A Weakened Version of the Eight Departments Pagoda

"Could this be a Futuo Pearl?"

Lin Langtian looked at the crimson bead before him. Dazzling crimson light burst from it, and within that light loomed a gigantic shadow.

This Demon Shadow stood a hundred zhang tall, radiating immense pressure, like a King Tier Abyssal Demon.

However, this Demon Shadow had already lost its own consciousness and existed within the crimson bead like a puppet. This immediately reminded Lin Langtian of the renowned Eight Departments Pagoda, one of the Great Thousand World's Thirty-Six Departments Peerless Divine Abilities.

The Eight Departments Pagoda had been created by the ancestor of the Futuo Ancient Clan. That ancestor had slain countless demons in the war against the Outworld Evil Race, and his Futuo Tower had sealed dozens of Demon Emperors, including quite a few comparable to Immortal Grade Heavenly Supremes.

Yet it was precisely because too many Demon Emperors had been sealed that the Demon Sealing Tower had become somewhat unstable. Later, the Futuo ancestor had an idea: he intended to refine those Demon Emperors into Guardians of the Futuo Tower.

The idea was naturally astonishing. After all, those Demon Emperors had all been Heavenly Supreme experts. Refining Demon Emperors into Futuo Pearls—that was, Guardians—was no easy feat.

It required erasing the Demon Emperors' original consciousness, much like refining puppets. Yet ordinarily, a puppet's strength would be far weaker than it had been in life. If that were all there was to it, the Eight Departments Pagoda would clearly not have been worthy of joining the Thirty-Six Departments Peerless Divine Abilities.

The Futuo ancestor naturally understood this, so in the end, he imprinted the refined Guardians onto the Futuo Tower.

These Guardians were connected to the Futuo ancestor's true body and were tempered day and night with a secret technique, allowing their strength to