"Where am I?"
Xu Nian opened his eyes, but what caught his sight was a dilapidated rooftop.
"You're finally awake? I thought you were a goner!"
Just then, a childish voice ca from the side, and soon Xu Nian saw a teenage boy around thirteen or fourteen years old walking over with a bowl of dicinal soup.
The boy had an average appearance, dark skin, and was dressed in simple clothes, with several holes in his trousers, and he didn't have any cultivation, clearly just an ordinary villager.
"Where is this? How did I end up here?" Xu Nian asked curiously.
The boy chuckled and said, "This is Mushi Village. Three days ago, we found you at the entrance of the village, covered in wounds and unconscious. The village chief said there was no saving you. Seeing you still had a breath left, I dragged you back here. I didn't expect you to be so heavy. Normally, I can run even while carrying a pig, but I couldn't carry you. I had to drag you bit by bit from the east end of the village to the west end, and it almost killed ."
The boy rattled on and on while Xu Nian just stood there with a mind full of confused lines.
He was lucky his head hadn't bumped against any rocks or other hard objects; otherwise, he might have woken up an imbecile.
Because of his ancient cultivation of the Divine Demon Refining Body Technique, his body density was much greater than a normal person, and even heavier than an average adult, so it was normal for the boy to not be able to carry him.
"But put that aside, you really are sothing. You were so severely injured, yet you still ca to. Last year, the pig from the neighboring house fell from a ten-ter-high hill and died on impact, but you're much stronger than it. You must be a cultivator, right?" the boy asked with a face full of curiosity.
"I suppose I am, thanks for saving ," Xu Nian said with a wry smile and a nod.
He's comparing to a pig?
What in the world is he thinking?
"It's no big deal. Just rest up and take this dicine. I begged Uncle Wang who goes hunting in the mountains to bring it back; it's extrely effective for internal injuries." The boy set the bowl on a stand beside the bed and then scampered off.
Xu Nian felt helpless and didn't touch the dicinal soup.
Instead, he sat cross-legged on the bed and began to internal examine his injuries.
Upon inspecting, he was utterly dismayed.
His injuries were worse than the last ti.
Not only were his body's cells significantly damaged, but his Dantian was completely empty too.
The Earth God Devouring Sky Secret Technique was already a heavy burden on him, and, coupled with the middle-aged man's blows, he was injured on top of injuries.
If it weren't for the Yetian Divine Emperor having teleported him away, he might have been a corpse by now.
"This won't do. I must recover my strength as soon as possible. I shouldn't be too far from the forest where I was before. If that middle-aged man with short hair finds , then I really would be waiting for death," Xu Nian muttered to himself.
He then began to operate his two great techniques, starting the process to heal his injuries and recover his strength.
The Yetian God Emperor was now in a deep sleep; it was all up to him now.
Over the following three days, Xu Nian did not leave his room, focusing solely on healing.
After three days of repair, his injuries had mostly healed, and he had recovered much of his strength, roughly equal to that of a Six-star Martial Sect.
During these three days, that boy ca to see Xu Nian a few tis.
After chatting with him a few tis, Xu Nian finally had a rough understanding of the situation in Mushi Cun and the boy's circumstances.
Mushi Village was a secluded mountain village on the outskirts of the Demon Beast Forest.
The village had just over a hundred residents who lived by hunting.
There were not many cultivators in the village, only about ten or so, with the highest cultivation level being a Nine-star Body Cultivator.
These ten cultivators were primarily Body Cultivators, entering the Demon Beast Forest every few days to hunt and provide food for the village.
There were no powerful demon beasts on the periphery of the Demon Beast Forest, so life in Mushi Village was relatively harmonious.
Although no powerful demon beasts inhabited the outskirts of the Demon Beast Forest, occasionally one or two formidable ones would stray out. For Mushi Village, a single Battle Sect Level demon beast was an overwhelming disaster.
The boy's parents tragically died under the hooves of a demon beast that had inadvertently wandered into the village shortly after his birth, leaving him an orphan raised on charity from other families in the village.
His greatest dream was to beco a cultivator to hunt more demon beasts and avenge his parents. Unfortunately, he possessed no talent for cultivation.
After learning about these matters, Xu Nian couldn't help but feel sympathy for the boy.
Compared to the boy, he still had extraordinary talents for cultivation, whereas the boy had none.
