Chapter 159 Half-Tower Huo Tang

Chen Shuyu said, "The flying letter I sent to Feng Ruoxing was to have her arrest a sorcerer named Huo Tang to retrieve his earth soul."

Ye Yang couldn't help but say in a deep voice, "Are you talking about the Half-Tower Huo Tang?"

"That's him!" Chen Shuyu said, "Huo Tang, strictly speaking, is also an earth and wood sorcerer; he is proficient in building towers."

Towers, in the eyes of ordinary people, are just a type of building, or a tourist attraction, a local landmark. However, in the eyes of sorcerers, they are of extraordinary significance.

Towers can suppress evil, offer sacrifices to the heavens, store treasures, bury bones, suppress natural disasters, and supplement feng shui.

Those who can preside over the construction of towers are either monks from sects or earth and wood sorcerers.

When I looked at Ye Yang, the latter said, "Among earth and wood sorcerers, if Nan Yimu and Bei Yiye are considered the best and second best in the world, then the third-ranked person must be Huo Tang."

"This person is from the same era as the ancestor of the Bei Yi Sect. Moreover, he has a strange quirk, which is that he only repairs towers and doesn't build them! That's where his reputation as the Half-Tower comes from!"

I couldn't help but gasp, "Repairing a tower isn't more difficult than building one? This is a master!"

From an architectural point of view, repairing a house is much easier than building a new one; at least the main structure of the house is still there.

However, towers are different.

The towers repaired by sorcerers are more solid than similar buildings; some can even withstand a hundred years of wind and rain without collapsing.

This is especially true for suppression towers and feng shui towers.

Once these two types of towers are damaged, there is an 80% or higher probability that the suppressed evil being is about to be born, or that the feng shui has changed. To repair the tower completely, the person who takes action must first have the ability to suppress the evil spirits at the bottom of the tower.

Ye Yang said, "Huo Tang is very low-key and rarely interacts with people in the sorcerer's world. Although he has the reputation of Half-Tower, no one knows how capable he is."

I looked at Chen Shuyu again and asked, "Did Huo Tang come to Tower City to repair a tower?"

"Probably," Chen Shuyu said, "Huo Tang has been missing for too long. Even summoning local ghosts, it's difficult for us to find out his true purpose."

"Okay!" I nodded and said, "Tell me about Tower City."

Chen Shuyu pulled up a map on her phone and said, "Tower City isn't very big, but there are many ancient towers left in the city. The earliest ancient towers can be traced back to the Song Dynasty."

"The strange thing is that Tower City doesn't have a decent Buddhist heritage, and you can't even find any famous sorcerers. Therefore, there has never been an accurate conclusion as to why so many ancient towers appeared in Tower City."

"If we listen to the experts, the early inhabitants of Tower City may have regarded towers as objects of worship, which is why they built so many ancient towers in the city."

"This explanation is unreasonable!" I flipped through the photos a few times. "These towers all seem to be incomplete!"

Chen Shuyu said, "In the early days of the founding of the country, no one paid attention to the protection of cultural relics. In addition, during the turbulent period, those ancient towers were damaged. It's basically impossible to find a completely preserved ancient tower in Tower City."

I suddenly said, "Don't go to Tower City; return to Yunyin Village."

Lin Zhao asked in confusion, "What are you going back to Yunyin Village for?"

"To find someone from the Thief Sect to help!" I said, "Another function of ancient towers is to bury the remains of eminent monks and hide treasures."

"Take a closer look at the location of Tower City. It's already outside the Northeast territory. Further back, it's not the territory of the Four Pillars, and forward, it doesn't belong to the Northern Sorcerer's Path. Moreover, the geographical location is relatively remote, so it can be regarded as a 'three-no-care' zone. The Thief Sect will never let go of this piece of fat."

"They may know things we don't. It's more appropriate to ask them for information. Hurry up, if we don't, they'll run away, and we won't be able to find anyone."

Lin Zhao said worriedly, "We just tricked the Thief Sect; will they agree to help?"

"If they don't agree, we'll beat them until they do," I said coldly. "I want to find out the whereabouts of Feng Ruoxing and the others as soon as possible, so I don't have time to waste with the Thief Sect. I'm not going to reason with them; I'm going to find them and make them take action. They have to do this deal whether they want to or not!"

At that time, we were fortunate that we weren't too far from Yunyin Village. It only took about half an hour to drive back.

When we arrived, we smelled a strong smell of blood.

The people from the Thief Sect should have returned. It seemed like they had also encountered trouble.

When I quietly sneaked into Yunyin Village, I discovered that all the members of the Thief Sect were gathered in the open space in the village.

The messenger I had released earlier had not only returned, but had also brought back more than a dozen black-clothed people carrying long knives.

At their feet lay several rows of decapitated corpses. It looked like they had already started killing people in the village.

What I found strange was that Old Liu was also standing at the front of the Thief Sect disciples.

The messenger said coldly, "Bring out ten more people."

The Eighth Lord of the Thief Immortal Sect, seeing the black-clothed people walking towards him, couldn't help but scream, "It was Li Po who broke the Blood Chess Pieces! Go find him! Go find Liangjie Tang!"

The messenger said coldly, "The Thief Sect failed to protect the token; they deserve to be executed. After killing you, this envoy will naturally go find Li Po."

Someone cried out, "Envoy, spare us! We are willing to deal with Liangjie Tang for you to atone for our sins."

The messenger said coldly, "A bunch of petty thieves are worthy of dealing with Liangjie Tang?"