Chapter 276: So shameless at such a young age (Seeking monthly votes!)

Golden lightning rumbled, and lightning snakes danced all over the sky like living things, each one locked tightly onto the five-colored peacock trying to escape.

"Screech————!!"

The five-colored peacock suddenly felt its body stagnate, feeling as if heavenly punishment had been added to it, ready to take its life at any time.

However, thinking of the stolen egg, the fierce nature of this peacock increased instead of decreasing. The five-colored divine light originally used for escape surged wildly, bearing the terrifying pressure, flapping its wings upward bit by bit, screaming, trying to crush the lightning vortex that looked like a golden eye.

*Rumble————!!! *

A lightning beam a hundred zhang thick fell, swallowing the five-colored divine light with an unstoppable force, without any power to resist.

At the same time, the ancient relic with the peacock bloodline also disappeared, directly turning into ashes under the shroud of lightning power, not even leaving a single feather behind.

Oh, no! It did leave some things behind.

"That is..."

In the distance, the Heaven-Mending Pavilion group, who were incredibly shocked because the five-colored peacock was struck to death by heavenly thunder, suddenly discovered something. The old woman with the highest cultivation lit up, seeing a precious bone emitting five-colored light in the lightning.

That was the original precious bone of the five-colored peacock. Because it died too suddenly, even the original runes on it hadn't had time to be erased. At this moment, it was flowing with the mysterious Dao rhyme of the five elements, making the eyes of several people burn with desire.

"Calm down!"

The old woman suddenly spoke, and at the same time, the cane in her hand slammed heavily on the ground, waking everyone from their greed.

"The lightning just now was not heavenly punishment, but a mysterious and powerful precious technique. And to be able to kill the five-colored peacock instantly, the person who cast it must be a peerless expert, even among Venerables, they are rare, even..."

The old woman's voice lowered as she spoke, but in her mind, the terrifying power emitted when the golden lightning fell appeared.

Mysterious and majestic, unstoppable, it reminded her of the ancient gourd vine in the Heaven-Mending Pavilion.

That was the guardian of the Heaven-Mending Pavilion, living from the ancient era, a true Divine Flame Realm expert.

She had seen that person take action when she was young. Even though she was already in her twilight years, her strength far exceeded the limit of the Venerable Realm, not something ordinary cultivators could contend with.

However, just now, the mysterious rune that appeared vaguely in the lightning vortex gave the old woman a feeling of facing that person directly. It was truly incredible.

Could it be... that the person who killed the five-colored peacock was also a peerless expert who had ignited the Divine Flame?

Thinking this, the old woman couldn't help but tremble in her heart, preparing to take the girl and the other Heaven-Mending Pavilion cultivators away.

However, at this moment, thunder sounded again overhead, and a golden light wrapped around the precious bone, then fell to the area where the group was at a speed that made it impossible to react.

Soon, accompanied by the disappearance of the light, several figures appeared before the Heaven-Mending Pavilion group.

They were two small figures—to be precise, two children, about six or seven years old.

One of them was covered in blood, his hair messy, like a savage who drank blood and ate raw meat, only a pair of eyes were exceptionally bright and pure, as brilliant as stars.

Besides this, a golden monkey sat on his shoulder, looking full of spirit.

However, compared to these, what was more eye-catching was the bird egg the size of a stone stool held in the child's hands.

Its surface was crystal clear, densely covered with five-colored spots, emitting astonishing clouds of light, looking very extraordinary at first glance.

"It's the egg of that five-colored peacock!!"

Among the Heaven-Mending Pavilion cultivators, a young man exclaimed, but was met with angry glares from his companions.

You're smart, you're knowledgeable, but couldn't we see it too?

Please figure out the situation! There's clearly a big shot holding the fort on the other side, and we don't know how they will deal with us. You're actually still thinking about other people's spoils of war? Isn't this like a birthday star hanging himself—tired of living!

"That's right, this is the egg of that five-colored peacock!"

At this time, a childish voice sounded. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound; it was from the other child.

Compared to the savage child holding the five-colored egg, this one was clearly much more normal. His clothes were clean and spotless, and his appearance was also red-lipped and white-toothed, delicate and upright.

One could imagine that if this child grew up a few years, he would definitely be a handsome young man in the future.

"Little brother, which family are you from? Was that golden lightning just now a precious technique cast by an elder in your clan?"

Just as the Heaven-Mending Pavilion group was hesitant, the white-clothed girl walked forward a few steps, stared at the clean boy's delicate face, and asked softly.

The clean boy... that is, Wu Xian, tilted his head and suddenly grinned: "Not really, that golden lightning was a means left by Grandpa to protect the two of us, not Grandpa himself taking action."

Hearing Wu Xian's words, Shi Hao, who looked like a savage beside him, opened his mouth, not knowing what trouble Brother Xian was going to cause again, but after thinking about it, he didn't explain, just nodded in agreement, indicating that what his younger brother said was all correct.

"Left behind... means?"

The girl and the Heaven-Mending Pavilion group were very surprised, especially the old woman, whose heart was incredibly shocked, becoming more and more certain of that expert's extraordinary nature.

"Speaking of which, this is all the peacock's fault. Originally, my brother and I just wanted to taste how the peacock egg tasted and didn't want to make a big fuss, but who knew the peacock was unreasonable and actually wanted to hunt us down."

"But we are two children, how could we be its match? So we could only take out the life-saving means Grandpa gave us, and that's how we killed it."

As he said this, Wu Xian also revealed a look of helplessness, as if he had suffered a great grievance, which made black lines hang from the foreheads of the white-clothed girl and the Heaven-Mending Pavilion group, and they were also very speechless in their hearts.

In fact, the people of the Heaven-Mending Pavilion didn't think Wu Xian did anything wrong. After all, the five-colored peacock was one of the few fierce birds in the Great Wilderness, often slaughtering innocent people of large tribes to satisfy its appetite. Now that it was killed by someone and its offspring became a meal on the plate, it was also a cycle of karma and retribution.

They were just surprised at Wu Xian's shameless thick skin. To be so shameless at such a young age, if he grew up, that would be something else. He was definitely on the rhythm of a promising future.

"Then little brother, where is your grandfather? Why did he leave you alone in this Great Wilderness?"

Complaining in her heart, the white-clothed girl asked again, trying to find out the origin of the two children.

"Grandpa didn't come out with us."

Wu Xian shook his head and said "honestly": "This is a trial given to me and my brother by the family, letting us join hands to roam the Great Wilderness, at least walking a hundred thousand miles to be considered complete. During this period, everything depends on ourselves, only leaving us some life-saving means. If we still can't complete the trial like this, he won't care whether we brothers live or die."

Hearing this, the hearts of the Heaven-Mending Pavilion group were all cold.

Such a cruel way of tempering, they had only heard of it in ancient books. It was rumored that this was the way ancient pure-blooded divine beasts treated their cubs, letting them cross more than a hundred thousand miles of the Great Wilderness alone, fighting various fierce birds and beasts, and only by successfully returning to the clan alive could they be considered to have completed the trial.

Thinking this, the way they looked at Wu Xian and Shi Hao was already a bit wrong, suspecting that they were outstanding descendants of some powerful and mysterious family, with extremely extraordinary origins and talents.

Suddenly, the white-clothed girl seemed to remember something, her eyes lit up slightly, and then she asked: "By the way, little brother, where is the bone left by that peacock just now? Was it collected by you?"

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