Chapter 60: Dragon Scales

  Tower!

  A dazzling 'tower' character appeared at the very bottom of the black tower pillar. This 'tower' character made Jiang Cheng laugh and cry at the same time.

  Jiang Ben thought he might be able to find out the origin of this black tower pillar, but unexpectedly, what appeared was a 'tower' character.

  However, apart from the addition of this shiny 'tower' character, some changes have also taken place with the Black Tower column.

  Previously, the overall was vague and could only faintly see the outline of a pagoda, but now, a nine-story pagoda with distinct layers appeared before Jiang Cheng's eyes.

  Moreover, the shining 'tower' character appeared on the fourth layer of this Black Spirit Tower, and the five layers above were empty. Jiang Cheng inferred that there should be two to four more characters above.

  If those two words could be revealed, the full name of this Black Spirit Tower should be known. At that time, perhaps the origin of this Black Spirit Tower would also be known. For now, it will just be called the Black Spirit Tower.

  For this situation, Jiang Cheng also made some guesses. Perhaps the Black Spirit Tower was heavily damaged and needed power to slowly repair itself, or perhaps the Black Spirit Tower had a seal that needed to be unlocked layer by layer.

  "The Black Spirit Tower has undergone a transformation, what about the ancestral totem pole of the Kumu tribe? Could it be that it was swallowed up by the Black Spirit Tower, resulting in its current change?"

  At this thought, Jiang Cheng's heart suddenly tightened. If it were really so, how could he face Grandmaster's trust and cultivation?

  His gaze was fixed tightly on the Black Spirit Tower, Jiang Cheng tried to find any trace of the Totem Pole of the Ge Shan Clan's Ancestor from the Black Spirit Tower.

  Just as Jiang Cheng's gaze was fixed on the Black Spirit Tower, he suddenly felt that the tower's body had a sudden illusion, causing his gaze to sink in at the same time. A vast and empty hall appeared before Jiang Cheng's eyes.

  The main hall is predominantly black, with four-sided pillars that feature carvings of majestic beasts. The entire hall exudes an atmosphere of ancient savagery, yet the interior is surprisingly empty and spacious.

  There is only one pillar standing quietly on one side of the grand hall.

  "Is that the Totem Pole of the Kushtaka Clan?" As soon as he saw the pillar, a familiar feeling flashed through him, and Jiang Cheng exclaimed in surprise.

  Jiang Cheng did not expect that the Totem Pole of the Ancestral Spirits of the Gusu Lan Sect was still there and remained intact.

  Under surprise, Jiang Cheng's divine sense carefully observed, Jiang Cheng wanted to understand what was going on in front of him.

  Half a time later, Jiang Cheng's divine sense slowly withdrew from the empty and spacious great hall, and he also gained some understanding of the Black Spirit Tower after this change.

  The Black Spirit Tower seems to have only provided a dwelling for the Totem Pole of the Kusakabe Clan's Ancestors, and according to the inherited secret method, Jiang Cheng is not affected at all by the Totem Pole inside the Black Spirit Tower.

  What delighted Jiang Cheng even more was that after this transformation, as long as he willed it with his divine intent, the Black Spirit Tower would stir and move, and could even fly out of his body like just now.

  Recalling the scene where the Black Spirit Tower absorbed the Ice Dragon's demonic pill, Jiang Cheng felt a sense of relief. At least from now on, he wouldn't have to slash himself with a knife every time he let the Black Spirit Tower refine spiritual medicine.

  "What a pity! If only I could have broken through to the Soul Devouring Realm earlier, perhaps Grandfather wouldn't have had to take that step, and Songyue wouldn't have become the Holy Maiden of that tribe in order to protect our people!"

  In a low voice, Jiang Cheng's fists clenched tightly together. "However, Grandfather was right, the blood feud of the Ge Mountain Sect needs to be settled by the hands of the Ge Mountain Sect's own people, and doesn't need to be done through others."

  "My cultivation has now broken through to the Devouring Spirit Realm, this blood feud should also be settled a bit!"

  At the thought of his tribesmen's tragic deaths, A Li's battle spirit ignited, bursting with spiritual energy. Forcing himself to become the Holy Maiden of the Su Zu Tribe, Song Yue, he couldn't wait any longer to avenge his people who had been forced to flee their homes.

