"Old Clan Leader, how did you get this rune bone piece? The things recorded on this bone piece are not simple." Shi Yi felt that the Original True Understanding was not simple, but he didn't know why it wasn't simple.
This was not his fault.
Although Shi Yi was a transmigrator, and had transmigrated from the moment life was conceived in his mother's womb, only awakening his past life memories at the age of six, it didn't mean he knew much about the perfect world.
In his previous life, the Azure Blue Planet where Shi Yi lived had erupted in a global nuclear war. Everything had been destroyed by terrifying nuclear radiation, and the entertainment industry had become a complete mess.
Everyone was struggling to survive, some mutated, some died. Although Shi Yi had watched the anime Perfect World, he only remembered the general plot and main characters.
He basically didn't know much about the details of the perfect world. It wouldn't be wrong to say he was completely ignorant.
Just like this rune bone piece that recorded the Original True Understanding, he knew nothing about it, completely unaware.
This thing looked very not simple. He didn't know if it could compare to the cultivation methods passed down in the Martial King Manor.
"Of course it's not simple. It fell from the Heaven, it is... it is a gift from Heaven!"
When Old Clan Leader Shi Yunfeng spoke about the origin of this rune bone piece, his voice trembled with excitement. From time to time, he couldn't help but look at the thick, charred Willow Tree behind Shi Yi.
"So it's related to it?" Shi Yi smacked his lips.
Even if he didn't know much about the perfect world, he had some understanding of many things. He also knew that the Willow Deity was the biggest thigh among thighs. It was just a pity that he had offended it [her] right from the start.
"I remember, it was forty years ago, a night of wind and rain..."
Old Clan Leader Shi Yunfeng nodded. He still clearly remembered the day the Willow Deity descended upon Stone Village.
On that night decades ago, lightning flashed and thunder roared, heavy rain poured down, strong winds howled, the Heaven and Earth collapsed.
Many large mountains were struck down by lightning, mountain floods were like seas, and beast tides surged, terrifyingly making people tremble.
Looking up.
A Willow Tree of unimaginable size bathed in a sea of thunder that filled the sky. Giant lightning bolts as thick as mountains coiled around its massive trunk. Hundreds of millions of willow branches transformed into blazing divine chains.
Finally.
These willow branches pierced through the entire sky, killing the master behind the sky.
However.
This Willow Tree of unimaginable size was also not doing well. Its trunk was broken in the middle by a powerful force, and its body was burned completely black by the sea of thunder that filled the sky.
Finally, the Willow Tree rapidly shrunk its size and fell from the Heaven, from who knows how high up, landing precisely in Stone Village.
In addition, there was a faint ball of light, wrapped around this pure white rune bone piece, falling into Stone Village along with the Willow Tree.
"Fell from the Heaven with it?"
Shi Yi scratched his head. He turned around and looked at the huge Willow Tree behind him, a Willow Tree that three people holding hands could barely embrace. He understood that the Original True Understanding was definitely not an ordinary item.
"Yes!"
Old Clan Leader Shi Yunfeng nodded forcefully. At that time, he was still young and witnessed all of this. The shock in his heart was imaginable, and he immediately regarded the Willow Tree as a deity.
For decades, he had repeatedly held the bone and bowed to the Willow Tree, performing sacrifices, but he had never received a response from the Willow Tree. He didn't even know that it could communicate with divine sense.
But now it seemed.
It wasn't that it couldn't communicate with divine sense, but rather that ordinary people weren't worth it using divine sense to communicate with. However, ever since Shi Yi arrived at Stone Village, it had actually taken the initiative to communicate with him using divine sense for the first time.
And the reason for actively communicating with him was simply to make him stay. As for what Double Pupil was, or what a Saint was, he didn't understand. He only knew that Shi Yi was someone the Willow Deity valued.
"Senior Willow Deity, can you tell me what the Original True Understanding recorded on this rune bone fragment is?"
Shi Yi walked under the Willow Deity's massive charred trunk and patted its trunk without any fear.
