Chapter 51: Aurora Tower

The ninth peak, inside the cave.

"Only the eighth level?"

Feeling his body calm down, Zhang Yun felt a little unsatisfied.

The wave of returned energy brought to him by Xu Ming's breakthrough in the foundation-building stage directly raised his realm from the fifth level to the eighth level, but it was less than he expected.

According to his thinking, this wave should at least reach the tenth level.

But after the fifth level, the energy absorbed by each level was much more than he expected, and he couldn't go up to the eighth level...

"It seems that I have to wait until Xiaopang breaks through the foundation-building stage!"

Zhang Yun exhaled.

Wu Xiaopang can't break through now.

Unlike Xu Ming, Xiaopang rushed to the peak of the Qi Refining Stage before, but his realm was not solid. Xu Ming had reached the fifth level of the Qi Refining Stage in his early years, and then his spiritual roots were taken away and his cultivation level regressed, but he never fell behind in cultivation. Later, he awakened his two spiritual roots and the Dragon Blood Holy Body, and rushed up with great accumulation. The whole realm is very stable, and with the resources, it can be said that the breakthrough of foundation building is a natural outcome.

Wu Xiaopang needs some accumulation to break through the foundation building.

"I have to prepare some resources for Xiaopang to build the foundation!"

Zhang Yun thought about it, and couldn't help looking outside the Lingxian Sect.

Next, he had to go out of the sect.

Because many of the resources obtained from this exchange meeting were temporarily useless to him and his two disciples. He had to go out and get some that could be used directly.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yun immediately took out the special sound transmission stone: "Ming'er, Xiaopang. The master is going to retreat for a few days, so don't disturb the master for the time being. Practice well, and the master will notify you after he comes out of retreat!"

"Yes, Master!"

Soon, Xu Ming and Wu Xiaopang came back one after another.

Zhang Yun put away the sound transmission stone and was about to leave, but after thinking about it, he disguised himself.

The Lin family, Nanshan Sect, and even the Nanzangbao Pavilion may now want to attack him. If he exposed his face in public, he would probably be chased by a series of people.

It was very dangerous for him to go out now, so he had to take some safety precautions!

Wearing a bamboo hat, a mask, and a cloth dress...

He looked in the mirror.

Only then did he walk to the bed beside him with satisfaction, moved the bed away with his spiritual energy, and reached out to lift a piece of the floor in the middle, revealing a staircase going down.

This was the secret passage left by the previous killer, which led directly to the outside of the Lingxian Sect.

He walked down a few steps and stepped hard on the fifth step.

Creak!

The mechanism was triggered, and the floor and the bed that were lifted up above moved back to their original positions.

After doing this, Zhang Yun lit a torch and went out along the underground passage.

In a few minutes, he was close to the exit. This was the entrance of an upward tunnel. He turned off the torch and flew out on his sword.

Before he reached the ground, Zhang Yun stopped, groped around the walls, and found a place to press down. A notch appeared, with a round stone inside.

He injected a trace of spiritual energy into the stone.

A beam of light suddenly emerged from the stone, forming a picture in front of him.

The picture showed a forest.

Seeing that the forest was quiet and deserted, Zhang Yun dispersed the spiritual energy on the stone, then lifted the floor cover above and flew out.

Above was the forest just in the picture.

He flew to the bushes on a big tree next to him and found another identical stone embedded in the tree.

This kind of stone is called a video stone. If you inject spiritual energy into it, you can play the image near the video stone in real time, just like a camera. The one in front of him is connected to the one underground, and it was arranged by his predecessor. Every time he came out of the underground passage, he could confirm the situation outside through these two connected video stones in advance.

He checked the video stone and didn't pay much attention to it, but suddenly he was startled.

Because there was a trace of hook marks on the video stone.

Realizing something, his expression was stern.

Swish!

Almost at the same time, a sharp edge directly cut through the bushes behind him and headed straight for his neck.

Zhang Yun immediately crouched down.

The sharp edge immediately passed over his head, allowing him to see the sharp iron hook clearly.

This is an iron hook embedded in the arm.

"Nineteen, your strength has dropped, but your reaction is still quick!"

The owner of the hand hook is a bald middle-aged man wearing an eye patch on his left eye and a hooded black robe.

"Twenty!"

Zhang Yun's expression sank.

The bald middle-aged man swung the hand hook directly towards his head.

Clang!

Zhang Yun immediately drew up the flying sword under his feet and blocked the hand hook with the sword.

A trace of contempt flashed across the bald middle-aged man's eyes, and a sharp aura burst out from the hand hook, and he pushed it down with force.

The flying sword "clicked" and a crack appeared.

The next moment, it "clicked" and broke.

The hand hook slashed down, but only cut off some branches and leaves between the trees.

"Your skills are still as good as ever!"

The bald middle-aged man looked at Zhang Yun who jumped to the ground below and chuckled.

Zhang Yun stared at the man with a cold face: "Are you going to kill me?"

"A useless person whose cultivation has regressed to the foundation-building stage is not worthy of being in our Aurora Building. The key ranking is still above me!"

