Just as Xu Taiping finished speaking, he heard an old man rebuke him in an exceedingly stern voice:
"How dare you! How could a mere commoner from the Lower Realm like you presume to speak the True Lord's name?"
Xu Taiping ignored the old man's rebuke. After confirming that the person before the door was Du Heng, he raised his hand in a tower-supporting pose, focused his mind, and said:
"Retract!"
The Gate-Sealing Stone's seal had already been broken. As the tower's master, Xu Taiping could naturally put away the Dragon-Trapping Tower directly.
Rumble...!
The instant he uttered "Retract," the ground beneath Xu Taiping and the entire Dragon-Trapping Tower began shaking violently.
Boom!
Soon, however, amid a deafening blast of air, the enormous Dragon-Trapping Tower abruptly shrank, becoming a miniature tower that landed in Xu Taiping's hand in the blink of an eye.
Whoosh, whoosh...
The next moment, amid the howling of mountain winds, a cool gust brushed across Xu Taiping's cheeks.
At the same time, the scene before his eyes abruptly brightened.
Looking down, he discovered that he was standing on the sacrificial platform Ghost Servant Madam Lu had prepared for Yin God Su Yan.
Whoosh...!
Almost simultaneously, accompanied by the sound of rushing air, eleven figures flew onto the sacrificial platform in succession, surrounding Xu Taiping.
Holding the tower in one hand and resting the other on his saber, Xu Taiping calmly swept his gaze around, then thought to himself:
Of these eleven, only the white-robed cultivator directly opposite me and the two old men flanking him should be from the Upper Realm.
More precisely, they were from the Upper Realm's Three Corpses Cave.
As Xu Taiping was thinking this, the very young-looking white-robed cultivator opposite him began walking slowly toward him, rubbing the jade thumb rings covering