A short while later, inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
"Master Xuanzhi, Miss Dongfang, I've returned to the Dragon-Trapping Tower. You two can take the Dragon-Slaying Stele out now."
After returning to the Dragon-Trapping Tower, Xu Taiping immediately used the special Voice Transmission Jade Slip Abbot Jiaye had given him to contact Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi outside.
Soon, Dongfang Yuejian's voice rang out from the jade slip:
"Eldest Brother Taiping, Master Xuanzhi and I will be able to bring the Dragon-Slaying Stele over in no more than the time it takes an incense stick to burn."
"Until then, don't leave the tower."
After giving another reply, Xu Taiping immediately put away the jade slip, then let out a long "whew," as though a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
To save Duan Xiaoyu and the others this time, he had first used Reversing Time to return to half a year earlier, then, to break the freezing power, had used Blade Ghost's tenth-layer Blade Domain Power to slip into the Profound Elixir Palace's Martial Champion Tower for a trial.
All told, it had cost him nearly a month or two, and now he had finally reached the last step-
"Breaking the ice seal."
Once his thoughts had settled a little, Xu Taiping glanced downstairs, preparing to find somewhere to meditate and bring himself into peak condition.
But just as he was about to sit down, a rumbling tremor suddenly ran through the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
Xu Taiping's heart immediately tightened.
He began searching everywhere for the cause of the tremor.
Finally, after looking around the tower, his gaze fell upon the bodies of Yin God Su Yan and the Wolf-Headed Yin God.
"I remember that this body of the Wolf-Headed Yin God wasn't placed beside Yin God Su Yan's golden cocoon..."