Chapter 241: Shadow Demon Clan, Seven Slaughter Spirit Tiger, Diamond Violent Ape

Wang Ping turned around; a fairly young white-clad disciple stood behind him, facing him with a smile.

Seeing Wang Ping look over, that white-clad disciple introduced himself.

"I am Guan Ping; greetings, Fellow Daoist Wang!"

Wang Ping nodded and said, "Who wouldn't want ten thousand points? It's just too hard!"

Guan Ping familiarly stood beside Wang Ping and said.

"Yeah! Although this mission was only posted over five hundred thousand years ago, its existence far exceeds that time."

"Our human race has deep foundations, with a True Immortal holding the fort, and moreover a host of Great Vehicle elders guarding the four directions. In such an environment, from time to time, peerless talents emerge. For example, our Supreme Human Emperor, several Emperors, and also the Lord Qing Emperor of old!"

Wang Ping narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling that Guan Ping had come to him just to say the final sentence.

"Lord Qing Emperor, among the Emperors, is also a most special existence; his talent and ability are not inferior to our Supreme Human Emperor, and a single Yin Wood Divine Thunder was painstakingly developed by him to the point where it can contend with supreme laws."

Wang Ping glanced at Guan Ping and said.

"Fellow Daoist Guan, did you come to me just to tell me about the deeds of Lord Qing Emperor?"

Guan Ping shook his head and said.

"No, I came here to tell you, Brother Wang, that although Lord Qing Emperor has passed, his influence remains; in the Dao Institute, if you face unavoidable trouble, you may seek our help."

"Because of the Yin Wood Divine Thunder!"

"This is only one reason!!"

Wang Ping nodded, said no more, and continued walking toward the Tower to Heaven.

Although Wang Ping's reputation was quite well-known among the white-clad disciples, most people had only heard of his name and never seen his true appearance; they did not go so far as to specially commission his portrait just because of his fame.

However, as Wang Ping drew ever closer to the Tower to Heaven, disciples who had seen his appearance in the arena battles were all shaken in spirit.

They quickly transmitted messages to each other; within a few breaths, the news of Wang Ping's arrival was already known to the disciples before the Tower to Heaven.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Thousands of white-clad disciples turned their gazes toward Wang Ping; when most looked at him, they revealed a hint of surprise.

In their impression, having won the arena battle and cultivated the Yin Wood Divine Thunder, Wang Ping should be that kind of vigorous, extraordinarily talented, outstanding genius.

But the Wang Ping walking over now, aside from being a bit younger, has an ordinary appearance with nothing else special.

The only thing leaving a deep impression is his still-not-bad transcendent aura.

"That's Wang Ping? He looks quite ordinary!"

"Yeah! He's far from the genius I imagined!"

"Hehe! What do you know? Maybe he's returned to simplicity and authenticity!"

Many white-clad disciples transmitted messages to each other; Guan Ping, standing behind Wang Ping, gazed at his back, his eyes showing a thoughtful expression.

This encounter with Wang Ping gave him no special feeling; he didn't know how such an ordinary-looking Wang Ping could have cultivated the Yin Wood Divine Thunder.

Coincidentally, the other party intends to challenge the Tower to Heaven, so he wants to see how many levels the other can clear.

"If he can't even clear the third level, I will advise the Yin Wood Palace that he is not worth heavy cultivation."

In front of the Tower to Heaven there is also a guardian; called a guardian, but he merely watches the tower, normally responsible for checking disciples entering and exiting the Tower to Heaven.

Nevertheless, the appropriate title is still necessary.

"Disciple Wang Ping, greetings, Old Ge!"

No one knows the name of the guardian of the white-clad disciple area of the Tower to Heaven, but disciples generally call him Old Ge.

Old Ge looks rather aged in years, and his vitality seems somewhat weakened; after Wang Ping greeted him, he waved his hand, indicating Wang Ping could enter.

Throughout the process, not a word was spoken.

This scene is taken for granted by all disciples; anyway, whether disciples leave or are promoted to yellow-clad disciples, no one has ever heard Old Ge say a word.

However, the disciples present did not see that, after Wang Ping entered the Tower to Heaven, Old Ge's eyes slightly opened, and from the corner of his vision he caught sight of Wang Ping's back.

Inside the Tower to Heaven there are spatial inscriptions, with the effect of containing a mustard seed within Mount Sumeru.

Wang Ping stepped through a silver light gate, and upon reappearing, he found himself in a rocky forest.

Above the rocky forest floated a line of black characters: 【First Level of the Tower to Heaven, within fifteen minutes, slay the Shadow Demon Clan!】

The Shadow Demon Clan are mid-tier demons among the demon race, adept at assassination; in such a rocky forest with complex terrain, their traits can be fully expressed.

The Shadow Demon Clan are notoriously troublesome, but for Wang Ping, they are nothing.

Crack!

