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Chapter 406: Leaving the Tower
Under the moonlight, the huge black tower still hangs in the sky, like the residence of an unattainable god.

On the street, those who were not chosen by the holy tower were surprised at first. Some of them worshiped it, while others were secretly delighted.

"The leading woman is gone!"

“A lot of other people disappeared too!”

"They must have been taken away by Tianzun."

"Why didn't Tianzun choose me?"

"Haha, do you think being chosen is a good thing? All tests are risky."

"Let's wait. Those who disappeared will definitely come back."

……

The onlookers were talking about it, and their voices spread to the surrounding blocks, attracting other spectators to this not-so-bustling place, who joined in the shocked discussion about the giant tower in the sky.

About half an incense stick of time later, the first returning guest appeared. He was a thin poor man who suddenly appeared in the crowd, scaring the people around him, but those who were quick-witted also reacted immediately.

"Did you go to see Tianzun just now?"

Someone around immediately asked this person who still had a confused look on his face.

"No……"

The skinny poor man shook his head in confusion.

"I met a wolf. It was a very ferocious beast. I fought with it and was covered in blood. I fell into a coma..."

As he narrated, he looked down at his waist, abdomen, and legs, as if wondering where his serious injuries had gone and why he looked unharmed.

"What's that in your hand?"

Someone else noticed that he was holding something thin in his hand, which reflected beautiful light in the moonlight.

After hearing this, the thin poor man realized the weight on his hand and let it go to observe.

"brass?"

"Gold leaf?!"

"How generous of you, Lord!"

……

For a moment, greed flashed in some people's eyes, while others realized that this must be a gift bestowed by the Heavenly Venerable on this person, and began to discuss what kind of gift the next person would receive when he returned.

As for the skinny poor man, he held the things tightly in his hands and quickly fled.

And the focus of everyone's attention shifted at this moment, because more people appeared out of thin air on the ground, and three of them appeared almost at the same time.

"Damn it! Three people beat me up. How unkind!"

The speaker was a sturdy man in his thirties. He seemed very unhappy with what had just happened and was mumbling something.

Next to him, there was a well-mannered young man who looked like a scholar. He looked up at the giant tower in the sky with a thoughtful look in his eyes. Then he couldn't help coughing several times in succession, as if he was ill.

The last one was the first female to appear among the returning people. She looked to be in her forties, not tall and not good-looking, but she looked relatively calm.

"Where did you three go?"

More and more people gathered around to watch the fun, and some asked them questions out of curiosity.

"How would I know where it was? As soon as I entered, someone tried to beat me up! After I knocked him down, three more came out and surrounded me. I only had two fists, so there was no way I could defeat them!"

The sturdy man was cursing and seemed very dissatisfied with what he had just experienced, but careful observers noticed that he had some strange gem hanging around his neck, which was obviously worth a lot of money.

"What are you looking at! This is a gift from the Heavenly Lord!"

When he noticed the gazes from all around him, he immediately gave a warning and raised his hand to protect the treasure which was not a local creation.

On the other side, a young man who looked like a scholar had walked through the crowd calmly, took out a bottle of potion that was also very strange in this world from his pocket, took a look at it, and then decisively opened the lid and drank it.

The woman in her forties stayed where she was and chatted with the curious onlookers around her, and her eyes occasionally glanced around, as if looking for someone who had just returned.

This situation soon reached a climax, because more and more people began to return from the Black Tower. Some of them gained some money, while others got new and interesting items, which aroused the curiosity of the surrounding onlookers to the peak.

Some people even told everyone their previous experiences, including the fact that there would be rewards at each of the ten levels of the trial, which cleared up everyone's doubts.

"So the Holy Tower Trial is all about fighting to please the Heavenly Venerable, and the Heavenly Venerable will give out rewards based on your performance? It's a pity that the Heavenly Venerable didn't let me go, otherwise with my twenty years of cultivation, I would definitely be invincible..."

There were many boastful onlookers, most of whom were jealous of the gains of the returnees. After all, they seemed to be unharmed and had suffered no losses at all, and they had received various rewards for nothing.

After everyone discussed for a while, Liu Erya, the leader, finally showed up. She was the last one to return. The later one returns, the more floors one has passed and the greater the reward.

