Lord Of All Realms

by Stayrr

In ancient times, there existed giant spirits capable of supporting the heavens. With bodies as enormous as stars, they soared across the universe. Great clan leaders with mysterious blood running through their veins shattered the void and created new worlds. Ancient Qi Warriors crossed a river of stars to enlighten numerous mortal beings. For unknown reasons, an era silently came

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The Flame Dragon Armor gradually got further and further away until it completely disappeared into the distant sky.

"A Spirit Channeling grade precious treasure!"

Caught in tremendous shock, everyone's eyes were fixed on the Flame Dragon Armor as it flew away.

Nie Tian's tightly knitted eyebrows slowly relaxed as he whispered to himself, "It seems that after absorbing the numerous Earthflame Crystal Strings, its hidden soul has finally fully awakened."

The dragon bone, also known as the Blood Core, had been in his possession since he was one year old, however, Nie Tian had never communicated with it before.

Not long ago, when the blood stone drained had all of the flame power within the Flamecloud gem mine and condensed it into a blood drop, he had only seen a few of its abnormalities. However, he never noticed any trace of the soul aura.

Only when the Flame Dragon Armor abandoned him and drilled into the earth's core on its own account, despite his calling, did he come to realize that the Blood Core might have its own consciousness.

However at that time, he could only faintly sense some kind of connection between him and the Blood Core.

But just a moment ago, he had clearly received a wisp of a miraculous soul fluctuation from the Blood Core.

That soul fluctuation went straight to his soul sea, making him instantly understand that the seemingly strange behaviors of the Flame Dragon Armor were precisely for the purpose of collecting the Earthflame Crystal Strings from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

It seemed that the Flame Dragon Armor needed them to further awaken its soul and at the same time, repair the damages it had sustained.

From the soul intent that it had transmitted to him, Nie Tian understood that the Flame Dragon Armor would return to his side after it had finished gathering every single remaining Earthflame Crystal String in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

He immediately felt reassured.

"Hey!" Separated by numerous magma-filled ravines and creeks, Feng Luo was standing on top of a huge rock. He suddenly let out a cunning laugh and said, "Eccentric Wu has indeed become a dotard; he actually bestowed a Spirit Channeling grade treasure upon a Lesser Heaven stage kid! Did he forget that Spirit Channeling grade treasures have their own souls?

"The soul is what truly controls the Spirit Channeling grade treasure. The souls choose those who can use them.

"How would a Spirit Channeling grade treasure be willing to be manipulated by a weakling at Lesser Heaven stage?

"Now look at this! The Spirit Channeling grade treasure that Eccentric Wu had gone through great lengths to obtain, has left on its own account. Knowing about this, Eccentric Wu will regret giving it to Nie Tian to the point that his intestines turn green!"

To make sure that Nie Tian and his group could hear him, Feng Luo intentionally raised his voice, and yelled in a taunting tone.

As he saw it, the departure of the Flame Dragon Armor was because it looked down upon its new owner Nie Tian due to his lack of strength and poor cultivation base, and deemed him undeserving to use it. As a result, it abandoned Nie Tian.

Even though he mocked Nie Tian with his words, his eyes seemed to be fixed in the direction that the Flame Dragon Armor had left in, his face filled with jealousy.

Spirit Channeling grade treasures were extremely rare in the Realm of Flame Heaven. He found it somewhat frustrating to watch such a precious and rare treasure slip away from in front of his eyes, while he could do nothing to stop it.

Nie Tian turned a deaf ear towards his mockery. With a tranquil and calm face, he seemed totally indifferent.

Jiang Lingzhu and Ye Gumo, who knew that the Flame Dragon Armor had actually been bought by Nie Tian at the Treasure Convention, did not respond to Feng Luo, but instead, looked towards Nie Tian, not saying a word.

When An Shiyi, An Ying, and Pan Tao saw that the Flame Dragon Armor had left, they secretly felt anxious for Nie Tian.

"Well…" Jiang Lingzhu hesitated for a while and asked, "did you know that it was a Spirit Channeling grade treasure when you bought it?"

Upon hearing these words, Pan Tao and the others all became intrigued, and also cast their gaze towards Nie Tian, eyes wide.

By that point, they had learned that the Flame Dragon Armor was something that Nie Tian had obtained at the Treasure Convention. However, they were all shocked by Nie Tian's perfect judgment, and his insightful eyes that were bright like a torch.

Being capable of identifying a Spirit Channeling grade treasure and obtaining it before it showed any sign of its brilliance, that kind of ability… should be something that only the top equipment forgers like Fang Hui could possess.

"No, I didn't." Nie Tian shook his head. "It was pure luck!"

"Save it!" Jiang Lingzhu glared at him out of the corner of her eye and snorted. "Uncle Liu already told me everything. He said that the Flame Dragon Armor had been appraised by equipment forgers of the Treasure school to be nothing but a third level Medium grade spiritual tool, which definitely wasn't worth nine thousand spirit stones! No one showed any interest in it even though it had been displayed for so long. Why did you set your mind on it and want to buy it when everyone else advised you against it and wouldn't even bother to ask about it?"

"Third level Medium grade?" Pan Tao smiled bitterly and said, "Those useless morons of the Treasure school! They couldn't even tell that it was a Spirit Channeling grade treasure!"

Among the crowd, An Shiyi was the only one who had calmly pondered for a while before saying, "It's unlikely that those people in the Treasure Pavilion were mistaken. There must have been some abnormalities in the Flame Dragon Armor before. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been appraised as a third level Medium grade spiritual tool. Oh, right. The Flame Dragon Armor belonged to that foreign Qi warrior Lai Yi, who previously demanded you to hand over some Blood Core. Does the Blood Core he spoke of have anything to do with the Flame Dragon Armor?"

"You're pretty smart, Sister An." Nie Tian smiled, but did not elaborate.

Upon hearing Nie Tian's words, everyone was convinced that the reason Flame Dragon Armor didn't show any abnormalities early on must have something to do with so-called Blood Core in Nie Tian's possession.

Ye Gumo was confused. "Nie Tian, how come you don't seem sad at all? The Flame Dragon Armor is a Spirit Channeling grade precious treasure, and since it has abandoned you and left, shouldn't you be fuming with anger or drowning in regret?"

"It was something I obtained by luck in the first place, so losing it isn't a big deal." Nie Tian sounded like he didn't care at all.

Jiang Lingzhu was the first one to voice her disbelief. "What kind of fools do you take us for!"

After the Flame Dragon Armor had left, everyone chattered on and on about it. They talked about the miraculousness of the Flame Dragon Armor as they went on to collect more Flame Crystals.

The group of people spent half the night collecting all of the Flame Crystals that could be seen in the lava creek.

They saw a few Flame Crystals in a distant lava lake, glittering with sparkling, fiery light under the night sky.

However, the lake was full of lava and seemed much deeper than the creek. It would be far more difficult to fish up those Flame Crystals from the bottom of the lake.

Besides, the lake was too far away from them, and there weren't enough fallen stones around them that they could use to make a path all the way to the pond.

After a few attempts, they were convinced that it was indeed an impossible task, and returned to the mountain peak through the path they had come from.

Later that night, the party returned once again to the mountaintop, where they silently checked the Flame Crystals that they had gathered.

There was a small pile of Flame Crystals stored within Nie Tian's bracelet of holding. He counted a total of nineteen pieces.

As a Premium grade spiritual material, one Flame Crystal had the value of nearly a thousand Flamecloud gems, the kind that the Nie clan used to mine. To match the value of those nineteen Flame Crystals, the Nie clan would have to mine Flamecloud gems for about ten years.

Nie Tian secretly sighed with mixed emotions. "So the things that the entire Nie clan gains for ten years of hard work could just barely match the value of a handful Flame Crystals."

It wasn't until then did he understand the how big of a difference there was between spiritual materials of different grades.

RUUUUMBLE!

Deep into the night, terrifying rumbles echoed out from the direction of the Spiritual Treasure sect, which were occasionally accompanied by the violent howl of the Earth Flame Beast.

Even though there was a significant distance between them, the thunderous roars of the Earth Flame Beast could still be heard, which indicated that the formidable Earth Flame Beast was now in a frantic state.

Everyone at the mountain peak all had grim faces as they realized that the loud noises came from the Spiritual Treasure sect. They did not have a clue of how bad the situation was over there.

Feeling insecure at heart, they all waited in silence.

As the curtain of night lifted and daylight shone on the Realm of Flame Heaven, the thunderous howls continued to ring out from the Spiritual Treasure sect.

It wasn't until the day gradually darkened again did the attentive crowd notice that the levels of the lava that had filled the mountain range started to slowly go down as the lava seeped back into the earth.

This discovery greatly raised everyone's spirits, and let them see the hope to survive.

It was precisely the burning lava that had kept them from leaving the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

Once the lava seeped back into the earth and the ground reappeared, they would get the opportunity to escape from the troublesome Scarlet Flame Mountain Range and get somewhere safe.

Sitting quietly on the mountaintop and gazing into the distance, Nie Tian suddenly felt a faint, unusual movement. "Hmm!"

The unusual movement came from within his bracelet of holding, more specifically from the command medallion that his master Wu Ji had given him.

Puzzled, he took out the command medallion. He carefully examined it but did not see any abnormalities.

However, seconds later, the sharp cry of the Thunder Beast echoed out from deep within the clouds.

"The Thunder Beast!" Nie Tian eyes immediately glittered with light of excitement.

Since the Thunder Beast was able to fly him to the Spiritual Treasure sect, it could also take him and soar away from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, pulling him out of this troublesome place.

After more consideration regarding the unusual movement of the command medallion, he suddenly realized that the Thunder Beast must have been looking for him all around the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range via the connection between it and the command medallion.

There seemed be a certain effective range to the connection between them. Perhaps, the Thunder Beast had already been around in other parts of the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range for a long time.

It wasn't until now that the Thunder Beast finally flew to this area and detected the aura of the command medallion.

"That's senior Wu's Thunder Beast! We are saved!" Pan Tao seemed overjoyed.

The others also sprung to their feet. Everyone's spirits were lifted as they watched the Thunder Beast slowly approaching from the distant sky, with its outline becoming increasingly clear.

Not long after, the Thunder Beast arrived and landed next to Nie Tian.

Upon touching the ground, it fixed its seemingly intelligent eyes on Nie Tian, as if it was urging him to climb up on its back.

After pondering for awhile, Nie Tian looked into the Thunder Beast's eyes and said, "All of us need to leave the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range as soon as possible. You'll need to let other people to climb onto your back before I do. Otherwise, I refuse to leave."

He knew that this Thunder Beast was arrogant and hard to tame. Before, it wasn't even willing to take Nie Tian to the Spiritual Treasure sect.

It was all because of Wu Ji's deterrence that the Thunder Beast chose to submit and bring Nie Tian to the Spiritual Treasure sect, albeit reluctantly.

The Thunder Beast's back was wide enough to take everyone and leave. However, Nie Tian feared that it wouldn't be willing to undertake such an arduous but fruitless job.

As expected, as soon as it heard that it need to take everyone along, the Thunder Beast immediately let out a bellow, making its discontent evident to everyone present.

Just as Nie Tian was about to continue with his persuasion, An Shiyi pursed her lips and smiled. She took out three green jade pieces that flickered with lightning from her bracelet of holding and held them near the mouth of the Thunder Beast.

The Thunder Beast looked down at them, and its eyes suddenly lit up. It instantly swallowed all of them, as if it feared that An Shiyi would take them back.

"It's okay now." An Shiyi smiled sweetly and gently fondled the neck of the Thunder Beast before taking the initiative to climb onto its back.

Not only did the Thunder Beast not resist, it even bent forward so that it would be easier for her to get up.

A strange expression appeared on Nie Tian's face. Eyes wide, he stared at the incomparably gentle Thunder Beast and said, "Now I finally understand why you were so reluctant to take me before. It was all because I didn't give you anything in return!"

The Thunder Beast let out another bellow, as if it was saying to Nie Tian, you got that right.

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"Green Lightning gems!"

Pan Tao exclaimed softly as he watched the Thunder Beast swallow the handful of green, jade-like gems. Then he looked into his bracelet of holding to see if he had similar spiritual materials with him.

He realized that that this fifth grade Thunder Beast had already developed its own intelligence. It was its own master and was not something that could be easily deceived.

The Thunder Beast was a lightning-attributed spirit beast, therefore its cultivation relied on the power of thunder and lightning. Even though the Green Lightning gems were just Elementary grade spiritual materials, they happened to be very suitable for the upgrade of the Thunder Beast's bloodline since they had lightning power within them.

Pan Tao took a while to go through his belongings, yet couldn't find any lightning-attributed spiritual materials. Then he cursed inwardly, "God damn! I didn't store any Green Lightning gems."

Nie Tian looked at the Thunder Beast with cold eyes, noticing that it stood up immediately after An Shiyi got on its back.

The Thunder Beast's pupils shone with a greedy light as it stared at Pan Tao and the others, as if it were waiting for something.

"Three Green Lightning gems are not enough for you!?" Nie Tian scolded.

The Thunder Beast cast a cold glare at him, and then ignored him. Then it continued to stare at Pan Tao and the others, urging them along with its eyes.

It was telling them to follow An Shiyi's example, and win its favor by offering it lightning-attributed spiritual materials. Only then would it agree to take everyone along with it.

"Hahaha!" Sitting on the Thunder Beast's back, An Shiyi suddenly laughed, turning her delicate face into a blossomed flower. Dark pupils glittering with captivating, bright light, she seemed to have come up with a good idea.

"Here!" She took out three more Green Lightning gems, and passed them down along the Thunder Beast's neck to its mouth.

The Thunder Beast swallowed all of them at once and let out a satisfied low-pitched cry, a joyous expression appearing on its face.

"Her!" An Shiyi lifted her lily-white hand and pointed at An Ying. She said, "You can come up."

An Ying went blank for a moment, but she soon realized what her sister meant and walked towards the Thunder Beast with a faint smile on her face.

The Thunder Beast once again gently crouched low and bent forward on the ground, letting An Ying climb onto its back effortlessly.

"This spirit beast is… quite interesting." An Ying smiled charmingly as she mounted the Thunder Beast and sat behind her sister, curiously scrutinizing the creature from head to foot.

Not long after she sat down, the Thunder Beast abruptly stood up again and cast an angry look towards Pan Tao.

Pan Tao stood next to the Thunder Beast awkwardly and gave an embarrassed smile.

Originally, he had planned to secretly climb up the back of the Thunder Beast while An Ying made her way up. However, the Thunder Beast saw through his little scheme in time and had warned him to put a stop to his tricks.

"Brother Ye," Jiang Lingzhu asked softly, "do you have any lightning-attributed spiritual materials with you?"

Ye Gumo shook his head and said while scratching his hair, "I've looked through all my stuff, and can't even find one thunder or lightning attributed spiritual material. Damn this Thunder Beast. I'm afraid it won't allow us to climb up its back unless we feed it and please it."

"I have long since heard about this beast's snobbishness and greed for treasure," Jiang Lingzhu said in a cursing tone, "but I've never thought it would go this far! We are disciples of the Cloudsoaring sect, and it's a spirit beast reared by our martial granduncle. I can't believe that it's actually imposing its greed on us!"

An Shiyi's dark pupils shone with brilliant light. "Well… I still have quite a few Green Lightning gems in my bracelet of holding." Glancing at Pan Tao, Jiang Lingzhu, and Ye Gumo from the corner of her eyes, she said with a smile, "Pan Tao, we are both disciples of the Spiritual Treasure sect, so I won't rip you off. You'll just need to give me three Flame Crystals and I'll offer you three Green Lightning gems in exchange. What do you say?"

"Is this the way to do business, Big Sister An?" Pan Tao almost sprung into the air with anger. He said, "Green Lightning gems are only Elementary grade lightning-attributed spiritual materials, but Flame Crystals are Premium grade fire-attributed spiritual materials! You couldn't possibly be confused about the huge difference between a Premium grade spiritual material and a Elementary grade spiritual material, could you!?"

"One Flame Crystal could at least convert into seven hundred Green Lightning gems. Yet, you want to use three Green Lightning gems to exchange for three Flame Crystals from me. Isn't that a bit excessive?"

An Shiyi pursed up her lips into a smile. Then she spread out her hands and said, "So that means no deal?"

The appearance of the Thunder Beast had allowed her to see the opportunity to escape from the desperate straits. She knew that since this unusual beast was here, they would be able to get out of the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range very quickly.

With that in mind, she put her heart at ease and decided to take the opportunity to plunder as much loot as possible.

"No, no deal!" Pan Tao said with decisiveness that could sever nails and chop iron.

"So be it." An Shiyi showed an indifferent attitude.

Nie Tian, on the other hand, smiled widely, thinking to himself that the resourceful woman in front of him was the true An Shiyi.

An Shiyi seemed to be born with a knack for business dealings and gaining profits. Nie Tian had heard before that the businesses that she had previously managed for the Spiritual Treasure sect had all earned abundant profits.

Aside from her outstanding innate cultivation talent, her skill in the business field was what had caused the sect master to regard her highly.

Today, Nie Tian had finally witnessed An Shiyi's remarkable ability to plunder wealth.

Pan Tao stared at An Shiyi angrily. He took out a Flame Crystal and held it near to the Thunder Beast's mouth. "These are Flame Crystals! They are way more precious than those Green Lightning gems. I'm willing to use this Flame Crystal to exchange for the opportunity to leave Scarlet Flame Mountain Range!"

WHOOSH!

The Thunder Beast let out a puff of foul breath that was laced with fine strands of lightning bolts. It did not even spare the Flame Crystal a glance before turning its head to look towards the lava lake in the distance.

There seemed to be a large number of Flame Crystals embedded at the bottom of that lake, glittering with bright and fiery light.

By doing that, the Thunder Beast seemed to be telling Pan Tao that the Flame Crystals he had were not even worth a dime to it. Since the Flame Crystals could be found everywhere in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, it was far from enough to make it carry one more person.

"You foolish beast!" Pan Tao stamped with fury.

However, the Thunder Beast didn't care at all, and kept puffing out foul breaths that were generated from its refinement of the Green Lightning gems.

Calm and well-paced, An Shiyi proceeded to offer a thorough analysis. "You should know that the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range is not safe. Nobody has any idea what the situation is over at the Spiritual Treasure sect. If the Earth Flame Beast is still ravaging the valley and if the lava seeps back into the earth, many survivors, who were previously trapped on mountaintop like us, will all be able to move again soon enough.

"All other people aside, Feng Luo and Yu Tong are still quite close to us.

"Without the hindrance of the lava-filled rivers and gorges, I believe that Feng Luo and Yu Tong would rush here without the slightest hesitation and murder everyone here all at the first possible moment.

"And this is only the situation as we know it. There could be even more experts out there that we don't know about.

"Wasting more time in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range is very unwise; it would put us in even greater danger."

An Shiyi frowned slightly, and with a dignified tone, she explained to the crowd about the serious situation they were in. "Plus, everyone has collected a lot of Flame Crystals just now. Taking out a few to exchange for an opportunity to live, from what I see, is very wise and worthy."

Nie Tian found it quite interesting to listen to her speak and see her use a scrutinizing gaze to look at Pan Tao and the others. Unknowingly, the corner of his mouth curled up into a smile.

He had already seen through An Shiyi's plan. Clearly, she had seized an exceptional opportunity to loot a few Flame Crystals from the hands of Pan Tao and the others.

"Fine! You win!" Pan Tao snorted. He obediently took out three Flame Crystals, waved them towards An Shiyi, and said, "They are yours now!"

An Shiyi put on a sweet smile. "Smart choice." She took out three Green Lightning gems and passed them to the Thunder Beast. After the Thunder Beast swallowed them, she pointed her finger at Pan Tao.

As expected, after swallowing the Green Lightning gems, the Thunder Beast obediently crouched down and let Pan Tao up on its back.

After Pan Tao climbed up, he handed the three Flame Crystals in his hand to An Ying, and let her pass them onto An Shiyi, who was at the front.

"So what about you?" An Shiyi turned to look at Jiang Lingzhu and Ye Gumo.

Jiang Lingzhu cursed in a low voice, "Mean old woman!" However, she also had no other choice but to take out three Flame Crystals and wave them towards An Shiyi.

With a bitter smile, Ye Gumo did the same.

An Shiyi shook her head and with a tone that sounded as if it couldn't be more natural, she said, "Sorry, three is not enough. Pan Tao and I are both from the Spiritual Treasure sect, and that's why he could exchange with me one for one. As for you guys… each of you needs to give me six Flame Crystals in exchange for three of my Green Lightning gems."

Nie Tian didn't know if An Shiyi had long since planned for it in her heart or if she had overheard Jiang Lingzhu's curse just now. Whichever it was, An Shiyi seemed very determined.

"Are you insane?" Jiang Lingzhu almost burst with anger. She argued loudly, "The Spiritual Treasure sect has already fallen into such sore conditions, and will probably need aid from the Cloudsoaring sect and the other two sects! And yet you want to blackmail me?"

An Shiyi put away her smile and said with a plain face, "You're right, the Spiritual Treasure sect will suffer great damages after this calamity, and it may even disappear from the Realm of Flame Heaven. And that is the exact reason why I have to obtain as many precious spiritual materials as I can: so that my sister and I can have a secure future. If our sect is gone, then what will we sisters depend on to maintain our foothold in the Realm of Flame Heaven in the future?"

Upon hearing these words, Jiang Lingzhu fell into silence. She looked deeply towards An Shiyi and with a nod, she said, "Fine, now I finally know how fierce you are. If the Spiritual Treasure sect is really destroyed, I'll personally ask my father to recruit you to the Cloudsoaring sect. We can really use a woman like you in our sect, even though your cultivation base doesn't stand out."

With these words, she took out three more Flame Crystals.

The same went for Ye Gumo.

An Shiyi then took out six Green Lightning gems and held it near the Thunder Beast's mouth. After swallowing them with one motion, the Thunder Beast crouched down once again, letting both Jiang Lingzhu and Ye Gumo up on its back.

By this point, Nie Tian was the only one standing on the ground.

After both Jiang Lingzhu and Ye Gumo mounted its back, the Thunder Beast once again stood up, and raised its head to look into the sky, like it didn't notice Nie Tian's presence.

Originally, it was here to pick up Nie Tian and leave. However, since it had savored a sweet taste from others, it didn't plan to let Nie Tian off.

Looking at its arrogant and laughable manner, Nie Tian realized that if he didn't want to cough up some treasure, he might have to waste a long time arguing with this asshole.

However, just as An Shiyi had pointed out, the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range wasn't safe yet. He really could not afford to waste his time here.

"Sister An, I……" He reached into his bracelet of holding to get some Flame Crystals as he spoke.

"No, you don't need to pay me anything." A wide smile stretched across An Shiyi's face. She smoothly tossed three Green Lightning gems to the Thunder Beast and squeezed back slightly, giving up the front spot. She waved her hand and said, "Come on, get up."

Nie Tian chuckled. "Alright." He jumped onto the back of the crouched Thunder Beast under the strange gazes of Pan Tao and Ye Gumo.

He sat in the front spot. It was so crowded he and An Shiyi were practically stuck together. He threw a vigorous kick at the Thunder Beast and said, "Let's go!"

With a low-pitched cry, the Thunder Beast opened up its wings and soared into the sky. Under the gazes of Yu Tong and Feng Luo, they headed out of the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

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With Nie Tian and the others on its back, the Thunder Beast flapped its enormous wings, and slowly disappeared from Feng Luo and Yu Tong's sight, heading out of the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

By that time, all the powerful experts who had the capability to fly out of the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range had long since left the disastrous location.

Those who couldn't leave, but managed to survive the calamity, were all scattered on various mountain peaks or in caves, waiting for the lava to seep back into the ground.

Standing on top of a short stone mountain, Han Xin of the Mystic Mist sect pointed at the unusual beast in the distant sky. "That's… a Thunder Beast!"

Seeing that it was flying towards her, she waved her their hands at it in excitement.

As it got closer, she caught sight of Nie Tian and his group, who were sitting on its back.

Zheng Bing rose to his feet and looked up at the Thunder Beast, his eyes filled with astonishment. He said with surprise in his voice, "They all made it!"

Han Xin and him had been rather lucky. They did not encounter any trouble after parting ways with An Shiyi and the party. They had attempted to get out of the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range as soon as possible and then march straight towards the direction of the Mystic Mist sect.

At first, their plan went well. They were secretly glad that they did not stay behind and wait for Nie Tian along with An Shiyi and the others.

But later, great changes occurred in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range. Raging lava had spouted out from the earth core. Running out of options, they too, like Nie Tian and the party, had chosen to take refuge on top of a stone peak.

Very quickly after that, boiling lava flooded the entire mountain range and numerous mountain peaks were separated from one another. Fortunately, they survived.

For the past two days, they had been racking their brains, trying to think of ways to leave the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, but none of their ideas ended up being feasible.

Just as they were at their wits' end, the Thunder Beast soared through the sky, towards the mountain peak they were on. Having spotted Nie Tian and the others, Han Xin eagerly waved her hands in elation, hoping that Nie Tian and the others could see her and Zheng Bin.

"Take us with you, please!" Han Xin called out loudly.

Face full of unquenchable excitement, she was practically bouncing with joy, as if she had finally seen a silver lining after waiting for so long.

Zheng Bin, however, stayed silent and did not say a thing.

Pan Tao lowered his chin as he saw Zheng Bin and Han Xin, who were standing on their toes on a mountain peak. He frowned and said, "It's them… What do you guys think we should do?"

A few days ago, Nie Tian had sensed the Flame Dragon Armor's unusual changes while he was in the middle of his recuperation. After Zheng Bin and Han Xin realized that he had dashed off down into the tunnel, they had inwardly despised his recklessness, and thus chose to part ways with the group.

To Pan Tao's surprise, they saw the two of them again when they could finally leave the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

Sitting in the forefront, Nie Tian said with a plain expression, "It's too crowded here. We can't make enough room for two more people. Plus, the Thunder Beast may also not be able to take the weight.

"Furthermore, you have all seen that the Thunder Beast wasn't willing to take orders from me. As a matter of fact, it doesn't listen to me at all."

Sitting closely behind him, An Shiyi put both of her hands around his waist, but barely touching him. She turned her face to one side, and glanced at Zheng Bin and Han Xin out of the corner of her eyes. She said with a blank tone, "I have no more Green Lightning gems."

"I think it's too crowded, too," said Pan Tao.

Ye Gumo said coldly, "If the Thunder Beast carries too many people, I fear that it may not be able to stand the weight. What if it falls from the sky? We would all die together, wouldn't we?"

Jiang Lingzhu snorted and kicked the Thunder Beast's waist with her foot. She urged, "Fly faster!"

Although no one said it outright, they had all clearly expressed their stance on this matter, which was: No one wanted for the Thunder Beast to stop.

Thereupon, despite Han Xin's excited shouts, the Thunder Beast whizzed by right over the peak where she and Zheng Bin were, without the slightest intention of stopping.

"They… They left…" Han Xin stood there flabbergasted. Moments later, she suddenly gave out an ear-piercingly sharp scream, "They actually abandoned us and left! Aren't the four sects supposed to be allies? How could they leave us like this?"

Zheng Bin did not say anything, but rather heaved a sigh and bowed his head in silence.

At that moment, a strong sense of regret filled his heart. He regretted the decision that he had made days ago.

When Nie Tian had acted on his own account and the others had no idea where he was, he and Han Xin had chosen to abandon them and march on by themselves for their own safety.

Similarly today, when the Thunder Beast had found Nie Tian and carried the others away from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, they abandoned the two of them.

Zheng Bin understood that they were reaping what they had sown.

After the brief interlude with Zheng Bin and Han Xin, the crowd on the back of the Thunder Beast all fell into silence, no one starting a conversation.

Nie Tian also did not utter a word.

After a while, when the Thunder Beast was flying over a deep lava lake, Nie Tian once again sensed the aura of the Flame Dragon Armor.

He was high up in the sky, while the Flame Dragon Armor was deep under the bottom of the lava lake. He could not see the Flame Dragon Armor with his eyes and could only faintly sense it with his psychic awareness.

"This place is too dangerous, I am leaving." He tried to convey his thoughts with his psychic power.

Moments later, he received the Flame Dragon Armor's response in his soul sea.

The Flame Dragon Armor's response did not have any specific words, but instead, it was only a wisp of a miraculous soul fluctuation, which was already understandable to Nie Tian.

The Flame Dragon Armor wanted him to leave, but also expressed that it would go and look for him in the future.

"It will come look for me in the future…"

Feeling relieved, Nie Tian's expression immediately loosened up, knowing that it wouldn't take long for the Flame Dragon Armor to gather all the Earthflame Crystal Strings in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range and then return to his side.

Pan Tao and the others didn't feel a thing when Nie Tian communicated with the Flame Dragon Armor. Only An Shiyi, who was sitting closely behind him, turned her glittering eyes, and secretly looked down towards the deep lava lake.

