Heaven-Piercing Tower, Here I Come

The teleportation array to the Heaven-Piercing Tower was unlike any other.

The small teleportation arrays in the various City Lords' Manors were activated by officials using energy crystals to open a portal. Enter within thirty seconds, and you could reach your destination.

Martial Camp was different. One had to use a Heaven-Piercing Tower credential. A warrior had to hold the card against the glowing runes on the crystal pillar to activate the portal. Once inside, they would be teleported to one of a hundred different landing points, a different one each time. Before stepping up to the crystal pillar, Fatty repeatedly reminded Yue Yang to find him in the "Undersea World." Patting the fat on his chest, he said that his father was a manager at the Undersea World Chamber of Commerce, someone of considerable standing throughout the Heaven-Piercing Tower.

"Brother, don't worry. Leave everything to me. As your boss, I'll definitely look after you!" Fatty nearly shook with majestic vigor, radiating the aura of a king among turtles.

"..." Yue Yang was glad their teleportation points were different. Otherwise, his ears would have continued to suffer.

When the appointed teleportation time arrived, he gently pressed the crystal card given to him by the busty beauty against the runes on the teleportation crystal pillar.

A burst of radiance rose up.

As though alive, it rushed straight at Yue Yang.

It vanished in an instant. When Yue Yang steadied himself and looked again, he found that his formerly blank crystal card now bore his image. Strangely, it was a faceless shadow. The outline vaguely resembled Yue Yang's face, but apart from a pair of wolf-like gleaming eyes, everything else was concealed in darkness.

Besides the image, various words were arranged around it: Name, "Titan"; Race, "Human"; Gender, "Male"; Potential, "Unknown."

There was no assessment of his strength.

On the back, besides an elegant and profound rune design, were several rows listing national merits, battle records, mission points, and more.

All the teleportation crystal pillars blazed with light, bathing everyone in a sea of radiance.

Several seconds later, beams of light rose from the crystals and shot into the sky.

Once the radiance faded, every warrior touching a crystal pillar had been teleported away without a trace. Yue Yang only felt slightly dizzy. By the time he adjusted, he had arrived in an anciently decorated hall. Several warriors sat inside. At first, they had looked down on Yue Yang's little-thief attire, but when they saw Grey Wolf wagging its tail at his feet, their mocking expressions eased somewhat. It was not as though they had never seen a Bronze-ranked Iron-Spine Demon Wolf, but for a little thief to have such a powerful battle beast at his side was already quite impressive.

"Wow, it's huge!" Yue Yang passed through the spacious warriors' courtyard and cried out when he stepped outside the hall.

Although Yue Bing had previously told him that the Heaven-Piercing Tower stood on Sea-Ring Island, with islands surrounding the sea and sea within the islands, creating the unique spectacle of islands within the sea and sea within the islands, he had never imagined it would look like this.

Outside stretched a vast, boundless ocean.

It was said that this sea was the Sea of Storms, where hurricanes often arose for no reason. Especially when ships sailed upon it, storms would nearly always break out as soon as they left port. Sometimes tornadoes even descended from the clouds, sucking up seawater and destroying ships. For thousands of years, not a single person had safely sailed away from the outer sea of the Heaven-Piercing Tower. Every explorer who had tried to leave by ship had ultimately become a snack for sea monsters or fish-type Golden King Beasts.

If one wished to come to or leave the Heaven-Piercing Tower, one had to use the great teleportation arrays of the various nations. There was no other shortcut.

As for the inner sea enclosed by the island ring, it was called the Sea of Forbidden Flight.

Ancient laws restrained the surface of this sea; even flying battle beasts could not fly there.

Even if someone placed a light goose feather upon the surface of the Sea of Forbidden Flight, it would immediately sink.

If people wished to reach the Heaven-Piercing Tower on the tiny island at the very center, they had to cross the Bridge of Life, said to have been created by ancient gods, before they could safely reach the foot of the tower.

