Chapter 7
Neighbored by the Three Emperors

“How dare you, who dares to intrude on my territory?”

But as soon as they landed, a roar came from behind them. The two turned around and saw a giant man several meters tall glaring at them.

The most bizarre thing was that he had a blue ring hanging from his nose, looking very strange. It seemed that the aesthetics of piercing and wearing rings, which was common in foreign countries, could also be seen in the prehistoric era.

“Senior, please calm down. We just wanted to move to Mount Shouyang to settle down, thinking it was unclaimed land. That's why we disturbed you. You see, Mount Shouyang is so large, is there any unclaimed land?” Having said that, Caiyun took out a spirit plant from her sleeve’s Kunlun space, which Stone Hao had picked and entrusted to her for safekeeping.

The spirit plant, comparable to a Xiantian Lingguo, emitted a faint aura of the primordial, making the giant before them stare, his eyes flashing with greed.

“Haha, good, good,” he said without hesitation, taking the spirit plant. “There is a Mount Huoyun fifteen thousand miles north of Mount Shouyang. It is spacious and you can go and have a look.”

“Thank you, Senior,” Caiyun quickly expressed her gratitude.

Stone Hao, who witnessed everything, was speechless. So, even in the prehistoric world, people also value human relationships and connections.

Leaving Mount Shouyang, which stretched for tens of thousands of miles, they could see human-built cities under the mountains. Just within the tens of thousands of miles of Mount Shouyang, there were almost hundreds of millions of people living.

When the two were about to leave the area that was more than ten thousand miles away from Mount Shouyang, they finally reached Mount Huoyun.

“Junior Uncle, look over there.”

In front of them was a magnificent mountain range, located on the mountainside. There was a slightly flat, small valley, with a river a thousand zhang wide in front. With mountains and water, the scenery was exquisite.

“Hm, the place that person mentioned, is that definitely it?”

“Yes, but there is a slight problem...”

Caiyun shook her head gently. “The location is good, but it is just behind the Fire Cloud Cave where the Three Sovereigns of the Human race reside.”

Stone Hao finally understood the golden value of the area around Mount Shouyang. It possessed the location of Nüwa’s creation of humans, the Saint’s Daoist retreat, Xuan Du Cave, and the Fire Cloud Cave, the Daoist retreat of the Three Sovereigns of the Human race.

“So the place where the Human race’s destiny gathers is truly a good place.”

Stone Hao immediately decided to settle in that valley. For the Prehistoric Era, the valley was truly small and pitiful, no wonder no one had occupied it. But for him, it was absolutely enough.

After descending from the sky, Stone Hao took out the sealed storage of the two-dimensional foil and threw it forward.

Immediately, the collapsed two-dimensional items were released.

The ability required to restore from two dimensions to three dimensions was much, much stronger than to compress from three dimensions to two dimensions.

A dazzling light shone, and the small, playing-card-sized object expanded from two dimensions to three, like a painting being refined from fake to real.

With a loud boom, his house and the surrounding area of about a mile of land flattened out in the valley, just filling half of the valley.

With the items obtained from the daily system sign-in rewards, he could plant fruits and vegetables, raise some poultry, and go fishing by the river in his spare time. What a leisurely life that would be!

But unbeknownst to Stone Hao, as soon as he settled his home, the Three Sovereigns, who had been contemplating in Fire Cloud Cave, were suddenly awakened.

The three of them looked at each other, all with expressions of doubt and uncertainty.

They had achieved enlightenment in a different way due to the human race’s merits, and their mental cultivation had long been unshakable, but the current situation was completely incomprehensible to them, they were totally baffled.

“What’s going on? Our spiritual power is gone, and our divine consciousness has also mysteriously disappeared?”

The Three Sovereigns were puzzled. They even thought that the Heavenly Dao had collapsed and the Great Dao was lamenting. It seemed that their “restrictions” and protection had also disappeared at the same time.

If they stayed in their current state, they might have difficulty maintaining their immortality. Of course, with their current cultivation, living for tens of millions of years wouldn’t be too difficult either.

When they were about to try leaving the cave, they had only taken a few steps when they found that their spiritual power and divine consciousness had returned, as if everything just now was an illusion?

The three of them were dumbfounded, but the feeling returned as soon as they went back inside.

After going back and forth a few times, they finally determined the area that affected them.

In order to find out the reason, they even extended their divine consciousness, but incomprehensibly, there was no abnormality in the surrounding hundreds of miles.

“Now it should be the fourth calamity of the prehistoric era, and the Heavenly Secrets are in chaos. I can’t calculate anything.”

If we were to talk about calculation, one of the Three Sovereigns, Fuxi, was not weaker than a Saint when he used the innate spiritual treasure, the River-and-Lo Book.

“The calamity has arrived, killing intent is everywhere. I wonder how many living beings will die,” said Emperor Shen Nong, the Earth Emperor, sighing with pity for the world.

“Perhaps the strangeness of Fire Cloud Cave today is related to the calamity. I hope the Human race is okay,” said Emperor Xuanyuan, the Human Emperor.

They didn’t even notice that a new neighbor had appeared on the back mountain without their knowing.

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“Junior Uncle, I have cleaned the entire house. Is there anything else I can do?”

