"……ball?"

The child uttered two "ah ah" sounds, as if he was certain that Luo Jiujiang couldn't see in the dark. The expression of watching from the sidelines in his eyes did not change at all, but his voice was innocent and childish, with a clearly identifiable tone of anxiety: "Bangchui! Bangchui, where are you?"

“…”

Luo Jiujiang was silent for a moment, took his eyes off the child, looked around at the surrounding environment, and then found to his surprise that this place was no longer the heart of the round mountain.

Although the place where he is now still looks like a cave, just looking at the sand and gravel on the ground, one can tell that the environment here is completely different from before.

At a further distance, even if he had the source of Tao in his hand, it would be difficult to see through the chaotic black air, but at least it was enough for him to take in the corpses of two or three humans and strange beasts.

Luo Jiujiang no longer concealed himself. He walked towards the human corpses in three or two steps, lifted the cloth covering their vital parts and gave them a hasty inspection. He then felt the meridians of the dead men one by one and soon found out how they died.

None of them had any fatal wounds, except for one who appeared to have inflicted it himself, having gone mad. The true cause of their death was exhaustion of spiritual energy and death from fear.

...That's right, it's no wonder that Chaos, a strange environment that cannot be escaped, cannot be broken, and cannot even be used for cultivation and retreat, is so strange that it can scare cultivators to death.

Luo Jiujiang turned around and met the Five Elements Essence's startled and horrified eyes. As soon as the other party saw Luo Jiujiang turn around, he took two steps back in fear and stammered, "You, you can see?"

There was still some milk in his voice, but it was almost out of tune and cracked. It was obvious that he was frightened by Luo Jiujiang's sudden behavior.

Luo Jiujiang nodded and replied indifferently: "Yes, I can see it, just as you can speak well."

“I, I…”

The word "I" came out of the mouth of the Five Elements Spirit several times, but there was no follow-up, and there was no longer the blankness and confusion that he had deliberately pretended before, which made it sound more pleasing to the ear.

A ball of natural and earth-raised spiritual energy transformed into a human form and was exposed in person for lying. It turned out that it could blush like a human.

"I had originally planned to target Chaos, but I didn't expect it to be you after all." Luo Jiujiang laughed self-deprecatingly, his right hand already silently pressing on the hilt of the Chengxue Blade. "Luckily, you're not some truly innocent kid, otherwise I would have lost all my face today."

Although he had almost tricked Luo Jiujiang before, the Five Elements Spirit did not seem to be a shrewd person. When he heard Luo Jiujiang's tone, he was so scared that tears welled up in his eyes.

"Don't hit me! It's no use hitting me!" The Five Elements Spirit said quickly in a tense voice, "I didn't let Chaos hurt you! It's Chaos that always follows me! Wherever I am, he's there too. I can't get rid of him at all!"

By the last sentence, the Five Elements Spirit's voice was already filled with tears: "I ran so far, so far, from one mountain to another, so many mountains, and Chaos kept chasing me..."

Luo Jiujiang twitched his lips at the words, but his face was devoid of a smile. He took a step forward, and because of his height and long legs, the Five Elements Spirit was frightened so much that it stepped back three times on its short legs. "Since you can't get away, you're just going to drag them into the chaos and kill them? So, you're a little accomplice to the tiger."

Perhaps it was because they were in the lightless chaos that even Luo Jiujiang's handsome face looked terrifying; or perhaps it was because in the eyes of the Five Elements Spirit who looked like a little carrot head, the long-legged monster itself was scary enough, and Luo Jiujiang's questioning completely scared the Five Elements Spirit into tears.

Luo Jiujiang: “…”

The Five Elements Spirit cried loudly as he sat on the ground, rubbing his eyes with his two small, fleshy hands. "I ran into them, and when it got dark, they said it was me who did it and insisted on killing me... I ran away, and they couldn't find me. I was so bored, so I kept them for fun..."

Although the Five Elements Essence's words were incoherent and the logic was completely chaotic, Luo Jiujiang was still able to piece together the general order of events from his narration.

In this way, almost all questions are solved.

The Five Elements Essence was the Dragon God's weapon, presumably carried by the Divine Dragon the moment it parted the Chaos. It had fallen into the Holy Land amidst the chaos, perhaps still tainted with the world's last remaining traces of Chaos, a quality it could never shake off until it cultivated its spiritual consciousness and took on a physical form.

It's no wonder that when Luo Jiujiang first stepped into Primal Chaos, he heard a childish, babbling voice. He was wary at the time, thinking that if this person harbored malicious intentions, he must be a scheming, unpredictable person, and a difficult person whose good and evil were unclear. Who would have thought... that the person speaking to him was actually a child.

It is certainly difficult for a six or seven-year-old child who has never been taught by his elders to learn to speak like adults. I'm afraid the only way he can do it is to pretend to be a younger child.

There was nothing in the Primal Chaos, and Luo Jiujiang had just experienced that boredom firsthand. The Five Elements Essence was merely a spiritual consciousness transformed into a human form, so it was hard to say how much recognition they held for human identity. Even if they hadn't encountered a cultivator with malicious intent, they probably viewed raising a cultivator in the Primal Chaos as no different from a human keeping a pet to pass the time.

That leaves only one last question.

"You are so bored, why don't you find some small things to play with from these people?" These monks were dressed neatly, with storage bags in hand. Some of them had hair crowns on their heads, and the jade pendants on their waists and the emerald rings on their thumbs had never been touched. They were so neat that even Luo Jiujiang couldn't understand.

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