"Not bad. The Heaven-Piercing Tower is a good place!" People said the Heaven-Piercing Tower had many floors, with stronger monsters on each higher level, but Yue Yang did not mind how many floors it had. In his eyes, the more, the better. Cultivation was endless; there was no strongest, only stronger! If he could keep cultivating in the Heaven-Piercing Tower and continuously improve himself, that would be one of life's pleasures.

As for the legendary creatures of the Demon Abyss and the powerhouses of the Heavenly Realm, there was no difference between them in Yue Yang's mind. Whether they existed or not, as long as they did not provoke him, everyone could live in peace. But if they crossed him, even people from the Heavenly Realm would be killed all the same!

Yue Yang discovered that the chain of islands surrounding the inner sea was mainly divided into four major regions: east, west, south, and north.

The eastern region where he stood belonged entirely to Great Xia.

Yue Yang estimated that the eastern region alone was ten times the size of White Stone City. Its buildings were magnificent, its streets broad, and its towers numerous. Everywhere exuded the imposing aura of a powerful nation. Even the few open spaces were arranged with natural elegance: small pavilions, long corridors, lawns, black stones, bamboo groves, little bridges over flowing water, turtle steles, and lotus ponds formed scenes of poetic beauty. Compared to this place, White Stone City was practically a shabby, impoverished mountain village.

"This island chain surrounding the inner sea is probably about the size of Hong Kong!" Yue Yang walked along the Bridge of Life for half an hour before reaching the Heaven-Piercing Tower.

Up close, the pure-white Heaven-Piercing Tower, covered in flashing divine runes yet without a single seam, looked even more enormous.

It was too tall to behold!

By Yue Yang's estimate, its diameter exceeded three kilometers. Counting only the portion below the clouds, it was at least several thousand meters tall. Heaven knew what power had built it; ordinary humans could never have accomplished such a thing! The inside of the Heaven-Piercing Tower was unimaginably vast, yet no one had ever solved its secrets. It remained unfathomably mysterious. Powerhouses qualified to ascend to the second and third floors walked deeper inside. Newcomers like Yue Yang, entering the first floor for the first time, did not need to go far; they could simply enter through the first-floor teleportation gate at the entrance.

"Crystal card? Who was your sponsor?" The middle-aged warrior responsible for guiding newcomers at the first-floor teleportation gate looked mildly surprised upon seeing the crystal card.

"The woman in charge of registration at Martial Camp!" Yue Yang knew this crystal card must be rare, but he was happy to play dumb. The more good treasures, the better—he would never refuse any that came his way!

"What? Martial Camp has no woman in charge of registration at all! Wasn't Old Lu the one who registered you? You saw a woman instead of a white-haired old man with a white beard? What did she look like?" Yue Yang's words only made the middle-aged warrior more confused, and he asked in bewilderment.

"She was very well-endowed..." Yue Yang briefly described the busty beauty's appearance.

Curiosity rose in his heart. He could not see through the busty beauty's strength; she was surely a super powerhouse. Just who was she?

Was she not normally the one responsible for registering warriors?

Could she be Old Lu's granddaughter?

The middle-aged warrior's expression changed drastically as soon as he heard Yue Yang's description. He hurriedly waved his hand. "Pretend I never asked. Hurry up and go in!"

Seeing how frightened he was, Yue Yang became even more puzzled. Could that busty woman be some man-eating tiger? Was there any need to fear her so much? His curiosity only deepened. The busty beauty's languid, seductive appearance flashed through his mind. That fiery, voluptuous mature beauty made him want to conquer her. If he could pin her down and hear her panting and moaning in that uniquely nasal, sweet voice by his ear, it would probably feel incredible!

With a head full of ** and fantasy, Yue Yang walked into the first-floor teleportation gate of the Heaven-Piercing Tower.

One second later, he found himself in a brand-new world...

"Haha, Heaven-Piercing Tower, here I come!" Yue Yang was exhilarated. From now on, this would be the place where he could truly spread his wings!

Before he could make any further exclamations, he heard a slightly pained voice coming from beneath his feet. "Brother, could you get off me first?"