Chapter 881: Heaven-Reaching Tower

Hua Luo turned his head to look, and a woman wearing a veil stood behind him.

Although he couldn't see the woman's features clearly, the eyebrows and eyes exposed were extremely beautiful; he concluded she was a beauty.

"Could it be that my Hua Luo's spring is coming?"

Hua Luo felt a little excited inside.

"Miss, are you calling me?"

Ye Qingran nodded.

That's right, the veiled woman in ordinary clothes is Ye Qingran.

She had already inquired about Hua Luo's purpose for coming to the Xuanmiao Continent: to find the Ruinous King's Sword.

So she slightly disguised herself, approached Hua Luo, and tried to extract some information from him.

"I am a medical woman; I see you, young master, suffering severe hair loss. If preventive treatment is not taken promptly, I fear you may develop patchy baldness."

Ye Qingran's tone was filled with a faint worry for Hua Luo.

Upon hearing this, Hua Luo's heart clenched.

He hasn't married yet; he can't go bald!

"Miss, since you're a medical woman, you must have a solution, right?"

"Hmm."

Ye Qingran nodded, and at the same time she faintly released a trace of ruinous aura.

"Huh?"

Hua Luo startled, wondering how he had just sensed the ruinous aura.

"How could there be the aura of the Ruinous King's Sword around here?"

Hua Luo was quite puzzled.

"Ruinous? What is that?"

Hua Luo shook his head, seeing Ye Qingran dressed plainly and being a medical woman, he assumed she certainly didn't know about ruin.

"Nothing." Hua Luo shook his head.

Ye Qingran smiled faintly: "Although I don't cultivate, I also know you, young master, are a formidable cultivator. How about this: I'll prevent your hair loss, and you tell me about ruin?"

Hua Luo didn't think much: "That works."

In the nearby Wine House, Fu San Yi looked admiringly: "Madam really is good at deceiving! If she became a swindler, I doubt anyone could escape."

Everyone gave him a sideways glance.

After half an hour, Ye Qingran returned, removed her veil, and revealed an absolutely beautiful face.

"Madam, how did it go? Did you find out anything?"

"That Divine Envoy came from the Xuyu Divine Temple, sent by the God Emperor's command to seek the whereabouts of ruin. It is said that ruin and the God Emperor share an origin; when I drew the Ruinous King's Sword from the Broken Soul Sea, they sensed it at that moment, but even that Divine Envoy himself doesn't know the details."

What Ye Qingran didn't know was that although Hua Luo is simple-minded, he knows what should and shouldn't be said.

For example, he concealed from Ye Qingran a very important point: the God Emperor once said that only his bloodline can activate ruin...

"If so, Miss, could your background be related to the Divine Temple?"

Han Xing boldly guessed, and everyone looked at her in surprise.

"Could Miss's father be someone from the Divine Temple?"

"Or perhaps he is the God Emperor himself!"

Hearing everyone's bolder guesses, Ye Qingran shook her head amusedly: "It's just a sword; you really can imagine a lot."

It's not that she doesn't think that's possible; rather, she trusts solid evidence more than speculation.

Ye Qingran glanced at the time; the Tongtian Grand Assembly was about to begin. She told everyone to prepare, while she went to change clothes.

Below the Tongtian Tai, around the Tongtian Lou, it was extraordinarily lively.

It's no exaggeration to say that everyone on Tongtian Lu gathered here today, a sea of heads.

"How enviable the descendants of the hundred clans are; only they have the chance to go to Xuyu."

"Yes, especially the Lan Clan; they have many slots, unlike our small family, which doesn't even have one."

"That's fate! In your next life, remember to open your eyes when you're reborn!"

The crowd chattered, mostly expressing envy for the hundred-clan people and helplessness about the current situation.

The Lan Clan.

"Sir, why have the Lan Clan's slots for going to Xuyu decreased so much this year?"

Lady Lan came over with a list to find Lan Chuzhuang.

Lan Chuzhuang glanced at Lady Lan and said: "This year there is a Divine Envoy from the Divine Temple present; our Lan Clan can't continue as before."

Lady Lan furrowed her brows, very dissatisfied: "Why? What's a Divine Envoy? He's just a minor lackey of the Divine Temple, merely following the God Emperor's orders!"

Lan Chuzhuang furrowed his brows: "Although they're just a Divine Envoy, if he speaks ill of our Lan Clan before the God Emperor, and the God Emperor becomes angry and suppresses our Lan Clan, what then? Our Lan Clan's current status was hard-won; below, who knows how many families eye us covetously. If our Lan Clan is suppressed, the deaths will be horrible1"

Lady Lan had nothing to say.

"But…"

She had promised Chi Wu to keep a slot for her. Now the slots have sharply decreased; the remaining ones are all core members of the Lan Clan. Even as the Lan Clan's grandmother, she couldn't just dismiss someone for no reason.

It's not that she treats Chi Wu particularly well; rather, she is a person from Xuyu, and if she offends Chi Wu, she'll have nothing good to eat.

"All right, the Tongtian Grand Assembly is about to start; let's set out."

The Tongtian Lou is an extremely luxurious wooden building, entirely constructed from rare precious materials such as purple sandalwood, golden-thread nanmu, and agarwood.

Every floor of the Tongtian Lou has many windows, so from outside one can clearly see inside.

At this moment, floors one through eight have gradually filled with people of the hundred clans, while the ninth floor remains empty.

Actually, the people of the second, third, and fourth families have already arrived, waiting below the Tongtian Lou; according to past custom, they must wait for the Lan Clan to go up before they can, otherwise they can only wait.

「Lan Young Master has arrived! 」

A figure appeared, walking slowly forward under the escort of the crowd; everyone recognized him at a glance.

If the Lan family is the greatest clan on Tongtian Road, then Lan Ling Wang is the foremost among the younger generation on Tongtian Road.

Lan Ling Wang is not only handsome, noble, and supremely talented; thus, seeing him evokes nothing but envy.

Lan Ling Wang walked up to the members of the three great families, glanced at them sideways, curled his lip, and said, 「Three clan heads, follow me up; my father and the others will arrive shortly. 」

Saying this, he took the lead and stepped toward the Tongtian Tower, with the heads of the three great families closely following behind.

The crowd had long grown accustomed to this.

After all, Lan Ling Wang apparently enjoys doing this; at the annual Tongtian Grand Assembly, he is inevitably the first to ascend to the ninth floor of the Tongtian Tower!

Lan Ling Wang ascended to the ninth floor, gazed into the distance, feeling refreshed and exhilarated; a lofty ambition to look down upon all under heaven arose in his heart, as if he were a sovereign emperor ruling the land!

He greatly enjoys this feeling, which is why he strives to be the first to ascend to the ninth floor of the Tongtian Tower every year.