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Chapter 303, The Absorbed Merit Power

Looking at Yuan Qi's pretentious attitude, Wei Zhenjie felt a little annoyed and didn't press him for more information.

Because you can't get any answers by asking.

Yuan Qi has always been tight-lipped; if you ever hear anything from him, it's definitely something he wants to tell the world.

Wei Zhenjie fell silent, but Yuan Qi spoke up instead.

"Brother Wei, please do me a favor. I would like to go up to the Tower of Ascension."

Behind the Heavenly Department office building stands a nine-story ancient stone building called the Heavenly Ascension Tower.

Dengtianlou, along with Guanxinglou and Guangyinlou, are known as the three ancient towers of Central Street, with a history dating back to ancient times.

Wei Zhenjie stared at Yuan Qi for a while, then smiled and said, "The moon is beautiful tonight. Let's go, I'll accompany you to the rooftop to enjoy the night view." With that, he got up and walked out.

Yuan Qi smiled and quickly followed.

With Wei Zhenjie leading the way, the two quickly arrived at the ninth floor of the Ascending Heaven Tower.

The ninth floor of the Heavenly Tower is just a smooth, mirror-like circular platform with nothing covering it.

Standing on the ninth floor of Dengtianlou, you can clearly see everything on the ninth floor of Guanxinglou.

On the ninth floor of the Star Gazing Tower, besides a white jade table, there is also half a snake's body.

The dazzling light illuminating the center came from the white jade table.

As time goes by, the light is fading.

Wei Zhenjie's gaze was deep and unfathomable: "That snake demon was able to make the Zhou Tian Star Disc emit strange phenomena. The demon race certainly has a lot of tricks up its sleeve."

Yuan Qi: "The Bai Ze lineage among the demon race is no less skilled in astrology and divination than the human race."

Wei Zhenjie looked at Yuan Qi: "Before that snake demon died, it rushed into the Star Gazing Tower, causing the Zhou Tian Star Plate to erupt with strange phenomena. It was obviously to lure Hua Changxi into the tower. And you, you opened the door to this, were you also after Hua Changxi?"

Yuan Qi smiled and said, "Anyone who is destined may enter the Star Gazing Tower."

When Wei Zhenjie saw Yuan Qi start saying something ambiguous again, he gave him a look that said, "You're really annoying."

"Brother Wei, Brother Yuan, you didn't even tell me about the excitement."

A voice, laced with teasing and discontent, exploded in their ears. Wei Zhenjie and Yuan Qi looked in the direction of the sound and saw Shi Yishi panting as he climbed up to the ninth floor of Guangyin Tower.

Upon seeing Shi Yishi, Wei Zhenjie raised an eyebrow: "Brother Shi, you've always kept to yourself. What brings you out to admire the moonlight tonight?"

Shi Yishi chuckled: "There's no need for a reason to appreciate the moon; we just come here when we feel like it."

The ninth floor of Guangyin Tower is more luxurious than Dengtian Tower and Guanxing Tower, at least it has a stone table and stone chairs.

Seeing Shi Yishi sitting down on the stone chair with a smile, Yuan Qi didn't say anything and sat down facing the Star Gazing Tower.

Upon seeing this, Wei Zhenjie's eyes flashed. Yuan Qi and Shi Yishi had actually appeared at the same time. It seemed that something big was going to happen tonight!
Wei Zhenjie's gaze also fell on the Star Gazing Tower, his expression shifting uncertainly.

Meanwhile, inside the Star Gazing Tower, Hua Changxi, holding the Fire Spirit Sword, carefully approached the light from the rooftop while surveying her surroundings.

The snake demon should be harmless now, but she feared there might be other dangers inside the Qintian Tower.

Fortunately, we didn't encounter anything along the way.

Hua Changxi ascended to the eighth floor without hindrance, and in the corridor leading from the eighth to the ninth floor, she saw the lower half of the snake demon's enormous snake body.

The snake demon's upper body had clearly climbed up to the ninth floor.

"He's still alive?"

Hua Changxi was astonished to see the snake's body still undulating slightly.

Just as Hua Changxi condensed the Fire Spirit Needle, preparing to completely eliminate the snake demon, the snake demon's body suddenly shone with a bright crimson light, followed by several golden lines flying out from the crimson light.

The moment the golden lines flew out, the snake demon's enormous body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing this, Hua Changxi's expression changed drastically, and she quickly retreated. Just when she thought this was the snake demon's last stand before death, those few golden lines rushed straight towards the white jade table on the ninth floor.

The moment the golden lines disappeared into the white jade table, the previously dark night sky, devoid of stars, began to light up little by little, followed by the emergence of stars.

On the top of the tower, Yuan Qi took out a pure black tortoise shell at some point. As soon as the stars appeared, he gazed at them while making hand seals and chanting incantations.