A azure-gold lightning bolt split forth; in the next instant, one after another azure-gold lightning bolts appeared around Wang Ping, and in just a few breaths, a azure-gold lightning net covering a radius of a hundred zhang suddenly appeared!

Ah! Ah! Ah! …

Under the Heavenly Net, the three shadow demons near Wang Ping all revealed themselves, the closest being only one zhang away from him.

The Shadow Demon Clan's talent for stealth and concealment is superb, but under the restraint of the Yin Wood Divine Thunder, no matter how well they hide, they cannot escape.

The Heavenly Net continually struck down Yin Wood Divine Thunder; the three shadow demons barely lasted three breaths before being struck down and unable to rise.

Such a scene also surprised Wang Ping somewhat; this was also his first time using the Yin Wood Divine Thunder.

He also knew the Yin Wood Divine Thunder is the bane of evil monsters and demons, but he didn't expect its restraint on these demons to be so great.

In Wang Ping's perception, these three shadow demons are at least early Golden Core strength; although he could slay them, it is absolutely impossible to kill all three shadow demons within three breaths.

Moreover, the Shadow Demon Clan's stealth and concealment ability is extremely strong; even with Wang Ping's powerful divine sense, it would be impossible to locate them within three breaths.

The surprise brought by the Yin Wood Divine Thunder gave Wang Ping great confidence.

His gaze swept the surroundings; the remaining seven shadow demons must be hiding nearby.

The Heavenly Net's current coverage is only a hundred zhang; for areas beyond that, it is powerless.

However, this is not too big a problem for Wang Ping, who practices the lightning-attracting art; with a thought, he caused the Heavenly Net to begin contracting.

In a few breaths, the Heavenly Net condensed into an azure-gold lightning ball half a zhang long.

Wang Ping extended his divine sense as far as possible, covering a radius of five hundred li; he believed the Shadow Demon Clan was hidden within.

But his divine sense still could not detect any trace of these demons' existence.

Next, Wang Ping clasped his hands together and raised them high, then slowly spread them to both sides; the Yin Wood Divine Thunder hovering above his head slowly split into two halves along with Wang Ping's movements.

And the shape of the thunder ball began to change, extending from its original hemispherical shape toward both sides.

Growing longer, the original thunder ball split by Wang Ping into two halves each became a lightning chain tens of zhang long.

And the length of the lightning chains kept increasing; finally Wang Ping held a hundred-zhang-long lightning chain in each hand.

With a shake of his right arm, the lightning chain whipped out; the thumb-thick chain pierced a hundred-zhang space, and then Wang Ping swung it, shattering the stone forest within a hundred zhang into dust.

At the same time as his right hand moved, his left hand was not to be outdone; for a moment, cyan-gold lightning chains crisscrossed the heavens and earth.

One after another, the stone forests he destroyed forced the hidden shadow demons to have nowhere to hide.

When all seven shadow demons had appeared, Wang Ping loosened his hands, divided the chains into seven, and trapped the seven shadow demons.

For a moment, all the shadow demons let out miserable howls.

After three breaths, the seven shadow demons were slain by the Yin Wood Divine Thunder.

The whole process took less than half an incense stick's time.

The power of the Yin Wood Divine Thunder exceeded Wang Ping's imagination, especially when dealing with demons.

Hum! A spatial fluctuation appeared before Wang Ping, followed by a silver light gate.

Wang Ping stepped through the gate and reappeared on a huge, astonishing arena.

Looking up, the goal of this stage was to kill five Seven Killing Spirit Tigers within an incense stick's time.

Roar! Roar! Roar! ………

On the arena appeared five huge black-and-gold patterned fierce tigers.

Seven Killing Spirit Tigers?

Wang Ping had never heard this name, but just from the imposing aura emanating from each tiger's three-zhang-tall beastly body, he could tell that each fierce tiger's strength was astonishing.

As expected of the Tongtian Tower trial, it was indeed not simple. Wang Ping thought to himself.

Roar! Roar! Two fierce tigers lunged first; their speed was great, and combined with their massive bodies, they sprinted forward, actually kicking up a layer of white mist.

"Hmph!"

Wang Ping let out a cold snort; yellow divine light of the gravity field appeared, and the gravity field spread out under it.

The two fierce tigers were caught off guard; one stumbled and fell to the ground.

But their sturdy bodies allowed them to rise quickly.

Wang Ping also noticed a weakness of the gravity field: against beasts that charge straight ahead, its power seemed somewhat diminished.

Ferocious beasts could completely resist his gravity suppression with their sturdy bodies; although doing so would slow their movement, their flesh gave them more chances to make mistakes.

However, for Wang Ping, his gravity field was not limited to that.

A flash of crystalline light appeared above his head, and a three-inch seal emerged.

Strands of crystalline light fell down; within the gravity technique field, the power of the Heaven-Overturning Seal increased exponentially.

"Swift!"

