Is there such a saying?
Shi Tou looked at Yi Si Yue with curiosity, wondering if he should say something to provoke him and try to get some gossip out of him.
"Give me the original Nine Heavens World-Shaking Technique, and I swear I will never bother you again! Moreover, no one but me knows anything about your background. I will keep your secret, and if you need anything, I can do one more thing for you!"
What generous terms!
Shi Tou licked the drool from the corner of his mouth. He carefully considered whether to fabricate a Nine Heavens Shocking Technique for Yi Siyue. After all, didn't that girl say that the one she had wasn't exactly a pirated version? It was a simplified version. In other words, if she expanded and polished it a bit, wouldn't she be able to create an "original" version?
Hehe, dragging out the word count, who can't do that?
“If you still hate your parents, I can help you deal with them.” Seeing that Shi Tou hadn’t spoken yet, Yi Siyue became increasingly anxious and increased her stakes.
Stone looked up at him in shock. To be honest, although she didn't have a good impression of this body's parents, they were still her biological parents. It was true that they had never fulfilled their responsibilities as parents, but that was no excuse for her to repay kindness with enmity.
"You're overthinking it. I just don't want to acknowledge them, I don't intend to settle scores with them." Understanding the meaning behind Yi Siyue's words, Shi Tou coldly retorted, "It's certainly wrong for biological parents to abandon their own flesh and blood, but if I repay kindness with enmity, that would be truly worse than a beast!"
Yi Shiyue looked at the stone seriously for a moment, then hesitated for a while: "Or I can change the condition. [ ~] The eldest prince is not the king's biological son, the second prince has passed away, and although the third prince is the king's biological son, he is in poor health and is in danger of dying at any time."
"What exactly are you trying to say?"
Ishizuki completely ignored the stone and continued speaking to herself: "The Fourth Prince, which is me, has no royal blood at all, so I have no right to inherit the throne. The Fifth Princess has none either, but you are the real Sixth Princess!"
"I understand, you're calling me a traitor?" Shi Tou raised an eyebrow. Shouldn't she feel honored? Someone actually thought so highly of her.
"This is not treason. As long as it is proven that you are indeed a princess of the royal family, you will have the right to inherit the throne. Of course, the prerequisite is that the third prince passes away."
"That's a good suggestion, but I'm not interested." Shi Tou was speechless at Yi Si Yue's words. Well, she took back her previous thought and decided not to bother expanding the Nine Heavens Shocking Technique, because she was really not worthy of such benefits.
"Not interested?" Yi Siyue looked at Shi Tou with great incomprehension: "Then what do you want? You don't want power? Then it's money? How much money do you want?"
Can she spit blood all over his face?
"I admit I'm a bit of a money-grubber, but I have to remind you that I have plenty of ways to make money if I want to." This is no exaggeration. Even ignoring the artifacts in the ring's space, she herself could forge weapons that could cut through iron like mud.
"So what exactly do you want?"
Can I say that I don't want anything?
"But I want the Nine Heavens Shocking Technique!" Yi Siyue suddenly stood up, but unfortunately he was too tall and the tent was too low, so he had to bend over and stare at the stone, which immediately weakened his momentum.
"I really, really didn't!"
"So, you really want me to tell you your secret?" Yi Shiyue probably realized that he wasn't very imposing, so she stiffly sat down again: "Are you sure?"
I'm not sure...
Stone was speechless. What other secrets did she have? Oh right, her biggest secret in this life was time travel!
The problem is, even if people knew this, they wouldn't have any evidence! Because she was a baby, in other words, she could easily believe that she was reincarnated with her memories intact.
"I think my biggest secret is that I'm the sixth princess of the Fallen Empire's royal family. But the problem is, didn't you already tell me? By the way, about Doragar, I admit that I abducted Doragar, but do you have any proof?"
The saying "a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water" perfectly describes Shi Tou's current state.
"Heh, you think I only have this much information? By the way, do you want to know why your biological parents abandoned you?"
"This... oh, I see, it's probably because my talent isn't good enough?" Stone thought of the chaotic magical elements within her. In fact, she was very curious about how she had connected with magic in her previous life.
It's important to understand that for a mage, having more magical elements within their body isn't necessarily better; in fact, having fewer is better. If someone possesses only one type of magical element, it's almost certain that, barring unforeseen circumstances, they can become a mage at least at the five-star level.
"Heh, you're not talented? What a joke! You're not talented?!" Yi Siyue looked at Shi Tou with sarcasm. "Let me tell you, if you seriously study magic, becoming a nine-star magician within ten years won't be a problem!"
