Chapter 552

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　　”Heaven-grade Frozen Bone Talisman？ This is a trap！”
　　The first one to react was Qi Yu’s second uncle.
Because he was really too close and also because he had never thought that he would be countercalculated by Xu Taiping from beginning to end.
So even though the second son of the Qi family reacted extremely quickly and had already fled outside the house the moment the talisman burst, in the end, he was still caught up by that dreadful chill.
　　“Click, click, click！ ……”
　　In an instant, with that dilapidated house as the center, the entire abandoned manor was frozen.
　　The trees as thick as a person’s embrace were frozen and broken in the middle, the rockery stones in the courtyard were frozen and cracked into pieces, and even the wild grass on the ground was frozen as hard as steel needles.
　　Since the trees and rocks are like this, not to mention people.
　　Those black-clothed guards closest to Xu Taiping were almost frozen on the spot and then shattered into pieces.
　　Although Qi Yu and his several uncles had magic treasures to protect themselves, because the cold air was too fierce, they couldn’t fully activate their magic treasures and had already been frozen into popsicles by the surging cold air wave after wave.
As the “click click” freezing and shattering sound rang out, Qi Yu and his second uncle and fifth uncle also had their bodies frozen and likewise shattered into pieces.
　　The only one still desperately resisting was Qi Yu’s second uncle.
　　Relying on his body-protecting magic treasure and his powerful cultivation base, he managed to hold on until the moment when the power of the Frozen Bone Talisman was exhausted.
　　But even so, when his true essence was exhausted, the cold air invaded his body and froze his meridians and qi and blood.
　　“Bang！”
　　Unable to move his body, he fell to the ground.
　　Before fainting and dying, he said very unwillingly：
　　“I, Qi the Second… actually fell into the hands of a foreigner…”
　　“Shua！”
　　Soon after Qi Laoer fell, a small white bird flapped its wings and landed on Qi Laoer’s head.
　　“Ka cha！~”
　　The claws of the small white bird, like steel claws, suddenly grabbed hard on Qi Laoer’s head, directly smashing Qi Laoer’s head, and then reluctantly held a sound-transmitting jade slip and said：
　　“Xu Taiping, next time you do this kind of dirty work yourself！”
　　This small white bird is naturally Bai Yu.
　　As early as before Xu Taiping asked his clone to go downstairs, he had already released Bai Yu from the window and waited here in advance.
　　One is to be on the safe side, and the other is to clean up the traces afterwards.
　　……
　　Shi Yi Zhai, fifth floor.
　　“Hu……”
　　After hearing Bai Yu’s complaint through the sound-transmitting jade slip, Xu Taiping exhaled lightly, smiled indifferently, and at the same time transmitted a voice back and said：
　　“After cleaning up, don’t rush back. See if there will be any Qi family members looking for you.”
　　After giving this instruction, Xu Taiping put down a small booklet he was flipping through and was about to call Monk Chongde to go back together.
　　The first tribulation was successfully overcome, which relaxed his spirit a lot.
　　Although, because he saw the clear process in the lotus pupil, the difficulty of this tribulation was not too great.
　　But being able to complete it smoothly at least helped Xu Taiping prove that the scenes he saw with his left eye were not illusions and could be used to help him overcome the tribulations.
　　This point is very important for Xu Taiping to overcome the next six tribulations.
　　“Brother Xu！”
　　Xu Taiping, who was looking for Monk Chongde, was suddenly stopped by a figure.
　　Looking up and taking a closer look, Xu Taiping recognized that it was Chu Xiaoxiao, who was disguised as a man.
　　“Miss Xiaoxiao, you haven’t gone back yet？”
　　Xu Taiping took a look at Chu Xiaoxiao and asked casually.
　　“Originally I was going to go back, but when I was almost downstairs, I encountered a big business！”
　　Chu Xiaoxiao leaned close to Xu Taiping and said in a low voice.
　　“Big business？”
　　Xu Taiping looked at Chu Xiaoxiao with some confusion.
　　“Wait　a　moment.”
　　Chu Xiaoxiao didn’t answer Xu Taiping immediately. Instead, she turned around and looked behind her, waving vigorously and saying,
　　“Qing’er, quickly bring Young Master Zhu over. I’ve found Brother Xu.”
Looking in the direction of Chu Xiaoxiao’s gaze, Xu Taiping saw Qing’er, who was panting from exhaustion, and a young master full of scholarly air.
　　“Brother Xu, let me tell you, this Young Master Zhu is a descendant of the previous dynasty’s royal family in the Cloud-Reaching Kingdom. He fled to our Southern Chu to avoid the war and has many treasures that were once collected in the imperial palace of the Cloud-Reaching Kingdom in his hands.”
　　After urging Qing’er, Chu Xiaoxiao immediately turned around and looked at Xu Taiping again, lowering her voice and introducing.
　　“He has good things in his hands. You can just trade privately. Why do you have to come back to Shiyi Zhai specifically？”
　　Xu Taiping took a distant look at that Young Master Zhu and asked with some confusion.
　　“Naturally, it is to ask the gentleman of Shiyi Zhai to help me identify the authenticity. And if possible, I want to ask Brother Xu to help me select this batch of treasures.”
　　Chu Xiaoxiao looked at Xu Taiping with burning eyes.
　　After that just-concluded pawnshop meeting, Xu Taiping’s image in Chu Xiaoxiao’s heart was just like the image of Kasyapa Buddha in the hearts of Monk Chongde and the others.
Xu Taiping, upon hearing this, however, wryly smiles.
　　Last time his vision was so accurate completely because of the Lotus Eye. How could he himself have the ability to identify treasures？
　　“His Highness Xiaoxiao, is this the Young Master Xu you mentioned？”
　　Just as Xu Taiping was about to refuse, that Young Master Zhu came to the two of them.
　　“That’s right.”
　　Chu Xiaoxiao nodded and then smiled and introduced to Xu Taiping again：
　　“Brother Xu, this is Young Master Zhu of the Cloud Country.”
　　“Nice to meet you.”
　　Although he wasn’t very interested in the transaction between the two, Xu Taiping still politely cupped his hands towards that Young Master Zhu and greeted him.
　　“I’ve long admired you.”
　　Young Master Zhu also cupped his hands towards Xu Taiping.
　　Xu Taiping was about to directly reject Chu Xiaoxiao’s invitation. However, just as he retracted his gaze from Young Master Zhu of Cloud Rising Country and looked back at Chu Xiaoxiao, a cross-shaped scar on the back of Young Master Zhu’s hand suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, struck Xu Taiping’s mind.
　　“The hand with this scar… Isn’t it the one that appeared in the scene related to the second tribulation？”
　　Xu Taiping thought with great horror in his heart.
　　Regarding the second tribulation, his left eye only saw two things.
　　The first thing was a hand with a cross-shaped scar, and in a pitch-black room, a strange pattern emitting a blood-red light on a man’s back.