The Path to Immortality

In this dark and quiet tower, several hours passed by in a flash.

Fang Ping, who had initially regained some energy, ended the meditation for the time being.

Opening his eyes, Fang Ping pondered for a moment, reviewing the previous battle with "Guang Jin".

The battle in Soul was nothing to write home about. Although it was more dangerous than the real fight, it was nothing more than another form of fighting.

His mind was more focused on "Guang Jin" before it dissipated, and he deliberately said words that disturbed his mind.

"The third illusion?"

Fang Ping whispered to himself, with a smile on his face.

Indeed, if it were other monks who experienced the first two extremely realistic illusions, even if they could escape like me, they would probably remain suspicious for the rest of their lives and worry all the time that they were still in an illusory world.

Even in the end, he was really driven crazy by endless doubts, thinking that he was still in an illusion, and he had to try to get rid of the world in front of him and return to the "real world" at the cost of his life.

From this point of view, the last few sentences of "Guang Jin" can be said to be extremely vicious.

Far more terrible than any physical injury.

However, Fang Ping was not afraid.

His soul is powerful enough and he is proficient in formations, and he can distinguish the boundary between reality and illusion more clearly.

Ever since he cracked the second level of illusion and appeared in the tower, Fang Ping's heart no longer had the faint warning signs and strangeness that existed all the time before.

Secondly, at this moment, he can clearly receive the information of every formula and every word from the memory fragments left by "Guang Jin".

In the illusion before, although he had the Nascent Soul and the Divine Realm, everything was hazy.

It seems that thoughts have infinite power, and the inner feelings are extremely real, and they are even believed in. However, after breaking away from the illusion, when you think about it again, you will find that you can't think of a single word of the specific content of the practice.

If it is possible that these two things could be forged by clever illusions, then Fang Ping still has something that is unmistakable and absolutely trustworthy.

This reliance is also one of the core helpers that enables him to break through the second level of illusion!

That is - [Yuan Ding]!

The illusion in the tower of Guang Jin Zhenren is not without its subtlety. When Fang Ping summons the Yuan Ding from his dantian, he can forge a treasure that looks exactly the same.

It can even simulate the scene of turning a failed elixir into an elixir based on Fang Ping's imagination.

But this process, as well as the vast laws and aura of the avenue that can reverse time when Yuan Ding launches the retrospection, cannot be simulated by the illusion in any way.

Obviously, a treasure like the Yuanding, even if it is just a breath, cannot be matched by the power of the Yuanying realm!

"Third level illusion? I want to see if you can deceive Yuan Ding!"

Fang Ping once again took out the Yuan Ding from his dantian, casually threw in a few worthless elixirs, refined several breaths, and activated the traceback.

The next moment!

The power of time in the Yuan Cauldron reappeared, and the time in the cauldron seemed to be reversed. The charred powder became clear again, and in the blink of an eye, it was aggregated into individual elixirs.

A broken mirror can be reunited, and even a broken mirror can be healed!

That kind of ultimate shock, no matter how many times Fang Ping saw it, his heart was still throbbing.

There is no doubt that he is in reality at this moment!

"Before he died, he still wanted to confuse my Taoist mind with his last words. It would not be an exaggeration to kill Guang Jin ten times!"

Fang Ping stretched out his hand and took back the Yuan Ding. His heart felt more solid and firm than ever before, and he no longer had any doubts.

After calming down for a moment, he quickly checked the parts related to the tower from the huge collection of memory fragments, and got up to explore around the tower.

The area inside the tower is not as large as imagined.

Fang Ping only spent a few dozen breaths to roughly walk around the tower.

It's a pity that there is nothing here except the bluestone chair where "Guang Jin" sat down before.

Fang Ping couldn't find any stairs or entrances to other floors, as it seemed like this was the only floor in the tower.

"Is it possible that we are really trapped here?"

Fang Ping frowned, but at this moment, his eyes lit up, and he found the follow-up content related to this tower from the remaining memory fragments of "Guang Jin".

After browsing quickly for a moment, Fang Ping had a clear understanding of all the origins, causes and consequences.

"It turns out that this 'Guangjin' is just a spiritual thought from the real person Guangjin back then. He stayed in this tower to provide some necessary guidance and help to the monks who entered this place, which is somewhat similar to that in some novels. The existence of 'Taling'."

In order for it to complete this task more competently, Master Guangjin also made a copy of part of his inheritance and left it in the memory of "Guangjin".

Thanks to Guangjin's arrangements, everything in the tower has been safe and sound over the past thousands of years.

For most of the time, "Guang Jin" was in a state of sleep under the restrictions of the formation. Occasionally, "Guang Jin" will be awakened when monks enter the tower to explore opportunities.

The source of change was hundreds of years ago.

With the last chance of Jiufen elixir being secretly taken away by an unknown casual cultivator, "Guang Jin" who finally completed his mission should have annihilated himself.

This tower will also gradually become desolate over the long years after losing the maintenance of the "Tower Spirit", and will no longer have anything special.

However, perhaps the test set by Master Guangjin was too difficult. It took thousands of years for the "Tower Spirit" to complete its mission, but after a minor accident, it gradually developed self-awareness.

It has inherited some of the knowledge of Master Guangjin, and to some extent, has become a kind of creature similar to ghosts and spirits.

As long as there is a life with self-awareness, it will not be willing to be confined to a tower that will never see the sun, and will not calmly accept its own fate of extinction.

Unable to violate the rules set by Master Guangjin, it began to seize the opportunity to practice, and at the same time, within the scope allowed by the rules, it planned to take over the body and be reborn, and use the intruders to escape from the pagoda.

For this reason, it concealed the fact that the nine opportunities for forming a pill had been taken away, and received the monks who came to the trial as usual, while looking for the most suitable target for taking over the body.

Qin Tongyue, who was before Fang Ping, was once expected to complete the trial, but it was precisely because there was no opportunity in the tower that he was specifically targeted by "Guangjin" and suffered an inexplicable failure and had to return home in defeat.

There is no need to elaborate on Fang Ping's subsequent intrusion.

The various arrangements in the tower that "Guangjin" boasted about before, such as being able to reverse yin and yang and live a new life, were all lies, but they did not deceive Fang Ping at all.

As for how to leave this tower...

Fang Ping also found a way.

Master Guangjin reserved two methods.

The first method should be actively informed by "Guangjin" to the intruders: in any trial, as long as the monk silently recites the name of Master Guangjin and has a strong desire to leave this place, he can leave the pagoda on his own.

The second method, regardless of whether the monk succeeds in the challenge or not, as long as he stays in the tower for more than a period of time, he will be kicked out.

This is a special insurance added by Master Guangjin to prevent some monks from using some strange delaying methods in the trial, so that the trial cannot be completed for a long time, and also to prevent "Guangjin" from having "failures".