She moved closer towards Nie Tian's ear and asked softly with a voice that only the both of them could hear, "The Spirit Channeling grade treasure…… is under the lava lake below us, isn't it?"

Her warm and soft voice, coupled with her plump breasts that were now pressed against his back, caused Nie Tian to feel a wave of numbing sensations throughout his body. His mind suddenly went blank along with it.

Only after a while did Nie Tian slowly awake from his reverie. He responded, "Yes." His voice sounded heavy and rough.

"Just now, I sensed that a wisp of your psychic awareness, as fine as a thread, suddenly connect with another thread of soul awareness." Looking at his somewhat embarrassed face, An Shiyi chuckled softly and said, "You… can communicate with it on a soul level, can't you?"

"Umm… it seems so," Nie Tian mumbled.

At that moment, An Shiyi had wrapped her arms around his lower waist. Her curvy physique was now closely pressed up against his back, while she whispered into his ear with a low and soft voice. This caused his blood to surge, making him feel confused and disorientated.

It was the first time he had experienced something like this.

An Shiyi made conversation with him along the way. Not knowing if she was doing it intentionally or if there was too little space on the back of the Thunder Beast, her ample breasts had been pressed against his back ever since they started talking.

Nie Tian, who had never encountered anything like this, started to become muddle-headed, and almost couldn't make sense when answering An Shiyi's questions.

By this point, Nie Tian's head had already been taken up by the image of An Shiyi's plump chest, their deformed outline as they were squeezed against his back, together with the raptured, wonderful sensation coming from his back.

It wasn't long before he fell into a state where he no longer knew what An Shiyi was asking and what he was answering.

A long time later, he felt An Shiyi gradually loosen her lily-white hands that were previously tightly wrapped around his waist. Furthermore, she slightly shifted backwards to put some distance between them, no longer pressing her body against him.

Only at that moment did he gradually became clear-headed, and recover from the strange, bewildered state.

"Hey little punk, remove your hand from my leg…" An Shiyi whispered softly.

Nie Tian was startled before he quickly realized in the next moment that his right hand had unknowingly stretched backwards and landed on An Shiyi's milky-white, slender leg.

Despite being separated by a light layer of muslin, he could still feel the perfect curve and tightness of her beautiful leg.

"Hurry up and remove your hand." An Shiyi warned him again with a gentle voice.

Nie Tian subconsciously turned his head to look at the part he was touching. Then he saw that An Shiyi's loose right sleeve was swaying softly like a curtain, covering her right thigh, and preventing An Ying, who was sitting behind her, from seeing what was happening.

Nie Tian sensed that An Shiyi was quite nervous at the moment. She seemed to be afraid that An Ying would notice, misunderstood, and frown upon her sister.

"Well…" Nie Tian, who had come to his senses, understood her worries. He responded with a low voice and quickly retracted his hand.

After that, Nie Tian didn't know why, but he actually put his hand under his nose and sniffed.

"You little jerk!" An Shiyi's gorgeous face was suddenly filled with a red glow. Seized by embarrassment, she bit her bottom lip, and scolded Nie Tian in a low voice.

"It smells so good." Nie Tian laughed quietly and foolishly.

WHOOSH!

Also at that moment, the Thunder Beast had finally flown out of the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, speeding away in the direction of the Cloudsoaring sect.

On the following day, at noon…

When the Thunder Beast flew into Black Cloud City, it gradually slowed down and seemingly refused to go any further.

It slowly descended in front of the main gate of Black Cloud City.

Clueless, Jiang Lingzhu asked, "Isn't the Cloudsoaring Mountain supposed to be our destination?"

Black Cloud City was already quite close to Cloudsoaring Mountain. Considering the Thunder Beast's speed, given another fifteen minutes, they would have reached Cloudsoaring Mountain.

However, the Thunder Beast chose to stop at this place.

"I think…" An Shiyi was the first one to jump off the Thunder Beast. Looking at the vague outline of Cloudsoaring Mountain, she said, "Maybe the Cloudsoaring sect is not safe."

"What?!" Jiang Lingzhu's face turned pale.

After a moment of pondering, An Shiyi stated her assessment, "The Hell sect, Blood sect, and Ghost sect are all on the same side. However, only the Ghost sect and Blood sect invaded the Spiritual Treasure sect. The Cloudsoaring sect is relatively close to our sect. I believe that experts from the Hell sect are in laying ambush around the perimeter of Cloudsoaring Mountain to prevent the Cloudsoaring sect from coming to our aid."

Upon hearing her words, everyone came to realize the discouraging turn of events. Seeing that the Thunder Beast had no intent to set out again, they all jumped down one by one.

Wu Tao from the Nie clan was standing on top of the city gate. Waving his hand, he shouted, "Nie Tian! The Cloudsoaring sect is not safe. The sectmaster has ordered everyone to stay in Black Cloud City, and none shall go to the Cloudsoaring sect."

Hearing his words, everyone instantly realized that An Shiyi's speculations were correct.

The Hell sect, the strongest among the three sects, had probably already assembled a large number of their powerful experts around Cloudsoaring Mountain, and even had completely sealed off the Cloudsoaring sect, so that no one would be able to get in or out.

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"Miss An! Little Ying!" An He from the An clan shouted from the tower over the city gate, and raised his hand to greet them.

Nie Tian looked up and discovered that it wasn't just Wu Tao and An He. Yun Zhiguo from the Yun clan was also there.

WHOOSH!

After waiting for everyone to get off, the Thunder Beast fluttered its wings and soared into the sky. In a split second, it disappeared into the clouds.

CREAAAK!

The heavy city gates slowly opened, and with mood that similarly heavy, Nie Tian and his group walked into Black Cloud City.

The great gate faced the direction of the Cloudsoaring Mountain, and normally, it would only close when it the night came.

However, it was daytime now, yet the city gate was shut. Something was clearly amiss.

After a brief moment of pondering, Nie Tian realized that they must have shut the city gate to guard against the experts of the Hell sect.

However, the truth was that the Hell sect was much stronger than the Ghost sect and the Blood sect. If they truly wanted to breach defenses as weak as Black Cloud City's… how could they be held off?

The moment she entered the city, Jiang Lingzhu said, "My father ordered you to stay in Black Cloud City? Tell me what happened."

Wu Tao from the Nie clan laughed bitterly. "I don't know. It seems that… Cloudsoaring Mountain has been surrounded."

"Miss An, how about we head back to the clan first?" An He asked.

"We'll go the the Nie clan first." An Shiyi replied. "Also, tell the clanmaster to go to the Nie clan, too."

An He nodded. "Sure, will do."

Right after that, everyone headed towards the Nie clan. On their way, Wu Tao briefed them about what had happened over the past several days. According to him, Li Fan from the Cloudsoaring sect suddenly came two days ago, and told everyone to not leave Black Cloud City at any time during the following few days.

However, Li Fan didn't explain to them why. On the contrary, it was the Yun clan, which was attached to the Grayvale sect, that had obtained some news, and discovered that many unfamiliar experts had been seen lurking around Cloudsoaring Mountain.

Standing on the tower over the city gate, Yun Zhiguo had a complicated expression on his face as he watched Nie Tian and the others walk towards the Nie clan.

"The Thunder Beast… It seems that the kid has really been taken in as a disciple by the old immortal from the Cloudsoaring sect." Yun Zhiguo heaved a sigh, knowing that because of Nie Tian, the Nie clan's foothold within Black Cloud City would become more and more stable. Meanwhile, the Yun clan… would no longer have the strength to contend against the Nie clan.

A while later, Nie Tian and the others arrived at the Nie clan.

When Nie Donghai learned that Jiang Lingzhu had returned along with Nie Tian, he warmly came out to receive them, hoping to inquire about what had happened at Cloudsoaring Mountain.

Nie Qian also came out of her house to welcome them.

Before long, An Rong from the An clan also rushed over to the Nie clan after receiving the message from An He.

The people of Black Cloud City hadn't received news about the enormous changes that had occurred in the Spiritual Treasure sect. Powerful experts from the Blood sect and the Ghost sect had sealed off the entire Spiritual Treasure sect, causing all Sound Stones to lose effect.

Everyone, including members of the Nie clan and An Rong, assumed that Nie Tian had just returned from the Cloudsoaring sect, therefore they were curious about how they made it out of there.

"We've escaped from the Spiritual Treasure sect." An Shiyi let out a gentle sigh and explained everything in detail.

She told them about the invasion of the Ghost sect and the Blood sect to the Spiritual Treasure sect, about the Earth Flame Beast crashing out of the depths of the earth's core, and about the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range being turned into a sea of lava.

While she was explaining these things, the elders of the Nie clan also gathered around after receiving the news.

After she finished speaking, the faces of all of the Nie clan members, as well as An Rong and An He, turned extremely pale and grim.

They had never expected that such heaven-shaking changes would occur in the Spiritual Treasure sect. The series of actions of the Hell sect, the Ghost sect, and the Blood sect had already given rise to a cruel domestic war within the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Once a war like that was started, it couldn't be ended shortly, and would possibly last for many years.

The Nie clan was only one of the subordinate clans that clung to the Cloudsoaring sect. In front of those powerful sects, which had dominated the Realm of Flame Heaven for centuries, the strength of the Nie clan was so insignificant that it could be ignored.

Once a realm-wide bloody war was waged, sooner or later it would drag every one of them into it.

After considering the great bloodshed that would sweep across the peaceful Realm of Flame Heaven, both Nie Donghai and An Rong looked grim, fearful, and lost, all at the same time.

Looking at the long-faced Nie Donghai, Nie Tian thought for a moment before taking out the case that contained the Spiritfount Pill.

"Grandfather, this is a Spiritfount Pill. It'll help rebuild your shattered spiritual sea." With that, he passed it over.

"A Spiritfount Pill!?" Nie Donghai was taken aback.

He didn't have a deep understanding regarding the grades and effects of the various types of pills, and thus hadn't even heard of the name Spiritfount Pill.

The truth was that Spiritfount Pills rarely appeared in the Realm of Flame Heaven, and with his identity and status, he wouldn't ever have had a chance to even see one. Therefore, it was natural that he seemed a bit at lost.

An Shiyi explained, "This Spiritfount Pill is from the Realm of Dark Underworld. Its greatest function is to rebuild a broken spiritual sea."

Nie Donghai's eyes suddenly lit up.

Nie Qian was also shocked. With a trembling voice, she asked, "Are you serious?"

An Shiyi gently nodded her head.

"Who would have thought… that I would live to see the day that I recover my spiritual sea and resume the path of cultivation." The hand that Nie Donghai used to receive the case couldn't stop trembling, as he was already overwhelmed by excitement.

For many years, he had been dreaming of rebuilding his spiritual sea so that he could continue to cultivate.

Ever since his spiritual sea was destroyed, the gate to his cultivation had been closed forever. That was also why his position in the Nie clan had suffered a disastrous decline, which allowed Nie Beichuan to seize the opportunity and take the position of the clanmaster.

After he lost his power, the clan elders who had previously regarded him highly and supported him also gradually distanced themselves.

He had shouldered far too much pressure during the past few years, pressure which had almost drowned him and suffocated his desire to resist.

Were it not for Nie Tian making such great achievements and becoming a disciple of the Cloudsoaring sect despite the rules, he would have lost everything.

Nie Qian couldn't contain her joy. "Father, we can take care of the matters in Black Cloud City! You should go back to your private room and use the Spiritfount Pill to rebuild your spiritual sea now!"

"Alright!" Nie Donghai took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. After mentioning something to An Rong in private, he immediately rushed away.

Every member of the Nie clan turned to look at Nie Tian with complete and utter amazement. Many of them were deeply moved.

Nie Tian had actually managed to obtain a precious pill from another realm during the Treasure Convention, a pill that could solve the problem that had been weighing down on Nie Donghai for many years.

Furthermore, according to Wu Tao, Nie Tian had come back to Black Cloud City on a miraculous, flying spirit beast.

They only knew that Nie Tian had been accepted by the Cloudsoaring sect. However, because of their insignificant status, they only heard that a mysterious expert in the Cloudsoaring sect had taken notice of Nie Tian, and didn't even know whether it was real or fake.

Only now did they realize that the young man who previously only had brute force and no cultivation talent had already become an extraordinary figure, like a fish that had jumped through the dragon gate and become a dragon. (see note 1)

All of a sudden, many clan elders, who used to distance themselves from Nie Tian, became very generous with their praises. Faces filled with loving smiles, they rubbed Nie Tian's head to express their support and admiration.

"Hahaha! I always knew that you were beyond ordinary! Nevertheless, I never expected that you'd actually get hold of such a miraculous pill for your grandfather!"

"Good child! The Nie clan is proud of you!"

"Please come back and visit us when you have the time! All of the children in the clan should take you as their role model!"

It was no surprise to Nie Tian that the elders would act in such a way. After exchanging some pleasantries, he quickly made up an excuse saying that he was tired, and left the Nie clan's main hall.

An Rong wasn't as eager to leave. He and the An Sisters found a vacant guest room within the Nie clan, and secretly discussed about what path the An clan could follow if the Spiritual Treasure sect was truly gone.

As for Jiang Lingzhu and Ye Gumo, since they couldn't return to the Cloudsoaring sect, they could only temporarily stay in the Nie clan and wait for news from the Cloudsoaring sect.

Pan Tao also stayed in the Nie clan.

That night, Nie Tian, who was indeed exhausted, didn't practice cultivation in his room as he normally would. Instead, he just sat and meditated in silence.

He pondered the sudden changes that had occurred in the Realm of Flame Heaven, and the likelihood of the major sects waging a full-scale war with each other due to the brutal invasion that had taken place in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

Once it broke out, the war could last years or even decades. Then, what should he do?

Deep into the night…

Still thinking hard but finding no answers, Nie Tian suddenly felt something and snapped open his eyes.

Within the dark stone room, a vague figure gradually grew clearer.

"Who is it?" Nie Tian exclaimed.

That figure seemed to have been condensed out of countless beams of underworldly light. Seconds later, the mysterious light seemed to be absorbed into the figure.

"Long time no see, Nie Tian," the person said with a calm voice.

"Mister Hua?" Nie Tian was flabbergasted.

The visitor in front of him was Hua Mu, the doctor that had saved his life several years ago.

Hua Mu laughed softly. Then, without even the slightest warning, he took out two severed heads from within his sleeve, and placed them on the stone floor. He said, "Do you recognize these two?"

"Gan Kang and Lai Yi?!" Nie Tian was dumbstruck.

The human heads that Hua Mu placed on the floor clearly belonged to Gan Kang, the equipment forger of the Treasure school, and Lai Yi, the Qi warrior from the Realm of Dark Underworld.

"These are the ones you know. There are a few others from the Realm of Dark Underworld who you don't know." Hua Mu's expression was as calm as ever. "I killed everyone who came from the Realm of Dark Underworld, so I believe the information about the Flame Dragon Armor won't leak out any time soon."

Note:

According to Chinese mythology, the Dragon's Gate is located at the top of a waterfall cascading from a legendary mountain. Many carp swim upstream against the river's strong current, but few are capable or brave enough for the final leap over the waterfall. If a carp successfully makes the jump, it is transformed into a powerful dragon. A Chinese dragon's large, conspicuous scales indicate its origin from a carp. The Chinese dragon has long been an auspicious symbol of great and benevolent, magical power. The image of a carp jumping over Dragon's Gate is an old and enduring Chinese cultural symbol for courage, perseverance, and accomplishment. Historically, the dragon was the exclusive symbol of the emperor of China and the five-character expression, Liyu Tiao Long Men, was originally used as a metaphor for a person's success in passing very difficult imperial examinations, required for entry into imperial administrative service. To this day, when a student from a remote country village passes the rigorous national university examination in China, friends and family proudly refer to the "Liyu Tiao Long Men." More generally, the expression is used to communicate that if a person works hard and diligently, success will one day be achieved.

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After recognizing that the person in his room was Hua Mu, Nie Tian didn't scream, but rather got up and bowed respectfully toward him.

"Mr. Hua, forgive me for my ignorance. Only recently did I realize how much effort you expended to save me."

By now he was already aware that Hua Mu was definitely not an ordinary person.

His master Wu Ji had once told him, on the back of Cloudsoaring Mountain, that someone had refined his meridians and bones before him.

According to Wu Ji, even in the entire Realm of Flame Heaven, there were only a handful of people who were able to do what Hua Mu had done for him, which was practically giving him a brand new body.

The rewards that his grandfather had granted Hua Mu in return for his kindness were so trivial that they could be ignored.

Furthermore, back then Hua Mu had also promised to Nie Tian that he would help him heal his grandfather's scattered spiritual sea.

Even at that time, he had realized that Hua Mu wasn't ordinary.

Later, his master's assessment of Hua Mu had convinced him that Hua Mu was even more incredible and mysterious than he had originally thought.

"Alright, enough with the courtesy." Hua Mu waved his hand, gesturing for him to cut the pleasantries and take a seat.

After thanking him again, Nie Tian sat back down on the ground. With a puzzled face, he asked, "Mr. Hua, why are you here? And why did you kill Gan Kang and Lai Yi?"

Hua Mu swept his hand in the air and in the next second, Gan Kang and Lai Yi's heads disappeared.

His deep eyes glittered with mysterious, dark-green light. "Actually, it wasn't a coincidence that I showed up in Black Cloud City all those years ago."

Nie Tian was all ears.

"I came to the Realm of Flame Heaven to investigate the whereabouts of the Blood Core," Hua Mu explained. "After spending a long time gathering information, I learned that the Blood Core was obtained by Liu Yan from the Cloudsoaring sect. Then, after a series of secret investigations, I finally confirmed that the Blood Core ended up in the Nie clan.

"The moment I laid eyes on you, I sensed the aura of the Blood Core.

"After realizing that the Blood Core was with you and that it seemed to have accepted you as its owner, I decided to not only cure your fever, but also remove the impurities from your body."

Confused, Nie Tian said, "Really? Back then, I just carried the animal bone along with me, and it didn't show any sign of its unique nature."

With a broad laugh, Hua Mu said, "You're right. But it was only because you were unable to feel the changes back then. As a matter of fact, it has long since accepted you."

"Really?!" Nie Tian was taken aback by his words.

"Originally, the Blood Core and Flame Dragon Armor were a set, and I was very close to their former owner." After a moment of hesitation, Hua Mu continued, "Ever since their former owner died, the Blood Core and the Flame Dragon Armor have been separated. Before the former owner died, I promised him that I would make the Flame Dragon Armor whole again and deliver it to the next owner that it picks.

"It turned out that the Blood Core chose you.

"The reason why Lai Yi brought the Flame Dragon Armor from the Realm of Dark Underworld was that I intentionally leaked the information to him that the Blood Core might have drifted to the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"After collecting that information, Lai Yi obtained the Flame Dragon Armor from his master, hoping to use it to fish out the Blood Core.

"As of now, not only has the Flame Dragon Armor and the Blood Core become a whole again, but it has also repaired its damage with the Earthflame Crystal Strings that it collected from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range after the drastic upheaval.

"Since the Blood Core chose you as its new owner, it will contact you through the link between your souls and return to your side by following your aura, after it has absorbed enough Earthflame Crystal Strings."

Nie Tian was shocked. "It was because of you that Lai Yi brought the Flame Dragon Armor to the Spiritual Treasure sect?!"

Hua Mu slightly nodded. "I've already taken care of everyone who knows about the Flame Dragon Armor and Blood Core, and those who came from the Realm of Dark Underworld. I don't expect that the news of the Blood Core merging with Flame Dragon Armor will spread to the Realm of Dark Underworld any time soon, nor the fact that they are in your possession."

"Why did you go to such great lengths to help me, Mr. Hua?" asked Nie Tian.

"For one thing, I did it to honor my word. I made the promise to reunite the Flame Dragon Armor and the Blood Core, and let it choose its next owner." With these words, Hua Mu remained silent for a while before saying, "For another, I have a favor to ask."

"A favor from me?" Nie Tian was aghast.

He couldn't help but wonder to himself what a powerful expert like Hua Mu would possibly want from him. After all, Hua Mu had managed to set up a trap to lure Lai Yi to the Realm of Flame Heaven, and after that, kill him along with Gan Kang, as well as every foreign Qi warrior that had come for the Blood Core.

He couldn't figure it out.

"I don't need you to do anything for me now because you don't have what it takes yet. However… perhaps someday you will." After a brief hesitation, Hua Mu said, "The Blood Core chose you for a reason. You have something on you that's very special. It's just that you can't understand it yet.

"The reason behind the Blood Core picking you as its new owner and your master taking you in as his disciple are one and the same; they both understood your uniqueness.

"As long as you can keep safe and keep up with your cultivation, some day in the future, you'll surely understand what I'm talking about.

"Only when you've reached a certain cultivation level and have the ability to fully display the might of the Flame Dragon Armor, will I tell you what I want you to do.

"It's way too early now."

"Alright, then." Nie Tian nodded and gave him his word. "I promise you that when I'm strong enough, I'll spare no effort to accomplish your wish."

"Hahaha." Hua Mu smiled, seemingly satisfied with Nie Tian's attitude, and continued, "You're very lucky to have Wu Ji as your master. You can't possibly asked for a better mentor in the entire Realm of Flame Heaven. Wu Ji may not be the strongest cultivator in the Realm of Flame Heaven, but when it comes to teaching, he's absolutely the most qualified."

Surprised by Hua Mu's words, Nie Tian prompted, "Do you know my master?"

Hua Mu shook his head. "We haven't met in person, but I know of him." Then his face suddenly turned serious as he said, "Other than to kill those Realm of Dark Underworld cultivators who had come after the Blood Core, there's another reason why I'm here. I need to inform you of a major event. Were it not for that, I would have left quietly after finishing off Gan Kang and Lai Yi, and I wouldn't have come to see you."

"A major event?" Nie Tian was curious.

With a deep breath, Hua Mu explained seriously, "Occasionally, three gates will open in the nine realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars. They are called the Heaven Gates, which only Qi warriors with a cultivation base of the Lesser Heaven, Heaven, or Greater Heaven stage are able to enter. Those three gates all lead to the same, wondrous dimension, where Qi warriors at the three Heaven stages can temper and train themselves.

"Aside from the Heaven Gates, there are also Realm Gates for Qi warriors of the Worldly realm, Profound realm, and Soul realm to enter.

"Last but not least, there are the Domain Gates, where only Qi warriors of the Void Domain, Saint Domain, and God Domain are able to enter.

"As far as I know, never have Realm Gates or Domain Gates ever appeared in the Domain of the Falling Stars. Only Heaven Gates.

Nie Tian's expression flickered. "Heaven Gate, Realm Gate, and Domain Gate."

He had learned from Wu Ji that the cultivation base of a Qi warrior could be divided into ten stages.

After the most basic Qi Refining stage were the three heaven stages: Lesser Heaven, Heaven, and Greater Heaven.

Then, there were the Worldly realm, Profound realm, and Soul realm.

The Void Domain, Saint Domain, and God Domain were the top stages.

It only happened every so often that the three Heaven Gates would be opened in different parts of the nine realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars, and only Qi warriors of the three Heaven stages would be able to go through those gates and train.

According to Hua Mu, Realm Gates and Domain Gates would only appear in distant domains among the starry sky.

As for the origins of those gates and why they would only appear every once in awhile, Hua Mu made no explanation.

Hua Mu didn't give Nie Tian much time to digest all that information. He went on and explained, "According to the calculations and auguries of some great experts with divine abilities, one of the three Heaven Gates will open somewhere near the Hell sect in the Realm of Flame Heaven this time.

"Some people from the other realms have already secretly informed the Hell sect, the Blood sect, and the Ghost sect of it, with the intent to arrange for some of their cultivators of the three Heaven stages to enter the Heaven Gate which will appear near the Hell sect.

"Every Heaven Gate will only allow 100 participants. As soon as the Cloudsoaring sect, Spiritual Treasure sect, Grayvale sect, and Mystic Mist sect receive the message, they will undoubtedly spare no cost to arrange for their disciples of the three Heaven stages to get in there.

"By that time, if the Hell sect, Ghost sect, and Blood sect were to stand in the way, fierce battles are bound to break out between the two sides.

"Therefore, knowing that war is inevitable, the other alliance decided to attack the Spiritual Treasure sect before you could receive the message. In that way, they would be able to weaken your side's strength and cripple your alliance before the war over the eligibility of entering the Heaven Gate.

"There are also powerful foreign forces backing the Hell sect, Blood sect, and Ghost sect, who don't plan to allow your four sects to take any of their slots into the Heaven Gate."

After a brief pause, Hua Mu continued, "However, it won't be long before the news spreads to the four sects. The Profound Realm expert from the Mystic Mist sect, who is out traveling in other realms, has already gotten the news from some foreign sources that one of the Heaven Gates will open up in the territory of the Hell sect.

"He's already on his way back to the Realm of Flame Heaven. With him hastily coming back, either the Ghost sect and Blood sect's invasion of the Spiritual Treasure sect will immediately come to an end, or the battles will become even more brutal and ugly.

"I'm afraid the Realm of Flame Heaven will see a period of turbulence before the Heaven Gate is opened, and disciples from every sect will fight tooth and nail for the precious opportunities."

With a frown, Nie Tian asked, "Is this Heaven Gate thing similar to the Green Illusion dimension trial?"

"The Green Illusion dimension!?" Hua Mu searched in his brain for a while before shaking his head and saying, "No, the trial within the Heaven Gate is far more brutal and bloody than the Green Illusion dimension trial. All the participants will be Qi warriors with cultivation bases of the Lesser Heaven, Heaven, and Greater Heaven stages. What's more, Qi warriors from the Realm of Flame Heaven won't be the only ones to take part in the trial. Foreign cultivators of the three Heaven stages will also enter it through the two other Heaven Gates in the other nine realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars.

"In there, you may get to see wonders that have never seen before. You may see relics from the ancient wars, or glimpse enlightenment that ancient Qi warriors drew from heaven and earth. There may be secret scripts of the alien clans carved on the mountains or in the lakes. You may even come across Spirit Channeling grade precious treasures that are comparable to the Flame Dragon Armor.

"The other purpose of me seeing you this time is to inform you that the Heaven Gate is going to open up soon, so that you can pass on the news to your master in order for more people to know.

"Furthermore, I want you to do all you can to fight for an opportunity to enter the Heaven Gate.

"In that heaven and earth, you may possibly get to know the real you, and learn about the secrets you carry."

Hua Mu only said how miraculous the Heaven Gate was, but not the reason why it existed. It seemed that even he didn't know why the Heaven Gates appeared in the Domain of the Falling Stars.

After voicing the actual reason behind the Hell sect, Blood sect, and Ghost sect waging such a large-scale war, and expressing his wish for Nie Tian to inform Wu Ji as soon as possible and find a way to enter the Heaven Gate himself, Hua Mu quietly left before daybreak.

No one in the Nie clan saw him meeting with Nie Tian, much less knew anything about what he had said to him.

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The next day…

After obtaining the Spiritfount Pill, Nie Donghai didn't waste even a second before practicing and refining with it, in an attempt to regather his spiritual sea.

He temporarily cast all the issues within the Nie clan out of his mind, and even forgot about the issue of the Cloudsoaring sect being surrounded by powerful experts from the Hell sect.

The Master of the An clan, An Rong, learned about the world-shaking changes that had occurred to the Spiritual Treasure sect from An Shiyi. He spent the entire night talking to the An sisters regarding the unceasing turbulence it might bring to the Realm of Flame Heaven.

When Nie Tian saw him in the next morning, he saw his long face and worried frown, which made him seem as if he had suddenly aged.

Originally, Pan Tao had rushed to Black Cloud City bearing the hope of asking the Cloudsoaring sect to send out troops to his sect's aid. However, after learning that the Cloudsoaring sect was besieged by the Hell sect, his expression also sank, and the smiles that used to fill his face could no longer be seen.

Jiang Lingzhu and Ye Gumo also seemed to have worries weighing on their minds. Their worries were for the near but unreachable Cloudsoaring sect.

Nie Tian saw a dark haze clouding everyone's faces, and understood why they were so troubled.

"Hey… have you ever heard of the Heaven Gates?" he asked.

"What Heaven Gates?"

Everyone shook their heads, indicating that they knew nothing of them.

"That's odd…" Nie Tian was surprised by their response and explained to them, "It's a gate that only Qi Warriors of the Lesser Heaven, Heaven, and Greater Heaven stages can enter. Every so often, after many years have passed, three Heaven Gates will appear within the nine realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars. It's said on the other side is a dimension only cultivators of the three Heaven stages are able to explore and gain experience from. How do you not know about it?"

Everyone shook their head again and told him that they had never heard of such a place.

Nie Qian asked with a puzzled expression, "Little Tian, why would you suddenly mention that?"

"Well…" Nie Tian deliberated over his choice of words for a while before saying, "I've obtained information that a Heaven Gate will soon appear near the Hell sect in the Realm of Flame Heaven."

