The next day.
It was as if the night sky that sealed off all the light sources in the lower world seemed to have just been slowly pulled away from the sky.
When Su Yuntian and He Rong saw that there was nothing unusual in the white tower and Pang Jian had not stepped out, the two families immediately took action.
Without informing Luo Hongyan, He Rong arranged for his loyal subordinates to pick the spiritual herbs he had identified.
Su Yuntian was too embarrassed to explain himself, so he arranged for Su Meng to go over and talk.
"Sister Ning..."
Su Meng bypassed the white tower and came to where Luo Hongyan was, with an apologetic look on her face: "My father and Uncle Rong have decided to leave the island. They plan to pick some herbs they know and then leave later."
Luo Hongyan waved her hand in disdain.
The "spiritual demons" under her control have already figured out the island thoroughly. She knows the layout of the island and the types and quantities of spiritual medicines.
She had seen higher-level herbs, but the herbs she saw through "Lingsha" were not able to help her forge flesh and blood.
So she was not in a very good mood.
She had murderous intention in her heart. She had originally planned to arrange for the two families to fight with the one in the "well" to test his strength, but now she changed her mind.
She asked "Lingsha" to keep an eye on the movements of the two families, ready to wipe them out before they left the island, and then take the spiritual plants they mined for herself.
However, when she looked at Su Meng's receding back, there was a hint of hesitation in her eyes.
When Su Meng was about to disappear, she turned back and waved at her with a sweet smile. She snorted secretly, "Stinky girl, I'll spare your life."
Having made up her mind, she turned her gaze back to the White Tower, muttering to herself, "It's only one night. Even if the spiritual formation arranged by the spiritual jade at the bottom of the tower is magical, it will be difficult for Pang Jian to fill up his spiritual sea in one night."
She knew that there was no rush, as Pang Jian could not possibly reach the Tongmai realm overnight, so she asked "Lingsha" to keep a close eye on the well.
The Su and He families were busy until the morning, and after nervously harvesting a number of spiritual plants that they recognized, they prepared to say goodbye with satisfaction.
As for what kind of danger existed next to Shangguan Qin, He Rong and Su Yuntian did not intend to ask.
They arranged for their tribesmen to take the picked herbs and head towards where the bamboo raft was moored. Su Meng did not come over to say goodbye this time.
Luo Hongyan said nothing, but secretly had already let the "spiritual evil" take action to carefully wipe out the two families.
In order to avoid alerting Pang Jian and the person in the well next to Shangguan Qin, she planned to let Su Yuntian, He Rong and others get on the bamboo raft first so that they could take action when they were on the lake.
When the time comes.
Those people were attacked but had no cover and had no way out except jumping into the water, and "Lingsha" had more advantages underwater.
Luo Hongyan had planned everything out. She was just waiting for the two families to transport the spiritual herbs to the bamboo raft, and would take action as soon as the raft was far away from the island in the middle of the lake.
After a moment.
A "spiritual evil spirit" slowly floated up from the jungle. Just as it was about to take action, a look of surprise suddenly appeared in the eyes of Luo Hongyan, who was hiding in the dark.
Through the vision of a "Spiritual Evil", she saw two familiar figures emerging from the other side of the island in the middle of the lake.
Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping!
The two men who escaped from the dark ghost seemed to have experienced a long journey. When they pushed aside the tall weeds and suddenly saw the light blue Ulan Lake and an island in the lake, their eyes suddenly lit up.
Then, Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping saw the Su and He families on the bamboo raft.
Han Duping waved excitedly and shouted loudly.
"Zhou Qingchen!"
"Handuping!"
Su Yuntian and He Rong were also extremely surprised. They didn't expect to meet these two people on their way out.
Then, a bamboo raft drifted over and picked up Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping.
After some pleasantries, Zhou Qingchen knew what had happened and said in surprise and joy, "Pang Jian is still alive!"
He was sincerely happy to learn that Pang Jian was still alive.
"Let's go to the island!"
Zhou Qingchen was full of energy and vigor, sweeping away the previous gloom, and said to Su Yuntian and He Rong: "To be honest, after escaping from the hands of the dark ghost Hong Tai, I have gone through a lot of hard training and have officially entered the marrow cleansing realm!"
"You have advanced to the Marrow Cleansing Stage?" Su Yuntian was shocked.
Han Duping sighed and said, "I was a little anxious. I should have slowed down and waited until the exploration of the Ceji Mountains was over before notifying the people from Hongshan to come to the lower world to guide me into the Marrow Cleansing Realm in a better way. Alas, you entered the Marrow Cleansing Realm so early. You will still need to be refined again when you go to Hongshan."
"Old Han, the situation forces us to act quickly!" Zhou Qingchen said with a wry smile.
Su Yuntian and He Rong were immediately emboldened upon hearing that Zhou Qingchen had advanced to the Marrow Cleansing Realm and had become a powerful figure at the top of the pyramid in the fourth realm.
They originally wanted to evacuate, but because Zhou Qingchen had a breakthrough in realm and they had a backer, they chose to turn back.
The group of people quickly returned to the White Tower.
"Ms. Ning!"
Zhou Qingchen frowned and looked at the five-story white tower with a bad look. He suppressed his anger and shouted, "Pang Jian is only in the Qi Refining Stage. Even if he has some strange powers, you shouldn't order him to break the soul formation!"
Luo Hongyan was a little surprised. She didn't expect that Zhou Qingchen actually cared about Pang Jian.
Han Duping rubbed his hands and asked curiously, "Ning girl, how did you two... get out of the Black Water Pond alive?"
