"Lord Sacrificial Spirit, save us!"
"Quick, go get Lord Sacrificial Spirit!"
After witnessing Shi Xiu's power,
those fellows from Bei Village promptly turned tail and ran.
They left more than twenty corpses behind.
Every one of them had been smashed apart by physical attacks!
Shi Xiu was no gentle saint.
Besides, as he remembered it, Stone Village and Bei Village had always been enemies.
Whenever people from the two sides met, they would fight to the death.
After all, resources in the Great Wilderness were limited.
Bei Village had always wanted to monopolize the resources in this area.
If they hadn't feared the Willow Deity, they would probably have succeeded long ago.
Unlike the Willow Deity, Bei Village's Sacrificial Spirit could move freely outside the village.
But compared to the Willow Deity, its fighting strength was nothing but trash.
That was why these fellows had never managed to wipe out Stone Village.
They could only ambush Stone Village people who ventured out alone.
And today, their target was Shi Xiu.
"You useless fools! You can't even deal with a mere Blood Moving Realm brat?"
Seeing its underlings suffer such heavy losses,
Bei Village's Lord Sacrificial Spirit felt thoroughly humiliated.
Taking advantage of this opening, Shi Xiu tried to send Huo Ling'er away.
"Your Highness, you shouldn't linger here. Even their Sacrificial Spirit has come out!"
But Huo Ling'er clearly wasn't so easily persuaded.
Besides, they were plainly the ones who had offended her this time!
"No! I'm the Fire Kingdom Princess. How can I let an outsider like you take the blow for me?"
He hadn't expected this young girl to be so loyal.
But Shi Xiu had no intention of protecting this burden.
He simply scooped her into a princess carry and forcibly put her into the carriage.
"Ah! You!"
Although she knew he meant well,
when had Huo Ling'er ever been this close to a man?
Her face instantly flushed crimson, and she ducked into the carriage with her head lowered.
"Your Highness, it was a pleasure meeting you, but now..."
Before he had even finished speaking,
a terrifying aura erupted from the woods opposite him.
Their Sacrificial Spirit had arrived!
Without time to think, Shi Xiu slapped one of the flying horses on the rump.
"Neigh! Neigh! Neigh!"
The two flying horses swiftly rose into the sky.
They carried the Fire Kingdom Princess away.
Before the carriage could leave the woods,
a black shadow suddenly swept across the sky.
It looked like an enormous flying rat.
This was Old Bei, Bei Village's Sacrificial Spirit!
"Where do you think you're going? Stay right here!"
This brazen flying rat actually dared to intercept the Fire Kingdom Princess?
And right in front of Shi Xiu, no less!
How could he let it succeed?
"Big rat, your opponent is me!"
[Kun Peng Precious Technique]
Just as Old Bei was about to reach the carriage,
a streak of golden light shot into the sky.
It struck the flying rat squarely in the belly.
That tremendous force instantly made the enormous creature curl up.
It looked utterly agonized!
"Roar! Brat, you're courting death!"
Wracked with pain,
Old Bei abandoned its pursuit of the carriage.
It plunged straight down from the sky, pouncing at Shi Xiu on the ground!
It seemed intent on tearing him to pieces.
Yet it hadn't expected the person on the ground not to dodge at all.
Instead, he met it head-on!
"You're the one courting death!"
[Six Paths Reincarnation Divine Ability]
It was the same move he had used against the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow.
This time, he added a trace of the Grass Character Sword Art's power!
Old Bei wasn't particularly agile in the air to begin with.
It relied entirely on its ability to glide.
There was no way for it to turn around.
Although it sensed how terrifying the composite beast before it was,
it could only steel itself and charge ahead!
Boom!
"Gurgle! Gurgle! Gurgle!"
"Ah! Wh-what kind of power is this?"
This was a sight Old Bei could never have imagined, even in its dreams.
Unknown flames had actually ignited all over its body.
The enormous beast formed in the air from several precious techniques bit off a third of its body in a single chomp.
The two had merely made contact once.
And the victor was immediately clear!
Was this some kind of joke?
