"Strange, where am I?"
Dahuang opened its eyes and lifted its head off the ground with some confusion.
The huge training room was very empty, with only a figure with bandages wrapped around his hand sitting cross-legged not far away with his back to it.
In front of that figure, dozens of silk threads stretched across a pole that stretched out on both sides and hung down, each thread holding a thick barbell plate.
He held the silk threads in his right hand, repeatedly lifting and lowering them.
As he moved, the barbell plates suspended in mid-air also moved up and down.
" Wei Leyang?"
A strong feeling of hunger washed over me.
Without thinking much, Dahuang stood up and walked over.
It came to Wei Leyang's side and looked at Wei Leyang as he turned around.
"Woof! Woof!"
The two looked at each other.
There was a moment of silence.
Wei Leyang slowly lowered his hand.
With a series of clanging sounds, the barbell plates landed one by one.
After removing the silk threads from his hands, Wei Leyang suddenly turned around and grabbed Dahuang's face with both hands, one on each side.
"Damn it, you Haji Huang, you've been cultivating for so long and you've been lying to me all this time!"
"Now that you've been exposed, you're still acting like a dog..."
No, you are a dog to begin with!
"Now that you've been exposed, you're still barking at me like a normal dog begging for food!"
"Woof? Woof! Wait, wait, wait, this Great Sage just woke up and my brain isn't quite clear yet. I forgot, that's why I'm like this..."
"Heh... This Great Sage? I think you're clearly a demonic wolf from hell who has fallen into the demonic path. Die, you..."
More than ten minutes later.
Wei Leyang came out carrying a large plate of food and placed it on the ground.
"Alright, hurry up and eat!"
Without any hesitation, Dahuang went up and started eating heartily.
Wei Leyang sat cross-legged in front of Dahuang, looking down at it.
Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he asked:
"By the way, what does it feel like to be affected by Shen Heng's emotions?"
Dahuang paused in his eating, his mind involuntarily recalling the figure standing in front of him, with softly drooping black hair.
The dog couldn't help but shudder, saying with lingering fear, "It was even scarier than watching horror movies with you."
"Even scarier than watching a horror movie?" Wei Leyang asked, rubbing his chin with a puzzled look.
What's so scary about horror movies?
Seemingly sensing the confusion in Wei Leyang's words, Dahuang opened its mouth and continued, "Well... Shen Heng was like a real ghost, or a real evil god, back then, so terrifying!"
"Oh? Is that so?" Wei Leyang's eyes lit up as he pondered whether he should ask Shen Heng to do it for him later so he could experience it for himself.
However, Shen Heng's ability might not be as effective against someone at the Third Tier like himself.
"By the way, what is Shen Heng's ability?" Dahuang asked, glancing up at Wei Leyang as he ate.
However, he only glanced at it before turning back to continue eating.
"The new ability is to influence emotions and hear inner voices," Wei Leyang replied casually.
Dahuang looked up, chewing as it asked in confusion, "What does it mean to hear someone's thoughts?"
"It's just that I can hear what other creatures are thinking," Wei Leyang said, not seeming to care much.
Oh, I see!
After swallowing the food in his mouth, Dahuang lowered his head and continued eating.
Can you hear what other creatures are thinking?
"Dog = living being, and I, the Great Sage, = dog, so can that brat who imitates a pig's squeal hear what I'm thinking?"
"What was I thinking back then...?"
Dahuang chewed its food while pondering.
"Back then... back then..."
"The kid who was imitating a pig hadn't woken up for a long time, so I was thinking..."
His train of thought abruptly stopped, and Dahuang's chewing motion also ceased.
"We're doomed!"
"We're doomed! We're doomed! We're doomed!"
"I was thinking about the nickname I'd given him at the time, so..."
"Did he hear that?"
Dahuang's eyes were wide open.
He recalled the way Shen Heng had looked at him several times.
The first time could be explained as suddenly discovering an ordinary animal that could cultivate, but the subsequent times...
"So that's how he discovered that I, the Great Sage, had already begun cultivating!"
"I initially thought it was just boredom, but I discovered it after checking everyone's Origin Power."
"So, it turns out they only discovered it because they overheard what I was thinking?!"
Dahuang's body suddenly began to tremble.
Images from past encounters flashed through my mind: the high command of humanity secretly killing those who held their secrets...
"We're doomed! We're doomed! We're doomed!"
"What if I'm found dead in the street one day?!"
Wei Leyang glanced at the trembling Dahuang,
"Don't worry, Shen Heng said he normally wouldn't listen to other people's opinions."
Dahuang didn't react and remained standing there, trembling.
It heard Wei Leyang's words, but how was it any different from confirming what Shen Heng had heard it thinking back then?
"Ah, is life so tough for a dog...?"
"Grouper, fresh grouper..."
"Sis, come take a look. Look at these gills, so red, it looks like..."
The sounds of people calling out to customers echoed through the bustling seafood market.
Ye Chengyun turned his head and looked around at the seafood market, which had been working desperately to make money and then reopened yesterday.
After confirming the direction, he walked towards a stall in the distance.
It was a brand new, empty, and deserted stall.
Before Ye Chengyun even reached the stall, the stall owner next to him was already greeting him.
"Boss, come take a look! Everything was delivered this morning, guaranteed fresh!"
Ye Chengyun glanced at the empty stall, then turned his gaze to the stall owner who had just greeted him.
"Boss, I'd like to ask where the owner of this stall is?" Ye Chengyun pointed to the empty stall.
"Oh, this!" The shopkeeper didn't continue, but instead looked somewhat embarrassed.
Seeing this, Ye Chengyun raised an eyebrow.
"I'm transferring 500 to you, can you tell me?"
Upon hearing that it cost five hundred just to discuss a matter, the boss's eyebrows immediately rose.
"Look at what you're saying, it's just a piece of news!"
That's what they said, but the boss showed no sign of continuing.
Seeing this, Ye Chengyun didn't pay any attention and took out his phone to scan 500.
After confirming receipt, the boss smiled.
However, upon seeing Ye Chengyun, the smile on his face vanished.
He cleared his throat, then said in a low voice:
"I'm telling you, but you absolutely mustn't tell anyone!"