Crack!
Its remaining half-octopus head was forcibly torn off and abandoned. Then, with its headless body, it lunged into the opening in the giant tower.
Its figure flashed and vanished into the tower.
"So severely corrupted—it needs to be purified completely..."
Li Qingyun held the half-octopus head and looked at it impassively, muttering to himself.
The dozens of bizarre snake-like tentacles on that enormous octopus head had all rotted away, losing any vitality that could threaten anyone. Jade Pure power had seeped into them, thoroughly "poisoning" them to death.
With a flick of his hand, more Jade Pure Profound Light gushed forth like a spring of fire. In the blink of an eye, it burned the half-octopus head down to a mutilated black-jade skull.
He casually tossed aside the skull. After a brief ponder, he too stepped through the opening in the Black Tower.
His vision brightened slightly. Li Qingyun saw that the Black Tower's interior held another world entirely, as though it and the Black and Gray World outside were two separate heavens and earths.
The space within the tower glimmered faintly with dusky yellow light, revealing an octagonal layout. The solid tower walls and hollowed-out dome all bore a dark yellow sheen, formed from some unknown material.
Yet its inner construction was extraordinarily intricate. Countless elaborate unfamiliar runes—or perhaps patterns born by nature itself—covered every inch of the tower.
Drip!
A slab of rotten flesh fell from above the dome, splattering everywhere.
Li Qingyun looked up and saw Yellow Bell Dao Lord's headless body rapidly fleeing toward the top of the tower.
"Tower Ancestor, protect me! I am willing to convert to Yellow Tower Heaven..."
Yellow Bell Dao Lord's confused, upside-down ventriloquized voice echoed through the silent, vast emptiness enclosed by the tower walls, like a madman's shriek.