Chapter 205

The Faceless Man sat up.

Li Zhuiyuan noticed that his appearance had changed significantly compared to before. The upper half of his face was still the same, but the lower half had a kind of mottled, broken look, like a spring couplet that had been pasted on a door the previous year and hadn’t been scraped off cleanly.

The Faceless Man said, “You won.”

Li Zhuiyuan replied, “What did I win?”

The Faceless Man reached out and pointed to the large bell, asking, “Can’t you see it?”

Li Zhuiyuan of course saw it. This bell was the tribute that Yu Zangsheng and the other two had dreamed of. Every pattern on it contained extremely rich fortune. It was truly a case of not being afraid of not having enough fortune to distribute, but rather being afraid that your bowl wasn’t large enough. The accumulated fortune was enough to revitalize several fallen great families and sects; it could also elevate forces that were already in their prime. No wonder Yu Zangsheng and the others were willing to sacrifice themselves to seek this; from the perspective of family development, it was indeed worth the gamble.

The Faceless Man sighed deeply, “Alas, isn’t it laughable? They don’t dare to dream of becoming immortal; in their eyes, only these tributes on the table matter.”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “Being more realistic isn’t necessarily a bad thing.”

The Faceless Man retorted, “If one cannot become immortal, what’s the point of clinging to this mortal body and worldly inheritance?”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “That’s just your perspective, and moreover, this perspective isn’t necessarily correct.”

The Faceless Man chuckled, “Hehehe… Ultimately just ants, only daring to crawl on the ground, not even daring to lift their heads to look at the sky.”

Li Zhuiyuan countered, “If the ground hasn’t been clearly explored, and you’re only thinking of flying to the sky, isn’t that even more ridiculous and absurd?”

The Faceless Man said, “This is what I don’t like about your Liu family, and the Qin family too. Although they are noble as top Dragon King families, and Dragon Kings appear frequently, they only seem to focus on the small patch of land that is the river surface.”

Li Zhuiyuan didn’t respond to this question, but reached out and grabbed towards the Faceless Man. The young man’s hand passed through the Faceless Man’s body.

The Faceless Man continued, “If my physical body were still here, if I could walk out of this tall tower, and I personally took action, those three wouldn’t have had any right to cause trouble. They are figures of an era, but their era is ultimately not comparable to the one I experienced. Your Liu family ancestor once defeated me.”

Each generation has its own *Jianghu*. Yu Zangsheng admired Zhao Wuchang greatly, and the Faceless Man admired his own Liu family ancestor immensely. Both were losers under their former competitors, so naturally they valued the final winner who had once defeated them more; this was also a form of self-affirmation.

The view from the top floor was very expansive. This tall tower might have underground levels, but even if it was divided into negative one, negative two, and negative three floors, after entering the door, it was still the first floor. Similarly, although the young man was now standing on the twelfth floor, the scenery was fundamentally different from when he looked up from outside the tower. From here, Li Zhuiyuan’s gaze could cross the white imperial road, pass through the white jade archway, and see the huge black water vortex. As for places further away, the rock walls on all four sides and the top were all of an emerald-like quality, and countless black shadows floated within them.

The Faceless Man asked, “What are you still waiting for?”

Li Zhuiyuan replied, “Some things, the general direction I have guessed in my heart, but there are still some details that need verification and deliberation.”

As the young man spoke, he walked back to the window edge, deliberately not revealing his figure, and looked down with oblique light. At first glance, the people below were as small as ants, but after a closer look, the perspective seemed to enlarge, and he could clearly see Zhao Yi leading his team to block Xu Zhenrong, and Zhen Shaonan entangled with Yu Miaomiao. The battle intensity around Xu Zhenrong was not high; she was obviously getting a bit impatient from being worn out. And around Zhen Shaonan, as Yu Miaomiao’s sense of fun constantly diminished, she began to increase her attacks on her prey, making Zhen Shaonan increasingly flustered. Who would have thought that after the snipe and the clam both were injured, the initiative was now unexpectedly in the hands of the three parties who entered with invitations?

The Faceless Man said, “Are you savoring the taste of victory?”

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head and asked, “Your face?”

