Sick Beauty [Rebirth]

Chapter 48: Dilemma.

He slowly stepped onto the last stone steps, still carrying the person on his back.

As if he crossed an invisible barrier, the darkness in the tower dissolved away, and the sky's light poured down.

He could hear the sudden rapid breathing of the person behind him. The hands and arms around his neck tightened, and the skinny body trembled slightly against his back.

"Don't be afraid," he soothed in a low voice.

The top of the tower was empty, surrounded by ancient tall pillars rising upwards while the opposing pillars connected to form a semi-spherical shape. It was like a birdcage, dividing the blue sky overhead.

There was a huge and mysterious formation engraved on the ground. The formation was composed of countless golden runes, which made people dizzy at first glance.

The exit of the stone ladder was the center of the formation.

Someone stood on the edge of the top of the tower, his back facing them.

On top of the tower, there was a man with silver hair and a high crown. The wind lifted his snow-white crane cloak. His hands hung beside him, holding a sheathed black longsword.

The qi of the other party seemed to have perfectly integrated into heaven and earth. It was difficult to spot any flaws.

He knew that the other party was the "tower guard" of this tower.

"Since you have gone down, you shouldn't have come up again," The tower guard said with a cold voice. His voice was like ice that will never melt.

"–Why aren't you bringing him over?"

The person on his back seemed to tremble even more.

Now, anger raged in the bottom of his heart. It was the anger that first accumulated from seeing this person at the bottom of the tower.

He raised his hostile eyes and said coldly: "What does that have to do with you?"

"I have suppressed him in the Pagoda for a hundred years," The tower guard said, "It's my responsibility to eliminate demons and to eliminate evil."

"Ha," He sneered. "You people in the Dao sect say that you want to eliminate the demons and defend the dao, but why couldn't they directly kill this Lord back then? Why did they take this innocent person beside this Lord and imprison them?"

"Innocent?"

The tower guard turned around.

His pupils reflected the colour of the blue sky. Crystal clear with no desire or pity.

The tower guard said lightly.

"He is not innocent."

"As a Daoist, he willingly fell into the devil's way. Using his flesh as a vessel to serve the demons, he developed a demonic body and became a lap dog for the demonic sect. He took the side of the evil-doers."

"He broke the Northern Territory boundary enchantment. This act allowed the demonic sect to drive straight in. The Nine Turn Refining Array was destroyed by him alone, allowing you to escape. Hundred years of chaos caused rivers of blood to flow in the human world.

"Even when he was suppressed at the Buddha Pagoda and his demonic body had been knocked down to the bottom of the tower, shattered several times, his devilish thoughts were undiminished. His demonic heart was too hard to remove—"

"But the person who forced him into the demonic sect was this Lord!" He suddenly interrupted, "The one who forced him to destroy the enchantment of the Northern Territory was this Lord. The one who created a bloodbath in the Northern Territory and caused harm to the world was this Lord! Only the Nine Turn Refining Array, only the Nine Turn Refining Array... I did not expect that he would... for me..."