Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 366: The Place of Return

The purple light was not static; it was like some viscous resin, slowly seeping into the gaps between Su Ming's bones.

The air atop the Heart-Questioning Platform had been compressed to its limit, emitting a teeth-grating creaking sound. Su Ming's spine was bent into a bow on the verge of snapping. Sweat had just begun to seep from his pores when it was instantly vaporized by the intense heat, leaving only a white layer of salt frost on his skin.

And in the deepest part of his soul, that desperate gamble was entering its final stage.

*Crack.*

That crisp sound didn't resemble the snapping of metal, but rather the sound of bark from a tree that had dried for a hundred years being casually peeled off by a mischievous child.

Under the violent purple spiritual sense drill of the Punishment Peak elder, the outermost "ordinary iron" shell of the Xuantian ring—meticulously disguised by Su Ming and mixed with Spirit-Cleansing Water and dust—finally could not hold any longer.

Fragments fell like black snowflakes, rustling down, turning into wisps of turbid gray smoke in the air before they even hit the ground.

The purple light in the old woman's eyes flared brilliantly, her withered wooden cane almost touching the surface of the bronze mirror. "Show your true form to this old woman!"

As the final layer of disguise was stripped away, the ring finally revealed its "true appearance."

There was no imagined dazzling golden light of a divine artifact emerging, nor a surging sea of blood from an awakening demonic weapon.It was a ring of an extremely dull color. Its material was neither metal nor wood, presenting a deep, oxidized blackish-brown hue left by the passage of time. The ring's surface was covered with countless hair-thin scratches, marks left by time itself. Only on the inner circle of the ring could a few naturally formed dark spots faintly be seen, like age spots on an old person's skin.

Ordinary.

Even ugly, one might say.

Yet, the instant this layer of ordinariness was fully exposed to the air, a sudden, bizarre change occurred.

*Hiss—*

extremely faint, yet clearly audible sound of airflow pierced

air within a three-foot radius suddenly became viscous. The ambient spiritual energy that had been firmly suppressed by the old woman's oppressive aura now acted like sharks smelling blood, defying physical laws,

miniature vortex visible to the naked eye above the

mysteriously transformed. Though the quantity was small, it was an incredibly pure and gentle soul power, flowing like a trickling stream, replenishing Su Ming's Consciousness Sea, which was already

"Hmm?"

flash of astonishment passed through her turbid

ring... is protecting its

process it,

like a drop of water falling into a calm lake,

iron had been plunged into a

aura was mixed with resentment, malice, and greed—the residual dregs of obsession left behind by the previous masters who had died tragic deaths, deliberately released by Lin Yu

tongue, darted left and right within the purple cocoon of light,

extremely abrupt, faint sigh as soft

"...The place of return..."

that of a woman, ethereal as if separated by countless ages, carrying

aura and the most pure, clean sigh of peace—were absurdly entangled together, creating

of devilry is

to discover that the ring had generated a

At this critical juncture.

"Stand down."

"Halt."

sounded almost

of spiritual energy, the icy murderous aura, and even the purple cocoon of light seemed to be smoothed by an invisible hand, instantly solidifying and quieting down. The latter was cold and sharp as ice, carrying the indisputable authority of law. As if words became law, it directly "severed" the bizarre suction

of the Heart-Questioning Platform had been torn open like a