The Faceless Man touched the lower half of his face and said, “It’s the lower half of the ancestor I invited out. This was to invite the Daoist out of the tower. Unfortunately, what I originally thought was a sure win only resulted in a ‘do your best’.”

If it weren’t for the excellent cooperation of the three Yu Zangsheng, plus the exceptional factor of the black-skirted woman, who, under the deduction of Xu Zhenrong’s puppet art, displayed a sword strike at the crucial moment, the outcome of this battle would have been truly hard to say.

Li Zhuiyuan asked, “Still half a face?”

The Faceless Man replied, “The other half of the ancestor’s face is naturally still under this face of mine, but I can no longer sacrifice it to invite someone.”

“Oh.” The young man nodded, but still stood there, not moving to scrape the ‘tributes’ from the big bell.

At this time, although the top floor was still very stable, the line of sight looking down experienced violent tremors. When a crack in the rules was opened and not repaired, this crack would only become bigger and bigger. The young man once again gazed at the distant place; that emerald wall surface was like the ‘sky’ here. At this moment, the black shadows in the sky all became active, like dark clouds beginning to gather in this direction, gradually covering the green light emitted by the emerald, like an eclipse. This scene was truly spectacular and shocking.

On the white imperial road, the voices of the songstresses were no longer melodious and pleasant, but instead revealed bursts of shrillness; the movements of the dancers were also no longer graceful, but became twisted and strange. Even the two huge kneeling corpse pits under the tower began to transmit bursts of prayers filled with resentment and doubt. Faintly visible, in the depths of the kneeling corpse pits, corpses that had maintained their kneeling posture for an unknown number of years began to climb up.

As for the inside of this tall tower, the agitation would only be more intense. Li Zhuiyuan suspected that if he went down at this time, he would very likely face a group of Xuanmen deaders who had already stood up and started walking.

The Faceless Man said, “Originally, I could still barely suppress them, but now, I don’t have this ability. This place is stepping towards being out of control.”

Li Zhuiyuan remained silent.

The Faceless Man continued, “Since you don’t believe in the wish to become immortal, then do what you should do. If you’re late, it might be too late.”

Li Zhuiyuan looked at the Faceless Man with some doubt.

The Faceless Man said, “What, do you feel strange? I said, when I ascend and become immortal, I will conveniently kill you, with your eyes as witness, with your blood as a record, with your life as a monument. But now, the ascent has failed. Rather than letting outsiders take the opportunity from this place, it’s better to give it to you. Hehehe, his descendant ultimately needs my help.”

The Faceless Man spread open his palm, and in the center of his palm, a faint light and fire circulated; this was a display of a small technique. With this technique, he could more conveniently and quickly peel off the traces from the big bell. Without his demonstration, Li Zhuiyuan also had a way to peel it off, but his demonstration also saved him the time to deduce it himself. One could say that the current Li Zhuiyuan was like sitting in front of a table full of delicacies and being handed a pair of chopsticks by the person next to him. But Li Zhuiyuan still didn’t move.

After the Faceless Man finished his performance, he put away his palm. His figure therefore became faint, almost translucent.

“What, you don’t believe in ascending, and you don’t want the tributes either?”

Li Zhuiyuan carefully stared at the Faceless Man, as if wanting to capture the other’s eyes on his eyeless face. The continuously fading Faceless Man seemed to be gazing back at the young man. Li Zhuiyuan confirmed something and was about to speak, when the Faceless Man seemed to anticipate what the young man was about to say and hurriedly raised his hand, “Wait a moment, wait until I turn back, then say that sentence.”

The Faceless Man turned back, lifted his hand and waved lightly, indicating that he was ready.

Li Zhuiyuan said, “You are truly pitiful.”

The Faceless Man’s translucent body began to tremble; if he had a face, his face at this time should be a kind of both enjoying and nostalgic expression. Li Zhuiyuan knew that the other party was taking him as the Liu family Dragon King from history. This guy truly was able to extract that strange pleasure from himself whether he succeeded or failed.

The Faceless Man didn’t turn back, but quietly enjoyed it, his body becoming increasingly thin. The young man’s voice sounded again, asking the same question as before, “Your face?”

The Faceless Man replied, “I answered this question.”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “You misunderstood my question, answering is not the point.”

The Faceless Man turned back to face the young man, “Then what do you truly want to ask?”

