Chapter 32: Serendipity
After about half an hour, they saw an upward staircase, apparently to the second floor.
Chu Lingyan couldn't help but sit down, waved her hand to Li Taiyi and said, "Brother Taiyi, Xiao Yan is no longer good, and may not be able to accompany you to the top." β
Li Taiyi said, "It's okay, Xiao Yan, you stay on the first floor first." β
He had also carefully felt that although the coercion within the first layer would make the monk feel a little uncomfortable, it would be of great benefit to the consolidation of cultivation. Moreover, there is no danger here, and it is also suitable for Chu Lingyan to cultivate here.
Chu Lingyan listened, sat down cross-legged, and practiced the mental method.
The remaining four people climbed the steps, and it could be seen that the vast majority of the monks chose to continue to stay on the first floor of the tower, and only a small half of the monks with higher cultivation stepped into the steps leading to the second floor like Li Taiyi and the others.
As soon as Li Taiyi's feet stepped on the steps, he felt as if he had stepped on coals. The further up she went, the hotter it became, Gu Changyi and Zi Wan'er were already sweating profusely, only Yue Wuyin's expression was still the same, and the power of the divine soul emitted by the red moon mark shining between her eyebrows wrapped her whole body, saving her from the erosion of the high temperature.
This staircase was only a hundred floors, but it took Li Taiyi and the others half an hour to enter the second floor.
The scene on the second floor of the tower was like purgatory, and as far as the eye could see, there were endless cracks of red rock and soil, and there was a raging rootless red fire burning on it, and the sky was scarlet and cloudless. The heat caused the air around everyone to fluctuate slightly.
Li Taiyi and the others were like entering a steamer, and Gu Changyi and Zi Wan'er were sweating like rain, not only did they have to endure the terrible heat, but they also had to take a detour to avoid the flames blocking the road.
After walking a distance, those flames seemed to suddenly have a spiritual intelligence, and began to gather towards Li Taiyi and the others, surrounding them layer by layer.
There was a ball of red flame tumbling, jumping into the air and turning into a flame python, opening its bloody mouth and biting Li Taiyi and the others fiercely.
Gu Changyi and Zi Wan'er's faces changed in an instant, and they used their hands to protect their heads with spiritual power. But Yue Wuyin raised her eyebrows and opened her mouth when the fire python pounced. A crisp phoenix roar sounded, and the flames around her and the oncoming fire python were extinguished out of thin air like pouring sand.
Gu Changyi and Zi Wan'er breathed a sigh of relief, and said gratefully to Yue Wuyin: "Just now, thank you to the Holy Maiden for coming to the rescue. β
Yue Wuyin ignored them, but turned her head and asked Li Taiyi with a smile, "How is it?"
"Awesome. Li Taiyi said with admiration. He naturally knew that the exercise urged by Yue Wuyin was the "Phoenix Song" that she had obtained in the Thousand Gate Scripture Pavilion before, although he had guessed that the exercise was not a mortal thing, but after seeing Yue Wuyin use this method, Li Taiyi was still taken aback.
This kind of power is indeed a few points stronger than his own "Separation from the Fire". It seems that only by finding the remaining fragments of "Leaving the Fire" can it be spared the restraint of Yu Yue's Wuyin "Phoenix Song".
After a while, the ground that had been completely eliminated by the Moon Silent Technique began to burn again. Gu Changyi and Zi Wan'er glanced at each other, and they both smiled helplessly.
Gu Changyi hugged his fists at Li Taiyi and Yue Wuyin and said, "Holy Maiden, Brother Li, I'm very sorry. Although Wan'er and I would love to go up with you, for now, it seems that the two of us should stop there. β
Zi Wan'er also bent her knees and said, "Although there is some danger here, the little girl and Changyi joined forces and came over. Besides, the flames here can promote the cultivation of our own cultivation, and cultivating here is very good for me and Changyi. If you forcibly climb the next level with the two, you will lose your life, not to mention, I am afraid that it will drag the two back. β
Yue Wuyin thought for a while and said, "It's okay." Mrs. Li said to the two, "Take care." Then he and Yue Wuyin continued to walk forward.
After another pillar of incense, Li Taiyi and Yue Wuyin saw the steps leading to the third floor. The steps were covered with cracked bricks burning with red flames, and just as Yue Wuyin was about to urge "Phoenix Song" to clear the flames, Li Taiyi stopped her and said, "Don't worry, these flames may be a creation of mine." β
He looked around, and there was no one else but Moon Wuyin, and he opened the heavenly eye on his forehead.
Golden pupils shone on the steps. Li Taiyi pressed his eyebrows under his eyes and shouted, "Come on!"
Suddenly, layers of flames peeled off the steps and floated into the air to converge into a long flame injection that quickly poured into Li Taiyi's Heavenly Eye.
As early as when he was cultivating the "Separation from the Fire Technique", Li Taiyi realized that he not only had a special affinity for fire, but also that the power of launching the "Separation from the Fire Technique" would fluctuate with the level of his cultivation of the flame.
All he could urge before was mortal fire, but his power was already extremely amazing. The flames in this Nine Dragon Demon Tower are extremely mysterious at a glance, and if they can be used for themselves, their strength will inevitably go to a higher level.
