The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 57 - 46 Reunion_1
Chapter 57: Chapter 46 Reunion_1
Chapter 57 -46 Reunion_1
The next day.
It was as if the night that sealed away all light sources from the Lower Realm had been slowly drawn away from the firmament.
Su Yuntian and He Rong, seeing no abnormalities in the White Tower and no sign of Pang Jian stepping out, immediately began to stir.
Without notifying Luo Hongyan, He Rong arranged for those loyal to him to gather the spirit herbs he had identified.
Feeling somewhat embarrassed to explain himself, Su Yuntian delegated the task to Su Meng.
“Miss Ning…”
Circling around the White Tower, Su Meng approached where Luo Hongyan was, her little face full of apology, “My father and Uncle Rong have decided to leave the island. They plan to collect some herbs they recognize and then depart shortly.”
Luo Hongyan couldn’t be bothered and waved her hand dismissively.
The “Spirit Evils” she controlled had already thoroughly surveyed the island. She was well aware of the island’s layout, as well as the types and quantities of spiritual herbs.
She had seen higher-grade herbs, and those she observed through the “Spirit Evils” offered no help in forging her flesh and blood.
Thus, her mood was not great.
A murderous intent stirred in her heart; she had originally planned to pit the two families and the one “from the well” against each other to test their strength, but now she changed her mind.
She commanded the “Spirit Evils” to keep an eye on the movements of the two families, ready to eradicate them before they could leave the island and claim the spirit plants they had harvested as her own.
However, as she watched Su Meng’s retreating figure, a hint of hesitation appeared in her eyes.
As Su Meng was about to disappear from view, Luo Hongyan snorted quietly to herself when the girl turned back and waved at her with a sweet smile, “You little brat, I’ll spare your life.”
Having made her decision, Luo Hongyan turned her gaze back to the White Tower and murmured to herself, “Just one night, even if the Spirit Array arranged with Spirit Jade at the base of the tower is miraculous, it’s unlikely that Pang Jian could have filled his Spiritual Sea in just one night.”
Knowing that it could not be rushed, that Pang Jian couldn’t possibly have entered the Meridians Channeling Realm overnight, she ordered the “Spirit Evils” to carefully monitor the pit.
By mid-morning, the anxious people from the Su and He families had gathered a considerable number of spirit plants they recognized and were now content to depart.
As for whatever dangers lay beside Shangguan Qin, He Rong and Su Yuntian had no intention of getting involved any further.
The two arranged for their clanspeople to carry the harvested herbs to where the bamboo rafts were moored, and this time, Su Meng did not make a special trip to say goodbye either.
Luo Hongyan, keeping silent, had already set the “Spirit Evils” in motion to thoroughly eradicate the two families in secret.
To avoid alarming Pang Jian and the person in the well beside Shangguan Qin, she planned to strike once Su Yuntian, He Rong, and the others were seated on the bamboo raft, preferring to attack them on the lake.
At that time,
the raft’s passengers could be attacked without any cover, their only escape to jump into the water, while the “Spirit Evils” held a greater advantage underwater.
Having calculated everything, Luo Hongyan was simply waiting for the two families to transport the spirit plants onto the bamboo raft, and then she would make her move once the raft was far enough from Lake Heart Island.
A moment later,
a “Spirit Evil” slowly rose into the air from the jungle, just as it was ready to act, Luo Hongyan, hidden in the dark, suddenly showed a look of shock in her eyes.
Through the vision of a “Spirit Evil,” she saw two familiar figures emerge from the other side of Lake Heart Island.
Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping!
The two, who had escaped from the clutches of the Dark Ghost, appeared to have gone through a long journey. When they suddenly saw the pale blue Wulan Lake and the island within it after parting the tall weeds, a light sparked in their eyes.
Afterward, Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping saw the people from the Su and He families on the bamboo raft.
Han Duping waved excitedly, shouting loudly.
“Zhou Qingchen!”
“Han Duping!”
Su Yuntian and He Rong were also overjoyed, not expecting to encounter these two on their way out.
So, a bamboo raft drifted over to pick up Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping.
After some friendly chatter, Zhou Qingchen learned what had happened and exclaimed in shock and joy, “Pang Jian is actually still alive!”
