126: Chapter 126 Father

"It's good that we found it." Xia Shaoxin exhaled a long breath of relief and asked in a low voice, "Senior Luo, now that you have found the whereabouts of your brother, please accept my condolences. What should we do next?"

He turned to look at Elder Luo Xi and was greatly shocked. He saw that Elder Luo Xi's face was extremely pale; his eyes were not filled with excitement, but rather with deep resentment.

Xia Shaoxin was full of questions. Hadn't he found his brother? Why did it look like he had found an enemy?

A terrifying Killing Intent overflowed from Elder Luo Xi's body. Liu Tingting's heart couldn't help but thump, and both of them involuntarily took three steps back.

"Senior, please accept my condolences..." Xia Shaoxin reminded him hurriedly, thinking that Elder Luo Xi had been missing his brother for a long time and, having finally found him, could not control his emotions.

Elder Luo Xi's eyes were sinister. He reached into his robes, then froze, seemingly hesitant.

After waiting for a while, he withdrew his hand from his robes. His hand was trembling uncontrollably, and his body was shaking too. Looking closely, his fingers were pinching a golden needle.

Elder Luo Xi took a deep breath, as if making a certain decision, and abruptly stabbed his finger. He pricked it several times; never had they seen someone be so ruthless to themselves.

A large drop of blood welled up from his finger.

Tremblingly, he touched his finger to the face of the skeleton. The blood instantly dispersed and seeped into the bone.

Elder Luo Xi's expression changed drastically. He quickly took out a spiritual talisman, shook it in the air, and it ignited without fire.

On the skeleton's cheek, that drop of blood, like a flower blooming, rapidly grew larger, spreading along the bone, and actually dyed the entire bone red.

"What is he doing? The bones turned red. What does this mean?" Liu Tingting was greatly shocked.

Xia Shaoxin, of course, could not answer; he only felt that Elder Luo Xi's emotions were extremely frenzied.

He felt a faint sense of unease.

Elder Luo Xi stared straight at the bones, his whole person as if frozen by ice, a terrifying expression appearing on his face.

Xia Shaoxin inexplicably felt a tremor in his heart and instinctively stepped back slightly.

Liu Tingting tugged at his lapel in fear, following him as he retreated.

The air solidified, and a terrible emotion was brewing.

There was no sound, no breathing, not even a sign of life.

There was only an extremely dark silence.

"Why is it like this?" Elder Luo Xi suddenly spoke.

His voice was extremely low, as if a violent beast was suppressed in his throat.

Xia Shaoxin understood now; Elder Luo Xi was not looking for his brother, Uncle Ancestor Luo You, but was seeking a certain answer.

Now the answer had been found, but it was not the answer Elder Luo Xi wanted.

This brother was a terrible answer.

"As expected, it really is like this!" Elder Luo Xi's voice grew lower and lower, but the hidden violence grew thicker.

The atmosphere inside the secret passage was suffocating.

Liu Tingting plucked up her courage and asked, "What exactly is it?"

Elder Luo Xi's body shook. A chill rose in Xia Shaoxin's heart, and he hurriedly pulled Liu Tingting, retreating further and further away.

"Why, why is it like this?" Elder Luo Xi roared wildly.

The voice echoed in the secret passage. Xia Shaoxin and Liu Tingting were caught off guard and were sent flying by the shock, crashing into the wall.

"Hahaha, it actually really is like this! Uncle Ancestor Luo You, how could you dare to be like this—"

"Hehe, how could you dare to be like this?"

"How could you dare, haha!"

Elder Luo Xi was incoherent, repeating these few sentences.

They didn't know what it meant, but they could tell the tone was full of unbearable sorrow.

The anger of being deceived, of being fooled.

Elder Luo Xi raised his right hand toward the skeleton and smashed it down fiercely, but stopped abruptly just an inch away from the skeleton.

He withdrew his hand, smashed it down again, stopped three inches from the skeleton, and let his hand hang limply.

