Chapter 2: The Tower of Heaven (Part 1)
Lin Tianyang looked at the towering crimson high-rise in front of him, his mouth twitching uncontrollably for a few moments. Why did he always end up in unfamiliar places every time he lost consciousness and woke up again?
No! This place shouldn't be unfamiliar, because Lin Tianyang had seen this fiery red high tower before. It was the Tongtian Tower where he had obtained a real treasure from inside.
But isn't this thing only supposed to exist in games? How can it appear right in front of me? This is just too unbelievable!
"Hey, kid! What're you standing there like a fool for?"
A somewhat sarcastic voice came from the side, Lin Tianyang looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a white-robed old man with silver hair fluttering, long beard over his chest, standing at the gate of Tongtian Tower.
Damn it! Isn't this the NPC that stands at the entrance of Tongtian Tower every day, only saying 'Buy Tongtian Order, please pay ××× spirit stones' and 'Sorry, you don't have enough spirit stones on you, unable to buy Tongtian Order'?
Looking at the old man ruining his good looks by picking his nose, Lin Tianyang felt that he must have been too tired from fighting for several days and nights in a row and was now dreaming.
Lin Tianyang pinched his thigh hard, trying to see if he was dreaming.
"Hey! Foolish kid, stop pinching your own thigh, you're in a state of yuan Shen now, pinching is useless!"
The old Taoist plugged up one nostril and then inserted his finger into the other nostril, making Lin Tianyang feel nauseous.
Suppressing the urge to vomit up last night's dinner, Lin Tianyang asked: "Where is this place? Who are you?"
"Lin Tianyang, you've been coming to the Tongtian Tower eight times a day for several days, and you actually don't know what this place is?" The old Daoist exclaimed with an incredulous expression.
"What? Is this really a Tower of Babel? Are you a gatekeeper NPC?" Lin Tianyang exclaimed.
"What is this thing? The old man showed a puzzled expression at the term 'NPC', and then deliberately put on an air of being a wise and powerful person, saying: "I am Tongtian Daochang!"
The Avenue of Heaven is long, and it seems that the NPC's name is indeed this. However, Lin Tianyang felt that getting entangled in such matters was unnecessary at present, so he asked instead: "Can you tell me why I ended up here?"
"This is inside your dantian, you ask me why I am here, but I'd like to ask you, why did the Tongtian Tower run into your dantian?" The Tongtian Daoist asked with some indignation.
"You're saying that this thing is in my dantian?" Lin Tianyang pointed to the towering pagoda that seemed to stretch up to the sky, his face filled with disbelief as he asked.
The Tongtian Dao person sighed and said, "I don't want to either, but that's just the way it is!"
"Then can I go in?" Lin Tianyang pointed at the tightly closed door and asked.
"The first entry is free, the second time onwards, spirit stones will be collected according to the number of floors, with your current cultivation, you have one chance to enter every month. If you want to enter multiple times in a month, please purchase a Heavenly Pass. The price of the Heavenly Pass is 100 spirit stones multiplied by the floor number for the first ten floors."
"What about me now?" Lin Tianyang pointed at the gate of Tongtian Tower.
"You are now at the 9th level of Qi Refining, you can enter the third floor of Tongtian Tower, entering the third floor requires a payment of 50 Spirit Stones!"
"Where did I get the spiritual stone?" As soon as he heard that he needed a spiritual stone, Lin Tianyang became dissatisfied and started shouting.
"Hmm?" Tongtian Dao Ren heard this and hummed a puzzled sound, as if he had thought of something. He suddenly gazed at Lin Tianyang's eyes, shooting out a golden light.
Lin Tianyang suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head, as if a lot of things were being forcibly poured into his brain. After the pain disappeared, he found that he seemed to understand what had happened before and that he had crossed over.
He had crossed over into a world similar to that of a mortal's cultivation game, and his current identity was Lin Tianyang from the town of Sanxian in Yongzhou, Leyan State, on the southernmost part of the Great South Road.
Lin Tianyang is the eldest grandson of the Lin family, with a golden, wooden and fire spiritual root talent. He has a cultivation base of nine layers in the Qi Refining stage, making him one of the more outstanding younger generation members of the Lin family.
The high platform battle that just passed was a three-yearly scheduled event between the three major families of Sanxian Town, where only family disciples under the age of 20 could participate. The outcome of the battle would determine the redistribution of the town's spirit stone revenue. However, this time coincided with the recruitment period of the Leiyan Sect, so the winning family also had an additional opportunity to send one of their family members to the Leiyan Sect.
Lin Tianyang now knew that the old man of the Lin family was his second grandfather, Lin Yin Feng, who had a cultivation base in the middle of the foundation building stage and was currently in charge of all matters big and small in the Lin family. The patriarch of the Lin family was his own paternal grandfather, Lin Jin Feng, who had a cultivation base in the late foundation building stage. However, this grandfather of his had been in seclusion for ten years, attempting to break through to the Golden Dan stage, and only came out once two years ago when his father had passed away unexpectedly.
The Lin family, apart from the two grandfathers who were Jiedan Masters, had three other Jiedan disciples. However, they only had the cultivation of the initial stage of Jiedan. Originally, Lin Tianyang's father was also a Jiedan Master, but he fell with his wife two years ago when they went out. Even so, the Lin family, which has five Jiedan cultivators, is already one of the three major forces in Sanxian Town.
In his mind, Lin Tianyang was flipping through the scenes that had just appeared, and he heard Tongtian Dao Ren ask with a chuckling voice: "How is it? Do you know how many spiritual stones you have now?" And his smiling expression was exactly like that of a standard sly merchant.
Reminded by him, Lin Tianyang suddenly discovered that he had an extra storage bag and a spiritual beast bag at his waist, and the shape was so familiar, as if the storage bags and spiritual beast bags he used in the game were of this style.
As soon as he thought of this, his divine consciousness sank into it and found that there were indeed many things inside. Suddenly, Lin Tianyang felt a wave of excitement.
After carefully checking the contents, Lin Tianyang soon discovered that there were fewer things in the storage bag than he remembered, but the existing items seemed to be what he had obtained from Tongtian Tower.
At first, before coming here, I had reached the sixth floor of Tongtian Tower. At this time, inside there were not only the puppet beasts obtained from breaking through the fourth floor, but also the Blood Jade Spiders obtained from the fifth floor. Other various magical instruments and elixirs were also numerous beyond count. At least, it would be enough for myself to cultivate up to the Golden Elixir stage without any problems. However, there was a strange place - although my divine sense could see the puppet beasts and Blood Jade Spiders, my divine sense couldn't make contact with them.
Just as Lin Tianyang felt strange, Tongtian Dao Ren said: "You can only enter the third floor of Tongtian Tower now. The things you got before will not be available until you re-enter the layer to get items, hehe, are you ready to go in?"
When he said that, Lin Tianyang's joyful mood suddenly cooled down by half. There were several foundation pills inside, if he could get them out, wouldn't he be able to directly build his foundation? But the foundation pills were obtained on the fourth floor, and Lin Tianyang could only stare blankly.