As soon as she appeared, she preached to the people around her:
“Dear believers, the Holy Tower of the Heavenly Venerable contains everything, whether it is good medicine for curing diseases or magical weapons that greatly increase people’s strength, it has everything!
As long as you truly believe in the Heavenly Lord, you will be summoned there one day, and you will gain everything with your own abilities!"

As she finished speaking, someone disagreed and replied directly:
"Girl, the Holy Tower of the Heavenly Venerable is too harsh. How can an old man like me survive those powerful enemies? It is simply embarrassing for old bones like us."

What this person said was indeed correct. The Holy Tower Trial set by Wang Zhifan tests combat effectiveness. It is suitable for those with strength, but it is not friendly to ordinary people without cultivation. Those people will be eliminated soon after entering the tower. But Liu Erya did not shy away from this question. She replied directly:
"Old man, if you are not suitable for the trial, you can ask your descendants to do it for you. Let them believe in the Heavenly Lord and get the chance to enter the Holy Tower. Or if you are sincere enough, the Heavenly Lord will bestow blessings on you. You don't have to enter the Holy Tower."

These words were conveyed to Liu Erya by Wang Zhifan in the image of a messenger when Liu Erya was in the tower just now, reflecting his real purpose of starting the Holy Tower Trial, which was to create a big advertisement so that more people would remember his name as the Heavenly Venerable out of curiosity or interest.

Especially for those who have achieved cultivation, Wang Zhifan intends to make them believe in him. No matter whether the faith is pure or not, it is enough to provide some power of faith. After all, he has long discovered that the power of faith provided by strong people is better than that of ordinary people.

Finally, the last two returnees in the crowd were Wu Xun and Yang Qingqing.

These two people did not appear until the crowd of onlookers had thinned out, because they had cleared all ten levels, which took them much longer than the others.

After they appeared, the giant tower hanging in the sky slowly rose into the air and disappeared, marking the end of the Holy Tower Advent event.

"Brother, I almost thought I would never come back."

In an unnoticed dark corner on the street where the crowd began to disperse, Yang Qingqing looked a little disheveled at the moment, with her black clothes torn in many places. She looked similar to Wu Xun who was waiting for her in front of her, and completely different from the others who entered the tower and returned unscathed.

"It's the same for me. The last demon girl was too powerful and I almost lost."

Wu Xun nodded in agreement, looking at the junior sister in front of him who looked a little miserable but had actually improved in strength.

"Brother, did you also meet that girl? I was lucky to have this treasure so that I could hold on until the end and win. Otherwise, I would have been killed by her magic."

When Yang Qingqing said this, she showed Wu Xun a silver-ringed ruby ​​ring on her finger, and seemed to attach great importance to it.

"What effect does this thing have?"

Wu Xun became interested immediately after hearing this. Having experienced climbing the tower before, he knew too well the effect of this kind of magical creation. It can bring about a qualitative change in a warrior's strength. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a warrior's treasure.

But unfortunately, after he came out of the tower, there was no such text description in front of him, and he could not see the attributes of the ring in Yang Qingqing's hand at all, which made him feel itchy.

"It can help me recover my energy quickly, and my injuries can heal themselves. It also has the function of resisting poison. Without it, I wouldn't be able to hold on until that demon girl's power is exhausted."

Yang Qingqing immediately stroked the ruby ​​silver ring with her fingers, expressing her respect for it in her words.

"Keep it well. This is our chance. I think that...Tianzun has nothing to do with the Demon Sect. We don't need to bother investigating it in the future."

Wu Xun then said to Yang Qingqing that it was a kind of ideological unity.

Yang Qingqing agreed immediately after hearing this, because her personal experience was more convincing than anything else. She just nodded and said:

"That's true. The Demon Sect doesn't have such magical power. If it did, the world would have belonged to them long ago. We, the righteous sect, would not be able to stop them at all."

For the first time, the Demon Sect, which had always been a giant in the eyes of the two, became so small, but it was very reasonable.

After all, they had been taught since childhood that the Demon Sect was powerful because of its many evil skills and demons. No one had ever said that the Demon Sect was powerful enough to transfer them into a different space out of thin air, create a series of extremely real small worlds, and create all kinds of powerful phantoms to let them experience extremely real battles. They would even give them all kinds of treasures that seemed very precious no matter how they looked at them, like the gifts from immortals to mortals, without the slightest worldly air.

