Chapter 9: The Demon Tower
With a flash of golden light, Lin Yan and Ji Mingyue were moved to the first floor of the Demon Suppression Tower. However, he didn't see the ninth sword spirit, obviously he had already passed the first layer.
On the surface, the Demon Suppression Tower looks like an ordinary tower, as if it can be knocked down with a single punch. But after hundreds of thousands of years of erosion, it has not left a trace on its body.
Lin Yan carefully looked at the first floor of the Demon Suppression Tower, and found that the space on the first floor of the Demon Suppression Tower was not large, and it was about the same size as it appeared from the outside.
There were a total of nine rooms on the first floor, and the doors of each room were closed, Lin Yan casually pushed open the first door, and was startled by the scene inside.
The area of the room is not large, only about a few dozen square meters. But in this small room, there is a huge skeleton of a reptile, and its species is no longer visible. According to Lin Yan's visual measurement, he is three meters tall and at least five meters long.
Dozens of chains protruded from the walls on both sides, dropping huge bones from the control.
This should be a demon clan powerhouse imprisoned by the Wu clan, but after all, it did not stand the test of time, and turned into a pile of white bones in the long river of time.
Lin Yan stretched out his right hand and gently touched the huge white bones, the huge white bones were like sand piled up, Lin Yan turned into ashes as soon as he touched them, and the entire room was only empty chains.
Lin Yan and Ji Mingyue opened the doors of several other rooms in turn, and as expected, there was not a single living life in all of them. The strength of the demon clan and the half-demon clan of the first layer is the lowest, and after hundreds of thousands of years of erosion, all of them have turned into a pile of white bones.
The passage from the first floor to the second floor, in the last room, is a miniature teleportation array. Lin Yan couldn't help but be speechless, isn't the entire staircase over, why do you need the entire teleportation array.
No, because it had been too long, the energy of the formation had been lost, and Lin Yan's two S-level demon beast energy crystals had been wasted in vain.
The space of the second floor of the Demon Town Tower is much smaller than that of the first floor, and the number of rooms is also one less, only eight rooms, arranged according to the pattern of the Nine Palaces Bagua, corresponding to the eight directions of the Bagua.
With the experience of the last time, Lin Yan and Ji Mingyue immediately divided into two ways and began to look for the teleportation array to the third layer. Because they didn't know if there were still living demon clans or half-demon clan powerhouses in the Demon Suppression Tower, once the Ninth Sword Spirit successfully released them, it would be an unprecedented disaster for the entire Shenzhou Continent.
Therefore, they must race against time to catch up with the Ninth Sword Spirit as fast as possible and stop him before he releases the surviving half-demon clan or demon clan powerhouse, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.
The situation on the second floor was similar to that on the first floor, there was not a single surviving demon in all the rooms, and even the bones had been weathered.
In the end, the two of them found a miniature teleportation array in the room in the southeast, and like the previous one, they consumed Lin Yan's two S-level demon beast energy crystals. But fortunately, Lin Yan had killed a lot of S-level demon beasts before, and he still had a little stock, otherwise they wouldn't even be able to open the teleportation array.
When Lin Yan was looking for the blood of the ancestral witch, he encountered many demon beasts above the S level, and almost all of them were killed by Lin Yan. However, since there was no formation in the city, it could not be transformed into a Blood Spirit Pill, so Lin Yan could only dig up the energy crystals of the demon beasts and abandon their corpses in the wilderness.
Lin Yan and Ji Mingyue only felt that it was dark in front of them, and they came to the third layer of the Demon Suppression Tower, and like the previous two layers, they still did not find any trace of the ninth sword spirit.
The style of the third floor is similar to the two floors below, except that there is one less room, only seven rooms. Other than that, everything else is the same, there is still no survivor, probably because the strength of the two clans imprisoned in the following layers is too low, and hundreds of thousands of years is too long for them.
Lin Yan and Ji Mingyue are still divided into two ways, because this is the most time-saving.
In this way, Lin Yan and Ji Mingyue chased all the way to the seventh layer, and still did not catch up with the footsteps of the ninth sword spirit.
However, halfway through, they found that each floor they ascended, the higher the intact level of the corpses of the powerhouses of the two clans. Up to the sixth floor, the corpse was very well preserved, with no signs of weathering. Seeing this, Lin Yan immediately had a bad premonition.