The bald middle-aged man laughed and said, "I have wanted your 19th position for a long time!"

Zhang Yun took out the Yuntian Sword directly.

"Why, do you still want to resist?"

The bald middle-aged man laughed and said, "You know me, you should know that with your current..."

Swish!

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Yun slashed at the other party with a sword.

"Fearless struggle!"

The bald middle-aged man smiled contemptuously and raised his hand hook to slash down.

However, at the moment when the hand hook and the Yuntian Sword were about to touch, the Yuntian Sword suddenly disappeared in front of the hand hook like a bubble. At the same time, Zhang Yun in front of him also disappeared.

The bald middle-aged man was stunned.

Where is the person?

"Not good!"

The next second, his face suddenly changed, and he quickly dodged to the side.

Puff!

But Zhang Yun had already slashed out with a sword to his side, directly cutting off the arm that he was hooking.

"Ah!"

With a scream, the bald middle-aged man fell to the ground from midair, holding his right shoulder that was bleeding, and looked at Zhang Yun in disbelief: "You...what kind of swordsmanship is this?"

In his opinion, Zhang Yun didn't have this skill!

"You came to kill me, did someone in the building assign you?"

Zhang Yun didn't answer, just holding the bloody Yuntian Sword and slashing the ground, step by step towards the other party.

The bald middle-aged man didn't think about it, covered his shoulder and stood up and wanted to run.

Whoosh!

Zhang Yun threw the Yuntian Sword forward directly.

Puff!

More than ten meters away, the Yuntian Sword pierced directly into the other party's left thigh like a javelin.

"Ah!"

The bald middle-aged man screamed and fell to the ground.

Zhang Yun took the Qingyuan Step and dodged in front of the falling opponent. He pulled out the Yuntian Sword that was stuck in the opponent's thigh and pointed it directly at the opponent's neck: "Answer me, die quickly. Or, die slowly!"

The bald middle-aged man's face was pale.

As a killer of the Aurora Building, he knew the other party's torture methods very well.

"I didn't expect that I would fall into your hands today. It seems that my information is not in place!"

The bald middle-aged man laughed bitterly, closed his eyes and said: "The third floor master asked me to come!"

"Third floor master?"

Zhang Yun raised his eyebrows, and the Yuntian Sword in his hand chopped off the opponent's head without hesitation.

"You really can't wait!"

His eyes narrowed slightly.

Aurora Building, this is the killer organization where he was a killer in his previous life. This building is very mysterious, with only 27 members in total, named from one to twenty-seven. This is both a name and a strength.

He is nineteen, and the bald middle-aged man in front of him is twenty.

He looks not low at the nineteenth place, but in fact, he knows very little about this building.

Because only the top five members can really know the exact information of this building. These people are the top killers, and they are also called building owners in the Aurora Building.

Killers from the sixth to the twenty-seventh need to listen to their commands.

The third building owner mentioned by the bald middle-aged man is the third-ranked building owner.

Zhang Yun was not too surprised that the other party wanted to kill him.

In the Aurora Building, it has always been a strength elimination system. If you have the ability, kill the killers ranked in front, and then your ranking can be replaced.

In addition, for some killers who have been determined to be useless, the Aurora Building will also take cleaning measures.

Generally speaking, this cleaning time will be determined two months later, and the specific time depends on the situation. Because in history, there have been cases where killers were useless for a period of time, but recovered after a period of time, and now his cultivation has fallen for less than half a month, and the third building owner is anxious to let the twenty come to kill him...

"Clearing dissidents, so fast!"

Zhang Yun sneered.

The interior of the Aurora Building is not a peaceful place. The first five building owners have many conflicts with each other, especially the second and third building owners.

Each killer from the sixth to the twenty-seventh floor obeys the orders of different building owners, and can be said to be in different building owners' camps. He is in the camp of the second building owner.

His predecessor entered the Aurora Building and upgraded very quickly. He was ranked 19th at a young age, and was considered a new killer of the younger generation in the Aurora Building.

In the memory of his predecessor, the third building owner had privately recruited him, hoping that he would switch to the camp, but he refused.

This was obviously remembered by the third building owner.

It's not too surprising that he is in a hurry to kill him now!

"I have to improve my strength as soon as possible!"

With a light breath, Zhang Yun felt a little anxious.

Since the third building owner sent people to kill him, and failed to kill him now, there will definitely be another wave later.

These building owners are basically vindictive. As long as you are remembered, you will be hunted down endlessly!

The only way to solve it is to kill the other party!

He didn't know the specific strength of the third floor master, but he had assassinated a Yuanying stage!

"Trouble!"

Shaking his head, Zhang Yun dug a hole to bury the bald middle-aged corpse on the ground, and then went out of the woods.

The Third Floor Master will come for revenge, but it won't be too soon. Because each assassin in the Aurora Building will be given one to three months to go on a mission.

Even if this bald middle-aged man was sent here as soon as he was crippled, it has only been less than half a month, so he will have at least two and a half months of buffer time.

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