Chapter 38: An Eye for an Eye
Despite his anger, Shi Yi didn't lose his mind. While maintaining his Ten Celestial Passages, which resembled ten suns, he took out ancient beast bones and hides from within the passages.
The beast bone was the arm bone of an unknown fierce beast, and the beast hide looked old, stained with bloodstains. It emanated an invisible aura that made one's heart palpitate.
These were the Ancestral Artifacts of Stone Village. They didn't require high cultivation to unleash their power.
Even a mortal, holding them, could fight against someone far stronger than themselves.
To fight against this adult Pi Xiu.
So he wouldn't be bitten to death by the opponent.
Shi Yi gently pressed the arm bone of the unknown fierce beast onto his arm. The arm bone instantly merged into Shi Yi's arm, the two becoming one in an instant.
In a flash, Shi Yi's physique more than doubled, turning into a three-meter-tall strong man, with knotted muscles, exuding a primitive and savage aura all over his body.
Without waiting for the adult Pi Xiu to attack.
Shi Yi didn't waste words and pressed the beast hide to his chest.
In an instant.
At the location of his chest, stars shone, and countless complex and mysterious runes emerged. The beast hide and Shi Yi's chest flesh and blood began to merge little by little.
When the runes were imprinted and became a whole, a terrifying aura emanated, sweeping across the Heaven and Earth like a hurricane.
And at this moment, Shi Yi...
Under the triple blessing of the Ten Celestial Passages, Stone Village's first Ancestral Artifact beast bone, and Stone Village's second Ancestral Artifact beast hide, he actually gained the capital to barely contend with the adult Pi Xiu.
Among these, the most important key was the Ten Celestial Passages, because Stone Village's beast bones and hides amplified based on talent and potential.
Generally, Celestial Passage Realm experts, if they used the beast bones and hides to enhance themselves, could at most cross one major realm. This was also the limit their bodies could bear.
However, when Shi Yi's Ten Celestial Passages were fully unleashed, their power was comparable to the Array Realm. With this as a base to amplify his strength, it was no wonder he possessed the strength to fight against the adult Pi Xiu.
It's just...
Pain! So painful!
Shi Yi could feel his entire body's tendons, bones, flesh, and blood all crying out in sorrow at this moment. The creaking sounds of being overwhelmed, like the pain of slow slicing, were enough to make someone with an unstable will instantly fall into a coma.
Fortunately, Shi Yi was not an ordinary person. He was already used to suffering and enduring hardships.
In his previous life on the Azure Blue Planet, before the outbreak of the nuclear war, Shi Yi was a screw in a sweatshop, dedicating his incredibly beautiful youth to the powerful and the capitalists.
Don't want to suffer?
Unwilling to suffer?
Only those who have truly experienced hardship know how bitter hardship is and how much they don't want to experience it.
Only those who live in the sunlight will yearn and want to experience the taste of hardship.
This person...
Is truly cheap.
People who have never truly suffered always think suffering is nothing and look down on those unwilling to endure hardship.
Only when they truly experience suffering can they understand that suffering is not something to be praised.
How much Shi Yi didn't want to suffer today.
How much suffering he had experienced in the past.
Several breaths passed.
"Pfft"
Shi Yi couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood. He felt that his body had reached its limit. If it weren't for the Unceasing Growth of the Willow Deity Method, his body would have already collapsed.
Crossing several major realms consecutively was still too much for him.
Fortunately, Shi Yi was cautious enough.
He had always diligently studied the Willow Deity Method taught to him by the Willow Deity, without being perfunctory. Only then could he use this power of Unceasing Growth to forcefully stabilize his body, which was on the verge of collapse.
Yes.
Shi Yi didn't like fighting and killing; he preferred stability. But that didn't mean he was afraid of fighting. When it came down to it, he was a madman, a madman who would raise his strength to the limit at the first opportunity.
He wasn't like those losing Saiyans in a certain Dragon Ball world who liked to drag things out, giving the opponent opportunities to constantly increase their strength. Raising his strength to the limit immediately was the most important thing.
"You have quite a lot of treasures, but if you increase your strength like this, your body won't be able to last long at all."
The adult Pi Xiu saw through Shi Yi's current strength at a glance. It was all boosted by treasures and was not strength that the current Shi Yi could possess.
"Kill!"
Shi Yi had no interest in talking trash with the adult Pi Xiu. It was obvious the other party was stalling for time, wanting to wait until he couldn't hold on, and then easily take him down.
"One Step!"
A blurry Kirin phantom quietly appeared behind Shi Yi, raising its Qilin Foot high, and then stomped down fiercely towards the adult Pi Xiu.
Space was locked, and time slowed down.
