Looking again at the Heaven's Secret Staff in his hand, Mo Wuji finally sighed. It seemed he really was the senior brother.

Seeing Lei Chenghe and the others secretly retreating, Mo Wuji didn't call out to him. Instead, he discreetly manipulated hand seals and created a lightning ball to explode towards them. His lightning ball had no trajectory, detonating directly at Lei Chenghe's feet.

Lei Chenghe was ambushed suddenly, and everyone thought a cultivator in the hall was secretly helping Mo Wuji. Since someone had already acted, more cultivators secretly launched sneak attacks. With so many cultivators attacking simultaneously, a large section of the Immortal Celestial Tower's tenth-floor floor collapsed. Lei Chenghe, struggling to defend himself, was pierced in the forehead by a dark nail amidst the chaos and fell to the ninth floor, dying on the spot. With so many cultivators attacking the Lei family, the remaining four members of the Lei family frantically fled.

"Stop!" A deep voice boomed, and a powerful aura pressed down. A man in red robes landed on the partially collapsed tenth floor.

This person's cultivation was definitely stronger than that hook-nosed cultivator at the True Lake Completion stage. Not only Mo Wuji, but everyone in the tenth-floor hall stopped fighting.

"My Immortal Celestial Tower is, after all, the number one tower in Yindu. For everyone to fight so fiercely in my Immortal Celestial Tower is a bit much," the red-robed man said, his tone filled with dissatisfaction but without outright anger.

Mo Wuji quickly stepped forward and said, "Greetings, Senior of the Immortal Celestial Tower. I was inconsiderate. Please forgive me, Senior. I will compensate for all the losses of the Immortal Celestial Tower."

Lei Chenghe had already been killed. Mo Wuji knew exactly where the dark nail that pierced Lei Chenghe's forehead came from; it was Hou Yucheng. Now that he had wrecked someone else's Immortal Celestial Tower, he could afford to compensate with some spirit stones.

"No, we are all responsible. Everyone will compensate together," Mo Wuji had barely finished speaking when many cultivators chimed in.

The red-robed man's gaze landed on Mo Wuji. "You are rogue cultivator number 2705?"

Mo Wuji clasped his fist and said, "That's me."

The red-robed man offered a rare smile. "You have set a good example for the Five Great Empires. Countless young cultivators aspire to be like you. Not bad. My Immortal Celestial Tower can withstand a little damage. There's no need to mention compensation."

After saying that, the red-robed man waved his hand and said, "Everyone, please leave the Immortal Celestial Tower temporarily. We will reopen for drinks once the Immortal Celestial Tower is renovated."

From beginning to end, the red-robed man didn't mention the Lei family, as if Lei Chenghe's death was insignificant to him.

"Alright..." Many cultivators cheered and began to leave the Immortal Celestial Tower.

Mo Wuji secretly marveled at the man's prowess. Whether the red-robed man genuinely admired him or not, he had just used Mo Wuji's reputation to advertise the Immortal Celestial Tower. It was certain that once the Immortal Celestial Tower was renovated, its popularity would soar.

"By the way, you killed a cultivator in Yindu earlier. According to Yindu's laws, you should be severely punished. I've already taken care of it for you, so you don't need to worry..." Mo Wuji had just stepped out of the Immortal Celestial Tower when he heard the red-robed man's voice in his ear.

Mo Wuji's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly cupped his fist towards the Immortal Celestial Tower. He didn't speak, but the red-robed man likely knew that Mo Wuji acknowledged the favor.

"Thank you for your support, everyone. Farewell for now, and we'll meet again," Mo Wuji clasped his fist again to thank the many cultivators who supported him.

"Senior Brother, take care..."

"Senior Brother, Yan'er hopes to have the opportunity to thank you in person..." Xue Tongsi quickly said.

"Senior Brother..."

...

Amidst various farewells, Mo Wuji had to thank everyone once again before quickly leaving Yindu Square with Hou Yucheng.

Half an hour later, Mo Wuji and Hou Yucheng arrived at the Contribution Point Exchange of the Hundred Sect Alliance's base.

"Brother Mo, thank you for saving me. Otherwise, I would have surely died at Lei Chenghe's hands today," Hou Yucheng finally had the chance to thank Mo Wuji.

Mo Wuji smiled slightly and patted Hou Yucheng, saying, "Brother Hou, we are teammates."

These were the same words Hou Yucheng had said when he helped Mo Wuji, but this time, Mo Wuji was the one saying them.

Hou Yucheng was slightly stunned, then laughed heartily. "We are not only teammates but also friends."

Some words don't need to be said too much. When Mo Wuji's cultivation was low and his future seemed bleak, Hou Yucheng didn't look down on him because he was a rogue cultivator with weak cultivation. He helped him several times.

Now that Hou Yucheng was being chased by the Lei family and even condemned by everyone, Mo Wuji had stood up without hesitation, choosing to believe Hou Yucheng.

Sometimes friendship is simple, not requiring too much talk or too much action. It only requires you to stand up when they need you.

"Brother Mo, this is for you," Hou Yucheng pulled out a tattered leather scroll and handed it to Mo Wuji.

Mo Wuji took the leather scroll and subconsciously asked, "What is this?"

