Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 135: Village Chief's Blessing
Gu Xiaoxing's body has not only been calcined in the furnace fire, but also tempered in thunder liquid. After practicing thunder magic, he has been tempered by countless thunders. It has already reached a terrifying level. Although his body is still a little short of forming a pill, it is definitely not far away!
Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to only suffer minor injuries after so many head-on clashes with demon beasts in the early stage of Jindan.
With Gu Xiaoxing's current physique, eating ten Menghuai demon pigs would not produce much change at all. But if it was a hundred, a thousand, or even tens of thousands, it would be a different story!
Not to mention that Gu Xiaoxing hasn't formed a pill in his physical body yet. Even if he really has a pill in his physical body, if he eats so much, he can become a fat man.
Gu Xiaoxing raised his hand, looked at his arms, and patted his belly. The touch of Fatty Dundun felt so real, as if he had regained his former "mighty and majestic" appearance in Fulai Village. He should be happy about this.
But at this moment, Gu Xiaoxing couldn't be happy at all.
"I'm fatter, but I'm still a little far from being the best male champion." Gu Xiaoxing muttered to himself. As he spoke, his chin, which had several layers of chin, trembled along with it, making his voice sound different and more honest.
Then, Gu Xiaoxing looked at the huge body of the Pig King and walked over.
The little Qilin squatted there with its pair of green eyes wide open, not daring to make a sound. In fact, it wanted to laugh, because in its eyes at this moment, Gu Xiaoxing was like a soft ball filled with water, round and plump, and its skin and flesh trembled with every step it took, which was very funny.
But unfortunately, the little Qilin was too timid to laugh. He could only stare with his eyes wide open and hold it in.
Gu Xiaoxing walked under the pig king's corpse, stretched out his fat hand and pressed on it. Suddenly, endless thunder surged out and instantly spread throughout the thousand-foot-long pig's body.
Even though the Pig King is dead, he is still a Jindan-level body after all, and ordinary fire can't do anything to him. But under the thunder of Gu Xiaoxing, everything is in vain.
With Gu Xiaoxing's current control over thunder, the inedible things on the Pig King's body turned into nothingness when the thunder swept through, leaving only the edible parts.
With Gu Xiaoxing's deliberate control of the thunder firepower, an enormous roasted whole pig soon appeared!
If it were in the past, Gu Xiaoxing would have been extremely excited, but at this moment, he was very calm. He raised his hand, and with his magical power, the entire huge pig leg was torn off by him. Holding it in his hand, it was no different from an ordinary-sized pig leg.
But every bite he swallowed contained tremendous energy. By the time Gu Xiaoxing had finished eating the entire pig king, he had become incredibly fat, with his body length and width almost equal.
"belch……!"
Gu Xiaoxing couldn't help but burp because he ate too much. As soon as he burped, his whole body started shaking, which looked very funny.
"puff……!"
The little Qilin really couldn't help it, but when he saw Gu Xiaoxing looking at him, he immediately sat up straight and looked into the distance with his eyes wide open.
Gu Xiaoxing ignored it and walked towards the valley. Although he was as fat as a big meatball, he was still able to use his magical powers smoothly. After a few steps, he returned to the place where Fulai Village used to be.
After walking and stopping, we came to a small meadow, which used to be an ancestral hall.
Gu Xiaoxing rummaged through the storage bag and found a futon, a wooden table, and an incense burner.
He placed the cushion in front of the table and the incense burner on the table. As Gu Xiaoxing raised his hand, the burning incense appeared and he inserted it into the incense burner. Green smoke curled up, just like before.
Gu Xiaoxing knelt on the cushion, kowtowed three times, then stood up and walked to another place. During this time, he did not utter a word.
However, no one noticed, not even the coffin, that after Gu Xiaoxing turned around, an old man appeared behind the table where the incense burner was placed. The old man looked at Gu Xiaoxing's back silently through the curling green smoke from the burning incense, with a complicated expression.
Gu Xiaoxing walked step by step and came to a very flat place where there used to be a wooden platform.
Gu Xiaoxing looked ahead, pondered for a moment, and then waved his hand. Suddenly, pieces of wood flew out and quickly formed a not-too-high wooden platform.
Then, Gu Xiaoxing waved his hand again, and a paper man emerged. The three-inch paper man grew in the wind and instantly turned into a human figure. It was none other than Gu Xiaoxing.
However, the paper figure that was transformed into was not the fat Gu Xiaoxing, but a thin Gu Xiaoxing.
The skinny Gu Xiaoxing walked up to the wooden platform step by step, cleared his throat, and suddenly made a loud declaration, and his voice spread throughout the valley.
"Give me the blessing of the village chief. Please invite the most handsome man in the village to come on stage and be awarded... the title of male champion!"
Upon hearing this, the fat man Gu Xiaoxing straightened his body and walked onto the wooden platform. His fat mountain-like figure made it seem as if the entire wooden platform was oppressed and vibrated involuntarily the moment his footsteps landed.
This scene seems like the beginning!
But that time, he was off the stage...
The fat Gu Xiaoxing walked to the center of the wooden platform, stood next to the thin Gu Xiaoxing, held his head high, closed his eyes, and welcomed the applause and congratulations of the crowd, the admiration of the children, and the love of the young ladies in the village.