Li Zhuiyuan asked, “I’m not asking about the remnants of your ancestor’s face skin on the lower half of your face. I’m asking, where did the face that originally belonged to you go?”

The Faceless Man said as a matter of course, “What are you saying? I tore off my original face, replaced it with the ancestor’s face, and yet because of the rules of this place, I had to show myself in a faceless form.”

“Where did you place that face of yours that you tore off?”

“Of course I…” The Faceless Man was stunned, because he couldn’t remember. So many years, he had already become accustomed to his ‘faceless expression’. Anyway, he couldn’t leave this tall tower, and everyone inside the tall tower was dead. He didn’t need to communicate, didn’t need to make expressions, and even less would he be so weak as to talk to himself in front of a mirror to relieve loneliness, so whether he had a face or not didn’t make much difference. But, even if it was useless, where exactly had he placed his face?

The Faceless Man covered his head. The young man’s direct question at this point was like smashing a certain defect in his consciousness, which made him feel anxious and uneasy, because under normal circumstances, this was impossible. He was already dead. He was maintaining his existence by relying on the special nature of the secret realm, and he had no physical body, so his soul thought was his biggest carrier now, and the most important part of soul thought was memory. In other words, it was impossible for him to forget things. Real-life ghosts, once they experience memory loss, often only mean one thing… The soul body is damaged. This situation is not uncommon among lonely wild ghosts in reality; after all, it’s their first time being ghosts, they have no experience. But when it happened to the Faceless Man, it was very wrong. He entered here with preparation, he was the one who peeled off his own soul thought. He couldn’t have made such a low-level mistake. Most importantly, the missing memory was unexpectedly only where his face had been placed; everything else was normal.

“Why is it like this… Why is it like this…” The Faceless Man began to mutter to himself. His translucent body, because of this complex and strong emotion, began to ripple like the surface of a lake. The Faceless Man turned to Li Zhuiyuan for help, “Tell me, why is it like this? You know, don’t you?”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “We met in a dream.”

The Faceless Man replied, “Right, I went to find you, I invited you to represent the Liu family, to witness the ascent of my clan.”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “In that dream, I didn’t see your face. I originally thought it was because you had no face, but later I began to suspect I had judged incorrectly. What if the you in the dream actually had a face but pretended to hide it?”

The Faceless Man said, “How is that possible? I went to your dream, I invited you to come!”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “Well, I didn’t say it wasn’t you.”

The Faceless Man said, “Then you…” The Faceless Man stopped speaking, as if finally realizing something. He stopped all movements, stunned.

Li Zhuiyuan then continued, “When I came up, I still suspected that your real identity was not your ancestor, for example, you were seized by your ancestor after entering the ancestral grave. But after contact and exchange, I found that it wasn’t the case. You are indeed still you, but at the same time, not completely you.”

As the young man spoke, he reached out and pinched the skin on his own face, “Even if the ancestor’s face skin needs to be used as a cover, then why must you become faceless? Wouldn’t it be okay to just tear off your original face skin and then paste it on?”

The Faceless Man asked, “Then who am I…”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “I said, you are still you.”

The Faceless Man asked, “Then the other me, the one who retained my face skin, where is that me?”

Li Zhuiyuan replied, “Should also be here.”

The Faceless Man asked, “Then what was the purpose of me doing this? Why did I want to separate myself?”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “The purpose of separating is to maintain relative independence and not be disturbed. Since you are certain that you can ascend and become immortal, then the other you should not believe in this matter of ascending and becoming immortal.”

“Hahahaha!” The Faceless Man burst into laughter, a somewhat desolate laugh. He had already accepted the fact that his ascent had failed, but he didn’t expect that there was an even bigger blow waiting for him behind it. He was unexpectedly not a complete himself. No, he couldn’t even call himself ‘himself’; there was fundamentally no separation or not. His existence was more like a segment of memory that had been deliberately imprisoned here—a clone—a puppet—an obsession. He was a part that had been peeled off from the body and thrown down.

“I don’t even know what I am, yet I always longed for this thing about ascending and becoming immortal, hahaha.”

