Chapter 114: Chapter 101: Ancient God Tower
Ye Chen, who had vanished from the Ancient Furnace of Creation, reappeared and found himself at the base of a sky-supporting giant tower.
This giant tower, towering over a thousand zhang in height, had a total of eighteen floors based on the structure of the tower.
The eighteen-floor tower, with each level being a hundred zhang high, added up to an astonishing height of one to two thousand zhang, resembling a majestic giant mountain!
Even more divine and mysterious was the realm surrounding this giant tower.
The ground that Ye Chen stood on, which was the earth beneath the tower, was bursting with multicolored hues, and his every step would cause the spot he tread upon to emit brilliant flashes of light.
Looking around, there was nothing else between heaven and earth; it seemed as though this world consisted solely of the giant tower.
Looking up toward the top of the tower was even more astonishing, as one could see layers upon layers of golden water ripples ceaselessly flowing in the sky.
The sky, which was usually an empty expanse, had multiple layers of golden streams above the tower, as if the tower existed within an underwater realm!
Ye Chen had never before seen a sky where waves of water were in constant motion!
As Ye Chen was surveying the realm he was in and examining the sky-supporting giant tower that suddenly appeared before him, a colossal face emerged within the water flowing above the Pagoda.
That immense visage was all too familiar to Ye Chen; it was unmistakably the face of the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact!
At that moment, the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact gazed deeply at Ye Chen, its eyes filled with astonishment.
After a long silence, it finally spoke, "Ye Chen, I didn\'t expect that you would receive the guidance of the Ancestral Blood, allowing my old master \'Heavenly Saint Di Kong\'s\' Divine Sense to personally transport you to the outside of this \'Ancient God Tower,\' to this ultimate test location!"
Guidance of the Ancestral Blood?
Heavenly Saint Di Kong\'s Divine Sense personally transported him?
The ultimate test location?
The words of the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact reminded Ye Chen of the voice he had heard when the Ancestral Blood took flight within the Ancient Furnace of Creation.
That voice was filled with commanding authority, as if it wielded control over heaven and earth, and at that time, Ye Chen had guessed that it might belong to the owner of the Ancestral Blood, Heavenly Saint Di Kong. Now, with the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact\'s confirmation, it became clear that the voice indeed belonged to Heavenly Saint Di Kong!
Ancestral Blood, which was Heavenly Saint Di Kong\'s Lifeblood, and to think that his words were carried along with it!
Within the Ancestral Blood lingered the remnants of Heavenly Saint Di Kong\'s Divine Sense!
Ye Chen looked around yet saw no trace of Heavenly Saint Di Kong, nor did he hear his voice again.
It seemed that after guiding him to this mysterious place, the lingering Divine Sense of Heavenly Saint Di Kong had completed its arrangement and then disappeared anew.
Having not seen the formidable Heavenly Saint Di Kong himself, Ye Chen felt somewhat disappointed.
However, his attention quickly shifted to focus on the \'Ancient God Tower,\' the ultimate inheritance location mentioned by both Heavenly Saint Di Kong and the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact!
As early as the start of the tri-clan competition, Patriarch Bai had said that the one who possessed the Ancestral Blood could have a chance to enter the ultimate inheritance location and obtain Heavenly Saint Di Kong\'s ultimate reward.
Yet, in the previous five openings of the Ancestral Land, no one holding the Ancestral Blood had been able to enter the ultimate inheritance location.
Ye Chen hadn\'t expected that he would arrive at this ultimate test location directly after repeatedly being tested in the Ancient Furnace of Creation!
"Is the Ancient God Tower the ultimate test location?"
"What could Heavenly Saint Di Kong\'s ultimate reward be? Could it really be inside the Ancient God Tower?"
Ye Chen, gazing at the sky-supporting giant tower before him, was full of anticipation to enter this Land of Inheritance and find out what the ultimate reward was!
Seeing the look in Ye Chen\'s eyes, the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact also turned to gaze at the eighteen-floor sky-supporting giant tower, the \'Ancient God Tower.\' It slowly said, "Ye Chen, you probably don\'t know where this \'Ancient God Tower\' actually is."
