Man in the heavens, wins by lying down to prove the truth

Chapter 7 Legal Identity, First Time Crossing

"Emi, this precious bow is too valuable. I cannot accept it."

Just as Zhou Cheng was about to refuse, he was interrupted by Hai Lao.

"Hahaha, Mr. Xiao Zhou, don't be in a hurry to refuse. Just let me, an old man, show some kindness to you."

"Otherwise, even if I want to give it to you in the future, Mr. Xiao Zhou may not appreciate it."

Old Man Hai is very wise. No matter what Zhou Cheng’s past was like, just look at the potential Zhou Cheng has shown in recent days, he will definitely surpass him in the future.

Giving away this dragon horn bow now is a treasure to Zhou Cheng.

If it were a few years later, I'm afraid Zhou Cheng wouldn't be interested in it even if I wanted to give it to him.

"Thank you Hai Lao for giving me the bow. Zhou Cheng will remember it forever."

Zhou Cheng finally accepted the dragon horn bow. He really lacked a way to protect himself now. With this precious bow, he would be much safer in the future.

Hai Lao has taught Zhou Cheng everything he could.

Whether it was runes or magic, they were all taught without reservation. As for the real fighting skills, Zhou Cheng needed to practice and fight in the wilderness to master them.

……

The dilapidated village still looks desolate and quiet.

It has been several months since Zhou Cheng left this place, and there has been no change here.

"Mr. Zhou?"

The two doormen of Zhuangzi were startled when they saw Zhou Cheng appear again.

Compared with a few months ago, Zhou Cheng has become more handsome now, with a faint glow flowing through his body. He is carrying an exaggeratedly large dragon-horn bow on his back, and a sense of oppression is overwhelming.

Zhou Cheng nodded slightly: "I want to go and pay my respects to the three ancestors, please introduce me."

The two doormen looked at each other and exchanged glances, their expressions very unnatural.

One of the doormen looked at Zhou Cheng with a smile on his face: "Mr. Zhou, please follow me. The three ancestors are meditating deep in the ancestral land."

"Thanks for your hard work."

Zhou Cheng nodded, followed the gatekeeper, and entered the ancestral land of the Stone Kingdom again.

After Zhou Cheng walked away, the other doorman left the place and walked towards the town not far away.

There is a manager in the town who is the real person in charge of all matters within the ancestral land, including the four surrounding villages.

Of course, although he was said to be in charge of the affairs within the ancestral land, in reality he was just bullying others in the small town and several villages, and by the way, he was keeping an eye on the poor child adopted by the three ancestors.

As the doorman went to report the news, Zhou Cheng's legs suddenly stopped and he looked in the direction he came from.

"Ok?"

Now Zhou Cheng's hearing and five senses are far better than before. When the doorman left, he noticed the movement.

The other doorman had already run away, and the direction he reported the news was the small town.

Beside Zhou Cheng, the doorman who was leading the way for him stiffened up and spoke cautiously, "Mr. Zhou?"

Zhou Cheng turned around and took a look at the doorman.

If he remembered correctly, most of the servants in the entire ancestral land were evil servants who were bribed by the manager and secretly harmed Shi Qingfeng.

Especially these two doormen, who once bullied the lame Shi Qingfeng.

"Have you gone to report to the person who is monitoring you?" Zhou Cheng looked at the evil servant in a casual tone, staring at him with his sharp eyes.

Suddenly, cold sweat oozed from the doorman's forehead. He felt terrified and quickly explained: "Mr. Zhou, this is an internal matter of our Shi clan's ancestral land. After all, you are just an outsider, or..."

"How dare a traitor to quibble."

Zhou Cheng interrupted him directly, and his blood and energy suddenly burst out. Brilliant wind and thunder runes condensed in his palms. He instantly grabbed the evil servant's neck and held him in his hand like a chicken.

"Sir... spare my life."

The doorman wanted to struggle, but Zhou Cheng's big hands held him tightly, leaving him without any power to resist.

"How to deal with you depends on the decision of the few elders."

Carrying the evil servant, Zhou Cheng strode towards the deepest garden in the manor.

Wherever Zhou Cheng passed, the entire village was deserted. After the wind blew, some old windows of the dilapidated buildings creaked.

Soon, Zhou Cheng arrived at a fairly spacious courtyard and pushed open a maple door with peeling paint.

In the small courtyard, a very thin baby was crawling around in the yard, and the blood fluctuations were much weaker than those of other babies of the same age.

"Yeah!"

Seeing Zhou Cheng suddenly appear, the doll let out a cry of surprise and looked at him with curious big eyes.

Not far away, there were three white-haired old men looking after the doll. One of them was lying on a tattered recliner, his breathing was very unstable.

Of the other two, one was using a cane, while the other was still able to move freely.

The old man with the cane was the one who brought the unconscious Zhou Cheng back to his ancestral land.

"I have met three old men."

Zhou Cheng threw the evil servant to the ground, then bowed slightly to the three old masters.

The three old men were slightly startled by Zhou Cheng's sudden appearance. The breath of life like a candle in the wind suddenly became stronger, and a strong sense of oppression came over them.

