The boy cried out as his face immediately paled. His gaze towards Jianchen underwent a drastic change as well. At that moment, Jianchen was no longer an ant-like existence in his eyes. Instead, he was an existence he feared.
"Impossible. This is impossible. This is impossible. The world won't allow something like this to happen. This is fake. This is fake. I don't believe it." The boy seemed to have gone mad. His body trembled violently, and his gaze towards Jianchen was filled with fear, shock, disbelief, and so on.
"Tower spirit, the corner of the future you've seen is destined to happen. You know whether it's real or not. Are you willing to submit to our master now?" Qing Suo asked emotionlessly. Even though she and Ziying had once been enemies with the Anatta Tower, they still hoped that Jianchen could directly subdue the tower spirit if it was possible. That way, not only would they avoid a few difficult battles, but Jianchen would obtain the complete Anatta Tower as well.
After all, the difference between the Anatta Tower with the Artifact Spirit and the Anatta Tower without the Artifact Spirit was extremely great.
"Tower spirit, we don't want to see you die here just like us, which is why we're persuading you to submit to our master. Although you are condensed from a strand of origin energy from the universe, you're not invincible. Even the Nirvanic Immortal Exalt would have to expend a great deal of effort to kill you when you were at your peak condition, but you've been suppressed by the Nirvanic Immortal Exalt for many years now. You've even been split into nine forms, preventing you from recovering after countless years. As a result, you've become so weak. You're no longer as tenacious as before, so destroying you won't be difficult at all," Ziying said sternly.
The boy did not waver at all. His gaze towards Jianchen would be filled with fear, viciousness, and madness from time to time. He roared out furiously, "You're dreaming if you want me to submit. Since I've seen a corner of a terrifying future from your master, I'll destroy him right now. I'll nip him in the bud."
The fear in the boy's eyes had completely vanished, replaced by viciousness and madness. Afterward, he no longer suppressed the sword spirits. Instead, he charged at Jian Chen fearlessly with all his strength. His eyes were filled with determination, as if he was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of victory.
The boy on the second floor was much stronger than when he was on the first floor. Even though the Nirvanic Immortal Exalt's four strands of sword Qi remained, the power he could use was slightly more than when he was on the first floor.
As the red-robed boy charged out, the power within the Anatta Tower surged once again. It quickly condensed into a small tower before the red-robed boy. The tower was only three inches tall, but at a closer glance, it was exactly the same as the Anatta Tower.
As soon as the tower condensed, a mysterious and powerful power permeated the surroundings. It was filled with a sense of dominance and destruction, causing Jianchen's eyes to narrow.
At this moment, the twin swords had yet to break free from the boy's suppression. Without the twin swords, Jianchen's strength was drastically reduced. As a result, he did not choose to receive the attack head-on. Instead, with a single movement, he left behind an afterimage where he was and left behind a single moment, appearing a hundred meters away.
The boy struck the tower where Jianchen had been standing before with a crazed expression. When the tower struck the air, it immediately produced a muffled sound. Strands of destructive power permeated the surroundings, causing the space there to tremble violently. If it were not for the fact that the space within the Anatta Tower was extremely tough, the boy probably would have been able to collapse the space within a radius of over a thousand meters.
"Where do you think you're going? I'm going to kill you today. I'm going to completely destroy you," the boy yelled out. The red-robed boy called out. He continued to charge toward the hundred meters away with the tower in his hand. He stared at Jian Chen fixedly as killing intent filled his eyes.
Jianchen was stunned. As he looked at the boy, he could clearly sense that the boy seemed to have become a completely different person compared to before. It was as if some deep grievance had suddenly arisen between them, making the boy want to kill him regardless of the consequences.
However, this question only flashed through Jianchen's head. Afterwards, he looked at the Anatta Tower in the boy's hand that had shrunk countless times. He could clearly sense that the tower had become much weaker after the previous attack.
Chaotic Force surged within Jianchen. The chaotic neidan in his dantian spat out a large amount of Chaotic Force that swam through his body, covering every inch of his flesh. A sword Qi condensed from Chaotic Force appeared in his right hand.
"Sword Origin!" With a thought from Jianchen, strands of powerful sword Qi condensed from the surroundings. The sword Qi possessed a sliver of the power of ways.
It fused with the sword Qi in his hand as he stabbed out with lightning speed towards the boy's tower.
With a boom, Jianchen's body trembled violently before he staggered backwards. He only stabilised himself after retreating several hundred meters. The sword Qi in his hand dimmed.
