The days passed peacefully.
Almost every night, the Willow Deity's human form would appear. After eating, it would disappear immediately. Hu Niu would come every few days and basically spend the night in Shi Yi's room.
Although Shi Yi was very unaccustomed to sleeping with others and had gotten used to sleeping alone over the years, Hu Niu was not a reasonable person. After eating her fill, she would lie down on the bed board.
Regarding this, Shi Yi was also very helpless and had no other way. He couldn't hit her, and he couldn't scold her. Sometimes he thought about making the raw rice into cooked rice, but he realized he hadn't reached that age yet.
He had the will, but not the strength!
Nine years old, that's breaking the heavenly laws!
Just when Shi Yi thought the days would continue to pass so uneventfully, Bei Village, located several mountain ranges away from Stone Village, suddenly had an irreconcilable conflict with Stone Village.
The cause of the incident was not complicated.
The children of Stone Village were mischievous and secretly snuck out of Stone Village. After undergoing the True Blood Baptism of the Ancient Descendants, their muscles and strength had greatly increased, and dealing with ordinary Prehistoric Ferocious Beasts was not a problem.
Unlike adults, children couldn't hold back. After feeling their strength greatly increase, they yearned for the world outside Stone Village and went out in groups to hunt Prehistoric Ferocious Beasts.
In this Great Wilderness, Prehistoric Ferocious Beasts were just the lowest level of ferocious beasts. Compared to Desolate Variants, Ancient Descendants, and Pure-Blooded Ferocious Beasts, Prehistoric Ferocious Beasts were merely blood food.
If things went smoothly, these children would form groups, use the human tactic of surrounding and attacking without regard for martial ethics, hunt a Prehistoric Ferocious Beast, and at most be hung up and beaten by their parents, who would warn them not to leave the village casually.
But there are never so many smooth sailing things in the world.
This group of Stone Village children happened to run into Bei Village's hunting team.
Perhaps fearing that the next generation of Stone Village would grow up and threaten Bei Village, the leader of the Bei Village hunting team shot and killed these young boys and girls, whose average age was no more than ten, without hesitation.
Hu Niu stuck to Shi Yi all day, so she luckily escaped this calamity, but three cold bodies of the ten boys and girls who snuck out of Stone Village were forever left in the depths of the dangerous Great Wilderness.
Fortunately, these boys and girls still remembered their parents' words: if they encountered danger outside, they should run quickly and never look back.
Relying on the increased muscle and strength from the True Blood Baptism of the Ancient Descendants, the remaining seven boys and girls managed to run back.
Because of this, Stone Village and Bei Village became mortal enemies. Shi Yi did not stand by and watch. He had just taken Stone Village's Ancestral Artifact. If he stood by and watched, he wouldn't have the face, so he naturally had to take action.
After personally using the Kirin Steps to suppress and kill the Desolate Variant level Offering Spirit of Bei Village, Bei Village was no match for Stone Village at all. The entire village was slaughtered by the young and strong of Stone Village.
Including the old, weak, women, and children, over a hundred bloody heads were piled up in the dilapidated village of Bei Village. In ten years, just ten years, this village would be as if it had never existed.
It sounds a bit cruel, but this is the cruelty of the Great Wilderness. The strong survive, the weak die.
At the same time, this cruel and bloody scene, especially the internal conflict and infighting among humans, and Stone Village's ruthless methods of not even sparing the old, weak, women, and children, also caused Shi Yi to have some self-doubt.
In the vast Great Wilderness spanning millions of miles, are the truly cruel ones the ferocious beasts?
Regarding this question, Shi Yi had also seriously thought about it on the Azure Blue Planet in his previous life. Everyone said ghosts were terrifying, but when ghosts harmed people, it was often just for revenge.
And humans, often, can kill another person completely unrelated to them. In fact, due to human intelligence and cruel methods, the harm they inflict is far beyond what ghosts can achieve.
Of course.
