Chapter 1402
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“Sister Lingyue, is there anything wrong with this？”
Seeing Fairy Lingyue so surprised, Xu Taiping was a little uneasy for a while and slowly rolled up the painting of the Snow Region Ghost Lord.
After returning from the Mysterious Desolation Pagoda, because the time was too hasty, Xu Taiping had not had time to tell Fairy Lingyue one by one about the treasures given by the Mysterious Desolation Pagoda.
“Not just wrong？ If I didn’t know your background, I would even suspect that you are the reincarnation of the illegitimate son of the Mysterious Desolation Great Emperor left in the world.”
Fairy Lingyue looked at Xu Taiping with a suspicious gaze.
“Huh？”
Xu Taiping had a confused expression on his face.
“You first open the painting of that Snow Region Ghost Lord.”
Fairy Lingyue pointed at the painting on the table.
Xu Taiping then reopened the painting of the Snow Region Ghost Lord.
Although the vast majority of the ghosts in the Mysterious Desolation Pagoda are transformed by the Mysterious Desolation Pagoda using the fear of the souls in the pagoda, like the ghost king-level ghosts, most of their bodies are the Jiuyuan demons sealed in the pagoda by the Mysterious Desolation Great Emperor.”
When explaining to this point, Fairy Lingyue paused for a moment, and then tapped her finger on the painting before continuing to explain：
“And this Snow Region Ghost Lord, according to our speculation back then, should be Yangling, the most powerful Demon Emperor of Jiuyuan during the period of the Five Emperors. We call him Emperor Yang.”
“When the Five Emperors conquered Jiuyuan back then, Emperor Yang was the last Demon Emperor of Jiuyuan to resist. If it weren’t for his insistence on challenging the True Martial Emperor with a sword, with the power of his original Demon Seed, even the Xuanghuang Emperor wouldn’t have been able to seal him in the Xuanghuang Pagoda.”
“Over the years, Jiuyuan has tried every means to attack Xuanghuang Heaven, and one of the reasons is to rescue Emperor Yang.”
When saying this, Fairy Lingyue looked at Xu Taiping with an extremely solemn expression and said, “The fact that the Xuanghuang Pagoda can hand him over to you shows how much trust and importance it has in you.”
After hearing Fairy Lingyue’s explanation, Xu Taiping’s heart sank.
“Sister Lingyue, after hearing what you said, why do I feel that the Xuanghuang Emperor threw over a hot potato？”
Xu Taiping smiled bitterly.
“It’s not wrong to say it’s a hot potato. Now that Xuanghuang Heaven is in a state of rejuvenation, it really doesn’t have that much energy to take care of this Demon Seed of Emperor Yang.”
Fairy Lingyue first smiled, and then said seriously：
“But with that restriction of the Xuanghuang Emperor, at least within ten years, Jiuyuan will never suspect you. That is to say, within these ten years, you can borrow the power of this Emperor Yang.”
Xu Taiping nodded upon hearing this.
He temporarily took over this hot potato for Xuanyuan Heaven, and the Xuanyuan Tower granted him the qualification to use the power of the Emperor Yang. Generally speaking, this deal is fairly fair.
“However, when the Tower Spirit gave me these three portraits, it said that to use the power of the Demonic Seeds in the portraits, I have to pay the corresponding amount of Gold Essence Coins.”
Xu Taiping looked at the portrait of Emperor Yang in front of him and muttered.
As he spoke, he saw himself try to gently touch the portrait with his finger.
The next moment, Emperor Yang, who was originally motionless and reading a book with his head down in the portrait, suddenly raised his head and looked at Xu Taiping through the painting scroll and said：
“You are the little cultivator Xu Taiping that the Tower Spirit mentioned？”
Xu Taiping’s heart moved, and then he tentatively asked Emperor Yang in the painting scroll： “You don’t know me？”
When Emperor Yang in the painting scroll heard this, he deeply looked at Xu Taiping for a moment, and that gaze seemed to be able to see through all of Xu Taiping’s thoughts and thoughts in his heart.
