RBCT Chapter 64 The Desolate Tower: You Want to Leave Without Taking the Opportunity?
Chapter 64 The Desolate Tower: You Want to Leave Without Taking the Opportunity?
Chapter 68 The Desolate Tower: You Want to Leave Without Taking the Opportunity? (4,000-word chapter)
In a life-or-death situation, no one wastes time, and soon everyone had run away.
The crowd looked at Master Chixia and her two daughters with gratitude in their eyes. Just then, someone noticed that the door to the Desolate Tower was closing and quickly called out, "Master, come in quickly, the door is about to close!"
Upon hearing this, True Immortal Chixia did not hesitate. He grabbed Yu Zhao and Shen Yunshu with one hand each and was about to use the Great Teleportation Technique to move over. Of course, Yu Zhao did not want to enter the Desolate Tower, so she secretly tried to sabotage it.
Suddenly, Master Chixia felt a tingling sensation throughout her body. Although this tingling sensation was not enough to harm her, the sudden and strange feeling made her body stiffen for a moment.
It was this brief delay that caused her to lose the chance to enter the Desolate Tower, and she watched helplessly as the tower's gates closed.
Seeing this, even True Immortal Chixia couldn't help but feel despair. Yu Zhao, on the other hand, was happy. She had just used her lightning magic to secretly strike True Immortal Chixia. She knew that her cultivation level was not enough to hurt him, and she didn't intend to. She just wanted to buy some time.
Now that she has succeeded, things are progressing in the direction she predicted.
"Zhao'er, Yun Shu, the three of us are probably going to die here today."
Master Chixia smiled bitterly. She did not regret dying to save people, but she had sacrificed her newly recognized daughter and her junior sister.
This made Master Chixia feel very bad. Not to mention that it involved her daughter and her daughter's junior sister, she would be sad even if innocent people were involved.
"Zhao'er, Yunshu, I will use all my divine powers to fight for your lives. You only have one chance. Be prepared!"
Seeing the eerie mist gradually approaching, True Immortal Chixia decided to fight desperately, even if it meant tearing open a gap to send the two women out.
This tearing wasn't meant to break through the mist, but rather she intended to directly shatter the space here and send Yu Zhao and Shen Yunshu out of the Fallen Demon Valley.
With her late-stage Nascent Soul cultivation, she might be able to do it, but Fallen Demon Valley is no ordinary small world. Even if she could, she would die.
However, Master Chixia couldn't care less about anything else at this moment.
Seeing that her mother was about to risk her life, Yu Zhao quickly stopped her, "Mother, it's not time to fight to the death yet. This fog can't harm us."
To prove his point, Yu Zhao summoned the Emperor's Banner. He planted the banner in the ground, and a faint golden light emanated from it, gathering around the three women to form a protective shield.
The eerie mist, seemingly indestructible, appeared to be terrified of the golden light and automatically retreated to both sides.
The scene left Master Chixia speechless. After a long while, she raised her hand and touched Yu Zhao's head, her face full of satisfaction: "My son has a great destiny."
Although he couldn't discern the true nature of this magical artifact, True Person Crimson Clouds could sense its immense power.
As a mother, she felt only joy that her daughter had such a precious treasure.
While Yu Zhao appeared to be enjoying her mother's caresses, she was actually observing True Man Chixia and saw that there was no greed in his eyes, only endless affection.
Yu Zhao was now completely at ease with her; this cheap old woman was truly a rare good person.
She decided that from now on she would treat the other person as her own mother, showing filial piety and love. There aren't many good people these days, and she had finally met a truly good person, so she couldn't let her die like this.
"Mother, you should know that I am not your biological daughter, but if you don't mind, I will treat you as my own mother and take care of you in your old age!"
These words made Shen Yunshu, who was watching the commotion from the side, widen her eyes. She knew her senior sister well and knew that her senior sister was truly in love.
It seems she'll have a teammate from now on.
Crimson Cloud Immortal was somewhat bewildered by these words. After a moment of stunned silence, she found it amusing, hugged Yu Zhao, and said softly, "What nonsense are you talking about, child? You are my own daughter. How could a mother mistake her own daughter?"
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Yu Zhao: "???"
If it were anyone else, they would definitely think that Master Chixia was going crazy again, but Yu Zhao did not think that the other party was crazy.
Let's think about it another way: what if Master Chixia really didn't make a mistake?
Could this body really be her daughter's?
But what about the Celestial Master Lingxiao?
"Mother, do you know about the Celestial Master Lingxiao?" Yu Zhao asked.
"Of course I know, she's your aunt, your real aunt." Master Chixia realized that her daughter probably had amnesia, but that didn't matter. As long as her daughter was alive, it didn't matter whether she had any memories or not.
