Ye Tianling’s gaze was fixed on the distant Royal Family’s Celestial Tower.

In his eyes, that wasn’t just a tower, but a sword—a sword that pierced through Heaven and Earth!

The Xuanyuan Dragon-Controlling Immortal Sword Technique within Ye Tianling’s body began to circulate, gathering in his eyes.

His eyes immediately became clearer and more spirited, as if they could emit light.

However, Xia Xinqin and the others weren’t paying attention to Ye Tianling at that moment. Otherwise, they would have been able to tell from his eyes that he was no ordinary person.

In this brand-new World, the effects of the third level of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Controlling Immortal Sword Technique were far better than he could have ever imagined.

It was as if Ye Tianling had instantly activated a pair of Dao Eyes, immediately harmonizing with Heaven and Earth.

He had achieved Celestial Harmony Dao once again.

Yet, he was still walking, so his every step, every subtle movement, was so natural, so elegantly unrestrained.

Behind Ye Tianling, both Jiang Xiangning and Xia Xinran found themselves involuntarily drawn to the sight of his back.

’Hmph. This lecher actually has a decent aura,’ Xia Xinran scoffed to herself.

As for Jiang Xiangning, her heart stirred for some unknown reason. After looking away from her first glance, she couldn’t resist sneaking a second, and then a third.

By the time she realized what she was doing, her heart was pounding like a frightened deer, and her pretty face flushed crimson. She immediately stopped looking, terrified that Ye Tianling would notice.

In Ye Tianling’s eyes, what manifested was a sword piercing the heavens, containing a sharp, mottled, ferocious, and murderous ancient intent.

An ancient intent that reached the heavens; a slaughter without equal.

It was as if this Killing Dao contained an invincible Asura Will, which faintly resonated with the Asura Killing Dao he cultivated.

The mottled runes on the ancient Heaven-Reaching Tower were incredibly complex, but Ye Tianling could recognize a large portion of them—they were extremely old Ancient Runes.

Ye Tianling possessed an incomparably profound talent for runes and was even proficient in over a thousand Primordial Runes.

What were Primordial Runes?

Now, Ye Tianling finally understood. Primordial Runes were simply runes more profound than Ancient Runes. They were composite runes that evolved from the proliferation of Ancient Runes combined with the variations of Netherworld Runes.

Since Ye Tianling had mastered a thousand Primordial Runes, it wouldn’t be difficult for him to understand these Ancient Runes.

"Royal Family’s Celestial Tower: Temper the Soul, transform the body, comprehend the True Void Heavenly Forbidden Power, and cultivate the Void Realm Supreme Dao."

Ye Tianling looked over from afar and understood the meaning of the series of mottled Ancient Runes on the Royal Family’s Celestial Tower.

Then, he withdrew the Xuanyuan Dragon-Controlling Immortal Sword Technique, and his gaze returned to normal.

"Hm? You... you actually know the general meaning of the Royal Family’s Celestial Tower?"

Xia Xinqin was startled. She turned her head, her beautiful eyes naturally landing on Ye Tianling’s face.

At that moment, her heart couldn’t help but skip a beat. Now, standing directly in the faint sunlight, no longer covered by the shadows of the forest, he was so handsome and extraordinary, with such a remarkable aura!

Xia Xinqin’s eyes trembled slightly before she regained her calm expression.

"I don’t. I just saw it. Isn’t it written on the Royal Family’s Celestial Tower?" Ye Tianling said faintly, his gaze fixed on the distance.

In the sky, rainbow-colored lights flew past from time to time. Groups of Cultivators were riding various weapons, practicing Sky Control, but their strength was not particularly great.

By Ye Tianling’s estimation, he was confident that if he were to strike, he could kill a huge swath of them with a single slap.

"I don’t think so... What’s written on the Royal Family’s Celestial Tower are some Ancient Runes. One needs an unparalleled talent in the Array Dao to even sense them, and extremely high attainment in Arrays to understand them—are you saying you understood them?"

