I Finally Got My Heart Racing Once

Everyone was greatly startled. They looked around, but found nothing.

The somber drumbeats and mournful tolling of bells seemed to pierce through the coffin walls, sending chills down their spines.

"Could this... be a funeral dirge from when an ancient emperor was buried?"

"Should we wake the kid and ask him? This is way too creepy," Pang Bo cried out.

Suddenly, even more sounds drifted over, as though countless voices were mourning. Tens of thousands of living beings were praying and wailing for one person's funeral.

Funeral bells tolled and mournful drums thundered, as if an incomparably grand burial ceremony were unfolding before everyone's eyes. Countless beings between heaven and earth grieved and prayed; gods, ghosts, humans, demons, and saints all bowed in worship.

Just then, nine resounding dragon roars rang out across the heavens in succession, shaking the world and echoing through all four seas and eight wildernesses. History once believed to be illusory abruptly intruded upon the realm known as the present...

At that moment, everyone felt something strange. It was as if they had personally witnessed a supreme being who had ruled over the nine heavens and ten lands, dominating the world, being laid to rest. An unprecedentedly grand funeral had begun!

"Ye, could there really be a god buried here?" Pang Bo asked, pointing at the Small Bronze Coffin.

"I don't know either."

Ye Fan's thoughts were a complete mess. The hundreds of Emperor Scripts he had heard earlier were deeply imprinted in his mind, and when he looked at Ji Hao, who resembled a little Immortal King, his feelings grew even more complicated.

At that moment, divine radiance fell. The Buddhist artifacts in everyone's hands began to shine, but they were not recovering their divine power. Instead, their brilliance was draining away as if they were on the verge of exhaustion. Thousands upon thousands of streaks of divine light flowed out, all rushing toward the walls of the giant bronze coffin and sinking into the ancient bronze carvings.

The patterns on the coffin walls glowed brilliantly, as though they were about to come alive. The carvings of savage beasts and divine birds also became lifelike. These Desolate Ancient Era bronze carvings were filled with a mysterious power.

At that moment, all the stars were shining. The dim coffin wall serving as their backdrop remained unchanged, like a pitch-black night sky. It truly seemed as though countless real, dazzling stars were scattered across the vast darkness.

"There's a thin line flickering on this starry sky carving. Could that be the Starry Sky Ancient Road we traveled?"

After struggling for a while, Ji Hao finally made up his mind. Since this was his first lottery draw—no, fishing attempt—he had to start with a win. He chose that golden seed.

"Heavenly spirits, earthly spirits, bless me, Taishang Laojun, bless me, Jade Emperor, bless me, Goddess Nuwa, Amitabha Buddha, amen... may all the gods bless me!"

"Hoo-ey, it's decided—you, Golden Bait!"

Ji Hao placed the bait on the fishing rod. The fishing line shimmered with rippling light, full of mystery.

He took a deep breath, settled his qi into his dantian, and swung hard. The bait fell into the Chaos Sea, disappearing almost immediately beneath the chaotic qi.

The fishing line formed from the River of Time rose and fell. All that remained was to wait. Although Ji Hao had never gone fishing before, he had at least seen others do it. He did not miss a single proper motion.

At last, he looked expectantly toward that stretch of Chaos Sea.

Stare, stare, stare...

The bait passed through the world of Shrouding the Heavens, crossed the Sea of Boundaries and Above the Firmament, passed through an Unknown Land, and pierced the Boundary Wall.

The bait drifted with the current for an unknown length of time. Then, a massive wave suddenly struck. Chaotic qi annihilated everything, worlds were born and perished one after another, and the bait was knocked back. It returned to where Ji Hao originally was and fell back into that vast universe, though with a slight deviation—the bait had come from the future into the past.

The bait emitted dazzling golden light, ignoring all obstacles. Then, the laws contained within the golden seed gradually collapsed and merged into this world.

In an instant, the cultivators of this world seemed to feel that heaven and earth had become more complete, as though something had been added. Unfortunately, their strength was insufficient for them to notice what it was.

Stone Village was located within the Vast Mountain Range, surrounded by towering peaks, deep valleys, and endless majestic mountains.

In the morning, brilliant dawn clouds scattered down like shattered gold, warm and comforting upon people's bodies.

Little Dot, who had just finished stealing bird eggs, was holding a small porcelain bowl and scooping milk into his mouth with a little wooden spoon.

"Wow, Little Dot, you're drinking milk again! You're already three and a half!" a child shouted.

"Eeya!" Little Dot was terribly embarrassed. Hugging his little bowl, he shielded it with his tender white hands so the older children could not see it. His little face turned red, his long eyelashes trembled, and he weakly defended himself, "You saw it wrong. I... I'm actually drinking water."

"Hahaha..." A group of children burst out laughing.

Suddenly, a fishhook appeared from nowhere. Before Little Dot's stunned eyes, it hooked the small bowl filled with beast milk and, amid his utter reluctance and agony, directly reeled the bowl away.

"Whoosh!" It vanished in an instant.

All that remained was Little Dot's heartbroken wail!

"No... Give me back my beast milk!"

"It's here, it's here! Something bit! Let me see which clever little treasure it is!"

Ji Hao felt a tug and excitedly reeled in the line.

With a splash, a streak of golden divine light emerged from the Chaos Sea.

"Come on, my treasure!"

Ji Hao deftly removed the divine treasure glowing on the fishhook, a brilliant smile spreading across his handsome face.

The golden divine radiance gradually faded amid Ji Hao's excitement, allowing him to see the divine object clearly.

It was an utterly ordinary little stone bowl, still filled with freshly drawn beast milk.

"This... this is?"

Ji Hao stared blankly at the steaming bowl of beast milk before him, his expression gradually turning savage.

Taking a deep breath, he said, "The world is so beautiful. I can't be so irritable. Though this looks like the stone bowl that will hold milk in the future, maybe it's Han Tianzun's Heavenly Vial. It could even be the lid of the Swallowing Heaven Demon Jar!"

Ji Hao comforted and hypnotized himself.

Then came a stretch of silence, incomparably dead.

"I finally got my heart racing once, yet you made me lose so completely..." Then came a burst of manic laughter.

"Fuck, this is just a goddamn broken bowl."

Ji Hao hurled it to the ground with all his strength. However, golden divine light was still protecting it, and nothing happened. Not even a drop of beast milk spilled from within.

The stone bowl landed steadily on the ground, and a rich fragrance drifted into Ji Hao's nose.

"It smells so good!"

Ji Hao's eyes lit up. It seemed he had not drunk beast milk in a long time!

He had been plagued by death qi since childhood. In a sense, he could also be considered to have been born deficient, much like Shi Hao after losing his Supreme Bone.

Therefore, Ji Hao had also grown up drinking beast milk. His body had been too weak to use strong medicine, and he could not consume things like Medicine King herbs. Otherwise, his life essence and death qi would collide, and the slightest carelessness could send his soul to the underworld.

Thus, he could only drink relatively mild tonics such as beast milk.

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