Chapter 248: Rotten Peach Blossom
Chapter 248: Rotten Peach Blossom
The space felt too cramped, so Shen Yao sat on the table. Tu Xiaoxiao needed an answer tonight, so he placed his hands on the table, forcing the fairy to lean back.
As long as she didn't resist, Tu Xiaoxiao felt she still had a chance: "Give me a title, and I'll go with you to pick up your sister."
Shen Yao was not moved at all. After spending so much time together, she was not flustered even though she was being confined.
She said earnestly, "I know what you mean, but it's not okay, because you're a bad match for me, and conversely, I'm a bad match for you too."
Tu Xiaoxiao grinned angrily.
Shen Yao patiently advised, "Don't make that face. Your current liking for me is entirely due to the influence of this 'peach blossom calamity' in your life. It's not true love, and it won't end well."
She said with a look of concern for him, "If you remain stubborn, you will definitely regret it when you meet your true love."
The usually carefree young master is almost driven to despair by her words.
The fairy reached out and pushed him back: "When I see Father the day after tomorrow, I'll have him cut off our bad romantic entanglements."
Tu Xiaoxiao had nowhere to vent her frustration, and she really knew how to annoy her undesirable romantic interests!
He wanted to try again: "Your immortal race values monogamy, but it's normal for the demon race to have multiple husbands. If you like someone, you should be together. There's no such thing as a bad romantic relationship."
"I know, it's normal for you to have polygamy." Shen Yao muttered, then suddenly put on a gossipy expression and whispered, "Hey, do you also have polygamy?"
She covered her mouth with both hands, her eyes shining brightly: "Oh my god! I can't even imagine! It's terrifying, playing with real flowers!"
Tu Xiaoxiao was furious: "No!"
The fairy's curiosity knew no bounds: "What if a woman likes many men, and at the same time, a man likes many women? Didn't you say that if you like someone, you have to be together? Doesn't that mean they all have to be together?"
She kept chattering: "If everyone were a little fickle, how big would that family be!"
"What happens to the children born? Whose children are they? What if there are polygamous couples living together and they like each other? It's so confusing! So confusing!"
The eight-tailed fox was so angry that smoke was rising from its head, but it still had to patiently explain: "Male cultivators of the demon race are more devoted than female cultivators."
Shen Yao rolled her eyes at him: "You know you should be faithful, so why are you encouraging me to fall for someone else?"
"I didn't encourage you to fall for someone else." Tu Xiaoxiao didn't know how to explain anymore. He turned away and said, "Forget it, I can't reason with you!"
The fairy grabbed him, preventing him from leaving: "The Ten Perfect Blades, a divine-level spirit-gathering technique, you must accept them before you go."
The eight-tailed fox waved it away, strode out of the room, slammed the door shut, and spent the night drinking alone with Hua Yi.
All the arrangements for Zui Hongyan were in place, and Shen Yao was ready to go to the Tu family pharmacy to pick up Feng Yu at any time, but Tu Xiaoxiao, still hungover, had not gotten up by noon.
Shen Yao went to check on him twice, but couldn't wake him up no matter how much she called. She couldn't just leave him and go over there herself, so she could only wait patiently, since Feng Yu's bandages wouldn't be removed until tomorrow anyway.
With nothing else to do, she thought of meeting up with the new friends she had met in Longyuan City before she left.
Since the trial opening of Zui Hongyan, Long Jiajia has been coming very frequently. Every time she comes, she makes sure to play ball with Shen Yao. Over the past few days, the two of them have become friends.
Shen Yao then sent a message to invite Long Jiajia to dinner at the restaurant next to Zui Hongyan the next night.
Long Jiajia told her not to make any dinner plans yet, and then she arrived at Zui Hongyan herself half an hour later.
She invited Shen Yao to have a private talk in the room and got straight to the point: "I have something you want. You will come back to the Long family with me and go to the Long family's Trial Tower. You cannot leave until you come out of the Trial Tower."
Shen Yao was puzzled. What could Long Jiajia possibly want from her?
"What is this thing? Why do I have to go to the Long family's trial tower?"
