Faceless Man: "Not bad, you've already understood so of it so quickly."
Li Zhiyuan: "Do you have any business?"
Faceless Man: "No business, just wanted to chat with you."
Li Zhiyuan: "Oh."
Faceless Man: "Originally, I intended to ascend in front of you, but now I'm a bit short, just as the unexpected occurrences arise when they ought to."
Li Zhiyuan: "That's normal."
Faceless Man: "Good things take ti?"
Li Zhiyuan: "Things that are impossible to achieve naturally have all sorts of impossibilities blocking them. A dream is, after all, bound to wake."
Faceless Man: "The sa as what he said back then."
"You lost."
"Naturally, he could be placed on the offering table in the girl's dream, doesn't that clearly show he won? But at that ti, I told him the real decisive factor doesn't lie in the mont, and in the future, I will prove it to him."
"The words I just said, were actually ant for here."
"You will see, child, I promise to let you witness real ascension, and then, at the mont of becoming immortal, I will kill you.
I will go to the true Heavenly Palace, to beco an exalted Immortal.
And you will go to hell to reincarnate, down below, and tell him of my success."
"He has no spirit anymore."
The Faceless Man fell silent.
Li Zhiyuan smiled lightly.
You are desperately pursuing the dream of immortality, while he has forsaken even the slightest trace of existence for this world.
Isn't this also a form of irony?
Because you haven't succeeded yet, but he has already fulfilled his promise and mission, and succeeded.
The Faceless Man seed unable to leave the range of the tower, so he remained standing at the tower gate.
Upstairs, Yu Miaomiao kept enduring great pain pushing the door, causing Li Zhiyuan here, the Faceless Man's face to enlarge.
Yet no matter how big it gets, it doesn't hold much aning.
The Faceless Man spoke again: "He was just a bit early, and I was just a bit late, but I will use your eyes, your life, to commorate my vow from back then."
Li Zhiyuan: "It seems, you actually don't fully believe this either."
Faceless Man: "If I didn't believe this, why would I appear here? Do you know how long I have been here, only able to be confined within this tower, unable to leave even a step."
Li Zhiyuan: "You just can't afford to lose."
"Hehehe... hehehehehe..."
The Faceless Man laughed for a long ti.
"Actually, you could try pleading for rcy, if you begged for rcy, I would feel ashad to kill you."
"If I pleaded for rcy, you would just want to kill more because I tarnished his na."
"Do you want to live?"
"I do, but whether I live or die, it's nothing to do with you."
"You shouldn't have gone through Jianghu so early, the blessings of those two families shouldn't have wrapped you into Jiang Shui so early, why?"
Li Zhiyuan lowered his head and casually flipped through the wordless book in his hand.
Reading was what got him into trouble, it was all from reading books.
"I also love reading books, there has always been a legend in my family passed down from generation to generation, and a book buried under the ancestral grave, forbidden for descendants to see."
"Rules shouldn't be set like this, such rules will only cause future generations to listen in reverse."
"Yes, there is a terrifying restriction under my family's ancestral grave, when I entered, I saw many corpses of ancestors inside, evidently everyone was disobedient.
All who entered had to die, that ancestor, didn't lie, he probably did it intentionally because not only does my family have that legend, there's also a rumor in the Jianghu.
So, I suspect he deliberately set this rule to lure ambitious descendants in to kill them."
"You didn't die?"
"I did. To win, I burned everything and my life is short now, yet I still lost to him.
When I entered the ancestral grave, I was actually already a dead man, and because of that, I was able to walk out alive, with that book."
Li Zhiyuan opened the wordless book in his hand, showing it to the Faceless Man.
The implication is, I've shown you my book, you should talk about your book.
"The ancestor's restriction has a ti limit, when the ti cos it will naturally unravel, and this book will appear in the world, I rely obtained it in advance.
The things recorded in the book are really not much.
It only recorded the location here, plus a note: On the day the restriction is broken, the whole clan is to co here, to welco the great fortune descending upon our clan."
"The date?"
"It's today."
"Then why did you co so early?"
"Yes, not only did I co early, I also brought the whole family here ahead of ti. Sadly, they aren't eligible to enter the tower, they can only be placed in those two Kneeling Corpse Pits first.
Inside are all noble lords, so it doesn't count as humiliating them, right?"
Li Zhiyuan understood when the Faceless Man said "already dead," it ant he turned himself into a neither-human-nor-ghost state, as for bringing the whole family, it ant he killed his entire family and brought their corpses here.
"My mistake was entering the restriction early, obtaining that book, at that ti I was already dead, not much ti left in the world, just enough to get here.
But I feared that because of , the whole clan would miss out on that great fortune, so I could only bring them with , it was for their good, after all, they're family.
Do you think, I did the right thing?"
"I don't care about that."
"Oh?"
"You can't control the Array here, can you?"
Compared to moral tragedies, Li Zhiyuan is more concerned with technical issues.
Faceless Man: "I can't, but the rules here, because I have the bloodline of the ancestor, for the sake of the ancestor's face, can grant so privilege."
"Oh."
Li Zhiyuan nodded, comnting, "That's a flaw, not perfect. Your ancestor should revise it, an Array shouldn't rely on face."
"When you die, go down and have a good discussion with him."
"Hey, doesn't your ancestor ascend?"
"The restriction in the ancestral grave uses his corpse as the Array Eye, I can't take it away.
The day the restriction breaks is the day his corpse dissolves.
Thus, he loses the chance to ascend, maybe it's the reason you just ntioned, my descendant reliant on that thin bloodline can enjoy privilege from the rules here, if he were here, the rules probably would collapse upon seeing his complete face.
Li Zhiyuan pointed upstairs: "The door has opened wide enough, aren't you going to do sothing?"
"Yes, just wanted to tell you, bear with waiting a bit more, after I handle my business, it will begin imdiately."
"Alright, I understand."
Faceless Man disappeared.
But his figure didn't reappear on the top floor, but on the eleventh.
Originally there were three beds for three people in the eleventh floor, now there are only two left.
Actually, among these three people, there is a difference.
The woman in the black dress is the sharpest, the scholar is the most mysterious... the old Taoist is the strongest.
The twelfth floor is a large bell, so he can only reside on the eleventh floor, logically, he should have a floor to himself.
The Faceless Man now stood before the elder Taoist.
Indeed, just as he told the young man earlier, the privilege from the rules is limited.
But there's one exception.
He reached out, slowly pulling up his face skin from below.
The tower began to shake.
The black shadows in the erald started to wander excitedly, the students and teachers in the school began worshipping.
After the face skin with no features was torn off, what revealed beneath was a new face skin, this new face has features.
It stopped halfway being lifted, just beneath the nose position, because the shaking of the tower had beco uncontrollable, he couldn't continue to tear it.
But this is already enough.
He doesn't have a face because he tore off the ancestor's face and pasted it on his own.
He said his privilege was because the Array favored the face of his ancestor, that was really true.
The Half-Faced Man spoke to the Taoist in front:
"The road to immortality is fraught with difficulties, today the Life Chart is almost complete; the grand ascension is before , and I must breach the last trial.
Therefore,
I request the Taoist to descend the mountain!"
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