The Entire Sect is Full of Villains, Yet the Junior Sister Conquers All

The round tower didn’t look large from the outside, but upon entering, it was a different world entirely.

This tower had seven floors, with increasing levels of danger. The first floor only had some low-level first-grade spirit beasts, which were easy to kill without much effort.

The second floor already had Foundation Establishment stage spirit beasts. Although it took some time to kill them, it wasn’t too difficult, and they could still manage to handle them fairly well.

Upon entering the third floor of the tower, the pressure increased several fold.

Most of the stationed spirit beasts were third-grade, with strength equivalent to late Foundation Establishment or early Golden Core stage human cultivators, not much different from their own levels.

It took them a full three days to clear the spirit beasts on the third floor. When they reached the fourth floor, everyone was exhausted and nearly spent.

The spirit beasts on the fourth floor had strength equivalent to mid to late Golden Core stage, or half-step Nascent Soul.

It wasn’t just difficult; it was troublesome.

Several lower-level cultivators were even unfortunate enough to be injured.

Chu Sang and her two companions had tricky positioning, so they didn’t suffer much injury and even managed to kill a few late Golden Core stage spirit beasts.

But continuing to kill like this wasn’t a solution. Not only would it needlessly waste energy and leave them vulnerable to sneak attacks, but as they continued upwards, the spirit beast levels would be even higher, possibly even including Nascent Soul or Deity Transformation stage beasts.

While disciples from other sects were racking their brains and struggling to fight monsters, Chu Sang directly changed strategies. Instead of killing, she focused on escaping, throwing out all sorts of chaotic Explosive Talismans, Maze Talismans, Itching Talismans, and Laughing Talismans without restraint, successfully reaching the stairs to the fifth floor.

Once they entered the stairway, these spirit beasts would no longer attack them, turning back to attack other cultivators.

“So heavy!” Tantai Ming hadn’t even caught his breath when an extremely heavy pressure suddenly pressed down on him. He quickly thrust his heavy sword into a stone block to barely stabilize his swaying form.

In fact, from the moment they entered the tower, the pressure had always been present. However, the pressure increased layer by layer. At first, they could still resist, but when they reached the stairs to the fifth floor, the pressure increased nearly tenfold, almost making it impossible to breathe.

It felt as if thousands of pounds were pressing down on their spines. With each step they took, their legs felt as if filled with molten lead, making movement extremely slow and difficult.

Chu Sang immediately drew three Resistance Talismans, barely managing to resist some of the pressure. She successfully reached the fifth floor to find it empty, with nothing there and no spirit beasts guarding it.

Opposite was the stairway to the sixth floor.

Just as Chu Sang was about to step onto the stairs, a soft sword attack came. She reflexively threw out a Golden Armor Talisman to nullify the attack. Turning her head, she saw that Qin Xixue and Mo Qingchen had also come up.

With no spirit beasts guarding above, it meant that whoever could rush to the seventh floor ahead of others would be able to get the lotus seed.

The person who designed this tower could be said to have malicious intent.

If the first four floors tested the disciples of the major sects on working together and facing external threats united, then from the fourth floor onwards, it was about making them kill each other.

“I’ll hold these two back. You hurry and go!” Tantai Ming drew his sword and stood in front of Chu Sang.

The opponents were stronger than them. There was no chance of winning in a fight, so they could only divide into two groups—one to delay, and the other to continue upwards in search of the lotus seed.

“You alone?”

Mo Qingchen flashed to his side, infusing a sword with surging spiritual power to meet the thousand-pound heavy sword.

“Boom—”

The moment the two swords collided, spiritual energy rippled and swept through the entire tower. They could even feel the round tower shake slightly. Fierce sword light scattered in all directions, forcing even Qin Xixue to retreat, unable to approach at all.

Mo Qingchen had broken through again a few days ago and was now at mid Golden Core stage. With his supreme-grade mutated Ice Spirit Root, and being a rare sword cultivator talent seen only once in a hundred years, his strength was approaching late Golden Core stage.

Tantai Ming was only at early Golden Core stage, yet he could barely withstand his full-force attack.

Mo Qingchen narrowed his eyes.

He had underestimated this opponent.

“Whether I’m worthy or not, we’ll know after trying!” Tantai Ming gathered all his spiritual power in both hands and deflected him with one sword strike.

Before he could catch his breath, Mo Qingchen laughed coldly and brought down another sword imbued with endless ice-cold power, slashing directly at his face.

Tantai Ming, stuck at the peak of early Golden Core stage, exchanged hundreds of moves back and forth with Mo Qingchen. Suddenly, he heard a crisp “crack” from within his body. The surrounding aura changed—mid Golden Core stage!

The sword energy in his hand suddenly strengthened several fold, vaguely transforming into [Intent]!

“Sword Intent?” Mo Qingchen’s heart sank.

Interesting. Being able to comprehend Sword Intent, which was stronger than Sword Qi, at Golden Core stage was not inferior to him.

