Chapter 1030: Ji Xukong

Chu Feng felt a strange stirring in his heart. He longed to rise immediately and witness the true vastness and grandeur of this brilliant Yang Realm, which, it was said, even Celestial Venerables couldn't fully explore. He wanted to traverse the primordial lands, meet masters from all races, and witness genuine glory.

However, as he listened further, a chill ran down his spine, and his soul light tensed. Miss Holly had actually mentioned "Reincarnation Hunters." What did this mean? Had she somehow perceived his true origins?

"What are foragers, and Reincarnation Hunters..." he stammered, acting innocently and naively, though inwardly, he desperately wanted to know.

Holly gazed at the fiery clouds in the distance and said, "You're so small; you wouldn't understand even if I told you. This was mentioned by the young lady; that level is simply incomprehensible."

In the blood-red sunset, the entire wild mountain range glowed crimson, bathed in the evening glow. Ferocious beasts roared in the distant mountains, shaking leaves from the trees, while strange birds soared into the sky, tinged with a bloody hue by the setting sun, making them appear even more sinister.

"I... I understand!" Chu Feng cried out in a childish voice, gazing expectantly. He truly wanted to know the secrets of that level.

Miss Holly let out a booming laugh and said, "You're so tiny, like a speck of dust compared to the mountains and rivers. Let alone you, even supreme experts cannot bear to face that unknown mist. Just like this vast land has no end, even mighty beings cannot explore its fringes. The Yang Realm hides too many horrors and secrets, not to mention deeper matters like reincarnation. That realm is thirty-three heavens away; we dare not even ponder it."

Chu Feng was anxious but helpless. He couldn't very well argue with her, as that would expose his true identity.

He could already tell that Holly had merely spoken casually and hadn't realized or sensed that he was a reincarnator.

Then, Holly grabbed him and gave him a beating that made him wince in pain. He truly wanted to resist, thinking, *Is this really how one cultivates?*

He strongly suspected that the young lady, who resembled a Heavenly Maiden, disliked him and had deliberately arranged this. If she wanted to stretch his muscles and bones, she could simply give him a massage!

"Hey, this kid isn't listening again! Come on, Holly, I'll help you beat him up!"

Ji Haishan arrived just in time to see Chu Feng getting beaten.

Chu Feng was so infuriated his nose felt crooked. This one-zhang-tall fierce man, instead of rescuing him from his plight, merely interfered, even kicking him while he was down. *Could a godfather be like this?*

"I'm helping him comb his meridians, stretch his periosteum, and regulate his body," Holly replied seriously.

Ji Haishan said nonchalantly, "That's simple. Just let the little tigers in the tribe help; they can all pitch in."

Holly nodded and said, "That makes sense. Our lineage's method of evolution emphasizes rising among a multitude of geniuses and prodigies. Rather than outsiders helping him improve blood circulation, it's better to have him participate in struggles from a young age, exercise his muscles and bones, and develop a wild combat instinct."

"Combat instinct, what nonsense!" Chu Feng grumbled inwardly. "It's just getting beaten, isn't it? Besides, he's so tiny; what can he fight with? He'll just be beaten."

"Let's go!"

Without another word, Ji Haishan picked up Chu Feng and returned to the nearby tribe. He then shouted to a group of children, "Come on, all of you, beat him up! Just don't kill him or play dirty."

"Uncle Haishan, didn't you say we shouldn't bully this little brother?" a child asked, jumping down from a stone wall several zhang high.

"I take back what I said before!" Ji Haishan declared with a wave of his hand.

Chu Feng's small face instantly turned green. These kids were wilder than the last, like a pack of small ferocious beasts. If they all came at him, could he even endure it?

*Did I reincarnate just to get beaten? He was a dignified God-King level evolutionist!*

"This is for your own good," Holly explained. "When some ancient races cultivate their strongest offspring, they directly throw the children into a dragon's nest to fight with the young dragons hatched from the celestial dragon eggs, bathing in dragon blood along the way as they slowly grow."

"Other evolutionist sects seek out the depths of the Great Wilderness, capture Golden Crow fledglings—and not just one—and confine them with the children of the clan whom they have high hopes for. They are given no food and made to fight; only those who survive will be rigorously trained."

"And there are others..."

Holly's extensive explanations left Chu Feng dumbfounded.

