Du Xiaodie followed them in as well. When she saw this scene, worry appeared on her face. But before she could ask, the Du Family Head lying on the bed opened his eyes. His gaze turned toward the door as he spoke to the mother and daughter.
"You two go out first. I have something to discuss with Ping'an."
Du Xiaodie instinctively wanted to refuse, but before the words left her mouth, her mother pulled her away and led her out of the room, closing the door behind them as they left.
Only after the mother and daughter had gone did the Du Family Head sit up.
His injuries were quite severe. Even the simple act of getting out of bed left him gasping in pain. Du Ping'an tried several times to press him back down, but he stopped him every time.
He walked over to the corner and turned the decorative porcelain vase three times.
Rumble...
After the sound of a mechanism activating, the bed sank into the floor, and a vermilion wooden box rose from below.
"This is what injured me."
"Eh?"
When Du Ping'an saw the wooden box, Chen Luo, far away in Longevity Temple, saw it too. Not only did he see the box, he also saw what was sealed inside it.
It was a copper mirror.
The patterns on the back of the mirror were beautiful, but that was not important. What truly caught Chen Luo's attention was what lay within the mirror.
Demonic aura!
More precisely, the aura of an Otherworldly Demon.
The Otherworldly Demons of this era had yet to take shape. Chen Luo had been in this era for so long, yet he had not encountered a single powerful Otherworldly Demon. He had originally thought they were things that emerged only after