allonlinenovel Chapter 360 Fake Smile
Chapter 360 Fake Smile
Chapter 360 Fake Smile
Tu Xiaoxiao walked out of the Trial Tower unharmed, but felt an itch at the base of her tailbone, as if a new tail was about to grow.
A large group of relatives and friends were guarding outside the Trial Tower. When they saw him come out, they swarmed around him like fish chasing after food.
Having confirmed that it was not an illusion, Tu Xiaoxiao put the Soul Bead back into her Soul Core.
Tu Shiyan pulled Long Yi along and walked quickly ahead.
The loving mother called out urgently, "Xiaoxiao, my child..."
Tu Xiaoxiao flew down the steps and ran towards his parents: "Mom, Dad."
"My son is fine."
Tu Shiyan pulled him around and looked him over from all sides. She then had Long Yi use his wood elemental power to confirm that he was unharmed, both internally and externally, before she felt relieved.
After spending a long time exchanging pleasantries with the family head, elders, and brothers and sisters, Tu Xiaoxiao finally turned to the Demon Lord of the Long family to settle accounts with Third Grandfather Long.
With just one look from him, Grandpa Long knew what this kid was up to.
Grandpa Long chuckled and went over: "Good grandson, well done, you didn't disappoint your grandpa."
After exchanging a few polite words, the head of the Long family gestured for everyone to disperse.
The Tu family head didn't linger. He exchanged a few words with Tu Xiaoxiao's parents and siblings before leading his group away.
Grandpa Long San grabbed Tu Xiaoxiao's arm: "Shiyan, you should go back too. Xiaoxiao, come with Grandpa San."
Grandpa Long San sat with Tu Xiaoxiao in the study for a while. After his parents and siblings left, he took him back to the Trial Tower.
It was getting late, and night was falling.
The Trial Tower plaza was very quiet. Tu Xiaoxiao asked, "After going through all this trouble, what exactly does Third Grandfather want me to do?"
Grandpa Long's expression turned serious, his previous polite and playful demeanor gone.
He led Tu Xiaoxiao around to the back of the Trial Tower and said in a low voice, "Xiaoxiao, you should know that the Long family's Trial Tower has a tower spirit."
Tu Xiaoxiao did not deny it: "I heard my father-in-law mention it when my wife climbed the tower before."
Grandpa Long forced a smile: "Your father-in-law is indeed no ordinary person."
Tu Xiaoxiao was wary of Grandpa Long San and didn't respond.
Grandpa Long released a wisp of spiritual energy, which floated into the tower bead. The tower spirit opened the control screen inside the bead, pulled out a button, and entered the password to unlock it.
A stone door appeared out of thin air on the back wall of the first floor of the Trial Tower.
The stone door slowly opened, and Grandpa Long San went in first. Tu Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment before following him in.
Inside the stone gate was a downward passage, with lamps burning on both sides, and the passage seemed bottomless.
To prevent the old dragon from playing tricks again, Tu Xiaoxiao kept a distance of two zhang from him.
Grandpa Long San walked for a while and then stopped between two ever-burning lamps.
He seemed puzzled: "Huh, how come there's a stone sculpture here?"
Tu Xiaoxiao stopped and used her spiritual sense to check.
Upon seeing it, he was overjoyed: "A dragon statue!"
Grandpa Long turned his head and asked him, "Do you know him?"
Tu Xiaoxiao withdrew her spiritual sense and strode over: "I know it. When I come back, I will tell you how it is used."
The old dragon chuckled. The little fox had become shrewd; it was worried that if it went in, it wouldn't be able to come back.
They walked for another quarter of an hour until they reached the bottom of the Everlasting Lamp Passage. Tu Xiaoxiao saw the obsidian door on the stone wall and her expression became very solemn.
The obsidian door on the wall is square and fits perfectly into the stone wall.
This scene is exactly the same as the seal that imprisoned the Blood Demon in Ruifeng City.
Grandpa Long slowly recounted: "The Long family has passed down the secret treasure at the bottom of the Trial Tower, which can help the Long family cleanse their marrow and tendons, purify their bloodline, and transform a dragon into a dragon."
