"Hahaha! Just what you'd expect of me-born with divine valor, upright and honorable! Even opportunities raced to my doorstep!"
Little One's hearty laughter rang out across the desert, brimming with smug delight.
Xiao Tian and Big Red rolled their eyes. This Bear Child was far too full of himself, yet they could hardly argue. A meat pie really had fallen from the sky into his lap.
"Heavens above! Open your eyes and look! I'm pretty extraordinary too, not a bit worse..." Big Red promptly cried out with eager enthusiasm, gazing longingly at the sky.
The silver-robed youth was speechless. This bird was no saint either. Its hide was thicker than a city wall; "shameless" summed it up perfectly.
But... he hesitated, then slowly raised his head, seemingly waiting for a treasure to land on it too. A few impressive bumps on his head would not be entirely unacceptable.
Yet a long time passed, and aside from the blazing sun overhead stabbing at their eyes, all was silent. Nothing else fell.
In the end, they concluded that whoever had taken the Taiyi True Water might have dropped it, and it just happened to hit Little One on the head. That was the only explanation that made sense.
"Damn it! What kind of ridiculous luck let this savage kid stumble into that? Why didn't it hit dazzling, magnificent me? Not a shred of discernment..."
Big Red seethed, wishing it had been standing in Little One's place. Then that windfall would have belonged to it.
"Crack!"
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck out of thin air, hitting the Fire Cloud Sparrow. In an instant, its bright red feathers turned charred black, and the aroma of roasted meat wafted from it.
"Aah... it hurts like hell! I'm cooked, I'm cooked..."
The sudden turn of