Learning that Pang Jian was still amongst the living, he felt genuinely happy from the bottom of his heart.
“Let’s go to the island!”
Zhou Qingchen, invigorated with a burst of energy that swept away his previous dejection, said to Su Yuntian and He Rong, “Honestly, after escaping from the Dark Ghost Hong Tai, I’ve endured some tough cultivation and have officially entered the Marrow Cleaning Realm!”
“You’ve advanced to the Marrow Cleaning Realm?” Su Yuntian was astonished.
Han Duping let out a sigh and said, “That was a bit hurried, you should have taken it slow. We should have waited until after this exploration of Solitude Mountain Range was finished, then notified the people of Red Mountain to come down to the Lower Realm to guide you, to enter the Marrow Cleaning Realm in a better way. Alas, advancing to the Marrow Cleaning Realm so early means, once you’re in Red Mountain, you’ll need to be further refined.”
“Old Han, the situation forced my hand, I couldn’t delay!” Zhou Qingchen responded with a wry smile.
Surprised to hear of Zhou Qingchen’s advancement to the Marrow Cleaning Realm, making him one of the top forces in the Fourth Realm, Su Yuntian and He Rong suddenly felt reassured.
Those who had originally intended to leave changed their minds because of Zhou Qingchen’s breakthrough and decided to return.
The group quickly returned to the White Tower.
“Miss Ning!”
Zhou Qingchen, with furrowed brows and an unhappy expression, glared at the five-story tall White Tower and said through gritted teeth, “Pang Jian is only in the Qi Refinement Realm, and despite whatever peculiarities he may have, you shouldn’t have directed him to break that Soul Array!”
Luo Hongyan was somewhat surprised, not expecting Zhou Qingchen to genuinely care for Pang Jian.
Han Duping rubbed his hands together with a look of curiosity on his face and asked, “Miss Ning, how did you two… make it out alive from Black Water Pool?”
At that time, in the Black Water Pool, with Hong Tai and several Meridians Channeling Realm Dark Ghost cultivators present, he and Zhou Qingchen could only escape amid the chaos. It was truly inconceivable that the two, with Pang Jian’s cultivation level, had survived to this point.
He had been pondering this question the entire way, wondering how the two had managed to stay alive, but the more he thought about it, the less he found an answer.
“It was thanks to the crazed Ouyang Duanhai causing havoc, along with Hong Tai’s captive Black and White King Python suddenly rebelling and biting back, that allowed the two of us to escape by sheer luck,” he said.
After answering Han Duping’s question, Luo Hongyan then coldly faced Zhou Qingchen and huffed, “Besides Pang Jian, even you, Zhou Qingchen, don’t have the power to enter the Heavenly Spirit Tower.”
“What of the Marrow Cleansing Realm? Entering it would still mean death!”
“Moreover, if the Soul Array of the Heavenly Spirit Tower isn’t broken, by the time that person comes out from the pit, as long as he can regain control of the Heavenly Spirit Tower, do you think you can survive?”
Luo Hongyan was not at all courteous; she didn’t see Zhou Qingchen, who had just achieved a realm breakthrough, as worthy of her consideration, speaking with extreme intensity.
Zhou Qingchen was about to retort.
But Han Duping quickly stopped him, officially warning, “The Heavenly Spirit Tower is indeed extraordinary! If someone truly controls the tower to howl in the void, even you who have ascended to the Marrow Cleansing Realm would have difficulty resisting this Heavenly Spirit Tower alone. Besides, who knows the depth or true identity of that person in the pit?”
Zhou Qingchen didn’t understand the dangers of the Heavenly Spirit Tower, but he trusted Han Duping and exclaimed in surprise, “Is the Heavenly Spirit Tower really that powerful?”
“Extremely terrifying!”
Han Duping’s face turned grave as he patted Zhou Qingchen’s shoulder, admonishing him to stay calm, “She’s right; to deal with the other guy on the island who might have obtained the Phoenix Marrow, it’s best to first destroy the Heavenly Spirit Tower!”
Since even he said so, Zhou Qingchen promptly ceased his debate and argued no further.
Following that.