"But Zhang Yanqiu said I might be the daughter of the Celestial Master Lingxiao because I possess thunder magic."
"Don't listen to his nonsense. What does a junior like him know? Your aunt cultivates the ruthless path, how could she possibly have a child with someone else?"
As for your lightning magic, that was taught to you by your aunt. We are siblings from the same mother, and you have her blood in your veins, so it's normal that you know her lightning magic.
Master Chixia's explanation sounds quite plausible, at least more plausible than Zhang Yanqiu's.
This made Yu Zhao somewhat believe it, and she then asked, "Then, Mother, how did I separate from you?"
I have no memories of what happened before.
"Yeah, how did we break up? I can't remember! My head hurts!"
Suddenly, Master Chixia was in great pain, squatting on the ground, clutching his head and wailing in agony. Seeing this, Yu Zhao quickly squatted down and hugged him, gently comforting him: "Don't think about it if you can't remember. It's not important. What's important is that we, mother and daughter, are reunited."
Yu Zhao's voice was like a clear spring to True Person Chixia, greatly easing her headache, and she quickly returned to normal.
The mother and daughter sat on the ground, snuggling together and chatting about trivial things, as if they had endless things to say.
At this moment, Shen Yunshu spoke softly, "Although I don't really want to disturb you and your daughter, please wait a moment before you pour out your hearts to each other. The situation is not right now."
As she spoke, Shen Yunshu pointed to the ground, "Do you think these are array patterns?"
Upon hearing this, Yu Zhao and True Man Chixia walked over to look at the location Shen Yunshu pointed to. Yu Zhao couldn't tell what kind of formation it was, but True Man Chixia recognized it at a glance.
"Oh no! It's a teleportation array! Retreat!"
Although she reacted quickly, she was still a beat too slow. The teleportation array instantly enveloped the three of them; it was activating!
Yu Zhao picked up the Emperor's Banner and was about to destroy the magic array when, before she could, the three of them vanished from their spot.
When she reappeared, Yu Zhao looked at the people around her and instantly felt like cursing.
Oh shit!
How can a person be so shameless?
You insist on letting me in, don't you!
That's right, they were teleported into the desolate tower.
With things having come to this point, there was no point in worrying anymore. Yu Zhao silently put away the Emperor's Banner and began to observe the surrounding environment.
Upon seeing the sudden appearance of True Person Chixia and her companions, the cultivators were briefly taken aback before rushing forward to thank True Person Chixia in a flurry of words.
If she hadn't been there to block them from the outside, who knows how many people would have died.
Therefore, everyone appreciates this sentiment.
No one dislikes a good person, not even a mad monk like that.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have tolerated her pursuit for so many years. Although they couldn't defeat each other in a one-on-one fight, given the way demonic cultivators operate, if they really wanted to kill True Person Chixia, they could have killed her long ago.
One-on-one attacks won't work, but a group attack will always kill.
The reason I haven't gone all out is because I admire Master Chixia's character.
Now that Master Chixia has saved so many people, his reputation has soared even higher.
She was overwhelmed by the crowd's enthusiasm. Leaving aside the situation with Master Chixia, on the other side, Yu Zhao and Shen Yunshu quietly left the crowd.
They wandered around, currently on the first floor of the tower. This floor was very spacious, and even with thousands of people gathered here, it didn't feel crowded.
There was nothing on this floor, just an empty space. There was a staircase on the east side, and Yu Zhao guessed that it should lead to the second floor, but the staircase was now blocked by a force.
Can't get in at all.
So she decided not to waste any more time there and started walking along the tower wall, keeping her eyes on it as she tried to find some clues.
"Senior sister, come here."
Upon hearing Shen Yunshu's telepathic message, Yu Zhao quickly walked towards her. Seeing Shen Yunshu standing in front of a wall, her eyes fixed on it, Yu Zhao asked, "What's wrong?"
Shen Yunshu pointed to the wall and said, "Senior sister, look at the marks on this wall. I feel like it's some kind of magic."
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"This is just a normal crack—wait, what?"
Yu Zhao was about to say it was just an ordinary crack, but as she looked at it, she suddenly had an epiphany. She "saw" the crack move, eventually coalescing into a human figure practicing magic.
The figure was merely rehearsing; there were no unusual phenomena or world-destroying power.
But Yu Zhao sensed a mysterious and profound aura.
She didn't know how much time had passed, but her external cheat screen reappeared, and a line of text appeared in her mind: [Detected demonic spell Soul Refining Technique, now initiating purification—purifying into Soul Nourishing Technique]
Yu Zhao closed his eyes and carefully received the information from these two techniques. The Soul Refining Technique, as the name suggests, is to extract other people's souls and refine them into puppets.
Of course, this technique is not that simple, but let's not talk about it, since Yu Zhao can't use it anyway.
