43. Shilian Tower Accomplished!

Students standing outside could only see a red light rushing through the first three floors. It was Ye Lan. They were all amazed by her speed, "How could she be so fast?" Within an hour, she had cleared the first three levels.

Some people waiting to see her failure were also shocked at the moment. The Dean's eyes gradually cooled down, as if covered with a layer of frost. As expected, she was really a genius.

"It would be a great loss if such a talent were drained on my watch." the dean thought, "I must keep her here as a student no matter what."

Ye Lan's rapid clearance of the first three levels had broken the academy record, which caused a bigger stir.

"Oh my god! Was that Ye Lan? How can she be so fast!"

"It's her! With just a red flash, she had reached the third floor!"

"Too fast, she is too fast!"

"Miss Ye, you should be careful." Ming Qingyu frowned with great worry.

Ye Lan rushed to the fourth floor non-stop. She could feel her power surging in her infinite spiritual sea, and heat coming from her elixir field. She knew that this was the reaction that she would feel when entering into the next stage. "Am I going to enter into the next stage now?" she thought.

Thinking of this, she determined to stop her footsteps and meditated here. She had to clear up all the effecting factors that could affect her meditation.

Holding her breath, she stopped.

Everyone watching from the outside saw the red flash slowed down then stopped. Watching it began to flicker, people didn't know what was going on inside.

"Ah? What happened? Where is she?"

"Why did she stop?"

"Hahaha, you see, we’re fooled by her rushing at the beginning. Look. She cannot be fierce now, can she? Hahaha!"

Voices of sarcasm built up. Ming Qingyu's brows furrowed deeper, creating a chill around him and upon people who stood near him.

Ye Lan released the ghost fire. The vast red wings spread across the entire floor, leaving the screams of its victims echoing. The screams in pain caused chills on everybody who heard it. People were scared by the ghostly scream. Some of the timid ones even started crying.

Quite easily, Ye Lan took over the fourth floor. She sat with crossed-legs and started her meditation. And Libao had come out from her personal space to defend Ye Lan as she meditates.

Surges, in her infinite spiritual sea, was even stronger and more frequent. Surrounding Ye Lan, lights formed by the power surge rippled around her as if a pebble was thrown into the calm water. Ye Lan was right in the center like the thrown pebble, creating power waves lap after lap without a sound. Libao sensed her own power rising with the light passing through her body. Therefore, after a few laps, she sat down to absorb the remaining power coming from Ye Lan while protecting her. "It would be such a waste to see all this power pass by." she thought.

Light waves emanated.

"How did the red light turn lighter in shades?"

"It had turned into the golden shade!"

"Goodness, the light of her spiritual energy is golden."

"The halo has grown bigger."

Amazed by her power, people had more fear toward her.

After the light wave which lasted for around 15 minutes, the light shrank, but then large petals rose.

It was epiphyllum.

Ye Lan had obtained the epiphyllous realm. Large petals, swaying, unfolded itself layer after layer like real epiphyllum flash in the pan.

In absolute silence, Ye Lan sat in the heart of the flower. Petals unfolded one layer at a time, blooming while withering. Wherever its luster shined upon, everyone was in peace.

The dark gradually took over as the sunlight faded. People around were distracted by Ye Lan's performance without noticing the weird darkness in the sky. No one noticed it until one of them realized the abnormal darkness in the sky and said, "How come the darkness came so quickly? It’s night already?"

"Night? You fool! The day is still young, and the sundial is still running!"

"Ah, indeed. Then why the day is so dark?"

"Check the current time on the sundial now!"

"Yes!" someone rushed to check the current time and reported back, "It shows that it is still in the morning. Why does the day become so dark?"

"This is an abnormal celestial phenomenon."

"How did this happen?"

The crowd began to panic. They turned to the Dean with anxiety, only to find the Dean's more anxious face and the pressing pressure around him. Nobody dared annoy him now. So, people had to stay put and peeked at the dean's action in secret. As for the Dean himself, with a deep frown, he added another layer of the enchantment on top of the existing one. With the celestial abnormality, he had to take the responsibility of the dean and protected these people.

As the skies gradually darkened, Ye Lan sat in the middle without any knowledge of time passing by. All she felt was the gradual cooling in her infinite spiritual sea, then she shouted out loud. At that time, the sky distorted, lightning and thundering struck with blowing wind. With Ye Lan's faster hand movements, the luster around her became more dazzling, as if to penetrate something!

"Ahhh!" Ye Lan shouted as if she was going to explode. Her spiritual stage rushed to its full capacity at this moment. And the thunder and lightning in the sky became more and more fierce. The last golden light struck the Shilian Tower, helping Ye Lan enter directly to the third level of the ninth stage from the eighth stage.

The higher the energy stage was, the more difficult the practice and the promotion would be. It was impossible for others to have such a fast promotion speed, let alone jumping levels as Ye Lan did in her stage. How could anybody's power grow at such a fast speed? This was just so absurd.

