Creation Little Five fell silent for a mont, then asked, "Does it hurt?"
"It hurts."
Chen Shi said, "Sotis it hurts so much I feel like I’m going to die from it."
Creation Little Five stared at the green ghostly hand, his expression grave, and said, "Even your grandfather couldn’t find a solution?"
Chen Shi nodded softly.
Creation Little Five reached out and touched the back of his head, where there was a raised scar as thick as a thumb, looking like a large centipede clinging to the back of his skull.
"This scar is from when my Divine Embryo was cut out."
Chen Shi smiled and said, "The wound has long since healed. It doesn’t hurt normally, but on rainy days, it hurts a bit, though it’s bearable."
Creation Little Five exhaled a breath of foul air, his voice hoarse, "You’ve also suffered a lot, more so than I have."
Chen Shi fell silent.
Creation Little Five saw ripples on the surface of the dicinal bath, caused by the droplets hitting the water.
Chen Shi felt the care of the person beside him, for the first ti since his grandfather’s departure, he felt the love of a close kin.
After his dicinal bath, Creation Little Five stood behind the window lattice, watching from the courtyard as Chen Shi, bare-chested, practiced the Beidou Seven Refinents.
This child’s talent was clearly exceptional, but he worked harder than anyone else, making even him feel sowhat ashad.
Dog Son was dragging the dicinal bath, emptying the dicinal water and then bringing over a basin of clean water to wash the tub.
Creation Little Five watched the scene, his heart ebbing and flowing like the tide.
After his practice, Chen Shi promptly fell asleep, and Li Tianqing also slept in the west wing.
Dog Son returned to his kennel, sleeping on top of the black iron bullets.
Only Creation Little Five remained awake.
The moonlight was thick, the perfect ti for him to kill.
He leaped into the air, passing through the window lattice, and arrived outside Huangpo Village.
Outside Huangpo Village, seven oddly dressed Heaven Listeners arrived on immortal cranes, descending to the ground.
These seven were responsible for the affairs of the entire Xin Xiang Province, their authority much greater than the Heaven Listener Envoys, and among the Heaven Listeners, they ranked above the envoys.
The Heaven Listeners were divided into hierarchy: Angel Envoy, Deacon, Venerable, Venerable King, and Venerable Lord, with the Angel Envoy being the lowest rank, responsible for scouting various news, monitoring public sentint, and searching for anomalies and changes.
Deacons managed one county or city, collating various ssages to report upward, while a Venerable was in charge of coordinating all major incidents in a province.
Xin Xiang Province had sixty Deacons and one Venerable.
An issue like Chen Shi casually talking about killing a Heaven Listener was a minor matter within the Heaven Listeners, rely requiring an Angel Envoy to closely monitor Chen Shi and that was that.
But the appearance of the Great Ming Treasure Ship was a major event; therefore, nurous nearby Heaven Listener Envoys ca to monitor Chen Shi. The Great Ming Treasure Ship traveled down the river, entering the vast and dark sea, its passengers vanishing without a trace; hence the nearby Heaven Listener Envoys all ca to keep watch over Chen Shi.
All these Heaven Listener Envoys disappeared without sending any news back. That’s why the Heaven Listeners had sent seven Deacons to investigate.
The seven people landed and spread out around Huangpo Village.
One of them had just touched ground when the surrounding trees sprouted large ears, so as long as two to three feet, others around a foot long, as if after a rain the forest had suddenly grown many wood ears.
As he moved forward, he saw the ground, walls of the houses, rooftops, and even the water jars and rice jars all growing trumpet-shaped ears.
Even on the True Body of Sangyu, the Divine Tree itself, grew many large ears!
Sangyu was shocked at his own transformation but saw these ears quietly turn, directing themselves toward Chen Shi’s ho.
The Deacon had just finished setting up when he saw a tall young man approaching him.
"Heaven Listeners handling matters..."
He had barely started speaking when suddenly, the world spun around him, and in the next mont, he found himself upside-down, being stuffed into Creation Little Five’s mouth, his legs being the only part still sticking out.
The other five Deacons imdiately swiveled their ears towards the direction of the assault on their colleague, listening intently.
They were quite far apart from each other, unable to see one another with the naked eye, relying only on sound to discern the situation.
