550: Chapter 550 The Demon Who Wants to Trade Everything

Yao Shinian was stunned.

She stood before the Heavenly Monument, her fist still pressed against the surface, her entire person looking as if she had been frozen in place.

The Heavenly Monument did not emit any light.

After such a big commotion, such a loud sound, not a single glimmer of light emerged.

"Not... this... where is my light?"

She retracted her fist, looked down at her hand, and then looked back up at the Heavenly Monument, her large eyes staring intently.

"Is this discrimination?"

She turned her head to look at Qin Wushang, her eyes full of question marks.

Qin Wushang spread his hands, indicating he knew nothing.

"..."

"Did she break it?"

People around whispered.

Logically, with such a big commotion from this girl's punch, it should have been golden light, or perhaps even colorful like Qin Wushang's.

Yet, there was nothing, not even a token was spat out.

"This doesn't look good."

Lin Ziyao circled around Yao Shinian, looking her up and down, as if examining some rare species.

"I feel like you, this person, might not be entirely normal."

"After all, hearing what you said, coming from that so-called Wuyou Realm, it sounds very mysterious."

"You're the one who isn't normal!"

Yao Shinian glared at her, hugging her pig-slaughtering knife tightly, and muttered: "Why does everyone have light, but I don't? Is this bullying?"

"It must be bullying! Father said that differential treatment is bullying! I think I should draw my blade!"

She felt a rise of Life Qi!

This was too embarrassing; everyone was watching her, whispering amongst themselves.

She wanted to draw her blade.

"There is no such thing as differential treatment, and it's even less likely that it's broken."

Qin Wushang spoke up, interrupting her thought of drawing her blade.

He said with certainty: "This thing has stood here for countless years; how could it be easily broken?"

"It must be an issue with yourself."

"Could it be... you are not human?"

After all, this is the Heavenly Tower, left behind by the sages of the Human Race.

If she were not human and had not been recognized, that would explain it.

But the problem was, in his Supreme Double Pupils, Yao Shinian was just Yao Shinian; there was nothing unusual.

She was indeed human!

"I'm not human? What kind of joke are you telling?"

Yao Shinian raised an eyebrow and slammed her pig-slaughtering knife onto the ground.

"I've grown up eating pork since I was a child; how could I not be human?"

"Actually... maybe it really is broken."

Ye Hongfu whispered: "After all, Junior Brother punched out colorful light; perhaps this monument just can't take a hit."

"We'll know if we try."

Mu Bingyun looked at the crowd around them, her tone calm: "Everyone, is there anyone who wants to come up and try this monument? By the way, take your identity token."

"Right, right, right! You guys hurry up and try!"

Yao Shinian hugged her blade, her eyes lighting up, urging them repeatedly.

"See if it's broken! Hurry, hurry!"

She didn't want it to be her own problem.

"I'll come."

An old man walked in from outside.

His figure was withered and thin, his white hair sparse, his skin wrinkled like old tree bark, and the Qi and blood in his body were almost dried up, like an oil lamp about to burn out.

But his eyes were very bright, shockingly so.

A Quasi-Emperor.

And a Quasi-Emperor with little Lifespan left.

He walked to the Heavenly Monument, clenched his withered hand into a fist, took a deep breath, and slammed it down.

"Boom!"

Blue light shone.

It wasn't very strong, but it was very pure.

A number slowly emerged.

100.

A silver token flew out from the monument and landed in the old man's hand.

The old man was somewhat disappointed.

100, even lower than he had imagined.

If nothing unexpected happened, the great Opportunity on the Emperors Path had almost nothing to do with him.

"There's no problem with it either."

"Exactly! Looking at it this way... it must be this girl's problem!"

"The girl is not right! It's actually like this... could she really not be human?"

The crowd whispered.

The old man restrained his aura, put away his token, and walked toward the second floor without looking back.

Yao Shinian's face completely collapsed.