At the same time, the group of children were also astonished and agitated by what they heard. They were already wild enough, yet in the brilliant divine cities of the civilized lands, those super-powerful and deeply rooted clans were even more astonishing, treating their offspring with such harshness and cruelty.

"For the rise of our Ji clan, to cultivate the strongest genius... hit him!"

A group of children pounced forward to "stretch Chu Feng's muscles and bones," decisively attacking him.

Chu Feng crawled on the ground, moving very fast, desperate to make a swift escape. Ji Haishan watched, nodding repeatedly, and commented, "It truly forces out potential. He's crawling much faster now."

However, Chu Feng was suffering in silence. Ostensibly, he still couldn't run, so he could only escape by crawling, but it was utterly undignified.

"Do you... have any humanity?" Chu Feng wanted to shout. He brazenly considered himself only a few months old, not even one year old, yet he was being ganged up on and beaten like this. It was truly too miserable.

Chu Feng always felt that after this reincarnation, everything was going wrong. First, he encountered a decaying, dying mighty being and intruded into his dream, then he met a reincarnator, and now he was being severely beaten. No one else could be this unlucky.

He believed that other reincarnators probably wouldn't be so unlucky.

While Chu Feng was being "steamed and boiled," pinching his nose to drink black tiger milk, and enduring days of being chased, blocked, and beaten by a group of children, he... learned to run.

In just two months, he could already run swiftly like the wind.

Just this tender new physical body of his was able to support him in doing this; such training effects were truly astonishing.

During this period, news came from the mountains that there was a dragon's nest deep within the primitive mountain range. The high-ranking nobles had entered the mountains precisely to hunt dragons, intending to obtain dragon eggs, hatch young dragons, and raise them alongside their clan's children for combat.

The nearby tribes were all shocked!

Chu Feng was speechless for a while. What Holly had said was indeed true; there really were such powerful aristocratic families and evolutionist sects. Having truly witnessed it, he realized those people had come to hunt dragons!

Although they hadn't succeeded yet, it was estimated they would soon.

"We want to be dragon-hunting youths!" a child shouted.

"I want to be a warrior who hunts the Kun Peng!" another child howled bizarrely.

Then... they started chasing Chu Feng again. Now, beating up the smallest child had become an inseparable part of their daily lives.

Chu Feng became exasperated, unable to bear it any longer, and finally shouted, "Fighting them offers no challenge at all! I want to go to the dragon's nest and fight with the celestial dragon hatchlings! Send me there!"

Unfortunately, it was too unconvincing. He hadn't fully developed yet, had just learned to run, and was not even a year old. Without cheating, how could he possibly beat this group of wild children, let alone dragons?

"Don't rush," Holly said. "The young lady and Granny entered the mountains precisely because they are searching for a Golden-Winged Great Peng's nest. Once it hatches a few eggs, we can put you in there to fight."

Chu Feng was instantly speechless upon hearing this. The Yang Realm was vast and boundless, and the powerful evolutionist sects had incredibly fierce methods. Was it his fortune or misfortune to encounter such things?

Holly added, "Furthermore, if those so-called high-ranking nobles can't take down the dragon's nest, it wouldn't hurt to throw you in there afterward."

"Big sister, don't be so brutal! Can't you wait until I'm two years old?!" Chu Feng exclaimed, his agitation making him speak fluently, no longer stammering.

Holly, with her broad nose and wide face, spoke in a coarse voice, "Last time, Granny came back and said that if they can't find a suitable location, they could also consider the fierce ant nest on the other side of the land and send you in there."

"That's too cruel!" Chu Feng cried out, "How many will I have to fight? What if I get eaten?!" He felt it was too brutal and irresponsible.

In the following days, his eyes constantly glowed green, fixated on the strange fruits near the tribe. There were quite a few of them, and he wanted to evolve as quickly as possible.

However, Holly guarded him like a thief, keeping a very tight rein on him and warning him that it wasn't the right time yet.

Ji Haishan waved to Chu Feng and said, "This kid of yours still doesn't have a name. Your godfather racked his brains and it took him over two months to come up with a good one."

"What's it called?" A group of children gathered around. Even seven or eight tribal elders, smiling and hunched over, with their hands tucked into their animal-skin robes, came closer.

"It's not entirely my doing; a few of the elders also helped with the deliberation," the one-zhang-tall Ji Haishan said, uncharacteristically modest for once. Finally, with utmost solemnity, he declared, "It's called—Ji Xukong!"