The whole family went mad, but the junior sister turned the tables and her luck soared.

Xie Qianjue's outburst of madness not only startled the disciples watching from the outside, but also startled Rong Xuan inside the glass sphere.

Fortunately, Rong Xuan reacted quickly. He walked up to Xie Qianjue, grabbed Xie Qianjue's chin to prevent him from biting his tongue and hurting himself, and then quickly threw a few calming pills to him and forced him to swallow them.

Rong Xuan frowned and said, "Junior Brother Xie, don't force yourself. It seems the corrosive poison in your wound will damage your mind. Give up. We'll go out with you. I think Junior Brother Mu and Junior Sister Yun will understand."

Before he could finish his words of comfort, Xie Qianjue, his face deathly pale, muttered to himself, "You don't understand, you don't understand."

Xie Qianjue has a secret.

He sometimes has fragmented premonitions of certain scenes.

For the first time in his youth, he foresaw the death of his cousin Xie Shiqing. Not understanding why, he intervened and saved Xie Shiqing.

The consequence was that his parents died in the same way he had foreseen Xie Shiqing's death.

From then on, Xie Qianjue understood that if he tried to save someone who was destined to die, he would have to pay a price.

He couldn't blame Xie Shiqing, who was completely unaware of the situation, or his uncle and aunt, who treated him like their own son, so he chose to go to the Nanhua Sect to cultivate Taoism alone.

But a second premonition appeared, this time showing him the annihilation of his entire Xie family.

Everyone died, everyone, including Xie Shiqing and his family of three.

At this point, he had nothing left to lose.

He foresaw that he would soon lose everything, so he became a gambler.

Look, my most precious possession is about to be utterly destroyed, so why should I be afraid of the price I have to pay to change my fate? What else can you take from me?

When Xiong Biao challenged him, he used a trick to lose to Xiong Biao directly, and then had the Xie family disciples of the Nanhua Sect report his recent situation in the Nanhua Sect back to the Xie family.

He knew that his kind uncle and aunt would not want to give up on him and would send Xie Shiqing to persuade him.

The two brothers grew up together and were closer than blood brothers.

As long as Xie Shiqing joins the Nanhua Sect, at least he won't die in the calamity of his clan's extermination.

Xie Qianjue was afraid that the price of changing his fate would be too heavy, so he deliberately distanced himself from Xie Shiqing.

However, the price of changing fate this time was too high, far too high.

Xie Qianjue was trembling all over. He saw it, he saw the third scene...

Lin Jin, Liu Wan, Baili, Xiong Biao... their former fellow disciples who cultivated together were tortured by the demons, screaming and wailing in agony.

Next came the fresh flesh and blood of the young cultivators, which were swallowed by the demons in large gulps, accompanied by horrifying chewing sounds and the sobbing cries for help from their teachers.

The last familiar voice faded and gradually disappeared, just like the faces he knew, which turned into charred remains after the chilling despair, forever slumbering in this Buddha-Demon Tower.

Xie Qianjue clutched his head, seemingly lost in a trance again.

Rong Xuan grabbed Xie Qianjue by the collar and said, "I don't know what happened to you, but you're not going to make it. I'm going to contact the peak master now to send you out."

He looked up and said loudly, "Sect Leader, I have personally witnessed that Junior Brother Xie is no longer able to participate in the trial. Please, Peak Master, send him out."

"If the four of us are a single unit, please temporarily suspend the trial. I will summon Junior Brother Mu and Junior Sister Yun back to discuss whether to abandon the trial."

Rong Xuan was confident that, seeing Xie Qianjue like this, even if Mu Yunjian insisted on the competition, Yun Yici would stand by his side.

With a score of three to one, the outcome of giving up the trial was already predetermined, and the results would not differ much from stopping at this level.

Given Xie Qianjue's current condition, we must get him out for treatment as soon as possible, no matter what.

After Rong Xuan finished speaking, he waited for a long time but there was no response, let alone seeing a familiar peak master appear here.