But after opening my eyes, there was only silence...
After all, it is an imperfect ending...
“Xiao Xing…!”
Suddenly, a familiar and old voice was heard.
Gu Xiaoxing was suddenly shocked and turned his head sharply, unable to believe it. His eyes had never been red since his return, but they were red at this moment.
"Grandpa Village Chief......!"
No one knew when an old man appeared beside Gu Xiaoxing. The old man looked at Gu Xiaoxing with a smile, and his eyes were still as kind as before.
It was the old village chief of Fulai Village!
"Xiaoxing, Grandpa congratulates you. May the heaven and earth have blessings, may the heavens have benevolent spirits, and may all living things in the world protect you..."
As the old village chief spoke, he pointed a finger at Gu Xiaoxing's brow. This was the custom of Fulai Village. The man who became the best male would receive the blessing of the village chief.
Just when Gu Xiaoxing thought that the old village chief's finger would be just like when he pointed at the other male leaders' eyebrows before and nothing would happen, a "click" sound suddenly occurred.
A strange scene appeared.
At this moment, it was as if the whole world had become a piece of lens, and now this lens... was broken. As the broken pieces of lens continued to fall off, gradually, the world outside the lens was revealed.
It was dark, but not completely black. It seemed that something was surging in the far distance, but it was too far away to be seen clearly!
Gu Xiaoxing couldn't move, watching the whole world shatter and fall apart. In the end, apart from the endless darkness, the only thing left in his eyes was the old village chief.
The old village chief's withered fingers were still pointing at Gu Xiaoxing 's brow.
The area between Gu Xiaoxing's eyebrows is a complex and changeable place.
From having nothing at the beginning, to being parasitized by the Soul-Eating Bug, and then to the Soul-Eating Bug hiding in the Niwan Palace after his cultivation reached the Foundation Establishment stage, and then to the condensation of Thunder Element, forming a blooming Thunder Flower at the center of his eyebrows.
At this moment, as the old village chief pointed his finger, an even smaller red dot appeared in the center of the small thunder flower!
“Grown up…!”
The old village chief looked at Gu Xiaoxing and his smile became more kind.
But looking at that kind smile, Gu Xiaoxing felt a very bad, even frightening premonition in his heart, as if he was about to lose something extremely important!
Looking at Gu Xiaoxing's fat face and the fear and panic in his expression, the old village chief's eyes gradually became complicated. He sighed and said, "Xiaoxing , you have your own fate, which is destined since birth. I should not have appeared..."
As Gu Xiaoxing listened to the old village chief's words, his pupils suddenly shrank dramatically, because behind the old village chief, in the endless darkness, he saw a hand, a... skeleton hand!
The skeleton hand was crossing infinity and grabbing. Its speed, or rather, the feeling could no longer be considered speed. It was as if it came across time and space, from blurry to clear in an instant.
The old village chief seemed not to notice the skeleton hand and continued, "But since I have appeared, perhaps this is your fate..."
The skeleton hand seemed to have appeared behind the old village chief, and it kept getting bigger...
"Xiao Xing, no matter what happened in the past, no matter why you were born, my appearance has become a variable in your life, so don't mind it."
"If possible, Grandpa hopes that you can find a path of your own, a path that does not lead to an afterlife, but one that leads beyond birth and death, beyond the mundane world."
At this moment, the old village chief looked at Gu Xiaoxing. In addition to endless kindness, there was also a strong hope in his dim eyes...
Although Gu Xiaoxing was listening to the words of the old village chief, his sight was completely attracted by the skeleton hand behind him. It was an extremely huge skeleton hand, like a mountain. It looked very close in front of him, but in fact, it was still very far away and was still stretching towards him.
Gu Xiaoxing saw clearly that it was not a complete skeleton hand. Half of the finger bones were missing on its index finger and thumb. As it got closer, it was difficult to describe whether it was hundreds of thousands of feet or millions of feet. It seemed infinite, until it covered and replaced the entire darkness in front.
It... is still very far away!
But its speed was unimaginable. In just a short moment, it was magnified more than ten times again and finally approached!
"well……!"
In the midst of hope, the old village chief suddenly sighed again. It was unknown whether he was lamenting the separation or lamenting that the road he just talked about was too difficult. He continued, "Xiaoxing, from now on... you can only rely on yourself."
Suddenly, the premonition of losing in Gu Xiaoxing's heart became extremely strong. His eyes turned blood red and he tried to struggle desperately, but it was useless.
"I just hope that I, the variable, can really become the variable in your life..." The old village chief's eyes were full of reluctance, and then he flicked his finger and flicked it on Gu Xiaoxing's forehead.
In the midst of his frantic struggle, Gu Xiaoxing was suddenly shocked and had no ability to resist. He only felt that he was suddenly ejected by the old village chief. Then, the "cracking" sound appeared again, and the whole world began to shatter, like a lens falling off.
Gu Xiaoxing stared straight ahead, staring at the last piece of lens that had fallen off. In that lens, he could see the village chief's kind and reluctant eyes as he looked at him, and, with the final grab of that huge skeleton hand, the old village chief turned into half a finger bone in the lens.
That is the phalanx of the index finger!
