The resilient determination of Little Shitou still brought some comfort to Ye Tianchen. Among the five disciples, the other four, Feng Chan, Cai Fenger, Ming Jue, and Tian Feng, all had extremely high talent and comprehension. Feng Chan, in particular, seemed to change every day, being the most talented among the five disciples. Ye Tianchen could almost see from the shadow of Feng Chan the image of him becoming a pride of the heavens, traversing the world.
However, Ye Tianchen was not a biased master. The reason he agreed to take Little Shitou and the other four as his disciples was because he felt the unwillingness of the more than one hundred villagers of Desolate Stone Village. Their anger, their grievance, their helpless despair of merely waiting for death, made him want to break the Curse Power for them, to give them the strength to defy destiny.
