Double Pupils were always an invincible path

"It's good that you're back. Don't be like your father, shedding tears at the drop of a hat. Men of the Great Wilderness shed blood, not tears."

Xiao Ling secretly circulated his runes, evaporating the tears in his eyes, and spoke with feigned composure.

"Grandpa, I wasn't crying.

While I was away, I got my hands on a clan-guarding precious technique. Your big birthday celebration is tomorrow, but I'll secretly tell you about it today, just you."

Xiao Tian likewise circulated the power of his Bone Text to evaporate his tears as he spoke.

"I'm afraid you're a step too late this time. The birthday gift your father prepared for me is also the Suanni Precious Technique."

Having composed himself, Marquis Ling Tian turned around and smiled at his grandson.

"Huh? Dad got here that quickly?"

Xiao Tian was a little surprised. It was such a long journey, and he thought he had already been fast enough.

"If you had Inscription Realm strength and ran while carrying your mount, you'd get back very quickly too."

The corners of Marquis Ling Tian's mouth twitched slightly as he spoke.

"Huh? That really happened? Grandpa, tell me all about it.

Oh no, Dad must be furious. Is he going to beat me?"

Xiao Tian threw himself forward, wrapped his arms around Marquis Ling Tian's bear-like waist, and spoke ingratiatingly.

"He wouldn't dare!

Your father-well, this happened, and then that-"

Marquis Ling Tian spoke with imposing confidence.

And so grandfather and grandson shared their delight. Imagining their son and father carrying his mount down the road, they felt both touched and amused.

Time drifted on. The years surged like a river flowing onward, and eight months soon passed.

Xiao Tian naturally opened his sixth Outer Heavenly Grotto. Opening Heavenly Grottos was no easy task. Back then, his father had opened only six in total, and it had taken him five and a half years.

Yet now, in just one year altogether, Xiao Tian had already opened six Heavenly Grottos, and he was not far from opening his seventh.

That same year, over at the Martial King Manor, Shi Yi broke through to the Cave Heaven Realm and opened two Heavenly Grottos in one go, saving himself several months of arduous cultivation. He was already being hailed as a prodigy rarely seen in thousands of years.

The prison that was the lower realm had languished for far too long. In many people's eyes, Venerables were already lofty beings far above them, while the realm of gods had almost become legend.

On this day, nine-year-old Shi Yi chose to enter the Void God Realm.

Xiao Tian entered as well.

[Check-in successful. Congratulations, host. You have obtained (one Great Dream Fragment of the Classic of Mountains and Seas medicinal cuisine recipes), (one Great Dream Fragment of Cooking Master Boy culinary skills), (one blade belonging to the Culinary God of the Heavenly Court's Imperial Kitchen).]

"Terrifying indeed."

Xiao Tian sat at the initial entrance to the Void God Realm, stayed for three minutes, and checked in. Hearing the system notification, he couldn't help sucking in a breath of cold air.

After this check-in, he could be certain of one thing: collecting the entire Calabash Brothers talent panel would still be a little difficult. The system was throttling his progress toward invincibility.

And the system was stirring up trouble. The items from this check-in startled him. If those Classic of Mountains and Seas · Food Records were exposed, every Primordial Fierce Beast would hunt him down.

Just then, a golden passage appeared, and a young boy wearing purple treasure robes and a purple-gold crown emerged into this passage for first-time entrants to the Void God Realm.

The boy calmly surveyed his surroundings. Beneath his feet was a bluestone floor. He stamped on it forcefully and found it extremely hard. Rune bones were embedded here, forming broad webs of patterns whose brilliant light became a defensive net, protecting this place from destruction.

Several more boys of varying ages appeared right behind Shi Yi, quickly crowding the initial passage.

"Hey, move aside. Who are you, kid? Think this is your house? What are you sitting here for?"

An eleven-year-old boy from the Rain Clan immediately spoke in displeasure upon seeing Xiao Tian.

