"Nanxing, did you see that? The Golden Scale Champion, Xu Taiping, is our young master! He's the Rusty Lion Young Master!"
"Sister Nanxing, the young master was the Golden Scale Champion all along!"
Almost simultaneously, Zhai Mo's and Yuzhu's somewhat excited voices rang out from the jade hairpin Gongshu Nanxing wore in her hair.
After the Nine Abysses attacked them last time, everyone except Elder Zhang, for whom it was somewhat inconvenient, had exchanged means of communication so they could share information.
"I saw."
After briefly replying to the two of them, Nanxing turned her gaze back to the Spirit Mirror, then murmured.
"When we parted inside the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, the young master said he had a way to gather experts to enter the tower and fight the ghost horde together. Could it be..."
In an instant, Gongshu Nanxing's eyes filled with anticipation.
Just then, Xu Taiping's voice rang out from the Spirit Mirror again-
"I imagine you've all heard that I've reached the Ninth Layer of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower. But I've encountered considerable resistance in clearing the Ninth Layer. My companions and I simply cannot clear it on our own."
"So I'd like to invite cultivators below the Transformation Realm from throughout the Five Heavens to ascend the tower with me."
Hearing this, Gongshu Nanxing shook her head and said:
"That won't work, young master. Cultivators from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven are one thing, but cultivators from the other heavens couldn't possibly risk their lives entering the Mysterious Wasteland Tower on your word alone."
She believed the Golden Scale Champion's rallying power could draw many followers.
But against that ghost horde, they would be no more than a cup of water thrown onto a blazing cartload of firewood.
Sure enough, just as she had expected, a voice relaying