Fang Zong stopped, raised his hand, hesitated for a moment, and then placed his palm on the little girl's head: "Big brother isn't that great, you're the one who's really great?"
"Really? Is Little Sister Di very capable?"
The little girl loved being praised and smiled happily.
"Yes, very impressive..." Fang Zong mumbled vaguely, sizing up the little girl's clothes and appearance—
The little girl was dressed in black, the material of which was indiscernible, but the style was simple and had a cold, hard sheen, as if she were wearing a roll of sheet metal. Her face was somewhat square, almost ugly, but her big eyes sparkled with a cute and silly light.
"Big brother, do you also want to catch little sister?"
Di Xiaomei rubbed her hair against Fang Zong's hand, her eyes filled with a conflicted feeling, as if she wanted to get close to Fang Zong but was too afraid to. She took a step back, then came over and rubbed her hair against Fang Zong's hand again, before taking another step back: "If big brother also wants to catch Di Xiaomei, Di Xiaomei will run away."
"Big brother can't catch you."
Fang Zong chuckled and sat on the edge of the silvery-white sand sea, looking at the simple village on the land of the sand sea.
Di Xiaomei curiously sized up Fang Zong, but then ran away, hiding a hundred meters away and staring at him with her chin in her hand. Little did she know that a hundred meters was just a fraction of a second's distance for Fang Zong within the Silver Waterfall Sea.
"Big brother, new big brothers and sisters have arrived! Little sister, let's go and see them!"
Not long after, Di Xiaomei swayed in place for a moment, heard Fang Zong hum in response, smiled sweetly, and disappeared into the silvery-white sea of sand.
“Little Sister Di, the spirit of the Three Elements Earth Cauldron is just like you.” After Little Sister Di left, Fang Zong opened his right hand, and a small world of earth fire appeared in his palm. A long, sharp, curved blade manifested from the small world of earth fire and rang out twice.
"You don't want me to hurt her?"
"Buzzing".
"Actually, I don't have the ability to hurt her."
The magic sword Moon Dance has not yet developed a true weapon spirit and cannot speak, but Fang Zong can roughly understand what Moon Dance means. He smiled and said, "The information left by the Iron Chain Grand General said that the Silver Waterfall Sea is an illusory world created by the weapon spirit of the Three Yuan Earth Cauldron. He tried to capture Little Sister Di for six hundred years but failed. I probably won't be able to capture her either. Moreover, I really want to know why I would hurt such a little girl."
"Buzz buzz buzz..."
"You say there aren't six hundred years? Haven't you noticed that the flow of time here is different from outside?"
Fang Zong grabbed a handful of silvery-white sand, watching it slip through his fingers as if watching time run out in an hourglass. He felt that time here passed both quickly and slowly, because time was measured according to the speed of his mind, not by objective time in the outside world.
“Time can be generated by one’s own nerve reactions. The Three Elements Earth Cauldron is not a magic weapon, nor is it one of those magical treasures or spiritual treasures that are merely embellished and do not actually exist. Rather, it is a Dao artifact or something similar… Divine powers, killing formations, and the Dao of Control… The fifth transformation of divine powers is the strongest kind from the ancient Heavenly Court era. Dao artifacts are treasures used by killing formation level experts. How could the artifact spirits it generates be captured by us, who are at the divine power level? Elder Wang gave me the Silver Waterfall Sea, which is truly an immense treasure, so precious that I can’t even control it.”
Fang Zong spoke softly, touched his forehead, and pressed down on Jiu Mei, who was about to interrupt.
"Ugh..." Ninth Sister tried to peek her little head out, but Fang Zong pressed it back down repeatedly. "Summoner, you... ugh... let me speak..."
Needless to say, I can't catch Little Sister Di.
"Demon Bone counters..."
"I said there's no need to say it again."
Fang Zong squinted and reiterated his statement. Jiu Mei suddenly fell silent, then pouted after a long while. "I understand," she said, watching Fang Zong walk toward the simple village without uttering another word.
The entire area was parched, the Silver Waterfall Sea was all sand, and the land beyond the Silver Waterfall Sea seemed like a lifeless wasteland that hadn't seen rain for centuries.
The earth was parched and cracked, its winding fissures resembling the lines of skin, one grid after another, yet the furrows were even deeper.
Before even reaching the village, Fang Zong suddenly stomped his foot, and the ground within a radius of over three thousand meters and a depth of one thousand meters collapsed with a thud, dust flying everywhere. The ground was incredibly dry, and even after shattering such a deep layer of earth, Fang Zong didn't feel the slightest bit of moisture.
Dry, dilapidated—in Fang Zong's eyes, it was all a desolate scene…
Upon entering the village, Fang Zong found that there were not many people, at most thirty or fifty households with a little over a hundred people. He saw the elderly and children slumped on the ground, their skin as dry and cracked as the earth itself. When they saw Fang Zong, there was no sign of anything unusual in their eyes, not even any hope of survival.
A woman in her late twenties sat in the middle of the village, her fingers forming a hand seal, squeezing out all her energy to condense a tiny ball of water. Her lips were chapped, yet she still gave the small ball of water to the elderly and children, then, catching her breath, walked towards Fang Zong.
"Outsider, you'd better leave now."
Why should I leave?
"You want the Three Elements Earth Cauldron, but you can't capture Little Sister. Also, let me remind you, don't use us to threaten Little Sister, you'll regret it."
"You don't need to remind us of that. You reminded Iron Chain General before, didn't you? He didn't try to threaten Little Sister with you." Fang Zong laughed. "Our Ghost Killing Team doesn't have the habit of threatening others with the old, weak, women, and children. Whether you remind us or not, we won't take action against you."
"Are you Iron Chain's friend?" The woman smiled, her chapped lips revealing a poignant beauty.
Fang Zong nodded and said, "Comrades-in-arms, of course, are also friends."
"That's good. Are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat."
The beautiful woman smiled even more broadly.
Fang Zong wasn't very hungry, nor did he eat the dry cornbread the beautiful woman had made. He stretched out his hand, and the Earth Fire Small World spewed out bags of rice and flour, as well as large barrels of water—Old Wang had reminded him when he sent him the information on the Iron Chain Great Martial General, so he carried a lot of food and water.
"Distribute them, consider it a small token of my appreciation," Fang Zong said softly.
Food and water were quickly distributed. As the beautiful woman distributed the supplies, she stared worriedly in the direction of Silver Waterfall Sea. She thought that Fang Zong would leave like Iron Chain General, or perhaps Fang Zong would help them for decades like Iron Chain General, and then, like Iron Chain General, slowly discover that this place was just a dangerous bottomless pit and never come back again.
"Thank you..." the beautiful woman said gratefully.
"You're welcome. I'll take you out sometime if there's a chance."
"No! We're not going out!" The beautiful woman suddenly became alert.
Fang Zong smiled and said, "No rush. I will protect you here for ten years. You have plenty of time to think it over."
"Why?"
"conscience."
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