On the Avenue.

Chapter 313 Eleven Years Ago, the Battle for the Dao Fetus
Chen Shi's eyes met Zhuang Wujiu's. Zhuang Wujiu smiled at him and took the files of Chen Shi from Guangxiao Zunzhu.

Chen Shi withdrew his gaze and walked out of the Hanlin Academy.

"Who exactly is this Zhuang Wujiu?"

He couldn't calm down for a while. Zhuang Wujiu only said a few words to him, but revealed a lot of information!
First, Zhuang Wujiu met Chen Shi eleven years ago!

Second, when Zhuang Wujiu saw Chen Shi, Chen Shi's innate Taoist fetus was still there, and Chen Shi had not died yet!

Third, Zhuang Wujiu knew that Chen Shi’s innate Taoist fetus was cut and he was dying!
Fourth, Zhuang Wujiu’s status is above that of the Heaven Listener!
The previous three points indicate that Zhuang Wujiu is very likely to know who took away Chen Shi’s innate Taoist fetus!
It is even possible that this person is Zhuang Wujiu!

His relationship with the Heaven Listener is also intriguing.

The Heaven Listeners are extremely mysterious, like people from another world.

Although they also live in Xiniu Island and look like humans, they are incompatible with normal people.

Their whereabouts are secretive, their living habits are a mystery, and no one has even seen them eating, sleeping, peeing or pooping!
It’s like they don’t need these features!
But you can see them everywhere.

Around the residences of some high-ranking officials, there would often be eavesdroppers. They would float in the air with their big ears flapping, hang upside down on trees, squat on roofs, stand among the crowd, listen to the target's words, monitor the target's actions, and record them faithfully.

They would also monitor people they considered dangerous, and Chen Shi would often be surrounded by such eavesdroppers.

They also appear where major events are taking place to record them.

They will even take the initiative to strangle some dangerous people who they think are a threat to them.

Their information is definitely much more accurate than that of the Xijing court. They know everything that is happening in the world and everything that is happening in Xiniu Xinzhou.

What was even more bizarre was their abilities. Even the lowest-level Tianting Apostles could perform spells and magical powers that surpassed many Juren and could even be compared with many aristocratic families.

They can use their blood to transform into multiple arms. This fighting method is very precious, and there are very few monks who know how to practice it. But they only use it for their own convenience.

Their ears can grow in size at will, and this falls under the realm of the art of creation. Many cultivators have little understanding of the art of creation, and only some evil methods such as the art of animal creation, or the Buddhist six-foot-tall golden body, can touch upon the transformation of the physical body.

The more powerful Deacon Tianting even possesses abilities similar to those in the realm of ghosts and gods, allowing him to grow ears all around him to help him monitor.

Where do the Heaven Listeners come from? Are they real humans or some other creatures? Who are they commanded by? Where do they pass on the information they collect?

Chen Shi had no way of knowing all this.

Now that Zhuang Wujiu had appeared, he realized that the Heaven Listener might have been ordered by a person like Zhuang Wujiu.

But where did Zhuang Wujiu come from?

“However, Zhuang Wujiu is just dreaming if he wants to get accurate information about me from the Heaven Listener.”

Chen Shi breathed a sigh of relief. There were indeed many eavesdroppers outside the Chen residence. When Chen Shi went out daily, there were indeed eavesdroppers around, monitoring his every word and action. However, what they saw and heard were what Chen Shi asked them to see and hear.

Because Hei Guo has always been with Chen Shi, everything that Tian Ting saw and heard was tampered with by Hei Guo.

Hanlin Academy, Palace of Learning.

Zhuang Wujiu was sitting upright when suddenly there was a crackling sound from his neck. In the blink of an eye, heads appeared from his neck and arms emerged from his armpits. They unfolded the files and flipped through them quickly.

He thought he was not reading fast enough, as a head struggled outward and a body actually grew out of the body, stood up and separated from the original body.

The other heads followed suit, each walking out of their own bodies. Eyes grew between their brows, in the palms of their hands, and even on the tips of their ten fingers. Their eyeballs moved, rapidly reading the message from Chen Shi's army.

Tian Tingzhe made a separate volume for Chen Shi, recording his daily diet and daily life, who he encountered, what he said, and what points were worthy of caution.

No one turned the pages of the file, and they were flipped one by one. Soon Zhuang Wujiu had read one-tenth of it and frowned slightly. The other three Zhuang Wujiu came over and merged with his body, and their heads disappeared into his body one by one.

"No. What the Sky Listener recorded is completely wrong."

Zhuang Wujiu raised his hand and the files on the table were burned to ashes in an instant.

