"You're supposed to go fuck Heaven! Just like your old screen name!"
Little loli Mengmeng offered the explanation casually, as though she thought nothing of it.
"You mean I'm supposed to go do that to the Heavenly Dao? The Heavenly Dao is a woman?"
Thinking of his two screen names, Old Wang Next Door and Wang Yuetian, Wang Hao immediately understood what the main quest meant. Clearly, it wanted him to go and do that to the Heavenly Dao.
After all, in the Primordial Wilderness, only the Heavenly Dao could be called Heaven. Its status was even higher than that of the Dao Ancestor Hongjun, making it worthy of being the final boss.
But his screen names had only been a joke. If he really had to go fuck Heaven, that seemed rather difficult!
"The Heavenly Dao has no shape or form. It can be male or female, or even take the form of some other living being. As long as you can defeat her, you can make her take any form you want. A fox-tail girl, a cat-ear girl, or even a mermaid or a snake beauty-any of those would work!"
Little loli Mengmeng's voice held an unmistakably tempting note. Her words alone were enough to make Wang Hao's beast blood boil.
"Wait a minute. How does a little girl like you know about those things? And how do you know my two screen names?"
Suddenly coming to his senses, Wang Hao stared warily at the little loli before him. He finally understood what had felt off earlier.
The little girl looked no more than five or six, yet her mental maturity was no worse than an adult's.
She even knew about fox-ear girls and the like. That really didn't fit a little loli's character setting!
"Of course I found out from your memories!"
Little loli Mengmeng glared at Wang Hao in displeasure and said disdainfully, "It's all your fault I turned out like this. Who told you to fill your head with filthy memories? I used to be a pure and adorable little loli, but you polluted me in an instant."
By the end, little loli Mengmeng was so angry that she raised her little foot and gave Wang Hao a vicious kick in the leg. Though she couldn't do him any real harm, at least she could vent a little.
"You peeked at my memories? Doesn't that mean..."
Wang Hao was horrified. He folded his arms over his chest and looked away, scarcely daring to meet the little loli's eyes. Even his old face had turned a rare shade of red.
"That's right. I even saw your memories of jerking **."
Xiao Mengmeng naturally understood what Wang Hao was thinking. She shot him another disdainful look, making him wish the ground would swallow him whole.
"Ahem... Children shouldn't be exposed to those things. Anyway, I've possessed the body of my previous life, so why haven't I inherited his memories?"
Wang Hao coughed and hurriedly changed the subject, asking a rather important question.
"That's because your true spirit hasn't fully fused with your previous life's soul. Forget it. Who knows how long it would take if I left you to do it yourself? I'll give you a hand!"
The little loli sighed and flicked a finger, sending a streak of light into Wang Hao's body.
"Ah-"
A vast torrent of information flooded into his mind in an instant, making Wang Hao clutch his head and scream. Then his consciousness reeled as heaven and earth spun around him, and he vanished from the System Space.
"This is the three-thousandth and final Anomaly of Heaven and Earth. I hope you can succeed!"
After Wang Hao left the System Space, little loli Mengmeng suddenly sighed. Her voice was no longer soft and adorable as before. Instead, it carried an immense world-weariness that contrasted sharply with her small, young figure.
Clearly, she was hiding secrets she hadn't told Wang Hao, and her own formation was by no means as simple as she had claimed.
She had very little confidence in Wang Hao, the last person selected. Though he had passed the test of character she had set, his intelligence was truly a cause for concern.
Who saved people like that?
Leaving aside little loli Mengmeng's change, Wang Hao's consciousness returned to his body after another bout of heaven and earth spinning around him.
But the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was a familiar pair of magnificent breasts. To his shame, blood gushed from his nose again, splattering the plain white clothing once more.
The peerless beauty kneeling beside Wang Hao to examine his wounds sensed something amiss on her chest. She looked down, and her face darkened again.
"Bang!"
A remarkably muffled impact rang out in the crude stone house. Half an incense stick later, Wang Hao sat calmly cross-legged on a straw mat, sporting a pair of panda eyes.
"Lady You Lian, tell me about the current situation."
After a moment's silence, Wang Hao suddenly broke the oppressive quiet.
He had just finished receiving his predecessor's memories, so he naturally knew the peerless beauty's identity.
Her name was You Lian. She was a healer in the War King Clan who treated the sick and saved lives. She had once treated the injuries of the previous life whose body he now possessed. His previous life had fallen in love with her at first sight, but hadn't dared show it-what was commonly called a secret crush.
Earlier, when Jiang City fell to the Yellow Emperor Tribe, his previous life had seen a Shadow Wolf raised by the Yellow Emperor Tribe sneak up behind You Lian, intending to launch a sneak attack. Despite his own weakling strength, he had rushed over to stop it. Though he had foiled the Shadow Wolf's attack, it had clawed him across the chest.
That claw strike had been no light matter. It had nearly sliced his entire torso open, leaving his previous life gravely wounded and at death's door.
His previous life really did have an affinity with him. Both had died playing the hero to save a beauty. At least his previous life had saved a great beauty, while he had only saved a little loli.
Besides the system, this girl's treatment of his predecessor's wounds had probably played a considerable part in his successful possession.
Otherwise, how could he have survived injuries that even his previous life couldn't endure?
So, all told, this girl had saved his life. It was also why she was here with him: presumably, she had been moved by his previous life risking his life to protect her.
His predecessor's memories had also given him a rough understanding of the current situation. He was a member of the War King Clan, which was one branch of the Nine Li Tribe.
The Nine Li Tribe was made up of nine powerful tribes, and each tribe had nine great clans. The War King Clan he belonged to was one of them.
