Chapter 37: The Fourth Floor of Tongtian Tower (Part 2)

  Since he couldn't go into the sea to kill the monster, Lin Tianyang thought it would be better to try and lure it to the shore. His plan wasn't bad, but several slashes at the strange fish with his Golden Sun Knife didn't seem to have any effect on it. The fish merely spat out a few water arrows that neutralized the knife's flame energy before diving into the depths of the water.

  Seeing that the monster was unwilling to take the bait, Lin Tianyang hesitated for a moment before transforming into a flash of light and flying towards a larger small island in the distance.

  Compared with flying by means of a flying device, the speed of a cultivator in the foundation-building period who is escaping through the use of his light is much faster, and dozens of miles can be covered in an instant.

  As he soared through the sky, Lin Tianyang discovered that the beach of this island was crawling with crabs. These crabs were all over purple and extremely large, among which one had a shell as wide as several meters, and all the other crabs seemed to be surrounding it, apparently it was the crab king.

  Lin Tianyang's divine sense swept over and found that this largest purple shell sea crab was indeed a second-level demon beast.

  This discovery made Lin Tianyang overjoyed, although the number of sea crabs was large, but after all on land, no need to run into the sea to catch and kill, so flew towards the largest crab king.

  That giant sea crab also discovered him when Lin Tianyang suddenly appeared in the sky above the small island. As soon as Lin Tianyang flew closer, it immediately swung its pincers and followed by the nearby purple shell crabs, which surprisingly all obeyed its command, shooting water arrows at Lin Tianyang together.

  Lin Tianyang was greatly shocked and immediately took out the turtle shell shield to block in front of himself, then he took out the purple bronze gong and struck it loudly.

  These purple-shelled crabs, except for the largest one which was a second-grade yao beast, were all first-grade yao beasts. The Tongling Mirror, now a top-tier magical instrument, immediately unleashed its immense power in Lin Tianyang's hands after he had built his foundation. Many of the weaker crabs were directly stunned and fell to the ground, while the second-grade crab king also stumbled and fell, its eight legs unable to support its body as it crashed onto the sandy beach.

  Lin Tianyang saw this and immediately drew out the Golden Sun Blade to slash at it, but what he didn't expect was that the Golden Sun Blade landed on the crab shell and was actually bounced right back up.

  Although I only used three successful moves, this Golden Sun Blade is after all a top-tier artifact, yet it couldn't even cut into the crab shell. This shows just how strong its defense is.

  Lin Tianyang's first knife didn't work, so he directly changed direction and stabbed again at the crab's mouth. This time, he added two more successful forces, and the flying knife directly inserted into the giant crab's body, instantly killing this second-level demon beast.

  A flash of white light passed by, and the giant crab disappeared on the beach, leaving behind a jade bottle.

  It turned out to be a jade bottle, Lin Tianyang knew that this demon beast had exploded a bottle of elixir for himself, which made Lin Tianyang somewhat disappointed. Just now, he discovered that the demon beast's shell was hard as steel, thinking that if it exploded into a defensive artifact, it would probably be not bad at all. It seems that his luck is still not that good.

  He picked up the jade bottle, Lin Tianyang opened it and found that there were three elixirs that could enhance his cultivation. They were just suitable for him to use at the beginning of the foundation period, which made Lin Tianyang feel a little comforted. He then randomly killed several nearby purple-shelled crabs with first-class strength.

  With one breath, he killed seven or eight first-class top-tier Violet Shell Crabs, but only got a few Dan medicines and over ten pieces of Ling Stone. This was clearly much less than what he had obtained when killing the same level of demonic beasts on the third floor. It seemed that the Tongtian Tower had its own rules and wouldn't give him the opportunity to kill low-level demonic beasts to farm Ling Stones.

  Since that's the case, Lin Tianyang didn't have the mind to slaughter all the lower-level demon beasts here either. After all, time was limited, so he just picked out a few of the top-tier ones and killed them, then directly rushed towards another small island.

  After flying over three or four islands in a row, Lin Tianyang finally found some sea turtles nesting on a small island.

  Lin Tianyang used the same technique, first stunning them with copper gongs and then beheading the leading secondary turtle king.

  This time, Lin Tianyang obtained a tortoise shell shield, but this tortoise shell shield was only an upper-grade artifact, and apart from being sturdy, it was far less practical than the tortoise shell shield he had seized from the Yun family.

  Although it was somewhat disappointing, having some gains is better than having none. Lin Tianyang then killed a few more top-tier sea turtles and flew towards another island.

  Like this, Lin Tianyang had been rushing about for twelve hours. When he left the Tongtian Tower, he had only killed less than ten second-grade demon beasts. Apart from obtaining a few bottles of Cultivation-boosting Dan medicine that he could use himself, everything else - whether it was magical equipment or talismans - were all just items to be sold for Spirit Stones. However, this trip had still yielded around three thousand Spirit Stones, which was still acceptable.

  After the first trip to Tongtian Tower, Lin Tianyang did not continue with a second one. Apart from the restriction of only being able to do it once a year after building his foundation, Lin Tianyang also needed to carefully recall the insights he gained from using the power of his foundation period for the first time.

  Half a day later, Lin Tianyang was still immersed in his epiphany when the seal outside the door was suddenly triggered.

  Lin Tianyang opened his eyes, let out a long sigh, and then stood up directly from the meditation cushion. He pushed open the door of his room and walked out.

  The seal was removed and the courtyard door opened. Ma Liu stood at the entrance, and as soon as he saw Lin Tianyang, he immediately apologized: "Lin Shixiong, I'm really sorry, I didn't want to disturb you, but..."

  Ma Liu's eyes widened in surprise as he stared at Lin Tianyang, and then stuttered: "Lin... no, Senior Lin, you've already built your foundation?"

  Lin Tianyang revealed a faint smile amidst his astonishment, saying: "Not bad, I originally planned to build my foundation in front of the Immediate Sect anyway, now it's just a change of location!"

  At this moment, Lin Tianyang's identity was greatly different from before. Ma Liu, facing him now, also felt a bit apprehensive and thought about how he had just called out to Lin from his closed-door training. He immediately apologized in a flustered manner: "Ma Liu didn't know that Lin had become a senior, please forgive my offense!"

  Lin Tianyang saw that he was a bit flustered and smiled: "Ma Liu, no need to be like this. Even if you didn't call me, I was about to come out anyway. What's the hurry in finding me?"

  Ma Liu heard that Lin Tianyang did not blame himself, and he felt greatly relieved. He respectfully replied: "That's right, today a new Foundation Establishment stage senior has come to take up his post, according to the rules, so all Qi Refining stage disciples must go to welcome him, which is why Ma Liu dared to disturb Senior Lin. Now that Senior Lin's identity has been revealed, naturally there is no need for him to go and welcome him again."

  "So that's how it is. By the way, who is this new Foundation Establishment cultivator?" Lin Tianyang asked casually.

  "This I'm not very clear about, only know that his surname is Yun, and he's a cultivator from the Foundation Building middle period!" Ma Liu replied honestly.

  "Zhū jī zhōng qī xìng yún de xiū shì!" Hearing this, Lin Tianyang's heart skipped a beat and jumped wildly. Needless to say, this surname Yun cultivator was probably someone from the Yun family. Last time, a Zhū jī initial stage cultivator failed to intercept him, so this time they directly sent out a mid-stage cultivator. It seemed that he had made up his mind to keep himself in Chongzhou.

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