The two from the Second Ancestral Land received a warm welcome when they arrived at Stone Village.
Once everyone learned about their past and all they had done for Little Nonpoint, the villagers respected them all the more.
Shi Qingfeng, the child, won everyone's affection.
Shi Qingfeng was the name he had chosen for himself. Until then, he had lived under Little Nonpoint's name.
Now that he had come to Stone Village, he no longer had to stand in for Little Nonpoint. Naturally, he would not keep using the name Shi Hao.
Little Nonpoint had wanted him to keep it. He could change his own name instead.
After all, in Stone Village, people knew him as Little Nonpoint far better than they knew him as Shi Hao.
But Shi Qingfeng refused.
Shi Qingfeng enrolled at One-Stone Elementary School soon afterward, and Meng Chuan took special care with him.
Little Nonpoint did owe him, even though Shi Qingfeng held no resentment.
He had suffered in Little Nonpoint's place for roughly three years.
A Poisonous Flood Dragon had bitten his foot, and its venom had seeped into his body. If the old man had not spent his Life Essence to help him, Shi Qingfeng would have died.
And the reason he had been bitten was, of course, that he had taken the blow meant for Little Nonpoint.
Meng Chuan healed his leg, then taught him the Treasure Techniques best suited to his aptitude and physique.
Shi Qingfeng was happy. To him, this place felt like a paradise.
In Stone Village, everyone treated him well. No one cursed him, beat him, or struck at him from the shadows.
There were plenty of children his age, too. Every day after school, they could all play together to their hearts' content.
It was a life