Having resolved the issue with his avatar, Lu Xiaotian took out the black bead he had obtained from the straw-cloaked cultivator.
Although the Buddhist aura radiating from the black bead was faint, Lu Xiaotian could sense with exceptional clarity that it was almost exactly the same as the aura of his own Extremely Black Sacred Heaven Pagoda.
It seems this black bead is also an object of the Buddhist path. Perhaps it shares the same origin as my Demon-Suppressing Tower.
Lu Xiaotian sat cross-legged on the meditation cushion, stroking his chin as he pondered. With a thought, a Demon-Suppressing Tower emerged from within him. It was the Extremely Black Sacred Heaven among the seven Demon-Suppressing Towers.
Almost as soon as the Extremely Black Sacred Heaven Demon-Suppressing Tower appeared, the two incomplete sections of the black bead gave a hum, as though drawn by some force, and transformed directly into two streaks of black light that vanished into the Demon-Suppressing Tower.
"What is this?" Lu Xiaotian was startled. Unable to figure out what was happening, he immersed his divine sense into the tower and discovered that the two incomplete sections of the black bead had actually begun slowly joining together under the tower's spiritual light. There was still an obvious crack between them, but at least they had come into contact.
The black bead radiated a hazy, auspicious aura within the tower. It had become one with the Demon-Suppressing Tower, as though the two were inseparable.
After the black bead fused into it, the Extremely Black Sacred Heaven Pagoda also seemed to possess another aura, utterly different from those of the other Demon-Suppressing Towers.
Originally, all seven Demon-Suppressing Towers had been refined from Silver-Leaf Buddhist Paulownia. Their spiritual materials and refining methods were exactly the same. It was only because the