The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 55 - 44 Hollowed-Out Skull_1

Chapter 55: Chapter 44 Hollowed-Out Skull_1

Chapter 55 -44 Hollowed-Out Skull_1

In the heart of Lake Heart Island, the White Tower emitted a faint phosphorescence, exuding an atmosphere of gloom and sinister malice.

When people concentrated on their perception, they could still hear the wails of lost souls, causing their scalps to tingle in fright.

As Pang Jian looked again at the White Tower, he felt it had become harmless, causing him none of the discomfort he had expected.

This tower, shrouded in mystery from the Yin Spirit Temple, with the power to search for the alien powers of soul spirits and ghostly objects, seemed to have deliberately ignored him, uniquely exempting him from its soul-searching.

“I’m so pleased to see you’ve come to rescue me,”

Luo Hongyan pursed her lips lightly, her clear eyes sparkling with unmistakable joy and satisfaction.

Pang Jian frowned and said coldly, “If you had treated me like this when I first entered the Solitude Mountain Range, I wouldn’t have left you unaided at the bottom of Black Water Pool.”

Luo Hongyan was taken aback.

Immediately thereafter,

she pronounced triumphantly to the pale ghostly figure that cowered in the darkness of that void, “See? When you fell into the pool, he didn’t come to your aid, but this time he saved me.”

The real Ning Yao, gazing at her stunningly revealed form, sadly hung her head and said, “Had I known he was so extraordinary, I would have treated him kindly as well.”

“You wouldn’t have been able to,”

Luo Hongyan said with a face full of scorn, shaking her head with a mocking smile, “We both come from prestigious families, yet Zhou Qingchen managed to discern his extraordinary nature and took the initiative to curry favor with him early on. And you? You met him before Zhou Qingchen, yet failed to recognize the gem before you, simply regarding him as an ordinary hunter.”

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Ning Yao remained silent.

What Luo Hongyan said was true; she had entered the Solitude Mountain Range with Pang Jian yet it was Zhou Qingchen who had extended an olive branch first, earning Pang Jian’s trust before she did.

When she realized this, instead of thinking how to draw Pang Jian back to her side, she chose to threaten him with her words.

In the end, Pang Jian threw the cloth bag filled with broken silver onto the ground, declaring the end of their contract.

“Young brother…”

Having observed from the side for a while and unable to bring himself to speak to Luo Hongyan, He Rong turned to Pang Jian and said, “Since you are unaffected, we must trouble you to go to the top floor of the Heavenly Spirit Tower and destroy the special array within.”

Su Yuntian chuckled and nodded in agreement.

During Luo Hongyan’s trouble, out of fear of the “Heavenly Spirit Tower,” none of them had dared to rush over and offer help, which made it difficult for them to face Luo Hongyan now.

Luo Hongyan didn’t mind, she only cared about Pang Jian’s attitude and thoughts, smiling and saying, “Whether or not you can break the array, I believe you will be safe and sound. This Heavenly Spirit Tower of the Yin Spirit Temple absolutely cannot harm you.”

“I witnessed it with my own eyes; as soon as you stepped onto this Lake Heart Island, it fell from the sky. I even feel… it fears you.”

Her words prompted everyone to recall the strange incident when the White Tower crashed down and the island trembled violently.

Their gazes suddenly became filled with confusion as they looked at Pang Jian.

Could it be that none of this was a coincidence?

“I will take a look,”

Pang Jian said gravely.

He too felt that the Heavenly Spirit Tower could not harm him, an inexplicable sensation without identifiable reason, but the feeling was there all the same.

With his resolution to investigate now firm, he no longer hesitated and strode towards the White Tower, carrying the Dragon Pattern Spear.

He moved surprisingly quickly, without any pauses and with no further cautious, slow observations.

Moments later, he arrived in front of the White Tower, appearing at the entrance.

At this moment, everyone naturally focused their eyes on him, appearing even more anxious and uneasy than he was.

Luo Hongyan remained calm and composed, her delicate white hand resting on her slender waist, her thoughts inscrutable.

“This body is mine!”

The thin ghostly shadow, confined within her body, felt her movements and said, suppressing rage, “Even the places he has touched are part of my body!”

Luo Hongyan paid no mind to her anger, dancing gracefully amidst the void and desolation.

“If I wish it, this body could also be mine,”

“I was just thinking, maybe possessing you and completely becoming you isn’t such a bad idea after all. Your cultivation talent is indeed lacking, but that’s not unfixable; it just requires a bit of effort and means.”

At these words, Ning Yao didn’t dare show even a trace of anger, quickly repressing all of her dissatisfaction.

It was at this moment that Pang Jian stepped inside the White Tower and immediately felt the air thick with Spiritual Energy.

Spiritual Energy that was many times more concentrated and pure than the nature’s spiritual energy of Lake Heart Island filled the space of the White Tower’s base floor.

At the tower’s base, crystal stones as clear as water were arranged in a swastika formation, creating a complex and unusual Spirit Array.

The swastika formations interconnected with each other, and inside the crystal stones that made them up, light flowed endlessly like water.

Standing above those swastika-shaped crystal stones, Pang Jian tried cultivating with the “Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell” and instantly felt an incredibly rich Spiritual Power gushing forth from the stones!

The magnificent Spiritual Power rushed into his dantian like a waterfall, directly entering his Spiritual Sea!

It was pure and flawless Spiritual Power, not the spiritual energy of nature, requiring no cleansing or further refining and extraction.

