Chapter 74: Treasure-Seeking Tower

Among weird entities of the same grade, there could still be enormous differences in strength.

For example, inside the cave abode, the Little Paper Man, the Ghost-Faced Spider, and the Stone Marrow Spirit were all Aberrant Grade weird entities. But in terms of combat power, the Little Paper Man was in no way inferior to an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

As for the other two, they could only bully Qi Refining cultivators a little. In front of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, they were completely not enough to look at.

After the Little Paper Man advanced to Strange Grade, it maintained its title as the cave abode’s strongest combatant in front of the Red-Footed Golden Crow.

Lu Yuan guessed that, with its current strength, it should not have much trouble dealing with ordinary mid-to-late Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Although he had yet to come into contact with cultivators of the Core Formation realm, judging from the strength the Little Paper Man had displayed while it was still Aberrant Grade, as well as its growth speed, now that it had advanced, even if it could not fight one to a standstill, it should at least be able to hold out for a while in the hands of a Core Formation cultivator.

This also greatly improved the cave abode’s strength. Its high-level combat power was no longer stretched thin.

Before this, the only ones in the cave abode that could match an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator were the Little Paper Man and the Red-Footed Golden Crow.

Although the third-rank Red-Footed Golden Crow was still in its growth stage, it contained a trace of a special bloodline, so it had the power to fight an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Aside from the two of them, most of the other weird entities and demonic beasts in the cave abode were only at the mid-to-high Qi Refining level.

Of course, there were exceptions. As for the only two remaining big-headed strange fish, who knew whether they could join forces to take down an early-stage Qi Refining cultivator.

Looking at the Little Paper Man on the roof of the stone cave, working hard to show off its body, Lu Yuan did not know whether to laugh or cry.

This little fellow was actually quite good at holding grudges. He had said earlier that it was soft and limp, so it had probably been unhappy about that. Now that it had fused with the White-Bone Demon Skin, it had come to show off to him.

He controlled the Little Paper Man with his divine sense, flung its still thin and weightless body out of the stone cave, and continued opening the prizes.

Among the remaining white light orbs, the ones worth noting produced three formation plates, further improving the cave abode’s defensive power.

The Primordial Taiyin Restriction could stop cultivators from entering the cave abode, but if Lu Yuan actively opened the restriction and let cultivators in, the cave abode’s defenses would not be enough.

Most of the spiritual herbs and spirit medicines were laid out bare in front of the many cultivators, looking as if they were completely ready to be picked at will.

The Mist-Concealing Confusion Array could originally hide things and confuse paths, but now, both the core and outer regions of the cave abode had expanded more than tenfold. The white mist could no longer fully cover the cave abode.

If the white mist was spread out, the array’s effect would weaken by a great deal.

Just imagine: under a faint mist, tender and vibrant spirit medicines appeared and disappeared from sight, half-hidden and half-revealed.

Once cultivators saw that, they would only get even more excited…

With these three additional formation plates, he could use them the way the chaotic stone array protected the stone cave: focusing on several key locations, then covering a certain surrounding area.

“Right, speaking of arrays. Where’s my Thousand-Spider Web Array?”

Lu Yuan had quite a deep obsession with the first array he had obtained.

His divine sense instantly shifted over. The Ghost-Faced Spider, its back swollen and bulging, was lying beneath a spiritual plant. All hundred-plus of its compound eyes were closed, and it was still savoring the delicious taste of the Foundation Establishment cultivator’s soul.

Suddenly, an inexplicable chill ran across its rear. It opened its eyes and looked all around, but there was no movement at all.

Even so, the Ghost-Faced Spider obediently crawled out. After brewing for a moment, gray-white spider silk slowly began to come out from its rear, strand after strand.

Lu Yuan slowly withdrew his divine sense.

“Looks like I can’t let it eat too much. Once it’s full, it loses motivation and doesn’t even want to work.

“From now on, it gets to absorb as many souls as the amount of work it does. If the spider silk doesn’t meet the target, then it can just stay hungry first.”

Lu Yuan came up with a clear system of rewards and punishments.

He continued opening prizes.