"So it's you, young man. This is..."

The old man with a cane recognized Zhou Cheng and his guard relaxed slightly. However, he didn't know that Zhou Cheng was holding a servant, so he thought that the servant had offended Zhou Cheng. Zhou Cheng kicked the evil servant lying on the ground pretending to be dead: "Do you want me to beat you half to death before you tell me, or do you tell the truth?"

"Three ancestors, please spare my life, three ancestors, please spare my life!"

"The manager threatened to kill his entire family, so I had no choice but to..."

The gatekeeper told the story in detail how the town manager had coerced them and monitored the village. He explained everything he could, not leaving out anything, but even adding some exaggerations to explain how helpless he was.

After the explanation, the doorman continued to kowtow and beg for forgiveness from the three ancestors.

"Humph."

The old man lying on the recliner propped himself up. His face was pale and his life force was the weakest among the three ancestors.

But it was this old man who might pass away at any time who gave Zhou Cheng the feeling that he was the strongest and most dangerous of the three ancestors.

"Third brother, take it outside and kill it. Don't dirty the yard."

The old man's tone was calm and full of vicissitudes of life. He was a decisive person who killed people.

"Yes, brother."

The only old man who could move freely opened his mouth, took a step forward with the gait of a dragon and a tiger, and kicked the evil servant to the ground with a sound of broken bones and tendons. Then he picked up one of his legs and dragged him out of the yard, paying no attention to the evil servant's cries.

"Young man, I'm sorry to make you laugh."

At this time, the old man on the recliner looked at Zhou Cheng, and his expression softened a lot, but his complexion became a little more sallow.

Zhou Cheng bowed slightly, then looked at the child and said, "I have heard the servants in the manor talking about it. The town manager came here to monitor this poor child."

"I have received great kindness from the three old masters. I wonder if there is anything I can do to help them?"

The old man on the recliner sighed, and then he felt a little tired, and looked at the old man who was leaning on a cane beside him.

"Second brother, tell this young man about it."

After saying this, the old man lay down on the recliner again, slowly closed his eyes, and concentrated his spirit.

The old man with a cane nodded and said, "Zhou Cheng, you saw it too. This child has a great background. He is a noble in the imperial capital. Many people want to harm this child."

"But this child belongs to the same lineage as us old men, so we entrusted him to us old men."

"Ugh."

As he spoke, the old man sighed, "The end of our lives is coming soon. We don't know how many years we can live. By then, I'm afraid this child will have no one to rely on."

"If something unexpected happens in the future, you should take this child away from this place and find a good family to entrust him to."

Zhou Cheng did not agree in a hurry, but walked quickly to the little baby, squatted down and touched the baby's head.

"Oh?"

"Yah, ah!"

The little kid held Zhou Cheng's finger and opened his mouth to bite it, but found that he couldn't bite it. He frowned in grievance and tears appeared in his eyes.

Zhou Cheng looked at the child. He was the future Shi Qingfeng, currently still called Shi Hao, and was the substitute for the Beast Baby.

"No problem. This child will be my disciple in the future. I will definitely educate him well."

Zhou Cheng had originally been thinking about how to improve his relationship with Shi Qingfeng, but he didn't expect that he would get it without any effort.

The old man with a cane was stunned. His original intention was just to ask Zhou Cheng to take the child away and entrust him to someone else after they died.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Cheng directly stated that he could accept this child as his disciple.

On the recliner, the old man with unstable breathing slowly opened his eyes: "Okay, when little Shi Hao grows up a little and recognizes people, let him formally become my disciple."

The old man did not agree directly. He always felt that the young man in front of him seemed to have other intentions.

Therefore, he did not agree rashly and planned to observe Zhou Cheng for a few years to see what kind of person he was.

It is like this that people become more sophisticated as they grow older, let alone this ancestor-level figure who has lived for who knows how many hundreds of years.

So far, Zhou Cheng has his first legal identity in this world, that is, the ancestor of the Shi Kingdom and the teacher hired for the young master "Shi Hao".

……

Half an hour later, deep in the Zhuangzi, in a quiet secluded room.

The old incense with calming effect burned slowly, while Zhou Cheng sat cross-legged on a cushion.

A light curtain appeared in Zhou Cheng's field of vision, which was the interface of the reincarnation.

[Reincarnation: Zhou Cheng]

[Skills: Fixed time and space coordinates, travel through unknown worlds, vitality]

[Current world: Perfect World (the time and space coordinates can be fixed)]

[Fixed time and space coordinates: Perfect World]

Zhou Cheng's eyes fell on the words "traveling through the unknown world" and his expression was very serious.

"It took several months, but I finally had some ability to protect myself."

"I hope my luck isn't too bad, and I can travel to a world with a relatively high level of martial arts. It would be best if I could get some opportunities that would allow me to go further in the Blood Moving Realm."

Zhou Cheng, wearing a snow-white fur coat that was glowing faintly, sat cross-legged with a dragon-horn bow placed on his knees, and then chose to travel through time and space!

[PS: Asking for monthly tickets, recommendation tickets, and refills (ω)]

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