Li Zhuiyuan let the Faceless Man continue to vent his emotions. He himself then continued to look down from above, overlooking the situation below. He and the Faceless Man had met closely a total of three times. Once in A Li’s dream, once on the negative third floor through the opened gap in the tower door, and once now. The second time they met, Li Zhuiyuan just had doubts. The third time they met, when he reached the top floor and saw him lying there, this doubt became a kind of affirmation. When you lack sufficient concrete clues, you need to switch different viewpoints to see the truth behind the fog.

An important reason was that the black-robed figure in A Li’s dream had corpse qi all over their body, and their ten fingernails were very long, both black and sharp. That kind of momentum, that kind of style, was beyond doubt. The similar feeling, the Faceless Man inside this tower did have it, but it wasn’t strong enough. When he met him at the bottom of the tower, he displayed frenzy, and when he met him again at the top of the tower, he expressed the calmness of failure. This frenzy and calmness could be understood, but they lacked a kind of depth and level; they were as thin as a paper figure, only capable of painting a single color on both sides of the paper. The one in A Li’s dream gave him greater pressure and a richer sense of level, more like a living existence under a special modifier.

There was another viewpoint. From the perspective of the person who set the exam, he had always held the initiative since the Broken Jade Contention War began. Although he killed Xu Yijin along the way and also shocked back Yu Miaomiao and the group of people who surrounded him at the end, including after entering this secret realm, although he encountered several changes, he still walked to here relatively smoothly. As a result, he was still divided to the negative third floor, watching the fighting and killing above, and then he logically picked the biggest advantage himself. He had been on the top of the tower for so long, and the main thing he should have done hadn’t been done at all; it was purely a waste of time. But Xu Zhenrong and Zhen Shaonan were still steadily blocked outside the tower door.

Admittedly, all the smoothness was based on his outstanding ability and the results of his own deductions and judgments; it was absolutely not some kind of pie falling from the sky. But the problem was, his ability, his past exam scores, the person who set the exam knew. He took the paper that originally belonged to others and gave it to himself to do. The purpose must have been to make things difficult for himself, not to let himself exploit loopholes and succeed by taking advantage. Therefore, from the perspective of difficulty, it was clearly somewhat abnormal for him to become the final big winner just like that. Especially when he just came up, the Faceless Man opened his mouth and said to him, “You won.” Li Zhuiyuan’s heart alarm bells rang at that time, because generally these words are only heard when one is about to lose.

The Faceless Man walked to Li Zhuiyuan’s side and stood still. He was more translucent than before, with a very light, very light feeling, as if he would float away with even a slight breeze.

“You are right, I am indeed very pitiful, a… pitiful joke.”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “If you continue to get tangled in this, then it’s not just laughable.”

The Faceless Man said, “I understand what you mean. You are deliberately looking at me with doubtful eyes, are you distinguishing whether this fake person has its own independence?”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “Yes.”

The Faceless Man said that he had entered his dream and said the same words to him. There were two possibilities. One was that he was essentially still one person with the ‘person with a face’, and they two, in a state of two in one, followed the past cause and effect, entered A Li’s dream, and found him. It was just that the Faceless Man didn’t notice that at that time, he wasn’t just him. The other possibility was that the ‘person with a face’ entered A Li’s dream, and then re-injected the related memory into the Faceless Man’s soul thought, making him think that he had really participated in this matter. The latter possibility was very low, because the Faceless Man was trapped in this tall tower. If the person with a face could arbitrarily enter and exit the tall tower to perform various modifications and controls on the Faceless Man, then he would have already become the ‘heaven’ here, and there would be fundamentally no need to do this layout again. The former then meant that the two people were essentially still one, just one occupied the large head and one occupied the small head. This was also the reason why Li Zhuiyuan always insisted on saying “you are you yet not completely you”; this was not comfort, but a condition beneficial to himself. A puppet and a walking corpse are easily controlled by the body, but if it is an independent part, it can be pulled and cooperated with, becoming a help.

The Faceless Man asked, “Do you want me to help you?”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “Yes.”

The Faceless Man said, “But, I am about to dissipate.”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “Your dissipation is because you were severely injured after the old Daoist was dealt with, and you lost the ability to continue to intervene in the situation, so you are disheartened and lazy to continue existing.”

The Faceless Man didn’t deny it, and his originally fading figure paused its change.