He understood very clearly that if such a powerful being wanted to kill him, it would be a matter of a single thought. Being timid and hesitant in front of it would only make it look down on him.
The Willow Deity was silent, completely still, and did not respond. The thick, charred trunk was like a black boulder, not shaking in the slightest from Shi Yi's patting.
"Senior Willow Deity, don't be so stingy. I admit I was wrong, I offended you, Senior. You've already hit me, please forgive me and tell me what the Original True Understanding is."
Shi Yi was not someone who cared about face. With a powerful backer in front of him, he could be shameless. If the Willow Deity didn't answer, he would keep asking until it was willing to answer.
In the blink of an eye, half a day passed.
Perhaps it felt annoyed.
A shimmering green willow branch extended from the void and whipped Shi Yi's backside fiercely. Seeing Shi Yi rolling on the ground in pain, the massive willow tree that the Willow Deity had transformed into emitted a hint of pleasure.
Immediately after.
A voice, indistinguishable between male and female, finally sounded in Shi Yi's mind.
"You rogue and scoundrel, you truly have no shame."
"This junior Shi Yi humbly requests guidance from the Willow Deity. How exactly does one cultivate the Original True Understanding?" Shi Yi quickly scrambled up from the ground.
Although he had been whipped again, it was good that it was willing to communicate. If it wasn't willing to communicate, it meant he had truly offended it to death. If it was willing to communicate, it meant there was still room for negotiation.
"Mortals who wish to comprehend the Original True Understanding must lay the most solid foundation. In their youth, in the Blood Moving Realm, they must be like the younglings of Heavenly Ranked Primordial Ferocious Beasts, lifting a hundred thousand jin of Divine Iron with their physical strength, and their spiritual will must be tempered to be harder than iron. The former, a hundred thousand jin of divine power, you have already achieved. The latter, I'm afraid you are still quite far off."
Perhaps because Shi Yi's attitude in admitting his mistake was very sincere, coupled with the fact that he was only a six-year-old child now, the Willow Deity's divine sense transmission unconsciously carried a hint of feminine gentleness.
"My heart is like iron, indestructible?" Shi Yi said subconsciously.
"Your eight words describe it very accurately. I didn't expect you to have such literary talent, but I feel you are completely unable to do what you said in those eight words."
After the Willow Deity realized that it had unintentionally revealed a part of its true gender, it did not continue to hide and directly used its most authentic voice.
In its true form, its voice was very pleasant to listen to.
"Willow Deity, do you mean that I cannot cultivate... comprehend the Original True Understanding?"
Shi Yi's small face was full of regret. He knew his own situation. He had no such thing as an indestructible spiritual will; he was just an ordinary person who couldn't even resist a honey trap.
Even now, possessing the Double Pupil, the incomplete Qilin Treasure Technique, the Kirin Steps, and a hundred thousand jin of divine power with a single swing of his arm, he was merely a mortal with great strength.
"Ordinary people without an indestructible spiritual will indeed cannot comprehend the Original True Understanding. If they forcefully attempt to comprehend it, they will only be backlashed by the runes on the bone fragment. At best, they will vomit blood and be severely injured; at worst, they will die on the spot. However, you are a Double Pupil user, you can take a shortcut. You can use your Double Pupil to comprehend the runes on it."
The Willow Deity's words opened a new world for Shi Yi, but he was not a reckless person. He wanted to know if taking a shortcut would have some unacceptable price.
"So it can be done this way. Is there a price for taking a shortcut?"
"Consider yourself self-aware. There is naturally a price for taking a shortcut. The stronger your strength, the harder your power will be to control. If you want to perfectly control your own power, you will have to temper your spiritual will well in the future."
"Tempering spiritual will, does that mean self-abuse?"
"How can someone who cannot endure hardship temper and advance?"
"Actually, I feel like I'm not that bad myself..."
"Why do you think you were sent here?"
The Willow Deity's single sentence silenced Shi Yi, leaving him speechless.
(End of Chapter)