Chapter 206

Is it a person or a cat?

Hearing this conversation, Zhao Yi could be certain: she is a cat!

There is no way to evaluate her acting skills anymore, because if she had even the slightest bit of acting ability, she wouldn't have ended up performing like this.

This self-righteous brain, this habit of overacting—it is almost exactly the same as the Yu Miaomiao of the past.

Previously, the methods used by the "Teacher," combined with his questioning of the woman in the black dress, led Zhao Yi to boldly guess that the "Teacher" should have an extremely close relationship with the Yu family, and in all likelihood, is a member of the Yu family himself.

Zhao Yi does not believe the "Teacher" cannot see it.

He must have seen it, yet he chose not to expose it, instead opting for self-deception and tacitly accepting it.

This is a form of settling for the next best thing.

Then the "next best thing" here must be a common point.

A common point between a person and a cat... are they both members of the Yu family?

Zhao Yi feels that this must be the answer.

The "Teacher" has used a special method to hide here for a very, very long time, and for this, he has paid the price of his life and freedom.

To make such a great sacrifice, he must have some ulterior motive.

And this motive requires a beneficiary, which should be the Yu family.

Tsk.

No wonder the "Teacher" deliberately did not open this layer of the wall to let the one surnamed Li come up.

This is to trap the one surnamed Li there in this way, making him unable to do anything, and naturally, it would be impossible for him to come forward and participate in the sharing of the benefits.

This is clearly a struggle for portal interests between the Long Wang family and the Long Wang family.

Thinking of this, a gloating smile appeared on Zhao Yi's face.

He is always being humbled in front of the young man and taken advantage of every time; well, this is great, finally someone can deal with you, hehe.

However, the gloating was short-lived.

Zhao Yi's gaze soon sank again.

While he certainly cannot stand the one surnamed Li having the upper hand, he also does not want to see the one surnamed Li suffer a loss.

After all the calculations, in the end, it is still his, Zhao Yi's, face that is lost.

However, the current situation is not very clear yet. To fight for those benefits, he has to wait until the benefits truly appear. After all, he doesn't even know what exactly he is fighting for right now.

No rush for now; wait a little longer. Anyway, he has enough manpower here now and has the chips to sit at the table.

Zhao Yi's attention began to retract, falling upon the four people beside him.

He has been living day and night with Li Zhuiyuan's group during this period. In this mode, some secrets simply cannot be kept.

Even if he doesn't deliberately spy, he can still figure out the general strength of their team. Of course, Li Zhuiyuan doesn't care about this either.

Runsheng, standing in front with the Yellow River Shovel, is not much different from his own subordinate, Xu Ming, under normal circumstances.

Under abnormal circumstances, Runsheng can kill Xu Ming in seconds.

Besides that, Runsheng's endurance in battle is far stronger than Xu Ming's.

There's no helping it; he practices the orthodox Qin family body-refining technique and has opened his physical qi gates, making him the best template for the fusion of a special individual constitution and body-refining techniques.

Having such a person standing in front—capable of tanking, fighting, and lasting—is simply a godsend for any team commander.

Tan Wenbin practices the Ghost-Controlling Art, which is a forbidden technique that damages one's lifespan.

However, those who practice this type of art are the least worried about shortening their lifespan; this is the most basic default price.

Especially for a River Walker, as long as one can step over every wave, one can rely on merit to replenish one's own consumption. In this context, lifespan has also become a quantifiable and replenishable consumable.

Those who practice this art fear ghost backlash the most, so every time they control them, more than half of their focus must be spent on how to suppress and guard against them.

But Tan Wenbin doesn't care about this at all; he trusts them completely and lets them play freely. This makes others only able to exert fifty percent of the power when using this forbidden technique, but Tan Wenbin can achieve one hundred and fifty percent. He can even borrow the brain of the ghost infant on his body to think about such things!

Zhao Yi has personally witnessed Yin Meng's poison; even the one inside the coffin could not replicate it. In battle, it can be used as a surprise force, and it can also be used to divide or compress the battlefield.

It's just that this method of poisoning is a bit too primitive. Zhao Yi feels it could be combined with Tan Wenbin's Ghost-Controlling Art, allowing ghosts or spirits to enrich the use of the poison.