“But why do you think I will help you? Even if I am not completely me, I really have no need to destroy the layout of another me for you, an outsider, an enemy’s descendant. Although I don’t know what his layout specifically is, if he succeeds, isn’t it also equal to my success?”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “You will choose to help me.”

The Faceless Man asked, “So confident?”

Li Zhuiyuan replied, “Because, I want to help you complete the ascent.”

The young man didn’t believe the saying of becoming immortal, but he just helped the Faceless Man complete the ceremony of ascent, and he didn’t guarantee that it would certainly succeed. At least now, the harm of not holding this ceremony had already begun to appear. So many Xuanmen deaders inside the tall tower were gradually getting out of control, and the breeding of resentment was making them increasingly close to corpse transformation. So many black shadows inside the emerald, once completely out of control, would evolve into a large number of evil spirits filled with resentment. Such a large group of guys, after thoroughly losing the constraint of rules and gaining freedom, bursting out from the depths of Yulong Snow Mountain, would brew what kind of terrible disaster?

The Faceless Man said, “Good, I can help you. I want to prove to another me that it wasn’t him who abandoned me, but I who tore him down.”

Li Zhuiyuan nodded. He was not surprised by this result. The Faceless Man was just a paper figure; obsession was the foundation of his existence. As long as this obsession was stirred up, he would be very easy to persuade. It’s just that Zhao Yi was still busy directing below the tower and couldn’t follow up to see this scene. If he saw it, he would probably have to repeat the sentence he had just chirped: When it comes to playing mind games, he, Zhao Yi, is not inferior to anyone, except that surname Li.

The Faceless Man said, “Tell me, now, what do you want me to do?”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “No hurry, the situation below is stuck. I just need to delay not taking the next action here, and the one who will be anxious will be him.” The real opponent in this wave was currently still hiding behind the scenes. Fortunately, his motive could be captured.

Li Zhuiyuan turned and looked towards the large bell behind him. The other party seemed to want people to take away the tributes on the table, as if this could trigger some condition.

The Faceless Man pointed his finger at the big bell and asked, “How can you resist this temptation? With the current situation of the Qin and Liu families, it really needs its irrigation to complete the revival.”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “Because I know that the hope of revival for the Qin and Liu families is on my shoulders.”

The Faceless Man said, “I really believe you don’t want to become immortal now.”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “If the purpose of this tall tower wasn’t to ascend and become immortal but to grow up and become a ‘person’, I might really be tempted.”

The black shadows inside the emerald wall surface in the sky were becoming increasingly manic, beginning to collectively scratch the barrier. The white imperial road that originally led to the heavenly palace was now filled with dense yin qi; the singing and dancing were no longer fairies, but ghost shadows. Li Zhuiyuan once again hid his figure and looked down, saying, “If there are no accidents, there should be accidents now.”

Given that he had been continuously wasting time and not taking action on the top of the tower, an accident finally occurred. The emerald wall surface above the tall tower seemed unable to withstand the impact of such a number of black shadows and produced deformation. This scene also made Xu Zhenrong, Zhen Shaonan, and Zhao Yi and others who were still fighting below stop their actions and lift their heads. Including Yu Miaomiao, she was licking the back of her hand while blinking her round eyes, curiously sizing up the situation above.

“Dong! Dong! Dong!” The wall surface on top seemed to melt, and puddles of liquid kept falling. The fallen liquid emerald formed thick pillars of different sizes. When they saw them, Zhen Shaonan’s face first showed shock, and then showed ecstasy. These pillars were exactly the layout inside his classroom; they had solid form and could act as array eyes at any time, and at the same time could be manipulated and transformed. For an array master familiar with this environment, it was equivalent to being able to layout arrays incredibly quickly and as they pleased.

And although a large amount of emerald condensed, it ultimately didn’t drip down, but formed inverted long cones above. Path after path of black shadows were sucked into this inverted cone, as if by mistake, they had done some kind of advance preparation. And this was exactly the layout inside Xu Zhenrong’s classroom. With them, Xu Zhenrong could arbitrarily pinch out extremely high-quality masked figures, no longer needing to worry about raw materials. A teacher returning to their own classroom could display their true… No, could amplify their strength many times over.

