Dragon's Origin

Whether it was auctioning off the little monkey or accepting the Feng family's gifts, these were all minor matters that Wang Sheng quickly put aside. The auction was handled by Sister Rose, and the Feng family's gold coins and medicines were easy to deal with. That top-tier set was a bit troublesome, and Wang Sheng certainly wouldn't dare to use it easily in the short term.

Who knew if the Feng family had tampered with the formations on it? Wang Sheng wouldn't trust the Feng family so easily. He'd wait for a chance to go to the capital, chat with his grandmaster friends, and ask them to help check it out.

Right now, Wang Sheng's attention was definitely focused on understanding the third word of the Nine Words of Truth, "Array." From the moment he captured the little monkey, Wang Sheng had noticed the word "Array" on the giant monument in his Yuan Soul space beginning to flicker with a faint light. Although it wasn't as bright as the words "Soldier" and "Fighter," it at least had some light.

Moreover, Wang Sheng had initially discovered that the two words "Come" and "Before" of the Nine Words of Truth were also different from the other unlit words, but the light of these two words was weaker than the word "Array."

As soon as he returned home and had a meal, Wang Sheng tasted the familiar taste of poison. That hidden guy hadn't given up and was still waiting for the poison to take effect. This was good, as Wang Sheng was worried about not being able to cultivate the words "Soldier" and "Fighter." Didn't this provide ready-made conditions?

Remembering the question asked by an elder from who-knows-which family before this departure—ten questions for a Heart Cleansing Pill—Wang Sheng was even less worried. Even if the words "Soldier" and "Fighter" couldn't completely remove the poison, adding that Heart Cleansing Pill would surely cleanse it completely.

He wondered if that hidden poisoner knew about these things. Every family that wanted to know the answer would definitely take out a similar pill. With so many pills, would his hidden poisoning be effective?

While Wang Sheng was pondering this, someone came to his door. It was A'Si and two elders from his family. They had come to ask Wang Sheng for answers to some questions.

Ten questions for a Heart Cleansing Pill was the agreed-upon condition. Neither side procrastinated. Right in Wang Sheng's outer courtyard living room, one of the two old men set up something, nodded, and the question-and-answer session began.

The questioning was done by A'Si. He had personally experienced it and had the deepest understanding of various situations. From the time he returned to the family's residence yesterday, he had taken advantage of his fresh memory to record all the questions he didn't understand along the way. After recording them, he found that there were actually hundreds of them.

The family sent more than a dozen people to help him sort out these questions. Some were their own guesses as to why, while others pursued the specific circumstances at the time. In short, after going through them again and again, they finally eliminated most of the questions they themselves felt were not very important. But even after this, there were still more than one hundred and nearly two hundred questions that needed to be understood.

Fortunately, Wang Sheng had said this time that it didn't count the total number of questions, but ten questions for one Heart Cleansing Pill.

"Why didn't we encounter many demonic beasts along the way?"

"Because we frequently changed our routes, avoiding them."

Everyone had a general idea about this question, but when Wang Sheng actually said it and confirmed everyone's guess, it still made A'Si and the others very excited.

"How did you identify directions in the dense forest?"

"By using the sun, stars, the density of leaves, tree rings, etc. There are many ways. Okay, this question counts as two. When you can see the sun… when you can't see the sun… leaves… tree rings… What are tree rings? Does that count as a question too?"

"Why couldn't we go into the water the first time we passed that river, but we could after walking a few miles upstream? But why did we have to strip naked and check after crossing the river? Isn't that disrespectful to those two female companions?"

"Because there were fierce fish underwater at the beginning. The source of that river is a cold spring, and the water is cold. A few miles upstream, the water becomes much colder, and fierce fish mostly live downstream. Stripping naked and checking is to prevent leeches and similar blood-sucking insects. Believe me, you definitely don't want to be sucked dry of blood by leeches. Stripping might be a bit embarrassing, but it can save your life."

"Since there are fierce leeches, why did you still go into the water?"

"Weighing the lesser of two evils. We have protective suits, and leeches may not be able to attack successfully. Even if there are one or two that slip through the net, they won't be fatal instantly. We can remove them after going ashore and checking. Of course, to be safer, we could walk along the river to the cold spring at the source, but there are even fiercer demonic beasts at the source, unless we don't cross the river."

"Why did you strongly forbid us from approaching that flower patch? Are there any poisonous insects in the flower patch?"

"The pollen of that flower itself contains intense toxicity, and the fragrance also has strong hallucinogenic and paralyzing toxicity. If any of you had approached within three feet, that person would have basically been ruined and couldn't be saved."

"Why…"

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"What was the original destination this time? What were you trying to find before returning?"

"We originally planned to go about four hundred miles deeper in this direction. Whatever we encountered, we encountered. It didn't matter if we didn't find anything. There was no specific goal, just to fulfill your desire to enter and exit the Thousand Devil Land."

A series of questions were asked, and A'Si often had an expression of 'so that's how it is,' a sudden realization. It seemed he really understood why he did that at the time.

The last question was one that the family really wanted to know, unrelated to the specific itinerary along the way. They didn't think Wang Sheng would answer, but Wang Sheng actually answered seriously, giving them a small surprise.

As a result, after the final count, Wang Sheng actually answered more than one hundred and eighty of their questions, even more than they had summarized themselves. Because some of the questions were derived from others, Wang Sheng counted one question as two or three. A'Si and the two family elders had no objection. Listening along the way, they benefited a lot.

"Thank you for your guidance, thank you for your guidance!" The two old men kept nodding as they listened, and later they kept thanking him: "It's enlightening, it's enlightening! I didn't expect there to be so much knowledge in this, we've learned a lot!"

Wang Sheng answered happily, and the other party was also very generous. They directly gave Wang Sheng a whole number, twenty Heart Cleansing Pills, and kept thanking him when they left, their enthusiasm unbearable.

As soon as A'Si's family was sent away, there was already a queue outside the door. This time it was A'Qi's family, with three elders plus A'Qi. It was another hour or two of consultation, and they left satisfied.

Next, it was naturally one family after another. Wang Sheng spent two full days dealing with the queue of consultations from the ten forces. Finally, he had time to rest and recuperate, and by the way, ponder the "Array" word of the Nine Words of Truth that he had just comprehended.