However, the boy was very optimistic, introducing his friends from the village to Xu Nian and not allowing his inability to cultivate to distress him.
Xu Nian felt reassured by this and hoped the boy could continue to be happy.
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Ti flew by, and three days passed, Xu Nian's cultivation had almost fully recovered.
But just as Xu Nian was preparing to leave Mushi Village, an unexpected incident occurred.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
A rumbling sound ca from outside the house, and the entire building trembled as if it could collapse at any mont.
Xu Nian quickly exited his cultivation state and stepped out of the cottage.
However, what he saw next took him by complete surprise.
A giant Black Scorching Dragon Rhinoceros, standing six ters tall and about ten ters long, had barged into Mushi Village, rampaging through the settlent.
The stone-built cottages couldn't withstand the massive Dragon Rhinoceros's charges, and as houses collapsed, the villagers scattered in panic.
So villagers didn't manage to escape in ti and were trampled to death under the Demon Beast's iron hooves.
The cries and screams of won, children, and the elderly were non-stop, so weeping bitterly having witnessed their loved ones perish before their eyes.
"Run, it's a Battle-Sect-Level Demon Beast," roared a towering man leading the village's hunting team, fending off the giant beast to buy ti for the villagers to flee.
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However, they were no match for the mighty creature; within monts, three hunters were impaled by the Dragon Rhinoceros's spikes, their bodies torn apart.
Yet, the hunting team wasn't scared and continued to desperately counter the beast's advances with their attacks.
Because if they retreated, it would be their families who would die.
Seeing this scene, Xu Nian's eyebrows furrowed tightly, and he began to sprint toward the Black Scorching Dragon Rhinoceros.
"Where did this kid co from? Get away from here, it's too dangerous! This beast is comparable to a Three-star Battle Sect," shouted one of the hunters upon noticing Xu Nian rushing over.
The fleeing villagers also turned to look at Xu Nian, who was sprinting towards them; so who had seen him before recognized him.
"Is that the youth Saved by Shi Tou? Has he gone mad, charging at that terrifying Demon Beast?" soone in the crowd exclaid.
Shi Tou was the na of a little boy.
At this mont, the escaping Shi Tou also noticed Xu Nian, looking at him run with a face full of shock.
The Iron Tower-like man who was striving against the Dragon Rhinoceros also noticed Xu Nian, anger washed over his face as he bellowed, "Ignorant fool, get out of the way!"
This was a Battle-Sect-Level Demon Beast; even if a youth were a cultivator, how high could his cultivation be? Facing such a powerful beast was simply a death sentence.
However, Xu Nian seed to completely ignore the shouts around him, and when he was only ten ters away from the Dragon Rhinoceros, he leaped, swinging his fist harshly at the beast.
"Roar!"
The Dragon Rhinoceros also seed to have noticed this overconfident human youth, pointing its one-ter-long spike at him, intent on skewering the youth in midair.
"It's over!" mumbled Shi Tou to himself.
The villagers covered their eyes, not daring to watch any longer.
Especially the mbers of the hunting team and that towering man's brows furrowed tightly, not daring to imagine the fate of the young man before them.
But at that mont, a miracle happened.
The boy in mid-air, miraculously pivoted, dodging the spikes of the Black Scorching Dragon Rhinoceros and finally landed a punch squarely on the forehead of the Dragon Rhinoceros.
"Boom!"
With a loud noise, the entire ground trembled violently.
The enormous body of the Black Scorching Dragon Rhinoceros couldn't withstand this terrifying force, its body heavily sank to the ground and collapsed.
People all around widened their eyes, looking at the scene in disbelief.
The hunters were also stunned, unable to believe that everything before their eyes was real.
How strong must that punch have been to bring down such a huge Black Scorching Dragon Rhinoceros?
Is this youth even human?
This motherfucker is a human-shaped Demonic Beast!
But the next scene shocked them so much they could have dropped their jaws to the ground.
The boy grabbed the Black Scorching Dragon Rhinoceros's spikes, swung the beast around three tis and then hurled it away.
The massive body of the Black Scorching Dragon Rhinoceros rolled dozens of tis on the ground, thrown over a hundred ters before it finally stopped.
Silence fell over the scene, everyone stared at the standing youth, at a loss for words to describe their feelings.
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