Eternal Tower

Eternal Tower.

Starlight flickered as Jiang Shu stretched his limbs. One after another, Dao Prototypes appeared around him, but he did not rush to challenge the sixth floor.

Although he had gained something in the Sea of Thunder, those gains were not enough for him to clear the sixth floor.

The Merchant Guild had indeed learned in advance about everything I did in the Sea of Thunder. But that was part of the plan. Only this way could they distinguish me from the other geniuses who cleared the Eternal Tower's fourth floor, so that my clearing the fifth floor afterward wouldn't seem abrupt.

I wonder which great powers stand behind the Merchant Guild. Perhaps Venerable Luo knows, but that's still too far beyond me for now. Even at the ninth rank, I couldn't run rampant even on the outskirts of the Star Ruins Realm, let alone now, when I've already reached its inner region.

The base is really just a little world. Once I've truly stabilized my realm, I can exchange pointers with some of the true geniuses from the inner region of the Star Ruins Realm.

Jiang Shu murmured to himself. As soon as he had returned from the Sea of Thunder, he had gone to the inner region and turned in some of the Thunder Crystals he had accumulated.

The geniuses at their base entered the secret realm of the Sea of Thunder through the Merchant Guild's passage. Besides meeting their own cultivation needs, they also had to provide the Merchant Guild with enough Thunder Crystals. Ten Thunder Crystals bought one year of cultivation in the Sea of Thunder.

Though Jiang Shu had cultivated in the Sea of Thunder for only a month, he had accumulated as many as seventy Thunder Crystals by slaying Cang Hong. They were