"Silver Orchid Bandit? He sure had some nerve. Once I found out where he was, I'd skin him alive." The baleful blood aura on Cao Sheng's body was almost impossible to contain, suddenly bursting forth. It was several times denser than the aura on Cao Guang, but Cao Sheng's cultivation was profound, allowing him to control it fairly well.
"In that case, we have even more reason to invite Brother Lu to the estate."
"Then I'll respectfully accept your invitation." Lu Xiaotian nodded. The reason he had not left directly was that the abandoned dry well in the rear hills of the Cao estate was still quite useful to him. At present, he had only finished refining two Demon-Suppressing Towers, though his speed had increased several times over compared to before. He was still short several more. Although he did not want to remain at the Cao estate forever, without the help of the earth-moon baleful energy, refining these two Demon-Suppressing Towers would probably have taken him nearly a century. To gather all seven Demon-Suppressing Towers, he would likely consume almost the entirety of his Golden Core Realm lifespan. It was truly a thorny matter. On the other hand, his progress in cultivating the Misty Sword Art was considerably faster than refining the Demon-Suppressing Towers. However, he had cultivated the Misty Sword Art to this point only by risking his life. An ordinary Golden Core cultivator, lacking the self-healing ability of his magic pearl, would never have been able to endure it—even at the Golden Core Late Stage. The risks and rewards were, at least, proportional.
The Seven-Level Pagoda was an unprecedented treasure that even the Floating Pagoda Ascetic had been unable to refine. Although he was still far from being able to wield the Seven-Level Pagoda at his current