Hmm, the Mountain Girl is dead, but he still has some books on Gu techniques left by her, plus some Gu jars buried in the medicinal field managed by Old Tian. He could send her for some advanced training; Gu techniques are naturally more compatible with poison.

As for the one here now, his best friend, Lin Shu You...

Lin Shu You's physical state has not yet fully recovered from that teaching session, but he has an excellent relationship with the Guan Jiang Shou Lord Yin Shen. During the teaching session, he saw the Bai He Master Tongzi using his precious divine power to restore and care for A You's body many times.

Ordinary Lord Yin Shen don't even bother with weak-bodied spirit mediums and are too lazy to descend to possess them.

But Lin Shu You is an exception. Zhao Yi even suspects that if Lin Shu You had a high fever that wouldn't go away, he could invite the Bai He Master Tongzi down to treat him.

In short, Zhao Yi is very satisfied with this team configuration.

He only stood outside and watched before; only after coming in to "drive" personally this time did he realize how well that guy surnamed Li is eating.

Everyone has their own functional layout, and what is even more commendable is that there is a clear development plan.

That guy surnamed Li really puts his heart and soul into his subordinates.

This is what a proper Long Wang River-Walking team is.

Every brick and every tile is built by hand, and the foundation is solid.

By comparison, his own team has been severely crippled since Old Man Tian went home to handle logistics and the Mountain Girl died.

This is not just a matter of replenishing manpower; first of all, very important things like tacit understanding and trust cannot be built overnight.

Secondly, for ready-made high-level goods, can't he just light the lamp and walk the river to earn merit himself? Why must he worship others and let them take the big share while he takes the small one?

Only one person can become a Long Wang in each generation. Who knows if you will succeed? It's better to just focus on what's in front of you, get full, and then light the lamp a second time to admit defeat.

Therefore, many Jianghu roughnecks or people from ordinary families often lose too many people in one wave and have to choose to light the lamp and admit defeat, because they simply have no way to reorganize and replenish the team and lack the ability to deal with the next, more difficult wave.

And apart from those special exceptions with explosive personal charm, only those with higher family backgrounds can have subordinates with higher potential and greater strength around them. It's not that they are after your family's cheapness, but they feel that your probability of becoming a Long Wang is higher than others and are willing to gamble with you for that position of following the dragon.

"Hu... hu... hu..."

Zhao Yi began to breathe deeply, repeatedly warning himself to keep his original intention. He began to worry that after having fun this time, he would feel dispirited about his own team when he went back.

Li Zhuiyuan on the next level cannot hear the conversation; he cannot even read Yu Cangsheng's lip movements because his lips didn't move, only his fingers trembled.

But from the changes in the woman in the black dress, Li Zhuiyuan can also guess what happened.

Yu Miaomiao is not dead; Yu Miaomiao has borrowed a corpse to return to life, and what is left must be that cat. This doesn't even need to be asked; there's no need to flip a coin.

That cat has always been the main body in that body; it is the real Yu Miaomiao.

When you are being drained of your luck and destiny, the cat that occupies the main body will definitely take the initiative to send the real Yu Miaomiao inside the body out first as a sacrificial offering.

Moreover, according to the rules, what the woman in the black dress absorbs is also a member of the Yu family.

After all, he has already checked the ten floors where there are people in the high tower; they are all people, with no demons or other species mixed in.

Li Zhuiyuan believes that Yu Cangsheng must be clear about this point, but he actually reached out and touched the head of the woman in the black dress, and the woman in the black dress also pretended to be affectionate and leaned against his side.

Aren't you, Yu Cangsheng, the one who rejects the rebellion against heaven in the family the most?

You have called it a beast time and time again, but what are you doing now?

Li Zhuiyuan couldn't help but be curious: just how great a benefit is driving you to wrong your own heart and hold your nose to temporarily acknowledge it?

One wrong answer can be ruled out first: Yu Cangsheng is definitely not doing this for the dream of becoming an immortal.

If he wanted to pursue this dream, he wouldn't have stayed there as a teacher.

With his strength during his lifetime, he would have been able to walk here and obtain the qualification to enter the high tower.

In fact, this high tower is not just simple plundering; it has its own competitive ecology.

If Yu Miaomiao hadn't chosen one of the three strongest, she could have chosen a weaker one, killed them, and then obtained the accumulation on the other party's body, then entered the tower and replaced their position.

