Everyone was shocked. They looked around, but found nothing.
The mournful drumbeats and sorrowful tolling seemed to pierce through the coffin walls, sending chills down their spines.
"Could this... be the funeral dirge played 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 voices rang out, as if endless mourning filled the air. Tens of thousands of Living Beings were praying and wailing for one person's funeral.
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Funeral bells tolled and mourning drums thundered, as though an incomparably grand funeral had appeared before them. Countless Living Beings between Heaven and Earth grieved and prayed. Gods, ghosts, humans, demons, and saints all bowed in worship.
Just then, nine soaring dragon roars rang out in succession, shaking heaven and earth and echoing across the four seas and eight wastelands. History once believed to be illusory abruptly intruded into the territory known as the present...
At that moment, everyone felt something strange. It was as though they had personally witnessed a supreme being who had ruled over the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and dominated the world being buried. An unprecedented 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 mess. The hundreds of Emperor Scripts he had heard earlier were deeply imprinted in his mind, and as he looked at Ji Hao, who resembled a tiny Immortal King, his feelings grew incredibly complicated.
At that moment, Divine Radiance descended. The Buddhist vessels in everyone's hands began to glow, but they were not regaining Divine Power. Instead, their light was draining away as though they were nearly exhausted. Tens of thousands of streams of Divine Radiance flowed out and rushed toward the wall of the massive bronze coffin, sinking into the ancient bronze carvings.
The patterns on the coffin wall shone brilliantly, as if they were about to come alive. The carved Barbaric Beasts and divine birds became vivid and lifelike, and these Desolate Ancient Era bronze engravings were filled with a mysterious power.
At this moment, all the stars were shining. The dim coffin wall serving as their backdrop remained unchanged, like a pitch-black night sky truly adorned with countless brilliant stars.
"There's a thin line flickering in 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 Lucky Draw—no, fishing trip—he had to start with a bang. He would choose this golden seed.
"Heavens above, spirits below, may Taishang Laojun bless me, may the Jade Emperor bless me, may Goddess Nuwa bless me, Amitabha Buddha, amen, may all the gods bless me!"
"Hu—eh, I choose you, golden bait!"
Ji Hao placed the bait on the Fishing Rod. The fishing line shimmered with rippling light, full of mysterious colors.
He took a deep breath, steadied himself, and flung the rod with all his strength. The bait fell into the Chaos Sea, vanishing almost instantly as it was swallowed by Chaos Qi.
The fishing line formed from the River of Time rose and fell. All that remained was to wait. Though Ji Hao had never fished before, he had at least seen others do it. He did not leave out a single proper motion.
In the end, he stared expectantly at 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 amount of time. Then, a massive wave crashed down. Chaos Qi obliterated everything as worlds were born and destroyed one after another. The bait was swept back, returning to where Ji Hao had originally been, falling once more into that vast universe—only with a slight deviation. The bait had traveled from the future into the past.
The bait emitted dazzling golden light, ignoring every obstacle. The Laws contained within the golden seed slowly collapsed and merged into this Heaven and Earth.
The cultivators of this Heaven and Earth suddenly felt as though the world had become more complete, as if something new had appeared. Unfortunately, their strength was insufficient to perceive it.
Stone Village was located within the Vast Mountain Range, surrounded by towering peaks, great ravines, and endless majestic mountains.
In the early morning, brilliant rosy clouds scattered down like fragments of gold. Bathed in their light, people felt pleasantly warm.
Little Dot, who had just finished stealing bird eggs, was holding a small porcelain bowl and scooping milk with a tiny wooden spoon.
"Wow, Little Dot, you're drinking milk again! You're already three and a half!" one child shouted.
"Eeya!" Little Dot was utterly embarrassed. Hugging the little bowl, he covered it with his fair little hands to keep the older children from seeing. His small face flushed red, his long eyelashes trembled, and he weakly argued, "You saw wrong. I... I'm actually drinking water."
"Hahaha..." A group of children burst into laughter.
Suddenly, a Fishing Hook appeared from nowhere. Before Little Dot's stunned eyes, it hooked the small bowl filled with Beast Milk and directly reeled it away as he watched with utter reluctance and anguish.
"Whoosh!" It vanished in an instant.
All that remained was Little Dot's devastated wail!
"No... give me back my Beast Milk!"
"It's here, it's here! Something bit! Let me see which clever little treasure I caught!"
Ji Hao felt the line sink and excitedly reeled it in.
With a splash, a golden Divine Light emerged from the Chaos Sea.
"Come on, my treasure!"
Ji Hao deftly removed the glowing treasure from the Fishing Hook, a bright smile spreading across his handsome face.
As the golden Divine Light slowly faded amid Ji Hao's excitement, he finally saw the divine object within it clearly.
It was an utterly ordinary little stone bowl, still filled with freshly served Beast Milk.
"This... this is?"
Ji Hao stared blankly at the steaming bowl of Beast Milk before his expression gradually twisted.
Taking a deep breath, he said, "The world is so beautiful. I can't be this irritable. Though this looks like a stone bowl used to hold milk in the future, maybe it's Han Tianzun's Heavenly Vial. It could even be the Swallowing Heaven Demon Jar Lid!"
Ji Hao comforted and hypnotized himself.
Then came a stretch of silence, incomparably dead and still.
"I finally fell for something once, yet you made me lose so completely," followed by a burst of deranged laughter.
"Fuck, it's just a damn broken bowl."
Ji Hao hurled it to the ground with all his strength. However, golden Divine Light still protected it, and nothing happened. Not even a single drop of Beast Milk spilled out.
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 troubled by Death Qi since childhood. In a sense, he could be considered congenitally deficient, much like Shi Hao after losing his Supreme Bone.
Thus, Ji Hao had also grown up drinking Beast Milk. His body was too weak to take potent medicine, and he could not consume things like Medicine Kings. Otherwise, his life Essence Qi and Death Qi would collide, and one careless mistake could send his soul to the Underworld.
Therefore, he could only drink relatively mild supplements like Beast Milk.
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