Chapter 111 111 Broken Tower, I can't find you... Brother...
Ke Nian returned to his own temple in the Heavenly Court.
Since he was banished to the mortal realm, the celestial attendants and guards in this palace have scattered, leaving it empty, desolate, and lonely.
He was the god in charge of academic pursuits and official careers. During his absence, several celestial deities took turns serving in his place. Thus, in order to obtain more offerings, these celestial deities arbitrarily promised favors while on duty, allowing many mediocre people to excel in academic examinations and enter officialdom.
Now that Kenian has returned, it's time to rectify this chaos, but he has more important things to do right now. So he didn't bother to tidy up the temple, but simply found a table to sit down, brushed off the dust, took out his pen and ink, and wrote down the idea he had mentioned to Yun Tianjiao as a memorial, preparing to present it to Lin Shen at the Heavenly Court assembly tomorrow.
He was prepared to accept retaliation and attacks from his colleagues, but even if he suffered another demotion, this reform policy, which concerned the balance of the three realms and the well-being of all people, was something he had to find a way to push forward no matter what.
Because the reform policy involved many details, Ke Nian was engrossed in writing at his desk for a long time, but he did not notice that someone had entered his temple and was slowly approaching him from behind.
Finally, after writing the last word of the draft reform proposal, Ke Nian blew the ink dry and felt relieved enough to prepare to rest.
Just as he was about to get up, a sharp pain suddenly shot through his chest! He opened his eyes in shock, and a mouthful of blood spurted from his mouth, staining the carefully written memorial a bright red.
Ke Nian reacted a beat slower, slowly lowering his head and seeing a blood-stained hand emerging from his chest.
His heart was easily shattered, and his vital energy was being gently grasped by that hand and being absorbed by some kind of evil technique.
Ke Nian wanted to resist and turn around to see who had taken out his divine essence, but he found that he was powerless to shake the power that was binding him.
At this moment, the person behind him chuckled and said, "Don't struggle anymore. You haven't been in your divine position for many years, and the worshippers have long since abandoned you. You are no longer the Venerable Ke Nian of yesteryear, so how could you be my match?"
“It’s you…it’s…you…” Upon recognizing the familiar voice, Ke Nian was shaken. His eyes showed incomprehension, confusion, and sorrow.
But he couldn't even utter the person's name. His already weak divine essence gradually dimmed under the other's frenzied absorption, until it was completely drained and ceased to exist. Subsequently, his divine body also dissipated completely along with the loss of his divine essence.
A small flame landed on the memorial that Ke Nian had painstakingly written, and soon burned the paper and words to ashes.
The perpetrator left quietly, and apart from the still-wet ink, there was no other trace on Ke Nian's desk.
A deity, in a corner where no one cared, quietly perished.
...
Inside the Tower of Sorrow, Shen Qiongzhi, as usual, was drinking and listening to music while being served by a group of demons and monsters. The two water ghost brothers were dancing for her, but she still found fault with them, criticizing this and that.
The two brothers swallowed their anger and followed Shen Qiongzhi's instructions to improve their movements. Just as they were about to have Bai Lingyao sing the song again, Shen Qiongzhi's expression suddenly changed.
She had been lying lazily, but suddenly sat up, her face pale and her eyes wide open.
"Master, what's wrong, Master? Is it because I'm not feeling well?" the succubus asked timidly.
The water ghost twins also turned around to look at her.
But Shen Qiongzhi ignored them. She just stared wide-eyed, her black pupils slowly widening, looking like the prelude to going mad and losing control.
"Brother..."
"Brother..."
"Brother..."
Shen Qiongzhi murmured, repeating only these two words over and over again.
The demons and monsters that had been surrounding her sensed the dangerous aura emanating from her and scattered, retreating back to their cells to hide, only trembling as they peered out from the shadows.
"I can't find you... I can't find you... Brother... Brother..."
Shen Qiongzhi's eyes were now completely filled with black pupils, making them appear empty and eerie. Her eyelashes trembled, her eyelids blinked faster and faster, and her voice became sharper and more piercing with each sentence, until it almost became a powerful sonic attack that pierced through the entire Tongbei Tower, causing those with slightly weaker skills to bleed from all seven orifices.
Soon, the entire Tower of Sorrow began to tremble. The wooden staircase mechanism that ran through the nine floors was triggered, and it began to emit the cries of all the ghosts in mourning. But it still could not suppress Shen Qiongzhi's increasingly loud cries of "Brother".
Even the nine-tailed fox Yuki, located at the top of the tower, sat up abruptly from her constantly shaking cage, looking down at the trembling surface of the Four Seasons Water with a mixture of surprise and uncertainty.
"What's going on? What's happening? Is the tower going to collapse?"
"I want to go out and find my brother, I want to go out and find my brother..."
As Shen Qiongzhi finished speaking, two lines of bloody tears streamed down her face. She flew higher and higher, breaking through from the third floor to the eighth floor of the tower.
The ninth floor of the Tower of Sorrow is sealed by the Four Seasons Water, which is deadly to evil spirits. The last time Yun Tianjiao went to the ninth floor, he was accompanied by Shen Qiongzhi and the Water Ghost Brothers, climbing up the stairs one floor at a time. No matter how willful Shen Qiongzhi was, she didn't dare to use her head to pry open the floor plan of the ninth floor like she did with the other floors.
