Kaiyuan Continent.
Hanque Mountain Range.
"What in the world is this lamp...?"
Deep in the forest, Ao Wushuang stared at the ancient bronze lamp in his hand, feeling a chill crawl over him.
Its eerie black flame gave off no heat at all.
Instead, it continuously released some kind of dark energy!
Fortunately, the black tower inside him absorbed all that dark energy, then breathed it back out. So it didn't harm him.
"All of this... seems connected to the man inside the tower..."
Ao Wushuang pondered.
When he picked up the lamp, he heard something break free inside the first floor of the black tower.
After that, the man on the first floor... was gone.
"The men on the first and second floors look exactly alike..."
Ao Wushuang thought it over, then gritted his teeth. He decided to see what was on the third floor!
After all, although the black tower hadn't harmed him, there was still something strange about it...
Carefully approaching the black tower in his Dao Landscape, he saw that its first three floors now gleamed like black crystal, with black mist pulsing in and out, shrouding them in mystery.
But from the fourth floor upward, it remained mottled with rust, as if it had rotted away.
Ao Wushuang first approached the second floor to check whether the man inside was still there.
He pushed open the second-floor door and peered inside!
The black Dao platform was still there, and the man, lying as if asleep, was still on it.
Ao Wushuang hurriedly shut the door.
The second floor was safe and sound. It seemed that only the young man on the first floor had left...
Then, feeling deeply uneasy, he approached the third floor.
He pushed open the third-floor door.
As the door swung open,