Devil-Battling Tower!

"The month is almost up. It's time to have Ye Chen and the others complete the last few missions and kill a few more people on the Sin Ranking."

This time, he assigned the missions to Yang Yang, Han Bing, and Ye Chen. The three of them had higher cultivation, and with their powerful bodies, astonishing defenses, and stronger ability to stay alive, they would also have an easier time withdrawing if they went to Spirit Yang City to stir up trouble.

Sending Dongfang Bai and Dongfang Rou as well would introduce some uncertainty.

Lin Ye also gave Ye Chen and the others the peak True Qi Realm puppet to take with them. A puppet of that level was no longer of any use to him anyway.

Spirit Yang City.

Ye Chen, Yang Yang, and Han Bing arrived in the city. Each of them had used the Formless Secret Method to change his presence. They had all reached the minor mastery stage in the method, allowing them to alter their appearances a little more, though people familiar with them would still be able to recognize them.

On their first day in Spirit Yang City, the three each assassinated one person on the Sin Ranking. They acted swiftly and did not expose their identities in the slightest.

On the second day, they killed three more. Only Han Bing was discovered, but he forced his way to freedom with his formidable strength, and his identity remained hidden.

"Our next target is Tu Hu, the steward of the City Lord's Manor. He's relied on his position as steward to commit many evil deeds in secret. A great many people have died because of him, both directly and indirectly. He has to die, but his status is high, so killing him will be difficult. Master's reward for the mission is 2,000 points. Let's act together and split it equally once we succeed," Ye Chen proposed.

"All right."

Yang Yang and Han Bing naturally had no objections. The three then began planning how to kill Tu Hu. First, they had to learn his routine, so they split up to investigate and track him.

Before long, they had the information they needed. Tu Hu went out for one shichen every day, mainly to deal with his own private affairs and matters for the City Lord's Manor. They didn't care what he was dealing with, but this was their best chance to ambush and kill him. Once they did, they would have to leave Spirit Yang City immediately.

On the street.

Tu Hu walked along as usual, but today he noticed that something felt amiss. It was as though an invisible force was bearing down on him from the Unseen, making his whole body feel uncomfortable.

"Danger!"

Tu Hu shuddered as a dark figure lunged at him. He had just used his Movement Method to dodge when another person darted out and thrust a finger at him.

Pfft!

The finger struck his shoulder, piercing straight through it.

Immediately afterward, a third person seized his neck with a clawed hand and squeezed hard, snapping it.

Tu Hu, who was at the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer, was dead.

"Take his corpse."

Ye Chen put Tu Hu's corpse away and left immediately.

They didn't leave the corpse behind because their techniques were distinctive. If the people from the City Lord's Manor investigated, they could easily guess who had done it. An ordinary faction would have been one thing, but the City Lord's Manor in Spirit Yang City represented the imperial court. The Black-Yellow Sect still had to be careful, and they didn't want to bring trouble to the sect.

The three soon fled Spirit Yang City, and before long, the City Lord's Manor learned that Tu Hu had been killed.

Black-Yellow Sect.

Lin Ye opened the system and checked the Sin Ranking.

[Sin Ranking, 21st place: Yang Yang]

[Sin Ranking, 22nd place: Ye Chen]

[Sin Ranking, 66th place: Dongfang Bai]

[Sin Ranking, 77th place: Han Bing]

[Sin Ranking, 99th place: Dongfang Rou]

All five disciples had entered the top hundred of the Sin Ranking. He had done quite well on the mission and should receive a good reward.

Soon, all three disciples returned. After collecting their mission rewards, each went back to cultivate.

Two more days passed, and the month allotted for the mission came to an end.

"Ding! Congratulations, Host, on completing the Sin Ranking mission. Rewards: the heaven-grade high-rank Secret Method Great Void Devil Pupil, the heaven-grade low-rank martial art Devil Dragon Claw, one bottle of earth-grade mid-rank Flood Dragon Blood Pills, one Devil-Battling Tower, one earth-grade high-rank storage ring, the heaven-grade low-rank Corpse King Compendium, the heaven-grade low-rank Taotie Swallowing Heaven Instruction, the heaven-grade low-rank Heavenly Devil Charm Instruction, the heaven-grade low-rank Hell Blood Forging Cultivation Method, and 20,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones."

Having received so many rewards at once, Lin Ye began breathing rapidly. With so many heaven-grade low-rank Cultivation Methods, there was no need to worry about methods for his disciples anymore.

"Claim rewards."

With a thought, Lin Ye claimed the rewards, and a ring appeared in his hand. It was an earth-grade high-rank Storage Bag with an enormous space, large enough to hold the entire Black-Yellow Sect without trouble. He put the Cultivation Methods inside, along with the earth-grade mid-rank Flood Dragon Blood Pills. These pills contained a trace of the power of flood dragon blood and were tremendously helpful to devil-path disciples tempering their bodies.

"The Devil-Battling Tower..."

Lin Ye read the Devil-Battling Tower's description and learned what the building was for. It was a place for disciples to develop their combat experience. They could enter the tower, challenge opponents on floor after floor, and hone their combat experience. The opponents inside were all Devil Race warriors formed by the tower itself.

Soon.

Lin Ye took out the Devil-Battling Tower and pried the character for "devil" out of its three-character name, turning it into the Battle Tower.

"Master, what is this Battle Tower?"

His eldest disciple, Ye Chen, was the first to come over. He looked at the Battle Tower curiously.

"This Battle Tower can hone your combat experience. If you're seriously injured, you'll be moved out, and your injuries will be healed as well. There's no need to worry about dying in battle," Lin Ye explained.

"Master, I'll go try it right now."

Ye Chen went in and began his challenge on the first floor. The opponent there was a Body Forging Realm Devil Race warrior, and it took him some ten exchanges to defeat the warrior.

On the second floor, Ye Chen fought for a long time but was ultimately badly injured.

After coming out, Ye Chen looked dejected. "Master, the opponent on the second floor was clearly only at the Body Forging Realm too, yet I couldn't beat him!"

"That's perfectly normal. Your strength is quite good for the Body Forging Realm, but your previous opponents were all Body Forging Realm cultivators from around Spirit Yang City. Many of them cultivated yellow-grade Body Refining Cultivation Methods, while the opponents formed inside the Battle Tower are powerful in every respect. It's normal that you couldn't beat him," Lin Ye explained.

Afterward, the other disciples also came to try. In the end, only Yang Yang and Han Bing managed to scrape through the second floor thanks to their powerful bodies and cultivation, and both fell on the third floor.

"Clearing the first floor earns 100 points, the second earns 500, the third earns 1,000, and the fourth earns 2,000..."

Lin Ye established this rule, then placed the Flood Dragon Blood Pills inside the Battle Tower. The tower also had a hall and a tower spirit, as well as an internal space that made storing treasures convenient. From now on, the disciples could exchange points for resources and Cultivation Methods at the Battle Tower instead of going to the Scripture Pavilion. It was better to keep the Scripture Pavilion solely for exchanging Cultivation Methods and martial arts.

On the fifth day after the Battle Tower appeared, Yang Yang gathered enough points to exchange for a Flood Dragon Blood Pill. He exchanged them for one pill, then entered seclusion to refine it.

In just half a day, he used the Taotie Swallowing Devil Cultivation Method to refine the earth-grade mid-rank pill completely. His cultivation reached the very peak of the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer, just one step away from breaking through to the True Qi Realm.