"You got lucky, kid. If you hadn't revived our fellow Daoist Immortal Phoenix, getting the True Phoenix Precious Technique would have been quite a hassle. The Phoenix Precious Technique preserved in the Void God Realm is kept in a dangerous cage. With your current abilities, reading it would be hard." Lord Bird laughed.
"Not necessarily. From the future I've seen, some orthodoxies in the Upper Realm also possess the Ten Fiends Precious Arts. They have those of the Heavenly Horned Ant, True Dragon, phoenix, qilin, and nine-leaf sword grass. The Kunpeng Nest in the Lower Realm also contains the Kun Peng Precious Technique's legacy. And there are still living descendants around now-descendants of the qilin, Kun Peng, Nine Nether Mastiff, Heavenly Horned Ant, and True Dragon." Chen Yao gave away more of the future.
"Something like that actually exists?!" Lord Crystal Wall's eyes immediately went wide.
Willow Deity was also quite surprised. "To think so many still remain."
"Mm." Chen Yao nodded in confirmation.
Shi Hao sidled over curiously. "Then... can I go to the Kunpeng Nest to learn the Kun Peng Precious Technique?"
"You should be able to. Once you reach the Spirit Transformation Realm, you can give it a try. The Kunpeng Nest's trials are set at the Spirit Transformation Realm."
Chen Yao occasionally revealed things about the future. Given how often his predictions had come true, along with Willow Deity's endorsement, both Aman and Shi Hao firmly believed the future he described. Now, both were itching to try.
"Kun Peng... I wonder whether she has any spiritual light left. If she does, perhaps she could still undergo reincarnation." Lord Bird was stirred as well. "Back then, there were too many unanswered questions about this, and we feared hidden dangers. None of our fellow Daoists tried leaving a contingency behind. By the time we looked back, reincarnation had already been lost, and the opportunity was gone."
"Now that reincarnation has awakened us, there's still hope of saving us. We needn't undergo reincarnation ourselves. I can already sense my body. Perhaps part of my primordial spirit could return to my flesh and undergo nirvana to reconstruct my primordial spirit. But it would require an enormous amount of resources." Lord Crystal Wall stroked his beard, looking deeply troubled.
"All right, little brats, there's nothing more for you to do here. Go play. Don't worry-with me protecting you, you needn't fear death in the Void God Realm. Even soul-destroying objects won't work." Lord Bird waved them away. "We have some matters to discuss with our fellow Daoist, the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit. Give us some privacy."
"Lord Bird! You're killing the donkey now that the grinding's done! I want to listen too!" Shi Hao flailed, only for Aman to grab him by the scruff of his neck and haul him away.
With more elders watching over him and companions his own age, Shi Hao had clearly retained much more of his childish spirit.
But after they teleported back to the Initial Land, Shi Hao started staring intently at the passage's Treasure Bone again, drawing attention once more.
"It's that Bear Child who smashed the passage! He's back!"
"Where's the one with double pupils? Didn't he just come here? Where did he go?"
"Quick, find someone from the Martial King Manor."
Chen Yao looked at Aman. "Want to give it a try?"
Aman thought for a moment, then kicked the passage. The blow landed before its whistle sounded, and the passage shattered with a crash.
"Oh. That was fragile." Aman was a little disappointed.
[Shattered the Initial Passage more thoroughly. Reward: one Primitive Treasure Bone] [Please leave your name]
"What's going on? Can just anyone smash the Initial Passage?"
"Where did all these prodigies come from?!"
"Could the passage be a quality tester for prodigies? Is that why they all come here to measure themselves?"
Aman casually wrote "Savage God" in the name field, making Shi Hao feel even worse.
"Sister Aman, what part of you looks like a savage god?! Don't put yourself down! Pick a better name, like mine. How about Loves Eating Roast Meat?" Shi Hao tried to persuade him, even starting to act cute.
"Well, well. A precious scene of the young Desolate Heaven Emperor acting cute-how could I not record this?" Chen Yao took out the spiritual projection in the Void God Realm of a Recording Treasure he had made using Divine Machine Hundred Refinements and quickly recorded the scene.
"Savage God! Exactly! Someone who can smash the passage should have a name that domineering." Some bystanders who hadn't seen Aman strike and didn't know the truth voiced their heartfelt admiration.
"Shut up, all of you!" Loves Drinking Beast Milk immediately stepped forward and pushed them away.
Chen Yao also raised his hand and struck with his palm. Though he was restricted to the Blood Moving Realm, the comprehensive elevation of his essence, qi, and spirit after transcending the Cave Heaven Extreme Realm was no joke. That fundamental improvement wouldn't disappear merely because the laws of his cultivation realm were sealed; it would still manifest in the Blood Moving Realm.
