Chapter 352: 352. Chapter 349: Refining the Ascension Tower

352. Chapter 349: Refining the Ascension Tower

"The secret that Hanba spoke of should be this Ascension Ring." Ding Huan pointed at the Ascension Ring, which was still flickering with seven-colored light.

The Dao rhyme of the Ascension Ring was extremely clear, making all the Earth Immortal cultivators yearn for it.

No one spoke. Even though Ding Huan said this Ascension Ring was the secret from Hanba's mouth, it still couldn't prove whether the Ascension Ring was real or fake.

"I think this Ascension Ring should be fake," Ding Huan said.

"But over a hundred Earth Immortal powerhouses from my Triple Heaven Star Land have ascended from here," Yi Geng Qianxing said hurriedly.

He had been guarding this Ascension Tower for several hundred years, and had thus earned the name Tower Immortal.

It could be said that all the cultivators in the Triple Heaven Star Land respected him greatly. The title of Tower Immortal was given to him precisely because he guarded the Ascension Ring.

Lin Yuqi said in a deep voice, "City Lord Yi, I don't think Sect Leader Ding would speak without aim. Don't be hasty."

Ding Huan said, "What aura can you all sense from this Ascension Ring?"

"It's a Dao rhyme aura that surpasses Earth Immortal. It makes me feel very comfortable, so much so that I almost wish to cultivate here for a while. Maybe I could comprehend the Immortal-Fanqiao realm." Cen Huan was the first to speak.

"Right, I have the same feeling. When my divine sense falls on it, it's as if I can see the great Dao of the Immortal World. It's very strange." Qi Yonghan also had this feeling, but instead of using 'comfortable,' he used 'strange.'

He had an intuition that this was not the true Immortal World Dao rhyme, and it had nothing to do with the Immortal-Fanqiao.

Ding Huan said slowly, "Besides the Immortal-Fanqiao realm Dao rhyme you all sensed, there is another kind of Dao rhyme aura here. It carries an extreme yin-cold, but it's not easy for you to notice because it's too faint."

The moment Ding Huan arrived here, he sensed that yin-cold aura. This yin-cold aura was masked by the Immortal-Fanqiao Dao rhyme. If one couldn't strip away the great Dao rules, or didn't examine carefully, one truly wouldn't sense it.

Senior Ji Gu's eyes lit up. "I thought I was the only one who sensed that faint, extreme yin-cold aura. I didn't expect Sect Leader Ding to sense it too."

"Senior Ji Gu, have you ever encountered a Hanba?" Ding Huan asked.

Senior Ji Gu shook her head. "No, I've never encountered a Hanba."

But she quickly reacted, looking at Ding Huan in surprise. "Ding Huan, you mean, this place..."

Ding Huan nodded. "If I'm not mistaken, this Ascension Tower is definitely related to the Hanba."

"The Hanba you killed earlier?" Mu Chengzi also asked.

Ding Huan shook his head:

"Absolutely not. That Hanba hadn't even reached level eight; it was absorbing the divine souls and flesh of cultivators below the True God realm. But the Hanba that set up this Ascension Tower is at least level nine. It's perfecting its own great Dao rhyme."

Saying this, Ding Huan slowed his tone. "If I'm not mistaken, everyone who entered this Ascension Tower before has become food for this Hanba. Not a single one survived.

The reason the Hanba in the Great Gorge Canyon knew this secret should be that it came here and sensed the Hanba aura here.

In fact, the Hanba in the Great Gorge Canyon is the scout and boundary guardian of this even more powerful Hanba, waiting for the arrival of this powerful Hanba."

Hearing Ding Huan's words, everyone drew in a cold breath.

Cen Huan felt a chill down her spine even more. She had come here twice, wanting to ascend to the Immortal World from here.

If the Ascension Ring had happened to open when she came, wouldn't that mean she would already be food for the Hanba?

"But why hasn't the Ascension Ring appeared for over a hundred years before?" Yi Geng Qianxing was still somewhat unwilling to accept reality.

"Before the Ascension Ring disappeared, was there a period when it appeared frequently?" Ding Huan asked.

Before Yi Geng Qianxing could speak, Cen Huan proactively said, "Right, I remember there was a time it appeared twenty times in a year. Otherwise, I wouldn't have left and then come back again."

Ding Huan nodded. "According to my guess, it should be that after absorbing too much Earth Immortal essence blood and Primordial Spirit, the other party fell into slumber or went into closed-door refinement."

"Where should the Hanba be?" Lin Yuqi was the most nervous.

If Ding Huan's group of powerhouses entered the Opening Heaven Battlefield and the Hanba came out, how could he deal with it?

Everyone's gaze also turned to Ding Huan. Ding Huan's perception of Dao rhyme laws was far stronger than theirs; this had long been proven.

Ding Huan said with certainty, "This Hanba is absolutely impossible to be in the Triple Heaven Star Land. One more thing I can be sure of: once this guy recovers, it will definitely come to the Triple Heaven Star Land."

After speaking, Ding Huan pointed at the Ascension Altar. "If I'm not mistaken, this Ascension Tower is what it covets. It might just be its, and it will come take it in the future."

"That's not very likely. The Ascension Tower was built by the ancestors of Triple Heaven..."

After Yi Geng Qianxing said this, he suddenly felt that although he was the Tower Immortal, he was probably one of the least qualified people here to say that.

Anyone casually picked out from here would have older qualifications than him.

Senior Ji Gu said, "I also have memories of the Ascension Tower in my memory, but whether it was built by the ancestors, I have no memory of that."

