"Aaaaaah!"
After using up all their Spirit Jade Marrow and fighting these puppets to their hearts' content for three days and three nights, Lan Yue and her companions emerged from the final puppet cave. The moment they stepped outside, several familiar screams reached them from deep within.
She took a closer look around and discovered that the Grand Cloud Sect disciples were all gone. They had probably entered the final trial too, and might already have been beaten black and blue by the puppets.
Lan Yue sincerely lit a candle for them in her heart, then decisively led her companions away.
Just as they cleared the entire Puppet Path, a silver vortex lit up nearby. They walked through it and soon reached the second floor of the Tower of the Abyss.
With Baili Xingzhou, who knew the North Ridge Sacred Ground very well, and Lan Yue, who had read the original novel, in their group, they cleared the trials relatively quickly and received quite a few rewards from the Tower of the Abyss.
The rewards earned by youngsters like Lan Yue and Yun Xi, who were both young and had low cultivation, were especially numerous.
"Hold on, why are you getting so much? We're the ones from the North Ridge Sacred Ground!" After fighting side by side with the youngsters time and again, Nangong Ye had regained his former liveliness.
Now, seeing the gulf between his rewards and theirs-a difference as vast as heaven and earth-he immediately felt rather disgruntled.
Across from him, Lan Yue blinked, quietly hiding her achievements and fame.
Why else would she have insisted on entering the Tower of the Abyss with her companions right now? This mechanism was precisely the reason!
To put it plainly, the Tower of the Abyss was a place for selecting