Chapter 2: Stuffy Sticks
After Zhu Yunzhao finished speaking, he walked towards the village with firm steps.
"Dad, sue me, who are my parents, and who are my enemies?" Zhu Xiaoqi asked sadly.
Zhu Yunzhao did not answer. Although he didn't know Zhu Xiaoqi's background, he knew that there must be an amazing secret hidden in it, otherwise he would not have attracted the encirclement and suppression of the divine court representing light and justice.
He didn't want his son to touch those mazes again, he just wanted him to live well. For a father, that's enough.
When Zhu Yunzhao's sword light shone on the battlefield, a sturdy young man quietly walked out of the forest and threw himself into the small river next to the village.
Surrounded by the icy river, Zhu Xiaoqi's chaotic head gradually regained its calmness. After drifting more than ten miles along the river, he climbed ashore and, after resting in the bushes by the river, swam up the river early the next morning and returned to the small mountain village.
There was silence in the village. Zhu Xiaoqi stood on the other side of the river and observed for a long time, and after making sure that there was no danger, he quietly sneaked into the village.
He searched the whole village and found not a single person. Masked people and villagers disappeared without a trace overnight. The corpses were gone, leaving no traces of a fight, and even the blood on the ground had been cleaned.
"Dad, Min'er, where are you?" Zhu Xiaoqi looked up at the sky and roared sadly in his heart.
The strange scene, like a nightmare, not only brought him deep fear and loneliness, but also took away the two closest people in his life.
Simply packed his luggage, Zhu Xiaoqi left the small mountain village and headed all the way north.
Two months later, the ragged boy appeared in the Horqin Desert to the west of the Wasteland.
"Oasis, how can there be an oasis?" Comparing the location marked on the map with the current location, Zhu Xiaoqi was dumbfounded. In front of you is a vast sea of sand, with nothing to see except rolling sand dunes.
The scorching sun and the scorching heat wave were quickly taking away the water from his body.
There was no time to hesitate, and Zhu Xiaoqi decided to take the risk of expanding the scope of the search. He tore a few strips of cloth from his body, leaned over and picked up a few pieces of rubble and wrapped them around and placed them on the ground as a reference point for his starting point. He planned to go straight in one direction for twenty minutes, and if he didn't find it, he would turn back and start again.
After two hours passed, Zhu Xiaoqi fell into complete despair. In these two hours, he not only found nothing, but also lost his way. In the desert, at some point, a strong wind blew, and the wind and sand destroyed his references, and also obscured the sun, the only thing in the desert that allowed him to perceive the direction.
"Daddy, I've let you down!" he sat down in the desert as he sat down in the desert and muttered something of his mouth. The body is already overdrawn, and the dry food and water are also running out as they traverse the Silent Wasteland, what should I do now?
"I can't die! I must not die here!" Licking his chapped lips, Zhu Xiaoqi subconsciously touched his body. As soon as his hand touched the hard money bag on his waist, his heart was pleasantly surprised.
The probe took out two earthy yellow stones from the money bag and held them in the palm of his hand, Zhu Xiaoqi stood up with a solemn expression, and slowly closed his palms together.
"Heavenly spirits, earth spirits, hungry ghosts from all directions, and demons from all walks of life, show up quickly! When you are full of food and drink, remember to give me some more benefits! As long as I can get out alive, I will definitely honor you often!" He shook his hands slightly, and his mouth was full of words.
A strange scene happened.
Zhu Xiaoqi's raised palm and two arms shimmered, and then became transparent. On his left arm, a black air current, and on his right arm, a white air current, like two small snakes, snaked up and converged into his palm. The two yellow stones in the palm of the palm, wrapped in black and white air currents, bloomed with golden light.
The light flickered, and countless needle-like black and white air currents flowed back into his body along his fingers. The black and white air currents quickly converged towards his sea of qi. In the sea of air, a black and white round crystal the size of a grain of rice hung high, sucking in the incoming airflow, and then spun at high speed, gradually becoming dazzling. Then, it bloomed with a brilliant light that shot straight into Zhu Xiaoqi's chest.
Zhu Xiaoqi's hand returned to normal, and the stone in his palm disappeared. The black and white crystals in the sea of qi turned into the size of peas, and there was an extra yellow crystal the size of a grain of rice next to it. The crystal turned slightly, bringing wisps of yellow air into the veins of his limbs.
Zhu Xiaoqi suddenly felt a sense of refreshment all over his body, his body returned to his body, and the feeling of exhaustion was swept away.
"This strange trick to save your life actually works!" he looked at his hands happily.
This life-saving trick is a secret that belongs to him, and even his father doesn't know it.
The earthy yellow stone was picked up by chance when I went into the mountains alone to hunt a year ago. Young and ignorant, he crossed the red line drawn by his father for him with a hot head, entered the depths of the jungle, and encountered a group of giant wolves with amazing characteristics, and was chased into a corner. Exhausted, he climbed a small hill and picked up some rocks and piled them up beside him to prepare for a desperate fight. When he held an earthy yellow stone in his hand, the mutation occurred. The stone was melted away by a mysterious force, and his body was instantly restored, and the light that bloomed when the stone melted also frightened away the wolves.
Zhu Xiaoqi, who was lucky enough to pick up a life, picked up some similar stones nearby and put them in his money bag, and left in a hurry. This experience not only made him suffer a fat beating from his father, but also gave him a bizarre illness - cold, diarrhea, headache, vomiting and so on. He rarely fell ill, and Yan Zhan suspected that the strange illness had something to do with the earthy yellow stone that had melted in his hands, so he found an opportunity to try again.