The high tower bell can control the bells, meaning the ringing of the bells is influenced by the rules inside the high tower.

Therefore, from the beginning, this was not a game of gaining recognition and finding partners, but rather, under the judgment of the high tower rules, which floor and which person's ecological niche you can occupy. The high tower thinks you are qualified to replace it, making this place stronger, to welcome the ascension in a more perfect posture.

Yu Miaomiao's sacrifice and self-introduction were actually not meant to move the woman in the black dress; what they actually moved was the high tower. The high tower gave her this opportunity.

And the high tower's judgment on Zhao Yi is that he can replace the positions of two of the people on the tenth floor.

Of course, if you didn't win and were killed, you would also be absorbed, which counts as merging into the high tower in another way. Anyway, the tower doesn't lose.

If Yu Cangsheng had come for the sake of ascending to become an immortal, he would definitely have chosen to enter the tower, obtain a position, and quietly wait for the opportunity for ascension to arrive.

He didn't do that, which means that what he is plotting is even greater.

Or rather, he saw a deeper side, and what he wants to obtain is also hidden deeper.

Thinking to this point, Li Zhuiyuan's gaze fell on the high tower again.

Deeper benefits?

Negative second floor.

Yu Cangsheng endured the strong disgust and rejection in his heart and gently pushed the woman in the black dress away, telling her to have some self-respect.

Even if you want to play a human, you must know that your real human age is about the same as that young man downstairs. Only a cat can reach the mating season so early at such a young age.

If there were a choice, if he could properly leave here and return home, he would definitely spare no cost to forcibly correct the atmosphere in the family, even if it meant death.

But he had no choice; he could not leave here; he was already dead; he had long been bound and merged with this place.

The sky at home has changed color, and he is powerless. The only thing he can do now is to bring this great merit back to the family in the name of her, a member of the Yu family.

With this, he begs the Heavenly Dao to bestow opportunities and turning points, so that the Yu family can obtain protection and rectification, at least not to the point of being completely mixed-breed, even if it means splitting off a branch.

Yu Miaomiao was pushed away. She could feel the alienation—no, the disgust—from the consciousness inside A Yuan's body toward her.

Although she changed into a body, the thing in the original body that would always hold her back and make her hesitate when doing things was also completely gone.

She became purer, and her positioning of her own identity became clearer.

This is truly the arrogance of a "person" of the Yu family.

Yu Miaomiao recalled one night when Grandma held her hand and chatted by the pond. The moonlight was hazy, and the round pupils in Grandma's eyes emitted a luster more dazzling than the moonlight, and those long whiskers were even more vivid and spirited.

Grandma said that in the past, these "people" of the Yu family were the most aloof. Clearly, the Yu family relied on spirit beasts to start their family and establish their clan, yet the "people" of the Yu family looked down on us the most.

Grandma also said that this Yu family does not just belong to the "people" of the Yu family; they also have the surname Yu, and this Yu family also has a share of theirs.

Grandma also said that it's good now; everything has been corrected.

Grandma finally smiled and said that it's good that the girl stayed in your body. These "people" can help us become smarter. When it comes to brains, we really can't compare to those people.

Yu Cangsheng said: "Next, you listen to my instructions. I can let you bring a great merit back to the Yu family."

Yu Miaomiao said softly: "Understood, everything will be according to your instructions. Whatever you tell me to do, I will do, because I can feel a family-like intimacy from you."

Zhao Yi's mouth twitched. He is now a bit envious that the one surnamed Li downstairs cannot hear the sound.

Otherwise, he would be able to hear the guy who could originally make a bell-like laugh imitating Lin Daiyu.

Yu Cangsheng suppressed the discomfort in his heart and nodded. He spoke again. Rather than saying it to Yu Miaomiao, it was more like he was persuading and enlightening himself:

"I do this all for the Yu family."

"That is of course. I can see your dedication, and your care and consideration for the family are even more of a model for me."

Yu Cangsheng clenched his fists.

He held back and didn't hit Yu Miaomiao.

He walked forward a few steps, raised his head, and looked at the bell on the top floor of the high tower.

Yu Miaomiao leaned over again. She felt that the more the other party hated her, the more enthusiastic and well-behaved she should be.

In her heart, she was actually also hating him.

