The Tower Exploded

Long Xiuying passed through the fog. What he saw in front of him was a demon looking man. There were also a man and a woman chained to the wall.

Long Xiuying did not know what to make of the situation. He was hesitant to say anything in front of the demon him because it seemed that he was someone beyond the foundation stage and had already entered the core stage. Although Long Xiuying had recently received a trump card, he only had one chance to use it. It was impossible to last less than a second once that it was used against him.

Even more, Long Xiuling did not expect to meet someone at such level. He had sensed three foundations before and thought they at least one of them was behind the formation, but he never expected someone in the core stage to be here as well. He was once in the core stage before the ritual and know how terrifying those who were in the core stage.

The two stood eyeing each other without breaking eye contact.

"Who are you!?" The demon was afraid to make any move. If he attacked without knowing his opponent strength, he might offend someone he should not have.

Long Xiuying was thinking of how to reply to him. If he showed any sign of weakness, he will be killed in an instant.

"This spell formation, it reminded me of someone. Was this created by him?"

'What the heck am I saying?' Long Xiuying was sweating as he bullshits his way through.

"You-you know my father?" The demon did not notice it before but that masked man had no shadow. The masked man knew the formation weakness but even knowing was not enough. He also has the skills to remove his own shadow. Not even the demon had the skills to do that.

'The heck, your father? I don't even know you… But he seemed to have a strong reaction to it. I should just go along with it.' Long Xiuying did not have to time to think, so, he spewed anything that can believable based on his intuition.

"I knew him until he met a tragic ending." Long Xiuying said it as if he knew. Although in reality, cultivators always have a tragic backstory. Parents are the most common one to end in tragedy, and given his old appearance, it was most likely something happened to them.

To make it more believable he took out an item. "He gave me this before we parted way." He presented an item to him that gave off a calming energy.

"That's!" The demon looked at the object in his hand. It gave such a pure spiritual energy that when his own dark spiritual energy touched it, it was instantly purified into a light blue light. "That's a spiritual crystal and to have one so pure… Why would my father give it to you?" He did not know how his father got his hands on such a crystal or why would he gave something so precious away to the person in front of him.

Long Xiuying eyes flickered when he saw the demon energy was being purified.

Long Xiuying took out the most precious thing that he had obtained after the shadow defeated the Queen Ant.

The Singularity System awarded him for defeating two Elite bosses in a single dimension.

Out of all the items, he believed this one would fool him. One because it was the most valuable, and two, it was easier to judge the value of raw materials compared to something like an artifact.

Long Xiuying had to stay calm and lied his way out of this.

"He predicted that he will soon perish and he gave me this to someday pass it on to his own kin in hope that he could save him." He lifted his hand into the direction of the demon for a better view.

"I- I am sorry, father, I, Feng Min, am truly sorry." Feng Min stared at his own feet as if he was ashamed of his life choices.

He admired his father and his father probably noticed that his own son was becoming tainted by his surrounding. After all this time, why did the masked man show up now? If he showed up sooner perhaps there was a chance that he would have given up on his vengeance. In the end, It was all too late now.

He looked up with madness. "I slaughtered my own siblings, my own bloodline, and wiped at the clan from the continent! I will repay for the sin I have done in the afterlife, but until then I can not stop." Feng Min could not stand seeing the crystal anymore. It reminded him of how kind his father was, and how ugly he himself was. He circulated his cultivation base untiled it reached it reached it peaked power. It was clearer to see how strong he was. The pressure coming out of him was in the final core stage. The pieces of rocks and woods that were scattered on the floor were crushed into smaller pieces, and then again into fine dust.

The pure spiritual crystal fought back against the pressure making Long Xiuying seemed like an unmoving boulder in a hurricane.

Feng Min three shadow entered his body causing his skin to turn black. Next, in front of his palm, a small black ball formed sucking in all the spiritual energy around him. Even man chained to the wall was not spared and fainted from it.

The grew and grew until it grew to the size of Feng Min.

Long Xiuying knew that he had failed, but it was not a total failure. He can tell that Feng Min was so desperate and afraid of him that he used his ultimate technique to end the fight in one attack.

Long Xiuying could not wish for a better outcome.

With his other hand, he reached inside the link storage to grab the weapon he got after the Prime Sovereign's Shadow killed the queen ant.

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Black Bullet Double-Edge Lance

GRADE:

Rarity: Rare

Cultivation Base: Mid Qi Condensation.

Physical Base: Silver

DESCRIPTION:

-A lance that was formed after the death of the Black Bullet Queen's Ant. The blades are made from the tough mandibles of the Black Bullet Queen's Ant and sharpen that it can cut anything that stands in its way.

MAGICAL PROPERTIES:

-Once per day sends any spiritual attack back two-fold.

-Those who are struck will be tracked for twenty-four hours in a range of 5000 meters.

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Long Xiuying tightly grasped the lance and braced himself for impact.

Feng Min unleashed it towards Long Xiuying. It came hurling at him with great force that the room was on the verge of collapsing.

Long Xiuying strike the dark spiritual ball and as soon as the lance touched it, chains of black and white lightning sparked throughout from the lance. The lance was taking its energy causing the ball to grow smaller. Then, in a flash, it bounced back to the original size and then doubled it.

Long Xiuying used all his might to send it back the ball that his arm was on the brink of exploding. Long Xiuying reflected it back with greater speed.

"AHHHHH!" Feng Min screamed as he was not able to dodge, and was hit by his own attack. The dark ball pierced through him and then, the wall causing the fog and many streams of black ribbon to seep out.

Feng Min was still alive with only less than half of his body. His eyes were wide open as he stared at the masked man below him. That power reached beyond what a core stage cultivators could do.

Now that his plan had failed, he was about to resort his final option. He was going to cause the spell formation to explode. He lips moved swiftly as he whispered his incantation.

Long Xiuying saw that Feng Min was still alive, but he did not dare to approach him, so he changed his lance to the whip. Since the whip has a homing function, he would not miss. The whip was lashing towards him, but it was too late. Feng Min had already dissipated and the tower suddenly shook. The spiritual energy suddenly became unstable.

"Dammit… I failed?" Long Xiuying was agonizing that he will die here. He could not think of any way to escape. The dark spiritual energy fluctuated chaotically until it could not handle it anymore.

The tower exploded causing an explosion that wiped out the town throughout history.