God of Pets-Chapter 426: This Is as Far as We Can Help You
The golden giant wanted to throw Fu Tianji out, but found that Fu Tianji’s arm had grabbed his arm and he couldn’t shake him off.
The golden giant’s eyes flashed with a golden light and pressed Fu Tianji’s head directly to the ground.
Stone fragments flew as Fu Tianji’s entire head was smashed into the rocky surface.
The golden giant raised his other hand, clenched it into a fist, and punched Fu Tianji’s helmet over and over again.
After a few punches, the head transformed by Purple Profound was directly pierced by his fist, along with Fu Tianji’s head.
The golden giant pulled his fist out of Fu Tianji’s head, tossed him aside like garbage, and then once again approached Chen Guan.
"It’s over!" Hu Quan felt a sense of relief, thinking everyone would die here together, and for him, that was an excellent outcome.
Although Chen Guan was strong, he was only in the Second Awakening, and his combat ability was still quite different from that of Xiu Jie Ming and Fu Tianji.
Of course, it was mainly the golden giant’s abilities that restrained Chen Guan, preventing him from fully utilizing his advantages.
"Ancestral Life-saving Technique..." Chen Guan recited the words written on the coffin lid, pleading for protection from his ancestors.
Having reached this point, he had no other options left.
Though he had a shadow by his side, the golden giant would never speak, could not be lured into insulting the Emperor Ancestor or Great Qin, and thus could not activate the shadow.
At this moment, Chen Guan wanted to try any possible method, however unreliable it might seem, in case it worked.
This life-saving technique seemed unrelated to Primordial Energy and didn’t require its activation, only requiring him to recite words asking for protection.
Chen Guan didn’t believe it would be useful, but after he recited these words, he suddenly felt as if his brain exploded with a boom.
Then scenes flashed through his mind, depicting a cold, dry winter night.
After a great drought with no harvest, followed by looting by outsiders, Ancient Well Village was left with almost no food for the winter.
The remaining grain was not enough for everyone in the village to survive.
Some young people took the seed grain from home, intending to cook it for survival, but were firmly stopped by the elders.
"Mom... we really can’t survive like this... what’s the use of keeping these seeds... we need to survive..." the young man cried.
"Child... you can’t eat them... if you do, there will be no seeds for the coming year, no crops will grow, and everyone will die. Our family will end..." the old woman clung tightly to her son’s arm.
Such scenes continually played out in Ancient Well Village.
Although many young people had been taken away by outsiders, they also took most of the food, leaving not enough to eat.
If they didn’t eat the seed grain, they would all die this winter.
Even if they ate it, they might not last through it, for seed grain was limited too, and after winter, they would still face extinction.
The elders stopped their children from eating the seed grain, but the young people understood that not eating meant immediate death.
"Dad, if we don’t eat, we will die now!"
"Even if we die, we can’t eat it. This is our last hope for survival. Our Liu family cannot end in this generation..."
"Won’t the result be the same in the end? We will all end, better to be a stuffed ghost!"
"No... it’s not the same... you can’t eat the seeds... if my wife and I are gone... maybe, just maybe, you could survive this winter..."
"..."
Frame by frame flickered by, in the dark night, elders left the village they had lived in all their lives, dragging their frail bodies into the desolate mountains.
Barefoot and bare-skinned, they walked on the cold stones.
The knife-like wind pierced their bones, and rocks cut their flesh, leaving bloody trails on the ground, yet nothing stopped their steps.
They had to leave clothes and shoes to help their children through winter, save food to allow their children to survive the harsh cold, so they may live on.
Step by step, they walked towards the mountains and towards death, leaving the world as they entered it, vanishing into unknowable mountains.
"This is a nation without faith or deities; yet they have a faith, their own gods, their ancestral spirits who sacrificed everything for the continuation of their people..."
A voice echoed in Chen Guan’s mind continuously, while a warmth like a flame seemed to burn on his back.
Hu Quan heard Chen Guan reciting the Ancestral Life-saving Technique and sneered slightly in his heart.
"At this point, even if ancestors were to appear, they probably couldn’t stop the golden giant," Hu Quan thought, but his eyes widened in shock.
He saw one old person after another emerging from the stone houses.
They bore black-gray fiery auras, their bodies withered, eye sockets sunken, resembling ghostly figures.
Each approached Chen Guan, stood silently behind him, and their skin-and-bone hands touched Chen Guan’s body.
Black-gray fiery aura flowed from them into Chen Guan, amassing like a bonfire burning black-gray flames.
When Chen Guan turned to look, he saw terrifying-looking old people with the world’s gentlest eyes, standing behind him, transferring that dark yet searing power into his body.
"Child... stand up... don’t kneel... straighten your spine... survive..." The old man who narrated stories was behind Chen Guan, grinning with yellowing teeth.
As he spoke, most of the black-gray flames had transferred to Chen Guan, his body gradually turning to ash, dancing in the air like butterflies into the night sky.
One after another, the elders, like the old man, lost their burning bodies, turning to ashes and drifting into the stars.
Chen Guan wanted to speak, but the golden glowing golden giant, wielded a terrifying power, had already thrown a punch at Chen Guan.
"Child... stand straight... don’t evade... for generations, we’ve fought the heavens... the earth... humanity... we lost... we’ve fallen... died... yet we never conceded... this life of ours... can only help you this far..."
Familiar yet strange voices filled his ears, while an indescribable power surged into his body.
All the elders turned into ashes rising to the heavens, while the black-gray flames on Chen Guan burned stronger and stronger, propelling him into action. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
With his spine straightened, he swung his arms, fired fists, while black-gray flames with butterfly-like flying ashes met the golden radiance.