Hating him for occupying A Yuan's body.

Hating him for clearly having the surname Yu, yet deliberately tormenting and making things difficult for her and A Yuan in the examination hall behind the stone gate for so long.

You still have the nerve to say it's for the Yu family?

Grandma's evaluation of you "people" of the Yu family was indeed correct.

Yu Cangsheng had no mind to think about Yu Miaomiao's inner thoughts, because as soon as he thought of this person, he felt uncomfortable and miserable.

And right now, it is time to focus on business.

On the top floor of the high tower, the Faceless Man appeared again.

The two people's gazes met.

Yu Cangsheng: Are you coming down, or am I going up?

The Faceless Man made no move.

Yu Cangsheng: Then I will go up.

He had originally prepared for this day for a long time and had also formulated other methods.

But he didn't expect that the Yu family of the future would actually become what it is today. Although this is not what he wanted to see, it is equivalent to actively handing him a new and better method, and it greatly improved his success rate.

Yu Cangsheng pointed to the tower gate in front and said: "Miaomiao, you go, push open that door."

Yu Miaomiao was stunned for a moment.

Previously inside the high tower, she had developed a great psychological shadow regarding the restrictions and pressure inside.

Now, he actually wants her to push the tower gate?

Yu Cangsheng: "Go quickly, push it open."

"Yes."

Yu Miaomiao took a deep breath, then felt a surge of discomfort in her body. She forgot that the body she is in now is dead, a bit like a zombie, and a bit like a dead person. In short, it formed a strange dead object in the special environment here and does not need to breathe.

Her eyes lifted slightly, looking at the floor above, where her corpse parts were still scattered.

She also saw her own head.

She really likes her round, fleshy face. Grandma said this represents a kind of blessing.

Even if she could leave here alive, she could only live in this dead body forever?

Then what is the point of living like this?

Those sensory enjoyments of eating and drinking will all be out of reach for her.

What's more, after leaving here, this dead body of hers will also decay. Even if the family uses various methods to try to maintain the current state, it will be very difficult.

What awaits her will be endless torture for the rest of her life.

Yu Miaomiao looked at the hole two floors above.

Since you were already in A Yuan's body, you clearly had the ability to open the wall and come down, so why did you deliberately wait until I was killed to come down?

If you had come down earlier, I wouldn't have had to die. Now you are still pretending to be a good person here. Hypocrite!

A venomous hatred flashed in the depths of Yu Miaomiao's eyes.

She recalled the scene of her being killed earlier. That kind of pain and that kind of despair, even if she was "resurrected," still made her shudder.

I didn't have to suffer the previous pain, let alone the later pain. All of this is caused by you!

Yu Cangsheng's voice came again: "Hurry up, don't dawdle."

When saying this, Yu Cangsheng looked down, and the young man was standing right at his feet.

He is certain that the young man is from the Long Wang family.

Because when the young man spoke to him, he said "River Walking."

Secondly, the young man's evaluation of Zhao Wuyang reflects a kind of vision; only the direct descendants of the Long Wang family can have such profound cognition and experience.

Of course, heroes emerge in the Jianghu, and true heroes can also emerge from the roughnecks, but looking at the way that kid from the Jiujiang Zhao family is obedient to the young man, this young man is definitely not from the roughnecks.

Zhao Wuyang could play with the roughnecks back then, but the descendants of Zhao Wuyang after he became a Long Wang would not have the state of mind that Zhao Wuyang had.

Yu Cangsheng is very angry. He can absorb A Yuan's memories, but in A Yuan's memories, there is no cognition that the young man is from the Long Wang family. This matter was asked by himself.

At the top of the tower, the Faceless Man stood there, continuing to watch below.

Yu Miaomiao placed her hands on the tower gate. The moment she made contact, a terrible pressure descended on her, and she immediately let out a wail.

"Ah!!!"

She let go and took two steps back. The tower gate remained motionless.

"I, I, I can't push it open. It hurts so much, it's so painful."

This is simply torture!

Yu Cangsheng: "Push with all your might, you can push it!"

In Yu Cangsheng's words, there was a dignified warning.

Yu Miaomiao's body trembled, and she had no choice but to reach out her hands again and press them against the tower gate.

The intense pain came again, and she wailed again. This time, she persisted for a little longer, and the crack in the door was pushed open a little more.

