Chapter 136: Broken

Mei Chouren had a sword wound around his waist, with blood flowing all over the ground. He had fainted too quickly to even have time to treat his own injury.

It was only after Lian Lian fed him a pill just now that he regained consciousness, and the spiritual energy covering the wound around his waist slowly restored it.

Zhou Yun supported him as he got up and asked, "Was it Lu Shenhan who injured you?"

Mei Chouren’s face immediately darkened. "After he and Ning Qianyao went up, they wanted to cut off the staircase. I couldn’t stop him."

The three of them had been moving upward at roughly the same speed. Mei Chouren had actually already stepped onto the third floor, but halfway there, Lu Shenhan suddenly turned around and swung his sword, intending to sever the staircase.

He was holding the Seven-Extinction Sword, one of the divine weapons of the current age. With that strike, he would certainly be able to cut the staircase apart.

Mei Chouren went up to stop him, but instead was wounded by a single sword strike and eventually fell back to the second floor.

"What a despicable person." Zhou Yun felt ashamed that, when she was young, she had once had such a shallow liking for Lu Shenhan.

Ye Su swept her gaze across the second floor. It was filled entirely with books and was no smaller than the first floor. She asked him, "What’s on the third floor?"

Mei Chouren released his hand. The wound around his waist was almost healed. "It’s full of excellent magical artifacts."

Each person could only take one thing out of the Rotating Tower. Everyone wanted to climb toward the higher floors because, according to the experiences of their predecessors, the higher they went, the better the things were.

Especially since there were pills on one of the floors. They couldn’t be taken out, but they could be used immediately on the spot.

Gu Liangtian tried to jump up, but in the end, he looked like a clumsy bear, jumping only three inches off the ground. "……"

Ye Su looked at You Fushi, who was still lowering his head and carefully wiping the wooden fish. He was pressing so hard with his fingertips that they had all turned red. She grabbed Junior Martial Brother’s hand and asked, "Can the Blood-Crying Sword go up?"

You Fushi stopped and turned his head to glance at the Blood-Crying Sword standing beside him. The Blood-Crying Sword immediately flew forward. It rose to about the height of a person, then stopped moving.

The strength of an ordinary Divine Transformation cultivator couldn’t rise any higher. Ye Su didn’t want You Fushi to enter his purple-eyed state again, so she had him withdraw the Blood-Crying Sword.

Lian Lian tried using talismans as well, but she couldn’t get up either.

……

Outside the Rotating Tower.

After the ten people entered, Daoist Fengchen released an illusory image of the Rotating Tower from his hand. It enlarged to about half a person’s height and floated in midair. There were ten points of light on each floor, and the clearly visible staircases could be seen on every level.

Everyone outside could see the points of light moving, but couldn’t distinguish who was who. At first, two points of light moved the fastest. Then another point of light followed closely behind and went up to the second floor.

"To be able to go up so quickly, no wonder they’re stronger than previous generations." Hehuan Sect Master Wu Yue said. "I just don’t know who those three people are."

"Whoever reaches the fourth floor first has already won half the battle." The Pill Sect Master said. "That floor has all kinds of pills. If they can find the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill and eat it, they’ll have gained another life."

"The fourth floor is filled with cabinets of pills, and none of the pill bottles have labels. Finding the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill within a month is basically impossible." Wujian Sect Master Zhou Qi shook his head. "Only if they can reach the Divine Sense Sea on the eighth floor and temper their divine sense will they truly benefit."

Daoist Fengchen looked at the points of light. "Everyone has their own destiny. We cannot interfere."

Everyone watched as the points of light continued moving. On the first floor, one point of light went up the staircase. Not long afterward, another point of light suddenly walked over without any obstruction and dragged that point of light back down.

"How did that happen so quickly?" Ma Congqiu was startled. That point of light had been moving so quickly, so why hadn’t it gone up right away?

"You Fushi." Xin Shenzi said with certainty, holding his sword.

Xu Chengyu turned around and asked, "Elder Xin, why are you certain it’s Young Master You?"

"There’s nothing on the first floor except demonic shadows." Xin Shenzi said confidently. "The blue cloak You Fushi put on can ward off demons. That point of light was also constantly sticking close to another point of light. Who else could it be?"