However, since they knew nothing of the Heaven Gate, it seemed that none of them showed any interest in it.

Instead, they were curious about how Nie Tian had obtained the information.

"I got the message from the command medallion that my master gave me." After cooking up an excuse, Nie Tian explained in detail the special features of the Heaven Gate, the fantastic world that the Heaven Gate led to, the various types of ancient mysteries, the secret scripts of the alien clans, the knowledge ancient Qi warriors had collected, the various precious materials, and Spirit Channeling items.

Upon learning that the information was supposedly from Wu Ji, everyone was surprised inwardly. After hearing about the various wonders within the Heaven Gate, everyone's eyes glittered with strange light.

After that, Nie Tian told them about how the Hell sect, Ghost Sect, and Blood Sect were the first to obtain the information regarding the Heaven Gate, which led them to launch such a sudden attack towards the Spiritual Treasure sect in an attempt to weaken their strength, so that they wouldn't be able to fight for the opportunities to enter the Heaven Gate.

An Rong was dumbstruck. "Is the Heaven Gate is so important and magical?! Even experts from the other realms secretly colluded with the Hell sect, Ghost sect, and Blood sect for a chance to arrange for their people to enter the Heaven Gate?"

"My master said that he wanted for everyone to spread the word." Nie Tian borrowed Wu Ji's name to spread the news.

"With your master's abilities and influence, he only needs to say a word for everyone in all the lands to know about it. Why does he bother to pass the word through you?" Pan Tao found it hard to understand.

"Well…" Nie Tian frowned. "He can't do that now."

Pan Tao searched in his head for while. Shortly after, he seemed to have thought it through and said, "Oh, I know. It's probably that the two Profound realm experts of the Hell sect are keeping your master busy, and preventing your master from leaving the Cloudsoaring sect! It's because of them that your master can't tell everyone himself, and thus can only inform you of it through your command medallion."

"That's probably the case." Nie Tian echoed his words.

"I'll return to the An clan and inform everyone and all those who are related to my clan." An Rong sounded resolute and decisive. Then he turned around and instructed An Shiyi, "Shiyi, you go to the Spiritual Treasure Pavilion in Black Cloud City and tell them to find a secretive way to notify the Spiritual Treasure sect divisions in other cities about the invasion of the Spiritual Treasure sect, as well as the issue of the Heaven Gate."

An Shiyi nodded. "Okay!"

Soon, An Rong and the An sisters hurriedly left the Nie clan.

Jiang Lingzhu still hadn't recovered from the shock after hearing the overwhelming secret issues of the Heaven Gate. She was now discussing with Ye Gumo about how they should pass the information on to the Cloudsoaring sect.

Pan Tao was also still caught in astonishment.

After a while, Pan Tao sprung to his feet. "I'll go to the Yun clan and let them know about the enormous changes that occurred to the Spiritual Treasure sect as well as the issue of the Heaven Gate, and I'll ask them to inform the Grayvale sect as soon as possible!" With these words, he headed straight towards the Yun clan.

At that moment, Nie Tian could do nothing to stop the upheaval ravaging through the Spiritual Treasure sect, or break the Hell sect's siege of the Cloudsoaring sect.

He felt that the only way to help them was to do as Hua Mu had asked of him and quickly spread the information of the imminent opening of the Heaven Gate, thereby revealing the real reason behind their invasion of the Spiritual Treasure sect, and allowing the Cloudsoaring sect, the Grayvale sect, and the Mystic Mist sect to make preparations to deal with the upcoming, greater turbulence.

He didn't go anywhere in the next two days, and only stayed within Black Cloud City, waiting for news.

In the Grayvale sect…

Numerous Qi warriors, who were wearing gray and white robes, were gathered within a dusky valley. The low cawing of birds could be heard here and there, as if they were waiting for orders to be passed down.

Powerful Qi warriors from the Grayvale sect weren't the only ones filling the valley. Many experts from the Mystic Mist sect were also gathered there.

The master of the Grayvale sect, Lu Ce, as well as the master of the Mystic Mist sect, Chu Siyun, were standing side by side.

Behind them were more than ten third grade and fourth grade bird-type spirit beasts. Although the rank of those spirit beasts weren't as high as the Thunder Beast, they were still more than capable of soaring through the sky.

Up till today, they had already grasped the knowledge regarding the enormous changes that occurred to the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range and the Hell sect besieging the Cloudsoaring sect via many channels.

Since the Cloudsoaring sect, who was the closest to the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, was unable to come to the Spiritual Treasure sect's aid, they were now prepared to charge to the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range at the fastest speed possible.

The reason why the Grayvale sect and the Mystic Mist sect struck back so quickly was not only due to the fact that they had sworn a blood oath with the Spiritual Treasure sect to become allies, but also because many of their fellow sectmembers had participated in the Treasure Convention.

Therefore, they absolutely couldn't tolerate the Ghost sect and the Blood sect running amok.

When they learned that the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range had already been turned into a sea of lava, they mobilized all their forces to gather up a troop of more than ten bird-type spirit beasts, so that they could rush over to help out their ally at the first possible moment.

Just as they had everything prepared and were about to set off, a young man in charge of gathering intelligence for the Grayvale sect rushed forward and hastily reported, "Just a moment, master! I've just received a message from the Yun clan of Black Cloud City!"

Lu Ce frowned. "What is it?"

"The Yun clan said that Wu Ji's disciple, that youngster called Nie Tian, delivered them a message from his master." The young man had a solemn and respectful expression as he continued, "He said that one of the three Heaven Gates is about to open up somewhere near the Hell sect in the Realm of Flame Heaven. The Hell sect had obtained the information earlier. That was why the Ghost sect and the Blood sect invaded the Spiritual Treasure sect.

"He also said that experts from other realms have already reached an agreement with the Hell sect, the Ghost sect, and the Blood sect, which will allow those foreign clans to send a few Qi warriors in the three Heavens stages to enter the Heaven Gate that will show up in the Hell sect's turf."

"…"

He rapidly explained everything to Lu Ce and Chu Siyun.

"The Heaven Gate!"

Lu Ce's and Chu Siyun's expression flickered upon hearing him mention the Heaven Gate.

After the young man had explained every detail, Lu Ce's and Chu Siyun's bodies slightly trembled, as if they had been shocked to their very soul.

Jiang Lingzhu, Pan Tao, and the others didn't know about the origin of the Heaven Gate and its secrets because they were too young and their cultivation bases were too low.

Their elders didn't expect that a Heaven Gate would open within the Realm of Flame Heaven in decades. Thus, they didn't explain it to them.

However, Lu Ce, as master of the Grayvale sect, and Chu Siyun, the master of the Mystic Mist sect, surely knew about it.

"The Heaven Gate! So it's all because of the Heaven Gate!" Lu Ce took a deep breath and, heated with rage, he said, "No wonder the Blood sect and the Ghost sect would risk starting a full-frontal internal war within the Realm of Flame Heaven and launch the sudden invasion of the Spiritual Treasure sect! The Heaven Gate! It's all because a Heaven Gate will open up in the Realm of Flame Heaven! They're clearing the barriers so that more of their disciples will have the chance to enter the Heaven Gate!"

Chu Siyun from the Mystic Mist sect pondered for awhile and prompted a suggestion, "Even if we can hurry over to the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, it might already be too late, and our efforts will be in vain. On the other hand, the Hell sect only deployed forces to seal the Cloudsoaring sect, but didn't start a massacre. So there's also no need for us to reinforce them.

"In my opinion, since our opponents have moved out to attack our allies, and the Heaven Gate is going to open near the Hell sect, why don't we…

"Why don't we directly attack the Hell sect's base!"

Lu Ce's eyes lit up as he replied, "Good idea! If we take the chance to attack the Hell sect when their powerful experts are deployed to the Cloudsoaring sect, we can definitely inflict heavy damage to them! In this way, not only can we weaken the Hell sect's strength, but we can also cause the Ghost sect and the Blood sect to worry about their own bases! By doing that, we'll be able to help relieve the Cloudsoaring sect and the Spiritual Treasure sect of the pressure from their respective opponents!"

"Then it's settled!" Chu Siyun said loudly and with determination.

"Compared to the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, the Hell sect is even closer to us!" Lu Ce's voice was full of ferociousness. "All sect members that are at the Greater Heaven stage or higher, immediately depart for the Hell sect! As long as you come across someone from the Hell sect, kill on sight! Since a Heaven Gate is opening in our realm, blood will flow like a river in the Realm of Flame Heaven, whether we like it or not!"

"The same goes for the disciples of the Mystic Mist sect!" Chu Siyun also gave his command.

Under the command of the two people, the strong Qi Warriors from the Grayvale sect and the Mystic Mist sect replied by filling the sky with angry roars, before they marched towards the Hell sect at a rapid pace.

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Black Cloud City, the Nie clan.

After asking the An clan, Pan Tao, Jiang Lingzhu, and the others to spread the news that one of the Heaven Gates was about to appear in the Hell sect, Nie Tian went back to his room and started cultivating whole-heartedly.

He had been making preparations for stepping into the Heaven Gate.

Ever since he learned from Hua Mu that one of the Heaven Gates would open up somewhere near the Hell sect, and that Qi warriors of the Lesser Heaven, Heaven, and Greater Heaven stages from many sects would be able to enter it together, he had been secretly readying himself psychologically.

Cultivators of the Realm of Flame Heaven weren't the only ones that would step into that miraculous heaven and earth; powerful competitors from other realms would go through the other two Heaven Gates and also participate in the trial.

However, he was only in the early Lesser Heaven stage, the weakest among the three Heaven stages. If he entered the unknown dimension with his current cultivation base, he would be like a lamb in the middle of a pack of wolves.

Therefore, he needed to improve his strength as much and as fast as possible.

Sitting cross-legged in the middle of his stone room, he used the Qi Refining Incantation and a spirit stone to take in the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, trying to sense even the most trivial changes to his spiritual sea.

Inside his misty spiritual sea, the vortex of spiritual power was turning slowly, unceasingly attracting and refining the misty spiritual energy scattered within his spiritual sea.

He gathered his attention and examined the vortex with his soul. He found that after a round of refinement, the spiritual energy that had been pulled into the vortex of spiritual power seemed to have become even purer and richer.

The newly refined spiritual energy flowed to the edge of the spiritual sea and formed a circular ribbon of thick, white mist.

With a closer examination, he discovered that the spiritual energy was exceptionally condensed and vigorous, and the power it contained was rather formidable.

On the other hand, the spiritual energy that hadn't been refined was also scattered around in the spiritual sea, but it was much thinner and carried much less power.

Having learned the movements within his spiritual sea and the process of how the vortex of spiritual power refined the spiritual energy, he gained a better understanding of cultivation at the Lesser Heaven stage.

After stepping into the Lesser Heaven stage, due to the formation of the vortex of spiritual power, the speed of gathering the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth had become many times faster than in the Qi Refining stage.

The gathered spiritual energy would initially be attracted into the vortex of spiritual power. Then, the vortex of spiritual power would refine the energy, making it purer.

After refinement, the pure spiritual energy would disperse to the edge of the spiritual sea, forming ring of dense mist.

In the Lesser Heaven stage, a cultivator's spiritual sea wouldn't expand at all, but instead, the spiritual energy within his or her spiritual sea would undergo round after round of refinement.

The refined spiritual energy would flow to the furthest edge of the spiritual sea, forming circle after circle of condensed mist, gradually surging and pressing toward the center.

Throughout the refining process, the vortex of spiritual power would also continuously attract spiritual energy from the outside world, and merge it with the spiritual energy scattered within the spiritual sea.

He found that the unceasingly rotating vortex of spiritual power seemed like a well within his spiritual sea, which constantly gathered faint spiritual energy from the surroundings and purified it time after time.

After multiple rounds of refining, the exceptionally rich and condensed spiritual energy would sink to the bottom of the "well", before soon showing up on the edge of the spiritual sea again.

By condensing at the edge of the spiritual sea, the circular ribbon of refined spiritual energy would press the relatively sparse spiritual energy toward the "mouth of the well", so that it would undergo a new round of refinement.

It was a unceasing cycle.

Having recently entered the Lesser Heaven stage, Nie Tian hadn't finished his first cycle yet.

After a period of concentrated practice, he had only managed to form one ring of pure spiritual energy at the farthest edge of his spiritual sea.

He still had a long road ahead before he could complete the first refining cycle of his spiritual sea.

According to his calculations, if he continued to cultivate with spirit stones, he would probably still need half a year to finish his first refining cycle.

And that was the speed he could only reach with the help from spirit stones.

In case there weren't a steady supply of spirit stones, and he merely relied on the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, he would very likely need to spend three to five years to complete the first refining cycle of all the faint spiritual energy scattered in his spiritual sea.

Moreover, in order to step from the early-stage into the middle-stage of Lesser Heaven, he might need to go through more than one complete cycle of refinement.

His eyes snapped open. Staring off into the pitch-black night sky, he couldn't help but let out a sigh. "This is such a consuming process."

He had long since heard that the Qi Refining stage was merely the foundation, and only by entering the Lesser Heaven stage, one would be considered as a beginner Qi warrior.

The difficulty of every breakthrough of the cultivation base after stepping into the Lesser Heaven stage would far exceed that of the breakthroughs within the Qi Refining stage.

Before, he didn't have a deep understanding of it. Now that he had advanced to the Lesser Heaven stage, and understood the miraculous refining process within his spiritual sea, he finally truly realized the hardships lying in front of him.

"Even if I take advantage of the spirit stones that my master has given me, and practice day and night, I'll still need at least half a year to finish one cycle of refining the spiritual energy in my spiritual sea.

"Furthermore, one cycle is probably far from enough. I'll have to keep practicing and practicing.

"It might take years to finish several cycles, and by that time… I would only be able to reach the threshold of the next breakthrough…

"In order to make the breakthrough, I'll need to be in the right mental state, and come across proper enlightenment.

"From the look of it, I've only made the first step in my endless cultivation path."

Numerous, mixed emotions rose in Nie Tian's heart.

Aside from practicing cultivation, a Qi warrior also needed to learn and practice spiritual incantations, try to comprehend the profundity of the incantations, pick the right spiritual tool, and try to resonate with it.

Due to their unique talents or interest, some Qi warriors chose to spend a large amount of time studying equipment forging methods, or trying to fathom profound magical symbols and spell formations.

Each and every one of the ways to improve a Qi warrior's strength was time consuming, and required intense study.

On the other hand, the lifespan of a Qi warrior wasn't limitless, and would only increase as his or her cultivation base rose.

Many Qi warriors failed to break through into the next cultivation level before their lifespan ran out, and therefore passed away.

He had the feeling that his master Wu Ji was currently facing such a thorny problem.

Staring off into the moonless, dark sky, Nie Tian made his resolution. "Only by cultivating at a high speed and advancing rapidly will I be able to constantly increase my lifespan and thus continue with my cultivation."

He was determined to enter the Heaven Gate and train himself in the bloody trial, even though he couldn't change his inferior cultivation base in the near future.

Suddenly, a tiny flaming spot appeared in the pitch-black night sky. It seemed to be in the deepest part of the vast void, and was very dim at first, but became increasingly clear as time went by.

"It's a moonless and starless night. How come there's a spot of fiery light in the sky?" Curious, he looked even harder into the night sky.

Before long, more and more flaming spots appeared in the dark sky, one after another.

For some unknown reason, looking at the increasing number of bright spots, the sense of an imminent big event rose in his heart.

Moments later, a corner of the sky had already been filled with countless fiery spots, every one of which was bright and dazzling, dragging their colorful tails, and dashing crossing the pitch-black sky.

"Falling stars!" Jiang Lingzhu's voice echoed out from a nearby stone pavilion.

Stepping onto the balcony, Nie Tian saw Jiang Lingzhu and Ye Gumo standing by their window. It seemed they were also attracted by the unusual scene in the sky, with their gazes fixed on those falling stars.

Soon, the falling stars grew increasingly clear.

Hundreds of falling stars, trailing with flaming tails of different colors, seemed increasingly splendid and gorgeous, and gradually caught everyone's attention!

Lots of children and juniors of the Nie clan couldn't stop cheering with their faces filled with excitement. "Meteor shower! It's a meteor shower!"

"Something is wrong…" Staring at the increasingly clear and dazzling falling stars, Nie Tian's face turned grim, as if he knew something terrible was about to happen.

All those stars didn't flash across the sky. Instead, it seemed that their target was the Realm of Flame Heaven where everyone was standing!

All of a sudden, he remembered something Hua Mu had said to him right before he left: "When it's time for the Heaven Gate to open, omens will present themselves in the sky!"

The thought made him nervous. He was almost certain that the falling stars had been caused by the Heaven Gate!

"Is it really the Heaven Gate that has caused this unusual change?"

Only an hour later, thousands of multicolored, dazzling falling stars seemed to be almost at their fingertips.

The originally densely-packed falling stars seemed to be suddenly influenced by some kind of unknown magnetic field, and splashed out in every direction, plummeting towards every corner of the Realm of Flame Heaven.

About ten of them blasted their way towards the Cloudsoaring sect and Black Cloud City.

One after another, the elders of the Nie clan became alarmed. The streets within Black Cloud City were also gradually filled with nervous people, all of whom looked up at the sky with terror in their eyes.

"What's happening?"

"Oh my god! Meteors are falling in our direction!"

"Dear lord! How can it be?"

As of this moment, not only everyone in the Cloudsoaring sect, Black Cloud City, and the other nearby cities, but also the powerful experts that had been besieging the Cloudsoaring Mountain, started to look up to the heavens, trembling with fear.

The Realm of Flame Heaven was a part of the Domain of the Falling Stars, where, just as its name implied, meteors streaked across the sky from time to time.

However, those falling stars had always flashed across the sky and disappeared in seconds, with very few of them actually landing on land they lived on.

But tonight, it seemed that the meteor shower that had abruptly appeared in the sky had specially targeted the Realm of Flame Heaven!

RUUUUMBLE!

The ground suddenly trembled. Apparently, some meteor had already crashed into the earth in the ice-cold wilderness outside of Black Cloud City, which gave birth to a terrifying blast that shook the entirety of Black Cloud City.

Jiang Lingzhu shrieked, "Cloudsoaring Mountain!"

Nie Tian looked over with rapt attention, and saw that a few flaming meteors, trailing by multicolored blazing tails like pouring waterfalls, had crashed into the Cloudsoaring Mountain.

RUUUUMBLE! RUUUUUUMMMMBLLLLE!

In the adjacent Black Cloud City, loud rumbling sounds kept coming from every direction, and the ground wouldn't stop from shaking. Many commoners couldn't withstand the shock wave and were killed as they slept.

Even Nie Tian felt his Qi and blood rushing to his head, causing him to experience dizziness.

He immediately channeled his spiritual power to shield himself while gritting his teeth, staring at the bright sky.

SHEW!

A meteor emanating orange flames suddenly grew incredibly huge in Nie Tian's sight, hurtling towards Black Cloud City.

BOOM!

Seconds later, it crashed into the Yun clan, sending out devastating blast waves in Black Cloud City. Almost simultaneously, the desperate wails of commoners rang out here and there within the city.

RUUUUMBLE!

Half of the stone pavilions in the Nie clan collapsed due to the strong blast, including the one Nie Tian was in.

Fortunately, he had been alert and jumped out of it the moment before it was reduced to a pile of debris.

Standing on the cracked stone ground, he saw Jiang Lingzhu, Ye Gumo, Pan Tao, and others running towards him with their faces full of fear.

He could hear miserable wails coming from every corner of the Nie clan.

Meanwhile, outside of the Nie clan, cries had filled every inch of Black Cloud City.

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Wailing filled Black Cloud City…

The descent of the meteor caused the all the stone buildings within the city to shake violently, many of which even collapsed.

Numerous less healthy mortals were hit by the terrifying blast wave in their sleep, causing them to cough up blood and die instantly.

RUUUUMBLE!

Enormous collision sounds were still resounding from the nearby Cloudsoaring Mountain and the earth was still shaking.

All the surviving commoners within Black Cloud City rushed out into the streets and cried out loudly.

On the other hand, even the youngest children of the Nie clan survived the blast wave because they had been cultivating from very early ages and their spirit power had been protecting their bodies.

However, there were still a few aged clansmen who weren't able to escape in time when the buildings collapsed. They were crushed to death and buried under the debris.

Face cold like deep ocean water, Nie Tian stood on the cracked stone floor as he heard the cries of his clansmen.

Now, he was a hundred percent certain that the rain of flaming meteors that descended from the sky was definitely because of the appearance of the Heaven Gate.

Who would have thought that the opening of the Heaven Gate would actually bring such a calamity to the Realm of Flame Heaven?

Black Cloud City and Cloudsoaring Mountain were both in a state of devastation, and the surrounding cities might have also suffered from the strikes of the rain of meteors.

He noticed that right before the meteors crashed into the land, they had spread out and headed towards the Blood sect, the Ghost sect, the Hell sect, as well as the Spiritual Treasure sect, the Mystic Mist sect, and the Grayvale sect.

He believed that cities like Black Cloud City weren't the only places that had been devastated. Even mountainous areas that had many living creatures gathered in them also had been bombarded by the meteors.

A large number of people clamored in the streets outside the Nie clan, each and every one of them in a doomsday-like panic.

"The Yun clan! The Yun clan is done for!"

"A meteor crashed right into the Yun clan! The terrifying force is more than enough to eliminate the Yun clan!"

"Are the heavens punishing us?"

Panic spread rather rapidly. Like madly growing weeds, it gave rise to a feeling of despair that made people believe there was absolutely no chance of surviving such a disastrous act of the heavens.

"Why is this happening? Why is it like this?" Jiang Lingzhu was like a duck in a thunderstorm.

"Father! Are you ok?"

It was also at that moment Nie Tian heard Nie Qian's cries. He turned his head to discover that his grandfather, Nie Donghai, was walking out of a pile of debris with disheveled hair and a dirty face.

Bedraggled as he looked, Nie Donghai's eyes were shining with a vigorous light.

"I'm fine." He shook his head, while some lingering fear could still be seen on his face. "Luckily, I finished refining the Spiritfount Pill and rebuilding my spiritual sea in time. Were it not for the reestablishment of my spiritual sea, which allowed me to use my spiritual power to protect myself, I…might not have escaped."

Nie Qian seemed overjoyed. "You've fully healed your spiritual sea, father?"

A trace of happiness appeared on Nie Donghai's face. "Yes, I have." Then, he looked up towards the sky, and noticed that there were no longer flaming meteors flying across the night sky.

He tried his best to calm himself and said, "Let's go take a look in the Yun clan."

"Let's go!" Pan Tao said urgently. "Let's see how the Yun clan is doing after being hit by that giant meteor."

"Congratulations, grandpa." Nie Tian sincerely congratulated him.

Nie Donghai cracked a soft smile as he said, "It's all thanks to that Spiritfount Pill."

At that time, Nie Tian noticed that the frightening earthquakes and shockwaves that had been caused by the collisions were all gone.

As for the casualties of the Nie clan… he actually didn't care very much.

Ever since he was a child, he didn't feel a strong sense of belonging towards the Nie clan. As long as Nie Donghai and Nie Qian were left unscathed, the deaths of others within the Nie clan wouldn't devastate him.

Soon after, the crowd walked out of the Nie clan under the lead of Nie Donghai.

By the time they arrived in the streets, where people were rushing through hurriedly, Nie Tian surveyed his surroundings, and noticed that a large number of buildings had collapsed due to the tremors. Even more terrifyingly, an enormous, long rift had been torn open in the sturdy stone floor.

Many civilians of Black Cloud City were standing in the streets, letting out miserable wails. Beside them were the corpses that they had dragged out from under their collapsed homes.

There were also many people who had clearly been hit by the rocks that shot out when mansions collapsed, their chests covered in bloodstains.

"Master Nie, do you know what happened? Why did meteorites suddenly descend from the sky? What did we do to anger the heavens and make them want to punish us like this?"

Along their way, many grieving civilians saw Nie Donghai and thus approached to question him with their faces full of tears.

Nie Donghai sighed deeply. Unable to give a proper explanation, he could only keep on walking without saying a word.

After a long time, everyone arrived in front of the Yun clan under his lead.

"Nie Tian, you are here too?" An Shiyi, An Yin, as well as An Rong, An He, and the other members of the An clan were already gathered in front of the Yun clan.

Seeing them come over, An Shiyi heaved a sigh of relief and said, "It's good that nothing's happened to you." Clearly, she was talking to Nie Tian and Nie Tian alone.

Seeing that the An sisters had come out safe and sound, Nie Tian also put his heart at ease and asked, "Why didn't you go inside?"

"We're waiting for the aftershocks to end, and also waiting to see… if any survivors will walk out of there." An Shiyi sighed softly and continued, "However, up till now, there hasn't been a single member of the Yun clan that has walked out. The place where the meteorite landed ought to have suffered the most violent blast waves. Let alone the Yun clan, even the ones who lived near the Yun clan couldn't take the strong blast waves and died."

Only after hearing her words did Nie Tian notice that there… seemed to be no earth-shaking cries echoing out from anywhere near the Yun clan.

Through the broken main gate of the Yun clan, he could only see an ash-brown meteor, which had smashed open an enormous crater in the ground, and almost took up the entire Yun clan's property.

All of the buildings in the entire Yun clan had been smashed deep into the ground by the meteor. Not a single one had survived.

The Yun clan seemed to have annihilated from Black Cloud City in a flash.

The ash-brown meteor was now the only thing remaining in the land of the Yun clan, with tiny fiery sparks flickering on its surface from time to time.

As a matter of fact, the reason why the An clansmen beat others to the Yun clan, but didn't dare to go inside, was that they were worried that those fiery sparks were dangerous, and thus were waiting for those fiery lights to extinguish.

"No one from the Yun clan survived?" Nie Qian asked with a soft voice.

An Shiyi thought for a moment and looked deeply at her as she said, "I don't think anyone in there could have survived, including the Yun clan's clanmaster Yun Meng.

"Yun Meng also died?" A complicated expression appeared on Nie Donghai's face as he said begrudgingly, "I finally rebuilt my spiritual sea, and I was planning to straighten things out with him. Who could have thought that… he'd suddenly die like this!"

"I'll go take a look inside." Before anyone could dissuade him, Nie Tian had already made his way through the Yun clan's broken gate.

As soon as he entered, he had a clear view of the whole thing. The entire Yun clan had been smashed in and swallowed by an immense crater and the enormous meteor in it.

There were many sparks of fire flickering on the surface of the ash-brown meteor, which seemed to be slowly swimming towards a mutual destination.

As they glided, the sparks of fire left faint trails on the surface of the meteor, which… were full of twists and turns, as if they contained some kind of unknown wonder within.

"Be careful, Nie Tian!"

An Shiyi, Nie Donghai, and Nie Qian loudly warned him.

Because, at that moment, the reckless Nie Tian had actually climbed onto the meteor to pursue a moving spark of fire. Both of them were headed towards the top of the meteor.

One after another, they charged into the Yun clan and stopped in front of the meteor. With anxious expressions on their faces, they constantly warned Nie Tian not to act rashly.

Meanwhile, Nie Tian sensed that the ash-brown meteor actually wasn't dangerous at all, other than the fact that its surface was quite hot. Thus, he ignored their warnings and continued to do what his heart told him.

Quickly, Nie Tian had pursued the spark of fire to the top of the meteor.

There were even more sparks of fire gathered there, which had converged into a mysterious pattern.

The pattern looked like a half opened gate that was unceasingly letting those sparks of fire inside.

As the numerous sparks of fire that had scattered all around the meteor gradually gathered and merged into the pattern, the pattern grew brighter and brighter, and at the same time, the gate-shaped pattern slowly opened further from its half opened state…

"A gate?" Nie Tian's expression flickered as he immediately crouched down to observe it with rapt attention.

"Can this pattern have something to do with the Heaven Gate? Is it here because of the Heaven Gate?" He speculated deeply.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

While he was pondering, even more sparks of fire merged into that pattern, making the pattern even brighter!

Shortly after, while staring at the mysterious pattern, Nie Tian discovered that every last one of the fiery sparks that had scattered all over the meteor had already merged into the pattern.

The light that the gate-shaped pattern emanated had become increasingly harsh and blinding, while a gentle power spread out from within the pattern.

Subconsciously, Nie Tian extended his hand to touch it.

The moment his left hand touched the pattern, it exploded, sending countless flickering sparks of fire flying into his palm like a rainstorm.

Simultaneously, a numbing and scorching feeling spread out to his whole arm as he suddenly discovered that a patterned tattoo had appeared on the back of his left hand.

It was none other than the gate-shaped pattern that he had just touched!

At the same time, the pattern on the meteor disappeared.

"This must be the key to enter the Heaven Gate!" Elated, Nie Tian exclaimed.

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Right after the gate-shaped pattern appeared on the back of Nie Tian's left hand, the same pattern that had been engraved on the meteor disappeared without leaving a single trace.

