Several months later, Southern Border.
An ordinary unnamed valley.
"Ha!" Rank 6 Gu Immortal Ba Tao shouted, her aura surging. She raised both hands high as though supporting an object weighing ten thousand jin. Her face quickly flushed crimson, her body trembling slightly as she struggled with all her strength.
"Hurry up," Ba Tao urged.
Off to one side, another Gu Immortal was also activating a killer move.
He possessed Rank 6 cultivation and looked like a young man. He came from the Tie lineage, named Tie Yi, and was Tie Qu Zhong's son.
One crimson sphere of light after another spiraled upward. With a thunderous boom, they transformed into a crimson pillar of light that shot toward the heavens.
But at that moment, a third Gu Immortal old man revealed himself. Standing atop the clouds, he waved his hand and suppressed the crimson pillar of light.
The crimson pillar vanished, revealing a seven-story pagoda that seemed cast from red copper. A flame quietly burned at its summit.
"It's done." Tie Yi let out a breath of stale air, a pleased expression on his face. "Another Beacon Tower has been built."
"I'm exhausted." As though a heavy burden had been lifted from her shoulders, Ba Tao dropped onto the ground, panting heavily, her forehead covered in sweat.
The third Gu Immortal old man slowly floated down. At the same time, countless Gu worms flew about and gathered, drilling into his sleeves one after another.
This was a team assigned to construct Beacon Towers.
There were three of them in total. Tie Yi, the Tie lineage Gu Immortal, was chiefly responsible for the construction, with Ba Tao assisting him, while the Gu Immortal old man set up the grand formation and created camouflage. After all, the completion of a Beacon Tower