"With the supreme fortune of the Golden Scale Champion, and as the foremost Spirit Refining Realm cultivator in the Shangqing Realm, no one would have been better suited to train in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower in the past!"
Xiahou Yuan continued.
But that had been in the past. Now, never mind the Golden Scale Champion-even disciples of aristocratic clans and sects with slightly better talent would likely be forbidden from setting foot in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.
This was also one reason some people had long suspected that Rusty Lion was Xu Taiping, yet dared not be certain.
Because, as the Golden Scale Champion, Xu Taiping still had many places to choose from for training, even with the Faceless Tower's Poison Curse upon him. He had no need at all to come to the exceedingly perilous Mysterious Wasteland Tower.
"Senior Yuezhu, could you reveal a little of why you had Taiping enter the Mysterious Wasteland Tower?"
Xiahou Qingyuan mustered his courage and asked again.
From Xu Taiping's identity, he could already deduce that Senior Yuezhu before him was very likely the missing palace master of the Huangting Dao Palace, so his tone gained another measure of reverence.
"No-"
"Boom!..."
Fairy Lingyue, who had already intended to leave the Abyssal Pavilion, was about to refuse outright when, unexpectedly, the Haotian Mirror overhead cast down another illusory image.
"What's going on?"
Fairy Lingyue turned to Xiahou Qingyuan in puzzlement.
From what she had learned over the past few days, the Haotian Mirror would only react and project an illusion when disciples within the tower were about to duel the Tower Spirit, or when it sensed a major event that would determine whether Xu Taiping and the others could continue ascending the tower.
"I'm not quite sure either. By rights, even if Brother