As Xia Xinqin spoke, her delicate body trembled, and her eyes, glittering with a bright, spiritual light, fixed on Ye Tianling.

"Understood what? He probably just heard it somewhere. He’s just bragging again to win your favor, cousin," Xia Xinran said mockingly, as if she had seen right through Ye Tianling’s ploy.

"Xinran, don’t talk nonsense."

Xia Xinqin shot Xia Xinran a light glare, her tone slightly chiding, yet full of a certain charm.

Her pretty face flushed slightly, and she then asked, "Not far from here, there’s a small array. Can you understand it?"

Xia Xinqin already had the intention of testing him. She truly hoped Ye Tianling had some real ability—as if she would be very happy if he did.

It was a very strange state of mind.

"Up ahead? A small array? Is there one?"

Ye Tianling swept his gaze over the area doubtfully. There really wasn’t one—unless that small Gathering Yuan Array, so dilapidated that only a wisp of its gathering effect remained, could even be considered an array.

But Ye Tianling didn’t think that such a useless, garbage array was what they meant by a ’small array’. After all, the Royal Family’s Celestial Tower was so awe-inspiring, and the Ancient Array on it was mottled and exceedingly powerful.

Ye Tianling had subconsciously dismissed such a worthless array.

"You can’t even see that? It’s such an obvious Gathering Yuan Array! And you claim to understand arrays? That you could understand the Royal Family’s Celestial Tower?" Xia Xinran rolled her eyes.

"That counts as an array?"

Ye Tianling was speechless.

"How does that not count as an array? Isn’t a Gathering Yuan Array an array? This is a very good one, and it’s even a naturally occurring array, which qualifies it as a small Spiritual Land. Do you think it’s easy for us Cultivators to absorb the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi? Do you think it’s easy to perform Refinement after absorbing it? Under the complete rules, every single step is extremely difficult, you know!" Xia Xinran explained with a huff.

At the same time, she grumbled to herself, ’This country bumpkin understands nothing, yet he insists on pretending he does. He’s hopeless.’

"In this World, if all the Ten Thousand Spirit Races are like you three, then I’m truly blessed," Ye Tianling remarked with a strange sigh.

He found it incredibly strange. ’Is it that hard to absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi? Believe it or not, if I absorb it just once, I could create an energy storm that would shock you to death.’

’Refinement isn’t easy? Believe it or not, I could spit out a mouthful of Samadhi True Fire and refine your entire being in an instant.’

Ye Tianling didn’t let any of this show. He suddenly realized one of two things was true: either he had become incredibly heaven-defying, or these people’s talent... was just really, truly average.

’I hope it’s the former,’ Ye Tianling muttered to himself, ’though it’s most likely the latter.’

"What did you say? What do you mean by that! So you’re looking down on us?" Xia Xinran demanded, dissatisfied.

"Not at all. How could I ever look down on three unparalleled fairies like you?" Ye Tianling chuckled and said immediately.

"Hmph. At least you have some sense!"

Xia Xinran didn’t truly hold it against him, but she was losing whatever favorable impression she might have had of someone who was always ’making such wild claims’.

It was one thing to say such things in private, but if he was still this arrogant when they reached Luoyun Town and made a laughingstock of himself, it would be utterly humiliating.

As Xia Xinran’s thoughts drifted, she seemed to picture a scene in Luoyun Town: Ye Tianling spouting some arrogant nonsense, drawing a crowd’s roaring laughter and strange looks...

Her pretty face immediately grew hot, and she felt incredibly embarrassed.

How could Ye Tianling possibly care what Xia Xinran was thinking? He stared at the Royal Family’s Celestial Tower for a while longer before asking, "Princess Xinqin, a lot of Cultivators are flying into that Heaven-Reaching Tower. Can just any Cultivator go in to temper themselves? Are there any restrictions?"