Then the burning hot meteor rapidly turned ice-cold.

Under the night sky, Nie Tian's eyebrows were knitted together. He looked at the pattern on the back of his hand and muttered, "This is a key to the Heaven Gate…?"

Hua Mu had only told him that the Heaven Gate was about to appear in the Realm of Flame Heaven, but never explained to him that it would require a key to enter.

Nonetheless, when the gate-shaped pattern shifted from the meteor to the back of his hand in the form of a tattoo, he realized that the gate-shaped pattern was precisely the special pass needed for cultivators to step into the Heaven Gate.

He sent out a wisp of his psychic awareness to examine the gate-shaped pattern, but it was pushed back by a gentle yet formidable force.

Therefore, he failed to pry into the profound mysteries that lay within.

"Every Heaven Gate only allows one hundred participants to enter," he thought to himself. "Does everyone have to obtain a key like this to enter?"

There could have been as many as a thousand meteors that had fallen from the sky and landed in different parts of the Realm of Flame Heaven.

However, there should only be a hundred keys, which meant that among the thousand meteors, only ten percent of them carried keys.

If someone wanted to step into the Heaven Gate, they would need to find a meteor that carried a key and absorb the key into their own body just like he did.

He thought it through and had a plan for their next move.

"Nie Tian!" At that moment, upon seeing him unscathed after hopping onto the meteor, everyone slowly gathered towards him, under the leadership of Nie Donghai and An Shiyi.

All they had seen was that Nie Tian had crouched down at the place where the fiery sparks were gathered for a while before all of them suddenly disappeared.

None of them knew what had happened.

"This meteor is from outside of the realm, and it carried a key to the Heaven Gate." Nie Tian did not hold anything back. He showed the mysterious gate-shaped pattern on the back of his hand to everyone. After that, he said with a serious expression on his face, "I'm positive that when the Heaven Gate opens, only people who have similar patterns on their hands will be able to participate in the trial.

"Whoever wants to enter the Heaven Gate will need to find a key from one of the falling meteors and absorb it onto their hand!"

Upon hearing these words, everyone present was deeply moved, each and every one of their eyes glittering with unusual light.

At the same time, all of them cast their gaze towards the direction of the Cloudsoaring sect.

They saw that a large number of the meteors had fallen towards Cloudsoaring Mountain and its adjacent areas. Thus, it obviously contained the most meteors in the area.

"Don't even think about it," Nie Tian shook his head and said, "Experts from both the Hell sect and the Cloudsoaring sect are gathered there, so it's impossible for you to obtain keys from the meteors over there.

"I saw that some meteors had fallen into the ice-cold wasteland near Black Cloud City. That is the place where your hope resides."

"He's right," Pan Tao nodded his head as he said decisively, "Time is of the essence here! Presumably, others haven't figured out about the secret that lies in the outer-realm meteors yet, and therefore don't know that they carry the keys to the Heaven Gate! We need to hurry and rush to the ice-cold wasteland as soon as possible and hope that we are lucky enough to find keys to absorb."

Right after uttering these words, he hurriedly thanked Nie Tian and left.

After a brief hesitation, the An sisters, Ye Gumo, and Jiang Lingzhu also followed Pan Tao out of Black Cloud City at the fastest speed possible.

They all harbored the strong desire to gain the eligibility to enter the Heaven Gate!

Having obtained the eligibility himself, Nie Tian stood on top of the meteor, which was no longer unusual, and looked off towards the distant Cloudsoaring Mountain. He said, "I'm afraid that intense battles may have already broken out over there."

Prior to the descent of the meteors, the Hell sect had only surrounded Cloudsoaring Mountain, preventing experts of the Cloudsoaring Sect from rushing to the Spiritual Treasure sect's aid.

Hence, both sides had been in a stalemate. No battles had broken out.

However, the meteors that had fallen from the sky would very likely immediately trigger large-scale, bloody battles in that area.

It wouldn't matter whether they were Qi warriors from the Cloudsoaring sect or the Hell sect. As long as they were in the three Heaven stages, they would fight tooth and nail over the meteors that carried the keys, in an attempt to acquire the eligibility to step into the Heaven Gate.

…

Meanwhile, on Cloudsoaring Mountain…

With an ashen face, Jiang Zhisu looked at the grand Streamcloud Sky Soaring spell formation, which was now riddled with gaping wounds.

The Streamcloud Sky Soaring spell formation had been formed by a sea of clouds. When the meteors fell from outer realm (a similar concept to outer space), they had penetrated the formation, leaving quite a few holes in it.

In the river valley within Cloudsoaring Mountain, there lay about ten huge craters that went deep into the earth. The blast caused by the huge collisions shattered the nearby rocks into pieces.

Originally, the Cloudsoaring sect had relied on the grand Streamcloud Sky Soaring spell formation to hold off the experts from the Hell sect.

Now that the enormous spell formation that had been protecting the sect had been punctured by the meteors, the Hell sect experts who had been besieging the Cloudsoaring sect were able to swarm in.

Jiang Zhisu saw that numerous Hell sect experts had already stepped into the Cloudsoaring sect through the openings.

However, they didn't immediately start a war after entering.

On the contrary, as their first act, all of the Hell sect experts rushed to the meteors that were still flickering with tiny bits of flame in the river valley. It seemed as if they were collecting something with their faces filled with excitement.

"Get down there and take a look!" Jiang Zhisu ordered.

Immediately after, many of the Qi warriors from the Cloudsoaring sect whizzed down from the mountaintop.

The experts from Hell sect clearly knew about the opening of the Heaven Gate. When the meteors had descended from outside of the realm, and they saw the sparks of fire flickering on the meteors, they were able to make an informed guess regarding the secrets that lay within.

"They must carry keys to the Heaven Gate! I didn't expect the way to enter the Heaven Gate this time to be so much different from before! According to that senior from the Realm of Earth Sieve, throughout the history, there has only been one time where eligibility was needed to enter."

"Only those who had obtained the key would be allowed into the Heaven Gate!"

"I can't believe that the Heaven Gate that will appear in the Realm of Flame Heaven this time is so special!"

"Hurry! Let's snatch the keys before those from the Cloudsoaring sect realize what's going on!"

As soon as they saw that the Cloudsoaring sect's grand Streamcloud Sky Soaring spell formation was punctured, they didn't waste a second before swarming in to search for the keys which would allow them to step into the Heaven Gate.

"Zhao Haifeng! Duan Yuan! Hu Qingwen!" A Hell sect expert shouted, pointing at three disciples from the Hell sect. He ordered, "The three of you go to Black Cloud City and the wasteland to the north of Black Cloud City immediately. I noticed that some meteors fell in that direction! You three aren't strong enough to fight for keys in this place. You might as well rush over there and look for opportunities!"

They were three teenagers, who only seemed to be around fifteen-years-old, but had strong, murderous auras wreathing their body. Upon hearing that man's order, they prepared to leave.

At the same time, the master of the Hell sect, Jiao Yang, who was as tall and sturdy as a mountain, suddenly made a harsh expression with his stone-cold face.

Jiao Yang's cultivation base had already reached the great circle of the late Worldly realm, and he was only one step away from advancing into the Profound realm.

There was an unwritten rule among every sect in the Realm of Flame Heaven. Once the masters of each of the sects had advanced into the Profound realm, they would give up on their position as master and step away from the earthly affairs to focus solely on their cultivation.

Under the management of Jiao Yang, who was known as the strongest person in the Realm of Flame Heaven, the Hell sect had entered an age of prosperity and thus was deemed as the number one sect in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Jiao Yang was aggressive and relentless, and was deeply respected by his subordinates and clansmen. Even the two Profound realm experts from the Ghost sect and Blood sect also thought highly of him, and believed that he would be able to advance to the Profound realm within the next ten years. By that time, the Hell sect would have another peak expert.

Among the seven major sects in the Realm of Flame Heaven, the Hell sect was the only sect that had two Profound realm experts. If they were to add in Jiao Yang as another Profound realm expert, the strength of Hell sect would only continue to rise above all of the other sects.

By that time, with five Profound realm experts on their side, the Blood sect, the Ghost sect, and the Hell sect would surely overtake the alliance formed by the Spiritual Treasure sect, the Cloudsoaring Sect, the Grayvale sect, and the Mystic Mist sect.

"The Mystic Mist sect and the Grayvale sect have joined hands and invaded our sect!?" Jiao Yang, who had just received the news, looked at the disciples that were rushing towards the meteors and shouted, "Get the keys to the Heaven Gate as quickly as possible, and then we'll head back to our sect immediately!

"Zhao Haifeng! You three must hurry too! You must also return to the sect immediately after getting the keys from Black Cloud City and the wasteland!

"We won't wait for you. If you waste too much time out there and get surrounded by powerful experts from the Cloudsoaring sect, don't count on us to come rescue you."

The three teenagers from Hell sect, who were about to rush towards Black Cloud City, responded loudly, "Understood!"

Then, at a incredibly fast speed, they dashed away.

Also at that moment, an expert from the Cloudsoaring sect, who had descended from the mountain, shouted loudly to Jiang Zhisu, "Sectmaster! The disciples from the Hell sect are collecting the fiery sparks on the meteors! Those fiery sparks seemed to have formed gate-shaped patterns on the back of their hands!" "

"Gate-shaped patterns?" Jiang Zhisu went blank for a while, and then suddenly said, "Snatch those patterns!"

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

In a split second, thread after thread of blurry shadows shot down from Cloudsoaring Mountain. Like shooting stars, they all rushed towards the meteors that had sparks of fire on them.

After a standoff of several days, Qi warriors from both the Cloudsoaring sect and the Hell sect instantly began fighting at close quarters over the keys to the Heaven Gate.

…

In Black Cloud City, the gate that led to Cloudsoaring Mountain had already been shattered into pieces by the strong blasts caused by the huge impacts of the meteors.

Considering a catastrophe had killed many of the loved ones of the guards, it was no surprise that they had long since left.

Upon seeing the meteor falling onto the Yun clan's property, the few guards from the Yun clan had rushed over.

Only the Nie clan guest elder Wu Tao, and two others from the An clan remained on top of the city gate.

Instead of checking on the situation out of the city gate, the three of them turned around and sighed as they looked at the wailing-filled Black Cloud City.

FIZZ! FIZZ! FIZZ!

Three pale-gray bone spears sped through the air. Before the three of them could react, they already pierced into their backs.

The other two had lower cultivation bases, and therefore died instantly.

Only Wu Tao sensed that something was wrong and protected the rear part of his heart with his spiritual power. Because of that, he was only severely injured, not killed.

Wu Tao's face seemed extremely pale as he turned around to look at Zhao Haifeng and the other two. "W-who are you?!"

Zhao Haifeng slightly frowned. "I can't believe you actually survived the first strike…"

With a wave of his left hand, the two bone spears, which had taken the lives of the two from the An clan, pierced towards Wu Tao's abdomen and side.

Wu Tao, who didn't have the strength to resist any more attacks, was instantly pierced through by the bone spears. He took his last breath, and died.

Like a wind, Zhao Haifeng dashed forward. "Our sectmaster has ordered us to not waste our time here. Kill whoever dares to stand in our way."

The three bone spears that had pierced Wu Tao retracted from his body and flew after Zhao Haifeng.

With nothing but indifference in their eyes, Duan Yuan and Hu Qingwen, who were also from Hell sect, followed Zhao Haifeng.

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As soon as the three of them stepped into Black Cloud City, Zhao Haifeng saw that the street was packed with people.

The collapse of the stone tower had sent many falling stones rolling into the street. Coupled with the wailing crowd, the originally wide street seemed to have become incomparably congested.

Their cultivation bases were still far from allowing them to soar through the sky, so it was difficult for the people in the crowd to move along.

PUFF! PUFF! PUFF!

The three bone spears that had been closely following Zhao Haifeng turned into three pale-gray lightning bolts that pierced through three of the crying mortals.

The momentum of the bone spears was so strong that the three mortals were brought into the air.

"Who's there?"

All of the civilians of Black Cloud City were drowning in extreme grief. Upon seeing three of their people getting killed, their eyes immediately turned red.

Many of them madly lunged towards Zhao Haifeng.

"Mortals…" Zhao Haifeng knitted his brows and whispered. The three bone spears swiftly flew out again and pierced through each and every person who attempted to attack them.

The bloody massacre forced the civilians to rapidly quiet down. After examining the garments of the intruders, people began to shriek, "H-hell sect disciples!"

There was a lifelike pattern knitted on each of their chests, which resembled a roaring devil.

"Get out of our way."

Zhao Haifeng's face was cold and indifferent. With a wave of his left hand, the three bone spears that had never fallen onto the the ground once again whizzed forward.

The citizens of Black Cloud City, who were standing in the street ahead of them, were scared to death. They all pushed their way to the sides, fighting to create a clear path for the trio.

Zhao Haifeng briefly nodded his head and stopped his massacre, then led Duan Yuan and Hu Qingwen in the direction of the Yun clan.

Inside the Yun clan…

Nie Tian hopped off of the ice-cold meteor and joined Nie Donghai, An Rong, and the others at the main gate of the Yun clan.

A few members of the Yun clan dashed past Nie Tian and ran inside. They all lost control and cried out loud as they looked at the remains of the Yun clan within the huge crater created by the meteor.

"Where's the clanmaster?"

"The Yun clan is gone?! This can't be happening!"

They could not believe that the Yun clan, which had stood so steadily in Black Cloud City the day before, would have been reduced to nothing but ruins overnight.

They were all unable to accept the truth in front of their eyes.

"The Yun clan is gone just like that?" The master of the An clan, An Rong, let out a sigh and shook his head. Struck by mixed feelings, he said, "In front of such a catastrophe that fell right from the heavens, clans like ours won't able to survive. Only strong sects like the Cloudsoaring sect may be able to. The Yun clan has stood in Black Cloud City for a long time. Who would have thought that it would be wiped out by a catastrophe in an instant?"

Nie Donghai was also taken up by mixed feelings. "It's a pity. It took me so much effort to rebuild my spiritual sea. I had even planned to sort things out with Yun Meng."

Standing beside him, Nie Qian had a grim expression on her face, not saying a word.

Even though she had hated Yun Zhiguo, they were once husband and wife. During the past few years, she had watched as Nie Tian slowly grew up. Seeing that Nie Tian had gotten off to a great start, she had even planned to seek out justice with Yun Zhiguo and Yuan Qiuying one day with his help.

She also had never anticipated that the whole Yun clan would crumble to dust in the blink of an eye like that.

"It's better this way," said Nie Tian. "This has saved me the work of ferreting out those bastards from the Yun clan and paying them back."

In his mind, once he was strong enough, he would have single-handedly entered the Yun clan, and held all those who had been involved in his aunt's mistreatment accountable.

However, the Yun clan was destroyed before that day ever came.

At that moment, frightened shouts rang out from the street where Nie Tian and the others had come from.

"Get out of the way!"

"Those three from the Hell sect will kill without batting an eye!"

"Clear out a path for them!"

Nie Donghai and An Rong exchanged a glance. Both of their expressions became incomparably grim. "The Hell sect!"

They all knew that numerous experts from the Hell sect had surrounded Clousoaring Mountain to prevent the disciples of the Clousoaring sect from rescuing the Spiritual Treasure sect.

Generally speaking, the battles between the major sects would not involve the commoners from the various cities.

The Clousoaring sect had been besieged by the Hell sect for quite a few days. However, not a single expert from the Hell sect had entered Black Cloud City to kill people.

Now that disciples from the Hell sect had arrived in Black Cloud City, it clearly violated the unwritten rule that all sides had played by for decades.

"Who can they be?" An Rong felt deeply worried.

Nie Tian was also secretly nervous.

When he was in Green Illusion dimension, he had witnessed the power of the disciples from the Blood sect and Ghost sect. He had even battled with the witch Yu Tong on several occasions.

He was fully aware that the disciples from both the Blood sect and the Ghost sect had more battle experience than the disciples from the four sects, but he had never encountered any disciples from the Hell sect.

However, he had learned from Jiang Lingzhu, Pan Tao, and the others that disciples from the Hell sect were even more terrifying than those from the Blood sect and the Ghost sect.

During the time when Jiang Lingzhu, Pan Tao, and the other trial takers thought that the Hell sect had also entered the Green Illusion dimension and targeted the Mystic Mist sect, they all had believed that no one from the Mystic Mist sect would survive.

Including Zheng Bin!

Clearly, they thought that the disciples from the Hell sect had posed a much greater threat than the disciples from the Blood sect and the Ghost sect.

Nie Tian had a grim look on his face. "The Blood sect and the Ghost sect each have one Profound realm expert. The Hell sect on the other hand…… has two. According to my master, the current master of the Hell sect seems to be on the verge of breaking into the Profound realm. If the Hell sect alone has three Profound realm experts, then it will surpass all the other sects by a large margin, and be totally worthy of the title of number one sect in the Realm of Flame Heaven."

At the same time, Zhao Haifeng's voice once again rang out from the distant street. "Duan Yuan and Qing Wen, you two go take a look at that meteor. If you see a key to the Heaven Gate, you guys collect it first."

Soon, he appeared in front of Nie Tian and the others, standing as straight as a sword, proud and arrogant.

"It's just three juniors…!?" Looking at them, An Rong went blank for a moment. Suddenly, a sense of insult filled his heart.

Zhao Haifeng and the other two were clearly only around fifteen years old. However, they actually dared to barge into the heart of Black Cloud City and kill people everywhere with just the three of them.

What did that mean?

No one from the Hell sect had ever put Black Cloud City in their eyes, or attached any importance to An Rong, the Yun clan, or the Nie clan!

It was as if in the eyes of the Hell sect experts, three juniors were already powerful enough to do anything they wanted in Black Cloud City.

An Rong was the master of the An clan. Every commoner in the city had inwardly regarded him as the master of Black Cloud City.

The fact that the Hell sect sent three juniors on a task in the city had made him feel incredibly insulted.

Right before An Rong could lash out, Zhao Haifeng called out to his partners with a frown, "Duan Yuan! Qing Wen!"

The two of them stopped and looked back at him, curious of why he stopped them.

He narrowed his eyes, and his piercing gaze, like an ice-cold, sharp sword, landed on the back of Nie Tian's left hand. He said, "The key on this meteorite has already been taken by him."

Both Duan Yuan and Hu Qingwen followed his gaze and looked towards Nie Tian's left hand.

Duan Yuan gave a cold harrumph. "Yeah, you're right."

Cold, gruesome air wreathed around the three pale-gray bone spears as they shot out from behind Zhao Haifeng.

The three bone spears were still dripping with blood as they flew forward.

Zhao Haifeng took a glance at Nie Tian and said in a relaxed tone, "We've come for the key to the Heaven Gate, and we don't want to waste our time. We still need to find more keys in the wasteland, so…"

After a brief pause, he said to Nie Tian, "As long as you cut off your left hand and give it to us, together with the Heaven Gate key that's branded on it, we will leave immediately, and not waste another minute in Black Cloud City."

Nie Tian grinned. "You want me to cut off my left hand for you?"

"At least that way, you'll get to live," said Zhao Haifeng.

"What if I refuse?" Nie Tian countered.

"Then you'll die," Zhao Haifeng answered.

SHEW!

A messenger eagle suddenly swooped in and landed on An He's shoulder.

An He quickly tore off the pile of papers that was attached to the eagle's leg. His face abruptly turned grim after he opened the paper and took a glance at it. He said, "Clanmaster, the guards that we have deployed to the city gate have been killed."

Glowering at Zhao Haifeng, he added, "The guest elder from the Nie clan, Wu Tao, is also dead. They all died by the hands of these three!"

"Mr. Wu!" A explosive shout escaped Nie Tian's mouth.

In the entire Nie clan, Wu Tao was the only one besides Nie Donghai and Nie Qian, who had cared for Nie Tian.

Deep down, he had great respect for Wu Tao. He could still vividly remember that he had even specially visited Wu Tao and expressed his gratefulness before he left the Nie clan for the Cloudsoaring sect.

He never expected that Wu Tao, who had treated him so nicely, would have been killed by the three Hell sect disciples in front of him. A raging flame was instantly born in his heart. "You'll die here!"

"Big brother Haifeng, it seems that it's time to make a move." Duan Yuan grew a bit impatient.

An Rong burst into a burning rage. "You dare to run amok in Black Cloud City with just the three of you! Does the Hell sect really think that we have no talents in Black Cloud City!?"

"Old man, you turned me down when I ask nicely, so I guess I'll have to force it." Zhao Haifeng shook his head as if he felt that their decision was very unwise. "An old man like you has spent your whole life cultivating, yet can't even get admitted into the four sects. You never had the chance to learn real cultivation methods from the four sects, or to experience the most brutal and bloody baptism.

"None of you will pose a threat to us, even though your cultivation base is slightly higher than ours."

After making that comment, Zhao Haifeng held out his hand, pointed at An Rong and said, "Leave him to me. You two choose whoever you would like to fight from the other two old men."

He was clearly referring to Nie Donghai and An He. In his eyes, out of all the others, only Nie Donghai and An He could somewhat pose a threat.

As for Nie Tian, he was completely ignored by Zhao Haifeng.

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Upon hearing Zhao Haifeng's words, Duan Yuan and Hu Qingwen immediately dashed towards Nie Donghai and An He.

WHOOSH!

Duan Yuan gestured towards his bracelet of holding, and in the next moment, a double-headed battle-axe that glittered with golden light flew out.

The double-headed battle-axe was golden in color and emanated frighteningly strong spiritual power fluctuations under the dark sky, together with a shiny, golden aura.

Uder Duan Yuan's manipulation, the incomparably sharp battle-axe slashed towards Nie Donghai.

Nie Donghai's expression flickered and he hastily dodged the attack.

Before his spiritual sea had been shattered, his cultivation base had been in the great circle of the Heaven stage, only one step away from Greater Heaven.

However, since over the years he hadn't been able to gather the scattered spiritual power within his spiritual sea and couldn't stop his spiritual power from seeping away, his cultivation base had already dropped from the great circle of Heaven stage to the middle Heaven stage.

Furthermore, he had been low-spirited regarding his future and focused only on raising Nie Tian. Hence, he even secretly traded in the spiritual tool that he had used for years.

Without a spiritual tool to use, coupled with the fact that he had just rebuilt his spiritual sea, he didn't have the confidence to win the fight against Duan Yuan, who was only in the early Heaven stage. He chose to defend himself for the moment.

The other Hell sect junior, Hu Qingwen, was also in the early Heaven stage. "Come out!" She sent out a wisp of will power, and in the next moment, a green, curved bow flew out of her bracelet of holding and fell into her hand.

Holding the bow in one hand, she extended her other hand to draw an arrow that glittered with bright light, and then placed it on the bow string.

An He was her target. As she pulled the bow taut, the arrow started to absorb the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth from the surroundings.

A large amount of intense spiritual power converged onto the sharp arrowhead, like a deadly snake that was flicking its tongue.

SHEW!

The arrow shot out like a shooting star, plummeting toward An He's chest.

An He's expression flickered and he hastily used a bronze shield to defend.

CLANG!

Blinding sparks splashed out from the surface of the shield. With a muffled groan, An He was sent back several steps. Experiencing numbness from the web between his thumb and forefinger, his face became extremely grim.

CLANK!

The arrow dropped to the ground. With a frown, Hu Qingwen pulled out another arrow and once again aimed at An He.

"No matter whether it's spiritual incantations or spiritual tools, yours are far inferior to ours." Zhao Haifeng wasn't in a hurry to attack. He looked at the fuming An Rong and said, "I'll let you know how big the difference is between the strength of a man from a subordinate clan and a core disciple from the Hell sect.

"You'll see… the cultivation base is not the only factor in measuring one's strength.

"Profound incantations, delicate techniques, and high-ranked spiritual tools also play a crucial part in one's battle prowess!"

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

As soon as he uttered these words, the three bone spears that had been floating in the air formed a vertical triangle in the air, before shooting towards An Rong.

Unlike how he used them to kill Wu Tao and other civilians of Black Cloud City, this time the bone spears seemed to have morphed into three icicles the moment they whizzed out.

The pale-gray bone spears seemed to be covered in a layer of impenetrable ice, releasing a terrifying, bone-piercing coldness.

The moment they shot out, Nie Tian felt that the temperature in the area had suddenly plunged, turning the hot summer night into a freezing winter night in a flash.

"Frost power!" These words escaped from Nie Tian's mouth.

Obviously, Zhao Haifeng's cultivation attribute was frost, and he had a strong frost power within him. Moreover, the incantation he just used must be an exquisite frost-attributed incantation.

Even the three bone spears had been customized to his need, which all carried a terrifying ice-cold aura.

After he used the frost power within himself to fill the bone spears, they were finally able to display their real might. Even with the coldness they gave out alone, they could freeze a man's blood.

"The late Heaven stage!" With a strange expression on his face, An He let out an exclamation; he couldn't believe the teenager in front of him could actually reach the late Heaven stage at such a young age.

He, on the other hand, was already sixty years old, but only had a cultivation base that was in the early Greater Heaven stage.

Zhao Haifeng was just one step away from entering the Greater Heaven and reaching his level.

An Rong was secretly shocked. "This kid might be able to step into the Greater Heaven stage before the age of twenty! This is unbelievable! This is monstrous! Is everyone from the Hell sect as frightening as him?!"

Knowing that the frost-aura-wreathed bone spears that had shot in his direction were nothing ordinary, he didn't have the audacity to fight them head-on, even though his cultivation base was one stage higher than Zhao Haifeng's.

Just like Nie Donghai, he also chose to dodge the attacks, wishing to strike Zhao Haifeng when the power of the bone spear wore out.

Unfortunately, the three bone spears that contained raging frost power didn't show even the slightest signs of exhaustion.

An Rong didn't know that those three bone spears had been floating in the air ever since Zhao Haifeng had appeared in Black Cloud City, as if they weren't affected by gravity.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The three bone spears radiated white, freezing auras as they circled back and dashed towards An Rong again.

Standing in his original place, Zhao Haifeng hadn't move a muscle; however, his pupils had shed their black color and taken on a pale-gray color, which was the same with his bone spears.

The ground under his feet gradually froze, and the air around him even became filled with a frosty, white mist, as if the area he was in had turned into an icy tundra, constantly unleashing surges of bone-piercing coldness.

Nie Tian sensed with his psychic awareness, and found that wisps of white, frosty mist that were invisible to the naked eye, were secretly floating out of Zhao Haifeng's body and converging towards his three piercing bone spears.

"With one in the late Heaven stage, and two in the early Heaven stage, this is how formidable the strength of the Hell sect is!"

Zhao Haifeng and his two partners seemed only four or five years older than Mo Xi from the Ghost sect and Yu Tong from the Blood sect.

However, both Mo Xi and Yu Tong only had the cultivation bases of the ninth level of Qi Refining when they were in the Green Illusion dimension.

As of today, the two of them had only reached the early Lesser Heaven stage, the same stage Nie Tian was in.

Furthermore, they had been both viewed as elite disciples and regarded highly by their respective sects.

The Hell sect, on the other hand, had sent three of their common juniors, and they all turned out to have Heaven stage cultivation bases!

The leader of the three, Zhao Haifeng, had even reached the late Heaven stage, and was only one step away from advancing into the Greater Heaven stage.

"The Hell sect is so much stronger than the Ghost sect and the Blood sect…"

He realized that the fact that the Hell sect could become the leader of their alliance was not only because they had two Profound realm experts, but also because their deep-seated strength far surpassed the Ghost sect and the Blood sect.

Therefore, it made sense that the Hell sect had been the party that gave orders, and the other two sects had acknowledged its leadership, obediently taking their orders.

"The Hell sect is too powerful! No wonder people from the other realms only informed the Hell sect that the Heaven Gate would appear in their territory and asked them for some spots to enter, but didn't dare to come and take them forcefully.

"Even those foreign Qi warriors feared the Hell sect's strength, so they chose cooperation over war."

By that time, he finally understood why the small group of three dared to act so recklessly in Black Cloud City, completely ignoring the authority of the An clan, Yun clan, and Nie clan.

Their contempt towards others was based on their formidable strength. Every disciple of the Hell sect believed that their sect was the strongest sect in the Realm of Flame Heaven and its one and only true owner.

PUFF!

The double-headed battle-axe suddenly shot out beams of blinding, golden light in every direction. Unable to avoid them in time, several bloody wounds were cut open on Nie Donghai's left arm.

"Grandfather!"

Although he knew perfectly well that his own cultivation base was inferior to Duan Yuan's by a whole stage, Nie Tian still bolted towards Nie Donghai with an angry roar.

"Nie Tian! Don't come near me! There's no way you can beat him!" Nie Donghai shouted in an attempt to stop Nie Tian from coming to his aid.

Hearing Nie Donghai's shout, Zhao Haifeng, Duan Yuan, and Hu Qingwen all cast their gazes towards Nie Tian.