"I hate you peeping toms the most," they heard a strange voice.
The next mont, another Heaven Listener Deacon saw a young man walking towards him.
Among the seven deacons, one unfortunately landed on the top of Huangpo Village, had just touched down, and then ’plop,’ he knelt on the ground, covered in cold sweat.
The yellow earth was like heaven, pressing down on his body, rendering him immobile.
The other six Heaven Listener Deacons were much luckier, not landing near Huangpo Village.
When Creation Little Five ate those six Heaven Listener Deacons, he was still alive but unable to utilize his Spell, unaware of what was happening outside.
By the ti he heard footsteps and managed to raise his head, he finally saw Creation Little Five approaching him.
"Whoosh—"
His world plunged into darkness.
"So it’s Little Five, huh? I was wondering who was wandering around outside in the middle of the night," Zhu Xiucai’s voice ca from Huangpo Village.
"Is it Teacher Talented?"
Creation Little Five stopped in his tracks, looking towards Zhu Xiucai hanging under the old willow tree.
Zhu Xiucai said, "Little Five, you haven’t been here for a long ti. Where have you been these years?"
Creation Little Five replied, "I ssed up and got suppressed by old man. Is old man really dead?"
Zhu Xiucai nodded lightly and said, "He’s truly dead. He used the Corpse Refining Technique, turning himself into a zombie, and then with Water and Fire Refining, preserved his body from decay. He was bathed in moonlight, his Demonic Nature bursting forth uncontrollably, and he could only hide in the underworld."
Hearing this, Creation Little Five’s sorrow lightened sowhat, revealing a slight smile, "So that’s how he died."
With his mood lifted, he said, "The ears of Outer Heaven True Gods are always sticking out too far. I don’t like it—I’m going to cut off his ears in Xinxiang."
He leaped into the air, transforming into a sword light that faded into the distance.
Zhu Xiucai watched his departing sword light and murmured quietly, "The return of Creation Little Five to the world surely isn’t a good thing! This guy, without good or evil, right or wrong in his heart, when he does evil, he’s maybe more fearso than a Demon! Could he have beco a calamity?"
In Xin Xiang Province, the Heavenly Listener Venerable was still in his residence waiting for news from the direction of Huangpo Village, but no news ca. At that mont, an unusual sound emanated from inside the residence.
He remained impassive, but many tiny, fragnted little things started to crawl out from beneath his garnt.
They were small Evil Spirits with eight legs, sowhat resembling spiders, but each had a large ear on its back, scurrying rapidly.
As they crawled, they grew larger and larger, moving onto the walls, into the shadows of the corners, atop the roof, upon the pillars, hiding and listening to every minuscule sound around.
"My ears can hear everything, even the sound of breathing, heartbeat, the flow of blood, the sound of the wind blowing over the hair, thus I can grasp all opposing movents."
The Heavenly Listener Venerable remained seated, speaking evenly, "Anyone who confronts often finds their techniques solved as soon as they are deployed. There’s no Spell in the world that can escape my sight and hearing. You might hide well, but you’re entirely within my grasp."
Holding a pen in his hand and without lifting his eyelids, he stated, "Your every move, I see as clearly as blazing fire. Before , you have no secrets. Why bother hiding?"
As soon as the words fell, Creation Little Five walked straight towards him, his voice entering the Venerable’s ears, "So you’re saying, you are even mightier than those Venerable Kings?"
"Venerable Kings?"
The Heavenly Listener Venerable smiled faintly, arrogantly stating, "Why would I need a Venerable King to deal with you?"
Creation Little Five grunted and said, "Twenty years ago, I killed four of your Venerable Kings on Golden Mountain and hung them in the sky as rations."
The Heavenly Listener Venerable’s face changed instantly, recalling the Venerable Kings from twenty years ago, hung in the sky?
Fear took hold of him, finally realizing who stood before him.
"Crack!"
His neck was twisted by Creation Little Five.
Creation Little Five pushed his body aside and flipped through the records the Heaven Listeners kept of the events in Xinxiang over the years, indeed finding the scroll about Chen Shi.
He read through it carefully; the Heaven Listeners had faithfully recorded all the acts of Chen Shi.
"This kid’s style of doing things doesn’t resemble Chen Tang, rather it’s quite like mine."
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