She focused her attention on the Soul Nourishing Technique, a method for nourishing one's own soul.
According to the contents of this technique, it has no upper limit. It can continuously nourish the soul. What is even more miraculous is that once you learn it, you don't need to cultivate it specifically. It will operate on its own and affect the soul.
Once the spirit reaches a certain level of strength, it can even leave the body and kill people invisibly.
Yu Zhao:
Isn't this the legendary sage from her past life?
Yu Zhao found this technique quite interesting and thought he would study it carefully after leaving the Fallen Demon Valley.
When Yu Zhao came to her senses, she realized that not long had passed. She glanced at the others and saw that no one was paying attention to them. Everyone was still chatting in small groups or sitting alone to meditate.
At that moment, Shen Yunshu opened her eyes. The two women looked at each other and knew that they had both received an opportunity.
Yu Zhao transmitted her voice to the other party, asking, "Junior Sister, what kind of magic have you obtained?"
"It's a technique called Soul Refining Technique. Simply put, it's about refining other people's souls to nourish your own body. What about you, Senior Sister?" Shen Yunshu didn't hide anything and told her the truth.
"I have the same one, but I've modified it a bit. Don't practice that Soul Refining Technique. Be careful, the person who left this technique behind might have a backup plan."
You can never be too careful when it comes to demonic magic.
Shen Yunshu knew that her senior sister had a secret, but she was always sensible and did not press the matter.
Yu Zhao directly passed on the Soul Nourishing Technique to the other party. She was not afraid that Shen Yunshu would surpass her. She had a cheat code, and she would automatically learn it after obtaining it.
But Shen Yunshu is different; she still needs to cultivate.
If Yu Zhao can be surpassed even in this way, then he is truly useless.
Moreover, Shen Yunshu discovered it first, and Yu Zhao didn't want to owe her anything. She had a feeling that she couldn't owe anything in the name of karma, because it would be very serious.
Shen Yunshu didn't think much of it. She and her sister had always shared opportunities. She accepted Yu Zhao's teachings generously and digested them. After that, Shen Yunshu's eyes brightened.
She had to admit that her senior sister was truly a genius of unparalleled talent, and that the improved technique was even more profound.
The Soul Refining Technique uses external forces to nourish oneself, while the Soul Nourishing Technique follows a righteous path; the difference in their levels is immediately apparent.
Having tasted the benefits, the two women became even more enthusiastic about wandering along the walls, hoping to find other techniques or spells.
Their actions did attract attention, and a young female cultivator approached them, asking curiously, "Have you two discovered something?"
This female cultivator was a princess of the Dayan royal family. After speaking with Yu Zhao, she realized that she hadn't introduced herself yet, so she bowed and said, "My surname is Si, and my given name is Xuan. I saw that you two fellow Daoists have been circling the tower and looking at its walls, so I was a little curious. I apologize for being so abrupt."
Although Si Xuan was a princess of the royal family, she did not appear arrogant. She had a gentle demeanor and clear eyes, and looked like a gentle young girl.
Since the other party treated her with courtesy, Yu Zhao naturally could not be rude. She returned the greeting and said, "My name is Yu Zhao, and this is my junior sister, Shen Yunshu. Your Highness is too kind. I did not mean any offense."
"My sister and I haven't found anything either; we're just trapped here and trying to find any clues to get out."
"Senior Sister Yu, are you really the long-lost daughter of True Immortal Chixia?"
The girl suddenly became very enthusiastic and grabbed Yu Zhao's arm. This action made Shen Yunshu's eyes instantly turn unfriendly.
Yu Zhao quickly pulled her arm away from the other person's embrace. If this continued, her junior sister, that yandere, would kill someone.
"I am indeed her daughter. I wonder what the princess means by asking this?"
She felt that the princess was a bit too familiar, and Yu Zhao never knew how to deal with this kind of person.
Therefore, his words inevitably revealed a sense of alienation.
But Si Xuan seemed oblivious to this, and remained enthusiastic, saying, "I admire Master Chixia the most. I once wanted to invite her to the palace to be my master, but she refused."
Now that I've met you, Sister Yu, I hope you can plead with your mother for me so that you and your daughter can live in the palace, and Sister Shen can come as well."
Shen Yunshu: "————" Who cares? What do you take me for?
Yu Zhao: "???"
Is this recruitment? Is it that direct?
For a moment, she couldn't quite understand the princess. If she was naive, she knew how to recruit people; if she was smart, how could she recruit people like this?
This left Yu Zhao somewhat speechless; it was truly the first time she had ever encountered someone like this.
Some people didn't know how to communicate with the other person. In the past, everyone they had met was more cunning than the last. When Yu Zhao met such an interesting person for the first time, she found it quite amusing.
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