This fellow sat on the bluestone floor of the initial passage with his back to everyone, solitary and silent, utterly unaffected by the outside world.

But this wasn't a place for contemplation. This was the initial passage for people entering the Void God Realm for the first time!

"Ah, sorry. I was thinking about something."

Xiao Tian stood, left the initial passage, and turned to glance at the people behind him, feeling slightly surprised. He had only sat there for three minutes, yet so many people had arrived. Gentle and refined, neither arrogant nor impatient, he offered a polite apology.

"Good that you know. This is the Void God Realm. Someone like you will get beaten sooner or later."

Another Rain Clan boy spoke.

Xiao Tian ignored these little brats. Offering a civilized, courteous apology reflected his own upbringing. As for anything else, they were only a bunch of little brats. As he grew older bit by bit, he no longer needed to deliberately imitate a child so much.

His attention was on the four-pupiled boy at the front, surrounded by more than a dozen youths. He felt that once Double Pupils were cultivated to a certain level, they should be freely adjustable, allowing their bearer to appear to have two ordinary pupils.

He wondered whether Shi Yi couldn't do it, or whether he had grown accustomed to this unusual innate feature and was unwilling to conceal his Double Pupils.

"Double Pupils were always an invincible path."

At the sight of Shi Yi, Xiao Tian couldn't help voicing this sentiment, but he left the second half unspoken.

The youths surrounding Shi Yi felt that something was missing. It seemed he was praising Shi Yi, yet they all felt there was another half to the line that Xiao Tian hadn't said.

"What's the second half?"

Just then, Yu Qianmo stepped forward. One of the Rain Clan's two outstanding talents, she cultivated the One-Life Painting Scroll technique. She was ten this year and happened to be entering the Void God Realm as well. These youths had either deliberately waited for Shi Yi or happened to arrive at the right time, entering the Void God Realm together to bolster his prestige. Some of them were youths from the Martial King Manor.

"Yeah, kid, if you know how to put it into words, say some more. Looks like you're no ordinary person either. You've got broad insight."

Other youths beside her immediately chimed in.

Xiao Tian glanced at the little girl who had stepped forward. She wore a green dress, and her delicate little face had fair skin that gleamed like jade. Unfortunately, her overbearing habits spoiled her overall bearing and beauty. He couldn't help curling his lip. Don't children these days understand that humility and courtesy are the true keys to living longer?

How do the adults at home teach them?

Just look at me. I'm already this amazing, but have I gotten arrogant?

"That's all."

Xiao Tian was still waiting for a new check-in location to refresh, while taking a look around the Void God Realm. He didn't want to start throwing hands the moment he arrived. With that, he prepared to turn and leave.

"Hey, what do you mean by that, kid? Looking down on us? Have you really got nothing else to say, or is there something hidden in your words?"

Yu Xuan stepped forward and blocked Xiao Tian's path.

Xiao Tian raised his hand and casually swept it outward. Yu Xuan instantly felt as though lightning had struck him. He was a genius who had cultivated sixty-eight thousand jin of strength, yet he was sent flying outright, his head buzzing. Xiao Tian's backhand had struck the right side of his head.

"I knew there was something wrong with you."

Shi Yi stepped forward, arriving right before Xiao Tian. Divine radiance shone in his eyes as he unleashed ninety thousand jin of Blood Moving Realm strength and struck at Xiao Tian with his palm.

Xiao Tian struck out with his own palm, casually unleashing a hundred thousand jin of strength as it met Shi Yi's outstretched hand.

Smack!

The two palms collided. Dao patterns flowed around the initial grounds of the Void God Realm. Someone's strength had reached a hundred thousand jin, triggering the initial grounds' protective measures.

Thud, thud, thud!

Caught off guard, Shi Yi suffered this setback in silence and retreated several steps, knocking away two youths who had stood too close behind him, never expecting him to lose.

Both screamed and tumbled like gourds rolling across the ground. Their injuries were no lighter than those of the fool Xiao Tian had just brushed aside with a slap.

