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The nearby Li Jia extinguished the flickering eerie red light in her eyes and turned to say, "Energy scans reveal two hundred and fifty-seven mid to high-level combat auras hidden near the tower. Almost all nearby residents and service personnel are warriors; the magical reactions inside the tower are quite complex, with spatial distortion interference, making it impossible to obtain an exact count. However, if the total amount of mechanical magical power inside is added together, it roughly equals the power of two Crystal Dragons. As for the mana fluctuations of the forbidden spell casters, they cannot be captured temporarily."

Chen Xuanfeng nodded, thought for a moment, and asked, "If we use a powerful force to level this place in one go, would it be possible?"

Jin Luosha's *Moon Goddess Cannon*, performed with a phantom beast and super divine arts, as well as Chen Xuanfeng's own ultimate move, *Reopening the Chaos Purple Catastrophe*, are both forbidden powers capable of destroying this place in one strike. If we could use them, it would save us a lot of trouble.

Jin Luosha shook her head and replied, "Probably not. The so-called spatial dilation, in a sense, means the building is established outside the material plane. If the outer *Magic Tower* is destroyed, the buildings inside are likely to drift into other planes. If they never come back, that’s fine, but with today’s magical technology, as long as they have previously set coordinates in this *Magic Tower*, they can retrieve the drifting *Magic Tower*. In fact, last time we were at the 'Red Glory Royal City,' if the *Magic Towers* there hadn’t been integrated into the magical defense system, and the underground chambers couldn’t use other spatial technologies because they had to maintain the 'Divine Weapon Return Array,' it would have been very tricky as well."

"So, not only can we not attack from the outside, but we also have to be careful that the enemy uses spatial magic to teleport away..." Chen Xuanfeng knew the magical world was full of wonders and couldn’t help but frown.

Jin Luosha, however, had already thought of a countermeasure. She casually pulled out a trophy from her spatial bag—the *Staff of Solitude*, capable of locking time and space—and said, "If it’s a spatial issue, Jin Luosha can use the ability of the *Staff of Solitude* to disrupt the nearby space before the attack begins, preventing the enemy from using spatial magic to teleport, and even ordinary item teleportation arrays can’t be used. However, this space-sealing method can’t handle spells above the tenth level, so conventional combat methods must still be used to resolve the battle."

Chen Xuanfeng nodded, relieved. "That’s good. As long as they can’t escape, even if they have a Sword Saint to protect them, I am confident in seizing the *forbidden spell mark*. I just wonder which mark is hidden in this high tower?"

Jin Luosha smiled and said, "We’ll find out once we go inside." As she spoke, she raised the *Staff of Solitude*, silently chanted an incantation, and immediately, invisible waves spread out, blanketing the area for kilometers.

Chen Xuanfeng drew his sword and charged toward the *Magic Tower* without another word.

The rest of the group followed closely behind.

On the ground, a black flame shot straight into the sky.

**Chapter 30: The Blade Commands the Mysterious Maiden to Open the True Tower**

Though called a city, Huayin has fewer than four hundred residents. It is built around the *Huayin Tower*, a *Magic Tower*, and is entirely of an academic town specification. Among them, there are about several dozen magic apprentices and mages, while the rest are either miscellaneous workers for the *Magic Tower* or merchants and service personnel supplying various needs of the *Magic Tower*. It’s a city that consumes without producing anything, with its sole financial source being the *Mage Guild* and investments from various countries.

However, few realize this so-called city hides a massive secret. Among all the personnel in the city, apart from those magic apprentices and mages, at least eighty percent of the remaining personnel have another hidden identity. Some are battle-hardened mercenaries, some are secretly trained assassins from various countries, and some are bodyguards from the *Mage Guild*. The only common characteristic is that they are all formidable warriors. The real reason they conceal their identities and disguise themselves as ordinary townsfolk, running this small city, might not be clear to most of them, but one thing they all know is that any suspicious, unidentified individuals must disappear in this small city.

They have never neglected their duties, and their secrecy work has been excellent. Although magic apprentices and mages have come and gone through the years, almost no one has discovered the secret here. All suspicious individuals who infiltrated the small city have vanished without a trace.

They have always protected this small city, and everyone believed it would continue.

However, this afternoon, these warriors with identities as carpenters, blacksmiths, chefs, merchants, and workers all put down their work and involuntarily turned their gaze towards the city gate.

A shiver of panic, rising from their very bones, shook these battle-hardened warriors.

It was the instinctive fear of all creatures, stemming from their bloodline, an innate fear of the strong.

On the other hand, the magic apprentices and mages did not notice anything amiss. Having not experienced countless life-and-death trials and with their own strength just beginning, their instinctive intuition for danger had long since deteriorated, becoming too dull to sense the impending crisis. So they just looked strangely at the usually mundane city residents, who suddenly stopped their actions in unison and gazed in one direction.

In front of the city’s main gate, five figures were slowly approaching.

After discovering that so many warriors were hidden in the small city, Chen Xuanfeng had no intention of sneaking in. Instead, he boldly entered through the main gate, releasing his immense aura. Although it couldn’t match the Sword Saint’s "presence" that could stir natural forces, it could capture the location of every expert through the reactions of the city’s humans.

"Boom—"

With a loud noise, the city gate was shattered into pieces. Chen Xuanfeng didn’t delay, directly locking onto the towering *Huayin Tower* in the center of the city.

And the hidden warriors in the city, under Chen Xuanfeng’s deliberate pressure, erupted with astonishing killing intent.