Liu Yun's words quickly drew the other two's attention.
"Elder Liu is right. We should return to the Heaven Mending Pavilion as soon as possible."
"Otherwise, who knows what trouble might break out?"
Li Dao nodded beside them, a trace of gravity flashing across his face.
Seeming to notice Li Dao's concern, Xia Youyu patted his arm and comforted him.
"You don't need to worry too much, junior brother. Elder Xiong Fei should already be on his way by now."
"Nothing too serious will happen."
Li Dao nodded, pushing down some of the worry in his heart.
With their minds made up, the three turned into streaks of light and sped toward Starleap Tower.
Meanwhile, quite a storm had swept through the Void God Realm.
Shi Hao looked at the Record Stele before him, its inscription bold and powerful as it radiated countless rays of light, and embarrassment crept onto his face.
On the Record Stele, which shimmered with a glassy luster, the large words "Loves Beast Milk Best" shone brilliantly.
Even Shi Hao himself, the person concerned, felt so embarrassed that his toes wanted to dig holes in the ground.
The quiet laughter coming from all around only made his embarrassment turn to anger.
"You two old swindlers! Why didn't you warn me?"
"Now everyone knows I love beast milk best!"
Lord Bird and Grandpa Jingbi exchanged a glance, looking rather sheepish themselves.
They had only told him to write whatever he liked. They hadn't expected him to be quite so careless about it.
"Eh, none of that matters. There's another fellow called 'Damn You, Daoist,' you know."
"At least your name has a distinctive flavor."
Shi Hao found Lord Bird's words rather strange.
"Damn You, Daoist? That name really is worse than mine. What was he thinking?"
"But what flavor does my name have?"
Seeing the two chatting about such a trivial matter, Grandpa Jingbi interjected from the side to change the subject.
"What other flavor could it have? Milk, of course!"
"Enough of this useless chatter. Let's discuss working together!"
Shi Hao was just about to explode, but the words "working together" immediately diverted his attention.
"Tell me, then. What kind of partnership will get me lots of resources?"
"Hmph! I may be young, but if you dare trick me, I won't let you off!"
Lord Bird rubbed his hands together, excitement gleaming in his eyes.
When he learned that another Bear Child had smashed the Starting Ground's passage as soon as he entered the Void God Realm, he knew another chance to strike it rich had come.
He had reaped quite a harvest from his last partnership with Li Dao.
That was precisely why he had come knocking again to hoodwink... to find Shi Hao and offer him a chance to work together and get rich.
Seeing the burning eagerness in Shi Hao's eyes, Lord Bird held nothing back.
"We're going to raid their homes-no, recover what you lost!"
Shi Hao scratched his head in confusion, and the impatient Grandpa Jingbi beside him laid out the plan outright.
Once Shi Hao heard it all, he felt as though the weeds choking his mind had suddenly been cleared away, and a faint current coursed through his entire body.
A sharp gleam flashed in his dark eyes, though a trace of doubt followed.
"Are you sure this will work? Why does it sound a little unreliable?"
Lord Bird was the first to take offense at Shi Hao's doubts.
"Hey, brat! Someone already tried this before you. It'll definitely work!"
"Oh? Who was it? Someone actually dared to be that bold?" Hearing that someone really had tried it, Shi Hao couldn't help asking.
"Of course! It was 'Damn You, Daoist,' the fellow I mentioned earlier. He got plenty of resources back then!"
"He plundered three factions outright and even earned himself the name Great Evil!"
Hearing this, Shi Hao recalled how the cultivators in the Starting Ground had constantly mentioned the "Little Devil King."
"You don't mean the Little Devil King, do you? I never knew he was that fierce!"
Lord Bird nodded in confirmation.
Shi Hao's interest was piqued. From what they had said, they had worked with the Little Devil King back then, so he asked curiously:
"How did he end up? Did he die a horrible death?"
Lord Bird looked rather embarrassed at that. Grandpa Jingbi, who had been listening to their chatter from the side, cut in again.
"You could call the outcome tragic, or you could say it wasn't."
"Two factions joined forces to besiege the Little Devil King and nearly shattered the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, but it ended with the Little Devil King's victory."
"His fame spread far and wide after that. You've asked everything you need to ask."
"One question: are you in or not? If you are, we'll go find the families holding the Treasure Bones!"
"If you aren't, we can go our separate ways. How about it?"
Seeing how serious Grandpa Jingbi was, Shi Hao felt the Treasure Bone tucked against his chest. He had obtained it by using his extreme speed to smash the Starting Ground's passage.
There had clearly been four, yet he had only received one, and even that had been a reward. He quickly made up his mind.
"I'm in!"
"But before that, I have to go break the Double Pupils One's records!"
A smile immediately appeared on Lord Bird's face, and he hurriedly agreed.
"Good, good, good! I'll take you to break the records. As for finding the Treasure Bones, leave that to this old fellow."
Grandpa Jingbi also said that would be no problem.
With everything settled, the three immediately split into two groups and went about their respective tasks.
Lord Bird took Shi Hao to challenge the records set by the Double Pupils One.
The news swept like the wind through the entire Void God Realm and even the Great Wilderness.
"I hear another Little Devil King has appeared, and he's going around challenging the records left by the Double Pupils One?"
"Eh, what Little Devil King? He's just a Bear Child, though his potential is every bit as great as the Little Devil King's!"
"The Great Wilderness really is getting livelier and livelier. First there was Shi Yi, then a Little Devil King came along, and now there's a Bear Child. It just keeps getting livelier!"
"Monstrous talents keep appearing. Who knows whether that's good or bad?!"
The moment Shi Hao smashed the Starting Ground's passage, many people had already set their sights on him.
After all, when Li Dao had shattered the Starting Ground's passage with a single punch last time, every fellow who fancied himself a prodigy had gone to try it.
Indeed,
they had turned the Starting Ground's passage into a tool for testing potential.
Yet despite the so-called prodigies who refused to accept defeat and challenged it every day, after Li Dao, only Shi Hao had actually managed to smash it.
Thus, many people had begun watching Shi Hao early on, and as Shi Yi's records were broken, more and more eyes gathered on him.
The feeling of wind and rain heralding an approaching storm swept through the entire Void God Realm. After all, the record-setting Little Devil King had only appeared recently, and now a record-breaking Bear Child had arrived.
Everyone was waiting to see whether Shi Hao would become the next Little Devil King.
Naturally, the news also reached the people of the Martial King Manor, who immediately hurried into the Void God Realm.
What they didn't know was that Shi Hao, having broken several records in succession, had already arrived outside the blessed land occupied by the Martial King Manor.
The three furtively watched every movement within the Martial King Manor's blessed land.
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