Cultivation Starting from Full Talent-Chapter 258 - 256 Joining the Slaying Immortal Tower

Chapter 258: Chapter 256: Joining the Slaying Immortal Tower

Chapter 258: Chapter 256: Joining the Slaying Immortal Tower

Ning Daoran’s eyes were as bright as snow.

He had only come across the name “Flowing Fire Demon God Array” in an ancient tome titled “Array Path Analysis and Advancement Theories,” and even there, it was barely mentioned, with no detailed explanation of the array.

The Flowing Fire Demon God Array was an extremely potent killing array powered by demonic power; its might was immense, so immense that its true extent remained unknown until put into practice.

“Lu, are you really willing to give such a precious inheritance to me?”

“To repay a life-saving debt, there is nothing I wouldn’t do!”

Lu Wanting’s words were resolute and clear, “If this array inheritance proves useful to senior, I would be greatly comforted!”

In truth, Lu Wanting wasn’t all that concerned…

The Flowing Fire Demon God Array inheritance belonged to the Lu family’s ancestor, who, despite years of study, was unable to fully comprehend the array. The jade scroll simply contained a duplicated backup; gifting it was not an issue.

An inheritance that even her own family couldn’t decipher was of little use kept hidden like a cherished bad broom. It was better to give it away in the hopes of forging a good connection, which might bear fruit in the future.

“That would be excellent!”

Ning Daoran gracefully bowed with a fist, “I thank you, young friend, and now that you’re unharmed, you should leave quickly. This place isn’t safe to linger in.”

“Yes!”

Lu Wanting turned into a tunneling light and departed.

Ning Daoran also cast a spell and tunneled through the earth to leave.

…

Shortly after, several figures flew out from within the city’s array formation.

Among them were Long Zhuojun, Chen Wen, and others. However, when they all arrived, they found nothing but the mess left behind by the fight technique.

“Hmm?”

Long Zhuojun sniffed the demon blood on the ground, his brows furrowing as he said, “Blood of a Third-tier Late-stage Demon Beast… There are some residual souls here. If nothing unexpected has happened, this Third-tier Late-stage Demon Beast has been slain. Which expert could have killed a Third-tier Late-stage Demon Beast so swiftly outside the walls of Immortal White Dragon City?”

Everyone was perplexed, having no clue what had transpired.

“Senior!”

Right away, Long Zhuojun faced the wilderness and bowed, “I am Long Zhuojun, the City Lord of Immortal White Dragon City. If senior is still around, please do not hesitate to show yourself!”

The bamboo forest swayed, but no response came.

Long Zhuojun frowned, a hint of sternness flashing in his eyes.

This Immortal White Dragon City was becoming less and less tranquil.

“Back to the city.”

He turned, “In the coming days, conduct strict checks on all who enter and leave the Immortal City, as the White Dragon has not been particularly peaceful lately.”

“Yes, City Lord!”

…

Deep underground.

Ning Daoran, now in the guise of Independent Practitioner Jianjia, was not in a hurry to return to Immortal White Dragon City. Since the Class A Paperfolk Zhang Jia had responded and returned to the Cave Mansion, there was no rush to go back.

Inside the Soul Refining Tower, the Demon Soul of the Shadow Wolf King was being tormented.

After Ning Daoran infused mana, the Soul Refining Tower churned powerfully, continuously refining the Shadow Wolf King at the base of the tower. At the top of the tower, the White Sheep Demon Queen was delighting in the Wolf King’s misery, her face adorned with a sweet smile.

“Fellow Daoist, why must you continue to torment me?”

The Wolf King’s Demon Soul was on its last breath, lying at the bottom of the tower, greatly weakened from the relentless torture, its strength now even less than half that of the White Sheep Demon Queen’s Demon Soul.

“I ask, you answer. Do not hide anything, or it will be the end of you.”

The Wolf King’s soul was powerful, and due to its cross-species nature, Ning Daoran did not perform a Soul Search directly; doing so would have been excruciatingly painful as all manner of strange knowledge flooded his mind, which would have been harmful and useless for a Great Cultivator’s cultivation.

“Please ask, Fellow Daoist. I shall spare no detail in my response.”

