When system cheat becomes rampant!

"What does this mean?"

Xiang Beifei was quite surprised; he didn't understand why the old Giant Spirit asked such a strange question all of a sudden.

"I can perceive it."

The old Giant Spirit's cloudy eyes looked at Xiang Beifei, then lightly twitched his nose and smiled, "Our Giant Spirit Race has a very strong perception, much stronger than you can imagine. Just now you had the ability to shield yourself, but now I can smell the bloodline scent on you, your age, and some very special things on you."

The Giant Spirit was tall and terrifyingly powerful, with first-class senses and smell. After Xiang Beifei actively released his aura, the old Giant Spirit already extracted a lot of information from him.

"So, who do you think my grandfather is, senior?" Xiang Beifei asked.

The old Giant Spirit smiled faintly and said, "Daoist Qingde."

Xiang Beifei frowned.

Can that even be recognized?

Most importantly, the old Giant Spirit actually knows his grandfather?

"You carry his bloodline," the old Giant Spirit said, twirling his beard.

"Since the senior perceived that I am his grandson, why would you think I killed him to seize the brick?" Xiang Beifei calmly asked.

"Because your use of the Five Pieces of Stone is very clumsy. If he wanted to give them to you, he should have taught you properly on how to use them more appropriately. Therefore, I think there are only a few possibilities: either you killed and plundered — after all, there are too many family feuds over treasures nowadays — or something happened to him, and he didn't have the chance to tell you what the Five Pieces of Stone is, leaving you only one piece, and you have to figure out how to use it on your own, but haven't fully understood it yet."

The old Giant Spirit had only seen Xiang Beifei perform the golden array pattern once and was able to analyze it quite accurately. His deductions were almost spot on, which made Xiang Beifei very impressed.

After a moment, the old Giant Spirit asked, "So did something happen to him?"

Xiang Beifei remained silent for a moment, then decided not to hide anymore and said, "He lost his memory, probably around thirty years ago, during the time of my birth. He even randomly tossed this brick away, without knowing what it meant."

He took out the brick, gesturing at it.

Originally, this brick came out of the failed system of grandfather's. Grandfather didn't know what the brick was, so he tossed it onto the ground without caring, and it was picked up by Xiao Sheng. In hindsight, this was quite a coincidence.

"Lost his memory?"

The old Giant Spirit seemed a bit surprised, as if something crossed his mind sparking deep thoughts.

"May I take a look?" the old Giant Spirit pointed to the brick in Xiang Beifei's hand.

Xiang Beifei hesitated but handed over the brick.

The old Giant Spirit held the two bricks, gently tapping them together. Golden array patterns appeared on the bricks, but as the patterns extended along his hands, it was apparent that the golden array had limitations on the old Giant Spirit.

But the old Giant Spirit flicked his finger lightly, and the golden array was stripped off. He observed for a while before handing the brick back to Xiang Beifei.

Xiang Beifei took back the two bricks and continued to ask, "How did you know my grandfather, senior?"

"I met him at Edge Corner Airspace," the old Giant Spirit said.

Edge Corner Airspace!

Xiang Beifei's expression grew slightly solemn. This was a place he had frequently heard about but could not reach. Almost all the Yi Tribe cultivators who came here knew of Edge Corner Airspace, and they were aware of the dangers there.

For Yi Tribe cultivators, it was a forbidden place, extremely dangerous, a unanimously acknowledged fact.

Grandfather indeed went to Edge Corner Airspace!

"May I ask about the past with my grandfather, senior?" Xiang Beifei was eager to know.

"You can ask," the old Giant Spirit smiled, "but I won't answer."

"Why?"

"I won't answer any questions about Edge Corner Airspace," the old Giant Spirit shook his head, "It's not a place that makes me feel pleasant."

Curiously, although the old Giant Spirit didn't like Edge Corner Airspace, his tone didn't sound particularly repulsive, as if he were merely recounting some unrelated tale.

"Your tone doesn't seem to dislike that place much, senior," Xiang Beifei said.

The old Giant Spirit looked up at Xiang Beifei and said, "That place is my hometown, but I live here now. Unless absolutely necessary, who would willingly leave their homeland? I don't hate it, yet I don't want to mention it either."

"Understood." Xiang Beifei didn't pursue the subject further, tugging at someone's sad points generally wasn't a good idea.

"Since you say my method of using the Five Pieces of Stone is clumsy, can you teach me then?" Xiang Beifei asked again.

The old Giant Spirit laughed once more, "Just because I see it doesn't mean I can do it. When he used it, it was quite deft, and the power far exceeded your current level. At least when you two use the Five Pieces of Stone, it's not on the same level — when he used two bricks, he could trigger phenomena in heaven and earth, but when you use them, it's like playing in the mud."

"..."

Xiang Beifei was speechless.

Despite having used two bricks to beat quite a few cultivators, in the old Giant Spirit's eyes, it turned out to be like a child playing in the mud.

