“Senior…”
Chen Ping let out a sigh of relief. His body swayed, and he nearly collapsed. Forcing out the essence blood from his heart had left him utterly weakened.
“You have done very well.”
The tower spirit elder’s illusory figure waved his hand. A stream of extraordinarily pure life-origin energy surged into Chen Ping’s body, rapidly repairing his injuries and replenishing his exhaustion.
“It was that fellow in the upper levels who, over countless years, eroded my spiritual intelligence, attempting to seize control of the treasure tower and absorb the power of all dragonkind to break free. Fortunately, you arrived in time and awakened me with your supreme imperial blood.”
With the awakening of the true tower spirit, all the violent restrictions within the tower instantly calmed. The black qi that had permeated every level dissipated like smoke.
Cen Biqing and Old Black felt their bodies lighten. The suppressive and corrosive forces that had plagued them vanished.
“Now, it is time to thoroughly resolve the trouble above.”
The tower spirit elder looked upwards, his gaze sharpening. “Child, follow me to the tower’s core. To fully control the Demon-Suppressing Tower and quell this upheaval, your power is needed.”
The tower spirit elder’s illusory figure enveloped Chen Ping. In the next moment, they appeared in a peculiar space.
This place seemed like the centre of the universe. Surrounding them were flowing stars and endless spatial veins. At the centre floated a crystal that constantly shifted forms, radiating a nine-coloured halo. This was the core of the Demon-Suppressing Tower, the Heart of Spatial Origin!
“Place your hand upon the tower’s core and infuse it with your golden dragon bloodline and divine soul imprint.”
The tower spirit elder guided him. “Whether it acknowledges you depends on your fortune. This process also carries risks. The power contained within the tower’s core may burst you apart.”
Chen Ping gazed at the magnificent tower’s core, brimming with boundless power, his eyes filled with determination.
He stepped forward slowly, took a deep breath, and gradually pressed his palm onto the tower’s core!
Boom!
It was as if billions of volcanoes erupted within his body simultaneously!
An unimaginable flood of spatial law information and energy instantly poured into his limbs, bones, sea of consciousness, and divine soul!
He felt as though his body and soul were about to be torn apart and exploded by this force! The intense pain nearly caused him to faint!
“Hold fast to your original heart! Guide it! You are the Golden Dragon Emperor. You are qualified to command it!”
The tower spirit elder’s voice rang out like a great bell in Chen Ping’s sea of consciousness.
Chen Ping clenched his teeth. Relying on his unyielding willpower and the noble essence of his golden dragon bloodline, he desperately guided this raging power while gradually imprinting his divine soul mark deep into the very heart of the core.
This was an incomparably difficult and painful process, the ultimate test of will and strength.
Cracks continuously appeared and healed on the surface of Chen Ping’s body. Blood soaked his clothes, yet his eyes remained clear and resolute.
After an unknown length of time, the violent torrent of energy finally began to subside, becoming docile.
Chen Ping sensed that he had formed a connection with the entire Demon-Suppressing Tower, as if it were an extension of his own flesh and blood, responsive to his every thought!
The tower’s core crystal subdued its radiance. Ultimately, it transformed into a streak of flowing light that entered Chen Ping’s brow, quietly hovering in his sea of consciousness, resonating distantly with the Great Luo Golden Scripture.
He had succeeded!
He had successfully subdued the Demon-Suppressing Tower!
With Chen Ping’s successful refinement of the tower’s core, the entire Demon-Suppressing Tower fell completely under his control.
With a single thought, every detail within the tower appeared in his mind.
He “saw” the seventh level, where a slumbering, enormous primordial coiling dragon was imprisoned.
On the eighth level, the skeleton of a time-space dragon was sealed, one that had violated taboos by attempting to reverse time and space.
And on the ninth level, he beheld the source of this upheaval: a colossal dragon covered in dark golden scales, its eyes like blood-coloured vortices, radiating boundless resentment and a will of destruction!
It was known as “Devouring Dragon”, a Sin Dragon King in dragon history that had elevated its power by devouring its own kind!
At this moment, it was frantically assaulting its final seal. Sensing the change in ownership of the tower’s core, it let out a roar of unwillingness and fury.