The people who had returned and Zhou Qingchen formed a distant perimeter around the Heavenly Spirit Tower while waiting for results from Pang Jian’s side and discussing with Han Duping about how to tackle the Heavenly Spirit Tower.
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Han Duping spread his hands helplessly, showing a bitter smile and said, “Don’t look at me; I don’t have any good methods myself. Unless I can ignore the highest floor, that Soul Array’s pull and torment on my soul. Only when I’m in front of the Soul Array will I know whether I can destroy it.”
“However, with my understanding of it, me at the Meridians Channeling Realm would have my soul extracted within ten steps by it.”
Han Duping was at a loss, and the others were even more helpless.
He Rong voiced his doubts, “Can that kid, Pang Jian, really manage it?”
He didn’t look kindly on Luo Hongyan but seemed quite friendly towards Zhou Qingchen, who was from the Zhou Family, so he asked, “Qingchen, we haven’t had much contact with him; what’s his background, exactly?”
“If Pang Jian could enter and then come out unscathed and truly witnessed that Soul Array…”
Zhou Qingchen did not answer He Rong’s question, but suddenly he recalled the “Branded Eye”‘s favor towards Pang Jian, and the scene where Pang Jian hunted down He Ziren under the torrent of demon sounds within the pile of stones, and said, “He might really succeed!”
On his way here, he had learned from Su Yuntian and He Rong that He Ziren had also been killed by a Dark Ghost.
Knowing the truth, he did not clarify this to He Rong but pretended to be unaware of anything.
Seeing that the Zhou Family’s prodigy actually had some confidence in Pang Jian, He Rong became even more puzzled, really not knowing what kind of magic power that kid possessed.
The group, with no solutions at hand, could only continue to wait.
In the blink of an eye, another day and night passed.
During this time, Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping successively visited the peak where they could see Shangguan Qin, and she treated them the same way.
——She gestured with her hands signaling the two to leave quickly.
Seeing the pit caused by the Phoenix Bone and Shangguan Qin’s performance, they finally believed Luo Hongyan’s judgment and knew there was something horrific hidden there.
Zhou Qingchen also learned from the talkative Su Meng that Luo Hongyan was now treating Pang Jian with special favor, taking care of his feelings at every turn, suggesting the two might be a couple.
Zhou Qingchen was flabbergasted and said, “Han, what happened at Black Water Pool? When did Miss Ning start fancying Pang Jian?”
Han Duping blankly replied, “I have no idea.”
…
As the night grew deeper,
Pang Jian, who was meditating on the bottom floor of the White Tower, slowly awoke, feeling that the pieces of Spirit Jade beneath him had all lost their lustre and strength, and their Spiritual Power no longer flowed like water.
He felt stiffness in his limbs, realizing he had been seated in meditation for a long time, so he stood up to exercise his limbs.
He silently probed the Spiritual Sea beneath his dantian and discovered that after this arduous cultivation, his Spiritual Sea was filled with ocean-like Spiritual Power, no longer able to absorb even a trace of power through the “Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell.”
He immediately knew that he had reached a bottleneck in the Qi Refining Realm and was qualified to attempt a breakthrough to the Meridians Channeling Realm.
After thinking it over, he didn’t rush straight for the fifth floor of the Heavenly Spirit Tower but instead chose to exit the White Tower first to inform the others.
As he came out, he saw Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping.
“Pang Jian!”
Zhou Qingchen excitedly waved his hand.
Pang Jian’s eyes showed delight, not expecting that Zhou Qingchen, who he had presumed fallen to the Dark Ghosts at Black Water Pool, was still alive.
The normally reserved Pang Jian nodded softly, responding with a wave of his hand, “I’ll try to destroy the Soul Array on the fifth floor first. After the Soul Array is shattered, I can then catch up with Mr. Zhou.”
Zhou Qingchen cautioned, “I can’t make it across, so you must be careful yourself!”
Pang Jian uttered “Hmm” then, with seriousness, said, “Mr. Zhou, I’ve killed all the Dark Ghost attackers for you at Black Water Pool, apart from Hong Tai.”
After dropping these words, he re-entered the White Tower.
Zhou Qingchen, raising his arm to wave, suddenly froze in his gesture, his face a blank shock.
…
