"This..."
After Lu Yuan's barrage of questions, Old Tom found himself at a loss for words.
His adopted grandson, Lu Yuan, standing before him, seemed genuinely concerned about him. Although he had no idea how Lu Yuan had cultivated to this level,
it was clear that Old Tom had misjudged him. He was plainly an unparalleled genius, without precedent in history and most likely without equal in the ages to come.
Lu Yuan looked in the direction Old Tom had been heading. He seemed to be making his way toward the exhibition's backstage area.
That was where the Seven Great Families prepared the exhibition. More importantly, the many goods on display were stored there.
"Grandpa, you're not after one of the exhibits, are you?" Lu Yuan asked, concern written all over his face.
Seeing Old Tom's startled expression, Lu Yuan became even more certain of his guess.
"Could it be that Golden Hawksbill Turtle Torso Soul Bone, over ninety thousand years old?" Lu Yuan named the centerpiece of this exhibition.
After all, the Crown Prince's faction represented by Qian Renxue, the great families within the Heaven Dou Empire, and even the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect were all targeting this incomparably precious torso soul bone.
"That's right."
As though exhaling his final breath, Old Tom awkwardly revealed his true reason for coming to Heaven Dou City.
"But... that Golden Hawksbill Turtle Torso Soul Bone should have been mine to begin with!"
Anger stirred in Old Tom's heart. He seemed to recall something unpleasant, his face clouded with sorrow and resentment.
In the six years since bidding Lu Yuan farewell in Nuoding City, Old Tom had traveled across the Douluo Continent in search of this torso soul bone, which had vanished from the world's