“This time, your arrival at Immortal White Dragon City wasn’t by chance, was it?” Ning Daoran asked with a smile.

“That is correct.”

The Shadow Wolf King admitted openly, “I came to Immortal White Dragon City at the invitation of Long Zhuojun, who wished to use my hand to eliminate Array Master Ning. This was a cooperation between me and Long Zhuojun. Should the mission be successful, Long Zhuojun promised to pay a hundred True Blood Pills as a reward.”

“As I suspected.”

Ning Daoran furrowed his brows, “Long Zhuojun must have wanted to eliminate me for a long time.”

By now, the Shadow Wolf King had realized that Independent Practitioner Jianjia was Ning Daoran, and found nothing unusual about it, replying, “Although Long Zhuojun comes from a Martial Artist background, he is meticulous in thought. Without his years of management, Immortal White Dragon City wouldn’t have achieved its current prosperity.”

“There must be more you know about Long Zhuojun. Go ahead, tell me everything.”

“Yes!”

The Shadow Wolf King began to recount in detail.

Ning Daoran was thoroughly engrossed.

Through the narration of the Shadow Wolf King, Ning Daoran finally learned that the monster wave that had hit Immortal White Dragon City decades prior was also related to Long Zhuojun.

Back then, countless Cultivators flocked from the Eastern Wasteland Cultivation World to make a fortune in Immortal White Dragon City, all for the Golden Dragon Spirit Carp in the Tianluo Sea. As the city bustled with people, shop prices skyrocketed. With the money earned from selling these shops, Long Zhuojun made a considerable fortune.

However, just as the shops and Cave Mansions in the city had almost been completely sold or leased out, and the Immortal White Dragon City’s income began to plummet, Long Zhuojun played a deceiving trick.

A monster wave suddenly hit Immortal White Dragon City; with the City Protection Array Formation broken, Demon Beasts entered the city and started killing. Although the City Guards fought to their deaths without retreat, panic already gripped those inside the city.

At that time, Cultivators inside Immortal White Dragon City fled en masse, and the Sects and clan forces that had rented shops frantically sold off their properties. Then, Long Zhuojun secretly ordered people to buy up shops at low prices, seizing control over the city’s major industries.

In the end, the monster wave was repelled, and Immortal White Dragon City’s vitality was restored. Long Zhuojun resumed selling shops at high prices, making another hefty profit.

In essence, Long Zhuojun had been colluding with the Demon Clan for quite some time; while they were using him, he was also using the Demon Clan’s movements to his advantage, time and time again pocketing large amounts of Spirit Stones. He could be considered a genius in business manipulation.

Unfortunately, for the Human Clan, such a person is considered a traitor.

…

“Damn you, Long Zhuojun…”

Ning Daoran frowned, never expecting that such a secret history lay behind the past years of the Immortal White Dragon City.

“Fellow Daoist.”

The Shadow Wolf King pleaded, “I have told you everything I know. I only ask that you put an end to my suffering and not torture my Divine Soul with this pagoda any longer.”

“Fine, I will grant your wish.”

Ning Daoran immediately infused a powerful flow of mana, the Soul Refining Tower spun rapidly, and within a few moments completely obliterated the Shadow Wolf King’s Divine Soul.

…

To the side, the evil half of the Demon Soul of the White Sheep Demon Queen watched, dumbfounded, somehow feeling the sadness of one animal when another meets its end.

“Sir… you are truly formidable…”

She even began to adopt the tone of Little Bai, giving off a sense of tender innocence.

Ning Daoran gave her a glance before putting away the Soul Refining Tower.

He mentally sorted through the current situation he found himself in at the Immortal White Dragon City.

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Although he had dealt with the Shadow Wolf King, the real trouble was yet to be resolved; Long Zhuojun’s failure to “bury” him this time meant he would not rest until he succeeded.

And since Long Zhuojun was entangled with the Demon Clan, he was a so-called “traitor” to his people.

The Shadow Wolf King’s head carried a bounty in the Slaying Immortal Tower.

At that moment, Ning Daoran made a decision. As a Loose Cultivator, he couldn’t single-handedly oppose a behemoth like the Immortal White Dragon City; it was best to find a backer.