Finally, during a furious swing, he touched the skeleton.

Elder Luo Xi seemed to be electrocuted; he hurriedly pulled back, his eyes full of terror, and he kowtowed repeatedly.

"I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to."

The shrill voice scratched against the walls of the secret passage and pierced their eardrums.

A powerful force collided wantonly. Xia Shaoxin felt a tightness in his chest and gripped the protruding part of the wall tightly to avoid falling.

Xia Shaoxin pulled Liu Tingting to the corner, poked his head out, and observed carefully.

Elder Luo Xi's emotions were severely out of control, but they didn't dare to leave him behind. There were many monsters in the Forbidden Ground, and having someone at the Ninth Level of Qi Refining would make things much easier.

It would be fine once his emotions stabilized.

Hehehe—

Huo huo huo—

Elder Luo Xi became even more frantic. He stood in front of the skeleton, pointed his finger at it, wanted to scold but couldn't, and only laughed wildly.

Did he love his brother, or hate his brother?

What kind of conflict did the two brothers have?

Suddenly, Elder Luo Xi knelt in front of the skeleton and kowtowed repeatedly. His head was bruised and bleeding, and the blood splashed onto the skeleton, making it even redder.

"Father, I have finally found you."

A low, hoarse voice came from Elder Luo Xi's mouth.

This sentence was very low, but when Xia Shaoxin heard it, it was no less than being struck by lightning.

In front of Elder Luo Xi, there was no other skeleton, only Uncle Ancestor Luo You's.

Who was he calling Father?

He exchanged a stunned look with Liu Tingting, full of questions: Was Elder Luo Xi hallucinating?

"Father, I finally know who I am."

Elder Luo Xi said this again, and the two of them saw with their own eyes that he was speaking to the skeleton.

What the heck...

The two held their breath, finding it hard to believe.

"Hahaha, you deceived me so bitterly."

"I don't understand why Mother died suddenly, why our father committed suicide suddenly. It turns out it was all because of you."

After Elder Luo Xi finished kowtowing, he lay on the ground and wailed.

The voice was extremely miserable. Liu Tingting, in addition to being shocked, actually felt her eyes moisten. Infected, she inexplicably empathized and choked out, "Is Senior Luo crazy?"

Xia Shaoxin took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "No, he isn't crazy, he's just in too much pain."

"So which father died?"

Xia Shaoxin hurriedly covered her mouth. Silly girl, don't talk nonsense!

Liu Tingting's brows were tightly locked, thinking of some terrible things. She shook off Xia Shaoxin's hand, her lips moving silently, clearly wanting to say: Then who is his mother?

Xia Shaoxin glared at her fiercely, threatening her to shut up.

Liu Tingting bit her lip and said silently, "How could it be like this..."

Elder Luo Xi continued to kowtow repeatedly, crying and laughing at the same time: "Father, I will take you back now."

He took out his Storage Pouch and put the bones inside.

The redness on the bones had already disappeared.

That didn't matter; the identification was already complete.

After the bones were packed away, Elder Luo Xi still knelt on the ground, his eyes fixed, seemingly lost in memories.

He would occasionally laugh a few times, the scene extremely eerie.

Liu Tingting whispered almost into Xia Shaoxin's earlobe, "How about we leave."

Xia Shaoxin didn't dare to stay any longer and nodded gently.

Walking on tiptoe, he turned around and was about to leave when Elder Luo Xi's voice came:

"You two, don't be afraid. My business is done; it's time to leave this place."

The voice was very calm and full of kindness, as if he had never been agitated.

Xia Shaoxin and Liu Tingting couldn't help but turn their heads, poking them out from the corner, not knowing how to react.

Elder Luo Xi stood up slowly from the ground and turned around. Both of them were greatly shocked; this face had aged by decades.

His eyes were lonely and resentful, but clearly revealed a hint of relief.

"Senior, you..." Xia Shaoxin didn't know what to say.

"I'm fine. My wish has been fulfilled. I will take you out now."