"This is the reason Lei Chenghe wanted to kill me..." Hou Yucheng chuckled.

"The Second Style of the Seven Styles of Heavenly Lightning..." Mo Wuji finally saw the contents of the remnant scroll and looked up in surprise at the smiling Hou Yucheng.

Hou Yucheng said with some embarrassment, "I have some connections with the auction house outside the Five Elements Wasteland. I knew that you had purchased the First Style of Heavenly Lightning, so after I obtained the Second Style of Heavenly Lightning, I planned to keep it for you. I didn't expect Lei Chenghe to find out, and he wanted to seize the Second Style and silence me."

"You were right to guess earlier that Lei Chenghe was originally the Lei family's number one genius. But a branch of the Lei family suddenly produced a cultivator with a unique lightning spiritual root named Lei Hongji. This number one genius was snatched away by Lei Hongji, and Lei Chenghe was naturally unwilling. If he could obtain the Second Style of Heavenly Lightning, coupled with his ambition, it wouldn't be impossible for him to gain some support in the Lei family."

"So he framed you for attacking Lei Hongji's fiancée?" Mo Wuji asked.

Hou Yucheng's tone lowered. "Lei Hongji's fiancée was indeed raped. The one who raped her was none other than Lei Chenghe. Lin Xiujie's sister and mother were also killed by Lei Chenghe. And the Second Style of Heavenly Lightning that I obtained came from Lin Xiujie."

Seeing that Hou Yucheng's expression was not good, Mo Wuji guessed that there was more to the story. But since Hou Yucheng didn't seem to want to continue, Mo Wuji didn't ask further.

Sure enough, Hou Yucheng changed the subject and said, "Brother Mo, in order to resist the extraterritorial cultivators this time, the Hundred Sect Alliance has really bled. All the sects that have joined the Hundred Sect Alliance have contributed their best things, including cultivation techniques, magical treasures, materials, and so on. You have a lot of contribution points, so you have to look carefully when you go in to choose things and don't be dazzled."

"I have to leave this hellish place as soon as possible. Remember, after you leave here, you must disguise yourself again. That Yulin Lei Clan will definitely not let us go, and it will be even more dangerous for us to travel together. If you don't find suitable things within a day, leave Yindu immediately. It will take at most two days for the experts of the Yulin Lei Clan to arrive here, leaving you with one day to escape."

"I know, take care," Mo Wuji nodded.

"Okay, I'll go first. By the way, the strong expert that appeared in the Immortal Celestial Tower of Yindu is called Lian Hezhou." After saying this, Hou Yucheng turned and quickly left.

...

"Exchanges below one thousand contribution points are not done here," said an old man sitting at the entrance of the Contribution Point Exchange, without even lifting his head.

Mo Wuji took out his points token and handed it over, saying, "This junior has more than one thousand contribution points."

The old man looked up at Mo Wuji and then took the jade token in Mo Wuji's hand. Then he returned the jade token to Mo Wuji and nodded. "Not bad, go in."

"Thank you, Senior," Mo Wuji carefully bowed respectfully.

This old man looked harmless, but Mo Wuji felt something even more terrifying than Feng Zhenqiu from him.

Who was Feng Zhenqiu? The Second Dean of the Asking Heaven Learning Academy, a True God Realm cultivator. This old man was even more terrifying than Feng Zhenqiu, so what was his cultivation level?

The door behind the old man had slowly opened, revealing a pitch-black interior. Mo Wuji quickly flashed into the door, not only because the old man was a bit scary, but also because, from his own perspective, Mo Wuji didn't want to delay for even a minute.

After Mo Wuji entered, the door closed again. Mo Wuji saw a large hall that was the size of seven or eight football fields.

From the outside, it looked pitch black, but after actually entering, it was bright and transparent.

The huge space was divided into one area after another, and each area was labeled. The first one was cultivation techniques.

Standing in front of the cultivation technique area, one could see rows upon rows of bookshelves, with various leather scrolls, jade slips, and books piled up like mountains. However, there were not many inheritance crystal balls, which made Mo Wuji a little disappointed.

It wasn't that Mo Wuji necessarily wanted inheritance crystal balls. In fact, he didn't have that intention. It was because inheritance crystal balls could only be used once and would be discarded after use.

The lack of inheritance crystal balls here meant that the major sects wouldn't contribute their most powerful techniques. It seemed that what Hou Yucheng said about this place containing some of the best things from the major sects wasn't necessarily true.

Mo Wuji walked into the cultivation technique area and then discovered that the techniques here weren't just randomly piled together. Instead, the techniques contributed by each sect were placed in the same location and labeled with the sect's name.

Mo Wuji's goal was very clear: to find the follow-up techniques to the Immortal Mortal Technique. If he couldn't find them, he would look for a top-level cultivation technique. He looked at the contribution points required for the techniques here. Better techniques only required a few hundred contribution points. There were relatively few techniques requiring thousands of contribution points or more.

With so many techniques, it would take days to look through them all, even if a cultivator just flipped through each one. Mo Wuji had his own advantage: he didn't need to flip through each one. His spiritual will scanned through them one by one. As long as the words "Immortal Mortal Technique" were mentioned, that was what he needed.