Chapter 699: Chapter 671: Has that old man Yun Yi gone mad? _2
"Err..." Ji Shang’s mouth twitched uncontrollably. "Your seventh uncle?"
Xiaosuisui nodded. "Yeah! My seventh uncle!"
Ji Shang tilted his head to think, a sudden flash of realization sparked in his mind. With a burst of excitement, he said, "Did you say your last name is Ji? And you call me your maternal grandfather?"
Xiaosuisui nodded. "Yeah!"
Ji Shang swallowed hard, slapping his forehead fervently. I’m such a fool, he thought. I’ve always believed this place was a Dream Realm woven for me by the Illusory Immortal, treating you as a mere illusion without giving it much thought!
"Huh?"
Xiaosuisui blinked. "So, Grandfather isn’t a fool; he’s just overly cautious."
"Have you ever seen a fool as handsome and with such high Cultivation as I am?"
Hearing Xiaosuisui’s murmur, Ji Shang couldn’t help but flick her forehead lightly, finding the situation both amusing and frustrating.
"OW! That hurts!"
Feeling the pain on her forehead, Xiaosuisui pouted, her eyes welling up with tears.
"Er... It’s Grandfather’s fault." Ji Shang quickly picked up Xiaosuisui to comfort her. "I hurt my precious baby. Don’t cry, don’t cry!" He swayed gently as if soothing an infant in a cradle.
Xiaosuisui, feeling her grandfather’s embrace and his baby-like comforting, was momentarily taken aback.
"Grandfather, you’re so childish!" she could only remark, before jumping from his arms. Her little mouth pursed, and she huffily turned her head to the side. The little girl was angry.
Ji Shang stood to the side, watching with great amusement.
"She... she’s angry?"
Ultimately, Ji Shang decided to surrender. He bent down, looked at Xiaosuisui’s pouting lips, and playfully tapped her little nose. "Look at those pouting lips! You could hang twelve oil pots from them. Come, come, Grandfather has something fun for you. Do you want it?"
"Something? And it’s fun?" Xiaosuisui’s attention was immediately captured. She quickly turned to look at Ji Shang, her large, round eyes blinking. "What is it?"
Ji Shang fumbled inside his sleeve for a long time before finally pulling out a cylindrical tube.
When Xiaosuisui saw the tube, she grinned. "A Kaleidoscope! What’s so fun about this? I have more than a dozen different ones in my room. They were all gifts from His Majesty, my adoptive father!"
What Xiaosuisui said was true. Her room had a small annex filled with all sorts of toys. Each type of toy had many variations, all unique. Even the rattle-drums came in a set of three: large, medium, and small.
"Hey! This is no ordinary Kaleidoscope!" Ji Shang explained. "This is a Kaleidoscope of Myriad Arrays. It’s the best magical treasure for Array Practice in the Cultivation Realm. It contains ten thousand different Arrays, from enlightenment to entry-level, then to minor proficiency, and even to the Great Accomplishment stage—Arrays that even someone at your grandfather’s level can study! This Kaleidoscope is ever-changing and endlessly wondrous. Want to try it?"
Hearing Ji Shang mention Arrays, Xiaosuisui suddenly exclaimed, "Oh no! I was so engrossed in talking with you, I almost forgot why I came here."
"Ah! So, what did you come here for?" Ji Shang asked with a smile, still holding the Kaleidoscope.
Xiaosuisui didn’t answer immediately. Instead, she first snatched the Kaleidoscope from Ji Shang’s hand and tried to stuff it into her Sleeve Pouch. However...
She blinked and muttered, What are all these dark things Xiaobai spat out? They’ve completely filled my Sleeve Pouch.
So, her chubby hand fished around in her Sleeve Pouch, pulled out several small black spheres, and offered them to Ji Shang. "You gave me a gift, so I’ll give you one in return. These were spat out by my pet, Xiaobai, when we were passing the Second Level. I didn’t know what they were, so I collected them all. Now I’ll give some to you!"
At first, Ji Shang was thrilled. My darling little granddaughter is so thoughtful, giving her grandfather a gift at such a young age! What a well-mannered, good child!
However, when he heard her say it was something spat out from her pet’s mouth, the initial joy in his heart was instantly overwhelmed by a shadow of apprehension.
Ji Shang, without a second thought, stuffed them into his own Sleeve Pouch.
He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but Xiaosuisui, who had already put the Kaleidoscope away, spoke again. "Oh yes, Grandfather, I actually had Ah Ling pull you in here because I have something to ask you."
Ji Shang’s mouth twitched slightly, but he still nodded and asked, "What is it you want to ask Grandfather? Go ahead and tell me!"
In fact, now that Ji Shang had confirmed this little child was truly his biological granddaughter, he had many questions for her. It was just that his precious granddaughter seemed to have so much to say, he couldn’t find an opportunity to voice his own queries.
"It’s like this," Xiaosuisui explained, "Seventh Uncle and I are challenging the Array of Heaven. We’ve already passed the Second Level, and we’re about to challenge the Third Level."
"The Array of Heaven?" Ji Shang exclaimed, his scalp tingling. "You’re so young, and you’re challenging the Array of Heaven? Are you trying to get yourself killed?" A look of alarm flashed in his eyes!
"We had no choice," Xiaosuisui explained. "Seventh Uncle, His Majesty my adoptive father, Pretty Sister, the National Master, and Li Yanyan, we all went to Yunzhou Island. There, we met Great-grandfather. He transferred all his Power to me, then activated the Array of Heaven, throwing Seventh Uncle and me inside."
Xiaosuisui recounted the events very simply, but Ji Shang listened with mounting fury.
"That old scoundrel, Yun Yi!" he seethed. "Is he insane? How dare he transfer all his Power to you!"