  However, before leaving, Jiang Cheng still had to deal with the remaining half of the corpse of the Frost Ice Qilin. The body of an ordinary demon beast was a treasure, let alone one as high-ranking as the Frost Ice Qilin.

  Unfortunately, the dragon head of the ice dragon with the most treasures was blown to smithereens by the black tower pillar, and half of its body connected to the dragon head also disappeared.

  Jiang Cheng unsheathed the Red String Blade from his back, preparing to peel off the dragon scales of the Frost Ice Qilin. However, as he hacked at it with all his might, sparks flew out where the blade met the dragon's scales, and only then did Jiang Cheng realize that the corpse of the Frost Ice Qilin was as hard as a thousand-year-old ice.

  It was at this moment that Jiang Cheng suddenly discovered a very strange thing.

  He was in the deep water of Hunjiang River, and he didn't feel anything at all. Not to mention the pressure, even the feeling of suffocation when diving into the water was completely absent.

  It's just the dragon scales that were cut off from the cold ice dragon, and it's also able to move freely, and can breathe freely without any suffocation or obstruction. That feeling is like a fish in water.

  "What's going on?" Jiang Cheng was stunned for a moment.

  Jiang Cheng used to be able to hold his breath underwater too, but after a few hundred gasps, he'd be on the verge of turning into a bird and flying up to the sky. How could it be as effortless as it is now?

  Jiang Cheng estimated that from the moment Ling's spiritual cocoon shattered, he had been in the river for at least an hour or even longer.

  He was taken aback for a moment, and then Jiang Cheng suddenly remembered a sentence mentioned in the "War Soul Secret Solution" he had bought at Giant Elephant Collection - after a soul warrior swallows a war spirit, there is a certain possibility of acquiring the innate ability to swallow the war spirit, such as fish swimming in water, birds flying in the sky, and beasts burrowing into mountains.

  This sentence should be able to explain why Jiang can now move freely in water.

  The Frost Wyrm is an aquatic beast, and Jiang Cheng nearly perfectly absorbed the Frost Wyrm's war spirit, naturally giving him some of the Frost Wyrm's innate abilities.

  For example, now it's like fish swimming in water.

  However, Jiang Cheng discovered that this skill was not his innate ability, but rather it consumed a certain amount of spiritual energy within him to maintain. The spiritual energy in his dantian spirit sea had been continuously decreasing.

  "It's true, this skill of mine that allows me to be like a fish in water should have been brought by the Ice Dragon War Spirit. As he muttered to himself, another thought rose up in Jiang Cheng's mind."

  I don't know if swallowing the Frost Dragon War Spirit brought him some other Frost Dragon skills or not?

  With this in mind, the frozen corpse of the half-ice dragon and its unremovable ice scales also had a way to be dealt with.

  With a surge of divine thought, the War Soul Pearl was activated, and the icy spiritual energy in the Dan Tian Ling Hai burst out, covering the frozen corpse of the Ice Dragon. At that moment, Jiang Cheng lightly pulled, and a piece of ice-blue dragon scale was torn off.

  In a short while, Jiang Cheng had collected nearly a hundred pieces of icy blue dragon scales. This was also the reason why the physical body of the Black Ice Glazed Dragon was destroyed by the Black Spirit Tower, otherwise, he would have been able to get at least several hundred dragon scales.

  He extracted the only remaining half of the dragon tendon, Jiang Cheng took off one of his own clothes and wrapped the hundreds of pieces of ice dragon scales in it. His body twisted like a fish and he swam towards the surface of the Hun River.

  As for that extremely precious Frost Dragon meat, Jiang Cheng couldn't bring it away, just this over a hundred pieces of Frost Dragon scales alone had a huge package and was extremely heavy.

  After surfacing and identifying the direction, Jiang Cheng found that after falling into the Hun River, he was not too far away from his tribe, but he didn't know exactly how much time had passed.

  A blood debt requires a blood repayment, but in any case, Jiang Cheng needs to return to his clan first.

  Because of the death of his tribesmen in the Battle of Mount Geshan, their bodies absolutely cannot be left exposed in the wilderness.

  Just as Grandpa said, their spirits also need protection.

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