Mortals cultivate immortality, I have a Chaos Tower

After about an hour, Lin Fan, Jin Buke, Zhong Ling'er and Jiang Shuiling finally recovered some strength. They supported each other and stood up with difficulty. Although the true energy in their bodies had not yet fully recovered, they could at least move. The four of them looked at each other, feeling grateful for having survived the disaster.

"Finally... it's over." Jin Buk patted his chest and let out a long breath, with a trace of shock still on his face.

Lin Fan nodded, but his eyes did not relax. He still felt a strange fluctuation in the air around him, and that uneasy feeling made him unable to be completely relieved.

"Where's the giant ape's body?" Zhong Ling'er suddenly asked, interrupting their thoughts. She pointed to the spot not far away where the giant ape had fallen, with a puzzled look on her face.

Lin Fan turned around and frowned. They remembered clearly that the giant ape had been completely defeated by the suppression of the Chaos Tower, but now, the body of the giant ape was gone. The giant ape that was as big as a mountain had disappeared without a trace.

"What's going on?" Jin Buke couldn't help but asked in surprise, "We just saw it being suppressed, how come it suddenly disappeared?"

The four of them looked at each other, and doubts rose in their hearts. They had fought hard for a long time to suppress this giant ape, and its huge body could not just disappear out of thin air. Lin Fan frowned and looked around vigilantly, worried that this was some kind of trick of the giant ape to fake its death.

However, when they approached the place where the giant ape had fallen, their eyes fell on the object lying quietly on the ground.

"What...is this?" Zhong Ling'er widened her eyes and pointed at the thing on the ground.

The four approached cautiously and found a thick leather armor lying on the ground. The leather armor seemed to be made of the skin of a giant ape, emitting a faint black luster, and the lines were clearly visible. The surface of the leather armor still carried an ancient aura, as if it had some inexplicable connection with the giant ape they had just fought.

"The giant ape disappeared, and what was left behind was actually this leather armor?" Jiang Shuiling said softly, with doubts in her eyes, "Could it be... that this giant ape itself was transformed from this leather armor?"

Lin Fan walked up to the leather armor and gently touched the surface of the leather armor. It felt cold and tough. His fingers slid along the edge of the leather armor, carefully sensing the power fluctuations hidden in the leather armor. Sure enough, this leather armor exuded an extremely ancient and mysterious power, far beyond ordinary magic weapons.

"This leather armor is not simple." Lin Fan said in a deep voice, "It is very likely that this giant ape is not an ordinary monster, but has been injected with some powerful force into this leather armor, becoming a special guardian beast."

Jin Buk scratched his head, looking a little confused. "You mean, the giant ape is not a real creature at all, but an illusion of leather armor?"

Lin Fan nodded, his expression solemn. "If I'm not mistaken, this giant ape should be a powerful person who injected part of his soul or spiritual power into the leather armor, thus forming the power of transformation. Its existence itself is to protect this leather armor, or in other words, this leather armor itself is the giant ape."

The four of them immediately fell into deep thought. This kind of thing is not uncommon in the fantasy world. Many powerful people would use various secret methods to attach their power or soul from their previous life to a certain magical tool or object, thus giving it special abilities and protective mechanisms. Obviously, this leather armor is like this.

"But what's so special about this leather armor?" Zhong Ling'er asked doubtfully, "Is it worthy of being guarded by such a powerful giant ape?"

Jiang Shuiling thought for a moment, then tightened his grip on the sword in his hand, his expression solemn.

"No matter what, we have to confirm whether this leather armor still poses a threat." Without saying a word, she suddenly raised the long sword in her hand high up and stabbed it fiercely at the leather armor on the ground. That sword condensed all her remaining true energy, and the sharp sword edge drew a cold light in the air, stabbing straight at the seemingly ordinary leather armor.

However, a shocking scene occurred. The moment the long sword pierced the leather armor, it seemed to hit some invisible barrier and was instantly bounced away. The huge recoil force made the long sword in Jiang Shuiling's hand buzz and almost slipped out of his hand.

"How is this possible?" Jiang Shuiling's eyes flashed with shock, and she quickly looked at the leather armor on the ground. Although the power of her sword just now was not as strong as it was at its peak, it still contained extremely strong power. It was impossible for ordinary magic weapons to be unscathed. However, this leather armor was not only unscathed, but there was not even a trace left.

Lin Fan frowned, he reached out to take Jiang Shuiling's sword, and looked at the sword's edge carefully. The sword's edge was still as sharp as before, but he felt that there seemed to be a very strange recoil force left on the sword's edge.

"This leather armor is not only indestructible, but also seems to have some kind of defensive and counterattack power." Lin Fan whispered, his eyes full of thought, "Shui Ling's sword was rebounded just now, which means that this leather armor has a power that we cannot understand."

"Does it have its own consciousness?" Jin Buk muttered in a low voice, his face looking a little grim. After all, this thing was too strange, and people had to be on guard.

"I'm not sure either." Lin Fan frowned and said, "But it is obvious that this leather armor is not an ordinary item. It may be an ancient and powerful magical weapon."