The Azure Blue Planet where Shi Yi lived in his previous life had no ghosts, it was simply a technological universe. But in some ways, it was also tragic, as it meant those who died unjustly didn't even have the chance to become ghosts and seek revenge.
Half a month later.
"Boom!"
In the deepest part of the Great Wilderness, an unknown distance from the Vast Mountain Range where Stone Village was located, a monstrous blaze suddenly erupted in the vast sky.
The firelight was incredibly intense, and the birdsong was earth-shattering, echoing throughout the entire firmament.
As the crimson firelight grew stronger, burning the sky to the point of collapse, from this moment on, the sky was no longer blue, but transformed into a fiery hell covered in red clouds.
The hundreds of millions of miles of the Great Wilderness seemed to have risen by dozens of degrees out of thin air. The scorching high temperature and rolling heatwaves could be clearly felt even from an unknown distance.
It was at this moment.
Shi Yi, sitting in the center of Stone Village, in the crown of the Willow Tree, slowly opened his eyes. A huge Double Pupil appeared above Stone Village, instantly piercing through the thick clouds.
Although Shi Yi was often whipped by the Willow Deity's branches when he touched her human form, leaving him in pain and crawling on the ground.
If he only touched the Willow Deity's Willow Tree body, sitting on the trunk or in the crown, she basically let him do as he pleased.
"Caw!"
Under Shi Yi's Double Pupil gaze, a small red bird streaked across the vast and boundless sky. Its divine might was astonishing, and its speed was even faster than real lightning.
But the next second.
With a "rumble," a large golden claw reached down from above the dense clouds, covering the sky and earth, grabbing towards the small red bird with unparalleled power.
"Hiss!"
The small red bird moved sideways, quickly dodging. The large furry golden claw instantly crushed a mountain range into dust. Rocks flew through the air, a terrifying sight.
"This bird is quite powerful, but the being behind that golden claw is also not simple." Shi Yi narrowed his eyes, and the Double Pupil phantom reflected above Stone Village also narrowed its eyes.
"Boom!"
The large golden claw reached down again with astonishing momentum, actually forcefully dispersing the crimson firelight. It was hard to imagine how massive its true body was. Just a single golden claw was above the clouds, meaning its body was at least ten thousand meters tall.
"Caw!"
The small red bird flapped its wings, and the crimson firelight surged again. The crimson firelight that had been dispersed reoccupied the sky, giving a terrifying premonition of the world's impending destruction.
Just then.
In the deepest part of the Great Wilderness, a fierce battle began, as if a myth had descended. Every time the sky-covering golden claw descended, it would crush a mountain range.
The crimson small red bird was not inferior. Flapping its wings turned mountains into magma. Crimson magma spewed directly into the sky, like red rivers connecting heaven and earth.
And this was just the aftermath. The real battle was still in the firmament.
Shi Yi saw clearly with his Double Pupil that the small red bird was only palm-sized, its feathers a vibrant crimson, and its aura incredibly fierce. It drilled into the thick clouds, constantly engaging in a great battle with the terrifying creature behind the golden claw.
"Definitely a Pure-Blooded Ferocious Beast, and an adult one at that. It's clear that these two Pure-Blooded Ferocious Beasts are at the pinnacle of the Great Wilderness, and even the entire Desolate."
Shi Yi's tone was very certain. At the same time, the world-destroying power in the sky made him feel something different inside. It was an indescribable, special feeling.
Originally, after Stone Village destroyed Bei Village, Shi Yi had been somewhat doubting life, feeling like he had done something wrong.
But now, all he wanted was to become stronger. He could feel the blood in his body constantly boiling.
On the Azure Blue Planet.
A man's romance is guns, cars, and cannons – speed and passion.
In this savage world.
A man's romance is power, the power to control and destroy Heaven and Earth.
At this moment.
Only one sentence could describe Shi Yi's inner feelings.
Holding the sun and moon in hand, plucking the stars, there is no one like me in this world!
As he thought about it.
Shi Yi's fists unconsciously clenched, his heart filled with a thirst for power.
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