Damn it!
Stone stared in disbelief. Even though she herself didn't think she was stupid, becoming a nine-star mage within ten years seemed absurd. No one in history had ever reached that level!
"What are you saying?" Luo Pipi, who had been acting as a backdrop, finally spoke up: "Even Princess Irene, the Goddess of Magic back then, could never have become a nine-star mage within ten years!"
Shi Tou nodded vigorously, "That's right, either this guy took the wrong medicine or forgot to take it."
“Yes, even Princess Irene, the Goddess of Magic back then, couldn’t do that.” Yi Siyue actually chimed in, “But what if we gave her another chance? I mean, if we let Irene start learning magic again, she could definitely become a nine-star mage within ten years!”
Hiss~~~
Stone couldn't help but gasp. She finally realized what she had overlooked. Good heavens, to the people of this world, her biggest secret wasn't her time travel at all. It was…
Damn it, how could she forget that she was actually Irene reincarnated!
"What do you mean by that?" Luo Pipi couldn't understand the meaning behind Yi Siyue's words for a moment, but her expression changed drastically as she looked at the stone in disbelief.
Shi Tou sighed, knowing she could no longer hide it: "Yi Siyue, I never imagined you would know..."
"What do I know? Huh? Tell me, what exactly do I know?" Ishizuki's face was full of sarcasm. "Speak! Great Goddess of Magic, Princess Irene!"
"Ah!!!" Although she guessed what Yi Shiyue meant, Luo Pipi still didn't expect it to be like this. Even though she was usually calm, she couldn't help but scream for a moment.
"Shut up, you tomboy!" Yi Siyue roared without turning her head. "I don't care why you don't study magic, and I don't care what your motives are. I only have one thing to say: I want the true Nine Heavens World-Shaking Technique!"
Stone took a deep breath and roared at Isamu with all his might, "I didn't!"
"Why? You've already achieved everything! Fame, power, status—you have it all. But why won't you let us go? You...you're not a god of magic at all! Irene, you're a demon! A complete and utter demon!" (Your support is my greatest motivation.)
☆, Chapter 230: The Key to Advancing to Nine Stars
Stone glared at Ishizuki with a bloodshot face: "Fine, I am a demon, then what are you? A descendant of demons?"
"I told you, I'm not your descendant at all!"
"Regardless of whether you are my... uh, my descendant, I only have one copy of the Nine Heavens World-Shaking Technique!" Stone asked Baozi again in his mind, making sure that it really wasn't hiding anything this time, so he spoke with great confidence.
“That’s impossible!” Yi Siyue looked at the stone intently, trying to glean something from her expression, but in the end he was disappointed: “No, I’ve looked up those materials. With my talent, I should be considered a genius.”
At this moment, Shi Tou also remembered Bao Zi's evaluation of Yi Si Yue: "By the way, I remember you are a Seven-Star Battle Qi Master?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Isazuki's chilling gaze swept over the stone.
Shi Tou jolted awake, and Baozi's voice rang in her mind: "Gaga, Master, you're mistaken! The Seven-Star Battle Qi Master is Yi Siyu, not Yi Siyue!"
"No, you should be an eight-star?" Seeing the terrifying look in Isamu's eyes, Ishi immediately changed his mind.
“That’s right, I am an eight-star Battle Qi Master!” Yi Siyue pursed her lips, almost squeezing out the words through gritted teeth: “My talent is amazing, but even now, I’m only an eight-star Battle Qi Master!”
Uh, Stone was completely speechless. Excuse me, what does it mean to be only an eight-star Battle Qi Master? Stone didn't consider herself stupid, but even now, she felt her strength was only that of a four-star Battle Qi Master. And this was just her own estimation, not certified by the Battle Qi Master Guild.
"Actually, you're really a genius." After hesitating for a long time, Stone could only offer a reluctant compliment.
"Yeah?"
"An eight-star Dou Qi master! You're not even twenty years old yet, that's amazing." Stone grinned in admiration, but unfortunately, Yi Siyue didn't take it as a compliment at all.
"Do you know? Before Irene's time, every generation of the Irene family produced at least one nine-star Dou Qi Master. Moreover, according to those records, their talent was even inferior to Xiaoyu's! Why? Tell me why? What did I do wrong? What am I inferior to them in? Why can't I cross the threshold of nine-star Dou Qi Master?"
Looking at Ikizuki, who had begun to become hysterical, Ishiki felt extremely depressed.