There were a lot of useful information in the records of the Heaven Listener, but most of them were false information. It was extremely difficult to find the real information from the overwhelming false information. He didn't even know whether these so-called real information were traps deliberately set by Chen Shi, so he might as well not read them.

"The boy is very interesting. Those who can be blessed with the innate Dao fetus by the true god are indeed extraordinary. Even if they don't have the Dao fetus, they are definitely not ordinary people."

Zhuang Wujiu praised and whispered, "I really want to know how powerful you would be if you could live to this day with the Dao fetus. I really want to see you again, but business is more important."

When Chen Shi returned to the Chen Mansion, Zhang You was already waiting in front of the door, and Hei Guo was lying under the wooden cart next to him.

Zhang You smiled and asked, "Master Chen, have you seen Zhuang Wujiu?"

Chen Shi glanced at Hei Guo in surprise and asked, "How did Master Xiao Zhang know that I would meet him?"

"Because I have already met him in advance."

Zhang You said, "I should have informed you first, but Zhuang Wujiu is so powerful that I can only meet you here after you two meet. Moreover, I must use the power of the black pot to deceive the cognition of the heavenly listeners."

Chen Shi raised his hand and invited him into the mansion for a detailed discussion, and said with a smile: "Master Xiao Zhang knows the scapegoat?"

Zhang You smiled and said, "A few days ago, my ancestor was in Xijing. He noticed that there was a mysterious master around Master Chen, trying to change the perception of the people around him, so he knew it was Black Pot's work. As for going to the Chen Mansion for a detailed discussion, there is no need. The Chen Mansion has been infiltrated by the major families like a sieve. It is better to talk on the street." He hesitated and said, "I can't tell you much, but I will tell you everything I can. Eleven years ago, the former patriarch of my Zhang family was awakened and heard the news that the innate Dao fetus was born, so he took me, who was only eight years old, straight to Xinxiang County."

Chen Shi's body trembled slightly, and he shuddered, knowing what he was going to say.

Hei Guo suddenly became alert, crawled out from under the car, came to the street, and looked around vigilantly to prevent anyone from eavesdropping.

"The Zhang family has influence and spies in the fifty provinces of Xiniu New Continent. Therefore, our Zhang family was the first to know about the True God bestowing the innate Dao fetus."

Zhang You stood by the wall, recalling the past, and said, "Because the matter was of great importance, the elders of the clan woke up the former clan leader. At that time, I was already being trained as the next generation clan leader because I obtained a first-grade divine fetus, the purple jade divine fetus, when I was eight years old. But all the elders in the clan believed that the innate Taoist fetus was better. Because the divine fetus could not be preserved for long after being cut off, the former clan leader had to take me there. After I arrived in Xinxiang County, I found that there were quite a few children brought here by the elders of my family."

He talked leisurely, recounting his memories of the incident in Xinxiang County.

At that time, he was only eight years old and didn't know what the innate Dao fetus that everyone was fighting for meant. He didn't know anyone and didn't know where the other children came from, but the former sect master was very familiar with the elders behind these children, and would make a few jokes when he met them, and everyone laughed and joked with each other.

Now that I think about it, those children must have been the talents that other noble families valued very much. They were brought to Xinxiang County by the clan leaders, who tried to seize the innate Taoist fetuses and transplant them on the spot.

"Although I don't remember the situation very clearly, I can be sure that almost all of the thirteen families were involved."

Zhang You said, "In addition to the thirteen noble families, the former sect master also respected a child. He was the young master, and the former sect master also called him the young master."

Chen Shi raised his eyebrows. Young Master also participated in the fight back then?

"The young master is older than me, about twelve or thirteen years old, about the same age as you are now."

Zhang You said, "In addition to the young master, the former lord was very respectful to a few people in strange clothes and talked and laughed with them. While the adults were talking, we children gathered together to play. At that time, we were all minors and had no ulterior motives, so we had a lot of fun. As for the fights between the adults, we did not ask about them, nor did we hate them, even if they were opponents. Among them was Zhuang Wujiu."

Chen Shi raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Young Master once said that he knew who took away the Xiantian Dao fetus. Could it be that this person is Zhuang Wujiu?"

Zhang You hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I don't know. Even the former patriarch of my Zhang family didn't know who got the Xiantian Dao fetus. He was injured in the fight and fled back to the Zhang family with me in a panic. Too many people died in the battle of Xinxiang. Those who died were all masters among masters. Many smaller families also came to fight for it. The elites of the families were all killed and removed from the list. I was just a child in the Divine Embryo Realm at that time, and I didn't understand many things. But Zhuang Wujiu said something to me. He said that he came from the Hill of Despair."

