The residents of Bi City, incited by Xiao Fei, launched a rebellion, killing all members of the Bi family and welcoming Xiao Fei into the city.
Faced with the hopeful gazes of the entire city, Xiao Fei felt immense pressure.
Fortunately, the Bi family's warehouse stored a considerable amount of grain. He arranged for these ready provisions to be brought out.
In a spacious area within the city, they cooked the food on the spot and distributed it to all the residents.
This act deeply moved the entire city.
Initially, when Xiao Fei told them they would have enough to eat, they had harbored some hesitation and doubt, feeling unworthy.
They never imagined it would all be true, that everything Lord Xiao had said was real.
Lord Xiao was truly their savior, here to rescue them.
Xiao Fei, caught off guard, felt a bit lost seeing the gratitude of the entire city.
For now, he could only offer comforting words and continue to boast.
However, despite having conquered four cities around him, the sense of unease within him had not disappeared.
Could the real danger come from the "One-Eared Bandit"?
But the "One-Eared Bandit" was elusive, making him difficult to find. Xiao Fei decided to settle here for a while and would depart once he found traces of the bandit.
...
Just as Xiao Fei was unaware of the source of his unease.
In another world, a gray wolf whose cultivation was sealed limped through the forest.
He didn't know why he had arrived in such a terrifying and cruel world.
On his very first day in this world, his hind leg was injured by a powerful, dark-hued magical artifact.
In his desperation, he fled into the mountains, but this forest offered no sustenance for him.
The forest was small with few wild beasts, and he could only occasionally catch a mouse to stave off hunger.
As he grew dizzy with hunger, he considered migrating to a larger forest.
However, he was blocked by a formidable formation, unable to step beyond its boundary.
The formation itself seemed unremarkable, yet its simplicity spoke volumes.
On the surface, this formation appeared to be a man-made road, but it was an insurmountable barrier to him.
This road was several dozen feet wide, with countless monstrous beasts rushing along it day and night.
The beasts set within this grand formation looked like man-made puppets, running at incredible speeds on four legs, their glowing eyes exuding a terrifying aura.
"Beep beep~~"
"Honk honk..."
The last time he had cautiously attempted to break through the formation's obstruction, two strange puppets immediately charged at him.
Their sounds were incredibly loud, making the wolf's heart pound.
Fortunately, he dodged quickly. The two strange puppets whizzed past him, creating a gust of wind.
A collision with these puppets would have left him crippled, if not dead.
Helpless, the gray wolf could only continue to forage in the small mountain where he was.
He, a dignified Three-Headed Demonic Wolf, found it difficult to survive, let alone complete the task his master had assigned him.
One day, as he was foraging in the woods, he suddenly heard a "crack" and then felt pain in his foot.
A large iron trap had clamped onto his front paw.
The trap had sharp iron teeth that had already dug deep into his flesh.
The gray wolf tried to struggle free, but the trap's grip was strong. With each struggle, the iron teeth on the clamp ground against his bone.
Deprived of all strength, the gray wolf felt waves of piercing pain.
"Awoooo~~"
Overwhelmed with sorrow, the gray wolf howled to the sky!
His heart filled with a thousand grievances, with nowhere to vent, he could only let out a few mournful, deep howls.
His plight was truly difficult!
The wolf's howls attracted a middle-aged man carrying a hunting rifle.
Seeing the hunting rifle on the middle-aged man's back, the gray wolf's pupils contracted several times in tension.
He recognized the powerful artifact; it had nearly killed him last time.
He couldn't fathom what kind of freaks inhabited this world to create such powerful artifacts.
"Hehehehe... You escaped last time, but now I've finally caught you!"
"Hmph! You dare bare your teeth at me!"
The middle-aged man sneered and began to beat the gray wolf's head with a club.
"I'll make you bare your teeth! I'll make you bare your teeth!"
"Bang bang bang..."
With his front paw trapped and unable to move, the gray wolf could only endure the blows. The indiscriminate beating left him disoriented.
At this moment, the middle-aged man took out a tranquilizer dart and injected it into the wolf's body.
The gray wolf's demonic power was completely sealed. With this injection, his consciousness fell into a deep slumber.
When the gray wolf awoke, he saw himself.
On the ground lay a spread-out wolf hide and a skinned wolf carcass, mangled and gruesomely dead.
Anger surged within him, and he let out a piercing howl.
The middle-aged man, who was squatting on the ground, had his consciousness instantly shattered by this howl, and he toppled into the pool of blood.
As for the gray wolf's spirit, after emitting this howl, it was enveloped in a white light and completely vanished from this world.
When the gray wolf regained consciousness again, his spirit had returned to its Three-Headed Demonic Wolf form, drifting in the boundless void.
Suddenly, a large hand emerged from the endless void and grasped the Three-Headed Demonic Wolf.
Then, the hand and the Three-Headed Demonic Wolf disappeared together into the void...
...
If Xiao Hei had known that a Three-Headed Demonic Wolf had suffered a fate even more tragic than his own, to the point of being skinned, he would have been greatly comforted.
Although Xiao Hei was now covered in scars and in a very poor state, he was exhilarated in his heart; he had finally persevered.
"We common folk are truly happy today! Hey! Happy..."
Even as he spat blood, he hummed a few tunes to lift his spirits.
Some time ago, following the faint traces of a treasure, he had journeyed all the way to Tianyuan City.
There, he had inadvertently encountered a terrifying woman.
This woman was peerless in her beauty, but her attacks were extremely ruthless. Though her cultivation was not high, she mastered the laws of both life and death.
Fortunately, his true form was that of a celestial dog, with a deep foundation, capable of withstanding all sorts of torment.
After being cleansed by the law of death several times, he only sustained minor injuries and lost a layer of dog fur.
He could only flee Tianyuan City and continue his search. Indeed, heaven did not disappoint the persistent.
He once again found a trace of that treasure. Following this trace, he crossed oceans and circled the Southern Wilderness Continent.
Finally, he also entered the Spirit-Sealing Heaven-Locking Grand Formation along that aura.
Here, he encountered some giants wandering aimlessly and foraging.
These giants were all ravenous, their eyes glowing green. Upon seeing Xiao Hei suddenly appear, they lunged at him one after another, hoping to capture him and improve their meals.
Xiao Hei could only muster his remaining strength, fighting and crippling the giants one by one, before he could finally catch his breath.
However, fearing he might lose the trail of the treasure, he didn't dare to rest for too long. After a slight recovery, he squeezed into a cross-realm passage.