The First Level Three Building [Two Chapters in One]

The child really was a child.

Ji Yuan reckoned he was about Wen Ling'er's age, a boy of seven or eight, with red lips, pearly teeth, and a golden collar around his neck. He looked utterly adorable.

Yet from this very child, Ji Yuan sensed the aura of peak Qi Refining.

"New here?"

The child's voice was clear and bright, sounding just like a young boy's.

Ji Yuan found it increasingly strange. Either this was a genuine young prodigy who had reached peak Qi Refining at seven or eight, or his appearance did not match his age.

Naturally, he was more inclined to believe the latter.

If it were the former, a cultivator with such talent would surely have long since been taken as a disciple by a sect elder, rather than living on Young Dragon Island.

"Indeed. Greetings, fellow Daoist."

The child waved with an air of seasoned maturity. "My name is Tang Ran."

"I am Ji Yuan."

Tang Ran nodded, then pointed at house seventeen. "By the way, the old man living there is a filthy scoundrel. I'd advise you not to trust him, or sooner or later he'll devour you clean, bones and all."

"Hm?"

Ji Yuan's first reaction was that these two had a grudge.

Before he could ask, the courtyard gate of house seventeen swung open, and an old man with snow-white hair and beard walked out. He wore a short shirt, his exposed arms bulging with muscle, making him look extremely burly. The moment he emerged, he pointed at Tang Ran and cursed:

"You little son of a bitch! Hurry up and bring your mother here to warm this old man's bed, or I'll have you brat stuffed into a pig cage and drowned!"

"You decrepit old fossil. Ha! Even if I did bring