That was a village's Sacrificial Spirit!
Yet a boy from Stone Village had knocked it out of the sky with a powerful move.
And left it gravely injured at that?
Boom!
When Old Bei's body slammed heavily into the ground,
what remained of its body broke into two more pieces.
Had its vitality not been so strong, it would probably have died right then.
But those nameless flames could no longer be extinguished.
Even the Sacrificial Spirit began to give off a scorched smell.
Still, even roasted through, this giant rat probably wouldn't smell as appetizing as the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow from earlier.
The boy opposite it also wore a look of disgust.
But to intimidate the enemy,
Shi Xiu made an utterly deranged remark.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. To think you've fattened this Sacrificial Spirit up so much. One pot probably couldn't even hold it all!"
What?
This brat from Stone Village wanted to stew their Sacrificial Spirit!
Upon hearing those words,
not only was Old Bei so frightened that smoke seemed to pour from all seven facial orifices,
but the remaining people from Bei Village were also trembling in both legs.
They no longer had any strength to run.
One after another, they dropped to their knees and kowtowed.
Their foreheads struck the ground with repeated thuds!
"Grandpa Shi Xiu, spare my life!"
"Please let me go, sir! I'll never dare do it again!"
"I have two daughters! I can offer you both of them! Please, spare me!"
What the hell?
With that pockmarked face of yours,
how pretty could your daughters possibly be?
Before Shi Xiu could react,
a thunderclap suddenly rang out in the sky!
It instantly reduced the fellow who had offered up his daughters to a cloud of ash.
Beside him, Old Bei, with only a breath of life remaining, was frightened even further out of its wits.
"Th-this is tribulation lightning! Could you be a Heavenly Being?"
Though this creature wasn't very powerful, it had a discerning eye.
It could actually recognize what was happening?
But this bolt of heavenly lightning had absolutely nothing to do with Shi Xiu.
It had struck directly down from The Heavens.
After hearing the giant rat recognize the lightning's origin,
a cold snort faintly sounded from high above the clouds.
"Hmph. Ants! You dare covet the Heavenly Dao Treasure Body?"
Crackle! Crack!
What followed was a ferocious flurry of action.
Whoever that mighty figure in The Heavens was, they sent down heavenly lightning again and again.
It reduced Old Bei and every person from Bei Village present to drifting ash!
Only the dumbstruck Shi Xiu remained.
He had already known someone was secretly protecting him.
But he hadn't expected that person to be so fierce.
Their true body probably wasn't even in the Great Wilderness.
It was high above the firmament!
Meanwhile,
when this heavenly lightning descended,
the Willow Deity, Stone Village's Sacrificial Spirit, went on full alert!
The Willow Deity couldn't help murmuring,
"Have the Seven Gods descended? No, this power seems to come from the Boundary Sea. Who could it be?"
Perhaps even the Willow Deity had initially overlooked the allure of the Heavenly Dao Treasure Body.
Whether in the Upper Realm or the lower realm,
this person before the Willow Deity was probably the only one with such a constitution!
That action just now had clearly broken the rules.
But since that exalted existence dared to do it, they naturally had something to rely on.
The only question was which fairy or holy maiden's family they belonged to.
They would surely become a formidable rival to the Willow Deity in the future!
"Huh? Why is there thunder over there? Should we tell the village to bring in the quilts?"
Seeing the Willow Deity like this,
Shi Hao, who had been studying the Suanni Precious Technique beneath the tree, couldn't help feeling very curious.
The boy probably still didn't know
that his big brother Shi Xiu had already caught the attention of powerful figures across the four seas and eight wildernesses.
Looking at this innocent child,
the Willow Deity's outstretched branches and leaves slowly relaxed.
"Shi Hao, it seems your strength has also reached its limit. I should consider sending you brothers into the Void God Realm!"
"The Void God Realm? What kind of place is that?"
"A much vaster space that can help you quickly break through your bottlenecks!"
"That's great! I'll tell Big Brother Shi Xiu!"
"Mm. As the old saying goes, follow Shi Xiu, and you too will encounter great opportunities!"
"Oh! Okay!"
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