On the way back to the Nine-story Pagoda, Ye Tianze learned about the situation on the sixth floor.
In fact, the sixth, eighth, and eighth floors were combined into one. The sixth floor was a term used by the lower-level masters. There were a total of three forces on these three floors.
They were the Nine-story Pagoda, Panwang Hall, and Black Lotus Sect.
The three forces were similar in strength and had different territories. However, these were only the forces of the Human Clan.
In the Human Clan's territory, the spirit beasts were the most powerful forces. The spirit beasts on the sixth floor no longer fought alone like the spirit beasts below the sixth floor.
The three forces seemed to have divided their territories, but in fact, these territories were all in the hands of the spirit beasts. The Human Clan entered the spirit beasts' territories to hunt, and they were trembling with fear.
The cultivator with thunder spiritual force was called Mo Cong, and the cultivator with earth spiritual force was called Mo Sheng.
They were both from the Western Region. Three hundred years ago, they entered the sixth floor one after another, but they were still struggling at the bottom. The old monsters of the three forces had long controlled the resources and formed a strict hierarchy.
The basis of this hierarchy was the Yin Yang Talisman.
The Yin Talisman was inserted into the cultivator's inner core, and the Yang Talisman was in control of the cultivator's life and death. All the cultivators who entered the sixth floor could only enter one of the three forces.
However, the three forces did not lack people. On the contrary, they did not want more people to share the resources. In this place, human lives were worthless.
Many cultivators would be killed if they had the slightest thought of resisting, and their cultivation would be destroyed.
What Lv Aoshan asked him just now was not a threat. If she did not like Ye Tianze, she would kill him directly.
In Lv Aoshan's eyes, Ye Tianze was no different from an ant. It was fine to kill him.
Mo Cong and Mo Sheng knew the rules here, so they immediately chose to hand over their inner cores after Lv Aoshan saved them.
They were previously under the control of an elder with the surname Xue. Only the elders could control the Yin Yang Talisman.
As for cultivators like Mo Cong, they were merely servants of the lowest rank.
However, compared to Mo Cong and Mo Sheng, Ye Tianze, a cultivator who had just entered the sixth level, had an even lower status. He was only a servant.
Although Mo Cong and Mo Sheng couldn't control Ye Tianze, they were stronger than Ye Tianze, so their status was naturally higher.
As slaves, Mo Cong and Mo Sheng naturally didn't want someone like Ye Tianze to exist. They could see that Ye Tianze's talent wasn't bad. Sooner or later, he would become their competitor.
Therefore, when Lv Aoshan wanted to take Ye Tianze as her servant, she added that sentence, although the final decision was still in Lv Aoshan's hands.
However, Mo Cong's words almost took Ye Tianze's life.
Ye Tianze did not like the feeling of having his fate in the hands of others, but he knew that he was not strong enough, so he could only let Lv Aoshan do whatever she wanted.
Everything he knew was told to him by Mo Cong. This wasn't because Mo Cong had good intentions, but because he wanted to tell Ye Tianze what the rules were.
He also wanted to let him know what his status was, so that it would be easier to manipulate him in the future.
He followed Lv Aoshan to the nine-story tower and found that this was an alliance's stronghold. However, there was a huge tower that was a few hundred feet tall in this stronghold. The tower had a total of nine floors and gathered the essence Qi from dozens of miles away.
Ye Tianze could tell at a glance that this tower was not only a treasure, but also the core of the stronghold's array.
When he entered the stronghold, he found that there were many people here, and many of them were even weaker than him.
These people were expressionless, and their eyes were empty, like walking corpses.
Mo Cong saw him looking at these people curiously, so he asked curiously, "Do you know what these things are?"
"Things?" Ye Tianze shook his head. "I don't know!"
"Corpse Puppets!"
Mo Cong sneered. "These are cultivators who tried to resist and had their inner cores destroyed. However, although their inner cores were destroyed, the spiritual energy in their inner cores was sealed in their bodies. You see that their cultivation is weaker than yours, but in reality, their previous cultivation was not weaker than yours at all.
"If you dare to betray them, you will end up like them. These people keep their consciousness, but they are like walking corpses. Once their spiritual energy is completely exhausted, they will turn into dust!"
Mo Sheng said. "However, many of them are old monsters who have cultivated for a hundred or even two hundred years. Their cultivation is so strong that they will have to endure for at least a few hundred years before they run out of spiritual energy and die!"
"Who thought of such a vicious method?" Ye Tianze asked.
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Tianze suddenly felt his sea of qi turn upside down. His inner core felt like it was about to be torn apart, and there was a heart-wrenching pain.
Ye Tianze was in so much pain that he almost rolled on the ground, but he held it in and looked at Lv Aoshan.
"Vicious?"
Lv Aoshan stared at him and said, "I don't think so. If you have the strength, you can also make the rules you want. Unfortunately … you don't!"
Ye Tianze was silent. After a long time, the pain slowly subsided.
Lv Aoshan did not enter the nine-story pagoda. Instead, she stopped in a house near the pagoda. This was her residence.
Along the way, the corpse puppets would involuntarily kneel on the ground when they saw Lv Aoshan. Ye Tianze could see the resentment in their eyes.
But just like what Lv Aoshan said, these corpse puppets were only left with resentment.
This was the only resistance they could express, but their bodies were not under their control.
Apart from these corpse puppets, cultivators with lower cultivation levels didn't even dare to raise their heads when they saw her. They had to retreat to the side and bow their bodies. They didn't even dare to raise their heads, let alone look at her in the eye.
"Go to the nine-story pagoda and leave my mark. Get him a nameplate while you're at it!"
Lv Aoshan said, "If Elder Xue's people ask about it, ask Elder Xue to come to me personally!"
When the two heard this, they were overjoyed. They respectfully waited for Lv Aoshan to enter the door before they turned and walked towards the nine-story pagoda.
The closer Ye Tianze was to the nine-story pagoda, the heavier the pressure he felt. When he reached the nine-story pagoda, he was a little out of breath, and the spiritual power in his body could not be used smoothly.
He obtained the Star population formation pattern and soon knew why he felt this way. It was because of the Yin Talisman in his body.
Mo Cong said, "Be smart and don't cause trouble for us. Otherwise, we'll teach you a lesson!"
From afar, the nine-story pagoda was only a few hundred feet tall. But when he looked closer, he could not see the top at all. The nine-story pagoda occupied a radius of several miles, and there were 36 doors.
The bigger the door, the more noble the person who walked in. People like Ye Tianze could only enter from the smallest door.
Before Mo Cong stepped in, an angry voice sounded, "How dare you, Mo Cong and Mo Sheng. You betrayed Elder Xue and dare to come back. Men, immediately take these two traitors and hand them over to Elder Xue for punishment!"
Mo Cong was a little scared at first, but he seemed to have thought of something and quickly calmed down. He looked at the people who had arrived and a gloomy smile appeared on his face.
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