Ye Chen looked around uncertainly and said, "Could it be the core region of the Ancestral Land, where the Heaven-reaching Giant Peaks are located?"
He remembered that when he first entered the Ancestral Land Secret Realm, he saw that the peripheral area was a plain and the mountains and valleys farther away were the central region, while the Heaven-reaching Giant Peaks at the farthest horizon, according to the secret realm map, marked the core region of the Ancestral Land.
Having already passed through the first two areas and arriving at this place of ultimate reward, he should have entered the location of the Heaven-reaching Giant Peaks.
However, Ye Chen saw no Heaven-reaching Giant Peaks around him, only the giant tower and the sky where waves were flowing above it.
"This is not the location of the Heaven-reaching Giant Peaks!"
"That Heaven-reaching Giant Peak, if you had only completed the three tests of the Ancient Furnace of Creation, you would\'ve entered it for a third opportunity and test."
"But, you not only completed the first three levels of the tests, but you also completed the fourth, and above all, you were guided by the Ancestral Blood. Thus, you directly bypassed the test of the Heaven-reaching Giant Peaks and entered this ultimate test, the ultimate inheritance, the ultimate reward location, the \'Ancient God Tower,\' deep in the core realm!"
"This is the absolute core of the entire \'Ethereal Spirit Holy Temple,\' and those Heaven-reaching Giant Peaks are but the array guarding the absolute core."
The absolute core of the Ethereal Spirit Holy Temple? Even the Heaven-reaching Giant Peaks within the core region of the Ancestral Land are just the guardian array of this domain?
If it weren\'t for the guidance of Ancestral Blood, Ye Chen couldn\'t have imagined that within the core region of the Ancestral Land, there existed an even more central domain.
"Why is this place the absolute core of the Ethereal Spirit Holy Temple? It\'s because of this \'Ancient God Tower\'!" The Spirit of the Sacred Artifact looked at the Ancient God Tower and spoke leisurely, "When my old master obtained the Ancient God Tower, he hid it in the very center of the Ethereal Spirit Holy Temple, and from then on, this place became the heart of the heart!"
"Artifact Spirit, what is so magical about this Ancient God Tower?"
Whether it was the words of Heavenly Saint Di Kong from earlier, the constant emphasis the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact placed on the Ancient God Tower, or the strange space surrounding the Ancient God Tower, Ye Chen was extremely curious about it.
The Spirit of the Sacred Artifact did not directly answer Ye Chen\'s question, but instead asked him, "Ye Chen, you have shown exceptional performance in the trials of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm. How many do you think there are, who are stronger than you at the same age?"
Ye Chen thought of Heavenly Saint Di Kong, Heavenly Saint Qian Ji, and Heavenly Saint Lian Yue. This world was filled with countless geniuses; perhaps even within the Heavenly Wind Kingdom, there were many who were stronger than him.
"There should be many who are stronger than me, not just a few!" Ye Chen certainly wouldn\'t arrogantly assume he was invincible among his peers.
The Spirit of the Sacred Artifact nodded and said, "Ye Chen, you\'re one of the rare geniuses I\'ve seen. There won\'t be many who are stronger than you, but that doesn\'t mean there are none."
"Just like you, Ye Chen, I can see that, aside from this Ancestral Land Secret Realm, you must have also obtained other opportunities and fortunes!"
"Others, of course, will have their own opportunities, their own fortunes!"
Ye Chen nodded in agreement.
Indeed, aside from the Ancestral Land Secret Realm, he had also entered the Thousand Lotus Cave Abode, and even obtained the chance to learn the even more mysterious Primordial Star Scripture!
Ye Chen wouldn\'t think that all the opportunities were just for him to encounter; he knew that those other more powerful individuals also had their own chances.
Therefore, Ye Chen didn\'t become arrogant and complacent after obtaining opportunities. He still relied on himself, continuously undergoing arduous cultivation, and ceaselessly seeking new chances to become even stronger!