Fortunately, Shi Yi had held some strength in reserve. Otherwise, if all hundred thousand jin of force had been transferred to those two unlucky fellows, wouldn't they have been smashed apart on the spot?

"I underestimated you."

Shi Yi coldly uttered those words. The next instant, he stamped on the ground. The bluestone beneath his feet blazed with dazzling light, interwoven runes protecting the floor. Shi Yi mustered every last bit of strength he possessed and struck at Xiao Tian, like towering waves crashing against the shore. An overwhelmingly savage aura surged forward, and wherever his palm passed, even the surrounding space of the Void God Realm trembled slightly.

Xiao Tian said nothing. With a sweep of one arm, he suppressed his opponent single-handedly, unleashing a hundred and nine thousand nine hundred jin. He still wasn't using his full strength, mainly wanting to test Double Pupils Shi Yi's achievements in the Blood Moving Realm.

Boom!

This time, their collision sounded like thunder. Fierce winds howled around them, and space twisted with a buzzing hum.

Thud, thud-

Shi Yi was blasted back several steps again. With each footfall, tiny cracks appeared in the bluestone floor. He stepped on the two unlucky fellows who had fallen earlier. Crack! Something had definitely broken. One had been stepped on the back of his hand, and the other on his lower leg?

"Aaargh-"

Two agonized howls rang out. Those two insufferably arrogant Rain Clan youths were in so much pain that their bloodshot eyes nearly bulged from their sockets.

Shi Yi's arm trembled. That collision had injured it. He stared in disbelief at the utterly unruffled Xiao Tian. In the Blood Moving Realm, he had cultivated enough strength to unleash a hundred and seven thousand jin with a single sweep of his arm. How could someone overwhelm him in strength?

In the original storyline, Shi Yi had also possessed tremendous strength in the Blood Moving Realm, not much inferior to Shi Hao's.

Bam, bam!

Next, Xiao Tian threw two punches in succession, each carrying a hundred and nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine jin of force. He gave the Double Pupils bearer two panda eyes, leaving him seeing stars, with heaven and earth spinning around him, before he passed out on the spot.

Hum!

Suddenly, a stone stele emerged from the chaos in the initial grounds of the Void God Realm. Chaos Qi wreathed it, and brilliant divine radiance illuminated the entire initial grounds. A line of words appeared on it, every character shining with a dazzling metallic luster and ringing with the clang of metal.

"A single sweep of one arm: a hundred and nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine jin. Reward: one Primordial Treasure Bone."

The line of words vibrated ceaselessly, penetrating deep into the stone, majestic as crouching tigers and coiling dragons. Its dazzling brilliance lit the entire sky, and it rang as sweetly as a divine sword leaving its sheath, startling everyone nearby.

Immediately afterward, another record stele shot out of the Chaos Qi. "Suppressed the young Double Pupils bearer with one hand. Reward: one Primordial Treasure Bone."

Xiao Tian hadn't expected to obtain a Primordial Treasure Bone rewarded by the Void God Realm so easily. This was far too easy.

Cries of astonishment had already filled the surroundings, and a crowd rapidly gathered. Some recognized the Double Pupils bearer, Shi Yi, and knew his background. After all, over these past few years, under the protection of the Martial King Manor and the Rain Clan, Shi Yi had risen like the sun at its zenith throughout the Great Wilderness, his fame spreading far and wide. The title of Double Pupils Young Supreme carried an air of unrivaled supremacy.

But judging from the situation now, the Double Pupils Young Supreme seemed to have suffered a defeat. Who was the person who had just suppressed him?

Xiao Tian quickly reached out and wrote "Big Brother of the Milk Baby" on the record stele, his strokes like iron lines and silver hooks. Then he collected his rewards, two Primordial Treasure Bones, and used the ability of the Sixth Calabash Brother from Calabash Brothers to pass through the crowd in an instant and leave.

(End of chapter)