"Ah!!!"

Yu Miaomiao let go again, stepped back, and fell to the ground.

Yu Cangsheng's mouth twitched.

The word "useless" almost slipped out.

She can't even accept this little pain. Is this beast actually also raised in the lap of luxury?

You have to know that for this, he has lurked here for I don't know how many years. Compared to physical pain, spiritual loneliness is even more desperate.

Tan Wenbin looked at Zhao Yi with some lack of understanding: "Can this door still be pushed open like this?"

Binbin's formation attainments are not high, but he knows that the formation of this high tower is definitely very high.

Otherwise, Brother Xiaoyuan would definitely have broken it, instead of always walking according to its rules.

Zhao Yi replied: "Because the door should have been opened earlier to let the people on these three underground floors go back. Now the door has only been opened a crack and then stopped, which is destroying the rules.

That woman in the black dress is the real eldest lady of the Yu family.

She is a person in the high tower, so it is only natural for her to return to the high tower.

So having her push the door personally can promote the operation of the rules.

Theoretically speaking, she can push the door open.

Unfortunately, she is too delicate; she is a precious person after all."

Zhao Yi knows that A Yuan's hearing is very good.

Therefore, he deliberately bit hard on words like "eldest lady of the Yu family," "delicate," and "precious."

He is putting eye drops on Yu Cangsheng.

They are all smart people, but he is actually smart in a different way than the young man.

Li Zhuiyuan is good at deduction, integrating all factors and conditions to choose an optimal solution.

Zhao Yi's life-and-death door crack, wandering between life and death every day, is good at insight into people's hearts, or rather, manipulating people's hearts.

The fact that he didn't die several times in front of Li Zhuiyuan is the best proof.

Yu Cangsheng: "Get up, keep pushing. No matter how much suffering you endure now, compared to the opportunity I will give you for the family, it is all worth it!"

Yu Miaomiao had no choice but to stand up again.

The opportunity for me?

Sounds nice.

Why don't you push it yourself!

But Yu Miaomiao, dissatisfied as she was, was actually a bit afraid of Yu Cangsheng.

Grandma said that the current "people" of the Yu family are nothing, but the Yu family members of the past were very terrifying.

Yu Miaomiao pressed her hands on the tower gate again and exerted force.

What followed was pain and wailing.

Her original body was not a normal human physique, similar to half-human, half-demon.

And some uncomfortable feelings could be passed on to the other one in her body. For example, the pain every time she was injured in battle, she would hand it over to the real "little girl" in her body to bear.

Anyway, she was useless in the body, so it was better to help her share some.

As time went by, after changing bodies and that Yu family girl was gone, Yu Miaomiao found it very difficult to adapt to this kind of pain directly added to her own body. Her pain threshold was actually very low.

"Ah!!!"

This time, she persisted for a little longer, and the crack in the door was pushed to the size of a baby's fist.

Then, she stumbled backward continuously and fell to the ground.

In a fit of anger, she almost went crazy, drew the precious sword from her waist, and danced a sword flower.

Seeing this, Yu Cangsheng was immediately startled.

Her pushing the door is in accordance with the rules, but daring to launch an attack on the high tower, especially on the tower gate, will immediately suffer a counterattack from the high tower!

Idiot!

Yu Cangsheng appeared in front of Yu Miaomiao and slapped her.

"Slap!"

Yu Miaomiao was stunned by the slap.

The force of A Yuan's slap was terrifying. Yu Miaomiao's left cheek was broken, and the pus inside began to drip down.

But Yu Miaomiao herself was not knocked away and still stood in place.

Because this body is very strong.

But now, it is only the body that is strong.

Yu Miaomiao wanted to learn the move that the woman in the black dress used repeatedly when she killed her earlier, but she only danced a sword flower and did not release that terrible blow.

She used the loophole in the rules, plus Yu Cangsheng's action, to occupy the body control of the other party, but she couldn't use the other party's move ability.

It was fortunate that she didn't use it. If she had used it, the situation would have completely collapsed.

In the back, Zhao Yi placed his hand on Lin Shu You's shoulder, buried his face in Lin Shu You's chest, and kept heaving.

Lin Shu You was a bit confused, only knowing that this hateful guy was laughing happily for no reason.