Looking up.
One could only see a vast and boundless foot stomping down fiercely towards the adult Pi Xiu.
Although Shi Yi's Qilin Treasure Technique was incomplete, only having the Kirin Steps, the Kirin Steps were not something one could dodge just by wanting to. The adult Pi Xiu could only endure this stomp head-on.
"This is the Qilin Treasure Technique... Fortunately, it's only an incomplete Qilin Treasure Technique, otherwise, it's really possible to capsize in the gutter today." The adult Pi Xiu was inwardly shocked.
However, shock was shock, but Shi Yi's attack was already capable of harming itself.
The adult Pi Xiu was not arrogant; instead, it calmly deployed its defense.
The single horn on the adult Pi Xiu's head, tilted backward, emitted a brilliant seven-colored light, which transformed into a seven-colored barrier, firmly protecting its body in the center.
"Boom!"
The Kirin Step stomped down with a roar, and the land for ten thousand miles trembled violently, but the seven-colored barrier remained unharmed.
Seeing this.
Shi Yi didn't feel discouraged. Gritting his teeth, he took another step forward.
"Second step!"
The illusory Kirin solidified slightly, no longer appearing so ethereal, and its power was twice that of the first step. However, unfortunately, the seven-colored light shield remained completely unharmed.
"Third step!"
Willow Deity had once said that with Shi Yi's strength, he could at most take two steps.
But now.
With the Ten Celestial Passages and the blessings of the two great Ancestral Artifact beast bones and beast hide from Stone Village, two steps were far from Shi Yi's limit. He could take four, even five steps.
It was also on the third step that the seven-colored light shield trembled slightly.
"Fourth step!"
Shi Yi's body began to emit divine radiance, like a furnace about to explode, but after this step landed, slight cracks appeared on the surface of the seven-colored light shield.
"Fifth step!"
The Ten Celestial Passages rotating behind Shi Yi's body had also reached their limit. Although they had been continuously absorbing Heaven and Earth energy, they were clearly struggling to keep up at this point.
But Shi Yi still took the fifth step. Kirin Steps, one step, one layer of Heaven. The second step had twice the power of the first, and the third step had twice the power of the second.
Calculating this way.
One multiplied by two equals two. [Second step]
Two multiplied by two equals four. [Third step]
Four multiplied by two equals eight. [Fourth step]
Eight multiplied by two equals sixteen. [Fifth step]
The fifth step had sixteen times the power of the first step.
It was precisely under the fifth step of the Kirin Steps, with sixteen times the power, that the seven-colored light shield released from the single horn on the adult Pi Xiu's head finally emitted a sound like shattering glass.
"Kill!"
Shi Yi stepped towards the adult Pi Xiu without hesitation. His fierce aura and cold eyes sent shivers down one's spine, making it impossible to look directly at him.
At this moment.
He was overbearing and cold-blooded, completely devoid of his usual gentle and humble demeanor. In those icy eyes, there was an arrogant disdain for all things in the world, as if they were mere straw dogs.
"This strength, forcibly elevated, is ultimately not your own power." The adult Pi Xiu snorted coldly.
It couldn't admit that just now, it had been intimidated by Shi Yi's aura. If Shi Yi had been one major realm higher, he would have already annihilated it.
"Power is power. Whether it's mine or not is unimportant. The most important thing is whether it can be used by me!"
After speaking, Shi Yi slowly closed his eyes. But at the same time, the sky became filled with eyes, one Double Pupil after another, staring down at the adult Pi Xiu below with cold arrogance.
"This is the Double Pupil?"
The adult Pi Xiu was stunned.
In an instant, it understood that the name Shi Yi had given earlier, Yun Potian, was a false name.
Double Pupils were not common; up until now, the only Double Pupil in the Lower Realm's Eight Regions was Shi Yi from the Martial King Manor, born with Double Pupils, possessing the potential of a Saint.
"Martial King Manor, Shi Yi," Shi Yi said softly.
At this moment.
The false name was meaningless. Who could blame the elders of the Martial King Manor for hyping up his Double Pupil status so much? Everyone in Stone Country knew about him, the Double Pupil.
Even the large tribes in the Great Wilderness had heard a little about the Double Pupil. They had heard that far away in Stone Country, in the Martial King Manor, a congenital Saint with Double Pupils had been born.
"Shi Yi... we truly can only fight to the death, with no room for reconciliation."
The adult Pi Xiu remembered avenging its only child by eating those people, and it seemed that Shi Yi's biological father, Shi Ziteng, was among them.
Furthermore, the main culprit who killed its child, Shi Zhongtian, had his only son, Shi Ziling, also swallowed by it.
A life for a life.
You killed my child, I ate your son.