All this proves that the so-called holy tower could not have been built by the Demon Sect. It is impossible for the Demon Sect to have such a powerful creation. Only the power that is truly comparable to the legendary gods and Buddhas is enough to create such a miracle. Wu Xun and Yang Qingqing, as core disciples of the righteous sect, know this very well.

"But... how should I explain this to the people in the building and to my master? They probably won't believe it if they haven't seen it with their own eyes..."

Yang Qingqing then raised this practical question and asked Wu Xun, whose aura was much stronger than usual.

"It's better not to make it public for now. Let's just pretend nothing happened. If Master asks in detail, we can tell him privately. This is the safest way."

Wu Xun thought about it and replied. It was obvious that he did not want too many people to know that he and his junior sister had obtained an opportunity. After all, interests have always been the most attractive thing, and it is hard to say what consequences will be brought about if the matter gets out of hand.

"Okay... I'll keep it a secret... But in order to be able to enter the Holy Tower again in the future, I will start to secretly worship the Heavenly Lord. I hope you can keep it a secret for me."

Yang Qingqing added this more critical aspect, which involves her future opportunities.

"No need to make offerings, right? We don't believe in Tianzun at all, but we still entered the Holy Tower. There is no need for you to do this. You might as well hide among Tianzun's believers and wait for news."

After hearing this, Wu Xun shook his head, looking unsupportive.

But Yang Qingqing still insisted on his own opinion, because he believed that Tianzun was really a great existence and should not be taken lightly. She only heard her say:
“Brother, after the trials in the Holy Tower, I don’t need to say much about the power of the Heavenly Venerable. I also have a vague feeling that the reason I was able to defeat the last demon girl was because of the deliberate arrangement of the Heavenly Venerable. This gave me the ability to fight against the powerful enemy behind. This is undoubtedly the kindness of the Heavenly Venerable!

If I ignore this kindness, it is hard to say whether the Heavenly Venerable will abandon me and regard me as an ungrateful person, making me lose the qualification to enter the Holy Tower again. Therefore, for the sake of safety, I must start offering sacrifices to the Heavenly Venerable from today. In this way, the Heavenly Venerable will at least sense my sincerity..."

She expressed her thoughts, and Wu Xun, who was listening attentively, was gradually influenced and began to think like her.

Just imagine, a person who has entered the Holy Tower Trial and gained a lot, how could he not desire to enter it a few more times to gain greater benefits?
Such temptation was the most direct and real, and Wu Xun was unwilling to miss future opportunities because of his momentary negligence, so he quickly decided in his heart to do the same as his junior sister Yang Qingqing, and began to secretly worship the great god Tianzun and do all the subsequent preparations to the best of his ability.

When the seeds of faith in Wang Zhifan began to form in the hearts of these two extraordinary natives, Wang Zhifan himself was also doing the final inventory work in a distant world.

First, he took back the dark tower across the world through the devil scroll, and then he counted the losses and gains of this visit.

"The illusion demons contributed the most. Those ordinary people don't have the strength at all. It's impossible for them to really fight. From now on, we won't let ordinary people in. We will focus on attracting the powerful natives...

The reward items are basically mass-produced items of the Black Tower, and are mainly of the Excellent grade. The Rare grade is only given to a few special tower climbers, and the Excellent grade is not suitable for release at this stage...

The faith strength of these tower climbers after leaving the tower doesn’t seem to increase as much as expected, but it doesn’t matter. You can’t expect much from these people. It mainly serves as an advertisement...

Later on, we can arrange for Fengxue Tower to hold some corresponding publicity activities in Hutou Town, and use the advent of the Holy Tower as a town feature. It is estimated that it will not take long for Hutou Town to become the Holy City of Heavenly Venerable, and thus become famous..."

In Wang Zhifan’s plan, the previous advent of the Holy Tower was just a very initial step. The direct benefits were so small that they could be ignored, but the impact on subsequent developments could not be ignored.

He still has more tricks to use to make the powerful natives of the Wuji Sect world believe that believing in Tianzun is their greatest hope for breakthroughs and progress.

(End of this chapter)