"But for tens of thousands of years, this stone door has remained unopened."
"Rumor has it that it would take the combined efforts of two demon lords to destroy the stone gate."
"Twenty thousand years ago, when my grandfather ascended to the Demon Lord, the Demon Lord of your Tu family returned from the secret realm injured and died."
"When I became a demon lord, my grandfather had already passed away. Now, I have finally found another demon lord."
"Xiaoxiao, your third grandfather asked you to challenge the tower so that you could improve your cultivation and work with me to break through the stone gate and obtain the true secret treasure."
"If we succeed, the treasure will naturally be shared by our two families. The dragon can cleanse its marrow and tendons, and your fox clan can also cleanse its marrow and tendons and improve the quality of its bloodline."
After listening to him, Tu Xiaoxiao touched the obsidian door and asked, "Where did the news about the Long family first come from, and what is the true secret treasure hidden inside?"
Grandpa Long San pointed upwards: "Each new patriarch will gain the authority to communicate with the Tower Spirit, followed by the Demon Lord."
Tu Xiaoxiao understood; the message was leaked by the Tower Spirit.
He compared the scene before him with the underground scene of the blood pool in the casino, using the memories from the soul core: "Grandpa Long San, are you sure the tower spirit is good?"
Upon hearing this, Grandpa Long's face darkened: "What do you mean by this, my dear grandson?"
Tu Xiaoxiao winked and invited Grandpa Long San to go outside to talk.
They walked back to the dragon statue, where Tu Xiaoxiao took out the stone bead from under the dragon's claw and put it into the dragon's mouth.
The stone bead rolled from the dragon's mouth into its belly, activating the mechanism of the dragon statue and shooting out a white light from its mouth.
The white light shone on the opposite wall, and a white light gate appeared on the wall.
Tu Xiaoxiao pulled Grandpa Long inside.
Obsidian Teleportation Array, inside the portal space.
Suddenly, a creature emerged from the white light gate, and the six light energy puppets instantly went into battle mode.
Upon seeing that it was Tu Xiaoxiao who entered, the puppets did not lower their guard.
After the solar-powered scanning system confirmed that it was the Venerable One's husband who had returned, the puppets resumed their guard duty mode.
Grandpa Long San had lived for nearly ten thousand years, and even though it was his first time seeing such a novel puppet, he was not too surprised.
Looking at the ten different colored light gates in the space, and considering how they entered, Grandpa Long guessed that it was a teleportation array.
"My dear grandson, where do these doors lead?"
Tu Xiaoxiao did not hide anything, and Longyuan City needed to prepare for the Blood Demon matter as soon as possible: "One road leads to the Immortal Clan's Chongcheng, another leads to Longquan Cliff, and the other seven roads have not yet been opened, and we do not yet know where they lead."
He explained the relationship between the Blood Demon and the Blood Thread Worm in the Secret Realm, as well as the evil cultivators, to Grandpa Long San: "There may not be any true secret treasures at the bottom of the Trial Tower, but it is very likely that the Blood Demon is sealed there."
"If the tower spirit knew that the Blood Demon was sealed there, why did it still allow the Long family to destroy it..."
"Third Grandfather, as you know, my wife comes from beyond the heavens. She came to this world to slay the Blood Demon. Only my wife can break that seal..."
After roughly summarizing the events, Grandpa Long San thought for a moment and said, "I don't think the Tower Spirit was aware of this. If the Tower Spirit intended to release the Blood Demon, it wouldn't have allowed Shen Yao to leave the Trial Tower alive."
Now that this topic has been brought up, Tu Xiaoxiao's tone has turned sour: "My wife was able to get out because she's capable; she came out missing a leg!"
"Oh dear, don't be in such a hurry," Grandpa Long San advised. "Of all the descendants of the Long family over the years, how many have come out of the Trial Tower without missing limbs?"
Tu Xiaoxiao was cursing in her heart.
He raised the corners of his lips high, displaying a thoroughly sly, fake smile: "Third Grandfather, you should go back. We don't know when the other doors will open, or what monsters might run out. Remember to send guards to watch over the doors when you get back."