Mortal: My name is Ma Liang, and I also possess a magic brush.

Seeing the beams of light, Ma Liang wondered, "Why are there more people here?"

He looked at his body, which was not yet fully recovered. No, he had to hide first!

He first chased away the rats, then immediately hid behind the throne, but as soon as he hid, he changed his mind again.

We can't just hide like this; we have to draw their attention away.

His mind raced, and he finally came up with a solution. He immediately summoned his magic brush, touched the ground with the tip, and quickly drew a few strokes on the ground.

The moment the outline is completed, the object under the brush suddenly breaks free from the ink marks and transforms into a real, tangible thing.

Then another Ma Liang appeared before them, but this figure was not only completely naked, but also had a somewhat dazed look in his eyes.

"Never mind all that!" Ma Liang gritted his teeth and ordered the dazed figure, "Quickly, lie back down in front of the throne!"

Although the avatar had a blank look in its eyes, it could still understand commands and immediately walked out from behind the throne, trembling.

Just then, Li Huayuan and the other six people spotted him.

The most shocked person was Nangong Wan: at first, she was only startled to see the naked person in front of her, but when she saw the face clearly, she forgot all the details and was left with only astonishment.

She stared at the fake body's full head of white hair and the faint wrinkles on its face. "How did you end up like this?"

At this moment, the imposter continued to act according to the instructions, walked to the throne and sat down, then fell silent, his eyes glazed over.

To everyone else, this person clearly appeared to have suffered a severe psychological trauma.

Li Huayuan stepped forward. "Junior Sister Nangong, do you know this person?"

Nangong Wan's gaze was fixed on the figure on the throne, and she replied with a puzzled expression, "He's the one who broke the formation! But he was clearly a young cultivator before, how did he suddenly turn into this old man?"

Upon hearing this, Fu Yunzi flicked his whisk and pointed it at the ground.

"There are obvious signs of a fight here, and it's a place devoid of spirits. Our divine sense and magic are suppressed, and we can't even open our storage bags. This person's condition clearly indicates that he was severely exhausted in the fierce battle, even using his life force!"

Yue Zhanchen frowned and asked, "Who did he fight? It's obvious at a glance that he's the only one left, and there's not even a corpse to be found. Could there be some unseen danger lurking in this place?"

Nangong Wan hesitated for a moment, "He told me before that they came together to break the formation, and they should have been a group. But now that we're here, we only see him. His companions have disappeared without a trace. It's obvious that they've had internal strife."

Shi Jingtao sneered, "Internal strife is good, this can be considered revenge for the disciples of our various sects." With that, he strode towards the throne, "I'll kill this last one now!"

"Wait, Fellow Daoist Shi!" Nangong Wan interrupted, "We know nothing about this place yet. Let's question him first and find out how to leave this place."

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately felt it made sense; the other party had arrived here earlier than them, and might indeed be hiding crucial information for leaving.

Nangong Wan looked at the figure on the throne, "Do you know where this place is? How do you leave this place?"

But the fake body just sat there blankly, without responding at all.

Nangong Wan frowned and was about to go closer to see what was going on.

Hidden behind the throne, Ma Liang's heart tightened upon seeing this: He absolutely couldn't let her get close! He lowered his voice and ordered his clone, "Go, circle that golden pagoda on the throne!"

Just as Nangong Wan was about to step forward, she suddenly saw "Ma Liang" on the throne stand up. She immediately stopped and stared at him.

The fake figure walked to the golden pagoda, whose pure gold body was spotless and without a single stain.

The clone reached out and hugged the golden pagoda, then spun it around to the left.

"Boom—!"

The moment the golden pagoda began to rotate, the entire hall shook violently.

Li Huayuan and the others were filled with shock and anger. "Kid! What have you done?!"

Meanwhile, Ma Liang, who was hiding behind the throne, secretly injected a wisp of life force into a miniature magic array hidden in the armrest amidst the chaos.

In an instant, a dazzling magic circle light shone on the far left side of the hall.

Ma Liang immediately manipulated his avatar to shout, "Hahaha! They're all dead! All of them are dead! You can all die here too!"

After shouting, he immediately commanded the avatar: "Run towards that magic circle quickly!"

Nangong Wan and the others were completely caught off guard. The turn of events happened far too fast, and they could only watch helplessly as "Ma Liang" rushed toward the magic array.

At first they were puzzled, but the next second they saw the figure disappear into the light of the magic circle.

Just then, the shaking of the hall intensified, and the rumbling vibrations seemed to threaten to overturn the entire space.

Li Huayuan was the first to react, "Quick! That's a teleportation array to leave this place!"

The group was still shaken by the previous explosion, and now they thought this place was about to explode again. They didn't dare to hesitate and rushed towards the magic circle with all their might.

In the chaos, Shi Jingtao ran too fast and tripped on the raised floor, falling flat on his face.

He was so anxious that he was out of his mind. Ignoring his disheveled state, he ran towards the magic circle on all fours.

His panicked and disorganized manner only made the others more panicked, and they all rushed forward to push their way in.

The array had limited capacity, and the first to rush in were the cultivators from Huadaowu, Lingshoushan, and Jujianmen, whose figures disappeared in the light in an instant.

Li Huayuan and Fuyunzi followed closely behind and also stepped into the magic array.

Shi Jingtao had already fallen and was at the back. Seeing that only he and Nangong Wan were left, he became so anxious that his eyes turned red. He suddenly pushed off the ground and rushed out like a wild beast that had lost its way, rushing into the magic circle.

Nangong Wan also stepped in at almost the same time, leaving only the two of them in the magic circle.

The moment Nangong Wan stepped into the teleportation array, she subconsciously turned her head to look in the direction of the throne.

This glance sent a jolt through her: a human head was peeking out from behind the throne!

Once she saw the face clearly, she instantly realized she had been tricked.

The teleportation light suddenly intensified, and a split second before the figure completely vanished, Nangong Wan shouted angrily, "Ma Liang—!"

This tower is actually a divine treasure that connects to the heavens.

I wonder what the cultivator who created it was thinking.

Controlling this treasure requires no special techniques; the only cost is the consumption of life force. Moreover, the stronger the life force consumed, the more terrifying its power becomes.

Looking at the golden pagoda, Ma Liang couldn't help but think to himself: "It must be that the ancient cultivators had such long lifespans that they were bored and created such an outrageous treasure."

Ma Liang already knew the way to use this pagoda very well, but he only had thirty or forty years left to live, so he didn't dare to use the pagoda's power recklessly.

The manipulation of the tower just now was not intended to destroy it, but rather for another purpose.

He walked up to the golden pagoda and reached out to turn it around twice.

In an instant, a beam of light was projected from the top of the golden pagoda into the void, and a map appeared in the beam of light.

"I absolutely cannot stay in Xu Kingdom any longer. Once I leave, the Seven Great Sects will definitely hunt me down and kill me. It's best to run far away."

He searched the map repeatedly, finally pinpointing an area comprised of numerous islands: "This is it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his hand and pointed at the target point on the map, and a small red dot immediately appeared in the light and shadow.

Immediately afterwards, the entire hall shook violently again, and Ma Liang felt as if he were riding an elevator in his previous life, his body rising with the tower.

He quickly sat back on his throne.