After the flashing bloom of the epiphyllum, with the withering of the final pedal, the golden luster from the Shilian Tower lessened and then died away. The dark cloud in the sky scattered, and sunlight pierced through the cloud and exuded a soft light upon the earth as if it had not disappeared at all. The weather now was ideal, with warm sunlight and cooling breeze under a clear sky.

However, the warm light shined brought chills rather than warmth to people on the scene. They were so all frightened by what happened just now that the abrupt warm sunlight was terrifying to them.

What a crazy person she was! How could someone have breakthroughs in the Shilian Tower, and it was powerful enough to create natural abnormalities? It was just insane! Crazy!

"Damn! My dear Lan, you have made progress again!" Libao shouted in excitement, "In the Shilian Tower? You sure have chosen the right place. This is so interesting! Haha!"

"Huh, it was fine." unknowingly, Ye Lan looked down on her flipping hands. Without any doubt, it was gorgeous with slender fingers, but just now, it was this pair of delicate hands that killed all those monsters!

Ye Lan pursed her lips with a helpless smile. She had killed people in her previous life and killed monsters in this life. She really couldn't get rid of killing all her life, could she? In fact, how wonderful it would be to live in a prosperous world without killing! Unfortunately, she could only compete for her survival in this world of conflicts.

But, since she couldn't choose the time, she should accept it in peace. No matter where she was, she could be the master of her own life and the king of the time. Thus, as she was in the Feng Tian continent now, she would take this continent.

Ye Lan's fighting spirit was aroused, and every part of her was excited by the combat. As for Libao, he was no good deal as well. He was the Magic Beast of Ye Lan, knowing everything in his master's mind. So, Ye Lan's excitement also aroused Libao. As a strong beast himself, Libao's excitement once aroused must be comforted with a hearty battle.

The two smiled at each other, marking the starting point of their fight. Libao turned himself into a handsome man and his fan into his weapon- a three-pointed sword.

Slowing down her motion, Ye Lan wanted to test out her ability as a spiritual cultivator in the third-level of the ninth stage. Unfortunately, the creatures in this tower had grown into elite monsters. The higher the floor was, the more powerful the monsters were. The first three floors that she rushed through were full of weak creatures that did not worth her while; it was until the fourth floor that she felt a battle was needed. However, she had killed all the creatures on the fourth floor with the ghost fire. Feeling the loss of practicing opportunities, she thought, "I shall ask some reward from the dean afterward. After all, I cleaned up the Shilian Tower for him in a sense. After my cleaning, he can put more creatures in here." Sensing her loss, she frowned with discomforts.

Libao synced with her thought and said, "We should ask that old fellow for some rewards for this! We have suffered a great loss."

"Forget about getting out for rewards. You should take enough from here first. Two idiots!" the old man's voice jumped out and scared the two of them.

"The good stuffs are all on the seventh floor. Why are you two wandering here?" unable to withhold his excitement, the old man appeared himself out of the smoke from Ye Lan's personal space. He appeared to be a nice old man in a heartily smile who looked like Guanyin- a Buddhism god. But Ye Lan knew him too well to be fooled by his appearance. She was surrounded by all these seemingly harmless people in disguise. Could this mean that the saying that like attracts like was true? She was such a person in disguise, and so was Libao and the old man. Gosh!

"Ok, Let's go!" Ye Lan and Libao walked happily toward the fifth floor.

As soon as they entered the fifth floor, they sensed a shift of pressure.

People outside of the tower watched the golden light began to move slowly, and they heart all bumped with the light's motion. It was like they had entered the tower themselves.

Having reached the fifth floor, they were hit by an overwhelming cold. Libao, as a beast, was not affected due to his thick skin. But Ye Lan, on the other hand, though in a celestial silk dress, she still felt the freezing cold. Within minutes, she was frozen, and her lips had turned pale. Enduring the freezing cold, she smiled, "Finally comes some fun."

"That's right." Libao moved his shoulder to get his muscles ready, "My entire body is awakened now."

Libao, who was not a considerate person, laughed at Ye Lan's miseries. There was ice on her eyebrows and eyelashes. She looked like a porcelain doll in ice, with ice decorating her long and clear eyelashes, which made her look very adorable rather than the fierce energy in her now.

"Go away!" Ye Lan rolled her eyeballs on Libao and thought to herself, "Libao is just ridiculous."

"Hahaha!" looking at her frustration, Libao laughed like a child. He took out a marten from his space, shook down the dust, and turned it into a coat for Ye Lan. Having finished processing the marten for not long, he was going to turn it into a pillowcase. Also, he gave Ye Lan a fire crystal to put in the marten coat. Within seconds, the marten warmed up to keep Ye Lan warm inside. Still, it was a fresh marten peeled from a mink, and its smell was not pleasant at all. Ye Lan could bear the smell for she had gone through worse during her training. This was just an easy-peasy for her.