In the midst of an ocean...
Rumble! Seawater roared like rolling thunder, crashing against a colossal tower built from brick walls that stretched beyond sight and rose tens of thousands of feet high...
The entire tower was constructed from enormous rectangular blocks weighing tens of thousands of pounds apiece. It occupied hundreds of miles and was circular in shape. Every few hundred feet up, gigantic beams dozens of feet thick projected outward, crisscrossing to form another floor...
The tower stood a full hundred stories high. Across its immense walls, cultivators crowded together, carving into the stone with awls that shimmered with spiritual light...
The wonderfully clear metallic clangs ringing out suggested that these blocks were frighteningly hard, perhaps even harder than metal. What the cultivators were carving into the walls were runes. Once they finished...
Other cultivators took fiercely hot liquid glittering with golden light and inlaid it into the carvings, seemingly to activate the runes...
Construction of the Treasure Pagoda appeared to have reached a critical stage...
Inside a gigantic Flying Boat hovering above the Treasure Pagoda... There seemed to be no other cultivators aboard, only a breathtakingly beautiful female cultivator in a red palace dress, as lovely as a celestial maiden, watching everything below...
Suddenly...
"Hm?" A flicker of delighted surprise rose across the beautiful female cultivator's face. She abruptly hurried toward the cabin, her slender fingers tapping in rapid succession. Red light flashed, and the enormous Flying Boat rumbled as spiritual light rippled across it. It actually took flight, a light barrier of spiritual radiance enveloping the entire vessel...
There!
"Ya!" Inside the Flying Boat's cabin, Li Xiaoya smiled at the beautiful female cultivator. The moment she saw him, she cried out in overwhelming delight...
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