The number of rooms in the Demon Tower decreases as the number of floors increases. By the time they reached the seventh floor, the number of rooms had dropped to only three, and Lin Yan and Ji Mingyue had picked a room and entered it to check.
As soon as he entered the room, Lin Yan felt that something was wrong, that is, he had an indescribable premonition.
In the middle of the room hung a corpse, yes, a humanoid corpse. This was the first humanoid corpse Lin Yan had seen in the Demon Suppression Tower, although Lin Yan was sure that it was too dead to die anymore. However, the strange feeling in my heart still lingers.
Lin Yan remembered that Bai Lao said that people with the power of merit would have a premonition of the impending danger, so Lin Yan didn't dare to be careless at all.
When Lin Yan looked at the corpse carefully, he found an incredible scene. He found that the top of the chain that held the corpse was stained with some blood from the corpse. What shocked Lin Yan the most was that the blood was still fresh.
Lin Yan didn't know how many tens of thousands of years this guy had been dead, and his blood still seemed to be "fresh", which surprised him too much.
Moreover, on these "fresh" blood, there was even an aura that made him feel palpitations. Lin Yan felt that if he had a trace of it, he would definitely die a miserable death. He couldn't imagine how terrifying this corpse's strength had reached during the period of total victory.
Lin Yan slowly approached the corpse, wanting to take a look at the corpse.
Although Lin Yan was sure that it was dead, he still didn't dare to be careless, and slowly moved in the direction of the corpse little by little, as if he was afraid that one of them would wake him up if he was not careful.
There was not a single sound in the whole room, and the atmosphere was oppressive and suffocating.
Lin Yan cautiously approached the corpse, and slowly Lin Yan found that the surface of the blood on the chain was actually flowing with strange runes.
When Lin Yan looked closely, he found that most of these strange runes seemed to be broken, but they were still circulating jerky. It's like a small broken formation engraved in the blood. Perhaps it is precisely because of the existence of these runes that these blood can still be kept "fresh".
Looking at these strange runes, Lin Yan had a whim, and he wanted to reach out and touch them, forgetting his previous premonition for a while.
"Be careful!"
A voice exploded in Lin Yan's mind, Lin Yan was suddenly stunned, but it was too late, Lin Yan's fingers had already touched the blood on the chain.
The moment Lin Yan's fingers touched the blood, he only felt a huge force knocking him out, and his body slammed into the stone wall of the room.
"Bang!" A loud sound came out, and Lin Yan felt as if his right hand was about to be broken, and his whole body ached.
"Poof!" Lin Yan only felt a sweetness in his throat, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
"You kid really don't know life or death, don't think that with a little strength, you are not afraid of anything. Bai Lao's voice sounded in Lin Yan's mind again. This time, even Lin Yan's master did not intercede for him, in his opinion, Lin Yan was too bold this time.
Lin Yan also knew that he was too arbitrary this time, and he did not refute Bai Lao's scolding, and he also knew that Bai Lao and his master were for his own good.
Patting his chest, Lin Yan still felt palpitations, he didn't expect that his body at the second layer of the Flood Desolation Holy Body, which was the ultimate in refining his body, would be defeated by a drop of blood.
Since Lin Yan reached the second layer of the Flood Desolation Holy Body, the ultimate body refining, he had never been injured until now, let alone spat blood from his mouth.
Looking at this drop of bright red blood, Lin Yan couldn't help but feel frightened. Just now, Lin Yan really felt the threat of death, if it wasn't for Bai Lao's reminder earlier, his injuries would probably be much more serious.
It's impossible to say that it's like last time, it's possible for cultivation to fall, if that's really the case, even if he catches up with the ninth sword spirit, what should he do to stop him?
"How is it?" Ji Mingyue heard Lin Yan's movement, and immediately ran over, and when she saw the blood remaining at the corner of Lin Yan's mouth, she immediately asked with concern.
"It's okay, don't worry, it's just a little injury, just wait a minute. Lin Yan was obviously a little uncomfortable with the great change in Ji Mingyue's attitude towards herself.
After hearing Lin Yan say that it was okay, Ji Mingyue breathed a sigh of relief, even she didn't know when she had changed from hating to caring about Lin Yan. The moment he heard Lin Yan's movements, she immediately rushed over, and she was not relieved until she saw that Lin Yan was not a big problem.