mtl008 Chapter 374 Reappearance
Chapter 374 Reappearance
Chapter 374 Reappearance
After communicating with the Merfolk, the tribe agreed to let him stay on land to protect and supervise the goddess.
With the mermaid crisis temporarily resolved, Xianyu, considering Haimu's health, moved him back to Jinli Residence.
Anyway, there's the Obsidian Teleportation Array, so it's only a quarter of an hour's journey from Koi Residence to Maple Garden.
Haimu only needs to make a round trip every two days to confirm that the goddess's condition is normal.
With the danger of being targeted by mermaids reduced, Tu Xiaoxiao suggested taking Shen Yao back to the Tu family home: "Would you like to meet my parents, my wife? My mother really wants to meet you."
Tu Xiaoxiao had followed him away from home for many years, and accompanying him back to visit his parents was not an unreasonable request.
Shen Yao used her spiritual sense to search through her storage space: "What do your parents like? What gifts should I prepare?"
She readily agreed, which pleased Tu Xiaoxiao: "Yaoyao, don't worry, I've prepared everything."
Having decided to meet them, they didn't hesitate. Tu Xiaoxiao immediately sent a message to her parents, arranging to return to the Tu family home in the afternoon.
Huo Die also went along.
Shen Yao wasn't nervous at all when she met her in-laws for the first time.
There's nothing to it but self-confidence.
Beautiful, rich, and a skilled fighter—her overall strength is so great that she can't possibly feel inferior.
Even if Tu Xiaoxiao's parents don't like her, they can simply cut off all contact in the future.
Anyway, I'm living with my own husband, not my in-laws.
She felt no psychological burden whatsoever.
Those with strength can stand tall.
It was just a meeting with Tu Xiaoxiao's parents, but the Tu family made quite a show of it.
The Tu family patriarch and elders, along with Tu Xiaoxiao's parents and his direct descendants, waited in the reception hall of the outer courtyard of the Long family castle to welcome them.
All sorts of fox spirits, big and small, were dressed in flamboyant attire, each with a foxy smile on their face.
A huge, joyful crowd, creating quite a lively scene.
The Tu family head looked at Huo Die, who was walking ahead, from a distance and quickly recognized him as Huo Xiandi.
He immediately smiled and strode forward to greet Huo Die: "Hahaha, Emperor Huo, father-in-law."
Huo Dieyi smiled slyly: "Oh, Patriarch Tu can recognize me?"
The Tu family patriarch chuckled, "Alas, how many immortal lords in this world can be like my father-in-law, seemingly a god descended to earth? Hahahaha..."
Shen Yao recognized the Tu family head and addressed him as "Grandpa" in a natural and open manner.
She had changed her appearance. Tu Xiaoxiao had shown her portrait to the clansmen beforehand, so the Tu family head recognized her at a glance: "Hahaha, Fairy Shen, my dear granddaughter-in-law, you have changed your appearance and are getting more and more beautiful."
Shen Yao smiled and accepted it without any modesty.
"This is my good daughter-in-law." A joyful voice rang out as Tu Shiyan and Long Yi stepped forward hand in hand, followed by her other two husbands.
Shen Yao was stunned for a moment when she saw Tu Xiaoxiao's mother.
Her mother-in-law looked exactly like the beautiful fox demon she had seen in her nightmares.
In the nightmare, the red pearl that Ningyao Goddess had refined from bones fell into the belly of this beautiful fox demon.
Tu Xiaoxiao gently tugged at her sleeve and pulled her to introduce them one by one: "Yaoyao, this is my mother, my father, my second father, and my fifth father."
Shen Yao came to her senses, suppressed her panic, handed over the prepared gifts, and addressed them one by one: "Mother, Father, Second Father, Fifth Father."
The four elders accepted the gifts and returned them one by one, all smiling and saying "good, good, good..."
Tu Ruanruan leaned closer to Shen Yao, covering her face with an embroidered fan, her foxy eyes smiling alluringly: "Second sister-in-law, your appearance now is more than ten times more beautiful than before, how did you do it?"
Shen Yao replied softly, "I've grown up, I've matured. You know, I was young before, maybe I'm only just coming of age now?"
"Pfft." Tu Ruanruan laughed out loud: "The only person I've ever seen who can become an adult again after reaching adulthood is my second sister-in-law."
Two young peacock demons followed behind Tu Ruanruan and also came up to call her "sister-in-law".