She watched the old man's retreating back, then looked at the motionless monument in front of her, her mouth pouting, and she said a sentence.

"This is unfair."

Qin Wushang stepped forward, looking down at the patterns on the Heavenly Monument.

The patterns had not changed, the Dao flowed as usual, without any traces of damage or disorder.

"The monument is fine."

He straightened up and looked at Yao Shinian, his words pausing on his lips.

He wanted to say it might be her problem, a problem of her origin.

Although his Supreme Double Pupils could not see any flaws, the System panel wrote it clearly.

Yao Shinian was picked up.

She might not even know herself that she was not her father's biological daughter.

But it was not easy for him to expose it.

"It doesn't matter."

He changed his words and began to comfort her.

"Hmm."

Yao Shinian hugged her blade and nodded, her tone much calmer.

"I'm nothing."

"No token, so be it."

As she spoke, her gaze drifted outside the Heavenly Tower, and her voice lowered.

"It's just... none of the people from our Wuyou Realm came. I didn't expect this."

From the moment she stepped onto the Emperors Path, she had been watching.

Watching everyone who walked by her side, watching every figure that fell from the sky.

She wanted to smell the scent of the Wuyou Realm.

That desolate and evil scent was unique to the Wuyou Realm, and it was also the scent she liked the most, but unfortunately, it was not here.

None.

Not a single one.

"Maybe you will meet them later."

"Without this token, you don't have to collect any Heavenly Mandate Value."

"This thing is not necessarily good."

Qin Wushang changed the subject, but he was telling the truth.

Judging from previous events, the so-called Heavenly Mandate Stone was not necessarily a good thing.

"When I came in, I never thought about competing with them for any Heavenly Mandate Stone."

"I just simply wanted to follow you."

Yao Shinian stated her inner thoughts.

Heavenly Mandate Great Emperor, she had never thought about it, what Breakthrough in Realm, what Heaven-Defying...

In her worldview, there were no such things, nor were they her pursuits.

"Forget it, since you don't want to, it's better to leave here and go to the second floor to take a look."

"The second floor, third floor, and fourth floor all have many Legacies left by the sages of the Human Race."

"Among them, there are even items left by the Heavenly Mandate Great Emperor produced by the Human Race."

Lin Ziyao said.

The first floor was originally just for that token; the Opportunity of the Heavenly Tower was above the second floor.

"Not bad! Let's go up... I think there are some things that need to be taken."

Mu Bingyun nodded.

There was still a Legacy here, which she needed to obtain to completely perfect her own Dao.

"Then let's go."

"I also want to try to get the Grass Sword Art from the sword left by that existence."

"That was left by the Nine-Leaf Sword Ancestor. If I get it, my sword Dao will transform and even catch up with your pace."

Ye Hongfu said, taking the first step toward the second floor.

Everyone watched the girls and Qin Wushang step onto the second floor, one after another went to the Heavenly Monument to start collecting identity tokens.

Xiao Zhanqiu looked at Yao Shinian's back, rubbing his chin, his brows locked tightly together.

"It's not right... very not right... no light... how could there be no light!"

"Looking innocent and kind, like a neighbor girl, but the figure behind is so lonely, like an old monster who has been rolling in the Mortal World for a long time."

"Did you see anything?"

He whispered, as if talking to himself.

The jade pendant on his chest flashed, and a voice that only he could hear emerged from his mind.

"Can't see clearly... a piece of darkness, as if nothing exists."

"Her Karma, her existence, all appeared because of that Supreme Double Pupils."

"Cannot pry too much, otherwise it will backlash; with your little Lifespan, you can't bear it."

"What you should regret is why you didn't take down that order-disrupting person at all costs and get the Human Race's golden Heavenly Mandate token."

Listening to these words, Xiao Zhanqiu's tone suddenly turned cold.

He said, "You make it sound easy! In the current situation, let me get injured to win this; how should I live on?"

"Are you counting on an Evil Ghost like you who wants to trade everything?"