The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 50 - 40 The Fleeting White Tower_1

Chapter 50: Chapter 40 The Fleeting White Tower_1

Chapter 50 -40 The Fleeting White Tower_1

Pang Jian had come specifically for the fourth Phoenix Bone.

Black Water Pool had one Phoenix Bone, Insect Valley had another, and Lake Heart Island, being another forbidden zone, should also have had a Phoenix Bone fall into it.

Having experienced firsthand the marvel of Phoenix Marrow, knowing that more might have coalesced on Lake Heart Island, he naturally wanted to try his luck.

“Who is controlling the Heavenly Spirit Tower?”

As Su Yuntian looked around, he didn’t see anyone revealing themselves, and doubt crept into his heart again.

He and He Rong weren’t fully aware of the mysteries hidden within the Phoenix Bone. They were afraid that whoever was controlling the “Heavenly Spirit Tower” might strike them hard when they tried to set foot on the island.

“This place is very close to the Boundary Wall at the extreme north of the Solitude Mountain Range.”

Gazing beyond Wulan Lake at the towering mountains, Pang Jian’s eyes sought to pierce through the peaks and reach the strange lands on the other side.

There lay the utmost north of the Fragment Land known as Northern Qi.

The Extreme North Land bordered on the northern Boundary Wall of the Fourth Realm and was also the source of the “Mysterious Fog.”

Under the sky.

Wulan Lake still displayed a pale blue color, with the beautiful lake scenery set against steep mountains in the background.

But everyone’s expression turned grave as they gazed upon the White Tower on Lake Heart Island, which was whistling incessantly.

Legend had it that each “Heavenly Spirit Tower” from Yin Spirit Temple was constructed from heaps of white bones.

In the upper Third Realm, Yin Spirit Temple almost had no dealings with other sect powers and didn’t recruit talents from the seven great families into their sect, always maintaining its mystery.

People like Su Yuntian and He Rong didn’t know much about this sect, so they felt even more reverence.

After staring at the White Tower on the island for a long while, the two of them began to hesitate again, wondering whether they should set foot on the island.

Seeing through their thoughts, Luo Hongyan felt it best to make use of everything available and took the initiative to ask, “Gentlemen, please arrange for your subordinates to assemble a bamboo raft for the two of us.”

Recalling the journey and that Luo Hongyan hadn’t taken any of the scavenged items, Su Yuntian felt guilty and said, “That can be arranged.”

He then commanded those loyal to the Su family to cut bamboo from nearby and construct a bamboo raft on site.

“We should leave,” suddenly declared He Rong.

Looking at the floating White Tower, he felt that Lake Heart Island, which was abloom with a myriad of flowers, emanated an indescribable eeriness.

The waters of Wulan Lake felt bone-chillingly cold even standing at its shore, making him quite uncomfortable.

“The fourth Phoenix Bone is on that island, aren’t you curious about what’s inside?”

Luo Hongyan glanced at them, and with a spark of inspiration, said softly, “If you’re not going, you can send two of your men to explore and find out.”

He Rong’s eyes brightened.

He immediately instructed for his He family’s servants to also cut bamboo and construct several more bamboo rafts.

“The Heavenly Spirit Tower is moving about; what is it doing exactly?” Su Meng wondered aloud.

Both Su Yuntian and He Rong shook their heads; they knew that the “Heavenly Spirit Tower” symbolized Yin Spirit Temple but had no idea of its specific functions.

“It’s soul-searching,” Luo Hongyan said softly, her answer accompanied by a cool tone as she gazed at the drifting White Tower, “Within a certain range, any living being with a soul can be sensed by it. Beings like Spirit Evil, Ghost Objects, Ghosts—all entities that possess a Spiritual Body but no flesh—will be absorbed and imprisoned by it.”

As she spoke, Luo Hongyan’s voice carried a chill.

Pang Jian secretly wondered, since their arrival at Wulan Lake, he’d felt that something about Luo Hongyan was off.

The girl’s gaze at the floating White Tower was filled with obscured hatred and a deep sense of wariness.

It was as if she had suffered at the hands of the White Tower.

“Could it be because of the bodies of the Yin Spirit Temple cultivators in the pile of rocks, that caused heavy casualties to the Ning Family?” Pang Jian couldn’t help thinking back to the chaotic stone pile they had encountered upon entering the Solitude Mountain Range.

Many of the corpses were dressed in the attire of the Blood Moon sect, causing Han Duping to make a misjudgment, which led to the Zhou Family and Ning Family members being attacked by “Spirit Evil” incidents.

However, the deeper he thought about it, the more peculiar it seemed.

This “Heavenly Spirit Tower” of Yin Spirit Temple was now floating above the northern side of the Solitude Mountain Range at Wulan Lake, yet those Yin Spirit Temple cultivators who had arrived via the “Heavenly Spirit Tower” were found dead in the southernmost canyon dressed in Blood Moon attire.

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The two places were separated by hundreds of miles.

With a mind full of doubts, Pang Jian watched the drifting White Tower and secretly remained on guard.

Soon, the servants of the Su and He families had constructed a few bamboo rafts. Under the orders of Su Yuntian and He Rong, four people in pairs took to a raft each and headed toward the island in the heart of the lake.

He Rong ordered sharply, “Report back to us with any findings right away!”

The four, filled with unease, nodded on the freezing lake surface, their eyes fixed on Lake Heart Island and filled with terror at the thought of the flower-covered isle.

The bamboo rafts slowly made their way across the lake.

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Pang Jian’s gaze moved from the island at the lake’s heart to examine the waters before him.