Zhen Shaonan shouted, “Raise the wind and gather the array, collect, trap, lock, suppress!” The volume of the stone pillars constantly changed, refracting a special gloss, and a concrete build array quickly formed. Huge pressure descended, and Yu Miaomiao let out a cat’s cry, immediately struggling. She succeeded, relying on her terrible speed and amazing reaction, and jumped out of the first array. But Zhen Shaonan just opened his palm and stirred it, and the second, third, fourth… Layer upon layer of arrays were applied, and even if Yu Miaomiao could successively jump over them, it became increasingly difficult. And the arrays she had originally jumped over unexpectedly could still resonate with the newly arranged arrays. Finally, only an unwilling, shrill cat’s cry was heard, and Yu Miaomiao’s four limbs were on the ground. Although she struggled to resist, her four limbs gradually bent, and her chest was getting closer and closer to the ground. She didn’t understand why her prey, which she had originally played with, had suddenly become so fierce and strong that it actually suppressed her.

“Meow! Meow! Meow!” While she didn’t understand, she also didn’t submit. Her beastliness at this time had already suppressed her humanity.

On the other side, Xu Zhenrong crossed her ten fingers and arched them upwards. “Pa!” “Pa!” “Pa!” Three white cocoons fell, condensed from ten, thirty, and sixty black shadows respectively. Xu Zhenrong clapped her palms together three times in a row. The white cocoons stood up and broke open, all at once. Inside appeared three puppets, their faces masked, respectively Tan Wenbin, Lin Shiyou, and Runsheng.

Zhao Yi angrily shouted, “Are you looking down on people? Why don’t you pinch me out?”

Lin Shiyou said, “Hehe, she pinched me again.”

Zhao Yi said, “Is it because your control over high-quality, high-intensity puppets also has a limit?”

Lin Shiyou thought, Bad, showed off too early. Not pinching Yinmeng is very understandable; she can’t deduce Yinmeng’s poison, so it’s better not to pinch her. But Zhao Yi thought, not being conceited, that it was actually necessary to pinch himself out. When the gate of life and death was closed, he was also very capable of fighting. And unlike those surnamed Li who only killed one Xu Yijin, directly or indirectly, many people may have died in his hands while trying to escape with broken jade. This was enough to be comprehensively and detailedly recorded. Her not using him was only due to some restraining factors; most likely, the quality of one hundred black shadows in one round was already the limit of her operational deduction. But even so, the scale and strength of these puppets were already very amazing. Taking Lin Shiyou, who went down for the exam initially, as an example, the fake Lin Shiyou pinched from thirty black shadows had a body quality that exceeded the real Lin Shiyou and could sustain the effect of the Evil-Breaking Talisman Needle for a long time. The Tan Wenbin pinched from ten black shadows was also already giving a lot of face; after all, although Tan Wenbin also practiced martial arts, he was not a truly initiated martial artist. This puppet would probably also use ghost control techniques. As for the Runsheng pinched from sixty black shadows… This puppet should be the most terrifying among the three puppets. If he could have the ability to fully open Runsheng’s Qi Gate, that would already be incredibly amazing. If he could have the ability to sustain the full opening of the Qi Gate… Then can the big guys just wait to be crushed to death?

Zhen Shaonan and Xu Zhenrong looked at each other across the distance, and then together looked towards the top of the tower. Li Zhuiyuan was already on the top of the tower, but the young man always made sure not to reveal his figure, so the people below didn’t know his current location. Including now, Xu Zhenrong and Zhen Shaonan also didn’t see anyone on the top floor. The two thus judged that although the young man entered the tower early, he probably couldn’t bear the repulsive force inside the tower, and was either still struggling to slowly climb the floors, or possibly had already painfully died inside the tower. It wasn’t that they were too optimistic and naive, but from their perspective, only possibilities in this direction could be guessed, because they couldn’t understand Li Zhuiyuan’s behavior of reaching the top floor and facing that big bell without taking action. For this sudden change that was extremely favorable to themselves, the two could only think that the rules here were constantly being weakened, and the environment that had always been maintained by the rules had also changed. There was also a little factor… Possibly it was the blessing of the family ancestors, who in this crucial period of striving for family opportunity and fortune, had helped them a hand in the unseen world. Their stance and viewpoint were stuck here. They had paid so much and lurked for so many years, and had encountered great obstruction earlier. Now that they had staked everything, they could only think of all changes in a good direction. They truly had no energy and even less possibility of doubting that there were others. Even if they knew it was a trap, they had to pretend not to know and close their eyes and jump down.