However, the red-robed boy only paused for a moment before continuing towards Jian Chen viciously and crazily. However, the tower in his hand became even more illusionary.
Originally, the red-robed boy could control all the power within the Anatta Tower as he wished, but now that the Anatta Tower was sealed by the Nirvanic Immortal Exalt, the power he could use had been reduced to a prehistoric level. As a matter of fact, he could not replenish it even after expending it. As a result, the longer the battle dragged on, the weaker he became.
However, Jianchen was different. He consumed his Chaotic Force at an extremely slow rate. The sword Qi condensed from Sword Origin only consumed the power of his soul slightly, allowing him to fight for a longer period of time. The spirit of the Anatta Tower could not match up to this.
At that moment, the dim sword Qi in Jianchen's hand became powerful once again. It fused with the power of the Way of the Sword and slashed towards the boy with a sliver of the power of ways.
Boom!
After the strike, Jianchen retreated once again. His face was pale, while the tower in the boy's hand had already vanished. He was also pale, but the madness and viciousness in his eyes did not decrease at all. Instead, it became even greater.
Jian Chen did not even wait for his body to stabilise as he retreated. He waved his hand and sent a strand of sword Qi towards the boy's forehead.
Spurt! The sword Qi passed through the red-robed boy's forehead, leaving behind a three-finger-wide hole in his head. However, the boy did not die. His body only became slightly more illusionary.
At the same time, the twin swords that the boy had suppressed earlier finally broke free. They flew over as streaks of light, passing through the boy's body and returning to Jianchen's hand.
Only after being injured by the twin swords did the boy's illusionary body finally disperse under his unwilling, viciousness, and madness.
"Master, even though the spirit of the Anatta Tower is weak, it's still very difficult for you to kill him with your strength. Only Qing Suo and I can deal fatal damage to him," Ziying's voice rang out in Jianchen's head.
Jianchen stared at the black hole that led to the third floor where the boy had died. Not only did he not show any joy, but he also frowned.
"The body of the Artifact Spirit of the Anatta Tower has been split into nine parts by the Nirvanic Immortal Exalt. They are all suppressed on the nine floors. The first floor is the weakest of the nine, while the ninth floor is the strongest. I've only come to the second floor now, and the Artifact Spirit of the Anatta Tower is already so difficult to deal with. I wonder just how powerful the Artifact Spirit of the Anatta Tower will be once I make it to the ninth floor. It'll be very difficult for me to deal with it, "Jianchen expressed his worries. He needed to make it to the ninth floor if he wanted to obtain the Anatta Tower, or everything would be for naught.
Originally, Jianchen planned on finding some of the items the Anatta Grand Prime had collected in the past, but after going through the first and second floors, he understood that everything outside the Anatta Tower, no matter how valuable, had been destroyed along with the Anatta Tower. They had all been reduced to dust. Probably only the items that the Anatta Grand Prime had specially preserved remained intact.
"Master, based on the strength of the spirits on the first and second floors, the spirit of the ninth floor is indeed much more powerful than master. With master's current strength, even if you use everything you have, you probably won't be the opponent of the spirit of the ninth floor," Ziying said rather sternly.
"It's a pity that the spirit of the tower refuses to yield to master, or it would have been much easier for master to obtain the Anatta Tower. However, master, you don't need to be discouraged. Even if you can't make it through the ninth floor right now, it won't be able to stop you before long, "Qing Suo said.
Jianchen fell silent. Now that the tunnel between the Tian Yuan Continent and the World of Forsaken Saints had stabilized, it was impossible to stop it. Before long, the tunnel would be tough enough to withstand Returnance experts without being destroyed. He wanted to increase his strength as much as he could in this final period of time. It was extremely likely that the Anatta Tower hid a heaven-defying fortuitous encounter, so he was unwilling to give up.
At the same time, Jianchen was not completely confident that he could survive the next battle against the World of Forsaken Saints. As a result, he wanted to do everything he could to attempt the Anatta Tower in this final period of his life. Even if the Anatta Tower did not contain the heaven-defying fortuitous encounter he had imagined, he would not have any regrets.
Suddenly, Jianchen seemed to think of something. His eyes gradually lit up, and he said, "Perhaps it's not completely impossible. The sword Qi the Nirvanic Immortal Exalt left behind in the Anatta Tower in the past has remained intact after countless years. Now that the sword Qi has gained intelligence, I might be able to ask for their help."
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