A Youth's Journey Calls for Violence

The Willow Deity said, "You possess the ancient desolate sacred body. It is no worse than the Supreme Bone you once had-in other words, it surpasses the Supreme Bone.

"Supreme Bones also vary in strength. The denser and more intricate their runes, the more mysterious and unfathomable their abilities. The strongest Supreme Bone can crush all others.

"The past deserves a resolution, but you cannot keep dwelling on it, lest hatred blind your eyes and hinder your cultivation!

"If you truly want to increase your strength quickly, I can send you to cultivate in the Void God Realm!"

"The Void God Realm?"

"Indeed. It is essentially a virtual battlefield designed by the elders of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to train their descendants. You can quickly grow stronger there!"

"All right, I'll go," Shi Hao said firmly.

The Willow Deity nodded. "Shi Teng, will you go with him?"

Shi Hao shook his head. "No. I promised Shi Hao that I would find Father, Mother, and Grandfather first!"

The Willow Deity nodded.

Then an emerald light enveloped Shi Hao's body, and he vanished in the blink of an eye.

Shi Teng sighed softly. The great boulder that had weighed on his heart had finally been lifted.

A youth leaves the Great Wilderness to slay every foe beneath heaven. Give it your all, kid!

Father and Mother should be in the Upper Realm right now. Even if I wanted to go, I couldn't. I can only try to find Grandfather first!

In the original story, the Great Demon God had been a character of flesh and blood.

To obtain pure blood for his grandson Shi Hao's baptism, he had entered the Hundred Clans Battlefield.

After shooting and killing a young Pixiu with an exceptionally pure bloodline, he had been pursued by an adult Pixiu for hundreds of thousands of li. It had even torn off one of his arms, and nearly every bone in his body had been broken.

To shake off the adult Pixiu, Shi Zhongtian had found somewhere to hide the jar of blood he carried, preventing the Pixiu from using it to track him.

Later, with someone's help, he had used several Treasure Bones from primordial remnants to set up a divine formation, crossed the void, and entered the Black Forest, a forbidden land in the Desolate Region.

Thirteen years later, he had escaped with a divine pill from the Black Forest, retrieved the Pixiu's essence blood, and ridden a Dragon-Scaled Sparrow back to the Martial King Manor in the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital.

Because Shi Li and the others had grown suspicious, he had discovered that he had been led into a hall containing three killing formations. After breaking through them, he had rescued his relatives imprisoned in the underground palace and learned what had happened to Shi Hao.

He had then seized the members of Shi Yi's branch and enforced the clan's laws. After defeating the four ancestors and the Martial King who tried to stop him, he had defeated the Rain King whom Shi Ziteng had invited, shot through the Rain God Decree the Rain King unleashed, shot his body in two, razed the Rain King Mansion, and overpowered the Rain Clan.

Afterward, he had fought and slain the spiritual body of the Blue Demon Black-Eyed Spider, a Venerable from Demon Spirit Lake whom Shi Ziteng had invited!

He had then been summoned to the palace by the Human Emperor and learned Shi Ziling's whereabouts from him. After declining the Human Emperor's offer to make him a king, he had left the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital with A Man to search for his son.

Once I find Grandfather, let's see who still dares bully us.

I hope my arrival can help Grandfather keep his arm. With just one hand, he could trounce the Rain Clan's Rain Emperor and the Blue Demon Black-Eyed Spider.

If both his arms were intact, wouldn't he be able to disregard even the Stone Emperor?

Shi Teng stayed in the village for a few days. Once he had taken care of all its affairs, he left Stone Village again.

This time, his destination was the Hundred Clans Battlefield.

It was nothing like the Great Wilderness. Countless ancient pure-blooded fierce beasts and other powerful races lived there.

As a bird's cry pierced the sky, Shi Teng had already left Stone Village and embarked on the road to the Hundred Clans Battlefield.

Shi Teng crossed mountains and rivers along the way. Every fierce beast that saw him could only give him a wide berth, afraid of becoming his food.

Bang!

Roar!

With a wretched cry ringing out in the distance, an adult Golden Bull was knocked unconscious by Shi Teng's Heaven-Flipping Seal.

"Hehe, get into my bowl!"