"Nie Tian? That name sounds quite familiar," Zhao Haifeng muttered to himself.

"He's the disciple that Eccentric Wu has recently taken in." Standing beside him, Duan Yuan reminded him.

"Wu Ji's disciple!" Zhao Haifeng gave Nie Tian a serious glance for the first time.

After looking Nie Tian up and down, he shook his head and said, "How come he's only in the early Lesser Heaven stage? Even those two seniors of our sect hold Wu Ji in high esteem and praise him to be one of the most miraculous people in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"His disciple shouldn't be this weak…

"That Nie Tian was only admitted as his disciple six months ago," said Hu Qingwen.

With a nod, Zhao Haifeng said, "Oh, so that's how it is. Since he's Wu Ji's disciple, we'll spare his life. Capture him alive. He may be of great use to us in the future." He gave the order to Duan Yuan.

"Got it." Duan Yuan immediately replied.

PUFF!

At that time, Nie Tian had already reached Nie Donghai's side. Hit in the chest by a beam of golden light, blood instantly sprayed out, painting his shirt red.

He had only been hit by the golden light that had been emanated by the double-headed battle-axe, but it felt as if he had been gashed by a sharp blade, leaving a long, bleeding wound in his chest.

Nie Tian's face turned especially grim as he realized that Duan Yuan was the strongest opponent he had ever encountered by far.

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Meanwhile, on the back mountain of Cloudsoaring Mountain.

Chang Sen and his wife Kong Yun, both Profound realm experts from Hell sect, had been discussing the Dao of cultivation with Wu Ji over the past few days, in the same manner they might chat about household affairs.

As opposed to what the others had expected, ever since they came to the Cloudsoaring Mountain, both Chang Sen and Kong Yun hadn't had even the slightest intention to go to war.

When Kong Yun found out that the experts from Mystic Mist sect and Grayvale sect had joined hands and marched towards the Hell sect, she had apologized to Wu Ji, and then soared away.

Chang Sen stayed and continued to discuss the Dao of cultivation with Wu Ji.

With a tall and sturdy frame, Chang Sen wore rough linen garments and no shoes. No one would have considered him to be a Profound realm Qi warrior. Instead, he looked more like a farmer who had been busy with rural activities his whole life.

His hands and feet were big and strong, his robust body resembled that of a tiger, and his voice sounded loud and profound like a giant bell.

Not far away from where they were, experts from both Cloudsoaring Sect and Hell sect were still fighting endlessly and fiercely over the Heaven Gate keys on the meteors.

However, Wu Ji and Chang Sen turned a blind eye to it and went on to exchange their understandings of cultivation.

Chang Sen had come to Wu Ji's residence when the Ghost sect and Blood sect invaded the Spiritual Treasure sect. He just sat with Wu Ji and chatted about whatever that came to mind.

Wu Ji had known about his purpose ever since he had arrived. However, he did not point it out directly, but rather chatted with him.

Until this moment…

Chang Sen remained silent for a while before he suddenly said, "I'll be leaving soon. Brother Wu, you are the only person whom I respect deeply in the entire Realm of Flame Heaven. I've benefited a great deal from our conversations, and I've always admired you for having taught two extremely talented disciples."

Wu Ji had a calm look on his face. "It's all because they worked hard."

Chang Sen nodded in assent, and said, "Brother Wu, Fang Hui and the others may not know about this, but you ought to be aware that in my eyes, the alliance between the four sects is too weak to withstand a single blow.

"If I wanted to, I could easily eliminate the four of them from the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"I've only allowed them to exist so that they can serve as sharpening stones for disciples from the Hell sect. I've never considered them as swords that may become as sharp as the Hell sect.

"In my eyes, the Blood sect and Ghost sect are not that different from the other four sects.

"I have to find worthy opponents for the Hell sect in the Realm of Flame Heaven if we want to prosper. Even though I have the strength to take over all of the other sects, I chose not to.

"Because, without opponents, our disciples would lose their sense of crisis and motivation.

"It has been my intention that the other sects persist, so that our disciples can polish themselves and sharpen their edge."

From the way he spoke, it seemed if he had wanted, the Hell sect alone would be more than capable of sweeping across the whole Realm of Flame Heaven and making all other sects submit to them obediently.

Wu Ji didn't say a word to refute him.

It seemed that he agreed with Chang Sen's assertion, and didn't think even for a moment that Chang Sen had really been speaking without thinking.

That was because he understood better than anyone how powerful the man in front of him was.

They were both in the Profound realm. Chang Sen, however, had already reached the great circle, and was only one step away from stepping into the Soul realm.

He deserved the title of the strongest man in the Realm of Flame Heaven. He was the only one who had stepped into the late Profound realm. All the other Profound realm cultivators had only reached the early or middle stage.

Even though there was one Profound realm expert in each of the sects among the four sects, with the exception of Wu Ji, the other three experts were all only at the early Profound realm.

As for Wu Ji himself, he had only managed to step into the middle Profound realm not too long ago.

He also understood that if he couldn't run into some good fortune, he wouldn't have enough years to last until he stepped into the Soul realm where he could extend his longevity.

Chang Sen narrowed his eyes as he looked at the fierce battle at the foot of the mountain, watching the experts from both the Cloudsoaring sect and Hell sect fighting over the Heaven Gate keys.

"You never know. Even the powerful experts from the Realm of Earth Sieve didn't foresee that the Heaven Gates would have its own qualifications this time.

"If I had known about this, I would have prevented the Ghost sect and Blood sect's invasion of the Spiritual Treasure sect.

"What's done is done. It's no longer necessary to continue with the battle.

"I will allow those who have already obtained the keys to enter the Heaven Gate. I won't add on anymore obstacles.

"Many from other realms have longed to enter the Realm of Flame Heaven for many years. In the past, there haven't been enough benefits that drove them to make efforts to step into the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"The appearance of the Heaven Gate and the Earth Flame Beast breaking free from Scarlet Flame Mountain Range heralds the changes that are going to take place. In the future, even more strange phenomenons will present themselves in the Realm of Flame Heaven. By that time, powerful forces from other realms that even I am not certain if I could resist, will reveal themselves in the Realm of Flame Heaven one after another.

"The civil war within the Realm of Flame Heaven might result in the death of many disciples who are below Worldly realm, due to their insufficient strength.

"On the other hand, the civil war can also possibly motivate the weaker ones, allowing them to make breakthroughs in desperate and unfavorable circumstances and as a result, step into the Worldly realm.

"I hope that after the Heaven Gate trial, there will be more of our disciples who can advance into the Worldly realm.

"Because they will be the ones that we'll rely on to defend the Realm of Flame Heaven from outsiders.

"From now on, I will restrict the Blood sect and Ghost sect from instigating more fights. I also hope that you can inform the other three sects and let them understand that in no more than ten years, the Realm of Flame Heaven will face attacks from outsiders.

"It's about time we prepared ourselves."

Chang Sen took his time to explain in lengths his worries and the true purpose of his visit.

Experts from the four sects had all reckoned that the Blood sect and Ghost sect had taken advantage of the fact that the Profound realm expert from the Mystic Mist sect wasn't in the Realm of Flame Heaven, as well as the fact that the Profound realm expert from the Grayvale sect was in his ultimate secluded mediation, to weaken the strength of their alliance.

However, Wu Ji had always known that that wasn't the truth.

If Chang Sen really wanted to start a war, he would have no one to fear!

Wu Ji nodded his head. "I'll inform the three sects."

Chang Sen nodded and said no more. A gale of wind blew past, and his body that had been sitting upright on the stone floor dissipated into the air like a puff of light smoke.

As soon as Chang Sen vanished from the back mountain of Cloudsoaring Mountain, Jiao Yang, master of the Hell sect, gave the order from the foot of the mountain, "Whether you've obtained a Heaven Gate key or not, withdraw from the Cloudsoaring sect immediately!"

Even though every expert from the Hell sect harbored doubts in their hearts upon hearing Jiao Yang's instruction, they could only struggle free from their fights with experts from the Cloudsoaring sect.

Even though there were still a number of key-carrying meteors that remained untouched, the Hell sect disciples all withdrew from their fights, followed Jiao Yang, and left in an orderly fashion.

Experts from Cloudsoaring Sect also felt puzzled, but they did not stop them from leaving.

Before long, every last one of the experts from the Hell sect that had surrounded the Cloudsoaring sect for many days disappeared.

…

In front of the Yun clan.

Nie Tian had been stabbed by the sputtering golden light, and his chest was now covered with blood. He dodged continuously within the rain of golden light beams as he tried to get closer to Duan Yuan.

Merely one light beam from the double-headed battle axe was already powerful enough to rip open a bloody wound in Nie Tian's chest, making him look miserable.

This made him realize how big of a gap there was between the Lesser Heaven stage and the Heaven stage.

FIZZ!

Golden light flashed behind Nie Donghai's back. He let out a muffled groan and staggered several steps forward.

The double-headed battle axe revolved rapidly in the air, as if it had turned into a cluster of bright golden light, as it chased after Nie Donghai.

Nie Tian on the other hand, was temporarily free of danger.

After turning around, he noticed that Nie Donghai was leading the double-headed battle-axe further away from him, in an attempt to prevent him from getting hurt by the golden light that had been emanated by the axe.

As soon as the battle-axe left, Nie Tian charged towards Duan Yuan like a fierce beast that had gone mad, without any regard for the pain in his chest.

In that moment, a burning rage was born in his heart and soon spread all over his body.

The spiritual power that had been surging within his dantian's spiritual sea, as well as the flesh power that had been hidden within his flesh and bones, burst out in that instant.

"Rage punch!" He roared violently in his mind.

BOOM!

In that moment, his fist that carried heaven-shaking fury gave vent to all the strength within him. Unusual space fluctuations seemed to ripple out from deep within the clouds of the Realm of Flame Heaven.

A terrifying, enormous shadow abruptly appeared in the dark, night sky, which seemed to be resonating with the fearful might of the rage fist.

Having sensed the unfavorable situation, Duan Yuan forcefully condensed all his strength and cast a secret magic of the Hell sect.

"Purgatory Gate!"

Under the manipulation of his spiritual power, thread after thread of malevolent devil shadows came together and formed a strange-looking gate in front of his chest, which was full of sharp thorns and curved horns.

BANG!

Nie Tian's fist rammed furiously into the strange gate. As a result, the gate shattered in the next moment.

PUFF!

A mouthful of fresh blood escaped from Duan Yuan's mouth as he was sent flying backwards into the air, like he had been crushed by a mountain.

Blood was still flowing out of the corners of Duan Yuan's mouth after he landed with one knee on the ground. Slowly, he struggled to stand up from his kneeling position.

"What spiritual technique is this?!" he asked, face filled with shock and terror.

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CLANK!

The double-headed battle axe that had been pursuing Nie Donghai suddenly dropped to the ground, and its brilliant golden light faded away.

CRUNCH!

Duan Yuan was kneeling on the ground with one knee. When he attempted to stand up, the sharp, clear sound of snapping bones rang out from his chest.

A big mouthful of blood once again spurted out of Duan Yuan's mouth. Before he could stand upright, he staggered and dropped back to the ground.

Duan Yuan looked at Nie Tian with his eyes filled with fear and disbelief.

Nie Tian was only in the early Lesser Heaven stage. Moments before, he had managed to cast out such a terrifying power that was like an unstoppable flood, and instantly inflicted serious damage on him, by only using some kind of strange spiritual technique and without any help from a spiritual tool.

He examined himself with his psychic awareness and realized that Nie Tian's fist strike had fractured his bones in four places.

Not only that, a surge of raging flame energy that hadn't faded yet, was still wandering in his body, causing constant, stabbing pain in both his muscles and meridians.

After taking that one strike, Duan Yuan had even lost the strength to control the double-headed battle-axe, and thus was no longer able to hurt Nie Donghai.

"That's…"

Both Hu Qingwen, who was about to shoot out another arrow, and Zhao Haifeng, who was manipulating his bone spears, had strange expressions on their faces.

Eyes filled with disbelief, they all cast their gaze towards Nie Tian.

Never had they imagined that Nie Tian, who was one whole stage inferior to Duan Yuan, could have injured him.

This didn't make sense!

With a fierce look on his face, Nie Tian grinned and said, "You said yourself that the cultivation base is not the only factor to measure one's strength, didn't you? Profound spiritual incantations and exquisite spiritual techniques can make up for one's deficiency in cultivation. The reason why I was able to hurt you is because I have exquisite spiritual techniques at my disposal."

Zhao Haifeng was aghast. "Are the spiritual techniques that Eccentric Wu taught him really… really that awesome?"

"Return!" With a wave of his hand, the bone spears that were constantly hovering around An Rong blurred into three streaks of ice-cold light and flew away from An Rong's surroundings.

After drawing her bow to the fullest, Hu Qingwen also stopped. She was still aiming An He but didn't shoot any arrows.

An Rong and An He both heaved a sigh of relief and looked towards Nie Tian.

"How are you doing, Duan Yuan?" Zhao Haifeng said with a frown.

Sitting on the ground, Duan Yuan's chest area was already covered in blood that he had coughed up.

Duan Yuan only put on a bitter smile while sitting cross-legged, focusing all his energy on obliterating the force that was wandering within him and continuously damaging his flesh and bones.

He couldn't even spare a breath to talk.

"I can't believe he injured him so badly…" Zhao Haifeng was increasingly astonished.

After throwing the punch, Nie Tian was also barely able to remain standing in place, holding on to the last of his strength.

His state wasn't necessarily better than Duan Yuan's.

The rage fist had practically drained all of his spiritual power and the power within his flesh.

At the moment, he had no battle prowess left other than his only remaining psychic power.

He acted as if nothing had happened, but couldn't stop worrying inwardly. He knew that from now on, not only was he unable to help his grandfather and An Rong, he would even become a burden to them.

All Zhao Haifeng had to do was lay a hand on him and the tough front that he had put on would collapse in an instant.

He had been aware that by using the rage fist, it would put him in this kind of situation, but he had no other choice.

After all, Duan Yuan was too strong, with a cultivation base that was one whole stage superior. He couldn't think of another way to seriously injure Duan Yuan besides using the raging fist, which he picked up from the mysterious land.

"Alright," Zhao Haifeng said. "Since he is the disciple of Eccentric Wu, even given the fact that his cultivation base is low, he still should be considered to be a man worth killing."

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The three pale-white bone spears that had been floating in the air suddenly emanated countless beams of ice-cold light, within which lay a formidable frost power.

Apparently, Zhao Haifeng was ready to strike.

"Watch out!" Seeing that Zhao Haifeng had targeted Nie Tian, both Nie Donghai and An Rong gathered towards Nie Tian without even thinking about it.

Bitterness could be seen in Nie Tian's eyes as he stared at the bone spears thrumming with frost power without any way out.

BOM BOM BOM!

All of a sudden, the completely depleted Nie Tian felt his heart start beating madly.

At the same time, a wisp of soul will, only detectable to him, came through from afar and descended in Black Cloud City.

"Flame Dragon Armor…" Only moments passed before Nie Tian recognized it. Elation filled his glittering eyes.

After finishing collecting all the Earthflame Crystal Strings from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, the Flame Dragon Armor had finally tracked Nie Tian down and followed his aura to Black Cloud City.

It seemed to have sensed that he had fallen into a terrible situation. Therefore, it had begun to speed toward him even more quickly than before.

The arriving of the Flame Dragon Armor reignited the hope within Nie Tian's heart, as he believed that Zhao Haifeng and his party wouldn't get to touch him again.

Zhao Haifeng, who was about to channel the frost power within him and use it to send the three bone spears to attack Nie Tian, seemed to have been startled.

Due to the fact that he mainly practiced frost or ice spiritual incantations, he was very sensitive to cold and hot auras.

Even before the Flame Dragon Armor showed itself, he had already sensed that the temperature within Black Cloud City had begun to rise.

The way that the temperature rose was obviously not natural. He felt an inexplicably oppressive feeling weighing down on him, which made him extremely uncomfortable.

Zhao Haifeng had always been known as a decisive person in the Hell sect. After a brief scang, he rapidly turned to Hu Qingwen and said, "Take Duan Yuan. We're leaving."

"What!?" Hu Qingwen didn't understand.

Duan Yuan also snapped open his eyes and looked towards him confusedly.

"Let's get out of here." Zhao Haifeng slightly frowned and said, "It's not our day today. As for the Heaven Gate keys, we can get them through other methods."

Even though Hu Qingwen and Duan Yuan were still full of questions, they believed that Zhao Haifeng must have his reasons.

He had never made a move without a purpose.

"Okay!" Obviously, Hu Qingwen placed a lot of trust in him. She put away her bow and arrow and hefted Duan Yuan onto her back.

"Let's go!" Zhao Haifeng told her to leave first as he cast a cold glance towards Nie Tian and said, "Now that you've got a key to the Heaven Gate, I guess I know where we'll meet again."

With these words, he left with Hu Qingwen under the disbelieving gazes of Nie Donghai, An Rong, and An He.

"What happened just now?" Their actions left An Rong completely confused.

Nie Donghai also shook his head in confusion. "I don't know what happened to that kid. Considering his strength, if he kept fighting, we probably wouldn't have been able to hold on for long."

"Those Hell sect disciples are truly terrifyingly strong." An He shared a similar opinion.

It never occurred to any of them to pursue Zhao Haifeng and his party, as they all deemed that if they enraged Zhao Haifeng by chasing after his group, they would be the ones that would end up with more injuries.

"That guy sensed the crisis brought upon by the Flame Dragon Armor?" Nie Tian's eyes glittered with a strange light.

Only because there was a mysterious link between the Flame Dragon Armor's soul and his own, was he able to sense its approach.

Everyone else didn't feel a thing, even An Rong, whose cultivation base was the highest among the crowd.

Zhao Haifeng was clearly going to make a move. However, he changed his idea at the last moment while looking around with an alerted face. He must have sensed the fluctuations in the air and noticed something from the change in the temperature.

He probably had suspected that a powerful expert, skilled at fire-attributed incantations, was approaching Black Cloud City, and decisively retreated to avoid him.

This person knew when to yield and when to not, and also had surprisingly good observation skills. As soon as he sensed danger, he immediately dropped everything and firmly withdrew from the situation.

Without a doubt, Zhao Haifeng was the most intelligent among all the opponents at his age that Nie Tian had ever encountered.

Compared to him, Mo Xi from the Ghost sect and Yu Tong from the Blood sect were clearly weaker by a large extent.

"Do you feel the rise in the temperature?" An He suddenly asked.

An Rong let out a sigh and said, "It's because that brat from the Hell sect left. He excelled at ice and frost magics, and his spiritual weapon was also extremely out of the ordinary. With him being here, it felt as if the area where were in had been cloaked with a layer of frost. We are only feeling the temperature in Black Cloud City going back to normal now that he's gone. That kid gave me the chills.The Hell sect's foundation truly is astonishing to be able to nurture young disciples like him."

"No," An He said, "I don't think it's because of that kid. Black Cloud City wasn't even this hot and stuffy before the three of them came."

Nie Tian was puzzled. "Then what is it?"

At this moment, Nie Tian looked up towards the gray night sky.

The curtain of night was lifting. Daybreak was at hand.

A thread of fiery light in the shape of a dragon was shooting in their direction in the gray sky.

"No way! Here comes another meteor?!" An Rong cried out.

The faces of Nie Donghai and An He turned pale with terror, not knowing what to do.

Hours ago, a meteor from outer realm had turned the entire Yun clan into ruins. How big of a disaster would it be if another one descended upon Black Cloud City?

In the streets, numerous civilians of Black Cloud City started to run about aimlessly while letting out miserable wails.

"They're coming again!"

"Oh my god!"

"Run everybody! Run!"

SHEW!

With an incredible speed, the shooting light closed in on the Yun clan.

"It's coming for the Yun clan again?!" Nie Donghai exclaimed with a ghastly face.

"No." Finally, Nie Tian said, "It's coming for me."

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As soon as Nie Tian uttered those words, the fiery shooting light that had been traveling at a high speed suddenly slowed down.

When An Rong and the others looked up at it, it didn't seem as large as the meteors that had descended from outer realm. Rather, it was like a surging ball of fire.

"It's coming for you?" An Rong was taken aback by Nie Tian's words.

Nie Donghai's expression flickered. "What is that? Did you do something to piss it off?" He assumed that the fireball had locked onto Nie Tian because it was going to kill him.

"It means no harm, grandpa," Nie Tian explained.

SHEW!

The dashing ball of fire stopped steadily right in front of Nie Tian.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

Countless wisps of flame were like slithering, burning snakes, bit by bit retracting into the armor.

Only then did the crowd finally have a clear look of the mysterious thing that had burned like a sun. It was actually a set of exquisite armor.

Nie Tian's eyes were fixed on the Flame Dragon Armor as he eagerly examined it with rapt attention.

Compared to a few days before, the many densely-packed patterns on the surface of the Flame Dragon Armor had not only become a lot clearer, but even seemed to have an unusual power that resembled lava flowing within them.

He even sensed a surging fluctuation of life force merely by standing close to the Flame Dragon Armor.

In his eyes, the Flame Dragon Armor in front of him was no longer a tool! Rather, it was a living being that had blood and flesh and even possessed a soul!

He held out his hand and tried to touch it.

However, before his hand could touch the Flame Dragon Armor, it suddenly shrunk and turned into a shooting, fiery light, disappearing into his bracelet of holding in the next second.

A strand of aura that could only be understood by his soul came through from the Flame Dragon Armor.

He instantly understood that after taking in a large amount of Earthflame Crystal Strings, the Flame Dragon Armor hadn't had the chance to absorb and refine them yet.

It needed time to gradually digest the benefits brought by the Earthflame Crystal Strings, and it was going to finish its transformation in his bracelet of holding.

"I-it's gone?" An Rong was astonished.

Nie Donghai suddenly grew excited. "Little Tian, that spiritual tool… belongs to you?"

Nie Tian nodded.

"It flew here and found you on its own?" Nie Donghai exclaimed. "Does it possess a soul?"

Nie Tian nodded again.

An He and An Rong were both shocked to their very core. "A spiritual tool with a soul! Is it a Spirit Channeling grade treasure?!"

Meanwhile, many civilians carefully gathered around from the distant streets. They all wanted to see what had happened.

Nie Tian was about to explain the origin of the Flame Dragon Armor before hastily shutting his mouth.

"Master An, Master Nie, did you see a fireball falling from the sky just now?" A panic-stricken citizen asked.

An Rong took a glance at Nie Tian and said in a plain tone, "Yes, I saw it. It seemed to have fallen onto the meteor."

"Ahhh?!"

"Master An, can we go over there and take a look?"

The crowd of citizens asked earnestly.

An Rong shrugged and said, "Suit yourselves."

"Little Tian, let's go back to the Nie clan," Nie Donghai said.

Nie Tian nodded.

They passed through the crowd of curious commoners and went straight towards the Nie clan, putting the issues of the Yun clan aside.

They also noticed that Zhao Haifeng and his party didn't leave in the direction of the wasteland where An Shiyi had gone.

That meant that not only had they given up on the Heaven Gate key on Nie Tian's hand, they even gave up on the keys that might have appeared in the wasteland.

It was also because of this that An Rong and the rest of them did not worry for the safety of An Shiyi and the people with her, and thus could return to the Nie clan so calmly.

Nie Tian was the only one who knew that Zhao Haifeng only left Black Cloud City and the nearby wasteland because he feared that an expert who practiced flame spiritual incantations would descend in the region.

By the time they arrived in the Nie clan, Black Cloud City was already in broad daylight.

Nie Tian simply explained about the origin of the Flame Dragon Armor to Nie Donghai, An He, and An Rong in a secluded room. He told them that he had obtained the Flame Dragon Armor in the Treasure Convention held by the Spiritual Treasure sect, and also urged them not to leak the information.

Since An He and An Rong were present, Nie Tian didn't go on to explain the secret links between the Blood Core and the Flame Dragon Armor.

Even without that, having been assured that the Flame Dragon Armor was a Spirit Channeling grade treasure, the three of them were all shocked to the point where they were at a loss for words.

"Spirit Channeling grade treasure, Spirit Channeling grade treasure…" Nie Donghai was immersed in great joy.

An Rong and An He did nothing but stare blankly at him.

They both had a thorough knowledge of Nie Tian's growth. Only a few years ago, Nie Tian's name was unknown in Black Cloud City, and he was constantly targeted and pushed aside by his own clansmen.

Neither of them had ever imagined that Nie Tian would not only become Wu Ji's disciple, but also come to possess a Spirit Channeling grade treasure!

They were all well aware of what a Spirit Channeling grade treasure meant. They knew that as long as Nie Tian could stay safe and continue to pursue his cultivation, there would definitely be a place for him in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"You have a good grandson." Mixed emotions rose in An Rong's heart.

Nie Donghai couldn't stop chuckling.

At this moment, the sound of a Nie clan member came through from outside, "Miss An is here!"

Upon hearing the news, Nie Tian and the others quickly walked out of the secluded room.

At first glance, Nie Tian saw that there was a door-shaped pattern that was identical to his branded on the back of An Shiyi's milky left hand. Her face also looked radiant.

Jiang Lingzhu from the Cloudsoaring sect beamed as she waved her hand at the crowd with a wide smile.

There was also a door-shaped pattern on the back of her hand, which meant that she had also acquired the eligibility to enter the Heaven Gate trial.

On the other hand, Pan Tao, An Ying, Ye Gumo, and Nie Qian, who had also rushed there, were all wearing long faces and couldn't stop sighing. Clearly, they had made no gains.

"Congratulations," Nie Tian said while smiling.

With a faint smile on her lips, An Shiyi looked at him and said, "From the look of it, I'll also get to enter Heaven Gate. We can go together. I hope that we can both make some gains inside that mysterious Heavenly Gate."

"Nie Tian," Jiang Lingzhu said with a bright smile, "I've just received a message from Uncle Li, telling us to return to the sect. All the Hell sect disciples that surrounded the sect have all retreated. According to Uncle Li, there won't be any war in the Realm of Flame Heaven in the near future. The Hell sect also won't try to stop those who have already obtained their keys to the Heaven Gate."

Nie Tian was surprised. "Everything has been straightened out?"

Jiang Lingzhu seemed to be in a terrific mood. She nodded and said, "I don't know what happened either, but it looks like there won't be any more conflicts for the time being."

"Is there any news from Uncle Liu and Sister Xin, who were at Scarlet Flame Mountain Range?" Nie Tian continued to ask.

As soon as these words came out, Jiang Lingzhu's expression turned dim. She shook her head and said, "Not yet."

Upon Nie Tian mentioning the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, An Shiyi, An Ying, and even Pan Tao suddenly became silent.

The devastating changes in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range would definitely make the Spiritual Treasure sect suffer painful and significant losses. After this incident, the Spiritual Treasure sect might still persist. However, its strength would certainly be greatly undermined and surpassed by other sects.

They were all disciples from the Spiritual Treasure sect. Before everything happened, their sect was stronger than the Cloudsoaring sect, Grayvale sect, and the Mystic Mist sect, which had made them full of confidence.

But now…

At that time, the low-pitched cry of the Thunder Beast resounded from the heavens as it descended from the sky.

Moments later, the Thunder Beast stopped steadily in the square of the Nie clan.

This time, its eyes were only fixed on Nie Tian.

"It's here to pick you up," An Shiyi said softly.

From the Thunder Beast's eyes, Nie Tian had also realized that the purpose of its trip to Black Cloud City was most likely to take him back to Wu Ji. Therefore this time, no matter how many Green Lightning gems An Shiyi gave it, the Thunder Beast would still not take her along.

"Well then, I'll see you all later."

After saying farewell to the crowd, Nie Tian jumped onto the back of the Thunder Beast. Then, the Thunder Beast spread its wings and soared into the clouds.

Nie Tian looked down and saw everyone slowly turning into small dots and soon disappearing from his sight.

Before long, the Thunder Beast landed on the back mountain of the Cloudsoaring sect. He jumped off and instantly saw his master Wu Ji, who seemed to be in a daze.

He bowed respectfully. "Master."

Wu Ji snapped out of his reverie. He looked at him and with a nod, he said, "Did you spread the news of the Heaven Gate with my name?"

"Yes, I did," Nie Tian admitted, fearing that Wu Ji would scold him for it. "After I found out about it, I felt that it was necessary to let everyone know about the truth. That's why I had to use your name and influence."

"You did nothing wrong." Wu Ji didn't mind how he handled it. Instead, he asked, "But where did you get it from?"

"Hua Mu, the doctor who saved me once, visited me again in Black Cloud City," Nie Tian said, not holding anything back. "He was the one who told me about it."

Wu Ji was astonished. "Hua Mu? That foreign doctor!?"

"Exactly."

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Nie Tian didn't hold anything back from Wu Ji.

He explained everything to him in length, including what Hua Mu had said to him and how he obtained the Flame Dragon Armor.