As he expected, the vision reappeared, and then he fell ill again. He began to worry if he was possessed by some demon and monster, and never dared to hit those stones again.
"The little life is saved. But this disease is coming again, and I have to hurry up looking for herbs when I go back!" Zhu Xiaoqi decided to give up looking for the oasis called the Land of Sighs, and immediately find his way out of the Horqin Desert after the wind and sand subsided.
He didn't know for the rest of his life after the catastrophe that the scene of him melting two stones with his palms was enough to shake the entire Firmament Continent.
Those two seemingly ordinary yellow stones are actually earth-based spirit stones that contain the spiritual power of heaven and earth and represent pure power.
Spirit stone is the most precious mineral in the Firmament Continent, and it is also the cornerstone of the Firmament Civilization. For thousands of years, the cultivators of the Firmament Continent have tried every possible way to find a way to obtain spiritual power directly from the spirit stone, but they all ended in failure. The only harvest is that hundreds of years ago, a mage accidentally discovered that if the spirit stone was placed in some special magic circle, it would transmit spiritual power to the outside world. This discovery, hailed as the greatest achievement in the history of the firmament, directly gave birth to the brilliant industrial civilization of the mainland.
"Rest and make plans!" he sat down against a sand dune.
"Oh my god!" he was closing his eyes and suddenly screaming and jumping. My chest was hot, and it felt like someone had been burned with a soldering iron. Looking down, a dazzling green light flickered under the skin on his chest.
Zhu Xiaoqi couldn't help but be stunned for a while.
Just as he was stunned, the green light burst out of his body and shot into the desert in the distance.
The earth trembled, and a rumbling sound was heard in the desert.
In an instant, the wind stopped, the sand calmed, and the sun shone on the desert again.
Several huge sand dunes in front of him quickly retreated to both sides, and a vast oasis appeared in front of him.
The sound of trampling horses' hooves sounded, and several surprised old men rode their horses and whipped their horses, and galloped towards the place where he stood.
Before Zhu Xiaoqi came back to his senses, an old man in a yellow cloth robe had already come to him.
"Boy, welcome to hell on earth!" An old skin smiled like a flower, and a huge wooden stick appeared in his hand like a trick, and then a dull stick slammed on Zhu Xiaoqi's head.
Zhu Xiaoqi didn't snort and fell to the ground.
Behind the yellow-robed old man, the four old men were all dumbfounded.
"Big brother, you're too excited, aren't you?"
"I'm X, what's the hell about knocking me to death?"
"It's easy to knock it to death, but it's troublesome to knock it stupidly!"
"Personally, I think it's easy to knock to death, it's easy to do if you knock stupidly, if you knock half dead and not stupid, it's really a trouble! Think about it, he is the person of the demon lord, and he is also the star of hope that we have been looking forward to for more than ten years......."
A slow voice, talking eloquently, immediately made the big brother with the stick and the other three old men crazy at the same time.
"Shut up, and then nag Lao Tzu to knock you to death!" The old man in the yellow robe waved the stick in his hand and shouted, "I do things in a measured manner, this is called a killing stick, you know a ball!
"The boss is wise!" the four elders suddenly realized and praised in unison.
"Come on, carry him back and study it tonight!"
The five of them took Zhu Xiaoqi and galloped into the desert.
The huge sand dunes quickly closed behind them, and the oasis disappeared into the desert.
Late at night, in an empty quiet room, Zhu Xiaoqi, who was naked, lay on a stone bed, and four old men surrounded him to study and evaluate carefully.
"Tut, look at these majestic words, the Demon Lord's vision of choosing people is really good!
"Its head is like a mushroom, and its stem is like ink!
"This astonishing size and form, although not enough to reign in the world, can also be called a generation of overlords!
"With a strong physique, bronzed skin, and handsome appearance, it is really a disaster for the red faces! The hero's road is easy to walk, the peach blossom is difficult to cross, and the demon lord has instructed him to try to make him stay away from women, which is really far-sighted!"
"What's the situation?" the yellow-robed old man pushed the door in, staring at Zhu Xiaoqi on the bed and asked.
"A piece of jade, it was perfect. The four replied in unison.
The yellow-robed old man smiled with satisfaction. He asked, "It's three years ahead of schedule, and the hell won't open until he's eighteen years old." However, now that he is here, the cultivation can now be started. Who's going to teach him?"
"Me!" the four responded in unison.
"What the hell, Lao Tzu is modest, are you still serious?" the old man was furious, pointed at the four of them and scolded loudly, "Do you still have my big brother in your eyes?"
"Give you a face, call you big brother. Are you really afraid of you?"
"Don't talk about you, even if the old man comes in person, Lao Tzu won't let me!" someone snorted coldly.
"If you want to stop fighting, whoever wins this kid will belong to whom?" someone said.
"Get out, when we decide the winner, his beard will be white!"
The five of them were like bullfights, blowing their beards and glaring at each other, and none of them would back down.
After a few seconds, their eyes all fell on Zhu Xiaoqi's body, and they all flew over in unison. Five pairs of eyes flashed with light, and five palms of both hands hit the young man's body at the same time.
Time passed bit by bit, the light in the eyes of the five old men gradually faded, and Zhu Xiaoqi's body gradually gained weight. An hour later, the five of them sat on the edge of the stone bed at the same time, as if they were more than ten years old in an instant. Zhu Xiaoqi on the stone bed turned into a downright fat man.
"What the hell, five fools, is it worth it?" the yellow-robed old man opened his cloudy eyes and laughed miserably.