To reach the Hundred Clans Battlefield, he still had to pass through the Fire Kingdom. Shi Teng entered the Fire Kingdom Capital alone.

Last time, he had planned to feast in the Fire Kingdom Capital, or at least find somewhere to enjoy himself.

He had never expected to run into Su Yi.

That fellow really had screwed over his father, costing him an arm.

This time, he would have a proper look around no matter what.

The moment Shi Teng entered the capital, all of Vermilion Bird City burst into a bustle.

"Did you see? The kid who cut off the Marquis of Zhenyuan's arm last time is back! He's actually still alive!"

"Although it's been a long time, I still remember that battle as clearly as if it were before my eyes. That kid really is formidable!"

"After so many days, he must have become even stronger!"

Stories of Shi Teng spread throughout the capital.

Several young women passing Shi Teng kept casting flirtatious glances his way, leaving his heart like a restless monkey and his thoughts like a galloping horse!

"Boss, how much for two meat buns?" Shi Teng asked.

He had barely finished speaking when the bun seller beamed with delight. "Young Supreme, these two buns are on the house!

"It's an honor for our shop to have you eat our buns!"

Never in his life had Shi Teng enjoyed such fine treatment.

Shi Teng had just turned away with the buns when the shopkeeper began shouting, "Come look! Even the extraordinary youth who fought the Marquis of Zhenyuan bought our buns!"

At the bun seller's cries, countless residents of the capital crowded over.

The meat buns in Shi Teng's hands suddenly lost their appeal!

Damn it, he's using my fame to draw customers without even paying me an endorsement fee!

Sure enough, no merchant is without guile!

After wandering around Vermilion Bird City, Shi Teng grew thoroughly bored and decided to find Huo Ling'er and deepen their relationship.

Boom!

The middle of the road split apart as a one-armed middle-aged man descended from the sky. Powerful might erupted with his every movement as he blocked Shi Teng's path.

The newcomer was none other than Su Lie, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, whose right arm Shi Teng had severed.

Su Lie stood on the ground with his one remaining hand, his face brimming with intense killing intent.

"For taking my arm, we cannot live beneath the same sky! Today, I'll spill your blood across Vermilion Bird City!"

Shi Teng's expression shifted slightly. "What, again? Do you really think you have three heads and six arms, with another to spare whenever I cut one off?"

This time, Su Lie held nothing back. He blasted out a punch, unleashing tremendous power.

An entire major cultivation realm separated the two of them to begin with.

Shi Teng was sent flying and slammed heavily into the ground.

Steadying himself, Shi Teng said in a low voice, "Looks like I'll have to get serious too!"

"Qilin Arm! Azure Dragon Arm!"

Shi Teng leaped into the air and hurled both fists at Su Lie in rapid succession. Fist shadows filled the sky, and Su Lie began struggling to fend them off.

But as a man, how could he stop so easily?

He had always been wild and untamable, and he was also a genius of a great clan.

His name had carried weight across the vast lands for ten thousand li around, yet a youth had defeated him in a mountain village. It was a humiliation beyond endurance.

Now that things had reached this point, Shi Teng had no desire to say anything more to him. Only battle remained.

As geniuses, both were somewhat proud and arrogant.

Su Lie sidestepped several paces, avoiding Shi Teng's edge. As the force of Shi Teng's palm strike was about to run out, he swung his own palm fiercely and advanced to meet him.

He had grown up in the Great Wilderness and learned no fixed killing moves. Like savage beasts and fierce birds, he used only the simplest, most direct, primal methods.

As his force was about to run out, his body suddenly sank, while his right leg kicked up backward like lightning. Like a scorpion lashing its tail, it was swift and vicious!

Crackling filled the void, and sparks flew everywhere. Lightning surged there in a heart-stopping display as a thick bolt of black lightning shot up and struck toward Shi Teng.

Shi Teng was unafraid. With a slight tremor of his right arm, blazing runes immediately shone through it. Divine radiance illuminated his body, making him look translucent and lustrously white, his skin especially fair and delicate.

The Marquis of Zhenyuan's offensive power also rose dramatically. Sheets of bone text appeared, flickering before his arm like characters cast from metal. They branded themselves into the void and dissolved the lightning.