Mu Chengzi also said, "The Ascension Tower does indeed exist. It seems my seniors mentioned that the Ascension Tower exists."

Ding Huan's heart stirred. Perhaps the Ascension Tower really wasn't that Hanba's? But rather that Hanba was using the Ascension Tower to search for Earth Immortal food in the Triple Heaven Star Land?

"Regardless, I'll refine this tower first." Ding Huan made a decisive decision. This tower left here is a calamity in the making.

He had originally planned to use the Ascension Ring to teleport over and take a look.

He quickly dismissed this thought.

Teleporting over via the Ascension Ring had several problems.

First, the Hanba in the Great Gorge Canyon was level seven. A level seven Hanba needed to absorb the Primordial Spirit and flesh of Void God realm cultivators.

What level would a Hanba that needed to absorb Earth Immortal realm cultivators have reached? In other words, that Hanba is at the very least equivalent to the Immortal-Fanqiao realm.

The greatest possibility is an existence above level nine that surpasses the Immortal-Fanqiao realm.

For such an existence, if he teleported over, he would probably be delivering himself as food.

Second, he said this Ascension Ring had problems, yet he teleported over to check the situation.

To be honest, it's hard to guarantee that no one here would suspect he did this on purpose.

Human hearts are best not tested; they are the least able to withstand testing. If someone thought he wanted to monopolize this ascension quota, things would be hard to predict.

Third, even if he teleported over, could he definitely come back?

If he couldn't come back, Mu Chengzi this guy is no pushover.

"I'm afraid it can't be refined." Yi Geng Qianxing shook his head. If this Ascension Tower could be refined, it would have been refined long ago. He wouldn't have said it was built by humans.

Even Mu Chengzi said, "Sect Leader Ding, I'm afraid this is not a magic treasure; it cannot be refined."

Ding Huan smiled. "Whether it can be refined needs to be tried. Everyone leave the tower first and wait for my news."

Although no one believed Ding Huan could assimilate the Ascension Tower, they all gradually left the Ascension Tower.

For Ji Gu, Cang Yongqian, Qi Qi Yonghan, and others, Mu Mu Chengzi might have questionable character, but he was a genuine Level Nine Artificer King.

If such an Artificer King said the Ascension Tower wasn't a treasure, it was highly unlikely to be one.

After everyone left the Ascension Tower, Ding Huan immediately began laying out array patterns.

He intended to lock the Ascension Tower, lest it suddenly flee during his assimilation process.

Who knew if the Ascension Tower could already be retrieved?

Only halfway through laying out the array patterns, Ding Huan's Array Dao advanced to Level Nine Array King.

Indeed, after ascending to the Star River Realm, his comprehension of the Dao's principles had become far stronger than before.

Ding Huan began re-laying the Level Nine Binding Array, Level Nine Restraining Array, Level Nine Sky-Blocking Array, Level Nine Teleportation Array…

He laid the Teleportation Array because he feared that if he failed to assimilate the Ascension Tower before his Binding Array failed to stop it from fleeing, he could teleport it directly into his iron pot.

Once all array arrangements were complete, Ding Huan immediately used the Great Cosmos Art to construct a new Zhou Tian.

In this new Zhou Tian, he also incorporated the Ascension Altar.

In Ding Huan's view, the Ascension Altar was highly suspicious.

It was an Ascension Tower—why did it need an altar?

As soon as the Great Cosmos Art Zhou Tian activated, Ding Huan sensed the presence of Han Ba within the Ascension Ring more clearly than ever.

When he realized the residual Dao rhythm of Han Ba far exceeded Lou Xihe's, his heart skipped a beat.

Fortunately, he hadn't used the Ascension Ring to investigate—such a powerful existence would have turned his visit into delivering himself as food to Han Ba.

As Ding Huan constructed the Great Cosmos Art Zhou Tian and sent his spiritual sense inside to assimilate it, the Ascension Ring on the Ascension Tower flickered erratically.

Within a single Zhou Tian, the Ascension Ring vanished abruptly, and immediately Ding Huan felt an endless surge of icy coldness rushing toward his spiritual sea.

Ding Huan sneered—trying to shatter his spiritual sea?

Even if he hadn't been prepared, even if this icy coldness had slipped in, it couldn't shake his Great Dao Cosmos.

The greatest ability of low-level Han Ba was condensing black mist into souls—this icy black mist couldn't even penetrate his spiritual sea; how could it strip away his spiritual soul?

As Ding Huan's formidable spiritual sense, aided by the Great Cosmos Art Zhou Tian, relentlessly struck the Ascension Tower's seals, a furious aura reached his perception.

He hadn't been wrong—the Ascension Tower still held a residual soul, or rather, a fragment soul.

Ding Huan didn't need to ask—he knew this fragment soul belonged to Han Ba.

Ding Huan had long experience assimilating various treasures.

His iron pot, Mu Gu—these were all extremely difficult treasures to assimilate; hadn't he already begun the process of assimilating them?

Even if the Ascension Tower was hard to assimilate, could it possibly be harder than his iron pot?

With the aid of the Great Cosmos Art Zhou Tian, Ding Huan unleashed wave after wave of Sunset Kill strikes against the dense network of seal patterns.

Soon, Ding Huan located the first layer of the Ascension Tower's seals.

Without hesitation, Ding Huan's Great Cosmos Art Zhou Tian, combined with his Great Dao spiritual sense, surged violently toward the first layer of seals.