Zhao Yi’s eyebrows at the gate of life and death wriggled quickly: Things out of the ordinary must be demons; these two are absolutely not just lucky to have been favored. They are probably already a knife in someone’s hands. And that surnamed Li, he can even pry down the book in the hands of the reader on the eleventh floor. Zhao Yi absolutely didn’t believe that he was still struggling to climb the floors at this time. Surnamed Li, you must have detected something long ago, so you are deliberately waiting for the opponent to make the first move so that you can counter it, right? Yes, it must be like this. Zhao Yi was trying hard to boost himself. Essentially, he was the same as the two opposite. At this time, he could only think about the good aspects. Zhao Yi inhaled deeply, then slowly exhaled, and said in a deep voice, “Prepare well, a fierce battle is coming.”

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Top floor.

The Faceless Man said, “No wonder the three of them could lurk down and still open teaching dojos here. Originally, there was always a behind-the-scenes pusher inside. I am only responsible for the normal operation and maintenance of the tall tower here, and the other me should have been planning for a long time.”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “There is no absolutely precise scheme without loopholes in this world. You see, hasn’t Yu Zangsheng just died?”

Looking at it now, Yu Miaomiao’s action of counter-killing Yu Zangsheng probably caught even the behind-the-scenes one off guard. Sure enough, a wise man’s thousand schemes are not as good as a fool’s inspiration.

The Faceless Man asked, “What is his purpose in doing this? I mean, using this circuitous method of borrowing a knife.”

Li Zhuiyuan said, “Because he wants to gain benefits at the same time, yet doesn’t want to bear the consequences, for example, the disaster that is very likely to be caused.”

The Faceless Man said, “Your people and that cat demon cannot block the two of them now. Aren’t you planning to do something?”

Li Zhuiyuan turned and walked down the stairs to the eleventh floor. The eleventh floor was still violently shaking, and all the furniture, furnishings, and walls and floors were already full of cracks. The young man swayed with difficulty to the front of the couch. The Faceless Man also floated over, following behind. The reader still maintained a side-lying posture, his hands empty. His face was full of resentment and malevolent qi, and above his head, a palm-sized black cloud seemed to have formed. Li Zhuiyuan did not come to apologize or say nice words. At this time, apologizing or kowtowing was already meaningless. The young man once again took out the blank book, and once again flipped through the pages with a rustling sound. Under this stimulation, the black cloud above the reader’s head just gradually turned black.

Li Zhuiyuan said, “Help me a small favor, and I will explain this book that you can’t understand to you.”

Actually, Li Zhuiyuan had only roughly flipped through this book when he was idle on the negative third floor earlier; he hadn’t had time to understand it either. But the young man was confident that after leaving here and having enough leisure time, he would definitely be able to understand this book. He would also keep his promise and explain the mysterious contents of the book to this reader. Anyway, he wouldn’t explain it immediately; later, after he understood it himself, he would write the annotations on paper and burn them together with paper money to him. It would be the same.

The black cloud above the reader’s head did not dissipate, but it stopped turning black. Li Zhuiyuan stuffed the blank book into the reader’s hand and said calmly, “If it doesn’t work, forget it. If you study hard your whole life and research it to death and still don’t figure it out, at worst, after you ascend and become immortal, you can continue to slowly grind it out in the heavenly court.”

After Li Zhuiyuan finished speaking, he turned and prepared to leave.

“Pa da!” Behind him, the sound of a book falling to the ground came. The entire eleventh floor no longer shook. Li Zhuiyuan turned back and saw that the black cloud on the reader’s forehead had already dissipated, and the cloud had dispersed and the rain had cleared.

The Faceless Man suddenly felt this scene was a bit familiar, as if it had just happened on the floor above. At this time, he saw the young man’s hand suddenly stretch out in front of him.

The Faceless Man said doubtfully, “What does this mean?”

Li Zhuiyuan replied, “Lend me the remaining half of your ancestor’s face skin.”

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