The passage shattered again, even more thoroughly this time.
[Almost pulverized the Initial Land's passage. Reward: two Primitive Treasure Bones] [Wu Gensheng]
"Wu Gensheng! That youth is Wu Gensheng! Three prodigies have actually gathered here!"
"Wu Gensheng is close to Savage God and the milk baby. They go out together and seem to be from the same clan."
Shi Hao glared at that bystander. "Don't call me a milk baby! I'm a heaven-born martial genius! Call me Lord Martial God! Desolate God works too!"
"Stay away from the milk baby. He's so strong that if he lashes out in embarrassment, no one could take a punch from him." The bystanders backed away.
"Ahhhh! Shut up, all of you!" Loves Drinking Beast Milk cried in a voice that still sounded somewhat babyish and grabbed those bystanders.
He didn't hit them, though. He merely seized their collars and shook them furiously, refusing to let go until they changed how they addressed him.
Amid the chickens-flying, dogs-leaping chaos, the distant crowd parted. A young yet heroic figure approached, divine light shining in his eyes, each bearing double pupils.
Shi Hao's expression immediately darkened, and Aman flexed his fingers.
"We finally meet again, Wu Gensheng!" Shi Yi smiled, showing no trace of gloom and looking quite friendly.
"You really have nothing better to do, do you? Why are you camping here waiting for me every day? Don't you need to cultivate?" Chen Yao had already been about to take the sulking Shi Hao away, and now he couldn't help feeling speechless.
Whoosh! Shi Hao snatched a huge boulder from the passage entrance, which was still restoring itself. Channeling his tremendous strength, he hurled it straight at Shi Yi. The boulder tore forward with a string of sonic booms. "Four-Eyed Chicken!"
Shi Yi's expression stiffened. White light flowed through his left eye, and creation vitality covered his hand as he smashed the passage's boulder with a punch.
"I wasn't talking to you..." Shi Yi cast him an indifferent glance, then his gaze froze, and the rest of his words stopped abruptly.
"You're...!" His pupils trembled. Through his double pupils, he saw a familiar aura of life. The Supreme Bone inside him was trembling too, instinctively seeking closeness with the boy, its activity gradually declining.
It's that child?!
While he stood stunned, a Blood Spear appeared in Aman's hand. With a sonic boom, it shot toward Shi Yi's head.
Shi Yi snapped back to his senses. Black light blazed from his right eye, colliding with the Blood Spear and swiftly eroding it away. Extinction Profound Light shot straight at Aman.
Blazing blood-red light surged over Aman's right hand, deepening to crimson before swiftly turning black. Runes shone, and a layer of jet-black gauntlet armor covered his delicate hand. Blood-colored patterns lit up across both the gauntlet and his arm, supplying vast amounts of essence, qi, and spirit. He actually reached out to seize that black light.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle! Powers of corrosion, annihilation, and disintegration erupted continuously against the gauntlet in a silent yet perilous clash. The black gauntlet was constantly disintegrated and annihilated, only to regenerate under the power supplied by the blood-colored patterns on Aman's right hand. He had actually held off the attack by force, locking both sides in a stalemate!
Chen Yao struck and scattered the black light. Shi Yi stopped attacking too, staring in astonishment at Aman, who had blocked his blow. Once Aman's gauntlet disappeared, patches of charred black skin and split, bleeding wounds were clearly visible. He was obviously at a disadvantage. But being able to forcibly withstand Extinction Profound Light was shocking in itself. Those so-called Blood Moving prodigies at the same cultivation realm would only have been blasted into ash; there was no way they could escape with mere flesh wounds.
"It's possible. Even someone with double pupils can be caught up to," Aman murmured. His wounds rapidly healed, stemming the flow of his searing blood.
"You?" Shi Yi was starting to feel completely at a loss. Can just anyone withstand one of my moves now? Who is this? I think I've seen him somewhere before.
Suddenly, he frowned. Black mist gushed from Wu Gensheng, enveloping the surroundings and making him feel as though he stood deep within dark clouds. But he soon realized these really were dark clouds: lightning was already flashing in the gloom.
Having suffered before, Shi Yi didn't dare take Wu Gensheng's methods lightly. Divine Armor covered his body, and Golden-Winged Roc wings spread behind him as he immediately moved to escape the dark clouds. His opponent's methods were bizarre and unpredictable; he had to be on guard.
But a Blood Spear thrust down from above, blood-red light burning fiercely around it. Aman had seized the chance to approach and burned a portion of his blood essence to unleash an all-out strike. Its tremendous force even cracked the surface of the Divine Armor, blasting Shi Yi straight back into the depths of the dark clouds.
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