With a thunderous boom, the hundred-yard-tall tornado suddenly burst apart. Countless demon beast corpses rained down, crumbling into dust and vanishing without a trace.
"Master, you're incredible!"
Xu Liguo's eyes widened in astonishment. "That tornado was as fragile as an ant before you. Just one sentence, and you killed so many Nascent Soul Realm and Golden Core Realm demon beasts."
Luo Chuan paid no heed to Xu Liguo's praise. He stepped through the air, teleported a hundred yards away, and soon found a towering Black Tower.
If his guess was right, there was a special restriction inside the Black Tower that could fend off the little tornado beasts.
Luo Chuan glanced at the tornado outside, which was rapidly gathering again. It seemed that this pack of beasts intended to avenge their fallen kin.
These beasts had lived here for who knew how many years. There were countless Golden Core Realm and Nascent Soul Realm beasts among them.
Yet they feared the Black Tower here and didn't dare approach rashly. They could only circle around it, letting out shrill cries and furious roars.
With one hand behind his back, Luo Chuan looked at the tornadoes around him and nodded. "Xu Liguo, swallow these little beasts. Eat as many as you can. That shouldn't be a problem, right?"
"Huh?"
Xu Liguo's heart trembled. He immediately turned to Luo Chuan, then clung to his leg with a pitiful expression. "Master, these guys are vicious! What if they tear me apart? I can't bear to leave you!"
"Relax. These beasts are only at the Golden Core Realm and Nascent Soul Realm. They can't hurt you in the slightest. Go ahead and devour them without fear. If anything happens, I'll take care of it."
"I'll take care of your ass!" Xu Liguo cursed inwardly. "You make me do all the dirty work. I'm a Nascent Soul Realm powerhouse, for crying out loud. Don't you feel a twinge of conscience treating me like this?"
Luo Chuan swung his right hand behind him. Without giving Xu Liguo a chance to react, he flung him straight into the heart of the tornado to fight those beasts to the death.
After glancing at Xu Liguo battling the pack of beasts, Luo Chuan paid them no further attention. Instead, he stepped into the top floor of the Black Tower.
There were no other structures on the top floor. In the very center stood something resembling a candlestick; there was nothing else.
Luo Chuan gently pressed his left hand against the floor. He had extracted quite a few of the Black Tower's restrictions here before, and had used them to control many powerful cultivators.
Now that he had returned, he naturally wanted to extract more for the seals and other things he would need later.
The restrictions in the Ancient God Land were all from ancient times. They were difficult to digest, let alone refine. Only by continuously tempering them with the immortal energy in his body could he finally refine them completely.
"Come out."
Without hesitation, Luo Chuan released the immortal energy in his body and abruptly pulled outward with his right hand.
In an instant, the ceiling developed cracks across a wide area, spreading visibly under his extraction. Then it burst apart inch by inch, and countless black incantations appeared in the air.
"It seems the restrictions here can regenerate on their own. What a pity I can't take the Black Tower with me. Otherwise, I could use its restrictions endlessly."
The Black Tower would be useless if removed from this place. That was precisely why Luo Chuan couldn't take it with him, and had to leave it here.
Only after collecting all the black incantations did Luo Chuan return to the first floor of the Black Tower.
Xu Liguo had returned by then, but he was stuffed full. He patted his bulging belly like a pregnant woman, and even staggered as he walked.
Xu Liguo grinned. "Master, you didn't see it just now. I was so strong it was downright terrifying. Those beasts saw me and scattered like mice before a cat. Not one of them could put up a fight."
"They got what they deserved for provoking you. I, Xu Liguo, avenged you. If those beasts aren't satisfied, I'll devour every last one of them."
With one hand behind his back, Luo Chuan said evenly, "I've got what I came for. Let's leave this level and head to the second."
"What thing?" Xu Liguo flew over curiously and asked. "If it caught your interest, Master, it must be something good."
Luo Chuan ignored Xu Liguo. Just as he was about to speak, he sensed a peculiar fluctuation of energy coming from outside.
As his divine sense spread, he saw shrill cries rising from within the tornado outside.
"To kill so many little beasts in an instant, it can only be that old fellow."
Luo Chuan didn't hurry to leave the Black Tower. Instead, he sat in a chair by the entrance, took the wine gourd from his waist, and leisurely watched Meng the Hunchback slaughter the demon beasts before him.
Xu Liguo wiped the sweat from his cheek and cautiously warned him, "Master, we should hurry and get out of here... If that old fellow finds us here, he might use us as a shield."
"No rush. Let's wait and see."
A hundred miles from there, Meng the Hunchback, a Mid Spirit Severing Realm cultivator, curled his lips into a grin as he gazed at the tens of thousands of demon beasts before him and laughed wildly.
"Hahahaha! It's been a long time since I've slaughtered so gleefully. Li Tian, how about I show you a good spectacle?"
Li Tian, whose enormous body had its eyes closed, opened them and looked at his master, Meng the Hunchback. He gave a slight nod, then unleashed the poisonous mist within him in a frenzy, slaughtering all the little tornado beasts around them.
Floating in midair, Meng the Hunchback laughed. "Mere Golden Core Realm and Nascent Soul Realm vermin dare provoke me, the old hunchback? They truly don't know how high the sky is or how deep the earth!"
"Die, all of you! Hahahaha!"
Meng the Hunchback was one of the few poison cultivators and a top powerhouse of the Demon Cultivation Sea. His entire body was poisonous. With a casual wave of his palm, he could spread the deadly poison here for a hundred miles.
These demon beasts had almost no chance of resisting him. The moment they came into contact with the emerald-green poisonous mist, they turned to sludge and fell to the ground.
"As expected of Meng the Hunchback, a Spirit Severing Realm poison cultivator. Even I have to admit I can't match this kind of wide-area slaughter."
Watching tens of thousands of demon beasts being slaughtered before him, Luo Chuan couldn't help but praise him.
"Master, if we don't leave now, we really won't get another chance! That old bastard has filled all the surrounding space with poison. Ordinary people will die the moment they touch it!"
Xu Liguo stared at Luo Chuan in terror, clearly hoping he would leave at once. If they waited until Meng the Hunchback noticed them, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Luo Chuan put away his wine gourd and slowly rose to his feet. "Heh. This should be a good show."