heng, although your injuries haven't fully healed, traveling shouldn't be a problem, right?" As the two chatted merrily, Yuan Tian suddenly asked.

"Mhm, thank you for your concern, Boss. Although my injuries haven't healed, traveling is still no problem for me." Pang Heng nodded and bent at the waist as he spoke to Yuan Tian. Where was the arrogance he had displayed when he first appeared?

"Mhm, since you can travel, we should leave this place quickly. This is, after all, Dragon Clan territory. Who knows when the Dragon Clan will learn that their people died at our hands? It isn't yet suitable for us to wage an all-out war against the Dragon Clan." Though Yuan Tian's strength was overwhelming, he still had no way to stand on equal footing with an entire race, especially when that race was the Dragon Clan, one of the three innate overlords of the Primordial Wilderness. Yuan Tian therefore decided it would be better to avoid their edge for now.

"Alright, I'll listen to you, Boss." Pang Heng was no fool. Having lived in the Eastern Sea for countless years, he might not have known the Dragon Clan's true strength, but he understood their apparent strength well enough. Although his boss was formidable, aside from the Dragon Clan's Ancestral Dragon, perhaps few in the Dragon Clan could match his boss. Still, he knew that two fists could not defeat four hands, so he rather agreed with his boss's "strategic retreat."

"By the way, what about these Dragon Clan members? Should we..." Pang Heng pointed at the eleven dragons still unconscious on the ground, then drew a hand across his throat in a beheading gesture.

"No, don't kill them for now. Keep them alive. They may be useful later." After thinking it over, Yuan Tian decided to spare those Dragon Clan members.

"But, Boss, if we don't kill them, we have no way to take them with us." Yuan Tian's decision left Pang Heng in a difficult position.

"Hehe, your boss naturally has a way to handle that. Just stand to the side and watch carefully." Yuan Tian could not help laughing at Pang Heng's words. This was no challenge for him.

Yuan Tian slowly extended his left hand toward those Dragon Clan members and silently activated the divine ability, Five-Elements Heaven-Seizing Hand. The dragons flew uncontrollably toward Yuan Tian. Their dragon bodies, originally hundreds or nearly a thousand zhang long, gradually shrank until they finally vanished into Yuan Tian's hand. Yuan Tian felt that this Five-Elements Heaven-Seizing Hand was truly convenient. It was simply an indispensable divine ability for killing, arson, and traveling abroad. Was there anything more convenient than this?

Pang Heng stared dumbfounded from the side. What was going on? How had those Dragon Clan members disappeared? What kind of divine ability was that, Boss? Pang Heng felt as though countless question marks had filled his mind.

Desperate for answers, he immediately asked, "Boss, what just happened? How did those Dragon Clan members disappear? Was that a divine ability you used just now? What divine ability was it?" Yuan Tian was stumped by Pang Heng's barrage of questions. Only after a long while did he recover. "Well... we can talk while traveling."

And so, Yuan Tian and Pang Heng set out once more, heading toward the Primordial Continent. Along the way, Yuan Tian also answered the questions in Pang Heng's heart.

That day, Yuan Tian and Pang Heng were traveling and were about to leave the Eastern Sea and officially set foot upon the Primordial Continent.

"Um, Boss, there's something I need to tell you." Pang Heng spoke hesitantly.

"Say it. Why be so polite with your boss?"

"Boss, what I mean is... I can't leave the Eastern Sea for too long."

"What? You can't leave the Eastern Sea for a long time? What's going on?" Yuan Tian was utterly confused. What did he mean, he could not leave the Eastern Sea for too long? Could it be that he could not bear to leave it? That did not seem right either. Besides, he could always come back later; it was not as if Yuan Tian was asking him never to return.

"Boss, it's like this." Knowing the confusion in his boss's heart, Pang Heng began to explain.

It turned out that Pang Heng was the first crab to take human form after the world was opened. Though he possessed extraordinary talent, he also had certain restrictions. For instance, although Pang Heng was not heavily dependent on the ocean, he still could not leave it for too long. If he wanted to become permanently independent of the sea, his cultivation had to at least reach the Great Luo Realm. In other words, Pang Heng had to reach the Zenith Heaven Loose Immortal realm before he could completely leave the ocean and live on land. This was a textbook limitation.

After hearing Pang Heng's explanation, Yuan Tian was speechless. Even ordinary aquatic creatures, upon reaching Pang Heng's realm and cultivation, could leave the ocean for a long time—or even permanently—and live on land. Yet Pang Heng, the first crab after the world was opened, had the restriction of needing to reach the Great Luo Realm before he could remain away from the ocean for long. How could that not leave Yuan Tian speechless? What in the world was going on?

What now? He could not just abandon Pang Heng and continue alone. But if he waited for Pang Heng to reach the Great Luo Realm, who knew how long it would take? The leap from the Taiyi Realm to the Great Luo Realm was itself a major threshold in cultivation, not something one could cross so easily. Some might cross it in a thousand years; others might require ten thousand, a hundred thousand, or even a hundred million years. Some might never cross it in their entire lives. No one could say for sure.

For now, waiting for Pang Heng to advance to the Great Luo Realm was clearly impossible. Yuan Tian could only find a place to settle Pang Heng down first before setting out again. Otherwise, how could he face his little brother?

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