Chapter 394: Chapter 363 Shameless Madman!
"Longevity Bone?"
As soon as these words fell, the surrounding villagers of Stone Village all showed confusion in their eyes.
As for Shi Feifeng, his face instantly became more animated.
"Longevity Bone? Could it be that innate sacred bone, said to enable one to step into the Great Longevity Realm?" Shi Feifeng swallowed his saliva nervously.
"That’s right, Little One has a Longevity Bone inside him."
Chen Zhixing smiled and ruffled Little One’s head.
Before Shi Feifeng could rejoice.
"But the Longevity Bone within him was forcibly carved out and taken away." Chen Zhixing added.
"What?!! A member of the Stone Race had his Longevity Bone taken away? What were those useless people doing?"
Shi Feifeng erupted in anger.
"Don’t worry, sir. The one who took the Longevity Bone wasn’t an outsider; it was someone from the Stone Race itself."
Chen Zhixing smiled slightly.
"Ah??!"
Shi Feifeng was completely stunned.
Afterward, Chen Zhixing began recounting Little One’s ordeal.
Gradually, more and more people gathered around Chen Zhixing, and once he finished his story.
"Ah ah ah! Such a venomous woman!"
"My heavens! Little One is her own nephew, how could she be so cruel and ruthless?"
"I heard about Shi Li from the cultivators who practiced here; I thought he was a true young king, a peerless hero! Didn’t expect him to be such a character!"
"Hmph, achieving one’s own greatness by robbing their family’s blessings, what kind of hero is that?"
"People of the Stone Race, it’s bad enough not immediately executing those who harm their kin according to the clan rules, but they even helped that venomous woman and little beast to hunt Little One?"
"Is the current Stone Race really full of such disgraceful people?"
Each and every villager of Stone Village was righteously angry and cursed furiously.
They were indeed a branch of the Stone Race, but countless years ago they either came willingly or were forced to the Northern Plain to guard the ancestral lands.
They never expected that the Stone Race people in charge outside had become such ignorant and ineffective individuals, aiding villains instead!
"Little Stone is too pitiful!"
"Little Stone, I’m called Skin Monkey, from now on we’re your family!"
"Little Stone, I’ll share my favorite vermilion fruit with you!"
"Little One, we’ll listen to what Clan Leader Grandpa says, practice diligently, and help you beat up Shi Li!"
A group of young children voiced their support for Little One, feeling indignant on his behalf.
Little One Shi Huang was deeply moved, first being given the warmth of a home on the Third Peak, and now encountering kindness in the Stone Race ancestral lands; it seemed everyone he met after leaving the Shi Family was kind.
The world that appeared dark to him seemed to brighten up again.
And the old clan leader Shi Feifeng, after fiercely criticizing the Shi Family, said bitterly:
"But Patriarch Chen, we are just a group of abandoned people, what can we possibly do? Inside the Shi Family, there are many strong individuals; I’ve spent my whole life studying diligently, but I’ve only reached the Void Transformation Realm, not even comparable to the ten-year-old Shi Li..."
"Sir, you misunderstood. I’m not asking you to fight for justice for Little One." Chen Zhixing waved his hand.
"Then what does Patriarch Chen mean...?"
Shi Feifeng was stunned upon hearing this; they were just old, weak, and sickly, and couldn’t imagine how they could help Little One.
"This time I’ve come to request one thing for Little One."
Under Shi Feifeng’s puzzled gaze, Chen Zhixing uttered four words:
"Primordial Truth!"
Upon these words, Shi Feifeng’s expression changed immediately, and at the village’s entrance, a withered, charred willow tree began to swing its branches continuously.
"This Patriarch Chen, I... I don’t understand what you mean by Primordial Truth..."
Shi Feifeng stammered helplessly.
"Oh? It seems Sir is not inclined to assist Little One?" Chen Zhixing gradually narrowed his eyes.
"Uh..."
Shi Feifeng’s eyes showed struggle.
He certainly wished to help Little One, as Little One’s couple, Shi Shaoling, saved his life before; but the Primordial Truth was not something he could decide...
"Where did you hear about the Primordial Truth?"
At that moment, a cold voice echoed in Chen Zhixing’s ears.
Suddenly.
Chen Zhixing’s world changed.
The sun, moon, mountains, and villages all disappeared!
In their place, stood an immense willow tree!
This willow tree was indescribably terrifying; its nine branches stretched across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, thousands of tendrils hanging down like immortal waterfalls from the Nine Heavens, each leaf holding up a star!
It merely swayed slightly, yet could shelter three thousand Divine Kingdoms!
"Where did you hear about the Primordial Truth?"
This icy query was like divine thunder from the heavens, tearing through the sky, vibrating and deafening in Chen Zhixing’s ears!
Chen Zhixing gradually narrowed his eyes.
"Elder, you’re already weakened, why frighten me like this?" Chen Zhixing chuckled lightly.
In an instant.
Chen Zhixing’s world shattered, the scene returned to Stone Village.
At the entrance of the village, the charred, single green tendril willow tree remained silent in the mountain wind, swaying lightly.
Now indeed, it was unprecedentedly weakened, weakened to the point that even with all its strength, it couldn’t kill this junior who had reached the Nirvana Sixth Layer.
"Patriarch Chen, I do own a Primordial Truth, but it isn’t mine; it was given by the Guardian God, hence the decision rests with the Guardian God..."
Shi Feifeng cast a helpless look at Chen Zhixing.
Chen Zhixing nodded and approached the charred willow at the village entrance, finally sitting cross-legged in front of it.
"How did you learn of me?"
A weary voice echoed in Chen Zhixing’s mind.
Chen Zhixing didn’t answer immediately but thought for a moment and said:
"I possess a sword, named Cyan Pheasant, an artifact from ancient times."
"It informed me that during ancient times, when the Path of Longevity hadn’t broken, a willow tree descended with a myriad of thunder tribulations from the Nine Heavens into the Northern Plain; merely the shockwave of its fall annihilated a Longevity Demon Emperor defending the Northern Plain."
"And beside this willow tree, there was an accompanying bone book, named Primordial Truth."
After speaking, Chen Zhixing calmly stared at the willow tree.
"Cyan Pheasant... I remember now, an interesting little fellow."
The weary voice now sounded slightly relaxed, not as cold and wary.
Pause.
The weary voice carried a faint laugh:
"But even so, why should I help you? In other words, why should I help your disciple?"
"Why?"
Chen Zhixing raised an eyebrow, his beautiful, slender eyes slightly arching with a smile, transmitting his words through divine thought:
"Simple, because currently, you are not my match."
"If you don’t hand over the Primordial Truth to me, I’ll take it by force! I’ll massacre this entire Stone Village, cooking all the villagers. Even if I have to scour the entire village, I won’t stop until I find the Primordial Truth!"
Upon these words.
For a moment, the willow tree was stunned.
Then its tendrils shook violently, and the weary voice escalated several decibels, erupting furiously:
"You... shameless scoundrel!!"