"Hehehehe... hehehe!"

Zhao Yi was about to laugh until he cramped, laughing until his heart began to ache, yet he still couldn't help but laugh.

This big silly girl, after occupying someone else's body, actually couldn't even use the muscle memory!

What is this, silly people have silly luck.

Even if he lowered the evaluation standard for Yu Miaomiao time and time again, he could still be amazed by her time and time again.

"It hurts, it really hurts!" Yu Miaomiao was very aggrieved.

Yu Cangsheng's gaze cooled down.

"Alright, I don't need you anymore."

"Really? Thank you, thank you." Yu Miaomiao breathed a sigh of relief in her heart; finally, she didn't have to endure that kind of pain again.

Yu Cangsheng pinched his hands, and the gray and white colors in his eyes circulated again.

Yu Miaomiao was a bit puzzled at first, not knowing what he was doing, but soon, she understood.

"No! Don't!"

A mark was imprinted into Yu Miaomiao's body from Yu Cangsheng's hand.

Yu Family Beast-Taming Art.

Controlling demon beasts is the foundation, and it also has a miraculous effect on the spirits of demon beasts.

What is more important is that the effect is completely different when used by different people.

Just like the animals of Sun Yan under Zhao Yi and the Wood Prince at the entrance, all were directly controlled by Yu Miaomiao and A Yuan without any resistance. Yu Miaomiao also had no way to resist the control from Yu Cangsheng.

Her thinking was solidified in a narrow range, her consciousness began to be guided, and then her body also began to involuntarily become a marionette.

Yu Cangsheng: "Even if it's not for the family, even if it's just for you, you must endure this little bit of suffering!"

Yu Miaomiao's hands were heavily pressed on the door.

Although her body was not under her own control, the terrible pain still descended on her.

And, because her body was being controlled, she couldn't retreat, and she didn't even know when it would end. She could only exert force, exert force, and exert force again in a very desperate way.

In the depths of Yu Miaomiao's eyes, a deep venomous hatred had already emerged!

Her hatred had already reached its peak.

What opportunity, what for the family, for my own good—it was all a lie.

You have been hiding here for so many years, how could it be just to help the family? And how could you give this opportunity to me, an irrelevant outsider?

The family is just your excuse; I am just a tool you selected to satisfy your personal selfish desires!

The tower gate on the negative second floor was being pushed open slowly and continuously.

Synchronously opened were the negative third floor and the negative first floor.

Li Zhuiyuan originally thought this was just a normal synchronization, but the Faceless Man who was originally at the top of the tower disappeared and instead appeared at the entrance of the negative third floor.

Yu Cangsheng noticed this scene, and his eyes narrowed.

Which Long Wang family gate did this young man come from to be able to receive such special care!

When Yu Cangsheng came here, the one at the top of the tower was already there.

He didn't know who that person was, only that although that person came earlier than him, the era was not much earlier than his.

Moreover, the top of this tower originally didn't need a bell-ringer.

Because the formation was already mature, the rules were already perfect, everything could operate naturally, and this bell would ring by itself when the time came.

That person had not been here since the creation of this place.

But since that person could come to the top floor and forcibly install himself as a bell-ringer, it shows that his ancestors should have had a close relationship with this place, and it is very likely that they were the ones who built and laid out this place.

After Zhao Yi saw this scene, he, who was still laughing just now, felt sour in his heart again, and even a bit exasperated.

Good, I said so, relatives are relatives. If you count the dead, whose family has as many relatives and old friends as yours!

Regarding this, Li Zhuiyuan cannot explain, and it is even more impossible to explain.

Extracting his own waves from A Li's dream is his own secret. Except for the people in his own team, he will not tell outsiders.

But the young man is also truly curious why this person wants to appear here to see him at this time.

Yu Miaomiao is very painful. The tower gate is constantly being pushed open, but it will still take a lot of time to push it to the point where an adult can enter.

Because... A Yuan's figure is relatively tall.

As for Yu Miaomiao's venomous eyes and inner curses, Yu Cangsheng doesn't care, and he disdains to pay attention.

Li Zhuiyuan walked toward the tower gate on his floor.

The wall at Yu Cangsheng's feet began to tremble slightly. He now regrets it a bit. He might as well have brought this young man up. He didn't expect that he could have a "mishap" while staying alone below.

