The items left by the elder in green were simple, just the three first-rate upper-tier Magic Artifacts he had already displayed, as well as some Spiritual Medicine he had picked, and the Talismans and Elixirs he had prepared for this journey.
There was also a "Heavenly Spirit Order."
And naturally, he hadn't brought anything else.
Even so, these items were of great value.
Especially the Twin-Pronged Flying Fork that could release cold air to freeze the enemy, which was definitely a rare and powerful weapon.
In terms of value, Zhou Chun's Moon Blade Meteor Wheel couldn't even compare to it.
Therefore, after some hesitation, Zhou Chun decided to refine the artifact right then and there.
With his current Cultivation Level strength, it wouldn't take a day to refine such a Magic Artifact.
And he thought it was completely worth it to wait this extra day.
After making this decision, Zhou Chun first took the items and the remaining carcasses of the Wolf Bears away from the scene and then found a secluded place in the mountains to quietly start refining the Flying Fork Magic Artifact.
By the second day, Zhou Chun had completed the refinement of the Magic Artifact. After familiarizing himself with it, he set off again with the Silver Lightning Python.
At the same time, as Zhou Chun completed the first kill in the trial and obtained a "Heavenly Spirit Order," many other Cultivators participating in this "Battle of the High Tower" also reaped great rewards.
By the edge of a white-mist-emitting Cold Pool, an elder in yellow robes flicked his fingers in a Sword technique, and a cyan Flying Sword he controlled moved like a cyan dragon, its sword light flickering as it fought intensely with a White Ice Python in the pool.
Although the Ice Python was not a second-order Demon Beast, its strength was only a hair's breadth away from it.
Moreover, the Cold Pool was its home turf. With the assistance of the cold air here, its Ice Element Technique could become 20 to 30 percent more powerful, and usually, two or three Cultivators at the twelfth level of the Qi Refinement Realm might not be a match for it.
Yet, with just one Flying Sword, the yellow-robed elder completely suppressed it, showing how formidable his strength was.
After a prolonged battle, the elder in yellow finally unleashed a powerful Sword technique strike and successfully penetrated the Ice Python's seven-inch weak spot, slaying it beneath his sword.
With the death of the Ice Python, the Spiritual Object guarded by the Cold Pool, the Hundred-Year Ice Lotus, became the trophy of the yellow-robed elder.
Poor Ice Python, if it could have had a few more decades for the Hundred-Year Ice Lotus in the Cold Pool to surpass two hundred years in medicinal age, it could have ingested it and successfully evolved into a mid-tier Demon Beast.
In another valley, a white-haired old woman was engaged in a ceaseless fierce battle with a man in black.
Originally, it was the white-haired old woman who discovered a Yellow Essence over three hundred years in age in this valley and killed a first-rate upper-tier Demon Beast that occupied the ravine.
Unexpectedly, the noise of her killing the Demon Beast attracted the man in black, and a struggle for the Yellow Essence ensued between them.
Of course, the Yellow Essence was just the trigger; the real reason driving them to fight to the death was for the treasures and Heavenly Spirit Orders on each other's bodies.
In fact, many of these Cultivators participating in the "Heavenly Spirit Trial" had one point different from Zhou Chun.
That was, they did not have absolute confidence in achieving Foundation Establishment, which is why they decided to take a gamble here.
As long as they could pick some rare Spiritual Medicine in here, or slay a few more test-takers and take their treasures, these gains would add to their chances of Foundation Establishment once they left.
So, life-and-death encounters on sight were common in this place.
After the battle, the white-haired old woman emerged victorious with her superior skills. But although she killed her opponent, she too got injured, and whether she could make it to the end remained a question!
In another part of the forest, two white-haired old men were surprisingly teaming up to fight against a group of Green-Haired Strange Apes.
These apes had ferocious faces, looking like zombies with hair grown postmortem, and were dark green all over.
They went by a strange name: Green-Faced Ghost Apes.
With more than a dozen of these Green-Faced Ghost Apes, including five that were first-rate upper-tier Demon Beasts, the two white-haired old men, although joining forces, were still no match for the ape horde and ended up fleeing in embarrassment as they were driven out of that forest.
But seeing their unwilling gaze as they left, it was obvious they would not give up easily!
While Zhou Chun didn't witness these events occurring across the Trial Grounds, he could approximately guess what had taken place.
After personally carrying out a sneak attack and slaying a test-taker, he remained extremely cautious on his journey, fearing that he too might be ambushed.
Because he still needed to slay Demon Beasts and pick Spiritual Medicine along the way, Zhou Chun's progress was not fast. Sometimes, he would even take detours in search of Spiritual Medicine.
He actually didn't want to arrive near the High Tower too early, as it could easily lead to others profiting from the aftermath of his battles.
Besides, as for the task of collecting seven Heavenly Spirit Orders to enter the High Tower, Zhou Chun didn't consider it a must.
His main purpose in coming to the "Trial Grounds" was to satisfy his own curiosity and to see if he could gain something extraordinary.
This gain could be the treasures selected after entering the High Tower or some rare Spiritual Medicine picked outside; he wasn't fixated on any particular item.
Thus, until the fourth day in the "Land of High Tower," Zhou Chun was still fifty or sixty miles away from the mountain peak where the High Tower stood.
Not counting the day spent refining the Magic Artifact, Zhou Chun's haul over these three days was quite substantial. Find adventures at m_v l|e'm-p| y r