Ma Congqiu first nodded thoughtfully, then suddenly understood and became extremely admiring of Xin Shenzi. "What Elder Xin said must be right!"

Xu Chengyu looked at the few points of light that had fallen behind and instead became worried. He didn’t know why You Fushi had suddenly gone forward. It was obvious that he had gotten into a dispute with the person who had gone up the stairs.

Afterward, everyone inside the Rotating Tower saw a group of points of light continuously gathering at the staircase on the first floor.

"Are they having a group fight?" Yan Hao looked up at the points of light in the Rotating Tower and guessed.

"Among those who went up to the second floor are Lu Shenhan and Ning Qianyao." Cheng Huai’an stood beside her. "It’s just that I don’t know who the other person is. It shouldn’t be Gu Liangtian."

Actually, it was easy to guess. Of the ten people, seven had good relationships. The point of light that had just been dragged down had been moving quite quickly, faster than the others, and had been alone. It was easy to guess that it was Gu Liangtian.

"It could also be Yi Xuan." Yan Hao looked at the three points of light that had gone up another floor. "He’s also at the early Divine Transformation stage, and his strength isn’t low."

"What are they doing?!" Ma Congqiu suddenly pointed at the points of light on the third floor and shouted. "The staircase is broken!"

Everyone raised their eyes together, only to see the staircase connecting the second and third floors suddenly break. Of the three points of light, one fell back to the second floor and stopped moving.

Cheng Huai’an: "……This person probably isn’t Yi Xuan."

At the same Divine Transformation stage, and possessing one of the divine weapons, Yi Xuan wouldn’t at least lose to Lu Shenhan in a single move.

Yan Hao suddenly had a bad feeling. She felt that it might be her senior brother.

At this moment, all the points of light on the first floor began moving upward. Fortunately, not long afterward, the motionless point of light began moving again.

"Have they no shame?!" Ma Congqiu began shouting again. The indignation in his voice successfully caused several sect masters to turn their gazes toward him.

Ma Congqiu silently lowered his head and muttered a few curses. The two points of light that had gone up first had broken another section of the staircase, clearly intending to cut off the path of the others.

……

Lian Lian picked up a shattered staircase board from the ground and asked Ye Su, "Can this be repaired?"

Ye Su glanced at it. "There’s no use repairing it."

"Why?" Lian Lian asked in surprise.

"These staircase boards don’t correspond to the height of the third floor. There must be some kind of formation involved." Ye Su took an extremely tall ladder out of her Qiankun Pouch and looked at it as it was propped up toward the third floor. "You can try and see whether you can climb up."

The ladder looked no shorter than a floor of stairs. Zhou Yun climbed up first, but after climbing the entire length of the ladder, she discovered that she was still suspended in midair.

"Didn’t you notice that something is missing?" Lian Lian asked her from below.

Zhou Yun looked down. "What’s missing?"

"The pressure. You didn’t encounter any resistance at all just now while climbing up." Lian Lian said.

Zhou Yun climbed back down. "Then we can’t get up?"

"I’ll go down once." Ye Su turned and walked toward the stairs leading downward.

You Fushi silently followed her. Ye Su paused, then turned around and took the wooden fish from his hands, putting it into her Qiankun Pouch. "You stay here and look at some books."

"I don’t want to read books. My head hurts." You Fushi said it so smoothly that it sounded completely natural.

Senior Martial Sister: "……"

Ye Su turned her head toward Yi Xuan. "You’ll be fine staying here. Look through more books. There might be something you need."

Yi Xuan agreed and turned around to find some books to read.

You Fushi frowned and turned his head to look at Yi Xuan. In the end, he turned back to Ye Su and said, "I’ll read books too."

Senior Martial Sister continued down toward the first floor. The others remained on the second floor, while Gu Liangtian looked toward the staircase and actually turned around to search through the books as well.

Only the people outside the Rotating Tower remained, utterly shocked.

"Someone came down!"

Wujian Sect Master Zhou Qi’s sword-like brows rose sharply. "This is simply absurd. After returning and going back up, the pressure will double from then on."

One point of light had just fallen from the third floor to the second floor, which was already a problem. And now there was actually another person voluntarily going back down.

Zhou Qi could be certain that person was Ye Su. After what had happened on the first floor earlier, he could basically figure out who everyone was.