Chu Feng took a deep breath, then walked straight toward the Wolong Destiny Tower without hesitation and stepped inside.
The moment he entered, what greeted his eyes first was a sea of white bones — so many of them that they had piled into mountains.
But what also rushed toward him was a peculiar force. It surged into his soul, and it was indeed stealing Chu Feng's life force.
Beyond that, however, there was nothing else to discover.
"Chu Feng, how do you feel?"
The moment Chu Feng set foot inside, Yu Sha asked with concern.
After all, this was a tower that claimed lives.
"I'm fine. As long as it's only stealing life force, then I have nothing to fear," Chu Feng said.
"Why aren't you afraid? Do you have some means of protection?" Yu Sha asked.
"Not exactly. It's just that I've consumed quite a few rare treasures and heaven-sent materials — plenty of good things that extend lifespan. So my lifespan should be far, far longer than that of an ordinary person," Chu Feng said with a smile.
Chu Feng then climbed upward, and in the blink of an eye, he had arrived.
Even though the rate at which his life force was being drained had already increased significantly, Chu Feng still felt no particular discomfort.
In the blink of an eye, Chu Feng reached the seventh floor.
But upon arriving at the seventh floor, Chu Feng felt his body begin to grow weak. A sensation threatening his life also appeared.
It wasn't that Chu Feng's lifespan had run out.
Although the speed at which the seventh floor drained his life was terrifyingly fast, Chu Feng's lifespan truly seemed to be vast. He didn't feel that it had reached any point of exhaustion — on the contrary, it still felt incredibly abundant.
This secretly delighted Chu Feng.
He had consumed and refined quite a few extraordinary items. The rumors about those things were certainly impressive, though whether they were truly that effective had been uncertain.
But now it seemed they really had made a difference. Otherwise, how could his lifespan be this abundant?
That meant the thing making Chu Feng feel weak and endangered had nothing to do with the rate of life-force drainage.
It was an entirely different kind of pressure.
But Chu Feng pressed on anyway. When he reached the eighth floor, that sense of danger grew even stronger.
Moreover, Chu Feng discovered that the eighth floor was different. There were obvious traces of battle here, along with a strange aura. It seemed that something had once been here, but it had already been taken away.
"Chu Feng, can you still hold on?" Yu Sha suddenly asked.
The reason she asked was that she could already hear Chu Feng's breathing growing heavier and heavier, and his steps were not only labored but becoming unsteady.
Although Chu Feng hadn't spoken, she could already sense that he was in a very weakened state.
"I'm... I'm fine," Chu Feng said, his voice even weaker than Yu Sha had imagined.
Yu Sha wanted desperately to urge Chu Feng to turn back, but she also knew she couldn't persuade him. After all, he was now within arm's reach of breaking Dugu Lingtian's record, and Chu Feng would definitely persist.
Just as Yu Sha had guessed, though Chu Feng's journey had become grueling, he didn't slow down in the slightest.
Chu Feng gritted his teeth and arrived at the ninth floor — this was the farthest Dugu Lingtian had ever come.
Leaving aside the rate of life-force drainage, the dangerous aura, and the force that was weakening him, this ninth floor gave Chu Feng the same impression as the eighth.
Here, too, there were obvious signs of battle, and it seemed something had once existed here as well — only it had already been taken.
However, unlike the eighth floor, on the walls of this ninth floor appeared four characters — Dugu Lingtian — which must have been left behind by the man himself.
"Dugu Lingtian must have known something. He didn't come here to challenge this place for no reason."
"But... what exactly did he and that predecessor from the eighth floor take from this Wolong Destiny Tower?"
"The Wolong Destiny Tower is definitely not as simple as people imagine."
With that thought, Chu Feng continued to climb, heading toward the tenth floor.
Because the answer had to be there.
Thud— But before he had taken more than a few steps up the staircase leading to the tenth floor, Chu Feng collapsed to his knees.
"Damn it..."