They are Hua Chengcheng and Hua Xiangxiang, the sons of Tu Shiyan and her second and fifth husbands, and Tu Xiaoxiao's half-brother.
Shen Yao had never met these two brothers before; they had just finished their training and returned to Longyuan City not long ago.
Shen Yao exchanged gifts with them and they became relatives.
Tu Shiyan then led her to meet each of the Tu family members who had come to pick her up, and Shen Yao's face was practically frozen from smiling.
Tu Xiaoxiao only prepared gifts for her parents, siblings and younger brother, but she didn't expect so many relatives to come.
Fortunately, Shen Yao used to love shopping and hoarding things, and now the good things she bought before came in handy, solving her immediate problem.
After a brief introduction, the clansmen escorted them back to the Tu family home.
Tu Shiyan's courtyard is beautifully decorated, with artificial hills and waterside pavilions creating picturesque scenes everywhere.
She led the cultivators into the hall. After the servants served tea and refreshments, Tu Shiyan first expressed her sincere gratitude to Shen Yao and her father in front of the clan members.
Her son became the Ten-Tailed Fox Emperor. The Tu family did not believe that with their power, they could have made Tu Xiaoxiao rise from Fox Ancestor to Fox Emperor in just over ten years.
If becoming a Demon Emperor were so easy, the demon race wouldn't have gone 100,000 years without a single Demon Emperor cultivator appearing in the world.
Tu Xiaoxiao is the first demon emperor to appear in the demon race in 100,000 years.
If a high-ranking demon emperor can cultivate to his peak, he might become a god on the verge of death, or even a demon god in the end.
Moreover, Tu Xiaoxiao said that he was promoted to Demon Venerable because of his father-in-law's help, and he was able to be promoted to Demon Emperor because Yao Yao gave him several divine-level cultivation techniques.
The Tu family unanimously agreed that they were extremely honored to have become in-laws with the father and daughter from Tianwaitian.
Huo Die deserved the Tu family's gratitude. He sat in the main seat with a calm expression and a suitable faint smile on his face.
Listening to the excessively exaggerated thanks from the Tu family head and her mother-in-law, Shen Yao forced an awkward smile and said, "Grandpa and Mother are too kind. It's mainly because Xiaoxiao is talented and hardworking."
She praised Tu Xiaoxiao sincerely: "Xiaoxiao is the best demon lord in the world, good in every way."
Upon hearing this, all the cultivators of the Tu family smiled broadly. Tu Shiyan was extremely satisfied; her son had found someone to rely on, and she, as his mother, was finally at ease.
Shen Yao held Tu Xiaoxiao's hand tightly, her palms sweating.
Tu Xiaoxiao gently rubbed the sweat from her palm with her fingertips, smiling indulgently.
He whispered in her ear, "Are you nervous, my wife?"
Shen Yao covered her mouth and whispered back to him, "It's not nervousness, it's embarrassment. Tell them to stop praising me."
Tu Xiaoxiao readily came to her rescue: "Grandpa, Mom, I heard that today's head chef is Chef Zhang's granddaughter. She should know all of her grandfather's signature dishes, right?"
Tu Shiyan hurriedly invited everyone to the banquet: "Everyone, everyone! Look at me, I'm having so much fun that I forgot to invite my in-laws to the table. Father-in-law, daughter-in-law, come on, let's go and try the cooking of Longyuan City's newly emerging famous chef."
Both families enjoyed the meeting and were very happy.
They stayed overnight at the Tu family's house, in Xiaoxiang Garden, a place they hadn't lived in for many years.
The three wisteria trees in the courtyard are unchanged from before, with the vines in full bloom like waterfalls and the petals on the ground like a lake.
After dismissing the servants in the courtyard, Tu Xiaoxiao took Shen Yaofei up a tree.
It was the tree branch where he first hugged her.
He lay on a tree branch, holding her in his arms, letting her lie against his chest, and gently patted the tree trunk with his fox tail. The wisteria petals fell like rain.
Petals fell into their hair, onto Shen Yao's back, and onto Tu Xiaoxiao's fox tail...
He truly understands romance.
"Yao Yao." He deliberately lowered his voice, making Shen Yao pout.
Shen Yao tried to restrain herself, but she couldn't suppress the urge to smile.
She was shy and buried her face in the crook of his neck.
Tu Xiaoxiao smiled as she looked at the wisteria petals in her hair: "This was the first time I held you in my arms."
"How about yesterday is recreated, my wife?"