Long Jiajia flipped her hand, and the Spirit Awakening Seal appeared in her hand.
Shen Yao was taken aback: "You're also a Guardian of the Seal!"
Long Jiajia didn't let her take a closer look before putting away the Spirit Awakening Seal: "I've been observing you for a long time, and I like your character very much, but you've had a mental block before. I'm worried about you not going to the Trial Tower to test your will."
Shen Yao readily agreed: "My mental block has long been cleared, but to put your mind at ease, I'm willing to make the trip."
The Long family's Trial Tower opens every two weeks. The next opening is in three days. The two of them agreed on a time to go to the Trial Tower, and then Long Jiajia went back.
When Tu Xiaoxiao woke up and heard that she wasn't leaving for the time being, hope rose in his heart. He grabbed her wrist and asked, "Are you willing to stay and give me a chance?"
Shen Yao's answer was like a bucket of cold water, extinguishing his rising flames: "No, Long Jiajia has what I want, and she will only give it to me if I pass the Trial Tower."
Long Jiajia, Trial Tower. After thinking it over, Tu Xiaoxiao's disappointment turned into worry: "Do you know that the Long family's Trial Tower is easy to enter but difficult to come out? Even the Long family's Demon Lord does not dare to enter easily."
Shen Yao was very determined: "I have to go, even if it means risking my life."
Tu Xiaoxiao squeezed her wrist tightly: "Don't go. What is it? I'll get it for you."
Shen Yao: "I can't say what it is, but it's very important, and you have to go get it yourself."
She gestured for him to let go and pulled her wrist back: "Why don't you tell me what's inside the Dragon Family Trial Tower?"
Tu Xiaoxiao: "I don't know either. The Long family's Trial Tower doesn't easily allow cultivators from other families to enter, but all Long family cultivators must go to the Trial Tower once they reach adulthood."
"The Trial Tower opens every two weeks, and only 70% of those who go in come out alive."
Shen Yao: "Seventy percent is not difficult."
Tu Xiaoxiao frowned. The thought of Shen Yao going in made him feel that even a 100% chance of survival was difficult: "Can't we get what you want by other means?"
Long Jiajia is a guardian of the seal and has no conflict of interest with her, so she shouldn't want to harm her. Asking her to go to the Trial Tower to test her will probably means there's no other way. Shen Yao shook her head: "I'm afraid there's no other way."
Tu Xiaoxiao: "I'll go talk to her. If that doesn't work, I'll try to accompany you into the Trial Tower."
He was about to leave when Shen Yao stopped him, saying she wanted to go to the Tu family first to pick up her father and husband before going to the Long family together.
After thinking it over, Tu Xiaoxiao realized that with Huo Xiandi present, the chances of a successful negotiation were higher, so she and Huo Xiandi returned to the Tu family home first.
Feng Yu has already had his bandages removed; he is recovering earlier than expected.
The scars on his face had long since disappeared, and his exquisitely sculpted face amazed the pharmacists every time they saw him. They couldn't help but praise him again and again every time they changed his dressings.
Even the fox clan has never produced such a handsome young master.
As the gauze was removed one by one, Feng Yu was reborn. Her skin was flawless, smooth and silky, as if it could be broken with a touch.
The pharmacists were extremely satisfied, as were Huo Die and Feng Yu.
Huo Die generously gave them the formula for the divine-level antidote pill. Tu Lin was extremely excited when she received the formula: "If the Tu family had had this formula back then, the Nine-Tailed Demon Lord would not have died young and in agony."
Possessing this formula means that the Tu family will be able to heal injuries from the secret realm, and the benefits they can obtain are immeasurable.
Tu Lin informed the head of the Tu family about this matter. The head of the Tu family rushed to the pharmacy as quickly as possible, thanked Huo Die profusely, and told him to make any request he wanted, promising that the Tu family would do its best to fulfill it.
Huo Die politely declined, eager to go find his daughter with Feng Yu.
It's been over a month, and apart from occasionally sending a message to ask about her husband, my daughter has been like a salmon diving, completely silent, and I don't know what she's been up to all day.
I'll feel at ease once I see my daughter again.
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