Seeing the expressions on Hua Youyue's and Elder Yao's faces, Yang Zhen felt a strange sensation. Just as he was about to ask, he heard a series of ghostly wails coming from outside.
"You just wait, you bastard! Do you know who my brother is? Yes, it's Yang Zhen, the one who killed two old men in the Void Refinement Realm with one punch. He's a genius who doesn't even respect the Great Saint's Dao. What's wrong with eating a couple of bites of your noodles? If you keep chasing me... Ouch, ouch, ouch..."
You're finished, you're all finished, you know that? When my brother Yang Zhen gets here, he'll punch you to death, and he won't even be responsible for burying you."
Yang Zhen's face darkened as he saw a furtive figure slip in through the window. Upon seeing Yang Zhen, the figure's eyes lit up.
"Kid, you're awake! Come with me and kill those bastards! I only ate one bite of his noodles, and he chased me for three blocks! How despicable!"
Yang Zhen glanced at the Shameless Cat and said with great interest, "How could eating a mouthful of noodles possibly make me chase you for three blocks? What heinous things have you done?"
"I didn't do anything, absolutely nothing. My character is as clear as day, how could I possibly do anything heinous... Okay, it's just that the noodles were so damn awful, I spat them back into the pot."
Yang Zhen slapped him. "You ate noodles from someone else's pot?"
The Shameless Cat darted away, glaring at her, and asked, "How fresh is this? You're not eating from the pot, are you? You're not going to eat from someone else's bowl, that's so dirty, all that saliva!"
Yang Zhen's lips twitched, and his mind felt like it had been trampled by a thousand alpacas.
This Shameless Cat's thought process is simply beyond comprehension; Yang Zhen was speechless.
The Shameless Cat, oblivious to anything amiss, grinned and sidled up to Yang Zhen, saying, "You're famous now! People everywhere are looking for you, wanting to fight you!"
"It's all because of your jinxed mouth!" Yang Zhen kicked him. "Besides, I'm a very low-key person and I hate fighting the most."
The Shameless Cat was taken aback, then said seriously, "That's true, we're all civilized people, how could we fight with people so easily? Then I won't talk about you everywhere..."
At this point, the Shameless Cat covered its mouth and mumbled, "Well, I have some things to do. A new teahouse opened next door, I'm going to have some tea. Holy crap, if you've got the guts, let me go and see if I run away!"
Yang Zhen grabbed the Shameless Cat, rubbed its head while pulling Shameless Cat ears, and glared at it fiercely, saying, "If you go around talking nonsense again, believe Laozi, I'll throw you into a pot of noodle soup and boil you!"
The Shameless Cat shrank its neck and muttered, "I'm not afraid of being boiled, but the noodle soup is too awful. How about you make me a pot of nourishing soup and boil me instead?"
"Get out!" Yang Zhen threw the wretched Shameless Cat out the window and pointed at the window, saying, "Get as far away as you can."
"Oh!" The Shameless Cat turned and walked away.
Yang Zhen exclaimed in surprise, "Come back!"
"What?"
The Shameless Cat stretched out one leg, turned around, and looked at Yang Zhen, saying...
Yang Zhen beckoned and said, "Come here!"
The Shameless Cat looked at Yang Zhen with suspicion. "Say it here."
"Would you like to play something big?"
The Shameless Cat became interested, withdrew its foot, and asked with great enthusiasm, "How big is it?"
Yang Zhen pondered for a moment, then said decisively, "To have your name known throughout the entire Donglin Island, even more famous than me!"
The Shameless Cat chuckled mischievously, sidling up to Yang Zhen and nodding eagerly, saying, "This is good, this is good, it can really be even more popular than you?"
"Of course, don't you trust me?"
The Shameless Cat hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "I believe you, I believe you. Tell me, how do we play?"
Hua Youyue and Elder Yao exchanged a glance as they watched the man and cat grinning mischievously, both feeling a sense of foreboding.
Yang Zhen sighed and said, "This is a long story, we need to think about it."
Over the next few days, Yang Zhen kept taking Thousand Faces to gather information.
Hua Youyue and Shameless Cat were right; Yang Zhen was incredibly famous throughout Donglin Island, a fame that lasted until the Pill Appreciation Conference.