Caiyun also experienced the hard work of sweeping for the first time. As a cultivator, she usually solved everything with a spell.

“Caiyun, use a spell to help me start the fire.”

In the kitchen, Stone Hao was using a pair of scissors to deal with a large basin of crayfish he had received from his sign-in rewards. He would have them for dinner today.

“Coming!”

Caiyun ran to the kitchen. When she saw the crayfish, she was curious and asked Stone Hao. After learning that they were food called crayfish, Caiyun didn’t think there was anything wrong with eating them.

They didn’t really need to eat anything. Even if they did, it would be spiritual wine and nectar or dragon liver and phoenix marrow.

Stone Hao didn’t care about Caiyun’s thoughts. If he knew, he would definitely burst out laughing. Although crayfish have the word “dragon” in their name, they are truly different from the dragons of the cultivation world. Of course, the system’s sign-in rewards were all good things. Although he didn’t know their special effects yet, they should be delicious.

Stone Hao opened the lid of the pot and poured half a pot of oil into it. He instructed Caiyun, “Caiyun, use a big fire.”

“That, Junior Uncle, I will try my best…”

Caiyun blew a breath towards the stove. The next second, a wisp of white flame slowly burned in the stove!!

Looking at the small flame she blew out, Caiyun looked awkwardly at Stone Hao.

“As expected, what use is it to have my sister as a master? With her decades of cultivation, she is not qualified to take on a disciple. What can she teach you?” Seeing that Caiyun couldn’t even use a basic fire control spell in the cultivation world, Stone Hao felt sorry for Caiyun.

“Junior Uncle, it’s not my Master’s fault. I’m actually quite strong.” Caiyun was also very confident in her own strength. She wouldn’t dare say that she was invincible, but among the third generation disciples of the Intercepting Sect, she was quite famous!

Just… at her Junior Uncle’s house, her strength couldn’t be fully exerted. She squeezed out all her spiritual power and used a little true fire, but it seemed that she couldn’t exert its power either.

“Humph, he’s not misguiding you, but rather misleading you. When you have time, Junior Uncle will give you some extra lessons. Let’s see if you can surpass him soon.”

He originally wanted to cook with the strength of a cultivator, but it seemed that he had to give up. Stone Hao could only add firewood to the stove himself!

He pulled the bellows and the small flame instantly ignited the firewood. The fire instantly grew tens of times larger.

After a while, the oil in the pan was eight-tenths hot. Stone Hao put the dozens of pounds of crayfish into the oil and fried them.

The crayfish, fried to a deep red, released their aroma.

Stone Hao had eaten crayfish before, but judging from the smell, he could only say that it was truly a system product. The meat must be extraordinary.

He scooped them out and set them aside, poured out the hot oil from the pan, stir-fried the prepared spices until fragrant, and finally added the fried crayfish and stir-fried them together.

“Junior Uncle, what kind of heavenly treasure is that?”

Caiyun stared wide-eyed, pointing at the chili peppers dancing in the pot.

“It’s chili peppers, hehehe. Haven’t you tasted the mortal tea? Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty! But you will always fall short of the understanding of the tea. Later, you have to try the real spicy flavor. I guarantee it will make you linger.” Stone Hao grinned, looking forward to his junior niece’s expression when she ate the chili peppers.

After stir-frying for a dozen times, he added water and noodles and simmered them for a few minutes. The spicy crayfish with noodles were ready. Stone Hao knew that eating only crayfish would not fill him up, so he prepared a portion of noodles as well.

He carried out the large pot of crayfish and quickly took two pairs of chopsticks, motioning for his junior niece to start eating.

The pot of fiery red crayfish, with its intoxicating aroma, was a temptation that Caiyun could not resist!!

“Try it quickly.”

Seeing her greedy look, Stone Hao laughed and scooped a large bowl for her.

“Thank you, Junior Uncle.”

Caiyun didn’t care about whether it was hot or not. She picked up the reddest chili pepper and stuffed it into her mouth.

Suddenly, Caiyun felt as if hot magma had exploded in her mouth.

It was different from the spiciness she had understood from mortal tea. It was more real, more fiery, as if she had eaten a scorching fire lotus.

Even in terms of its effect, it was much stronger than the Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir that her Master had sought for her.

Caiyun had been following Stone Hao and had no time to cultivate. Now, after eating chili peppers, she found that her spiritual power had increased a notch.

“Don’t just eat chili peppers, eat some crayfish too. You girls should really like to eat them.”

Stone Hao was speechless seeing Caiyun only eating chili peppers. He quickly taught Caiyun how to peel shrimp, hand in hand.

“Crayfish?”

Caiyun’s eyes lit up.

Moreover, after eating the crayfish, she found them more delicious than dragon liver and phoenix marrow. Paired with those fiery chili peppers, the taste was simply amazing. None of the delicacies she had ever tasted before could compare.

“It’s so delicious, but my Master is not here, so he can’t taste such delicious food.” Caiyun couldn’t stop, taking a bite of chili pepper and a bite of crayfish, her mouth full of oil.

After eating dozens of crayfish, Caiyun finally felt full. Her cultivation had inexplicably broken through to Taiyi Jinxian.

Just eating a meal, allowed her to easily break through a major realm?

You know, at their level, further breakthroughs would take a very long time.