“Ouch, ouch, ouch, it hurts this young Master to death.”
Zhou You’s eyes welled up with tears; this was the first time he had been so badly injured in his life.
He hurriedly found a bottle of Lingyun Vitality Pill in his storage ring, poured out one, and threw it into his mouth.
“That was too scary.”
Zhou You looked terrified and quickened his pace, running all the way.
How strong must that guy be?
A Ninth-Rank Yao Beast?
Absolutely impossible; he could only be stronger.
Ninth-Rank was merely the limit Li Wanji knew, but it was definitely not the Yao Race’s limit.
“Master, ah, I suffered this on your behalf, you must compensate me later, ah.”
Zhou You wailed repeatedly; he was most afraid of pain in his life.
Recalling the oppressive feeling the other party gave him, it was truly terrifying. So terrifying that a single finger could crush him.
Damn it!
When this old man achieves spiritual connection…
It seems a bit lacking.
Then, when this old man ascends to be the strongest in the world, I want to play this game with you a thousand times, ten thousand times!
Zhou You thought this, then stopped again, he realized…
He was lost.
“Which direction is Ye City in?”
Zhou You looked up; the sun was directly overhead, making it difficult to distinguish directions.
At least for Zhou You, it was hard to tell.
His mundane experience was truly too poor.
“Read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles.”
“My path is still very long.”
Zhou You murmured to himself; he had been too bored on the mountain these past few years, so he occasionally cursed at the wild dogs down the mountain from a distance, and then he could communicate with the wild dogs through the pauses and intensity of their barks.
“Woof.”
A dog bark sounded.
Zhou You turned his head and saw an Earth Dog silently approaching, then, keeping a distance of five meters, it laid its head on the ground, its tail wagging incessantly.
Zhou You cried, moved.
What a good dog!
He glanced behind it and immediately burst into tears.
What bad luck, why did he walk back to One-Blade Gorge?
This Fourth-Rank Earth Dog crawled over and licked Zhou You’s hand with its tongue.
“Good dog, good doggy.”
Zhou You patted the Earth Dog’s head, “I swear, I will never eat dog meat again in the future.”
“Woof woof woof!”
The Earth Dog barked wildly towards One-Blade Gorge.
Then, hundreds of Earth Dogs, like a tide, gathered and surrounded Zhou You.
Zhou You struggled to stand up, “Brothers and sisters, my ambush on the Human Race failed this time, and I suffered heavy injuries, which damaged our race’s prestige. But I will definitely redouble my efforts in the future to strengthen our race’s reputation.”
All the Earth Dogs howled to the sky, responding to Zhou You.
The large Sixth-Rank Earth Dog lay in front of Zhou You, its tail wagging.
Zhou You straddled its back, and then the Sixth-Rank Earth Dog strode forward with its head held high.
This was the Canine Emperor!
A Sixth-Rank Yao Beast could speak human words. But the premise was whether it was willing or not. After all, in this day and age, not everyone wants to be human, and even more so, not everyone is human.
Similarly, some Yao Beasts want to transform into humans, while others disdain becoming human.
Zhou You felt it was perfect, because he had perfectly returned to One-Blade Gorge, and returned to his exclusive dog kennel.
The Dog-Headed Man’s dog hole from before!
Don’t tell me, this dog hole, besides being smelly, was actually quite spacious.
Zhou You was already broad-minded; even when surrounded by a pack of Yao Beasts, he quickly became composed. As Niu Dali would say, his reactions were incredibly slow. His emotions and the things he encountered were often not synchronized.
When he should have been afraid, he wasn’t.
He only became afraid after the event was over.
To put it nicely, he was slow-witted; to put it bluntly, he was brain-damaged.
Sitting in the dog hole, Zhou You took out Spirit Stones and continued to Cultivate.
Anyway, there was nothing else to do; it was impossible to rush out while injured, right?
If those puppies smelled something amiss, wouldn’t they dismember him?
Given his current state, how many times could he perform the Continuous Sword Drawing Technique?
By the next morning, because he had taken the top-grade Spirit Pill, Lingyun Vitality Pill, his superficial wounds were mostly healed, and he changed into a new set of clothes, clean and neat. Except for a faint ache inside his body, there was almost no other impact.
An Earth Dog came, bringing a rabbit it had bitten to death.
This was roughly breakfast.
Zhou You was in a predicament; he couldn’t cook.
Suddenly, he missed the feeling of Zhou Chen, that girl, serving him.
“You come.”
Zhou You had the Earth Dog carry the rabbit, then walked together to the center of One-Blade Gorge, clapped his hands, “Come on, everyone gather up, let’s have a morning meeting.”
The dogs moved at the sound, and in an instant, a crowd arrived.
They were three layers deep inside, three layers deep outside, encircling him so tightly that not even water could pass through.
After all, they were not ordinary wild dogs, but the Earth Dog Clan, and their intelligence was very high.
“Ahem.”
Zhou You cleared his throat, “Today, we are going to talk about what exactly is the difference between us and the Human Race? Perhaps some of you dogs understand, and some don’t. Actually, the answer is very simple: it is the use of fire. Since the Human Race learned to use fire, they began true civilization, bidding farewell to the life of eating raw meat and drinking blood. But then look at our Yao Race, while the Human Race was progressing, what were we doing? Still living a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood. Even things like reproduction are carried out in the open. You two dogs, quiet down for a bit, wait until I finish speaking before you do happy things.”
“I just want to ask everyone, are we really dumber than the Human Race?”
The dogs looked confused, staring at Zhou You with innocent big eyes.
“Absolutely not, it’s just because you lack a wise and mighty leader.”
Zhou You stood on a rock, “But today, I, this Canine Emperor, have reason to change the living habits of all of us… dogs. To change living habits, we must start with a small flame.”
Then he beckoned for the Sixth-Rank Earth Dog to come closer, “Look, this is a stone, and this is also a stone, then what happens when they collide?”
Then nothing happened, only an odor and some debris.
Zhou You was stunned for a moment, scratched his head, and then kept looking for stones to experiment with.
Finally, he remembered that the Human Race used a kind of ‘flintstone’.
“Don’t mind this detail.”
Zhou You found a stick and some wood, “Now I will teach everyone how to make fire by rubbing sticks. Those with brains, remember it; those without, ask those with brains later.”
One day later.
After hundreds of attempts, Zhou You finally produced a wisp of fire.
At that moment, all the Earth Dogs roared excitedly, but because the sound wave was too loud, they blew out the flame of hope again.
But no matter what, the correct answer was already there.
Two days later.
The flames blazed, and Zhou You used ash to preserve the burned charcoal. This charcoal burned very slowly, and a flame could be rekindled with just a puff.
“Now, what do we have? We have a true kindling.”
Zhou You was very satisfied with all this. He then looked at the Sixth-Rank Earth Dog beside him, “I say, brother, would you reluctantly speak some human words? It’s really boring for me to babble here imitating dog barks by myself.”