At this moment, Shen Qiongzhi seemed to have completely lost her mind. She rushed straight to the ninth floor without any regard for anything else. When the water ghost brothers saw this, they rushed up to stop her, but the resentment she was emanating was too strong and directly shook the two brothers away.
It was clear that the roof of the eighth floor was about to be breached, and the water of all four seasons would pour down and flood the tower, which would be a catastrophic disaster for the demons imprisoned inside!
"Master! Boss! Ancestor! Stop crashing! Stop crashing!"
"If the water comes down at any time of the year, we'll all be doomed!"
"Damn it, so be it! Being locked up in this dark and hopeless tower for eternity is pointless anyway! I might as well break out of this tower and take one last look at the world!"
Some demons, tired of living, decided to join in and go crazy by crashing into the tower with her, since they couldn't stop Shen Qiongzhi.
Finally, with a loud crack, the stone bricks on the top slab of the eighth floor of the tower shattered!
The little demons and monsters fled in terror amidst the falling bricks and wood chips, screaming and crying as they closed their eyes in despair.
However, the expected torrential flow of the Four Seasons Water did not occur. The resentment that erupted from Shen Qiongzhi was so tangible that it formed a solid barrier, effectively separating the Four Seasons Water, as if it were a giant umbrella held up for all the demons and ghosts!
However, Shen Qiongzhi did not stop. Enduring the immense power of the Four Seasons Water, she continued to break through to the top of the tower little by little. At this moment, thick black mist filled her eyes, and her face had become almost ferocious, making it nearly impossible to recognize her former appearance.
The waters of the four seasons rushed down from around her barrier of resentment, like a waterfall, and began to pour back towards the bottom of the tower.
"Our master is about to break through the tower! Brothers, if you don't want to die in the Four Seasons Water, follow our master and charge!"
The demons and ghosts finally realized what was happening. From fear and terror to excitement, they looked up at Shen Qiongzhi's figure getting closer and closer to the top of the tower. They were all greatly encouraged and rose up in unison, following behind Shen Qiongzhi to help break the tower!
"Hahaha, after all these years, I've finally met someone awesome! Little master, wait for me, Yuji is here to lend you a hand!" The nine-tailed fox demon, who had just escaped from the cage, jumped down and lifted Shen Qiongzhi up from below. At the same time, she didn't forget to turn around and mock the water ghost brothers: "Hey, you two who love playing chess, what are you standing there for? Don't you want to get out?"
All these sudden changes happened too quickly. The Water Ghost Brothers only reacted after Youji's shout and followed along, helping Shen Qiongzhi break the tower together with Youji.
boom!
With a deafening roar that shook the heavens and the earth, a crack appeared at the top of the Tongbei Pagoda, which had been sealed for thousands of years. The three realms trembled at that moment. Then, a black mist flew out of the pagoda like a whirlwind, carrying with it a ghostly wail like a storm, and headed towards the sky.
Behind them, the Tongbei Pagoda, now a ruin, had collapsed into complete desolation.
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"Something terrible has happened! Something terrible has happened, Your Majesty!"
On the very night that Zhiwei and Yun Tianjiao sent Kenian away, they received an urgent report that the Tongbei Tower had been breached and all the demons and monsters imprisoned inside had escaped!
What shocking news! Since the Pagoda of Sorrow existed in the world, only one ghost spirit has broken out of the pagoda, and he is now the Ghost King.
But unexpectedly, the entire tower was destroyed today, and all the ghosts and monsters inside came out!
Yun Tianjiao immediately realized, "It's Shen Qiongzhi? How could she suddenly break through the tower?"
And how could she possibly possess the strength to break through a tower?
Zhiwei frowned. "This is bad. Something might have happened to God Venerable Ke Nian."
The two were already worried about Shen Hengzhen. The Heavenly Court harbored resentment towards him and would surely retaliate. They were unwilling to let him leave, but Ke Nian had already made up his mind, so they could not force him to stay.
"No, we have to find a way to go to the Heavenly Realm."
Zhiwei agreed, and the two were making preparations when someone reported that a ghost had forcibly broken through the barrier of the Netherworld and entered the palace.
"Your Majesty, none of us can stop it. I'm afraid you'll have to intervene personally!" The ghost general who came to report was bruised and battered, clearly having fought the ghost spirit and been seriously injured.
As they were speaking, the ghostly spirit burst in. Upon seeing Yun Tianjiao and Zhiwei, it cried out in a shrill voice, "Sister Tianjiao! Where is my brother? Where is my father? I can't find them!"
After breaking through the Tower of Sorrow, Shen Qiongzhi immediately went to the Ghost Realm and forcibly broke through all the barriers. By this time, she was exhausted. The resentment in her body was almost completely depleted, and her appearance had returned to that of her previous life.
She was filled with resentment the whole way until she saw Yun Tianjiao, at which point she burst into tears like a child, asking those last few questions before losing consciousness and fainting.
Yun Tianjiao hurriedly arranged for the person to rest on the bed and then invited the Ghost Doctor to treat him.
"It's alright. This young lady just exhausted herself and fainted. She just needs to rest for a while and take a few pills to replenish her ghost power."
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