"Even I didn't receive any information regarding the Heaven Gate until recently," Wu Ji frowned and said. "The Hell sect, on the other hand, only managed to get a hold of the information through a very powerful expert from the Realm of Earth Sieve. That Hua Mu person has such quick access to this kind of information. I'm afraid he's far beyond ordinary."

After a brief pause, he continued, "He planned for Lai Yi to take the Flame Dragon Armor out of the Realm of Dark Underworld. It seems that Hua Mu…"

Wu Ji didn't finish his sentence.

After explaining everything that had happened in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, Nie Tian patiently waited in silence for Wu Ji to give his opinion and advice.

He knew in his heart that his master would point out the brightest path for him.

Wu Ji remained wordless, seemingly trying to sort out the details and find an answer. Quite some time later, he said, "It's your blessing that a Spirit Channeling grade treasure acknowledged you. However, your cultivation base is still too low, and such a precious treasure is no ordinary item. Therefore, you have to bear one thing in mind: never bring it out unless you face a situation of life and death.

"I'll try my best to cover up the fact that the Flame Dragon Armor is in your possession, since I fear that if such information spreads to the Realm of Dark Underworld, it will only attract more trouble."

He didn't ask for the Flame Dragon Armor to study it, but rather imparted to him the miraculous features of Spirit Channeling treasures. He also taught him how to get along with such precious treasures and how to use his flesh power and spiritual power to gradually strengthen the link between him and the treasure, so that he would be able to display its true might when he became strong enough.

Nie Tian listened with all his heart, and engraved every one of his words in his mind.

"Alright, that's enough about the Flame Dragon Armor." After passing all his understanding and knowledge regarding Spirit Channeling grade treasures to Nie Tian, Wu Ji said, "Now that you've obtained a key to the Heaven Gate, you'd better participate in the trial when the time comes. But I'm still a bit worried about your safety in there, since cultivators from the Lesser Heaven stage won't be the only ones to step into the Heaven Gate; cultivators in Heaven stage and Greater Heaven will also enter."

His expression looked somewhat grim as he frowned briefly. "Most importantly, talented youngsters from the other eight realms will also enter through the other two Heaven Gates. Not only do they have higher cultivation bases, they also have superior spiritual incantations and techniques at their disposal. They may even possess spiritual tools that are more exquisite and of higher ranks."

He looked deeply towards Nie Tian. With a gentle sigh, he said, "Although you're just as gifted as they are, the years you've spent on cultivation are limited. Also, I never expected that one of the Heaven Gates would open up in the Realm of Flame Heaven. Otherwise, I would have brought you back to the Cloudsoaring sect the day I discovered you.

"The reason why I let you stay in the Nie clan was that I wanted to see if you had other special traits aside from your innate talent.

"I wanted to have a more thorough understanding of you before bringing you to the Cloudsoaring Mountain, and as I've expected you didn't let me down.

"Who would have expected that the Heaven Gate would open up at such an unfavorable time?"

Wu Ji felt quite regretful.

He understood perfectly well the fortune the Heaven Gate could bring Nie Tian. He originally thought that when Nie Tian had become strong enough, and even if the Heaven Gates didn't appear in the Realm of Flame Heaven, he would be able to get him a spot with his own influence.

However, he seemed laden with anxiety when Nie Tian obtained a key to the Heaven Gate all by himself…

According to Nie Tian's performance in the Green Illusion dimension trial, he believed that Nie Tian was mentally strong enough for the brutality and bloodiness that awaited in the Heaven Gate trial.

He was only hung up on the fact that Nie Tian's cultivation base was rather insufficient, and feared that powerful Qi warriors of the Heaven or Greater Heaven stage from other realms would mercilessly kill him the moment they ran into each other.

The way Wu Ji taught his disciples was quite different from others'; he wouldn't pull up seedlings to help them grow by making disciples advance in their cultivation levels with the help from large amounts of medicinal pills and other external forces.

He put more value in a solid foundation. He wanted for his disciples to make breakthroughs mostly based on the enlightenment they drew from their own experience, and only with a small nudge from him.

However, the current situation was that the Heaven Gate trial was right around the corner, and he didn't want Nie Tian to miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This was why he was so bothered.

"How can I help him…?" Wu Ji fell into a deep pondering.

"Master, when did you discover me?" Nie Tian was intrigued.

Wu Ji snapped out of his thoughts, and a faint smile appeared on his face. "It was when you used the Blood Core to absorb the flame power from the mine that I sensed the unusual turbulence in the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth. I laid my eyes on you ever since. If it weren't for me, you and your aunt would have died in the mine when it collapsed."

"Thank you for your kindness, master!" Nie Tian suddenly connected all the dots.

As he recalled, during that time when he and Nie Qian had absorbed flame power with the dragon bone, it caused the mountain to tremble and the rocks over their heads to fall. However, very strangely, the rocks had showered down all around them, but not a single one hit them.

Afterwards, when they tried to escape from the mine, the rocks that had blocked the tunnel all exploded into pieces, allowing them to get through unscathed.

After they had emerged, Nie Qian gave the credit to the blessing and protection of the Nie clan ancestors.

Although Nie Tian didn't buy all that back then, he couldn't come up with a better explanation for the miraculous, illogical phenomena, and thus half-believed that they had been favored by gods.

Only on this day did he finally come to understand that the "god" that had favored him was actually the elder in front of him.

"There's another secret to the Blood Core, master. During the time when I was still living in the Nie clan, I used it to enter a whole other world, and I…"

Realizing that Wu Ji had been protecting him and hold nothing back with him the whole time, Nie Tian wanted to reveal his biggest secret to him.

Even though, at this point, he could still remember Nie Donghai's warning that he should never tell anyone about the fact that he had used the dragon bone to enter a mysterious land.

Even Nie Donghai himself hadn't asked him about what had happened, fearing that someone might trap and capture him one day and pry the information out of him.

However, as Nie Tian was going to explain it to him, Wu Ji waved his hand and stopped him. "Say no more."

Confusion stretched across Nie Tian's face.

"I know," Wu Ji said with a smile.

Nie Tian was taken aback. "You know?!"

Wu Ji nodded. "The moment the abnormal spatial fluctuations appeared in the Nie clan, I knew they were caused by you. I had knew that the dragon bone of yours was beyond ordinary back when you used it to drain the flame power of the entire mine. You disappeared for a few days. I tried to search for you and couldn't find your aura throughout the entire Realm of Flame Heaven. By that time, I knew that you had traveled to somewhere special."

Nie Tian was shocked. "Master, you… can search for my aura throughout the entire Realm of Flame Heaven?"

"Yes, I can, but it's very draining." Wu Ji gave him a positive answer and continued, "I also know that you've gained a great deal in there. Now that you have the complete Flame Dragon Armor, and it's gradually fixing itself with the Earthflame Crystal Strings it collected, I think you can consider trying to step into that mysterious land again.

"Rest assured. You can feel free to use the Flame Dragon Armor here. No one will be able to detect the anomaly in the spatial fluctuations when I'm around.

"I, on the other hand, need to think over how to help you prepare for the Heaven Gate trial in a way that can enhance your battle prowess without over-consuming your potential.

"This is it for today."

With a wave of his hand, Wu Ji hinted for Nie Tian to go back to his hut and study the Flame Dragon Armor, hoping that he would be able to use it to return to the mysterious land just like the way he had before.

Upon hearing his instructions, Nie Tian rose to his feet and returned to his hut. After thinking for a while, he took the Flame Dragon Armor out of his bracelet of holding.

FIZZ!

A beam of light flashed across in the air and in the next moment, the Flame Dragon Armor steadily landed on the stone floor, emanating a halo of dark-red light.

He reached out and placed his hand on top of the Blood Core that was in the chest plate of the Flame Dragon Armor, as he tried to use his soul consciousness to communicate with the soul that lay within.

He expressed his wish to step into that mysterious land again.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

All of a sudden, flaming light shot out from the Flame Dragon Armor in every direction, and once again it became like a burning sun. Together with it, a surge of strange spacial fluctuations rippled outwards from within the small hut.

In the next moment, the Flame Dragon Armor seemed to have turned into a gate and engulfed Nie Tian.

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On the back mountain of Cloudsoaring Mountain…

Sitting quietly on the ground, Wu Ji saw numerous fine spacial rifts appear in the sky as if they were being split open by sharp blades.

The hut that Nie Tian was in practically disappeared into thin air in a flash, together with Nie Tian.

Multi-colored light flashed within the countless spacial rifts, as if they were secret tunnels that led to numerous unknown dimensions.

Wu Ji narrowed his eyes. With a brief movement of his soul, the rich spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the vicinity started to converge towards the mountaintop.

The spiritual Qi came in clusters like clouds, completely sealing off the entire area.

Even Jiang Zhisu, who was on the nearby Cloudsoaring Peak, couldn't detect the abnormal spatial activities in the region.

WHOOSH!

One after another, numerous blurry shadows flew out from the top of Wu Ji's head, which seemed like manifestations of his soul.

Each one swam into one of the spacial rifts and started exploring.

However, the spacial rifts quickly began to shrink and close up.

Before he could thoroughly explore the secrets within, Wu Ji sensed the unfavorable change and therefore had to command the countless shadows to fly back.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

Before long, the spacial rifts closed up one after another, and the abnormal spatial fluctuations also returned to normal.

"There are space disruptions, but no signs of a gate to another dimension. The secret dimension gate must have only taken Nie Tian in, and transferred him to that mysterious world." After thinking for a moment, he closed his eyes and started his meditation.

…

In the unknown, mysterious world.

For a second time, Nie Tian appeared on the dilapidated altar, facing the eight dragon skulls. Fear rose in Nie Tian's heart as he looked into their hollowed eye sockets.

A surge of spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth that was several times richer than spiritual Qi in the Cloudsoaring sect overwhelmed him. Sitting where he was, without practicing the Qi Refining Incantation, he felt like he could cultivate at a high speed.

It seemed that nothing had changed. He was still enveloped by a terrifyingly strong gravitational field.

After bringing him there, the Flame Dragon Armor sat right next to him on the altar, and didn't fly back into his bracelet of holding.

Flickering with dazzling, fiery light, the Flame Dragon Armor seemed quite excited.

However, only moments later, it returned normal, and become dark and gloomy again.

There were no interactions between the Flame Dragon Armor and Nie Tian. It seemed that its soul had gone back to repairing itself and making the transition.

"God knows how many times faster it would be if I could practice cultivation here," Nie Tian whispered to himself and attempted to stand up.

Last time he was there, he couldn't stand on his feet, and could only barely raise his arm.

Now that he had broken into the Lesser Heaven stage and strengthened his body by consuming a large amount of second grade spirit beast meat, the first thing he wanted to do was to see if he could stand up and walk.

He summoned his trength and laboriously rose to his feet.

The mere act of standing up consumed quite a large portion of his spiritual power, as well as some of his flesh power.

This made him realize that it was almost impossible for him to step very far away from the altar and explore this mysterious land.

He was sure that he would use up all his strength just by walking several hundred meters from the altar.

Therefore, he chose not to do that. Instead, he sat back down and looked attentively towards the mountain-like arms that pierced into the distant sky.

Among them, one had its fingers stretched out, in an imposing gesture that seemed as if it was going to grab and pull down the heavens.

Just like last time, he imitated the gesture of the giant hand and grabbed towards the sky, while staring firmly at the distant arm.

Soon after, he vaguely sensed a mountain-consuming, domineering force being born in his arm.

The force, which could only be detected by the soul, gradually grew and spread to every corner of his body.

His spiritual sea moved as the force built up. Even the power that lay within his flesh and bones seemed to resonate with it. He slowly adjusted his mental state to attempt to match the gesture and the force.

He could keenly feel that the strength from his soul and flesh was now flowing within his meridians and blood vessels very rapidly.

The force was constantly on the rise.

He had his eyes fixed on the giant arm, and tried his best to comprehend its essence. At the same time, he constantly adjusted his spiritual sea and his body, in an attempt to completely immerse himself in the process.

A very long time passed.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

All of a sudden, the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth that had filled every corner of the mysterious land seemed to be attracted by some unknown magnetic field, as it gradually converged onto Nie Tian's location.

The white, misty spiritual energy continued to come together and condense into what seemed like clusters of clouds, which all gathered towards Nie Tian's upstretched hand.

His hand seemed to have become the center of the magnetic field, as a strong attracting force kept pulling all the spiritual energy clouds towards it.

In the palm of his raised hand, a bright, light ball of pure, condensed spiritual energy was gradually formed.

The misty ball of spiritual energy never stopped absorbing spiritual energy from the surroundings, and little by little, the extremely rich spiritual energy within the ball began to liquefy.

BANG!

Suddenly, the sleeve covering his raised arm exploded and turned into flying fibers as an extremely intense surge of spiritual energy fluctuations rippled out from within the spiritual energy ball.

Meanwhile, he suddenly felt an incomparably heavy weight on his lifted hand, as the half-tangible spiritual energy ball had become as heavy as a mountain.

Subconsciously, he yanked his hand down from the air.

Like a ball of bright light, the spiritual energy ball left the center of his palm and fell heavily onto the stone altar.

BOOM!

A loud crash echoed out as the ball burst. However, the stone altar didn't show show any sign of cracking.

"What?!" The moment Nie Tian loosened up mentally, the force within him dispersed, and his spiritual sea and flesh and blood returned to normal.

Despite the significant consumption in his strength, he slowly moved to the place where the spiritual energy ball had fallen to, crouched down, and started to examine it.

Upon a closer look, he was certain that the stone altar only had the dust that had covered it blown away, while the revealed stone surface remained intact and seemed even very smooth and glossy, without even the smallest of fissures.

"This isn't right. The spiritual power within the spiritual energy ball was so pure and strong. Logically, even the toughest rock on Cloudsoaring Mountain would have shattered upon such a powerful collision.

"The only explanation would be that the altar is built with stones whose toughness has surpassed my knowledge."

Eyes narrowing, Nie Tian pondered for a while before starting to examine himself.

Unlike the rage punch, this technique that he had used to condense a spiritual energy ball didn't seem to consume a large portion of his spiritual power.

Quite on the contrary, upon a thorough examination of himself, he found that the spiritual power within his spiritual sea had actually increased.

"This technique doesn't seem to be very useful. It takes a long time to condense a spiritual energy ball. No one will ever give me the time to form it in battle.

"Furthermore, it has a high requirement in the density of the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth. The might of this technique probably won't be displayed to the fullest if the spiritual energy in the surroundings isn't rich enough.

"That shouldn't be all there is."

After thinking for quite some time, a flash of inspiration hit him.

"When the spiritual energy ball landed on the ground, not only did I not expend any of my own spiritual power, but I actually gained a bit spiritual power. What would happen if I tried to allow the ball of spiritual energy into my spiritual sea?"

With these thoughts, he became enlivened. Once again, he raised his hand to imitate the gesture while fixing his eyes on the mountain-like arm that seemed to desire to rip the heavens from the sky.

A while later, he once again sensed the majestic force from the gigantic arm, something that could conquer mountains and devour rivers.

It seemed his spiritual sea and body had gradually adjusted themselves to collaborate with the changes that were taking place inside of him.

WHOOSH!

Shortly after, spiritual energy once again slowly converged onto the palm of his raised hand.

Moments later, a new spiritual energy ball was formed in his palm. When he found it too heavy to hold up, he immediately operated the Qi Refining Incantation, in an attempt to pull and guide the spiritual energy ball into his spiritual sea.

The fist-sized spiritual energy ball rapidly shrank when he tried to channel it with the Qi Refining Incantation.

Strand after strand of spiritual energy that was as smooth as a clear stream flowed rapidly into his palm, and followed his meridians straight into his dantian's spiritual sea.

Inside his spiritual sea, the vortex of spiritual power revolved at an astonishing speed, refining and making the spiritual energy increasingly pure and condensed.

The speed of the process was even several times faster than when he used spirit stones to cultivate.

Nie Tian's eyes suddenly lit up.

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As the spiritual energy within the swirling ball was gradually channeled into the vortex of spiritual power, it began to rotate several times faster than before.

And he hadn't even used any spirit stones to speed up the process!

After all the energy was absorbed by his spiritual power and went through a round of refining, Nie Tian examined himself with his soul and immediately found that the outermost ringed area of his spiritual sea had been filled with pure and condensed spiritual power.

The result of this round of cultivation was equivalent to that of several days of bitter cultivation with spirit stones.

If he could remain in this mysterious land and continue to gather and condense the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth into spheres like this, and then refine it into his spiritual sea, he was fairly certain that the speed of his breakthroughs in the Lesser Heaven stage would increase by seven or eight times!

However, that was assuming he could stay here.

Once he returned to the Cloudsoaring sect, it would be impossible for him to have such great improvement in his cultivation if he practiced with the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth over there.

The spiritual energy here was simply too dense and strong.

"Could it be that…this is a type of technique that can only be used in here? And not a explosive technique like the rage fist strike?" Nie Tian took his time to ponder the situation.

At the same time, he repeatedly used the technique to refine his spiritual sea.

Via this kind of method, he could temper his spiritual sea at an astonishing speed.

He sensed that he managed to finish one round of refinement of his spiritual sea within only approximately five days.

The originally faint and scattered spiritual energy within his white and foggy spiritual sea had become a lot denser and richer after a round of refinement.

However, he didn't feel that he had reached the breakthrough point in which he could no longer expand his spiritual sea and would urgently need to improve his cultivation base to become stronger; the way he had felt when he was at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Thus, he realized that he would need to continue repeating the refining process of his spiritual sea.

Perhaps, he might have to go through another one or two rounds of refinement of his spiritual sea before he could reach the bottleneck. Only then would he be able to draw from his new enlightenment and understandings of spiritual power to break through into the middle Lesser Heaven stage.

Having come to such a realization, he stopped refining his spiritual sea, as well as contemplating the mysterious technique of condensing spiritual energy balls.

After all, after repeatedly condensing spiritual energy balls to cultivate for some time, he believed that he had already grasped the essence of this technique.

Next, he looked towards two other enormous arms that pointed towards the sky.

From the look of it, those two arms likely belonged to the same titan buried deep under the ground. The palms of the two hands faced each other, while the fingers were curved into a mysterious seal.

In between the two hands was a strange magnetic field which seemed to have disrupted the natural flow of the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the area.

After observing for some time, he tried to form an identical hand seal by gradually reaching out with his hands, making his palms face each other, and slightly curving his fingers.

After the gesture was complete, he gathered all his attention, and looked towards the two giant hands.

Suddenly, enlightenment of a certain seal entered his mind. He didn't waste a second before putting all his heart into learning that enlightenment.

In the next moment, his spiritual power, his flesh power, as well as his psychic power started to surge inside of him before immediately merging together and fusing into his hands.

A twisted magnetic field was gradually born within the space between his palms.

"My psychic power…" He could acutely sense the rapid consumption of his psychic power, which was much faster and more significant than the consumption of his spiritual power and flesh power.

One after another, countless strands of his psychic power floated out of his fingers and seeped into the twisted magnetic field between his palms.

Very quickly, he sensed that even the magnetic field around him had become twisted and chaotic!

All the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the vicinity began to surge in a chaotic fashion. Even the space around him seemed to fluctuate in an abnormal way, as if it had collapsed.

As the spell caster, he wasn't affected by the chaotic magnetic field at all, but he had a feeling that other living creatures who had stepped into it would immediately fall victims to the bizarre magnetic field.

However, since there wasn't a second person present, he couldn't test out how mighty its effect was.

The only thing he knew for sure was that the magnetic field had been continuously and rapidly consuming his psychic power, together with a small portion of his spiritual power and flesh power.

He also felt that as his psychic power ran low, the magnetic field gradually expanded outwards, with him as the center.

"Three meters, four meters, five meters…" He found that as soon as he stopped infusing his psychic power, the magnetic field would immediately stop expanding.

And as long as he continuously fed it with his psychic power, the magnetic field would keep stretching outward in every direction.

"Ten meters!" When the magnetic field reached a ten meter range, he started to experience dizziness, and thus knew that he was on the verge of overdrawing his psychic power.

He stopped immediately.

The moment he stopped fueling it with his psychic power, the chaotic and disruptive magnetic field that already covered a ten meter range stopped growing.

However at that time, he sensed that his spiritual power and flesh power was still being drained from him, seemingly providing power to sustain the magnetic field.

He was amazed by the violently surging spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, as well as the fact that even space seemed to be compressing, which formed a caving magnetic field around him.

"This technique also requires time to cast. Furthermore, the drain on my psychic power is extremely high. However, it seems that once it's formed, it only needs a small portion of my spiritual power and flesh power to sustain it.

"Only, since I'm the only one here, and I'm completely unaffected by it, there's no way for me to know how strong its true power is.

"It seems that I'll have to learn that when I use it outside in the future. However, I must properly comprehend the essence of this technique before I leave, in order to make sure that I'll still be able to cast it when I'm out of here."

After thinking for a while, he felt somewhat exhausted, therefore stopped the hand seal.

As soon as he gave up the hand seal, the spiritual power and flesh power that had been continuously pouring out also stopped flowing outwards.

However, the mysterious, twisted magnetic field didn't disappear accordingly. On the contrary, it persisted.

Only, since there was no more energy supply, the field slowly shrank, and it seemed that it would eventually disappear as the time passed.

"One, two…" He silently counted in his head, and noticed that the twisted magnetic field completely dissipated into the air after roughly three minutes.

After the magnetic field disappeared, everything returned to normal. However, the psychic power, spiritual power, and flesh power that he had consumed didn't come back.

The significant consumption of psychic power made Nie Tian lie on the ground with his eyes somewhat listless.

Looking at the dusky sky, he suddenly was suddenly hit by an incomparably strong sense of exhaustion, making him want nothing but to sleep.

The drain on his spiritual power could be recovered via cultivation with spirit stones. Moreover, the intense spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in this area would also greatly help with the replenishment of his spiritual power.

The flesh power he had lost could be quickly restored via eating spirit beast meat, but the drain on his psychic power seemed hard to recover within a short time.

The only way he knew of was to sleep, therefore he simply gave in to the exhaustion and slipped into a deep slumber.

After sleeping for an unknown period of time, he opened his eyes and, as expected, found himself full of energy and in great spirits.

After that, he went on to repeatedly imitate and comprehend the mysterious hand seal made by the two enormous hands within the mysterious land. By coordinating the psychic power, spiritual power, and flesh power in his body, he created the strange chaotic twisting magnetic field over and over again, attempting to thoroughly grasp it before leaving.

…

In the Realm of Flame Heaven…

Nie Tian had been gone for half a month, during which the fighting between the seven great sects had already calmed down.

After ravaging the Spiritual Treasure sect, the Earth Flame Beast that had broken free from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range forcefully charged into the heavens and disappeared, despite the interception of the Blood sect and the Ghost sect's Profound realm experts and Fang Hui.

Because of the havoc caused by the Earth Flame Beast, as well as the magma that had spewed out of the earth's core, the Blood sect, the Ghost sect, and the Spiritual Treasure sect, who were originally in a fierce fight, had no choice but stop fighting.

After that, flaming meteors had descended from the sky, respectively landing in the territories and surrounding areas of the seven major sects.

The lure of the Heaven Gate keys, as well as the urging from the Hell sect, made the Blood sect and Ghost sect give up on fighting with the Spiritual Treasure sect to the death.

With that, the bloody battle in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range came to an end. The Ghost sect and the Blood sect raced back to their own turfs to fight for the keys to the Heaven Gate.

The Spiritual Treasure sect had suffered disastrous losses, but it wasn't serious enough to reach the point of sect extermination. Therefore, as they rebuilt the sect, they also started to collect the keys to the Heaven Gate that had been branded on the meteors.

The Mystic Mist sect and Grayvale sect gained the upper hand when they first invaded the Hell sect, but were decimated when Chang Sen's wife, Kong Yun, returned to the sect.

If not for Chang Sen's interference, over half of the experts from the Mystic Mist sect and Grayvale sect might have been killed by his wife.

Not long after the Qi warriors of the Mystic Mist sect and Grayvale sect had returned to their sects with dejected faces, the Hell sect spread the word to all the other sects that the Heaven Gate… would open up in seven days.

Those who had obtained the Heaven Gate keys would be allowed to participate in the trial, no matter how they had obtained the keys or which sect they came from.

Everyone from the seven sects who had obtained the keys to the Heaven Gate seethed with excitement, and cracked their knuckles as they prepared for the trial.

The experts of their respective sects also spared no effort to prepare them and help them accumulate strength, hoping that they could make great gains within the Heaven Gate.

At this time, Wu Ji, who had also disappeared after Nie Tian entered the mysterious land, returned to the back mountain.

"There are only seven days left before the gate opens. Why hasn't the child come out yet?"

After returning and finding no trace of Nie Tian, Wu Ji frowned.

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In the unknown mysterious land.

The sky was dusky all year long; there were no suns, stars, or moons, nor any such thing as daytime or nighttime.

Nie Tian repeated the cycle of condensing the chaotic magnetic field, gaining enlightenment from the two giant arms, and recuperating by sleeping after his psychic power was drained.

He had completely forgotten about time.

But then, one day he was suddenly awakened from his dreams by a jolt of pain.

Having yet to recover his psychic power, he felt somewhat bewildered. Once again a throbbing pain appeared, and he found that it came from the gate-shaped pattern on the back of his hand.

The tattoo-like pattern was now emanating faint light, which felt like countless fine needles piercing into his flesh.

Before now, that tattoo-like pattern had never acted oddly.

"The Heaven Gate key…" Nie Tian's mind shuddered as he suddenly realized something.

He suspected that the reason for the sudden change of the Heaven Gate key was very likely due to the fact that the Heaven Gate was about to open.

"It seems that it's time I left." He rose to his feet, walked to the Flame Dragon Armor, reached out his hand, and placed his index finger on the Blood Core, which was embedded in the center chest area of the Flame Dragon Armor.

He expressed his thoughts with his soul and passed it onto the Blood Core.

The Flame Dragon Armor, which had become dull and colorless ever since entering the mysterious land, suddenly began to flicker with sparks of fire.

Those sparks of fire were like roaming stars that flowed within the armor.

FIZZ!

In the next moment, the Flame Dragon Armor gave off terrifying heat and was soon immersed in a ball of surging flames.

At the heart of the flames was a grain-sized dot of blinding light, which expanded at a rapid speed as time passed.

A gravitational force was suddenly generated!

All of a sudden, Nie Tian turned into a stream of light and flew into the bright dot.

Meanwhile, on the back mountain of Cloudsoaring Mountain…

Having been expecting Nie Tian for quite some time, Wu Ji suddenly felt something. He narrowed his eyes, and the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth surrounding the mountaintop morphed into an invisible shield.

Not even a single bit of the abnormal sounds on the mountaintop could penetrate such a barrier.

CRACKLE!

One after another, numerous spacial rifts suddenly appeared in the sky. A tiny spark of fire flickered and flew out of the rifts before turning into a tunnel of flame in the next moment.

With a loud sound, Nie Tian's figure shot out of the newly formed tunnel of flame.

CLANK!

The Flame Dragon Armor, which was still radiating raging fire and a strange aura, followed Nie Tian out of the tunnel and landed on the ground with a loud crash.

A light flashed across Wu Ji's eyes as his gaze fell on the Flame Dragon Armor.

The Flame Dragon Armor that had fallen to the ground seemed to have noticed Wu Ji's gaze, and rapidly shrunk into a small dot of fire, quickly hiding in the bracelet of holding on Nie Tian's wrist.

"It's spirituality is uncanny …" Wu Ji seemed quite surprised.

At the same time, the spacial rifts that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere rapidly shrunk and disappeared one by one.

Traveling back from another dimension caused Nie Tian to experience a slight dizziness. After his mind cleared, he saw Wu Ji at first glance. With a brilliant smile, he said, "Master."

Wu Ji nodded gently and asked in a plain voice, "Any gains?"

Joy filled Nie Tian's face as he answered, "I've picked up two mysterious hand seals."

Wu Ji's eyes lit up. He didn't ask about the details of them, but said, "How come you came back so late?"

"There was no day or night in that dimension, so I lost track of time. Also, I didn't know when the Heaven Gate would open." Nie Tian reached out with his left hand, pointed to the gate-shaped pattern on the back of it, and continued, "Thankfully, it reminded me. That was how I came to realize that the Heaven Gate was going to open soon and thus rushed back."

Last time, the Blood Core took the initiative to send him back because too much of the flame power within the Blood Core had been consumed.

However, this time, the Flame Dragon Armor and the Blood Core had stored copious amounts of flame power after taking in a large amount of Earthflame Crystal Strings from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, which had allowed him to spend as much time as he wanted inside the mysterious world.

Wu Ji was taken aback. "You could receive a call from the Heaven Gate while you were in there?!"

"Yeah, I did," Nie Tian answered.

Now that it was only two days away from the opening of the Heaven Gate, all those who had obtained Heaven Gate keys had felt the piercing pain from the gate-shaped pattern.