The pale blue lake was very clear, yet it lacked any fish or shrimp movement, and there were no sounds of mosquitoes or other insects along its banks.

Previously, every time he visited Wulan Lake, it wasn’t like this.

Before, all he had to do was gaze at Wulan Lake for a while, and he would see fishes coming and going, spot wild beasts wandering around, and occasionally run into hunters from Lingshan Town.

At this moment, it was as if all life around the lake and in the water had vanished, the whole world was eerily quiet.

Pang Jian stopped talking, Su He’s two people kept silent, and Luo Hongyan followed suit in silence.

After a brief period of dead silence.

The two bamboo rafts reached Lake Heart Island, and the four Qi Refining Realm cultivators leaped off and began moving around in the forests on the island.

The “Heavenly Spirit Tower” on the island continued its howling as if it flew over their heads, without any pause.

After that, they received no response.

Time quietly slipped away, half an hour, an hour passed, and the bamboo rafts were still stationary.

The four people who went onto the island were as if they had vanished into thin air.

They neither showed themselves nor sent out any shouts; it was as if no one had ever set foot on the island.

“Brother Pang Jian, please point out the best route to leave the Solitude Mountain Range,” Su Yuntian took a deep breath, his gaze determined, and declared, “I’ve decided to leave!”

“Daddy, I want to take a look at the island!”

Su Meng pleaded in a soft voice.

“Shut up!”

Su Yuntian’s face was cold, and this time he did not indulge her, stating authoritatively, “The Heavenly Spirit Tower is moving, there’s some unknown fellow secretly manipulating things on the island. The people from the Yin Spirit Temple are different kinds, they never associate with the other few big sects, let’s not provoke them!”

He assumed that it was a Great Cultivator from the Yin Spirit Temple secretly controlling the “Heavenly Spirit Tower,” having killed his and He Rong’s subordinates arranged to go on the island.

“We’re pulling out too!”

Seeing that his subordinates hadn’t returned after a long wait, He Rong made the same decision, both of them looked at Pang Jian, hoping he could show them the quickest way out.

Pang Jian looked at Luo Hongyan.

Luo Hongyan stretched lazily, drawing the closest bamboo raft toward her, saying, “Let them be.”

Pang Jian pondered for a moment and then pointed to a location, saying, “Follow along that mountain, do not attempt to climb over it. With your speed, if you don’t encounter any accidents, you should be able to leave the Solitude Mountain Range in seven to eight days.”

“Thank you!”

Su Yuntian clasped his fists in gratitude and immediately, regardless of Su Meng’s begging face, pointed to an empty bamboo raft and said to Luo Hongyan, “It’s clear you two will go to the island, all I can do is wish you both good luck.”

Luo Hongyan turned a deaf ear.

“Farewell!”

Afterward, Su Yuntian and He Rong, leading a dozen or so of their loyal followers, proceeded towards the direction Pang Jian had indicated.

“The direction you pointed out, you didn’t mislead them to their deaths, did you?”

After they had left for a while, Luo Hongyan’s expression relaxed slightly, and her tone also eased.

“The direction is definitely correct, but as you know, the Solitude Mountain Range is fraught with danger everywhere. I used to travel that route often, and nothing untoward ever happened, but now, I can’t be sure,” Pang Jian said frankly.

After speaking, he saw that Luo Hongyan made no immediate move to leave, and curiously asked, “Not going to the island yet?”

Luo Hongyan, using a bamboo stick to stir the water and without looking up, said, “Let’s observe a bit longer. Maybe those four who went to the island might suddenly appear and tell us some important news.”

Pang Jian, who had acquired a fair amount of Spirit Stones on the way, did not say more, letting her watch by the lake while he found a secluded place to start cultivating the “Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell.”

Like the cultivators of the Blood Moon, the Spirit Stones he had collected beside the bodies of the Star River Alliance were also flawlessly pure.

The Spiritual Power within these Spirit Stones didn’t require cleansing or further condensing. As they entered the vortex above his dantian, they naturally flowed into his Spiritual Sea.

His expansively developed Spiritual Sea continuously gathered Spiritual Power, feeling more and more spacious.

Because he had a large amount of Spirit Stones and his body had been twice tempered with Phoenix Marrow, his progress in the Qi Refinement Realm was actually quite rapid.

Above his dantian, he had already experienced the sensation of Spiritual Energy filling the entire space seven or eight times.

According to Luo Hongyan, one saturation of Spiritual Energy corresponds to one layer of the Qi Refinement Realm, suggesting Pang Jian might have already reached a high level in the early accumulations.

After what seemed like a long stretch of arduous cultivation, Pang Jian suddenly heard disordered footsteps coming from the direction he had indicated.

His eyes showed surprise.

Shortly after, Su Yuntian and He Rong appeared, returning with all their followers back the way they had come.

“What did you encounter? The direction I pointed out to you was definitely correct, any mishaps… have nothing to do with me!” Pang Jian quickly absolved himself from any connection.

“Spirit Evil, and not low-ranking ones at that! We were attacked by them; there were many Spirit Evils, and none were easy to handle, so we had no choice but to come back,” Su Yuntian admitted, embarrassed.

Pang Jian was startled, instantly thinking of the Spirit Evil controlled by the Demon Girl among the rocks, wondering if the Demon Girl was just ahead?

“Since danger is unknown on all sides, we might as well join you two in going to the island!” He Rong gritted his teeth.

“Welcome back,” Luo Hongyan said softly with a smile, she was the first to step onto a bamboo raft, and then extended her fair hand towards Pang Jian with casual grace, inviting him, “Come over, let’s go ahead together and clear a path for them in the lake.”

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