Chapter 47 047 My crying is disturbing your enjoyment, excuse me...

"Distinguished guest, have you come here... truly only to find that crybaby girl?" A graceful and alluring woman slowly stepped out from among the demons, cautiously probing.

Yun Tianjiao said, "That's right, she is my sister. The cause of her death is unknown. If any of you have seen her, please lead the way so that I can meet her."

Hearing her say this, all the demons breathed a sigh of relief.

"So the heroine wasn't here to kill us after all!"

"Great! Great! I can live again!"

Yun Tianjiao ignored the noisy demons and only looked at the alluring woman.

The alluring woman said with difficulty, "It's not that we don't want to lead the way for you, it's just that... that girl's resentment is too strong, and we can't accommodate her on this level. She has already been moved to the upper level of the Tower of Sorrow."

The chubby orange cat crouching on the ground added, "That's how it is in our Tower of Sorrow: the more powerful the demon, the higher the level it resides in. 'The Crying Ghost... ah, no, your sister, although she's just a newly deceased vengeful spirit, possesses immense resentment far beyond what we lower-level demons can withstand. She was promoted to a higher level as soon as she entered.'"

As it spoke, the cat's tail curved up, the tip pointing towards the wooden stairs in the center of the hall.

The wooden ladder looked old, rotten, and dilapidated, seemingly on the verge of collapse.

The demons, who were packed so tightly they almost filled the space, gave way to it, leaving a wide space around the wooden ladder, as if they were wary of something.

Yun Tianjiao looked solemn, still thinking about the fat orange cat's words, "powerful resentment."

No one knows what Qiongzhi went through before she died, or how she could have developed such a strong resentment.

She walked toward the wooden stairs, and the gasps of the surrounding demons immediately filled the air.

A rotting corpse hurriedly covered its detached jaw, while a three-eyed demon stuffed its claws into its mouth in a terrified manner. The little demons squeezed in the back row also took small steps back, secretly shrinking into the shadows.

"Is the heroine really going to the upper levels? Be careful!"

“The demons on higher levels… are not as easy to talk to as we are.”

The atmosphere had been built up to this point, and it would be disrespectful for Yun Tianjiao not to be nervous at all. So she raised her hand and gripped the hilt of the Demon-Slaying Blade tightly. The moment she stepped onto the wooden steps, a chorus of mournful cries echoed throughout the tower, like the lamentation of ten thousand ghosts.

Could this be the origin of the name "Tall of Shared Sorrow"?

Amidst the worshipful gazes of the demons, Yun Tianjiao ascended the circular wooden staircase step by step.

At the corner at the end of the wooden stairs, there is a water-ripple-like barrier, like soft, flowing blue-white amber.

Yun Tianjiao tried to touch the barrier with the blade of the Ghost-Slaying Blade. The Ghost-Slaying Blade easily penetrated the barrier, and then a kind of suction force came from the tip of the blade, strongly pulling her in.

She felt a stream of cool water wash over her exposed skin, and when she came to her senses, she found herself on the second floor of the Tower of Sorrow.

The place felt empty and deserted, without as many demons as the first floor. In the middle of the hall, there was a round stone table, with only two men in long robes playing chess quietly at the table.

The fact that someone could penetrate the barrier and come up from the first level clearly surprised the two of them. They both stopped playing chess and turned to look at Yun Tianjiao. The two faces looked exactly alike. Her dark, brooding eyes were filled with black pupils, with no whites visible, set against her pale, bloodless face, giving her a somewhat eerie look. It was a pity that her originally handsome and delicate features were not as striking.

"Um... excuse me from your pleasant conversation."

Seeing that Shen Qiongzhi was not there, Yun Tianjiao clasped his hands together, ready to continue climbing down the stairs safely.

Having their territory invaded, the two demons were not about to let the people go so easily. They did not make a move, remaining seated at the stone table, but water began to seep from beneath their feet, soon flooding the entire tower.

"Since you're here, why rush to leave?" one of the two men said with a smile, his voice surprisingly pleasant.

Yun Tianjiao was prepared. He drew his Ghost-Slaying Blade, flipped his body forward, and stood upside down in the air. He tapped the ground with the tip of the blade, then used the momentum of the thrust to leap high into the air and slash at the two men with the blade.

Sensing the extraordinary power of the Demon-Slaying Blade, the two men dared not be careless and retreated in opposite directions. Yun Tianjiao's slash missed, but the resulting blade energy chased after the two men. At the same time, he crouched down and landed on the stone table. The latter used his hands to cast a spell, manipulating a wall of water that rose from the ground to block the attack of the blade energy.

With a loud boom, the blade energy shattered the water wall, causing a deluge of rain to fall.