All of them would have known that the Heaven Gate was about to open up, even without reminders from the Hell sect.

It didn't surprise Wu Ji that the Heaven Gate keys could remind the eligible ones that the Heaven Gate was going to open in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

What was amazing was that Nie Tian wasn't in the Realm of Flame Heaven, but rather in a mysterious dimension, which was separated from the Realm of Flame Heaven by an unknown distance, and yet he still received the reminder from the Heaven Gate key…

Wu Ji marveled at the endless secrets that lay within the Heaven Gates which appeared every so often in the Domain of the Falling Stars.

From what he could tell, every Heaven Gate key that had come from outside the realm carried mysterious spacial fluctuations so strong that they even ignored the boundless distance between dimensions!

"No wonder the Heaven Gate is considered one of the unsolved mysteries of the Domain of the Falling Stars," Wu Ji muttered. "It's almost time. All of the thirteen disciples of our sect who obtained Heaven Gate keys have already set off to the Hell sect, and the Hell sect promised that they won't set up any obstructions, and will let anyone with a Heaven Gate key step inside.

"Originally, if you had come out of there earlier, I would have explained many things to you. However, we don't have the time to do that now.

"You need to set off as soon as possible."

With these words, he let out a cold harrumph while glancing to the side. "What are you waiting for? Get over here."

The low cry of the Thunder Beast, which sounded as if it felt wronged, came through from the distant sky, and soon Nie Tian could see it closing in.

"Show me the command medallion I gave you," Wu Ji said.

Nie Tian quickly reached into his bracelet of holding and fished out the command medallion that Wu Ji had bestowed upon him to enable him to choose three items from the Spiritual Treasure sect. Then he handed it over to Wu Ji with both hands.

As soon as Wu Ji grabbed the command medallion, strong fluctuations started to ripple out from within him, as numerous dark, ghostly shadows rapidly flew out of Wu Ji's body and merged into the command medallion.

"I just imprinted issues that require your attention into it, together with three spiritual incantations. You can make the decision yourself as to whether you want to practice them together or prioritize one of them. You can examine them with your psychic power on your way to the Hell sect."

After that, Wu Ji passed the command medallion back to Nie Tian and emphasized, "Besides this command medallion, here are two spiritual talismans that I made. They can protect you from two attacks from most of the cultivators at the three Heaven stages. The method to use them is also within the medallion. You'll understand when you see it."

With these words, he handed the two triangle-shaped talismans that were made out of some kind of precious jade over to Nie Tian.

Nie Tian immediately extended his hand to receive it and said, "Thank you, master!"

Having two spiritual talismans that could protect him from two attacks from experts at the three Heaven stages would greatly increase his chance of survival within the mysterious dimension within the Heaven Gate.

"One thing to remember: I can't say that those two spiritual talismans will keep you unscathed without fail. Because, once you step into the Heaven Gate, the opponents you'll face won't be limited to cultivators from the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"You'll also face talented youngsters from the other eight realms, who are stronger and have people like me to back them.

"I'm afraid that they'll also have special treasures at their disposal, some more, some less. If you are unlucky enough to encounter them in there, then I can't guarantee that those two talismans will keep you safe."

Nie Tian immediately said, "I understand."

"Here are three Ice Blast Pearls. Take them with you. They are one time usage items, and when they explode, they will instantly send out hundreds of small ice shards. You should be careful while using them. If you don't use them right, you could very easily hurt yourself or your friends.

"Here are some spirit stones, as well as some medicinal pills. They're for emergencies, and not for the purpose of cultivating or to forcefully stimulate your potential.

"Here are…"

One after another, Wu Ji took out the items that he had prepared for Nie Tian, and handed them to him while giving his advice.

Eyes wide, Nie Tian received and put away the precious items, one after another. For the first time, he felt how lucky he was to have a powerful and loving master like Wu Ji.

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On the east of the Realm of Flame Heaven, in the Hell sect.

By the side of a vast lake stood a majestic city which had been made by countless huge, black stones. It was the home of the strongest Qi warrior sect of the Realm of Flame Heaven, the Hell sect.

Next to the mirror-like lake, a large number of Qi warriors were gathered and clamoring.

Each and every one of them wore garments of different colors and came from the seven major sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven, as they waited there for the Heaven Gate to open.

According to the Hell sect, the Heaven Gate would open on the isle in the center of the lake in two hours.

In the area where the Cloudsoaring sect disciples were gathered, Li Fan, Liu Yan, Jiang Lingzhu, and ten other people were standing in a circle, whispering something to each other.

Liu Yan, who had previously been trapped within the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, had a grim expression on his face as he talked idly with Li Fan. It seemed that he was low in spirits.

Luckily, both his master Wu Xing and his junior martial sister, Luo Xin, had made it back from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range alive, and he ran into a meteor that carried a Heaven Gate key on his way back to the sect, therefore obtaining the key.

However, none of that cheered him up, since his junior martial brother, Shi Yi, had died a tragic death within the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

The person who killed Shi Yi was a Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior from the Ghost sect, who was currently standing not far from him, but he could do nothing.

Li Fan frowned and said, "Didn't Nie Tian also get a key? How come he's not here?"

Jiang Lingzhu shook her head and thought for a while before saying, "I don't know, either. After he was taken away by the Thunder Beast from Black Cloud City, he stayed on the back mountain and hasn't showed up since."

"Could it be that martial granduncle… has other arrangements for him?" Li Fan said speculatively. "Maybe he doesn't want him to take part in the Heaven Gate trial?"

Jiang Lingzhu thought in silence for a moment before saying, "I don't think so. My cultivation base is the same as his, at the early Lesser Heaven stage, and my father knows just as well that the Heaven Gate trial is full of danger, yet he decided to let me go with you anyways.

"Martial granduncle has such high hopes for Nie Tian and must also know what the Heaven Gate trial will bring him. I highly doubt that he would let him give up on such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

As the Cloudsoaring sect disciples chatted with each other, An Shiyi, who was standing in a small group of Spiritual Treasure sect participants, constantly looked over, her eyes filled with anxiety.

She was also wondering why Nie Tian hadn't showed up.

The time until the opening of the Heaven Gate got closer and closer, and she was worried that Nie Tian would miss such a good opportunity.

In an place further away, Yu Tong also looked over from time to time from within a group of red-garbed experts from the Blood sect, who were continuously releasing a faint bloody aura.

However, unlike An Shiyi, Yu Tong didn't have the least bit of concern in her eyes. Instead, her eyes were full of begrudging hatred.

In a different way, she also hoped that Nie Tian would appear.

Off to the other side, Zhao Haifeng, Duan Yuan, and Hu Qingwen, who had previously appeared in Black Cloud City, also had the pattern of the Heaven Gate on the back of their hands. They also constantly turned their heads to check the Cloudsoaring sect group.

WHOOSH!

It was at this moment when the sound of a spirit beast flying in suddenly echoed out.

When the Thunder Beast, who carried Nie Tian, flew to the territory of the Hell sect, it seemed to be frightened by something and dropped Nie Tian off in a distant place.

As soon as Nie Tian jumped off its back, the Thunder Beast flew away, seemingly unwilling to stay for another moment within the territory of the Hell sect.

When he was flying on the Thunder Beast's back earlier, Nie Tian saw the enormous city that was as big as a mountain from very far away. "The Hell sect!"

The city was where the Hell sect was located was pitch-black, like a giant piece of dark, cold steel.

When he landed, he narrowed his eyes as he looked at it, and discovered that there were portraits of numerous unknown demons and ghosts carved on the city walls.

Each and every one of them was extremely lifelike. They were either letting out fierce roars, tearing apart flesh to swallow, or killing each other.

By nothing other than seeing the portraits of the demons on the stone wall, Nie Tian already felt repressed, as if the demons and ghosts… would break out of the constraints of those portraits at any moment, killing anything that they saw.

A strange idea suddenly rose in Nie Tian's mind. "Is it possible that they are actually alive?"

"Nie Tian! This way!" Li Fan waved at him from the lakeside, urging him to hurry over.

He looked over with rapt attention, and found that Li Fan was standing in a group of people, among whom were also Liu Yan and Jiang Lingzhu.

Upon seeing that Liu Yan was safe and sound, a smile immediately blossomed on Nie Tian's face.

Earlier he was directly taken to the back mountain by the Thunder Beast, and thus hadn't received any information from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

Soon afterwards, he used the Flame Dragon Armor to travel to that unknown mysterious land, where he learned techniques and cultivated.

When he had returned, since he need to set off right away, Wu Ji didn't have the time to tell him everything, but rather only imprinted the most important issues on the command medallion and gave him a few things before sending him off.

Therefore, he hadn't been clear about what happened in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range after he left and how many people survived till this moment.

Standing beside the lake, Qi warriors from the other six sects all cast their gazes towards Nie Tian, all of which had different emotions. "Nie Tian…"

Upon seeing him, a bone-piercing hatred shot out of Yu Tong's glittering eyes, as if she was going to eat him alive.

Over at the Ghost sect group, Mo Xi cunningly laughed and said to his fellow sect members in a low voice, "I can't believe that he's here too."

Duan Yuan from the Hell sect let out a cold harrumph. "He's finally here!"

Over at the Mystic Mist sect group, Zheng Bin seemed to have remembered something as he shook his head and heaved a sigh.

Over at the Spiritual Treasure sect group, a faint gladness appeared in An Shiyi's beautiful pupils.

Under the curious gazes of the crowd, Nie Tian walked along the stone path and arrived beside Li Fan and the others.

"Uncle Liu, it's good to see you again," Nie Tian said.

Liu Yan nodded and forced a smile as he said, "It's good that you made it out of there too."

"What is it? Something's wrong?" Nie Tian inquired, seeing the strange expression on Liu Yan's face.

"Oh, nothing." Liu Yan didn't explain. Instead, he said, "It's something that happened in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range. Anyways… we're going to step through the Heaven Gate soon. Let me introduce you to the fellow sect members who are also going to participate in the trial…"

With these words, he introduced every Cloudsoaring sect disciple who was also going to enter the Heaven Gate to Nie Tian.

"Little martial uncle…"

"Greetings, little martial uncle…"

"…"

Most of these people were a lot older than him, with their cultivation bases being either in the Heaven or Greater Heaven stage. In the past, if they had visited the Nie clan in Black Cloud City, Nie Donghai and Nie Beichuan would have to personally receive them at the clan gate.

However, times change. Willing or not, when Liu Yan introduced Nie Tian to them, they could only politely greet him.

After all, Nie Tian was Wu Ji's disciple.

After finishing introducing the participants from the Cloudsoaring sect, Liu Yan pointed towards the participants from the other six sects and started introducing them to him in a low voice.

Nie Tian only recognized a few of those people, while most were new to him.

He listened attentively, and memorized every single one of them in his heart. He knew very well that, once he stepped into the Heaven Gate, most of those people…would become his enemies.

Moreover, this trial was totally different from the Green Illusion dimension trial. In there, given they were strong enough, his opponents were allowed by rule to kill him anytime, anywhere.

On his way over, he had already read from the notes that Wu Ji had left in the command medallion that once he stepped through the Heaven Gate, he would be faced with battles, the cruelty of which might go beyond his imagination.

As Liu Yan gave the introductions, he carefully observed every single one who had come from the seven sects.

However, he noticed that other than the participants from the seven sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven, there were also a group of people who stood alone, away from all other groups.

They had a lazy attitude as they chattered with each other and laughed. At the same time, they kept pointing at participants from the seven sects in a manner that was very impudent.

Liu Yan didn't introduce them.

Curious, Nie Tian asked, "Uncle Liu, are they also going to enter the Heaven Gate?"

Liu Yan nodded with a grim expression. He slightly lowered his voice and said, "Yes, they're not from the Realm of Flame Heaven. They're from the other realms. You see, every time, three Heaven Gates appear in three different realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars.

"However, there are nine realms in the Domain of the Falling Stars, which means six of them won't have Heaven Gates appear in them.

"Therefore, normally, experts from those six realms will spare no means to send their most talented individuals or those who have the most powerful backgrounds to the realms where Heaven Gates do appear.

"I also don't know where those people came from, but they all came over via the Hell sect.

"They could be from the same realm, or many different realms. I don't recognize any of them, so I didn't introduce them to you."

"Oh, I see," said Nie Tian. "But how did they obtain the Heaven Gate keys?"

"Meteors that fell to the Realm of Flame Heaven covered the entire realm." Liu Yan explained, "Some of them landed in the territories of the seven major sects while others landed in some far, uninhabited corners. When they heard about the meteor rain hitting our realm, they traveled here via inter-spacial teleportation portals, and spread out to collect Heaven Gate keys from those remote meteors." Suddenly, Liu Yan stopped talking and his expression turned grim.

"Something's wrong?" Nie Tian inquired.

Hatred could be seen from Li Fan's face as he interrupted, "None of them were from the Realm of Flame Heaven, so when they fought for the Heaven Gate keys on those meteors, their means were extremely brutal and savage.

"Every one of them has their hands covered in blood. At least a hundred cultivators from our realm were butchered by them.

"Most of the dead were cultivators from the subordinate clans of the seven major sects, and they all died miserable deaths.

"Some of them were from subordinate clans of the Cloudsoaring sect." Li Fan explained their bloody doings.

A cold look appeared in Nie Tian's eyes. "I see."

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There was still a small period of time before the opening of the Heaven Gate.

Nie Tian stood quietly beside the clear lake and listened to Liu Yan's quiet introductions, while simultaneously measuring up his surroundings.

Every major sect of the Realm of Flame Heaven had about ten participants who came along, except for the Spiritual Treasure sect.

The majority of them were at the Heaven stage or Greater Heaven stage, with only a couple of them in the Lesser Heaven stage like Nie Tian.

Meanwhile, from the look of it, all those who had come from the other realms seemed to possess Greater Heaven cultivation bases.

It hadn't been very long since the seven major sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven faced off across the field of battle.

However to Nie Tian's surprise, Heaven Gate key holders from both sides were now gathered in this place, without any conflicts breaking out.

Of course, he had no idea that it was all because the Hell sect was controlling things behind the scenes.

An Shiyi constantly turned to look at him, her eyes filled with concern and inquiry. However, she didn't step over and talk to him, as if she harbored certain apprehensions.

Facing An Shiyi's gaze, he could only give a slight smile in response.

A short while passed…

CRACK!

A strange sound suddenly thundered out from the sky above the lake, as the cloudless sky seemed to have become an enormous piece of glass that began to shatter bit by bit.

"Here it comes!" All those who had obtained the Heaven Gate keys, including the numerous experts, who were standing atop the Hell sect's enormous city walls, had their expressions flicker as they looked up.

At this moment, Nie Tian suddenly felt that the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of his hand had become extremely hot, as if it were burning.

Nie Tian turned around to look towards the huge city behind him.

For some unknown reason, a terrifying, mixed aura of violence, frenzy, killing, and destruction seemed to have been unleashed from within the enormous city.

With a single glance at the city, his face turned pale with fear. He said, "Look, look at the city!"

The numerous portraits of demons on the city walls seemed to have been vested with life and soul, and instantly became alive.

All of a sudden, a several-dozen-meter long demon, which was covered in dark-green scales and had a with a curved horn on the top of its head, broke free from the stone wall.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

Numerous long, thick chains, that had countless tiny magical symbols within them, followed it out of the wall.

Those chains seemed to have pierced into that demon's body and were now unceasingly pulling it back toward the city wall.

Struggling and bashing the chains with every bit of its strength, the demon threw its head back and let out a soundless roar.

Even more demons seemed to have sensed the changes that were about to occur in the heaven and earth, and also let out soundless howls as they emerged from the walls, trying to escape.

However, thousands of chains that carried magical symbols followed them out from the strong stone walls. Every single chain penetrated into the bodies of the demons and continuously pulled them back into the walls.

However, the enormous city still stood tall and unmoving, as if it wasn't affected at all by the struggling of those demons.

On top of the city walls, several hundreds of experts from the Hell Sect had cold expressions, and looked at the demons with slightly mocking gazes.

From the expressions on their faces, it seemed as if they felt that all the resistance and struggling was completely useless.

Li Fan's expression slightly flickered as he looked towards the majestic city and said, "Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation! Those demons have been confined in those walls for god knows how many years. Have they also sensed the changes in the heaven and earth and want to break out of their shackles at such a time?!"

"Uncle Li, this city of the Hell sect…is actually a prison where they imprison demons?" Nie Tian asked, sounding shocked.

He had previously heard that the Hell sect was actually an enormous prison, within which were sealed demons from near and far that had once destroyed cities and plagued the people.

However, he had assumed that the prison… was hidden deep under the ground.

"You are right." Li Fan nodded vigorously and explained to him, "That magnificent city is the ultimate prison! And the demons that you see, according to what I know, are actually the indigenous inhabitants of the Realm of Flame Heaven."

"The indigenous inhabitants?!" Jiang Lingzhu's expression also slightly flickered.

Li Fan smiled bitterly and said, "Exactly. The Realm of Flame Heaven originally was their home. An unknown amount of time ago, powerful, ancient, human Qi warriors traveled through the river of stars and found this place.

"Upon arriving, they started bloody battles with the indigenous demons of the Realm of Flame Heaven, which lasted decades.

"The strongest demons were killed one after another. Meanwhile, many Qi warriors, who were strong enough to travel across domains, were also torn apart and devoured by the demons.

"However, the final victory belonged to the human Qi warriors.

"The Realm of Flame Heaven has gone through countless changes throughout the years, and finally became the Realm of Flame Heaven as you know it, ruled by the seven major sects.

Looking at the numerous demons that were trying to escape from their constraints, the Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors from the other realms also seemed in awe. "Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation!"

"The strength of the Hell sect is indeed impressive and deep-rooted. If it were not for the fact that the Hell sect is situated here, the Realm of Flame Heaven… would have long since been invaded."

"The Hell sect is indeed powerful. Not only are they able to trap such a large number of demons, but they can even continuously draw power from them."

"However, why are the demons starting to rebel when the Heaven Gate is about to open?"

"Who knows."

While they chatted, the cracking sounds grew increasingly loud as they came through from the sky above the lake.

Nie Tian's attention was also attracted by the sky, and he couldn't help but to look up.

CRACKLE!

Two long, narrow spacial rifts seemed to have been cut open by a sharp blade as they gradually appeared in the empty sky.

The two spacial rifts intersected, and blinding light suddenly shot out of the intersection point.

The light slowly transformed and gradually morphed into an enormous ball of light, which continued to fluctuate and evolve, until a pattern that was identical to the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of the hands of Nie Tian and the others gradually took shape in the sky.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

The spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth within a thousand miles radius seemed to have been affected by the spacial rifts and madly converged onto the area.

Nie Tian secretly probed the surrounding area, and discovered that all of the spiritual Qi shared the same destination: the Heaven Gate that was about to open.

"All of you who have the Heaven Gate keys, prepare yourselves! When the Heaven Gate is fully formed, a gravitational force will be generated from within the Heaven Gate, and it will directly suck you inside!"

Since the beginning, Qiao Yang, the sectmaster of the Hell sect, had never paid any attention to the rebellion of the demons within the enormous city under his feet. He looked up towards the Heaven Gate which was about to take full shape, and called out in a loud voice.

OWWW! OWWW!

At this moment, world-shaking roars rang out from within the intersection point of the two spacial rifts.

A rolling, thick, purple-black mist gradually flowed out from the spacial rifts and soon spread out to the sky above the Hell sect.

"What?!" The expressions of every powerful expert from the Hell sect suddenly flickered.

When the Qi warriors from the other realms saw the thick, purple-black mist stretching out of the long and narrow rifts of the forming Heaven Gate, they also became unsettled.

BAM! BAM!

A long, heavy chain that came out of the stone wall suddenly shattered.

Countless magical symbols that were as bright as shining stars flew out from the snapped chain, in an attempt to confine that strongest demon.

However, the demon struggled madly, as if it had been summoned by a monarch of its race. In the blink of an eye, it forcibly charged into one of the spacial rifts, despite all the restrictions.

"This is not good!" Finally, Qiao Yang's expression flickered. "Stop the rest of them!"

After the strongest demon escaped, the remaining demons twisted their bodies more violently, as if they had suddenly been given new power.

Nie Tian looked over with rapt attention, and saw that the purple-black mist that was leaking out of the spacial rifts had morphed into numerous running rivers, and was flowing into the trapped demons.

After allowing the purple-black mist into their bodies, the demons seemed to have suddenly been vested infinite strength, and even the chains that had penetrated their bodies were no longer able to hold them back.

One after another, numerous demons shattered their chains and broke free from the city wall, charging into the spacial rifts.

Having sensed the unfavorable situation, all the Qi warriors from the Hell sect took out their spiritual tools and tried to stop the demons.

In a flash, the sky over the Hell sect was lit up by multicolored light that had shot out of all sorts of spiritual tools.

At the same time, the Heaven Gate finally fully condensed at the intersection of the two enormous spacial rifts.

A strong gravitational force was suddenly born from within.

Everyone who had obtained the Heaven Gate keys were pulled into the air by the pattern of the Heaven Gate on the back of their hands, and one after another, flew towards the Heaven Gate.

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Under the attraction of the Heaven Gate Key, Nie Tian slowly rose into the air.

OWWW! ROAAAR!

World-shaking howls echoed out of the enormous spacial rifts. It seemed that demons from some unknown land outside the realm were madly summoning their kind.

Even denser purple-black mist rolled out from the spacial rifts, and flowed into the Realm of Flame Heaven.

The demons that had been sealed in the Hell sect for countless years had never given up on escaping. Their originally shriveled bodies expanded rapidly after receiving the nourishment from the purple-black mist.

As Nie Tian was pulled into the air towards the Heaven Gate, he saw a demon that was originally only several dozen meters long rapidly expanded to about fifty meters long.

All of a sudden, that demon tore apart the long chains that had bound it, and broke free of the Hell sect's imprisonment.

At the same time, a large number of enormous swords that were flickering with multicolored light instantly slashed down from midair!

CRACKLE!

The swollen demon was instantly cut into sizable pieces by the broad, long swords.

Nie Tian floated there aghast. "Are they dead?"

However, it was just a second before his eyes widened even more.

Not a single drop of blood spewed out of the demon's torn body, and the chunks of flesh seemed to remain their vitality.

Each and every piece continued to squirm about, and rise into the sky, and eventually entered the spacial rifts where monstrous roars constantly echoed out.

Nie Tian was dumbstruck. "Even that didn't kill it?!"

If it were a human Qi warrior like him, it would have died the moment its body was cut apart.

However, the demon maintained a vigorous life force, and even managed to escape after being cut into pieces.

Nie Tian's expression turned incomparably serious and grim. "These demons…"

He suddenly began to feel a bit fearful towards those indigenous residents of the Realm of Flame Heaven.

As Li Fan's former comments struck him, a strange expression suddenly appeared in Nie Tian's eyes.

These strong and terrifying creatures had once dominated the Realm of Flame Heaven.

However, under the attacks of the human Qi warriors, these strong creatures had eventually lost, and been sealed within the Hell sect as prisoners for thousands of years.

What was the deeper meaning?

The truly strong human Qi warriors had never been blithely trampled upon by anyone, even outsider creatures that strong!

When Qiao Yang, master of the Hell sect, saw the demons breaking free from the constraints of the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation, his face turned as cold as ice as he shouted, "From now on, all sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven shall prepare yourselves for possible counterattacks by the demons!"

The expressions of everyone who was being pulled towards the Heaven Gate turned grim as they all felt a great burden weighing on their mind.

From Qiao Yang's words, they heard a frightening piece of information: the demons might return and attack the Realm of Flame Heaven in the near future!

According to Li Fan, the truly strong demons that had dominated the Heaven Leaving Domain in the past had long since been killed by the extremely strong Qi warriors.

The ones that had been imprisoned within the Hell sect were only the weak ones, which were nothing to be feared.

Now that thousands of years had passed, many changes had taken place and reshaped the Realm of Flame Heaven, leaving only the seven major sects, with the Hell sect being the strongest.

Most of the strong Qi warriors, who had previously descended to the Realm of Flame Heaven to fight the demons, had already passed away, and the remaining ones seemed to have long since left the realm.

With the current strength of the seven sects in the Realm of Flame Heaven, would they still have what it took to contend with the powerful demons from the other realms?

With these thoughts, Nie Tian looked over at Qiao Yang's grim face, and couldn't help but start to worry.

He worried about those who were currently in Black Cloud City, and he worried about Nie Donghai, Nie Qian, and the juniors who he felt connected to, such as Pan Tao and Nie Xian.

He constantly had the feeling that when he tempered himself through bloody battles in the Realm of Flame Heaven, Heaven-shaking, Earth-toppling changes would occur in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Suddenly, Hua Mu's words struck him.

Hua Mu had once said that omens would present themselves in the realms where a Heaven Gate would appear, such as the escape of the Earth Flame Beast.

Furthermore, even more huge changes would strike the Realm of Flame Heaven, one after another.

The invasion of the outer-realm demons might be a possible aftereffect that Hua Mu had spoken about…

CRUNCH!

The sound of bones shattering suddenly echoed out from the Heaven Gate entrance.

"What the hell are you doing?" Zheng Bin from the Mystic Mist sect suddenly let out a piercing shout.

Nie Tian snapped back from his reverie and stopped staring at the majestic city of the Hell sect and the demons that were breaking free from their shackles, but rather focused all his attention on the Heaven Gate that he was gradually approaching.

In front of the shining Heaven Gate entrance, a cunning smile appeared on the corner of a Greater Heaven stage outer-realm expert's mouth.

They had already reached the entrance of the Heaven Gate, but it seemed that they weren't in a hurry to enter the Heaven Gate. Instead, they suddenly started to attack other participants.

A Heaven stage Qi warrior from the Mystic Mist sect had his head chopped off by one of the foreign Qi warriors when he approached the entrance.

In the next moment, the headless corpse of the Mystic Mist sect disciple dropped to the ground.

Faces pale and ghastly, all the trial takers from the seven sects, who were floating increasingly close to the Heaven Gate, looked at those foreign Qi warriors with disbelief.

None of them expected that killings would break out even before they stepped into the Heaven Gate.

They were still in the Realm of Flame Heaven!

Those foreign Qi warriors had actually dared to defy the laws and principles in front of the hosts, without giving any face to Qiao Yang and the Hell sect.

"How dare you!!" Qiao Yang roared, fuming with wrath.

The murderer was a slender man who carried a longsword that was wreathed in green flames. He let out a low laugh and said, "Senior Qiao, the rebellion of the demons has just started. Soon, the demons, who have already received those demons, will be able to obtain the accurate location of the Realm of Flame Heaven. Coming next, demons that are even stronger than those ones will flood your realm.

"Their arrival will turn the Realm of Flame Heaven into a hell on earth.

"By the time we come out of the Heaven Gate, the seven sects of your realm might have already been annihilated.

"Perhaps even you won't be around by that time, Senior Qiao. Do we need to give face to a dead man?"

With these words, he laughed loudly and stepped into the Heaven Gate, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

The other participants from the other domains also had their faces full of mockery, as if they felt that the rebellion of the demons would completely reshape the Realm of Flame Heaven, and by the time they had returned, not a single one of the seven sects would still be there.

The ones that would replace the seven sects and take over the Realm of Flame Heaven would either be the mad, bloodthirsty demons, or…the powerful cultivators who didn't have a Heaven Gate open in their realm. Whichever happened, they would no longer need to be afraid of angering the Hell sect, or suffering from Qiao Yang's wrath.

In front of the Heaven Gate, a fat Qi warrior from the Realm of Earth Sieve grinned and let out a loud laugh as he said, "Senior Qiao, I bet great experts from the Realm of Earth Sieve told you about the omens that would come along with the appearance of the Heaven Gate, but didn't tell you that the opening of the Heaven Gate would cause the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation to lose effect and cause those imprisoned demons to escape, did they?

"But we always knew that the opening of a Heaven Gate would cause such terrifying upheavals.

"Numerous outside forces have been drooling over the Realm of Flame Heaven and waiting for the right moment to make a move.

"You thought the opening of the Heaven Gate was a great fortune to your realm, but the truth is that it's an opportunity for us that only comes around once in a thousand years.

"As soon as those demons from the outside realms wipe out the seven sects, we'll take the Realm of Flame Heaven from their hands.

"Even if you were to win by chance, you would be too weak to stop us.

"One way or another, the Realm of Flame Heaven is going to see new masters. You had better be prepared for that."

After he finished speaking, the fat Qi warrior turned around and prepared to enter the Heaven Gate.

Standing on the majestic city with an ashen face, Qiao Yang shouted, "Kill him!"

Upon hearing his order, every expert of the Hell sect close to the Heaven Gate, including Zhao Haifeng and Duan Yuan, lunged forward in an attempt to kill him.

"What's the rush? All of you will die in the Heaven Gate." The fat Qi warrior gave a cold harrumph, completely ignored their attacks, and disappeared into the Heaven Gate.

