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.
"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 was still a part of her mind that was immersed in the joy brought by the scenery and the jade tree, and she kept savoring it.
But how could this person become so distant in reality? It seemed that since he woke up from his drunken stupor, 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 feel you shouldn't cause me any 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 took another look at it."
"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, her heart was broken by his reaction after he looked at the stone table last time.
How could he dare to stare at this when he 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 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 hall 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, the sculptures, and the entire shell of the basil pagoda were all refurbished. This isn't its original appearance."
“So I didn’t guess at the time that the Six Paths Heavenly Demon Formation created by Qingfengzi and his people wasn’t really about refining peerless divine weapons and gaining supreme power.”
"The most important goal of the Heavenly Demon Formation is actually to destroy this tower. So, even after the Heavenly Demon Formation was broken, they still wanted to risk their lives to draw the thunderbolt to strike me. It all makes sense."
"Actually, they didn't strike me down to avenge me for ruining their plans. The final lightning bolt was still meant to destroy the tower."
Yun Qingqing paused here.
Xiao Changheng asked as expected:
"Why does it have to 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 this tower. We have to attract lightning to strike it."
"Not only does it require heavenly thunder, but it must also be at the level of tribulation thunder."
"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 easily understood comparison method, saying:
"In that era, cultivators of my current level were everywhere. Sword-riding cultivators could be seen everywhere in the sky. At that time, people's cultivation goals were much greater than they are now. They were meant to ascend to immortality."
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's a test one must go through: the thunder tribulation. If you pass it, you'll ascend to godhood. If you fail, you'll be reduced to ashes. This is thunder sent down by the heavens, hundreds or even thousands of times more powerful than ordinary thunder. This is tribulation thunder."
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 requires the power of a thunderbolt to destroy it, 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's still a demon trapped under this tower, and someone wants to release it?"
Yun Qingqing shook her head:
"Whether it once suppressed something is hard to say, but it definitely didn't suppress a demon... It's a long story, so I won't explain it... The problem is, whatever it once suppressed is definitely no longer at the bottom of the tower."
"Why?" Xiao Changheng asked, "Didn't the last thunderbolt be 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 violently. 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 kept falling off. After a period of earth-shattering movement, 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 floor and walls.
In shock, Yun Qingqing walked to a pillar, looked at the runes on it with a cold gaze, and said in a calm voice:
"The evil-suppressing pillars in this tower have all been destroyed."
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