Chapter 40: Death Once More
Two hours later, Lin Tianyang returned to his own room in the Qingxu Pavilion of the Imperial Palace.
Half an hour ago, Lin Tianyang had just seen Ma Liu.
Ma Liu saw Lin Tianyang return and knew that Yun Sui Feng was probably in a precarious situation, so he naturally became even more fearful of Lin Tianyang.
Lin Tianyang asked him a few questions about Yun Sui Feng, and he answered honestly. He learned that Yun Sui Feng had secretly come out to find himself after claiming to be in seclusion for self-cultivation, and Lin Tianyang was completely relieved.
After returning to the room, Lin Tianyang immediately sat down to recover his depleted spiritual power. Once his spiritual power was fully restored, he opened Yun Sui Feng's storage bag and carefully examined it.
This cloud followed the wind, and as a cloud family's foundation repairer, his family was indeed quite wealthy. He had many magical tools, talismans, and elixirs, but except for the elixirs, he couldn't use any of the other things himself. This made Lin Tianyang, who needed to buy the Heavenly Order with spirit stones, feel somewhat disappointed.
Although he was somewhat disappointed, it was a great harvest for 'Little Cai'. Yun Sui Feng had raised the Red Scale Python and stored many Spirit Beast Feed Pills in his storage bag, which meant that Lin Tianyang didn't have to worry about cultivating for 'Little Cai' anymore.
After tidying up these things, Lin Tianyang began to calm down and carefully sorted out the gains and losses of his previous control of the mechanical puppet beast in battle, and then repaired the damaged mechanical puppet beast.
After the repair, Lin Tianyang was ready to give Xiao Cai a Spirit Nourishing Pill before entering the Tongtian Tower. However, when his divine sense sank into the Spiritual Beast Bag, he discovered that 'Xiao Cai' had actually fallen into a deep sleep, with all her spiritual energy withdrawn inward, as if she were about to break through to become a second-level Spiritual Beast.
Lin Tianyang didn't dare disturb her again and directly entered the Tongtian Tower.
After paying 400 spiritual stones to buy a Heaven-Defying Order that could enter the fourth floor, Lin Tianyang once again walked into the Heaven-Defying Tower.
After getting used to the dizziness that had passed, Lin Tianyang looked at the scene in front of him and stared with surprise.
Lin Tianyang found himself not appearing in the sea, and at this time, he was standing in a dense forest, with fog filling the air. Even he could only see thirty feet away, and more importantly, his divine sense was also restricted in this fog, as if he were in his own maze.
"What's going on?" Lin Tianyang was filled with doubts, so he wanted to fly up into the air to take a look. However, after flying up to a height of about three zhang (about 10 meters), he encountered an incredibly strong pressure that prevented him from continuing to ascend.
Lin Tianyang knew that he probably encountered the legendary air restriction, and under helpless circumstances, he could only fall back to the ground.
After returning to the ground, Lin Tianyang was about to observe his surroundings when he suddenly saw a black shadow flying towards him in the fog. Soon, he discovered that it was hundreds of unknown flying insects attacking him.
Lin Tianyang was shocked in his heart, and immediately took out the Golden Sun Blade, slashing a few knives at the flying insects. In an instant, several fire snakes rushed towards the flying insects one after another, and in the blink of an eye, they were incinerated.
Lin Tianyang walked up to the charred insects that covered the ground, and the burnt insect corpses transformed into a white light, leaving behind a pile of miscellaneous items for Lin Tianyang.
Looking at the twenty or thirty pieces of low-grade spirit stones, over ten zhang of low-grade talismans and some low-grade elixirs, Lin Tianyang sighed and reluctantly put them all into his storage bag.
After putting away these things, Lin Tianyang spread his divine sense as far as possible and searched within the limited range of 100 meters. Soon, he discovered that just tens of meters away from him, there was actually a second-level demon beast, but due to the limitations of his divine sense, he didn't know what kind of demon beast it was.
Lin Tianyang immediately released the turtle shell shield to protect himself, then went in that direction. When he got close enough for his eyes to see clearly, Lin Tianyang finally discovered that this second-level demon beast was a pitch-black spider. At this moment, the spider was wrapping an unknown flying insect with its web silk.
This spider was not afraid of divine sense attacks, and Lin Tianyang had to use a lot of skill to finally kill the spider. As a result, he only got a mid-grade earth spirit stone, and there were no other gains.
In this dense forest, Lin Tianyang continued to grope around and soon discovered that the forest was filled with all kinds of spiritual insects. Those that were alone or in small groups were usually stronger, while those that gathered in large numbers were relatively weaker. Of course, this wasn't an absolute rule. When he passed by a beehive, he encountered a third-grade demonic beast's queen bee, and beside the queen bee were several second-grade demonic beast drones.
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He couldn't fly away, so Lin Tianyang had no choice but to engage in a fierce battle with these poisonous bees. To his surprise, the bees were not afraid of spiritual attacks either. Facing hundreds and thousands of poisonous bees, Lin Tianyang could only use all his skills to kill three male bees, but was eventually stung by the queen bee's toxic needle and found himself transported outside the Tongtian Tower in just a few breaths.
"Oh! He's dead again!" Looking at Lin Tianyang appearing, Tongtian Dao Ren was somewhat surprised.
Lin Tianyang's face was expressionless as he recalled the intense battle with the poisonous bee earlier. After a short while, he let out a sigh and asked, "I entered the fourth floor of Tongtian Tower twice, why did I end up in two completely different places?"
The Tongtian Daoist saw that he was serious, almost without a joking mood, and replied expressionlessly: "The higher the Tongtian Tower goes, the more wonderful it is. I'll remind you again, the Tongtian Tower is for your training, not for you to have fun inside!"
"Thank you for reminding me, Senior Tongtian!" Lin Tianyang respectfully bowed to Tongtian Dao Ren.
Tongtian Daoist narrowed his eyes as he looked at Lin Tianyang, a hint of approval flashing in his eyes. He then said, "You just died once inside. Within a year, the price of Tongtian Token will increase to 4,000 spirit stones. If you die again, it'll double in price. Even if you don't die, after entering three times, the price of Tongtian Token will still double!"
Hearing that 4,000 spirit stones could only enter three times, Lin Tianyang let out a helpless sigh and left.
The time limit for the Four Layered Sky Tower is one year, and it's impossible to wait that long, so even if it takes 4,000 spirit stones, I have to go in. The problem is that I only have around 10,000 spirit stones on me right now, which means I can only enter twice with 4,000 spirit stones. Looks like I'll have to sell some of the things on me after all.
With this decision, Lin Tianyang found Ma Liu and asked him if there were any places nearby where cultivators gathered.
Ma Liu told Lin Tianyang two places after a moment's thought.
One place is a small town where cultivators gather, located 1,200 miles northwest of the capital city. However, the cultivation level of the cultivators in that town is not very high, and the scale of the market is relatively small.
The other place is called Yunwu Mountain, which is 2,800 miles southeast of the capital city. It's a fairly large market within a radius of 3,000 miles, where many foundation-building cultivators often go.
Lin Tianyang had a lot of things he wanted to take out, including two unused upper-grade artifacts, so he decided to head to the more distant Yunwu Mountain.
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