There were only two white light orbs left. Both light orbs had dense specks of light and were huge in size.

The last one in particular was no smaller than the light orb that had produced the White-Bone Demon Skin, and might even be bigger.

Lu Yuan rubbed his hands together in midair. After padding the odds for so long, he could finally open a grand prize.

His divine sense lightly touched the second-to-last light orb.

The light orb burst apart, revealing a transparent cloud cluster the size of a fist.

The cloud cluster was formed from countless crystalline wisps of water vapor, which constantly revolved around the thing at the very center.

At the center of the cloud cluster lay a snow-white miniature flood dragon.

Sensing the change in its surroundings, the flood dragon opened a pair of pupils the size of needle tips and let out a soundless roar.

The miniature flood dragon kept twisting and shifting within the cloud cluster, as if trying to break out through the mist. The water vapor in the cloud cluster spun faster, forming a transparent current that bound the miniature flood dragon tightly inside.

Dragon Source Qi. A third-rank material. It contains a strand of the origin aura of a demonic beast flood dragon. It is the main material for refining the Dragon-Subduing Pill, and can also be used to feed dragon-type demonic beasts.

Lu Yuan controlled the transparent cloud cluster and observed the extremely active miniature flood dragon inside for a moment before setting it aside.

He did not know whether the second-rank Python-Sparrow Eel counted as a dragon-type demonic beast. If it did, then when it was close to breaking through, he could feed it this Dragon Source Qi and help it break through to third rank.

After the Dragon Source Qi, it was time for the final light orb.

Filled with anticipation, Lu Yuan lightly touched the white light orb with his divine sense.

The specks of light scattered, and a strangely shaped wooden man appeared inside the stone cave.

The wooden man was around three feet tall. Its body was entirely blue-black. It had long arms and long legs, no neck beneath its broad, flat head, and a square, boxy torso.

Treasure-Seeking Tower. A rare treasure. It loves all kinds of treasures, and has the ability to sort treasures and seek treasures.

Hm? Isn’t this a wooden man? What tower is this supposed to be?

Lu Yuan was filled with confusion throughout the stone cave.

Seeming to sense his puzzlement, the strangely shaped wooden man’s slender arms contracted, wrapping around beneath its broad, flat head.

Its two chopstick-like long legs continuously folded, forming several dozen little wooden strips that pressed tightly together without leaving the slightest gap.

???

Transformation?

Watching the wooden man instantly turn into a small wooden house, Lu Yuan also instantly became excited.

This cool transformation actually had something to it…

Lu Yuan controlled the little wooden house with his divine sense and placed it on an empty patch of ground outside the stone cave.

His divine sense gave the little wooden house an instruction.

“Treasure-Seeking Tower, transform!”

Amid clicking and clacking sounds, the little wooden house kept rising higher. Two chopstick-like long legs propped up its massive, square body.

The arms wrapped beneath its head also stretched continuously, hanging down on both sides of its body.

“Treasure-Seeking Tower, transform!”

The wooden man once again turned back into a small wooden house.

Lu Yuan kept giving commands, and the Treasure-Seeking Tower kept switching between wooden house and wooden man.

For a time, he played with it so much that he lost himself completely.

Only after a long while did Lu Yuan, fully satisfied, finally stop his tasteless antics.

Gathering his divine sense onto the Treasure-Seeking Tower, Lu Yuan obtained more detailed information about the wooden house.

The Treasure-Seeking Tower loved all kinds of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, as well as ritual implements, talismans, spirit pills, and other items refined from heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

When it encountered treasures, the wooden tower would automatically want to swallow them and store them inside its body.

After being successfully swallowed, the heavenly materials and earthly treasures inside the Treasure-Seeking Tower’s house would not be affected in any way. The wooden tower would also sort them into categories and distinguish them in detail according to the type, value, and other qualities of the treasures.

The more treasures it collected, the larger the Treasure-Seeking Tower’s size would become.

Aside from that, the Treasure-Seeking Tower possessed relatively low-level intelligence of its own. It had a certain degree of mobility and could find treasures near the wooden tower.

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