The Refining
"An immortal-level Outer Realm Demonic Spirit? Looks like there are quite a few secrets hidden within this Thirty-Three Layer Outer Heaven Tower..."
Fang Yuan nodded as he watched the faint radiance enveloping the passage begin to collapse.
"What a pity... When the Old Ancestor built the Thirty-Three Heavens Outer Tower, he never imagined that some prodigy might make it through the nineteenth layer. So the nineteenth layer has no reward at all..."
The blue-robed puppet spoke with what seemed like a sigh.
In truth, even if a Nascent Soul at the peak of the realm had crossed the tribulation on the eighteenth layer and become an immortal, an ordinary immortal would never have been a match for the blue-robed puppet.
And even if that had happened, the Tool Spirit of the Thirty-Three Heavens Outer Tower would have simply activated the tower and moved him straight to the twentieth layer, leaving no chance for an immortal to exploit a loophole.
So Fang Yuan was truly the first person to pass the nineteenth layer since the Thirty-Three Layer Outer Heaven Tower was built!
The only pity was that even Mengyan Mountain Old Ancestor hadn't anticipated this, so he hadn't arranged a reward.
Of course, if Mengyan Mountain were still around, Fang Yuan's performance would have alerted some mighty figure, who would have taken him away as a disciple long ago. It wouldn't have counted as a flaw.
"A reward? I've already got one!"
A faint curve touched Fang Yuan's lips. Suddenly, his long blade flashed out. "Light of Time!"
That dreamlike slash, fusing the Illusion Realm Law and Time Law, appeared once more and cleaved the blue-robed puppet into nothingness.
"What are you doing?"
The Tool Spirit's voice rang out, tinged with confusion.
In its eyes, Fang Yuan had merely