Both were pure sword cultivators. Sword cultivators had a characteristic—they were single-minded sword fanatics who got more excited the more they fought.

Mo Qingchen now had his heart set on competing with Tantai Ming, or to put it more bluntly, defeating him under his sword.

He had completely forgotten about the main task, fighting with great enthusiasm.

Qin Xixue couldn’t even interject. Seeing that Chu Sang and Chengying had disappeared, she grew anxious and simply followed them up.

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As soon as they stepped onto the stairs, the already thousand-pound pressure increased dozens of times. Even Chengying, with his strong ability to endure, couldn’t help but let out a muffled groan.

One hand tightly gripped the stone wall, leaving a deep handprint. With each step, two imprints—one deep, one shallow—appeared on the steps.

The hair on his forehead was soaked with cold sweat, his face pale to the extreme.

“Can you still hold on?” Chu Sang stopped and turned to look at him.

The magnitude of the pressure was directly proportional to their cultivation level.

Chu Sang was still at late Foundation Establishment stage and hadn’t entered Golden Core. Comparatively, the pressure in the tower was much weaker for her. She could barely resist it, while Chengying was almost at his physical limit.

In the original story, he had obtained the lotus seed and gone through the same experience.

At that time, he had nearly ruined half his body, lost all his cultivation, and was little different from a cripple. When Chu Sang read the original story, she couldn’t help but criticize him for being too stubborn and foolish.

“……Immortal Lady, don’t worry. I can manage.” He stubbornly shook his head, swallowing a mouthful of blood. Lifting his head to stare deeply ahead, he murmured, “Just a little more.”

He dragged his battered body another step forward. His numb body seemed unable to feel pain, or perhaps he had long since grown accustomed to the existence of pain.

Chu Sang tossed him a bottle of Healing Spirit Pills and continued upwards.

Successfully reaching the sixth floor, without even a moment’s rest, she directly went to the seventh floor.

Chengying had reached his limit. He spat out a large mouthful of blood, completely soaking the dark cloth covering his face, making it even darker.

He took a heavy breath and removed his face covering, revealing his face.

Chu Sang had thought Chengying would be a handsome man with sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes, given that his eyes were indeed very beautiful. It was understandable why Fourth Senior Sister liked him. However, the reality was that the lower half of his face was covered in scars of various sizes, as if he had been tortured. The scars on his cold, white skin looked like centipedes crawling all over, inspiring fear in people.

“This matter… please don’t tell the Young Miss… She would be frightened……” Chengying’s face, which was usually expressionless, showed a rare hint of panic.

Chu Sang came to her senses and said, “Fourth Senior Sister won’t dismiss you because of this.”

“It’s different.” He shook his head lightly, hesitating to speak. “I… don’t want the Young Miss to see me like this……”

He was of slave origin. Before Sikong Qiu bought him from a slave trader when he was young, he had suffered unimaginable cruel tortures…… The scars on his face, and under the layers of dark cloth covering his body—back, chest, abdomen—were countless.

It could be said that the large and small scars on his body were innumerable. He tried his best to conceal the wounds, not letting others know, but it was difficult to hide the—

Ugliness of his body.

He didn’t want others to know about this ugliness.

Even more so, he didn’t want the Young Miss to know.

“Don’t worry, I won’t tell Fourth Senior Sister.”

Chengying was grateful. “Thank you, Immortal Lady.”

The two continued to hurry upwards.

Halfway up, Qin Xixue caught up by herself.

Strangely, the pressure in the tower seemed to have no effect on Qin Xixue. She moved unimpeded all the way, arriving late but quickly catching up to the two.

Chengying had long since reached his physical limit. Continuing to climb would only cause irreversible damage to his body.

He simply turned back, drawing his sword to block the oncoming Qin Xixue, preventing her from advancing further.

Chu Sang didn’t waste time either, hurrying upwards. Qin Xixue saw her figure disappear behind the door and grew anxious. She glared hatefully at the lowly guard blocking her way, her hand behind her back suddenly producing a spirit tool.

Then her figure abruptly vanished, even her aura disappearing without a trace.

Chengying suddenly turned to look behind him. Her figure appeared on the stairs ahead. His heart tightened, and he quickly pursued, trying to stop her.

A vajra appeared in Qin Xixue’s hand, delivering a full-force strike comparable to a Nascent Soul stage cultivator. It pierced through one of Chengying’s shoulders, pinning him to the wall, unable to move an inch.

Chengying’s heart surged with shock. He gritted his teeth, looking at Qin Xixue who had reached the middle of the stairs. His heart filled with even more astonishment—this person was completely unaffected by the pressure in the tower, which was truly… too strange!

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Entering the seventh floor, the scene changed again. Before their eyes was a vast expanse of water, boundless and limitless, with nothing but water as far as the eye could see.

The further they went, the deeper the pool became.

