That same day.
Golden Court Grotto-Heaven.
Inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
"Hm?"
"Why is there no response?"
Standing outside the Geng Character Room on the second floor of the Dragon-Trapping Tower, Xu Taiping murmured to himself in bewilderment.
He had been resting in another room in the tower, and the instant he sensed activity in this room, he had hurried over.
Yet after arriving, no matter how he knocked or called out, there was no response from the other side, leaving him utterly puzzled.
"It was probably my imagination."
Xu Taiping shook his head helplessly.
A full six months had passed since his last conversation with the Immortal Elder Wuji outside this door.
Over those six months, besides continually consolidating his Heaven Gazing Realm cultivation within the tower, Xu Taiping had checked every day for activity in the Geng Character Room on the second floor.
For this room was connected to the Dragon-Slaying Stele that the Immortal Elder Wuji's clone had taken from the Secret Realm and was delivering to True Martial Heaven.
Any activity in this room would mean that the Dragon-Slaying Stele had arrived.
Xu Taiping did have faith in the Immortal Elder Wuji's strength.
What left him rather helpless, however, was that not a sound had come from this room in the past six months.
Thus, when he sensed activity in this room today, he immediately flew down to its door on his sword.
Bang, bang, bang, bang!
Just as Xu Taiping began to wonder whether his eagerness to hear something from this room had made him imagine it, a furious pounding suddenly erupted against the door before him.
Xu Taiping's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed excitedly:
"I wasn't hearing things!"
He immediately pressed his hand against the door again.
Trying to push it open, he called