This gaze made Xu Taiping’s heart shudder, and he had to concentrate all his mind to look at him.
“I understand. Xuanyuan has sealed part of my memory. You and I should know each other, and we met in the Xuanyuan Tower.”
“And the reason why Emperor Xuanyuan did this is all to protect you.”
After a while, Emperor Yang raised the corners of his mouth and looked at Xu Taiping and said.
As soon as these words came out, all the hairs on Xu Taiping’s body stood on end.
He didn’t expect that just based on his previous question, this Diyang could infer so much.
And what made Xu Taiping even more shocked was Diyang’s next sentence——
“There is still a person standing beside you, right？ This person’s aura is not weak, but the physical body has been destroyed and has suffered a lot of damage. To be able to recover to this extent now, without accident, it should be that you have obtained the Earth Store Fruit, right？”
Xu Taiping never expected that this Diyang not only sensed the existence of Fairy Lingyue, but also guessed that he had the Earth Fruit on him.
You know, this Earth Store Fruit is Xu Taiping’s biggest secret.
“I didn’t expect that the once powerful Yangling Demon Emperor in the Upper Qing Realm has now fallen to the point of using words to intimidate a junior like me？”
After suppressing the horror in his heart, Xu Taiping raised his head and looked at Diyang’s gaze with his own eyes.
“Your biggest secret as a cultivation reliance has been discovered by me. It’s not a good feeling, is it？”
Diyang asked with a smile across the scroll.
“The Great Dao is right under your feet. When you see water, take a boat; when you encounter a mountain, open a road; when you meet evil, draw a knife. There has never been a permanent reliance, and there is even less a secret that no one knows.”
Xu Taiping’s eyes became clear and transparent again.
Seeing this, Fairy Lingyue on the side secretly breathed a sigh of relief and thought to herself：
“That’s right, Taiping. There has never been anything that is your permanent reliance, and there is even less a secret that no one knows.”
The question that Emperor Yang asked Xu Taiping today was actually the problem that Fairy Lingyue had always been worried about in her heart.
The reason why she was worried was because she knew better than anyone that as Xu Taiping’s cultivation level improved, there would come a day when he would touch those existences that had once almost caused her to fall.
In front of those people, the auras of her and the Earth Fruit could not be hidden at all.
Just like when they faced this Emperor Yang today.
And this was also the reason why Chu Lingyue was in a hurry to improve herself.
“What a good saying of taking a boat when seeing water, opening a way when encountering a mountain, and drawing a knife when meeting evil.”
After quietly watched Xu Taiping for a long time, Emperor Yang in the painting suddenly let out a hearty laugh.
“Although I don’t know what bet Xuanhuang has placed on you and why he wants to erase the memory of my contact with you, but you, little cultivator, are quite interesting. The next ten years should not be too boring.”
Emperor Yang in the painting put away the book in his hand, stood up from the chair, and then raised his arm and stretched.
“Ten years？”
Xu Taiping heard the implication in Emperor Yang’s words.
“I promised Xuanhuang to protect you, but the condition is that I can go out with you for a walk, and the time limit is ten years. After ten years, my magic seed and primordial spirit will be completely sealed in this painting, and you will have to send me back to the Xuanhuang Pagoda at that time.”
While explaining to Xu Taiping, Diyang plucked a leaf from the tree in the painting and put it into his mouth, Youdaoplaceholder0 it with relish.
Senior Diyang, why are you telling me this？ If I don’t send this painting back to the Xuanghuang Pagoda in time, the demons in Jiuyuan might be able to rescue you from the painting.
Xu Taiping pointed out the contradiction in Diyang’s words to the point.
Didn’t Xuanghuang even tell you this？
Diyang looked at Xu Taiping from within the painting, looking astonished.
What？
Xu Taiping was equally Confused.