Just like Jiang Yao, the girl he knew so well, he had heard her say that she had entered mysterious places of inheritance several times, achieving continuous breakthroughs in cultivation. Even Jiang Yao owned a bloodline Talent Secret Technique that even she herself did not know the origin of!
The Spirit of the Sacred Artifact continued, "Speaking of others aside, my old master, Heavenly Saint Di Kong, was even more excellent and talented than you."
"My old master stepped into the Spirit Sea Realm at the age of ten, and by the age of eighty, he had already transcended the Rotating Pill Realm, reaching the Heavenly Saint Realm!"
To enter the Spirit Sea Realm at the age of ten! To become a Heavenly Saint Realm powerhouse by the age of eighty!
The Spirit of the Sacred Artifact\'s words completely astounded Ye Chen.
Ye Chen had never heard of anyone entering the Spirit Sea Realm at the age of ten before; even those Heavenly Saint Realm powerhouses were said to have cultivated to that realm after thousands of years.
Ye Chen couldn\'t fathom that Heavenly Saint Di Kong could cultivate so rapidly, even faster than himself!
Seeing Ye Chen\'s stunned look, the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact chuckled and said, "My old master is a member of the Jindi Ancient Clan, of course he\'s much more powerful than you ordinary humans."
"If you ordinary humans enter the Spirit Sea at the age of twenty and the Rotating Pill Realm by the age of eighty, you are considered absolute geniuses. In the Jindi Ancient Clan, if one enters the Spirit Sea at the age of twenty, that\'s a very mediocre clan member; one is only considered a genius if they can enter the Spirit Sea before the age of fifteen."
Is the Jindi Ancient Clan so powerful?
Thinking of Heavenly Saint Di Kong\'s golden monkey true form with a body length of over a thousand zhang, taller than a giant mountain, Ye Chen felt his heart surge with emotion.
Heavenly Saint Di Kong\'s Jindi Ancient Clan was something Ye Chen had never seen or heard of before, but from Di Kong and the descriptions of the Artifact Spirit, Ye Chen understood the strength and terror of this Ancient Clan!
So it turned out that there were groups even more powerful than ordinary humans in this world, along with mysterious Ancient Clans!
Ye Chen felt that the veil of mystery over the Barbaric Wilderness Continent had been lifted another layer for him!
"Back in the day, my old master was considered the number one genius in the entire Jindi Ancient Clan. He once thought he was the greatest genius of his era. However, it wasn\'t until one day when he encountered this \'Ancient God Tower\' that he realized how narrow his vision was."
"So vast are the heavens and the earth, and countless are the geniuses. Even among the Ancient Clans, many are stronger than the Jindi Ancient Clan!"
"This \'Ancient God Tower\' is an inheritance tower left behind by an Ancient Clan that even my old master did not know. It contains the \'Time Law\' that my old master couldn\'t fathom even at the Heavenly Saint Realm," said the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact as Ye Chen listened eagerly to its significant origin.
"According to my old master\'s investigation, this Ancient God Tower is likely a powerful Sacred Artifact used by the unknown Ancient Clan to temper its younger generation, just as the Jindi Ancient Clan uses the \'Ancient Furnace of Creation\' to temper its young members!"
"However, the Ancient God Tower is far more wondrous than the Ancient Furnace of Creation!"
"Only those with a bone age under twenty can enter this Ancient God Tower, and once inside, the Time Flow Rate within the Ancient God Tower is completely different from the outside."
"My old master once had many clan members attempt it, and the astonishing conclusion reached was that the Time Flow Rate inside the Ancient God Tower is ten times that of the outside. Ten days of cultivation inside the tower only equates to one day outside!"
"Imagine, if you cultivate for a hundred days inside this Ancient God Tower, only ten days would have passed outside. When you come out, you\'ll have cultivated ten times longer than those who only cultivated for ten days. How much greater would your gains be?!"
"This is the great opportunity offered by the Ancient God Tower!"