Inside the warm, sunlit pine workshop at the back of the Forbidden Ancestral Tomb, hundred-thousand-year-old First Founder Gu Mu blinked his wrinkled eyes. Meanwhile, fourteen-year-old Gu Nian introduced the four other children standing around the repaired workbench:
Sixteen-year-old Ye Xiao with his round spectacles and bamboo ruler;
Thirteen-year-old Jiang Tuntun hugging her cold-iron stew pot;
Twelve-year-old Su Nuannuan carrying her golden rolling pin and honey-salve jar;
And ten-year-old Little Fifth Ao Xing with his tiny silver dragon horns and golden piggy-bank rattle!
For half a second, First Founder Gu Mu’s Half-Step Rank 10 spiritual perception automatically scanned the innate physiques of those four adopted children. And the old carpenter nearly choked on his sip of glutinous rice wine!
“Hold on!” First Founder Gu Mu thought in shock.
Meanwhile, he recognized the four terrifying prehistoric origins inside Gu Nian’s siblings: “An Innate Sword-Slaughtering Asura Heart, a Gluttonous Taotie Devouring Stomach, a Ten-Thousand-Poison Plague-Miasma Body. An Abyssal World-Crushing Silver Dragon Core?! Combined with little Nian’er’s Innate Chaos Bone, aren’t these the Five Supreme Cataclysm Villain Physiques that the Heavenly Script Pavilion designed to destroy the universe?!”