As his hands moved in and out of hand seals, wisps of spiritual light slowly appeared on the tortoise shell. These lights twisted and distorted, outlining patterns. "Who has stirred the celestial bodies?"

The appearance of the celestial stars startled countless people, including many ancient monsters who had lived for hundreds or thousands of years and had been in seclusion.

On the tower, Yuan Qi's hands moved so fast that they became afterimages as he made hand seals, but the outline of the pattern on the tortoise shell was only sketched out in a tiny detail.

Just as he gritted his teeth and exerted his strength again, the spiritual light on the tortoise shell suddenly dissipated. At the same time, the countless stars that had suddenly appeared in the night sky also disappeared again.

Looking at the tortoise shell, which had turned pitch black again, Yuan Qi was so frustrated that he wanted to smash it: "It was so close!"

Wei Zhenjie, who was standing to the side, also felt a little regretful. Yuan Qi was obviously using the Zhou Tian Xing Chen (a system of divination) to deduce something, but unfortunately, the Zhou Tian Xing Chen appeared for too short a time.

Upstairs in the Guangyin Tower, Shi Yishi was also frowning. The Four Spirits History Book had not appeared!

Inside the Star Gazing Tower, after seeing the golden lines rushing up to the ninth floor and confirming that the snake demon was completely dead, Hua Changxi hesitated for a moment before stepping onto the ninth floor. There, she witnessed the sudden appearance and disappearance of countless stars.

"This is the celestial sphere?"

She had thought it would be spectacular when all the stars appeared, but the sky just now was just a few more stars.

Hua Changxi was somewhat disappointed, and then her gaze fell on the only white jade table on the ninth floor.

What are those golden lines?

Also, what was the purpose of the snake demon's actions before its death?
Hua Changxi couldn't understand it, so she walked to the white jade table.

The tabletop is made of white jade, flawless and smooth as a mirror. The words "Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan" are engraved in the center of the top.

"So this white jade table is called the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan (a type of celestial disc)."

"Those few golden lines that just flew out of the snake demon's body should be the medium for activating the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan."

Hua Changxi carefully circled the Zhou Tian Star Compass a few times. In order to check if the Zhou Tian Star Compass was dangerous, he directly threw the shriveled body of the snake demon onto it.

Seeing that the snake's body had not been attacked, Hua Changxi pulled the snake's body down again, and then reached out to try to find out if there were any other mechanisms on the Zhou Tian Star Compass.

The moment her hand touched the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan (a celestial compass), something unexpected happened.

The countless stars that had just disappeared reappeared, and this time, the light emanating from them was even more dazzling.

The night sky above her head suddenly became dazzling, startling Hua Changxi. She instinctively tried to pull her hand away, but then she was horrified to find that her hand seemed to be stuck to the white jade table, and she couldn't pull it away no matter how hard she tried.

Not only was Hua Changxi startled, but Yuan Qi on the Dengtian Tower and Shi Yishi on the Guangyin Tower were also startled.

Fortunately, the two quickly regained their senses. One took out the tortoise shell again to deduce the secrets, while the other excitedly watched the Four Spirit Realms History Book appear.

In the vast and deep night sky, the stars shine brightly, their light coalescing.

Starlight continuously fell, gathering together and cascading down towards the location of the observatory like a waterfall.

In the blink of an eye, the Star Gazing Tower was submerged in starlight.

The scene was undoubtedly magnificent, but Hua Changxi had no interest in watching it. She was desperately trying to pull her hand back, so much so that she didn't notice that the Star Gazing Tower was growing taller and undergoing a transformation.

"boom!"

Hua Changxi suddenly pulled her hand back sharply, but she couldn't stop herself and fell to the ground. Only then did she realize that the stars in the sky above her seemed to be within her reach.

On the Guangyin Tower, Shi Yishi, with trembling hands, wrote in the history book of the Four Spirit Realms: "On the 28th day of the tenth month of the 4991st year of Qiling, the Star Gazing Tower appeared in the world."

On the top of the Heavenly Tower, Yuan Qi no longer cared about the patterns that had appeared on the tortoise shell. He stared wide-eyed in astonishment at the newly renovated Star Gazing Tower that stretched straight into the sky.

At this moment, the observatory is adorned with starlight and surrounded by nebulae, making it both dazzling and dreamlike.

Yuan Qi had always thought that the changes at the Star Gazing Tower that he had divined some time ago might help him predict the future of the First, Second, and Fourth Spirit Realms, but who would have thought...
What exactly did Hua Changxi do to accumulate so much merit that he directly activated the Star Gazing Tower, allowing the real Star Gazing Tower to reappear in the world?

This is a grave error of cause and effect!

Just as Yuan Qi was feeling both happy and heavy-hearted, Hua Changxi was filled with unease, looking at her hands and asking, "What was drained from me?"

Although she hasn't noticed anything unusual about her body yet, she definitely feels that the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan is drawing something away from her body.

Are they gold lines?

(End of this chapter)