Chapter 397: Demon Suppression Tower
When Xiao Changheng heard her question, his face froze and a deep sadness flashed in his eyes.
But it only took a moment for him to regain his usual composure, stand up calmly, and extend his hand to her.
"I'm sorry to trouble you again."
Yun Qingqing looked at him in a daze.
The scene deep in his consciousness was so bright and colorful, making people feel comfortable and at ease. There is still a part of her in her mind that is immersed in the joy brought by that scenery and that jade tree and reminisces it over and over again.
But how could this person be so distant in reality? It seemed that since he woke up from his drunkenness, he was unwilling to even pretend to be nice.
Even though he reached out his hand to help her, she still felt like he was a thousand miles away from her, which was chilling.
Yun Qingqing pursed her lips, stood up, dusted herself off, looked directly at him and said calmly:
"If you really think you shouldn't cause me trouble, then tell me the truth about what happened. Only by knowing the cause can I take precautions in advance."
Xiao Changheng clenched his hands secretly under his sleeves, remained silent for a moment, and looked at the broken stone table without any expression.
"Just, I was a little curious and looked at it again."
"Curious?" Yun Qingqing stared at his face and narrowed her eyes.
She had a hunch that this man would not repeat the same mistake just out of curiosity. After all, she was very distressed by his reaction after he looked at the stone table last time.
How could he dare to stare at this when I wasn't around?
"Sorry, I won't do it again." The man's apology sounded sincere.
But the sense of alienation remains undiminished.
Yun Qingqing gritted her teeth and stared at Xiao Changheng for a long time, but couldn't figure out what was going on, so she had to give up.
She removed all the protective formations, sent away the eight ghost kings, and was finally ready to get back to business.
"Follow me." She took Xiao Changheng down to the bottom of the tower and came to the first floor.
Xiao Changheng watched her searching around in the lobby on the first floor, and finally couldn't help asking:
"What are you looking for?"
Yun Qingqing paused, not knowing how to explain what she was looking for. Finally, she simply told the truth:
"It's a long story."
Xiao Changheng: ...
Just when he thought she was refusing to explain, Yun Qingqing spoke again:
"The last time I came here, I didn't realize that the paint, sculptures, and the entire shell of the basil were all refurbished. This is not its original appearance."
“So I didn’t guess at that time that the real purpose of the Six Paths Heavenly Demon Formation created by Qing Fengzi and his people was not to refine peerless magic weapons and obtain supreme power.”
"The most important goal of the Heavenly Demon Formation is actually to smash this tower. So, after the Heavenly Demon Formation was broken, they still wanted to risk their lives to attract the thunder to strike me. It all makes sense."
"In fact, they didn't want to strike me down to avenge me for ruining their good deeds. The final lightning was still intended to destroy the tower."
Yun Qingqing paused here.
Xiao Changheng asked as expected:
"Why must it be struck by lightning? Can't we just tear it down?"
"That's the problem." Yun Qingqing finally found what she was looking for, but her expression became more serious.
"It's no use just tearing down the tower. We have to attract lightning to strike it."
"Not only does it require heavenly thunder, but it must also reach the level of calamity thunder to strike."
"Thunder?" Xiao Changheng heard the unfamiliar word again.
Yun Qingqing looked at him and said seriously:
"A long time ago, or at least two thousand years ago, before the legendary immortals fell, it was much easier for practitioners to advance than it is now... Let's put it this way,"
She thought about it and directly adopted the most understandable comparison method and said:
"In that era, there were cultivators at my current level everywhere. In the sky, you could see cultivators flying swords everywhere. At that time, people's cultivation goals were much greater than they are now. They were aimed at ascending to become immortals."
Xiao Changheng listened quietly, but the ripples in his eyes showed that his heart was not as calm as he appeared.
Yun Qingqing said again:
"Before ascending, there is a test that must be passed, which is the thunder tribulation. If you pass it, you will ascend to become a god. If you fail, you will be reduced to ashes. This is the thunder sent down by the way of heaven. It is hundreds or thousands of times more powerful than ordinary thunder. This is usually thunder tribulation."
After she said this, she paused and waited for the other person to digest it.
Xiao Changheng was silent for a while, then said in a low voice:
"If this tower can only be destroyed by the power of a thunderbolt, then what kind of tower is it?"
"Good question." Yun Qingqing nodded, "This tower is actually a demon-suppressing tower from ancient times."
Xiao Changheng's black eyes widened slightly, and his expression gradually became solemn.
"That means there is still a demon suppressed under this tower, and someone wants to release it?"
Yun Qingqing shook her head:
"It's hard to say whether it suppressed anything before, but it definitely didn't suppress a demon... It's a long story so I won't explain it... The problem is that now, no matter what it suppressed, that thing is definitely no longer at the bottom of the tower."
"Why?" Xiao Changheng asked, "Didn't the last thunderbolt have been resolved?"
Yun Qingqing sighed, but her hands never stopped moving, and she finally removed the last obstacle.
She clasped her hands together and stomped her feet. Waves of golden light spread out from her as the center, and the entire ground suddenly shook!
Xiao Changheng felt a chill in his heart, but seeing Yun Qingqing standing still as a mountain, he immediately realized that the earthquake was caused by her.
I saw the ground and walls slowly cracking, and the wall paint falling off continuously. After a burst of earth-shattering noises, it finally returned to calm.
Xiao Changheng looked around again and found that the hall on the ground floor had completely changed. The pillars on all sides were engraved with dense runes, and the same was true for the ground and walls.
In shock, Yun Qingqing walked to a pillar, looked at the runes on it with cold eyes, and said in a calm voice:
"The evil-suppressing formation pillars in this tower have all been destroyed."
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