Chen Shi's heart beat violently twice.

The term "Hill of Despair" was once mentioned to him by Creator Xiaowu.

The Creator Xiaowu threatened the Thirteen Families with the lives of countless people in Xijing, defeated the ancestors of the Thirteen Families, and forced Li Yiran, the great grandfather of the Li Family, and Li Qianfeng, the great grandfather, to tell him who killed Chen Shi and cut off the innate Taoist fetus.

At that time, the ancestor of the Thirteenth Family told the Creator Xiaowu that the person who killed Chen Shi and took away the Taoist fetus must be related to the Slope of Despair.

After that, Creator Xiaowu left and there has been no news of him since.

And this Zhuang Wujiu turned out to be a visitor from Despair Hill!

"At that time, the people who came to Despair Hill brought not only Zhuang Wujiu, but also two other children, a boy and a girl. But I can only play with Zhuang Wujiu, Gongzi and others, not with them. I don't know their names."

Zhang You said, "Since then, I have separated from Zhuang Wujiu, and the young master also left the Ren family and went to the Zheng Wangfu in Yudu. Later, I heard that a drastic change broke out in Xijing and many people died. Only then did I know that your grandfather had come to Xijing. Master Chen, this is all I can tell you."

Chen Shi looked at him deeply and said, "Where are the Heavenly Listeners? Brother Zhang should know something about the Heavenly Listeners, right? I just saw Guangxiao Zunzhu, one of the Heavenly Listeners, kneeling and bowing to Zhuang Wujiu."

Zhang You hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard from the elders in my clan that the origin of the Heavenly Listeners is extremely ancient. Not long after the people of Daming set foot on Xiniu New Island, the Heavenly Listeners appeared. They monitor the every move of the people of Daming and record their words and deeds."

Chen Shi lost his voice and said, "They are not human?"

Zhang You hesitated for a moment and said, "They may not be the same kind of human beings as us. These listeners may also come from Despair Hill and obey the orders of Despair Hill. Master Xiao Chen, I should go now."

He must know something else, but it is inconvenient for him to tell Chen Shi, and Chen Shi doesn't want to force it.

"Brother Zhang, why are you helping me?" Chen Shi asked.

Zhang You smiled and said, "Maybe it's because my Zhang family owed you that year."

Chen Shi stared into his eyes. Zhang You hesitated for a moment, then decided to tell the truth. He said, "I don't think the Zhang family owes you anything, because our Zhang family did not get your innate Dao fetus. The reason I told you this is because you helped me in the Buddhist hell, not only saving me as a person, but also saving my Dao heart. To be honest, I really planned to roast the Jade Spirit and eat it. I was too hungry..."

He was silent for a moment, then said, "But I know that if I eat a human, my heart will be trapped in the Buddhist hell for the rest of my life. Even if I escape, my heart will still be trapped in hell and I won't be able to struggle out! It was you who saved me."

"When I was eight years old, I knew about you. I knew there was a boy who ranked first in fifty provinces and was extremely talented. I also knew about your death. Later, I heard that you were resurrected and came to participate in this spring examination. I wanted to meet you and see what was so extraordinary about you that the true god would give you a better divine fetus. I originally wanted to compete with you, but after you saved me, I no longer had such thoughts."

"As the next generation heir of the Zhang family, I will definitely be in charge of the clan in the future. I will have to consider the interests of the Zhang family, and I may even be hostile to you. Therefore, while I am still young and still have the spirit of a scholar, I would like to repay you for your salvation in a small way, just to show my gratitude."

He paused for a moment and said, "If I become your enemy in the future, Master Chen, you must remember that for the sake of the clan, I would never hold back just because you saved me and my Dao Heart. I hope you will not show mercy. Goodbye."

He bowed deeply to the ground.

Chen Shi returned the greeting, and when he stood up, Zhang You had already turned and left.

Chen Shi watched him go away and said with a smile, "Hei Guo, this guy is quite interesting. I suddenly remembered that when I led the scholars to the Ninth Palace to kill the young master, he stood behind me to support me. It turns out that among the children of the noble families, besides Li Tianqing, there are also good people. Hei Guo, let's go! Let's monitor Zhuang Wujiu and see what this kid wants to do!"

He became interested and immediately went to the Hanlin Academy with the blame.

But when he arrived at the Hanlin Academy, he did not find Zhuang Wujiu. Chen Shi was surprised. At this time, Hei Guo stared at the ground and barked twice.

"Zhuang Wujiu is in the underworld? What is he doing in the underworld?"

Chen Shi was surprised, Hei Guo paused, and a cold wind blew, carrying him into the underworld!
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