He looked at Xie Qianjue in surprise and asked again, "Sect Leader? Master?"

Their situation should have been broadcast live, but Rong Xuan still didn't receive any response.

The long wait actually calmed Xie Qianjue down from his breakdown.

Xie Qianjue said, "There is a demon in the Buddha Demon Tower. He wants to eat us."

Rong Xuan's face flashed with shock, and he said, "How is that possible? With nine peak masters in charge, if there were any demons, they would have been discovered long ago."

"Even if they hadn't discovered it in time, with them acting simultaneously, nothing could have gone wrong."

Xie Qianjue cleared his mind of the horrific images, suppressed the urge to vomit, and said, "You are a weapon cultivator, have you forgotten that we are not in the main body of the Buddha Demon Tower?"

They are now in the illusion of the Buddha-Demon Pagoda after it has been transformed; the real Buddha-Demon Pagoda is far away in the Zenyin Temple.

For hundreds of years, the Buddha-Demon Pagoda has been a very suitable place for cultivation, and the Buddhist practitioners at Chanyin Temple are very friendly, so the Buddha-Demon Pagoda is almost always open to the public.

However, it was impossible for the major sects to organize their disciples to visit Chanyin Temple every year. Therefore, the abbots of Chanyin Temple in previous generations took the initiative to secretly offer a key to the super sects that had been on good terms with Chanyin Temple for generations.

Those who possess this key can unlock the illusion of the Buddha-Demon Tower...

Although it is not the original body, the trial effect is exactly the same as the original body.

As a weapon cultivator, Rong Xuan had naturally read many of the weapon-related classics of the Nanhua Sect and was extremely knowledgeable about them.

He recalled, "The Buddha-Demon Tower was not originally a Buddha-Demon Tower, but a Buddhist tower that suppressed countless demons. By refining the demons within, it became the trial ground it is today."

"You mean, some of the monsters from hundreds of years ago weren't refined and are still alive in the tower."

Xie Qianjue nodded. "Yes."

In the scene he envisioned, there were only Lin Jinliu, Wan Yuan, and Bai Li, not the four of them.

It seems that the price he paid for changing the fate of the Xie family was not just his own life, but also the lives of Rong Xuan and his two fellow disciples.

No wonder the four of them were grouped together.

Xie Qianjue's expression turned pained again: "I'm sorry, Senior Brother Rong, I'm so sorry..."

Rong Xuan said, "What's the use of saying sorry? If this is true, you can't be blamed."

"Although I don't know how you became so certain about this, I'll believe you for now. I also believe that my master, Sect Master Gu, wouldn't watch his disciple die in vain."

Xie Qianjue gave a bitter laugh and said nothing more.

Of the ten disciples, only one survived: Ning Tinglan.

Moreover, it was a near-fatal one-for-one exchange; Wen Fuyue risked her life to save him and get him out.

Wen Fuyue tried to rescue more disciples, but ultimately perished in the Buddha-Demon Tower due to limitations.

The demon within this tower has been absorbing the demonic energy of its own kind for hundreds of years.

Originally intended as a convenient trial site for the Buddha-Demon Tower illusion, it has become an aid to evil and the best support and defense for demons.

Given equal strength, Wen Fuyue has a physical body, while the Buddha-Demon Tower is far away at the Zen Sound Temple.

Even if Master Gu had the ability to shrink the distance to an inch, it would be impossible for him to arrive at Chanyin Temple in an instant to break the pagoda and save people.

Moreover, Sect Leader Gu holds the key to the Buddha-Demon Tower and cannot leave his post.

They're doomed.

Rong Xuan looked at the despairing Xie Qianjue and said, "Junior Brother Xie, do you still remember what you said?"

"Those who practice divination calculate others but not themselves; those who seek destiny ask themselves, not others."

“Stand up. It’s not time to despair yet. This Buddha-Demon Tower has stood for hundreds of years. There should be a spirit inside the tower. It should know something.”