Until now, no one taught him how to use the Five Pieces of Stone, and he wasn't even sure where the other three stones were located. He felt he was doing pretty well considering the level he achieved with just two bricks.

"He had two, but only gave you one. Where did you get the other one?" the old Giant Spirit asked.

Xiang Beifei was surprised, "My grandfather had two bricks too?"

"Yes, the strange thing is that one of the tiles actually shattered. Only an extremely powerful divine force can do that—just don't know where they got the Five Pieces of Stone fragments." The old Giant Spirit said.

"Who are 'they'?" Xiang Beifei asked further.

Xiang Beifei was clear about the hardness of the tile; saying it was indestructible was not an exaggeration. What kind of force could possibly destroy it?

The old Giant Spirit laughed, "The girl with you, she has fragments of the Five Pieces of Stone on her body, and there's a Yi Tribesman by the river with fragments too. I can smell the aura of the Five Pieces of Stone. The fragments they hold, combined, are part of what your grandfather once held, there's no mistaking the aura. The other piece is with you."

Li Qianluo actually possesses fragments of the tile? And they're from grandfather's tile fragments!

Xiang Beifei started paying attention to this matter. Where did she get her fragments?

He needs to figure out this issue; this broken tile is very likely to unlock the mystery of grandfather's amnesia. Maybe the place where it shattered is where grandfather lost his memory!

"Who is the other Yi Tribesman?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"As one gets old, the eyes don't work well, I couldn't see clearly. Feng, who was that Yi Tribesman?" The old Giant Spirit turned to ask the Giant Spirit who had been standing beside him.

"Mo Zhazha," the Giant Spirit who had been silent replied.

Xiang Beifei had already realized who it was.

Mo Zhazha, definitely from the Demon Race, most likely the Night Demon.

Turns out this guy also has fragments of the Five Pieces of Stone.

It seems both Night Demon and Li Qianluo should have visited the place where grandfather was, otherwise they wouldn't have the Five Pieces of Stone fragments.

The old Giant Spirit paused, saying, "There should be one more in Common Valley. In the past when I passed through Common Valley, I smelled it. At that time I told your grandfather, thinking he would seek it—perhaps he really did seek it?"

The old Giant Spirit stroked his beard and said, "Could it be that something happened to him in Common Valley?"

"Is Common Valley also in the Edge Corner Airspace?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"I don't like it there." The old Giant Spirit didn't want to say a single word more about that place.

But Xiang Beifei made a note of the place.

"Senior doesn't seem to care much about us practitioners by the Blackwater River."

The old Giant Spirit laughed happily, "Rubbish."

"Alright."

Xiang Beifei felt quite helpless; probably in the eyes of the Giant Spirit Race, their presence here was just trivial, mostly little rubbish, not causing any waves. As long as they don't roam around their village, the Giant Spirits wouldn't interfere with these practitioners.

After a while, the old Giant Spirit said again, "I have one more question for you to answer."

"What question?"

"Is the Yu Divine Stele also left to you by your grandfather?" The old Giant Spirit asked.

Yu Divine Stele!

Xiang Beifei's heart skipped a beat.

He hesitated for a moment, waving his hand, and a primitive-looking stele emerged, floating in mid-air, "Is senior referring to this?"

At the moment this stele appeared, the young Giant Spirit beside immediately became alert, standing beside the old Giant Spirit and staring intensely at the stele.

"Trash!"

He angrily glared at Xiang Beifei, clenched his fist, and emanated a fierce aura, ready to strike Xiang Beifei at any time.

"Feng, back down, he won't use this against us."

The old Giant Spirit gestured his hand to indicate stepping back, then looked at Xiang Beifei, "You won't, right?"

"No." Xiang Beifei shook his head.

Even if he had the ability, he wouldn't. The old Giant Spirit, for now, seemed friendly, most importantly, had a connection with grandfather; this alone would prevent him from forcing people.

The young Giant Spirit reluctantly restrained his aura, but still stood half a step in front of the old Giant Spirit, closely watching Xiang Beifei to prevent him from using the Yu Divine Stele.

Actually, he was overthinking it; Xiang Beifei had tried many means but couldn't activate the power of the Yu Divine Stele. Up till now, the Yu Divine Stele was just an ordinary stone tablet.

Xiang Beifei recalled what Li Qianluo had said and asked, "So the legend is true, your Giant Spirit Race was once suppressed in the Bitter Sea? Suppressed by this stele—the Yu Divine Stele?"

"That's not a pleasant memory," the old Giant Spirit said.

"Can I ask the reason?" Xiang Beifei asked.

The old Giant Spirit shook his head, "I can only tell you, the Yu Divine Stele that suppressed our Giant Spirit Race was moved by your grandfather. Back then, he helped us escape the Bitter Sea, and it seems he later entrusted this stele to you."

Upon hearing this, Xiang Beifei realized something was not quite right!

Because this Yu Divine Stele was not given to him by grandfather, but came from the Spirit Gathering Book!

He glanced at Xiaohei, who also shook his head, indicating he was unaware.