The smile gradually vanished from Azure Emperor's face. Confronted by these "elders" burning with enthusiasm, he asked, "Granddaughter? Hope? What do you mean?"
Luo Feng silently held Azure Emperor firmly in place, while the surrounding elders caught his meaning and closed in around him.
"Young friend Wan... are you married?"
Azure Emperor immediately realized what they were plotting. Oh, no! These old fossils have filthy minds!
He couldn't help looking at Donkey.
Donkey snorted two streams of white vapor and turned his head aside, as though saying, What are you looking at me for? I didn't tell you to go up there!
The Luo Family's inner grounds.
In an exceedingly secluded courtyard, five-colored vines spread from the corners along the walls, climbed to their tops, and finally draped over a neatly spaced trellis erected to one side.
Five-Colored Divine Fruit hung thick beneath it, differing in color and properties, each deliciously fresh.
This was the Luo Family's most important divine medicine. Their Ancestor had brought it back from the outside world years ago, and the family had later planted it in this courtyard.
At the very center of the courtyard stood a hall resembling an ancestral shrine. Inside, however, there were neither spirit tablets nor incense burners, only a deep, dark-colored coffin.
The Luo Family junior cautiously and respectfully stepped over the threshold, rounded a corner with quick strides, and soon reached the coffin in the hall.
Following his elders' instructions, Luo Qing first knelt before the coffin and reverently knocked his forehead against the floor three times. Only then did he rise and slowly push open the dark coffin.
"Ancestor!"
The moment Luo Qing spoke, the handsome man with a youthful figure inside the coffin suddenly opened his eyes and slowly sat up.
"Has the family encountered an