And that backer was undoubtedly the Slaying Immortal Tower!

…

Deep into the night.

Ning Daoran flew on a golden tunneling light and arrived outside the prohibitions of the Slaying Immortal Tower, holding the Jade Talisman Shen Luoyan had given him and injecting it with mana.

Soon after, the prohibitions opened, and a grey-robed old man with his hands clasped behind his back, greeted Ning Daoran with a smiling face.

Long Xingtian, the Vice Tower Master of the Slaying Immortal Tower, Nascent Soul Mid-stage.

“Should I address you as Independent Practitioner Jianjia, or as Young Friend Ning?” Long Xingtian communicated telepathically.

Ning Daoran replied with a calm smile, “I wish to join the Slaying Immortal Tower as Independent Practitioner Jianjia.”

“Good!”

Long Xingtian laughed, “I will inform the Tower Master immediately.”

A few breaths later, a figure arrived with the wind – it was Shen Luoyan.

She smiled gently, “I knew you would come. Let’s go, I’ll personally take you to receive your Identity Jade Token of the Slaying Immortal Tower.”

“Thank you, Tower Master!”

In the deep silence of the night, the first floor of the Slaying Immortal Tower was lively with two old men copying documents, who didn’t even lift their heads when Shen Luoyan, Long Xingtian, and Ning Daoran walked in.

These seasoned cultivators of the Slaying Immortal Tower never showed much respect for their Tower Master, viewing her merely as a young girl with fast-cultivating skills and a high realm. What could she know about the Tower?

“Mr. Li, registration for the newcomer.”

At the end of the first floor, a disheveled scholar was engraving something; despite his unremarkable appearance, he possessed the Cultivation of Golden Core Mid-stage.

Ning Daoran was inwardly astonished; a Cultivator of such cultivation could easily start their own sect or be revered as a patriarch elsewhere. Yet, here he was, basking in obscurity on the gloomy first floor of the Slaying Immortal Tower.

The two old men copying the documents outside seemed to be at the Golden Core Early Stage.

“Name,” asked Mr. Li.

“Independent Practitioner Jianjia.”

“Oh?”

Mr. Li finally looked up, glanced at Ning Daoran under the dim light of the oil lamp, and said with a smile, “The fattened sheep ranked tenth doesn’t look so different from me, with a nose and two eyes.”

“That’s true, that’s true!”

Mr. Li quickly inscribed the name ‘Independent Practitioner Jianjia’ onto a Jade Talisman, then stamped it with the Slaying Immortal Tower’s mark. Handing over the Identity Jade Token to Ning Daoran, he said, “Now that you’re one of us, your name will, of course, be removed from the Tower’s Bounty List. Here’s your Identity Jade Token; keep it safe, don’t lose it. The replacement fee is quite heavy.”

“Understood.”

Ning Daoran secured the Jade Talisman, then turned to Shen Luoyan, “Tower Master, where do I go to claim the bounty?”

“Ah?”

Shen Luoyan was stunned, “You’ve just joined the Slaying Immortal Tower, what bounty are you here to collect?”

Ning Daoran slapped his Storage Bag, and a bloody wolf head floated out.

“Hmm…”

Vice Tower Master Long Xingtian and Mr. Li chuckled in unison, amused by the boldness of the young Cultivator who joined the Tower just to present a head from the top fifty of the Bounty List.

Shen Luoyan was somewhat speechless.

For a moment, she couldn’t tell if Ning Daoran had joined the Slaying Immortal Tower just for the bounty on that wolf head or if he genuinely wanted to be a part of the Tower.

But none of this mattered. His presence was all that counted.

The Slaying Immortal Tower, with a history spanning thousands of years, had a deeply entrenched and decaying structure. Now it was merely a shell, filled with old souls. Although they were high in Cultivation and strong in combat, they were old in age and short in Life Span, with many on the brink of death, leading to whispers in the outside world that the Slaying Immortal Tower was nothing more than a “Nascent Soul Elderly Care.” Such words were exceedingly grating to Shen Luoyan’s ears.

Thus, the fresh blood that someone like Ning Daoran brought to the Tower was welcomed with delight.