At that time, Hong Tai and several dark ghost monks in the Tongmai Realm were present in the Black Water Pond. He and Zhou Qingchen could only escape in the chaos. With Pang Jian and Zhou Qingchen's cultivation level, it was incredible that they were still alive until now.
He kept thinking about this question the whole way, wondering how the two of them managed to survive, but the more he thought about it, the less answer he had.
After answering Han Duping's question, Luo Hongyan looked at Zhou Qingchen coldly and snorted, "Except for Pang Jian, even you, Zhou Qingchen, do not have the ability to enter the Tianling Tower."
"So what if you are in the Marrow Cleansing Realm? You will still die if you enter!"
"Also, if the spirit formation of the Heavenly Spirit Pagoda is not broken, when that person comes out from the pit, as long as he can regain control of the Heavenly Spirit Pagoda, do you think you can survive?"
Luo Hongyan was not polite at all. She did not take Zhou Qingchen, who had made a breakthrough, seriously at all and used extremely harsh words.
Zhou Qingchen was about to refute.
Han Duping hurriedly stopped him and shouted, "The Heavenly Spirit Tower is indeed extraordinary! If this tower is really controlled by someone and roars in the void, it will be difficult for you who have advanced to the Marrow Cleansing Realm to resist this Heavenly Spirit Tower alone. What's more, there is a person in the pit whose depth is unknown and whose origin is unknown?"
Zhou Qingchen didn't know how dangerous the Tianling Tower was, but he believed Han Duping and asked in surprise, "Is the Tianling Tower really that powerful?"
“How terrible!”
Han Duping's face was solemn. He patted Zhou Qingchen on the shoulder, telling her not to lose her composure, and said, "She's right. If we want to deal with the other guy on the island who might get the phoenix marrow, it's best to destroy the Tianling Tower first!"
Since he said so, Zhou Qingchen immediately stopped arguing.
Next.
Those who returned and Zhou Qingchen surrounded the Tianling Tower from a distance, waiting for results from Pang Jian while discussing with Han Duping how to deal with the Tianling Tower.
Han Duping spread his hands, looking helpless, and said with a wry smile: "Don't look at me, I don't have any good solution. Unless I can ignore the top level, the soul formation will entangle and poison my soul. Only when I get to the soul formation, I will know if I can break it."
"However, based on my understanding of this thing, as someone who has reached the Tongmai realm, my soul will be taken away by it within ten steps."
Han Duping was helpless, and the others were even more helpless.
He Rong doubted, "Can Pang Jian do it?"
He disliked Luo Hongyan, but he seemed quite friendly to Zhou Qingchen, who was from the Zhou family, so he asked: "Qingchen, we don't have much contact with him, who is he?"
"Since Pang Jian was able to come out safely after entering, and actually saw the soul formation..."
Zhou Qingchen did not answer He Rong's question. He suddenly remembered the favor of the "Eye of Brand" to Pang Jian, as well as the scene of Pang Jian hunting He Ziren under the destruction of the magic sound in the stone pile, and said, "Maybe he can really succeed!"
When he came, he learned from Su Yuntian and He Rong that He Ziren was also killed by the dark ghost.
Although he knew the truth, he did not tell He Rong about it, but pretended that he knew nothing.
Seeing that the Zhou family's genius actually had some confidence in Pang Jian, He Rong felt more and more strange. He really didn't know what kind of magic power that kid had.
The helpless crowd had to continue waiting.
In the blink of an eye, another day and night passed.
During this period, Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping went there one after another. The mountain top where Shangguan Qin could be seen was also treated in the same way by Shangguan Qin.
—He gestured to the two of them to leave quickly.
After seeing the pit created by the phoenix bones and Shangguan Qin's performance, they finally believed Luo Hongyan's judgment and knew that there was a hidden terror over there.
Zhou Qingchen also learned from the loudmouthed Su Meng that Luo Hongyan is now very fond of Pang Jian and takes care of Pang Jian's feelings everywhere, saying that the two might be a couple.
Zhou Qingchen was stunned and asked, "Old Han, what happened in the Black Water Pond? When did Miss Ning fall in love with Pang Jian?"
Han Duping was at a loss: "I don't know."
…
The night is dark.
Pang Jian, who had been sitting in the bottom floor of the white tower, woke up slowly. The pieces of spiritual jade under him had all lost their luster and power, and there was no more spiritual energy flowing inside them like water.
He felt his limbs were stiff, and he knew he had been sitting cross-legged for a long time, so he stood up and stretched his limbs.
He secretly sensed the spiritual sea under his dantian and discovered that after all this hard training, his spiritual sea was filled with an ocean of spiritual power and he could no longer absorb any power through the "Hutian Yangqi Jue".
He immediately realized that he had reached the bottleneck of the Qi Refining Stage and was qualified to break through to the Tongmai Stage.
After thinking about it, he did not rush to the fifth floor of the Tianling Tower, but walked out of the White Tower first, intending to inform everyone.
As soon as he came out, he saw Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping.
"Pang Jian!"
Zhou Qingchen waved in surprise.
Pang Jian's eyes showed joy. He didn't expect that Zhou Qingchen, who in his mind had long been killed by the dark ghost, was still alive in the world.
He was not good at speaking, so he nodded slightly and responded by waving his hand, saying, "I will try to destroy the soul formation on the fifth floor first. After the soul formation is broken, I will reminisce with Master Zhou."
Zhou Qingchen warned: "I can't go through, you must be careful!"
Pang Jian said "hmm", and suddenly said seriously: "Mr. Zhou, except for Hong Tai, I will help you kill all the dark ghost attackers in the Black Water Pond."
After saying this, he stepped into the White Tower again.
Zhou Qingchen, who was raising his arm to wave, suddenly froze, with a look of stunned expression on his face.
…
(End of this chapter)