Honey, what you said sounds very ambiguous, doesn't it? Tsk tsk, you really sound like a loser who got dumped by his girlfriend.
"Maybe you're too young."
"No! It's because the Nine Heavens World-Shaking Manual I have is completely incomplete!"
Shi Tou felt she had nothing more to say. She was certain she hadn't been holding anything back, but the problem was that Yi Si Yue insisted she had. As a result, the two of them could do nothing but argue with each other.
“Eileen. No matter how much resentment you have towards the Yi family, the Yi family is still your family. Even if you are the God of Magic, you cannot deny your origins. Moreover, the Yi family has already fallen because of you. The Yi family has repeatedly lost the opportunity to rise again. Consider it atonement for your past actions and give me the true Nine Heavens World-Shaking Technique, okay?”
Stone was dumbfounded. If hard methods didn't work, she'd try soft ones? But the key point was that whether she used hard or soft methods, the result would be the same for her.
"You damn steamed bun, get out here!" Stone was really enraged. Ignoring who else was in the tent, he was forcibly dragged out of his ring space by Baozi: "You tell me!"
"Quack quack? What did you say?" Poor Baozi really wanted to play dead. But the problem was, it had just transformed into a baozi to play with the little yellow duck, and there wasn't enough time to turn back into Black Diamond. Besides, Stone had threatened it before, and if it really played dead, it was afraid Stone would stew the little yellow duck in a fit of anger!
"Tell me. What exactly is this Nine Heavens World-Shaking Technique?!"
"Huh? It's nothing! That's the Yi family's inherited fighting qi technique!"
"Where is the item? Is what you gave me genuine?"
"Giggle, it's true! If Baozi ever lies to its master, may Baozi forever remain Baozi!" This vow was a heavy one for Baozi.
After a moment of silence, Shi Tou recalled what Yi Siyue had said earlier and asked again why Yi Siyue was unable to break through to the Nine-Star Dou Qi Master level.
This really stumped Baozi. It wasn't a battle qi master to begin with, and its knowledge of how battle qi masters advanced was only from occasional conversations with others. Faced with such a profound question, it helplessly gave a very unreliable answer: "Hehe, maybe it's stuck?"
Is it stuck?
This answer is really bizarre.
Shi Tou silently wiped his sweat and looked up at Yi Siyue: "What do you think?"
Ever since Baozi appeared, Yi Shiyue has been in a daze, as if she had suddenly crashed. Even when Shi Tou asked her a question, she didn't respond at all.
But Luo Pipi, trembling, pointed at the steamed bun bouncing happily in front of the stone and asked, "What is this?"
"Gah! Steamed buns aren't things!"
That's a great answer!
Stone nodded vigorously: "Yes, Baozi isn't a thing! It's just an earth-elemental magical creature." That's right, isn't it? It seems that's exactly how Baozi explained it to Stone at the beginning. Of course, how credible that is, even Baozi itself probably can't say for sure.
“But I’ve looked into all the magical creatures in the library, and there’s no such magical creature at all.” Lopipi looked like he was trying hard to recall any memories of magical creatures: “There really isn’t one, I’m sure of it.”
"That's an ancient magical creature." Stone was the kind of person who wouldn't even blink when lying. Anyway, Baozi was Irene's pet, and Irene had been dead for at least six hundred years, so calling it ancient wasn't entirely unreasonable.
"No matter what era a magical creature is from, it must possess the characteristic of being a living being. That is to say, it must first be a living being, a living being that can breathe and move."
"Doesn't it move?" Stone reached out and grabbed the steamed bun: "Hey, steamed bun, come breathe."
The steamed bun was dumbfounded; it only had one hole all over its body. Its function was equivalent to ears, mouth, and anus—did it now also have to function as a nostril?
"Giggle, whew! Sigh! All done!" Baozi wasn't stupid. Although it didn't actually need to breathe, it could still pretend. However, what embarrassed Stone was... this thing's acting was just too bad!
"Hehe, Luo Pipi, it really is a magical creature, my pet." Stone grinned, pinched a handful of the bun skin hard, and turned to Luo Pipi to explain with difficulty.
Luo Pipi was puzzled, but she knew this wasn't the time for academic research: "Okay. I believe you, but you have to promise me that once things between you two are over, you'll lend me this steamed bun to study."
Research……
“Okay!” Stone nodded readily. At worst, she’d just have to turn the steamed bun into a black diamond later. She didn’t believe that Luo Pipi could get an X-ray machine.