Chapter 1162
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”No… it’s impossible… we can’t possibly win.”
After being stunned for a few breaths, Yu Zhu looked at those towering figures, felt the powerful fluctuations of breath coming towards her one after another, and finally couldn’t help but murmur tremblingly.
Gu Qingcheng beside her looked much calmer, but her thoughts at this time were no different from Yu Zhu’s.
Because the group of ghosts blocking their way in front of them was not ten or twenty, but a hundred, a thousand.
”Nearly a thousand ghosts at the same realm as the Snow Girl. Not to mention just a few of us, even if we mobilize the power of an entire region in the outside world, it may not be possible to expel them.”
Gu Qingcheng thought somewhat despairingly in her heart.
”Young master, let’s take a detour. Fighting this group of ghosts head-on, there is no chance of winning.”
Yu Zhu held the Piyun Umbrella in her hand and turned to look at Xu Taiping beside her.
At this moment, Xu Taiping was putting the Lei Po Knife back into its sheath and simultaneously sealing the remaining thunder flames.
After hearing Yu Zhu’s reminder, he raised his head, looked at the group of ghosts in the distance and smiled bitterly, saying：
”Unless we stop climbing the tower, there is no way around it.”
After hearing these words, Yu Zhu’s eyes suddenly dimmed, and she said in a desolate tone：
”How could this be… Young master, you finally led us to the ninth floor and finally saw a glimmer of hope to end the chaos in Xuanhuang Heaven… How could this be…”
Unlike Xu Taiping and the others.
Every disciple of the Xuanhuang Tian who enters the Xuanhuang Pagoda harbors the hope of reaching the top of the tower and asking the Xuanhuang Great Emperor to save the Xuanhuang Heaven in their hearts.
Yuzhu is the same.
”Congratulations to all of you for successfully killing the Ghost King Snow Girl and earning a glimmer of hope for passing through the Snow Region.”
Just then, the voice of the Tower Spirit suddenly sounded simultaneously in the minds of everyone.
”Boom boom boom…”
And at the same time as the Tower Spirit’s voice sounded, the group of ghosts standing side by side in the distance suddenly took a step and whistled towards Xu Taiping and their side.
In just the blink of an eye, the distance between them and Xu Taiping and the other three was less than one or two miles.
The speed was so fast that even if Xu Taiping fully utilized the Zhichi Tianya Step, it was far from enough.
”Tower Spirit, you said that after we defeated the Snow Girl, we could earn a glimmer of hope for passing through the Snow Region. Where is this hope？”
Xu Taiping first took a step forward to block in front of Yuzhu and Gu Qingcheng, and then pressed his hand on the handle of the knife and asked the Tower Spirit.
In his opinion, the Tower Spirit couldn’t have said that sentence for no reason.
Gu Qingcheng on the side also looked at Xu Taiping and listened intently.
She also wanted to see if the Tower Spirit would respond to Xu Taiping this time.
To Gu Qingcheng’s pleasant surprise, after Xu Taiping asked this question, the Tower Spirit immediately had a response——
“In the snow region where the Snow Woman is, the group of ghosts has no flaws at all, and no cultivator can pass through the snow region. Only by slaying the Snow Woman before the group of ghosts discovers you can you have a glimmer of hope of defeating the group of ghosts and passing through the snow region.”
After hearing this, the hint of joy that had just emerged on Gu Qingcheng’s face immediately dissipated.
“Is this the glimmer of hope you mentioned？”
Gu Qingcheng smiled bitterly.
In her opinion, this glimmer of hope was no different from having no hope at all.
Immediately, she looked at Xu Taiping again.
At this time, she couldn’t imagine any way to pass through the snow region and climb the tenth floor and could only place her hopes on Xu Taiping, the person who had been predicted by her eldest brother and chosen by the Mysterious Wilderness Great Emperor.
Xu Taiping’s expression was still very calm at this time.
As early as when Lotus Eye helped him deduce the scenes of the previous few catastrophes, it had already revealed to him the unusualness of the ninth floor, so he had already had a psychological preparation.
“With just the few of us, it’s definitely not enough to defeat this group of ghosts in front of us. We have to find someone.”
Xu Taiping’s gaze was fixed on the group of ghosts charging towards them in the distance, his hand pressing on the knife handle, and he said without looking back.
“There’s no way to find anyone else.”
Gu Qingcheng shook her head helplessly and said：
“Let’s not talk about whether ordinary disciples can obtain the qualification to enter the tower. Even if they can, it is impossible for them to have the strength to come to the eighth floor under the siege of Jiuyuan.”
“Only those disciples with extremely high talent in the family and sect are likely to do this.”
“But now that the situation in the Xuanhuang Pagoda is dangerous, how could they, the proud sons of the sect and family, risk their lives？”
Regarding Gu Qingcheng’s words, Xu Taiping neither expressed recognition nor refuted them. He just stared fixedly at the group of evil spirits rushing towards him in the distance and said：
“Miss Qingcheng, use your gaze to help me remember the following situation. If I can’t defeat them, immediately refine it into a soul mark and send it into the Azure Dragon Token.”
“Okay！”
Gu Qingcheng didn’t waste any words and nodded vigorously.
Regarding Xu Taiping’s intention, she was very clear.
“Boom！ …”
Just at this moment, accompanied by a loud noise, a huge Azure Dragon head suddenly protruded from above the clouds and rushed straight towards Xu Taiping and the others.
Although it looked like a flood dragon, everyone was very clear that this was also a Ghost King.
“Boom！”
The moment the head of the Dragon Ghost protruded, Xu Taiping immediately used the Instant Teleportation technique to leap up. Then, with a “clang” sound he pulled out his knife and slashed at the Dragon Turtle with a huge knife shadow transformed by the thunder and flame.
Demon-Slaying Saber, Dragon-Slaying Style.
“Boom！ ……”
Just as the saber shadow of the Dragon-Slaying Style was about to chop down on the head of the dragon ghost, the dragon ghost opened its mouth and spat out a soil-yellow dragon’s breath towards Xu Taiping.
“Bang！”
In just an instant, Xu Taiping’s protective astral qi shattered, and his Purple Essence Realm dragon whale physique that had been tempered by blood qi also “boomed” and exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
“Young master… couldn’t… couldn’t withstand one strike from it？！”
Seeing this scene, Yu Zhu’s face turned deathly pale.
Among this group of people, Xu Taiping’s cultivation was the highest.
Now that even he couldn’t withstand one strike from that ghost king, how could they continue climbing the tower next？ Even if they really still had several lives left, it wouldn’t be possible！
However, Gu Qingcheng forcefully suppressed the fear in her heart. Before Xu Taiping was blown apart by the dragon’s breath, she sent the soul mark into the Azure Dragon Token.
And she discovered that although the dragon ghost killed Xu Taiping with the dragon’s breath, the saber shadow formed by Xu Taiping’s thunder and flame still chopped down on the dragon’s head of the dragon ghost.
Even one of the dragon’s horns on the dragon’s head was directly chopped off by this saber strike.