Along with Yang Zhen, Grandmaster Ma and the Donglin Pill Association also became popular. It is said that they launched a Living Spirit Pill that can temporarily improve the quality of Spirit Root, and the lower the grade of the Spirit Root, the stronger the improvement.
Although it only lasts for the time it takes to burn an incense stick, that time is invaluable to many people, and may even change their lives.
Previously incomprehensible Cultivation Method arts techniques and profound principles could be mastered by improving the quality of one's Spirit Root.
This kind of enhancement is especially important for cultivators whose Spirit Root are already very strong.
If Void Refinement Realm expert improves their Spirit Root by a small margin, they may very well succeed in comprehending the Dao by fortuitous opportunity, understanding the Dao of a powerful predecessor, or even comprehending their own Dao.
Of course, this is only one possibility, but even if there is only a one in ten thousand chance, it is enough to make too many people flock to it.
After finding out this information, the Shameless Cat looked completely indifferent, even somewhat contemptuous.
"What's the use of this kind of nonsense? Even if you comprehend it, it won't be your own. And once you're forced back to your original form, you might even go astray because of your dull aptitude. You're much better than them in this respect, kid."
Yang Zhen looked at the Shameless Cat with surprise and said, "Oh my, I didn't expect you, Shameless Cat, to have such knowledge?"
The Shameless Cat, head held high, said smugly, "You're only just realizing this? My knowledge is so vast that even your True Essence horse can't keep up."
"Bullshit!" Yang Zhen scoffed.
The Shameless Cat glared at Yang Zhen, pointing at him and saying, "Kid, don't disbelieve me. You think you can sneakily comprehend the basics of a power and no one will know? With your strength, how could you possibly kill a Void Refinement Realm expert with a single punch? Just because others don't know doesn't mean I don't."
Upon hearing this, Yang Zhen's expression changed instantly. He grabbed the Shameless Cat Shameless Cat and examined it thoroughly, even picking up its tail to look inside out.
"Holy crap, put it down! What kind of behavior is this?! What kind of behavior is this?!"
Yang Zhen took a deep breath, grabbed the Shameless Cat's ear, and asked, "It seems you know quite a bit. Tell me, what kind of power is that?"
Although Yang Zhen appeared nonchalant on the surface, his heart was in turmoil.
The Shameless Cat was absolutely right; he had indeed grasped a sliver of a different kind of power.
This power is different from True Essence power, and it has absolutely nothing to do with divine soul power or Divine Sense power.
Yang Zhen had never heard of such power before; it was so domineering that it left people speechless.
This power was one that Yang Zhen had seen in both the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda and the Upper Gen Mirror World; it was an almost Savage Wilderness power.
Most importantly, both the woman in the coffin and the Great Sage Chenxue can use this power!
The special powers these two people could use no longer exist. Yang Zhen originally thought this was a secret that no one knew, but who would have thought that this Shameless Cat actually knew?
The Shameless Cat, its teeth bared as Yang Zhen gripped it, hurriedly cried out, "Let go!"
After letting go of the Shameless Cat, Yang Zhen stared at it and said, "Speak quickly!"
"What did you say?" The Shameless Cat looked regretful. "I didn't say anything, I don't know anything. Kid, don't bother asking anymore, you won't get any answers. I don't want to disappear like those people."
Upon hearing this, Yang Zhen felt an even greater surge of shock and disbelief.
No wonder Hua Youyue once said that there were still many mysteries unsolved during the Shangheng era. At this moment, Yang Zhen increasingly felt that this world was not so simple.
At the very least, Yang Zhen hasn't found a single clue or piece of information about the two-winged giant yet, and the Shameless Cat seems to know some secrets that are unknown to others, but it's unwilling to reveal them.
As the man and the cat were staring at each other, the Elder Yao suddenly burst in, his expression grim, and said, " Yang Zhen, come with me, quickly!"
Yang Zhen jumped out of bed and asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"
The Elder Yao said in a deep voice, " Youyue is in trouble!"
The Shameless Cat let out a strange screech and said, "Damn it, who's got a death wish? Kid, go check it out. I have some things to do, so I won't be going with you."
Yang Zhen grabbed the Shameless Cat and said to the Elder Yao, "Let's talk as we walk."