After a pillar of incense, Li Taiyi would stop absorbing the red flames on the steps with the Heavenly Eye. He closed his heavenly eyes, walked to the side and sat down and said to Yue Wuyin, "Wuyin, you go first, I need to spend some time refining the flames that are incorporated into my body." I'll naturally follow later. β
Yue Wuyin looked at Li Taiyi and said a little angrily: "Are you crazy, how can this work?"
Li Taiyi looked at Yue Wuyin suspiciously, not understanding why she objected.
Yue Wuyin shook his head and said, "This place is full of dangers, and there may be monks who come here to climb the tower in a while. If you cultivate here alone, not only is it extremely risky, but if you meet someone wrong, you may die here. β
"That'...... What do you mean?"
Yue Wuyin took out the guqin from the ring, and after setting it up on the side, she said to Li Taiyi: "You can cultivate here with peace of mind, I will accompany you and help you protect the Fa." β
Li Taiyi couldn't believe his ears a little, when did the famous Red Moon Holy Maiden of the Red Moon Empire become so considerate.
"Hurry up and get started, grind something. Yue Wuyin said impatiently.
Mrs. Li smiled, raised her head and said "thank you" to Yue Wuyin, and then sat down and used the mental method to refine the flames in her body.
Yue Wuyin turned her head away, snorted softly, and ignored Li Taiyi again.
After an hour, Li Taiyi refined all the flames that had been incorporated into his body. He pinched his fingers and summoned a ray of flame, which danced happily on his fingertips.
The color of the flames changed from crimson to scarlet, and a faint smell of blood could be felt coming from the inner flames.
"The flame qi you absorbed this time is too heavy," Yue Wuyin frowned and said, "Although your strength has improved, if you can't find a way to suppress the evil qi in your body, it may not be a good thing for you." β
"Got it. But you, when did you start caring about me?" Li Taiyi teased.
"Dare to be poor," Yue Wuyin said angrily, "Hurry up and climb the tower, in between your cultivation, there are already thirteen people who have entered the third layer one step ahead of us." β
"Thirteen?" Li Taiyi was a little surprised, "I didn't expect that after the first 1,000 people of the younger generation in the Nine Dragons Domain entered the Nine Dragons Demon Tower, only more than ten of them could reach the third layer. β
Yue Wuyin sighed and said, "Don't underestimate this Nine Dragons Demon Tower." The legend of this tower did not know that it began to circulate tens of thousands of years ago, and even if it was a profound predecessor, he did not dare to be presumptuous in the face of this tower. β
"Do you remember, I told you earlier that there is a top sect power that wants to take this tower away?"
Mrs. Lee nodded.
"Those powerful cultivators are not under the domain master of my domain, but when they urged the law to be decided on this tower, somehow, they were actually sucked into the body of the tower by this tower and refined it alive. β
"When the sect masters of those sects heard that their subordinates had died, they were all furious. One of the sect masters personally descended on this tower, and raised his hand to raise a mountain of eight hundred miles to smash this tower alive, but unexpectedly, the nine true dragon bones around this tower suddenly rose up, biting off the head of the sect master, and the primordial spirit chewed most of it. β
"But after all, that sect master is one of the supreme powers in the world, and he relied on a little fragment of the Yuan Shen to support his headless body back to the sect, and he held on for three days before he died. β
"Before he died, he broke open his belly, used the navel as his mouth, and shouted the words 'the demon tower has a spirit, the real dragon is not dead' several times, and then he died. β
At this point, the term Nine Dragons Demon Tower is like a taboo in the mouths of many powerful people, and it is rarely mentioned. β
Li Taiyi's eyes widened after hearing this, he originally thought that although the Nine Dragons Demon Tower was against the sky, it was just a dead tower after all, but he didn't expect that there was such a terrifying legend.
"The tower itself is extremely weird, so you have to be in awe of it, or you risk being targeted by the 'ominous'. β
"What is 'unknown'?" asked Mrs. Lee.
"We are the collective name of the people of the Nine Dragons region for the unexpected. β
Mrs. Li nodded, and the words that Yue Wuyin said to him earlier were deeply engraved in his mind.
"The demon tower has a spirit, and the real dragon is not dead. Li Taiyi savored these eight words in his heart.
Yue Wuyin used the phoenix song to clear a way on the steps covered with flames, and walked up to the third floor of the Nine Dragons Demon Tower with Li Taiyi.
As soon as the two of them entered the third layer, they felt a sharp pain in their brains, like a thousand silver needles piercing into their brains.
"This is a divine soul forbiddenβ" Yue Wuyin said to Li Taiyi in pain, and she took out the jade flute from the ring and blew it with difficulty.
Because of the interference of the prohibition on the third layer in the tower, Yue Wuyin's flute sound this time was far less pleasant than before, but it finally gave Li Taiyi a chance to breathe.
He spit out a fire dragon to surround him and Yue Wuyin, and used the soul heart spell to inject the power of the soul into the fire dragon, so that he and Yue Wuyin were temporarily isolated from the terrifying coercion in the tower.
Yue Wuyin broke out in a cold sweat, you know, the divine soul has always been her strength, but under the prohibition and oppression in the tower, her divine soul looks so unbearable.
Li Taiyi just wanted to say something, but found that a ball of golden light pierced his fire dragon and flew away at great speed.
Yue Wuyin's eyes lit up and said:
"Hurry up! This is one of the chances hidden in the Nine Dragons Demon Tower. β