Wang Ping gave a low shout; the Heaven-Overturning Seal shot out swiftly, expanding from three inches to ten zhang in size.

Under the boost of the gravity field, the Heaven-Overturning Seal became extremely terrifying.

The enlarged Heaven-Overturning Seal instantly enveloped the two fierce tigers; its heavy body, carrying a violent aura, smashed down.

Roar! Roar!

The two fierce tigers raised their heads and howled; facing the iron lump falling from the sky, they lifted their right front paws to strike upward.

Crack!

A clear bone-cracking sound rang out as the two fierce tigers' painful howls rose; their terrifying strength actually managed to slightly block the descent of the Heaven-Overturning Seal.

However, it was only a slight block; as Wang Ping's will moved, the Heaven-Overturning Seal smashed down again.

The two fierce tigers stood on three legs, exuding a ferocious, violent aura; they howled again to the heavens, and behind them a virtual tiger shadow condensed.

The two virtual tiger shadows howled to the heavens, again blocking the falling Heaven-Overturning Seal from outside, but only for an instant; the Heaven-Overturning Seal continued to fall.

Wang Ping, watching from afar, frowned slightly; those shadows seemed to be aggregations of killing qi.

Thinking of the name given by the Tongtian Tower, he suddenly realized; this must be the source of their name!

Seven Killing Spirit Tigers?

Since they are called Seven Killing, could there be seven? This thought just arose when the two fierce tigers gathered two killing tiger phantoms again.

The three phantoms merged into one, and their aura surged more than double.

The two fierce tigers controlled their respective condensed killing tiger phantoms to resist the Heaven-Overturning Seal.

The five fierce tigers cooperated tacitly; while the two tigers resisted the Heaven-Overturning Seal, the other three tigers attacked Wang Ping from three directions.

The three fierce tigers were stronger than the two by a notch; they actually condensed four killing tiger phantoms.

After entering Wang Ping's gravity field, their speed hardly decreased.

Wang Ping calmly performed the seal technique to adjust the gravity distribution within the gravity field; at the same time, yellow divine light appeared and merged with the Heaven-Overturning Seal.

Whoosh!

Wang Ping controlled the Heaven-Overturning Seal to move swiftly within the gravity field; in less than a breath, it had collided once with each of the five fierce tigers.

Under the influence of the gravity field, the originally heavy Heaven-Overturning Seal surged forward with great speed, carrying a violent aura that blasted the five fierce tigers away.

This was the tactic Wang Ping had just thought of: gravity technique combined with the Heaven-Overturning Seal, allowing it to sweep across five matches within the gravity field, and with the fusion of yellow divine light, streaks of yellow lightning darted back and forth across the arena.

Even though the five fierce tigers roared repeatedly and fused the killing tiger phantoms into themselves, they were still crushed by the Heaven-Overturning Seal, their tendons snapped and bones broken.

The Heaven-Overturning Seal's speed was extremely fast; even while simultaneously colliding with the five fierce tigers, it did not fall behind.

After half a cup of tea's time, the two initially fierce tigers could no longer withstand the Heaven-Overturning Seal's onslaught; they shattered one after another on the arena.

The remaining three fierce tigers also shattered on the arena after persisting for ten breaths; the whole process still took half an incense stick's time.

Wang Ping's face showed a look of lingering satisfaction; the battle just now brought him an unprecedented feeling of unrestrained exhilaration.

He never expected that a sudden flash of inspiration could unleash such formidable power.

A silver light gate reappeared, and Wang Ping entered the third level.

【Heaven-Reaching Tower third level, slay five Vajra Violent Apes within half an hour!】

Half an hour!

Wang Ping furrowed his brows; the time was prolonged, showing that this level is difficult to handle.

Before Wang Ping appeared five ferocious apes whose bodies were covered in interwoven black-gold fur, each holding a metal staff.

With weapons, especially in the hands of apes and the like, combat power definitely increases linearly.

These apes give Wang Ping the feeling that they are at least not inferior to the combat power of a human at mid Golden Core.

"The third level already has mid Golden Core strength, and there are five in a row; even ordinary white-clad disciples might not be able to pass it!"

Outside, when Wang Ping swiftly entered the third level, all the white-clad disciples stared at each other; subconsciously they also believed Wang Ping could pass the third level, but they never imagined he could actually pass it in such a short time.

They all know that the third level of the Heaven-Reaching Tower consists of five Vajra Violent Apes with mid Golden Core strength, and most white-clad disciples cannot pass it in a short time.

But given Wang Ping's speed of clearing levels, the third level likely cannot stop him. Dongfang Hong and He Peng bumped into each other, each exchanging a glance, their eyes showing disbelief.

They couldn't understand why Wang Ping's strength had increased so quickly.

Standing far away, Guan Ping silently watched all this, a faint smile appearing at the corner of his mouth, thinking in his heart:

"This is right, but still far from enough! If you don't show sufficient potential, you won't gain the favor of the esteemed elders!"