After staying on his own peak for a while, Song Zhong remembered that he had yet to challenge the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda, so he had Senior Sister Tang Qianzi take him there.
The Heaven-Piercing Pagoda was pitch-black from top to bottom and soared into the sky. Its body pierced through the clouds, as though it truly reached the heavens. Standing below it, he could not even make out just how tall it was.
When he had challenged the Trial Tower before, he had entered directly.
But outside the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda now, disciples stood one after another.
Song Zhong had gained quite a bit of fame by now, but not many people recognized him. Tang Qianzi, however, was far too famous.
The moment she arrived, countless gazes turned toward her.
"Is Senior Sister Tang challenging the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda again?"
"Doesn't seem like it. Senior Sister Tang brought someone with her. Is this person here to challenge the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda?"
"A disciple of Prison Suppressing Peak? Could he be... that Song Zhong everyone has been talking about lately?"
Tang Qianzi ignored the crowd and merely looked at Song Zhong. "You need to queue up for the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda. Someone is challenging it right now, so we'll have to wait a while."
"Fine, then we'll wait."
The instant Song Zhong finished speaking, cries of surprise rose from the surrounding crowd.
"Over there—that's the Universal White Lotus, the treasure of Formless Peak."
"The vice peak master of Formless Peak? Why has he come?"
Hearing this, Song Zhong looked over. Within his field of vision, a white lotus descended from the sky and landed before him. Upon its petals stood an old monk. With his palms pressed together, he intoned a Buddhist invocation. "You must be Nephew Disciple Song Zhong. Nephew Disciple, I am Jian Kong,