Just because they were called tribes and clans didn't mean they were backward or insignificant. In fact, the population of the Nine Li Tribe was staggering.
The War King Clan alone, which ranked near the bottom, had a full hundred million regular soldiers. Its population was even harder to count.
After all, the human race of this era was known as the protagonist of heaven and earth, and the world of the Primordial Wilderness was boundless. If it really had only as many people as described in the Investiture of the Gods, how the hell could it be the protagonist of heaven and earth?
Moreover, the Nine Li people were all formidable fighters. For true warriors, moving mountains and overturning seas was merely a basic move.
His predecessor had even seen an adult clansman grow thirty meters tall, pick up a small mountain, and hurl it at an enemy.
On Earth, someone like that would undoubtedly be a superman. But in the Primordial Wilderness, people with such fighting strength were as numerous as ox hairs, at most counting as unremarkable foot soldiers.
The great chieftain of the Nine Li Tribe was none other than the Fiendgod Chiyou of myth and legend. According to his predecessor's memories, Fiendgod Chiyou had led the Nine Li Tribe in war against the Yellow Emperor Tribe for over ten thousand years, and they had gradually begun to fall behind a hundred years ago.
Though ten thousand years of continuous warfare was an astonishing length of time, it was hardly remarkable in this mythical world.
From his predecessor's memories, he knew that the Wu Race and Demon Race, the two protagonists of heaven and earth before humanity, had fought for tens of thousands of primordial epochs-several billion years in all.
Compared to that, the ten-thousand-year war between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou really was children playing house.
Of course, his predecessor's status in the War King Clan had been low. He had only been a blacksmith's apprentice, so his knowledge was limited, and he knew little of the details of the war.
By comparison, You Lian held a fairly high position in the War King Clan as a healer, so she was bound to know more about the current state of affairs.
"You've recovered your memories?"
You Lian was surprised. Earlier, this fellow had been talking nonsense as though he had lost his memories, yet one kick from her had actually brought them back?
Could kicking someone be a method of treatment too?
You Lian glanced instinctively at her delicate feet inside her small barbarian boots and pondered the matter to herself.
"I was a little muddled before. I'm much better now."
Wang Hao nodded, offering no further explanation.
"It's good that you've recovered!"
You Lian gave a slight nod of understanding. After a pause, she said softly, "We lost the war!"
"Great Chieftain Chiyou was dismembered by the Yellow Emperor Ji Xuanyuan and those immortal cultivators working together, then suppressed beneath the five sacred mountains of heaven and earth. The immortal cultivators of the Chan Sect slaughtered all the legions of our Nine Li Tribe.
"The Yellow Emperor Tribe invaded our ancestral lands and enslaved all the Nine Li people. Very, very few escaped."
You Lian briefly explained what she knew, a trace of sorrow on her face.
After all, from now on, they would be slaves of a conquered people!
"Do you have any way to deal with the fact that I was chosen to serve as a palace attendant?"
Though You Lian's explanation had been brief, it had given Wang Hao a general understanding of the current situation.
Clearly, the Nine Li Tribe was in dire straits. This could be called its darkest and worst hour.
And his current status was that of a slave. Though he had once greatly admired the Yellow Emperor as an ancestor, that did nothing to conceal the fact that this was a cruel age of slavery.
If he didn't find a way to break free of his present predicament soon, his ultimate fate surely wouldn't be a good one.
Right now, the most pressing problem was that he was to be castrated and made a eunuch today.
"Originally, temporarily cutting your face before you were selected would have been enough to avoid it. Unfortunately, you just had to act like a fool then. Now, even if you disfigure yourself, they can restore your face, just like the wound on your chest."
You Lian glanced sideways at Wang Hao without a pleasant look.
She had meant him nothing but kindness earlier, risking discovery by the experts of the Yanhuang Tribe to come and help him. Yet the fellow had refused to appreciate it, treating her good intentions like a donkey's liver and lungs.
Wang Hao lowered his head to look at his chest. The Shadow Wolf's vicious claw strike had torn apart most of his internal organs, but now only a faint mark remained, surrounded by a layer of black ointment.
Clearly, it was the black substance the knight had left behind earlier. While he had been unconscious, this girl had applied it to his wound.
With an ointment worthy of being called a divine medicine, they could indeed heal any external injury. Even slashing his face now would do him no good.
"It's not as though there's no way at all."
Seeing Wang Hao's dejected expression, You Lian couldn't quite bear it and said, "The War King Clan's lands are near the North Sea, and ferocious beasts from the sea are constantly raiding the borders. The Yellow Emperor Tribe is selecting warriors from among us Nine Li people to form a Death Warrior Camp and station them there to guard it. Jiang City probably won't be an exception. But with your strength, there's almost no chance you could join the Death Warrior Camp. Even if you did, you wouldn't live for long..."
At the end, You Lian seemed to realize that she would have been better off not mentioning this idea at all. Embarrassed, she said, "Sorry. Pretend I never said anything!"
Feeling deeply awkward, You Lian said no more. She sat down on another straw mat, closed her eyes, and rested.
But Wang Hao, far from falling into despair as You Lian had expected, looked positively thrilled. A brilliant light flashed in his starry eyes.
Xiao Mengmeng, if I remember correctly, you said the system can travel across the heavens, right?
Wang Hao silently questioned the system spirit Xiao Mengmeng in his heart.
This was one of the system's basic uses, which had just been imparted to his mind along with his predecessor's memories.
He didn't need to speak aloud to communicate with the system spirit Xiao Mengmeng. He only had to think; it was direct communication between their minds.
And the way he had thought of to save himself was the system's function for traveling across the myriad worlds of the heavens!