Over the fifty long years we've known each other, I've been leaving hints of my desire to hire him and the day he received a letter from his family, I knew that the time had come to reap my harvest for my investment ,I'd waited some fifty for the moment he used the artifact I'd given him and today was the day he had no other choice but to use it.
The artifact I'd given him could secretly collect the souls of the diseased without anyone's notice and actively teleport the individual or collector straight to my city.
Seems like a fairly ordinary and cheap artifact until you realize that it's literally stealing the souls from the jaws of reincarnation and could result in a karmic backlash capable of spanning at least two reincarnations yet that's not all that it's capable of as it could also collect soul pieces ,the result of a soul's destruction , and form's back the soul whole with memories intact as the immortal King realm experts have the ability to shatter souls making them the most feared beings below the Immortal emperors.hence such an artifact would be hard to acquire yet there it was the culmination of research and thousands of lives in test subjects.
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" You and your clan shall be the guardians of the black tower and overseers of the trial pagoda. As guardians , you shall protect the tower and also benefit from it, just as you are now.
The very artifact that saved your family is from the black tower and the means of their revival lies in the tower.
As for the trial pagoda, this is the true crown jewel of the edge, it's a training artifact that will be opened to the public in sixty years. It will train battle arts,will,bloodline, souls, dao and Constitution.
As you can see, it will be beneficial to all races yet how could such an artifact not be coveted by the greedy wolves, hence why I need powerful, faithful and fair guards."
It has taken me close to seventy years and my projects are almost done.
The black tower would be for research and strictly prohibited to the public while the pagoda will be open to the public.
This will not only sow good karma but also allow the pagoda grow stronger while providing data to the black tower. The artifacts were actually living beings capable of sentience in the future.
The tower will have the equivalent of a hundred supercomputers working together on some of his research that had been left unattended to for the time being.
The pagoda on the other hand is a tool bordering on torture equipment. It will have multiple levels and is predicted to grow even stronger.it was created using the blood of the thousands who die every day as the land abrosbs their blood into the tower and some have humbly provided their wills and martial arts techniques.
The environment constantly adapts to the individual to find his weaknesses and strengths and attack said weaknesses and fortify the strengths.
The wills of the crippled and old dragons that had been abandoned were placed and preserved with in the pagoda.
The space with in had hints of infinity hence no need to fear crowding and lack of space.
Ever since it reached the middle stage of completion, a cloud of heavenly tribulation had formed above without a single sign of dissipation and yet not a single bolt of lightning almost as though it's giving a warning to the mortals that are dabbling in matters beyond their stations.
During the past days,the sense of oppression had increased and just staring at the cloud could now kill a golden core cultivator yet certain greedy bustards saw this as an opportunity to acquire the oppressive will of the heavens.