The water gradually rose from ankle to calf, to thigh, then to waist level. Besides a bone-piercing pain, there was also a large amount of vigorous spiritual energy frantically pouring into their meridians from the pool. She vaguely felt the bottleneck to her Golden Core breakthrough loosening slightly.

Suddenly, footsteps came from behind. Not only had Qin Xixue arrived, but another unexpected person appeared.

Zhao Yun.

“How did you get in? We didn’t see you earlier.” Qin Xixue hadn’t expected another troublesome person to show up.

Zhao Yun looked disdainful. “I’m not like you fools climbing seven floors of stairs. Bet you didn’t know, an ancestor of my Zhao family once accidentally discovered a passage that leads directly to the seventh floor of the tower. He almost picked the Chaos Blue Lotus, but unfortunately, something went wrong midway.”

Perhaps to demonstrate his superiority, he didn’t avoid revealing inside information at all. “After that ancestor came out, he drew a map of the secret realm and told us the location of the secret passage.”

Our Zhao family is determined to obtain this Chaos Blue Lotus!

If it weren’t for some bastard carving words at the entrance fork to confuse people, and his naturally suspicious nature making him think the other party had deliberately set a trap, he naturally wouldn’t have walked the middle path.

He sent two people down the other two paths, and they never returned.

He went back and forth, probing and hesitating countless times before discovering that the exit— was really the middle path!

This back-and-forth wasted a lot of time. Otherwise, he would have taken the shortcut and retrieved the lotus seed, not letting others seize the opportunity!

It could be said that even Qin Xixue wasn’t as good at cheating as this person.

Chu Sang wasn’t too surprised. According to the plot, Qin Xixue didn’t know how to summon the Chaos Blue Lotus either. At this point, a cannon fodder character naturally had to appear to push the plot forward. This Zhao Yun was obviously a plot-arranged treasure-delivering tool person.

Without another word, Zhao Yun took out a gourd-shaped spirit tool. The originally calm pool water suddenly churned violently, most of it being extracted by a powerful force, nearly drying up.

In the deepest part at the center of the lotus pool, a stone platform nearly a hundred zhang high was revealed!

On the stone platform was a withered lotus, with a faintly glowing blue-green lotus seed placed in its center.

Seeing that the two were about to fight, Chu Sang reflexively locked herself up with a Binding Talisman. She showed a terrified expression, desperately patting the transparent barrier. “The Chaos Blue Lotus is mine. None of you can take it away!”

“You’re trapped by a formation and still shouting? This Chaos Blue Lotus is destined to be mine!” Chu Sang had taken off her mask, so Zhao Yun naturally didn’t recognize her. Thinking she was a female cultivator from some small sect, he laughed coldly.

Qin Xixue was somewhat confused. She hadn’t expected there to be a formation hidden under the lotus pool. That elder hadn’t told her about this beforehand…… But thinking that the elder wasn’t omniscient after all, she didn’t dwell on it and flew towards the stone platform on her sword.

As soon as the Chaos Blue Lotus appeared, the two went completely mad, rushing towards the stone platform.

Chu Sang sat cross-legged on the ground, taking out a spirit fruit to munch on while leisurely watching the show.

Seeing that Zhao Yun was about to overtake Qin Xixue, she casually threw out a hidden weapon, hitting Zhao Yun’s thigh. He almost fell.

“You bitch, how dare you sneak attack me!” Zhao Yun was furious.

Qin Xixue widened her eyes, looking pitiful. “It wasn’t me!”

Zhao Yun wasn’t fooled. He only felt that the woman before him was truly despicable. Gritting his teeth, he pointed at Chu Sang, who was trapped in the formation not far away, and said hatefully, “If it wasn’t you, was it her?? She’s trapped in a formation and can barely save herself. How could she have the leisure to attack me?!”

Chu Sang pointed at Qin Xixue. “It was her. I just saw it with my own eyes.”

Qin Xixue was angry. “You’re talking nonsense!”

“I’m just a fragile little girl trapped in a formation. How could I possibly lie?” Chu Sang raised her hand, her tone innocent.

Zhao Yun was more inclined to believe his own judgment. He glared at Qin Xixue, “You woman, not only did you try to harm me, but you even dare to lie to me!”

He was very clever, and he absolutely wouldn’t be fooled by such a cunning creature as a woman again!

“Get lost!”

Zhao Yun wanted to kick Qin Xixue down.

Qin Xixue directly threw out her whip, wrapping it around his leg, about to pull him down.

For the next half hour, just as Qin Xixue came up, Zhao Yun pulled her down. Just as Zhao Yun came up, Qin Xixue pulled him down.

The two went back and forth, repeatedly jumping up and down. After half a day, not only had neither of them obtained the lotus seed, but they were getting lower and lower.

Chu Sang enjoyed watching dogs bite dogs.

After finishing the last bite of fruit flesh, Chu Sang stood up, dusting off her hands. The time was about right,

“Binding Formation, activate!”