Now going to pick him up doesn't seem to make much sense.

The most important thing is that doing so would be too obvious.

It's not that he is afraid of the forces behind the young man. After all, he is from a proper Long Wang family; he has respect for other Long Wang families, but he will not have fear.

He just feels embarrassed to do too obvious suppression. Normal portal interest struggles are fine, but really losing face to bully a little junior is really losing status.

In front of Li Zhuiyuan, he considers himself a senior, especially after discovering that Li Zhuiyuan has Zhao Wuyang's copper coin sword in his hand, he gives Zhao Wuyang a very high evaluation.

He and Zhao Wuyang were competitors in the same period, and even more so, they were opponents who cherished each other. Zhao Wuyang rose step by step without showing his mountains or dew in their era and finally became a Long Wang. He is convinced.

You have to know that in that generation, not only did many flood dragons appear among the roughnecks, but each Long Wang family also had extremely excellent descendants. In other eras, these could compete for the position of Long Wang, but in the end, the winner was still Zhao Wuyang.

This is a good child, a good child with a boundless future. He likes him.

Faceless Man: "Is the book good to read?"

Li Zhuiyuan replied: "I haven't understood it yet, but it's quite good to touch."

Faceless Man: "Not bad, you understood some so quickly."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Do you have something?"

Faceless Man: "Nothing, just want to chat with you."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Oh."

Faceless Man: "I originally wanted to ascend in front of you, but now it's still a little bit short. When it's time for mishaps, mishaps really happen."

Li Zhuiyuan: "This is normal."

Faceless Man: "Good things take time?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Things that are impossible to succeed will naturally have various mishaps that make them impossible to succeed. It's a dream; it will eventually wake up."

Faceless Man: "The same as what he said back then."

"You lost."

"That is of course. He can be placed on the altar in that girl's dream. Doesn't this clearly show that he won? But I told him at the time that the real winning move is not in a moment. I will prove it to him later."

"My sentence just now is actually used here."

"You will see, child. I promise, I can let you witness the real ascension with your own eyes, and then, at the moment I become an immortal, I will kill you.

I will go to the real Heavenly Palace and become a high-ranking immortal.

And you will go to hell for reincarnation, go down below, and tell him about my success."

"He has no spirit anymore."

The Faceless Man was silent.

Li Zhuiyuan smiled.

You are desperately chasing the dream of becoming an immortal, but for the sake of this world, he didn't even want his only trace.

Isn't this a kind of irony?

Because you haven't succeeded yet, but he has already practiced his promise and mission and succeeded.

The Faceless Man seems unable to walk out of the high tower range, so he has been standing inside the tower gate.

Upstairs, Yu Miaomiao is constantly pushing the door while enduring great pain, making the Faceless Man's face here grow larger and larger.

Although this is larger, it doesn't make much sense.

The Faceless Man spoke again: "He was just a little earlier, and I was just a little later. I will use your eyes and your life to sacrifice to my oath back then."

Li Zhuiyuan: "It seems that you actually don't fully believe this either."

Faceless Man: "If I don't believe this, why would I appear here? Do you know how long I have stayed here, only to be imprisoned in this high tower, unable to leave even half a step?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "You just can't afford to lose."

"Hehehe... hehehehe..."

The Faceless Man laughed for a long time.

"Actually, you can try to beg for mercy. If you beg for mercy, I really feel embarrassed to kill you."

"If I beg for mercy, you will only want to kill me more, because I tarnished his name."

"Then do you want to live?"

"I want to, but whether I live or die has nothing to do with you."

"You shouldn't have walked the river so early. The blessings of those two families shouldn't have let you be wrapped into the river water so early. Why?"

Li Zhuiyuan lowered his head and flipped through the wordless book in his hand casually.

It's all the trouble caused by his love for reading; it's all caused by reading.

"I also like reading very much. There has always been a legend passed down from generation to generation in my family, and there is also a book buried under the ancestral grave that descendants are not allowed to look at."

"You shouldn't have set such rules. Such rules will only make future descendants listen in reverse."

"Hmm, there are terrible restrictions set under my ancestral grave. When I went in, I saw many corpses of ancestors inside. Obviously, everyone didn't listen.

Those who go in must die. That ancestor didn't lie. He should have been deliberate, because that legend is not only in my family, but there are also rumors in the Jianghu.