And it was incredibly lavish!

Just like that, Pang Jian felt as though a pond’s worth of Spiritual Power was being stored in his Spiritual Sea.

“Thump, thump!”

His heartbeat quickened unbelievably as he looked down at the miraculous array beneath his feet, feeling as if this was the best cultivation Holy Land in the world!

Standing on these crystal stones to cultivate, he could certainly fill his Spiritual Sea with Spiritual Power in a short time.

His Qi Refining Realm would surely be able to swiftly reach the breakthrough point, possessing the vast power necessary for the assault upon the next realm!

Reveling in the marvels of this place, Pang Jian took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

He knew now was not the time.

With the fastest speed, he found the stairs to ascend, daring not to spare another glance at the crystal stones, and hurriedly climbed upwards level by level.

Second floor, third floor, fourth floor—each level was also empty, with the floor and the materials that made up the tower consistent in appearance, resembling the white bones of some colossal creature.

Without a moment’s hesitation, he headed straight for the top floor of the Heavenly Spirit Tower.

On the fifth floor, a huge, hollowed-out white skull suddenly loomed into view.

The top of the skull was empty, and so were the eye sockets and cheekbones. Within the hollow skull, countless insect-like ghosts and apparitions whirled around a living being that was howling past.

Just as Pang Jian steadied himself, he heard innumerable noises: desperate cries, frenzied roars, pleas for help, and endless curses of resentment towards this world.

This floor seemed to be filled with lost souls and wandering ghosts, concealing countless wicked beings.

He quickly steadied his heart, not bothering to discern the specific meanings of those strange sounds or to probe their origin, but looked towards the center of the hollow skull surrounded by numerous ghosts and apparitions.

There lay a dark green turtle, which was clearly also a Spiritual Body, but it was much larger than all the Soul Spirits and apparitions around it.

In the center of the skull, surrounded by a crowd of ghosts and apparitions, it seemed as if its Spiritual Wisdom was being slowly eroded away.

Upon closer observation, Pang Jian suddenly realized that the omnipresent clamor originated from the ghosts and apparitions surrounding it.

Countless smaller ghosts and apparitions besieged it, muddling its thoughts and will.

It was almost oblivious to its own identity.

“The skull, that is the special Array.”

Pang Jian came to a realization.

He approached it a bit closer and immediately felt the pure “Mysterious Yin Power” rushing towards him.

He instantly understood that the hollow skull had been constructed from blocks of jade imbued with “Mysterious Yin Power.”

These jade stones were no longer grayish-white but purely white, and the “Mysterious Yin Power” within them was even purer than the one he had obtained from the pile of stones.

Within those jade stones, there was only the rich “Mysterious Yin Power,” with no trace of Spiritual Power or any other aura.

Pang Jian tried to approach continuously, intently feeling the chilling cold and sinister aura released by the skull, while the bronze door pendant on his chest quietly warmed up.

Once it became hot, the dark green Spirit Turtle surrounded by innumerable ghosts and apparitions seemed to sense something.

The Spirit Turtle struggled to gather its focus, laboriously adjusting its angle, and slowly turned towards Pang Jian.

Finally, it saw the spear-wielding youth who appeared ready for a fight; confusion filled its eyes at first.

Suddenly, ecstasy surfaced from the depths of its eyes!

However.

Once it clearly saw Pang Jian’s features and realized he was not the person it had been waiting for, it showed an expression of deep disappointment.

Lacking flesh and bones, being merely a Soul Spirit form, the complexity in its eyes as it looked at Pang Jian, however, betrayed its thoughts and feelings.

Without the need for words, Pang Jian, just by looking into its eyes, could guess its thoughts.

“I will destroy this skull and rescue you,” Pang Jian made a promise out of the blue, his original intention being to destroy the Array, and he gripped the Dragon Pattern Spear tightly.

“Clang!”

The jade stone struck by the spear point emitted a ringing sound of metal clashing, and that seemingly insignificant stone didn’t even spark.

Pang Jian was astonished, then gripped the Dragon Pattern Spear with both hands, channeling the savage strength surging from his bones and body as he stabbed at the same stone again.

“Clang!”

Just like before, the stone made a sound of clashing metal, but remained immovable.

“Could this one be special?”

Knowing his own strength, Pang Jian naturally refused to believe it, grasping the Dragon Pattern Spear with the same force, he began to target other jade stones.

“Clang! Clang clang! Clang clang clang!”

After repeated attempts, over a dozen times, each time aiming at different stones, not one of the jade stones making up the skull Array shattered.

There wasn’t even a sign that they were shifting out of place.

The Spirit Turtle, surrounded by many spirits and apparitions, quietly closed its eyes in disappointment, no longer harboring any fantasies about him.

Pang Jian did not lose heart, trying repeatedly several times; eventually, he even put down the Dragon Pattern Spear and used his hands to push and pull at the stones, still unable to move a single one.

“I’ll go out and think of another way; I will surely smash this cursed thing to bits.”

After a while, Pang Jian dropped that statement, not caring whether the Spirit Turtle could understand or not.

He didn’t even pick up the Dragon Pattern Spear, nor did he follow the original path down the stairs floor by floor; instead, he jumped straight out of an open window.

“Boom!”

He fell from the fifth floor of the White Tower, crashing heavily onto the ground covered with tender green weeds, and quickly approached Luo Hongyan.

Everyone looked at him with shock and confusion.

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