Yun Tianjiao flicked his sword to knock away the water droplets, preventing them from splashing on him. At the same time, he glanced at the cold water below, which was already above his feet. Even though he didn't know what it was, his intuition told him that it was best not to touch it.

"I wondered who these were, but they turned out to be a pair of twin water ghosts."

As the first-level demon said, the demons on the upper levels of the tower were not easy to deal with. After Yun Tianjiao's mockery, the twin water ghosts were really annoyed. Their wide robes and sleeves began to dance without wind, and their long, black, satin-like hair grew wildly, wrapping around Yun Tianjiao like seaweed.

Yun Tianjiao frowned slightly, slashing left and right with his demon-slaying blade, easily cutting off the water ghost's hair. However, the hair kept growing back; as soon as the old hair was cut off, new hair immediately grew back.

Continuing like this would eventually exhaust him, so Yun Tianjiao changed his strategy. As the next wave of hair attacked, he leaped off the stone table, hooked his feet on a few strands of hair, and twisted them with the force of the blow, spinning out like a top. He raised his Ghost-Slaying Blade high above his head, and like a meat grinder, he pierced through the wall woven from hair and charged toward the two water ghosts.

The two water ghosts were taken aback when they saw her break the formation so quickly. Their expressions turned somber, and they were both determined to fight to the death. Just as they were about to make another move, a golden light flashed before their eyes.

"This is... wait!"

One of the water ghosts' expressions changed drastically when it saw the Vajra pendant around Yun Tianjiao's neck. It quickly withdrew its attack and, with a flick of its long sleeve, pulled its twin brother aside to dodge Yun Tianjiao's demon-slaying blade.

"Brother, what are you doing!"

"Shut up! Didn't you see that?" The older brother winked at his younger brother.

The water ghost brother then noticed the vajra pendant on Yun Tianjiao's body. He was so frightened that the whites of his eyes came out. However, he lost his ghostly aura and became fair-skinned and tender, looking quite attractive.

"This...this...is it...is it...that person?"

"What else! You still dare to make a move? Are you really courting death?!" the older brother scolded in a low voice, annoyed.

Seeing that the two had stopped their attacks, Yun Tianjiao also ceased his attacks. At the same time, he noticed that the water on the ground had receded instantly, leaving it dry and clean, as if everything just now had been an illusion.

She landed back on the ground, holding her sword horizontally in front of her, not completely letting her guard down.

The twin water ghosts knelt on the ground and bowed deeply to Yun Tianjiao. The elder water ghost said, "My brother and I have been imprisoned in this tower for many years. We don't know where we have offended someone so badly that they want to kill us. Please ask for instructions so that we can die knowing why."

The younger brother of the water ghost hurriedly chimed in, "Yes, yes, we just want to die knowing why. We don't dare trouble you, sir. We can kill ourselves."

Yun Tianjiao: "?"

If she remembered correctly, she had just asked to borrow a way upstairs, right? When did she say she wanted to kill them?

Having no prior grudges, Yun Tianjiao had no interest in killing ghosts, so he said, "You two misunderstand. I came here only to find someone. I heard she is on the upper level of the Tongbei Tower. Unfortunately, I am disturbing you two by passing by your precious place. Please allow me to borrow the wooden ladder."

Like the demons in the tower, the twin water ghosts breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that Yun Tianjiao had not come to take them away.

"I see. May I ask who you are looking for, and which floor they live on? This tower is teeming with demons and monsters; perhaps my brother and I can help our benefactor..."

"Since she's not on this floor, we should need to look for her on the upper levels of the tower. Can you go up there?"

According to the demons on each floor of the tower, it seems that the demons on each floor of the tower cannot go to places higher than their own floors.

The younger water ghost revealed a smug look, "Your Excellency is unaware of this, but we are different from the demons on the first floor. We are not bound to the second floor; we simply found it too noisy upstairs to concentrate on our chess studies, so we came down to find a quiet place..."

Before the words were finished, a series of loud bangs came from the upper level, as if some heavy object was pounding on the ground of the upper tower, accompanied by a shrill cry.

The older brother in the twin water ghosts also showed the whites of his eyes the moment he heard the crying. His usually calm and composed expression disappeared, and he looked like an alert and flustered little deer.

"Waaaaah... Waaaaah..."

The crying grew clearer, accompanied by dull thuds, and wood chips and dust fell from the roof.

The younger water ghost clutched his head in pain, as if he had heard some kind of warding bell. "No, no, no, that ancestor hasn't come down again..."

"Waaaaah... Waaaaah... I want to see my brother! I want to see my father!!! Waaaaah... Please let me leave this awful place..."