So, I suspect that he deliberately set this rule to trick the ambitious descendants into coming in and killing them."

"You didn't die?"

"I died. In order to win, I burned everything. My life was not long, but I still lost to him.

When I entered the ancestral grave, I was actually already a dead person. It is precisely because of this that I could walk out alive and bring that book."

Li Zhuiyuan spread out the wordless book in his hand and showed it to the Faceless Man.

The meaning is: I showed you my book, you also talk about your book.

"The ancestor's restrictions have a time limit. When the time comes, it will naturally be unlocked, and this book will also appear in the world. I just got it in advance.

The things recorded in the book are really not much.

It just recorded the location here, plus one sentence: On the day the restrictions are broken, the whole clan will go here to welcome the arrival of my clan's great opportunity."

"What about the date?"

"It's today."

"Then you arrived so early in advance?"

"Hmm, not only did I arrive early, but I also brought my whole family here in advance. Unfortunately, they are not qualified to enter the tower and can only be placed in those two kneeling corpse pits first.

Inside are princes and nobles, so it's not considered humiliating them, right?"

Li Zhuiyuan knows that the "already dead" mentioned by the Faceless Man refers to the state where he turned himself into a neither-human-nor-ghost state. As for bringing the whole family together... it refers to him killing his whole family and bringing their corpses here.

"My fault, it was me who entered the restrictions in advance and got that book. I was already dead at that time, and the time left in the world was not much, so I could only rush here.

But I was afraid that because of me, the whole clan would lose this great opportunity, so I could only bring them together. I did this for their own good; after all, they are family.

Do you think I did the right thing?"

"I don't care about this."

"Oh?"

"You can't control the formation here, right?"

Compared to human tragedies, Li Zhuiyuan is more concerned about technical issues.

Faceless Man: "No, but the rules here, because I have the ancestor's bloodline, can give me some preferential treatment for the sake of the ancestor's face."

"Oh." Li Zhuiyuan nodded and evaluated: "This is a defect, not perfect. Your ancestor should have changed it. How can a formation look at face?"

"After you die, you go down and communicate with him properly."

"Eh, your ancestor doesn't ascend?"

"The restrictions in the ancestral grave use his corpse as the formation eye, and I can't take it away.

The day the restrictions are unlocked is the time when his corpse dissolves.

He therefore lost the opportunity for ascension. Probably because of the reason you just mentioned, I, a descendant, can receive preferential treatment from the rules here relying on that thin bloodline. If he were here, I'm afraid the rules would collapse directly upon seeing his complete face."

Li Zhuiyuan pointed upstairs: "The door is open wide enough. Are you not planning to do something?"

"Hmm, just came to tell you, have to trouble you to wait a little longer. After I finish dealing with it, I will start immediately."

"Okay, I know."

The Faceless Man disappeared.

But his figure did not appear on the top floor again, but appeared on the eleventh floor.

On the eleventh floor, there were originally three beds and three people, but now, only two remain.

In fact, there are differences among these three people.

The woman in the black dress is the sharpest, the scholar is the most mysterious... the old Daoist is the most powerful.

That is to say, the twelfth floor is a big bell, so he can only stay on the eleventh floor. Logically speaking, he should sit on a floor alone.

The Faceless Man is now standing in front of the old Daoist.

Indeed, just as he said to the young man earlier, the preferential treatment of the rules for him has a limit.

But one person is an exception.

He reached out and slowly tore his own face skin from bottom to top.

The high tower began to tremble.

Those black shadows in the jade began to wander excitedly, and the teachers and students in the school began to worship.

After the face skin without facial features was torn off, what was revealed inside was a new face skin. This new face skin has facial features.

It just stopped after being lifted halfway, just below the nose position, because the vibration of the high tower was already becoming uncontrollable and could not continue to be torn.

But this is enough.

He has no face because he tore off his ancestor's face and pasted it on his own face.

He said his preferential treatment is because the formation here looks at his ancestor's face. This sentence is really not false at all.

The half-faced man said to the Daoist in front of him:

"The road to immortality is full of bumps, today the destiny is near perfection, the great cause of ascension is in front, need to step over the last tribulation.

Therefore,

Please Daoist descend the mountain!"

(End of this chapter)