After he left, the remaining foreign cultivators stared coldly at the participants from the Realm of Flame Heaven, and said, "We'll be waiting for you all in there."

Every one of them grinned with vicious smiles and disappeared into the Heaven Gate, as if they didn't attach any importance to the trial takers from the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Meanwhile, Li Fan and Liu Yan's expressions turned especially grim.

The things that the foreign cultivators had said made them almost tremble with fear.

The Realm of Flame Heaven… would be attacked by dreadful demons from other realms or domains, while powerful Qi warriors from the realms where Heaven Gates didn't appear would just sit back and wait for the right moment to take over the Realm of Flame Heaven?

By the time they returned from the Heaven Gate, what would the Realm of Flame Heaven be like?

They simply couldn't believe it.

"We're not leaving!" An expert from the Hell sect shouted. "We'll stay and fight against the demons!"

"Fuck the Heaven Gate!

"We're not going!"

After realizing what would happen to their realm, all the Heaven Gate key holders of the seven sects let out angry roars and used all their power to negate the pulling of the Heaven Gate Key.

They all decided to give up on entering the Heaven Gate.

With a cold snort, Qiao Yang blurted, "Get in there! And kill those bastards from the other realms! None of you have reached the Worldly realm, so it'll do us no good if you stay here! You might as well make breakthroughs within the mysterious dimension in the Heaven Gate. When you return with cultivation bases that are higher than the three Heaven stages, you might be able to do your part to defend the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"Now get in there! All of you!"

BOOM!

At that very moment, an even stronger suction force came from the Heaven Gate.

It seemed that the Heaven Gate was tired of waiting.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Everyone who had been trying their best to resist the influence, including Nie Tian, was pulled into the Heaven Gate by an overwhelming force.

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SHEW!

In the blink of an eye, Nie Tian flashed into the Heaven Gate.

Dazzling, multicolored light constantly whizzed by him as he felt himself being pulled by an irresistible force, traveling forward at a extremely high speed.

At the same time, many unknown magical symbols flashed past him like shooting stars.

Because of the incredible speed at which he was traveling, Nie Tian couldn't get a clear look at the magical symbols that flashed by.

However, from what his eyes had captured, he believed that most of them were written in foreign language that he didn't understand, with only a small portion being the masterpieces of human ancient Qi warriors.

His senses told him that he only soared within that dazzling space tunnel for several dozen seconds.

Shortly thereafter, he was overwhelmed by a squeezing force, without forewarning of any kind.

He suddenly grew dizzy, and was unable to see the things around him. His body seemed to have turned into flowing light that was thrown into an ice-cold mysterious land.

BANG!

He landed heavily on the ground, tumbling head over heels a few times over before he could gradually stop the momentum.

He opened his eyes and looked up. All he could see was a sky full of bright stars.

In his eyes, those stars were incomparably clear. They twinkled while releasing a cold, desolate light.

Some of them seemed extremely far away and only looked as big as grains of sand from where he stood.

Meanwhile, others seemed quite close to him, and were the size of grapes in his eyes.

Within the ice-cold river of stars, there was no sun or moon, only the brilliant stars that adorned the curtain of the night.

"I must be outside the Realm of Flame Heaven…" he muttered. Looking away from the sky, he turned around and measured up his surroundings.

He immediately discovered that the place he landed in was an enormous prismatic rock that was floating within the river of stars.

The rock seemed to be five or six miles long, and extended quite a ways off into the distance.

Further off, there were even more strange, enormous rocks that were floating within the river of stars. From the look of it, they probably had been that way for thousands of years.

The shapes of the enormous rocks were all different. Some of them were connected by slender stone paths and some weren't.

After looking around for awhile, he discovered that there were thousands of giant stones that were the same size as the one that he was on, but that was only what his eyes could take in.

Perhaps, there were even more rocks beyond the ones he could see.

"A dimension full of meteors?" he muttered while releasing a wisp of psychic awareness to observe his surroundings even more carefully.

In the area where his psychic awareness could cover, he didn't sense any auras of life, which meant that… there was no one in the vicinity.

He was surprised. "There's no one anywhere near me. This seems to be quite different than the trial within the Green Illusion dimension."

When he participated in the trial of the Green Illusion dimension, he was already with An Ying and the others from the Spiritual Treasure sect immediately after stepping into the Green Illusion dimension via the secret dimension gate. Therefore, he had been with companions and gained a rough understanding of the territory from An Ying the moment the Green Illusion dimension trial started.

However, now…

When he passed through the Heaven Gate, the mysterious power had separated everyone.

Just like him, the other disciples of the seven sects from the Realm of Flame Heaven had most likely landed on different meteors.

All of a sudden, anxiety regarding the safety of Li Fan, Liu Yan, and An Shiyi rose in his heart.

If they were unluckily sent to the same areas as the Greater Heaven stage experts from the other realms, they could be instantly killed.

WHOOSH!

An surprisingly cold gale blew over from the icy river of stars.

"This is so damn cold!"

When the cold wind blew past, he even felt his flesh turn a bit stiff and his hair and eyebrows form a bit of frost on them.

He hurriedly channeled his spiritual power to resist the coldness.

At that time, he had another startling discovery: there wasn't the slightest bit of spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the air that he could use!

All he could sense in the air was coldness, and not a single bit of spiritual Qi could be pulled into the vortex of spiritual power in his spiritual sea.

This meant that if he wanted to obtain spiritual power within this ice-cold mysterious land, the only option he had was to cultivate with the help of spirit stones.

Without spirit stones, he wouldn't be able to replenish the spiritual power that he expended.

CRACKLE!

His teeth were chattering as he unceasingly drew out spiritual power to run warm currents up and down his body.

An hour later, the ice-cold wind finally stopped.

However, he found that he had used up 20% of his spiritual power within such a short time.

He stood where he was, dumbstruck.

"Can the gravity here also be insanely strong?"

He was very well aware that an excessive gravity could also be an extremely strong load on his body.

If the gravity in this place was as strong as the mysterious land that the Blood Core had brought him to, he feared that he wouldn't be able to move about freely, much less temper himself.

With suspicion in mind, he decided to see if he could jump up.

WHOOSH!

He rose ten meters into the air!

"The gravity here is much weaker than the Realm of Flame Heaven!"

After landing, he softly tapped the stone ground and his body flew up again into midair.

Just as he was falling down, a familiar voice suddenly echoed out from afar. "Nie Tian!"

Nie Tian looked in the direction of the sound and saw Zheng Bin from the Mystic Mist sect.

Zheng Bin was also by himself, and he was currently on the side of a brown, protruding piece of rock that was about a thousand meters away from him.

Clearly, Zheng Bin had been deliberately hiding himself behind that piece of rock, as if he feared being discovered by anyone.

Only when Nie Tian jumped into the air did Zheng Bin notice him and couldn't help but shout out to him.

Zheng Bin saw that Nie Tian also noticed him, and then lowered his voice as he said, waving at him, "Hey! Watch out! Don't expose yourself!"

Nie Tian, who had just landed, softly tapped the ground, and once again his body became like cotton as he rapidly floated towards Zheng Bin.

He was the only living person that Nie Tian had seen until now.

Since the distance between him and Zheng Bin exceeded the range of his psychic awareness, he didn't sense his existence earlier. Now that he had seen him, he wanted to communicate with Zheng Bin.

Inwardly, he viewed Zheng Bin differently from Pan Tao, since he wasn't a friend who had shared trials and tribulations with him.

When they were in the Green Illusion dimension, as well as the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, Zheng Bin had repeatedly withdrawn himself when they met danger.

However, Nie Tian didn't hold a grudge against him either.

He and Zheng Bin were like strangers brought together by chance. They weren't familiar with each other, and he used to act on his own account and cause trouble for others, so Zheng Bin's unwillingness to undertake the consequences that he had caused had been understandable.

He tried to adapt to the gravitational field that was significantly different from the Realm of Flame Heaven as he floated towards Zheng Bin. Seconds later, he arrived.

After he had arrived, Zheng Bin looked anxious as he lowered his voice to warn Nie Tian, "Man! You should have kept a low profile!

"Do you know that killing is allowed between all those who have stepped into the Heaven Gate, and no punishment shall be implemented? By flying into the sky, you've already exposed yourself. If others have spotted you, they'll definitely come to kill you and loot your belongings! By acting so recklessly, you're actually putting me in danger too!"

Zheng Bin had already started to regret waving towards Nie Tian, which led Nie Tian to come over.

Nie Tian thought for a moment, and realized that what Zheng Bin said made sense. He said with a smile, "Sorry."

Zheng Bin said nothing back, but rather concentrated on observing the surroundings silently.

Only after a while later, when he found no traces of anybody coming and believed that no one had discovered them, did he secretly let out a sigh of relief.

Zheng Bin's expression turned grim and he explained in a low voice, "I didn't expect this place to be completely devoid of the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, which means that we have only our spirit stones to rely on to restore our spiritual power after battles.

"From now on, spirit stones, medicinal pills, and food will become necessities that people will kill for! If you want to stay alive here, you'll need to obtain large amounts of food, spirit stones, and medicinal pills!

"This will be reason enough for any two people to start a deadly fight the moment they meet!

"Especially between people who don't know each other!"

Nie Tian nodded. "Yeah, the same idea just occurred to me."

Zheng Bin waved his hand and crouched his body as he led the way stealthily. "Follow me, I'll show you something that I just discovered."

Excitement could be seen on his face.

Confused and curious, Nie Tian followed him as he wanted to see what had made Zheng Bin so cautious and excited.

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On the cold, hard surface of the meteor, there lay a corpse that had decayed for god knows how many years.

It had dark-green skin and was clearly not of the human race.

It even had a meter-long tail. The flesh on the tail had long since rotted away, and all that was left were pale-white bones.

The end of the tail bones were similar to a sharp fork, which pierced into the ground. Even after it had wasted away for countless years, it was still flickering with a faint green light, and there seemed to still be energy contained in it.

"Is this…" Nie Tian observed it for a long time and frowned as he said, "the body of an outsider race?"

Zheng Bin nodded and softly said, "I've lived in the Realm of Flame Heaven my whole life and so I've never seen an outsider before. However, this is clearly not a human, and he's been dead for god knows how many years, but that tail of his still has strong energy fluctuating within."

Nie Tian was puzzled. "Why were you so excited to show it to me?"

"The energy contained in that tail carries a strong life force, and that life force is very much beyond ordinary." Zheng Bin quietly scanned his surroundings again as he spoke, as if he was worried that they would be discovered. "I want to cut the tail off, but I'm a bit scared…"

"Scared?" Nie Tian asked. "It must have been dead for a long time, what's there to be afraid of?"

Zheng Bin bitterly laughed. "I've already tried…

"I can't sever that tail with my spiritual tool. Even though there is nothing but bones left in that tail, it's still terrifyingly tough.

"You aren't asking me to do that for you, are you?" Nie Tian shook his head and continued, "I don't have anything that's sharp enough, either."

Zheng Bin looked at him with a longing expression in his eyes. "You're Wu Ji's disciple. Don't tell me that your master didn't give you a high ranked spiritual tool."

Without any hesitation, Nie Tian shook his head again. "No."

Before he had stepped into the Heaven Gate, Wu Ji had indeed given him many life-saving magical items, but none of them were sharp.

Wu Ji told him that since he already possessed the Spirit Channeling grade Flame Dragon Armor, all he needed to do was to be patient and take his time to establish a deep relationship with the Flame Dragon Armor's soul. In the future, the Flame Dragon Armor would help him obtain everything that he ever wanted.

With the Flame Dragon Armor in his possession, he wouldn't need another spiritual tool.

"Oh, if you really don't have any, then fine." Zheng Bin had a face full of disappointment.

In his eyes, Nie Tian was simply reluctant to help him, and that was all.

He also was perfectly aware that he and Nie Tian weren't exactly friends, and he had even abandoned Nie Tian more than one time in the past.

In return, when he and Han Xin were trapped in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, Nie Tian and the others hadn't stopped the Thunder Beast for him on their way out of there.

Therefore, he found it quite natural that Nie Tian had adopted such an attitude.

Zheng Bin didn't say anything more. Instead, he squatted beside the tail of the outsider's corpse, and took out a sharp sword.

Unwilling to give up, he swung the sword at the tail.

CLANK!

Sparks of white and green splashed out from the tail as soon as his sword made contact with it.

Nie Tian looked closely when Zheng Bin made the attempt, and found that when his sword landed on one of the bones, the faint green light that had been flickering on the tail suddenly brightened.

A surge of mysterious energy that was filled with a vigorous life force suddenly rushed out from that bone, as if it strengthened that bone.

The slash didn't even leave a mark on the bone. Instead, Zheng Bin slightly staggered, trying his best to hold on to his sword.

He still didn't want to give up. Since he couldn't break that particular bone, he raised his sword once more and went for the other bones of the tail.

CLANK! CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!

However, every time his sword fell, those bones shone with a green light.

Every time, the green light offset the attacking momentum and the slash of Zheng Bin's sword.

By the time his sword made contact with the tail bones, the spiritual power within his sword had already worn out, and the blade seemed to have lost its edge.

"Well, that's interesting…" Intrigued, Nie Tian narrowed his eyes as he closely examined the tail bones, pondering what method he should use to break the resistance of the strong life force of that joint.

He secretly sent a strand of psychic awareness into his bracelet of holding, with the intention to find a piece of equipment that could break the self-defense of that bone.

Unfortunately, besides the Flame Dragon Armor, he didn't find any other spiritual tool that he could use.

And the Flame Dragon Armor was currently in a dormant mode, refining the energy it had obtained from the Earthflame Crystal Strings and healing its damages.

He wouldn't possibly awaken it from its sleep just to try to break off the tail with it.

In addition, the Flame Dragon Armor was an extremely precious treasure of the Spirit Channeling grade, and it came from the Realm of Dark Underworld.

Both his master Wu Ji and Hua Mu had warned him against using the Flame Dragon Armor unless it was a situation of life or death, in order to prevent the fact that he had it from leaking, which would very likely attract unnecessary attention from the Realm of Dark Underworld.

He couldn't come up with a good solution, so didn't say anything.

"You keep trying, and I'll go check the perimeter." With these words, he separated with Zheng Bin. After hearing Zheng Bin's warnings, he no longer dared to bounce into the sky.

He tried to control his body and adapt to the gravity. With light and quick steps, he moved about on the prismatic meteor that he and Zheng Bin were on.

The meteor was only five or six miles across, and before long, he covered every inch of it. As he did it, he used his psychic awareness to scan the surroundings.

He was convinced that there was no one else on the prismatic meteor except for Zheng Bin and himself.

Not long after, he stopped by the edge of the meteor.

A slender stone protrusion, which was several hundreds of meters long, stabbed horizontally into another meteor that was even bigger than the one he was on, connecting the two.

The slender stone protrusion was only a foot wide. If he wanted to, he could go to the other meteor via the stone path.

However, he didn't.

Previously, when the cold wind blew over, he had consumed a large amount of his spiritual power to resist the coldness.

With the lessons that he had drawn from the battles within the Green Illusion dimension, he knew that his cultivation base was low to start with. If he couldn't maintain his peak state, he would definitely suffer a terrible loss when he encountered a stranger.

Therefore, he sat down on the ground and took out the spirit stones that his master Wu Ji had given him, and with the Qi Refining Incantation, he began to restore the spiritual power that he had lost.

During the process, he took out his master's command medallion from his bracelet of holding.

When his spiritual power was fully recovered, he sent a strand of his psychic power into the command medallion to check the three spiritual incantations that Wu Ji had branded within it.

According to Wu Ji's instructions, he could choose one of them or all three of them to cultivate.

On his way to the Hell sect, he had only glanced at them for a moment due to lack of time, and didn't really read into them.

Now that he was temporarily safe in this cold, mysterious dimension, he wanted to make use of this good opportunity to quickly master a spiritual incantation, so as to raise his battle prowess.

"Flame Spirit Incantation, Illusion Spirit Incantation, Gentle Water Incantation…"

Up till now, he still hadn't had a clue regarding his cultivation attribute, and thus didn't know what direction his cultivation would go down in the future.

He had once asked Wu Ji about it.

According to Wu Ji, it wasn't necessarily a bad thing if someone didn't have a specific cultivation attribute.

People with no specific attributes could choose many types of spiritual incantations to cultivate, and they would be able to cultivate any type to a good extent.

This was the privilege that people with no specific cultivation attribute would have.

However, their disadvantages were also very obvious.

If people without specific cultivation attributes wanted to cultivate a spiritual incantation of a certain attribute, their cultivating speed would be much slower than those with matching attributes.

Not only that, they would also need much more energy and time to comprehend the profundity of specific spiritual incantations.

For example, since An Shiyi had fire as her cultivation attribute, she would improve rapidly and achieve deep understandings of it if she were to cultivate the Flame Spirit Incantation.

If he were to cultivate the Flame Spirit Incantation, his improvement would be much slower, to the extent where he could have no hope to reach the pinnacle of fire mastery within his lifetime.

However, if An Shiyi, who possessed the fire attribute, didn't cultivate the Flame Spirit Incantation, but learned the Gentle Water Incantation instead, it would be extremely difficult for her.

Furthermore, compared to a person like Nie Tian, who had no specific attributes, learning that incantation would be countless times more dangerous, so much so that she could even fall into a Qi deviation, due to the conflict between attributes.

On the other hand, although a person with no specific attributes could cultivate all kinds of spiritual incantations, their improvement with every type of incantation would be rather slow. They might possibly be unable to comprehend the profound mysteries within those spiritual incantations over the course of their whole life.

The lifespan of a human was limited, which would cause people with no attributes to run out their years and die due to their incapability to comprehend the deep truth of a certain attribute and break through into a higher realm.

This was also the reason that the seven major sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven would always choose youngsters who had been born with cultivation attributes as their disciples.

After that, they would pass on incantations of matching attributes to the youngsters, and let them continuously break through at a fast speed, since only in that way would they be able to increase their lifespans and thus continue cultivating.

Nie Tian thought for a moment and soon made up his mind. "The Flame Dragon Armor is definitely fire attributed, so I guess I'd better cultivate the Flame Spirit Incantation first."

As soon as he picked the Flame Spirit Incantation as the first one to cultivate, he started to study it wholeheartedly.

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The cultivation of every spiritual incantation that had a special attribute required a unique spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth. Of course, the Flame Spirit Incantation was no exception.

The cultivation of the Flame Spirit Incantation required the cultivator to absorb the spiritual Qi that contained flame power and slowly merge it into the spiritual sea.

The spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in many realms and domains contained energies of different attributes. For example, in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, where the Spiritual Treasure sect had been based, the spiritual energy in the air carried an intense flame power.

It was also the reason why fire-attributed Qi warriors of the Spiritual Treasure sect, as well as equipment forgers, could make use of the flame power within the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range to cultivate fire-attributed spiritual incantations.

For those who didn't have a specific cultivation attribute to practice fire-attributed spiritual incantations, the first thing they would have to do was to open up an area within their spiritual sea to contain the flame power.

Nie Tian was currently in an ice-cold river of stars far from his own realm, where there wasn't even the slightest bit of spiritual Qi in the air, much less any flame power.

Therefore, the environment was very unsuitable for him to cultivate the Flame Spirit Incantation within this ice-cold mysterious land.

Fortunately, he had previously obtained a large amount of Flame Crystals when he was in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

The level two Premium grade Flame Crystals were spirit materials that contained rich flame power, and were of a much higher rank than Flamecloud Gems.

The Flame Crystals were more than enough to be used as the energy source for his cultivation of the Flame Spirit Incantation.

WHOOSH!

A Flame Crystal that was the size of his palm flew out of his bracelet of holding as soon as he sent a wisp of will into it.

He held the Flame Crystal in his palm and realized that it was warm. Then he started to operate the Flame Spirit Incantation to pull out the flame power within the Flame Crystal.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

Like scarlet strings, strands after strands of fiery aura that could be seen by the naked eye flew out of the Flame Crystal and entered his palm.

He used the Flame Spirit Incantation to continue to channel the strands of flame power into the meridians within his hand, and then guided them to flow along those meridians into his spiritual sea.

Within his white and misty spiritual sea, the vortex of spiritual power was originally revolving at a low speed, but with the entrance of the flame power, it suddenly sped up.

A few dots of fiery light started to flicker within the white mist.

Those dots of fiery light were the flame power that he had pulled out of the Flame Crystal.

As soon as the scattered spots of flame power entered his spiritual sea, they flowed separately, not merging with the spiritual energy that was already there.

He sat in silence, sensing the process of him continuously pulling flame power out of the Flame Crystal with rapt attention.

During the process, he experienced an increasingly intense burning sensation from his meridians as the flame power flowed inside of them.

His meridians had never had flame power flow within them before, so he experienced pain during the starting period of this process.

However, he also realized that his body was gradually adapting as the flame power flowed through his meridians.

The strands of flame power that floated out of the Flame Crystal were as fine as gossamer threads. The flame power contained within them was limited, and wasn't enough to condense and take form. Therefore, it wouldn't really burn his flesh.

Following his continuous absorption of the flame power, the light the Flame Crystal emanated… gradually turned dull.

On the contrary, within a small area in his spiritual sea, the fiery spots came together and grew increasingly condensed, quietly forming a small cluster of fire.

At first, it was only the size of a thumb. However, it seemed to illuminate his entire spiritual sea as it flickered with a bright, fiery light.

As the flame power continuously fused into it, the small cluster of fire slowly expanded.

Nie Tian used his psychic awareness to carefully protect the cluster of fire, fearing that something might happen to it.

After an unknown period of time, the small cluster of fire had expanded from the size of a thumb to the size of a fist.

CRUNCH!

It was also at this moment that the Flame Crystal in his hand suddenly shattered.

Having awoken from his cultivation, he temporarily retracted his attention from the fluctuations within his spiritual sea, and looked down to take a close look at the Flame Crystal.

The level two Premium grade Flame Crystal seemed to have completely run out of flame power.

"A level two Premium grade Flame Crystal didn't even cause a real change to occur in my spiritual sea…" he muttered and took out another Flame Crystal from his bracelet of holding without any hesitation.

Once again, he immersed himself in cultivation.

CRUNCH!

A while later, that Flame Crystal also broke into pieces.

By that time, the cluster of fire that had formed in his spiritual sea had grown from the size of a fist to the size of two fists.

He continued cultivating with the same method and took out a third Flame Crystal to absorb the flame power that lay within, as if he had forgotten about eating and sleeping.

In the ice-cold dimension that Nie Tian was in, there was no daytime or nighttime. All there was in the sky were countless shining stars.

He had completely lost track of time and forgot that he was currently in the Heaven Gate, participating in a cruel trial.

He was completely carried away as he practiced the Flame Spirit Incantation.

One after another, many Flame Crystals were taken out before they shattered in a short while.

When he pulled out half of the flame power within the twentieth Flame Crystal, its radiance slightly dulled, and the cluster of fire within his spiritual sea had increased in size by tenfolds, a change suddenly took place!

Suddenly, a scarlet aura started to surge about in the cluster of fire, which was already quite sizable, making it seem unsettling and disordered!

Nie Tian, who had been looking forward to a change, was elated instead of startled.

He knew that if someone like him, who didn't have a specific attribution, wanted to cultivate a spiritual incantation of a certain attribute, they would have to condense a new vortex within his spiritual sea!

He had a similar experience when he broke through from the Qi Refining stage into the Lesser Heaven stage.

Because of that he didn't deliberately stop the disorderly surges within the cluster of fire. Quite on the contrary, he completely opened himself up and continued using the Flame Spirit Incantation to absorb the flame power within the Flame Crystal.

At that moment, he noticed that the flame power that he continued channeling into his spiritual sea went straight into the cluster of fire.

As more flame power infused into the cluster of fire, it became increasingly violent and disorderly.

He only silently sensed the changes as a bystander and didn't do anything to temper its movements.

After a moment, fiery sparks suddenly splashed out of the cluster of fire, causing a scarlet misty aura to float out of it.

When the movements within the cluster of fire couldn't get any more frenzied, the mist that contained flame power seemed to have suddenly found a law to follow and a method to operate.

He watched as the cluster of fire disintegrated while splashing out fiery sparks and spewing out burning mist. Then, it started to reshape as a vortex.

Before long, a new, small, scarlet vortex gradually took shape within his spiritual sea.

Compared to the vortex that had been completely made from the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, the new vortex was inferior in both size and the amount of power it could contain.

The vortex of flame power was more than ten times smaller than the vortex of spiritual power.

But no matter how small it was, as long as the vortex of flame power was formed, it would expand following the infusion of more flame power.

The forming of the vortex of flame power signified that he had already completed the first and most important step in cultivating the Flame Spirit Incantation.

From now on, he would be able to use the flame power within fire-attributed spirit materials to gradually strengthen and expand his vortex of flame power.

After finishing the first step of cultivating the Flame Spirit Incantation, Nie Tian took out all of the remaining Flame Crystals from within his bracelet of holding. "Only seven Flame Crystals are left now."

Looking at the only remaining Flame Crystals, he secretly frowned as he realized that if he wanted to continue cultivating the Flame Spirit Incantation within this icy mysterious dimension, those seven Flame Crystals were far from enough.

At that moment, he thought of An Shiyi and Jiang Lingzhu.

The two of them had also collected a large amount of Flame Crystals when they were in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range. If he could meet them and borrow a few Flame Crystals from them, he might be able to keep cultivating for a longer time.

Furthermore, he believed that no matter whether it was An Shiyi or Jiang Lingzhu, either of them would be willing to lend him some of their Flame Crystals as long as he asked for them.

Just as he was pondering, Zheng Bin quietly approached him, his expression clearly uneasy. "Nie Tian!"

Nie Tian was startled. "Something's wrong?"

"While you were cultivating, I went to other meteors where I found many dead bodies." A rattled look appeared in Zheng Bin's eyes.

"Really?" Nie Tian asked. "More dead outsiders?"

Zheng Bin promptly shook his head and said somewhat panickedly, "No, not outsiders! They were dead human Qi warriors! Two of them were from the Mystic Mist sect, and both of them had Heaven stage cultivation bases!

"The rest seemed to be disciples of the Blood sect and the Ghost sect! And the person who had the highest cultivation base seemed to have been in the Greater Heaven stage!

"Their bodies were all as cold as ice. They must have been dead for some time when I found them. Everything they had was looted, including their bracelets of holding.

"I bet that those from the other realms have already started to make moves against us.

"It probably won't be long before they find us!"

Fear filled Zheng Bin's eyes.

"Which meteor are you talking about?" Nie Tian asked with a grim face.

Zheng Bin raised his arm and pointed toward a distant, giant meteor that was separated from them by six meteors. "That one."

Nie Tian took a glance at it and calculated in his heart. He believed it would take at least a few hours to get to the meteor that he was on from that one.

His face suddenly turned as dark as the deepest ocean.

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On an enormous meteor within the icy river of stars, a fat man from the Realm of Earth Sieve had a cunning grin on his face as he let out a vicious laugh.

There were three bracelets of holding in his chubby, short-fingered left hand. He was transferring each and every item inside of them into his own bracelet of holding.

Lying right next to him were three gray-garbed people, who, from the way they were dressed, were clearly Qi warriors from the Grayvale sect.

Two of them were in the late Heaven stage and one was in the early Greater Heaven stage.

All three of them had their heads separated from their bodies and their severed parts were scattered on the brown surface of the meteor. From the look of it, they had died not long ago.

The fat man from the Realm of Earth Sieve was named Jia Peng. After he transferred all the items into his own bracelet of holding, he shook his head, and his small, round eyes flickered with a disdainful, cold look. "Killed another three.

"It's hard to believe that the Grayvale sect is one of the seven major sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven. They're so surprisingly weak.

"I'm afraid a sect this weak can only survive in the Realm of Flame Heaven. If such a weak sect were in the Realm of Earth Sieve, it would have long since been annihilated.

"That Hell sect clearly has the power to wipe out the other six sects and take over the entire Realm of Flame Heaven, but they chose not to. It seems that they're merely using the other six sects as playmates for their juniors.

"Apparently, only trial takers from the Hell sect will be strong enough to interest me.

"…"

He muttered to himself while releasing a wisp of his psychic awareness to scan his surroundings for signs of life.

"Okay, it's done. I've already finished off everyone on this meteor. It's time to move to another one."

With these words, his ball-like, fat body suddenly shot up into the air and headed towards a nearby meteor.

It seemed that he had absolute confidence in his own strength. It was as if he was not scared of exposing himself by jumping so high into the air.

In his eyes, only those foreign cultivators who he knew quite well would be considered as worthy opponents for him.

The few of them had already reached a mutual understanding before they traveled to the Realm of Flame Heaven.

The elders of the sects that they belonged to had already spoken privately with each other. They viewed the Realm of Flame Heaven as their target, and prepared to gradually carve up the Realm of Flame Heaven after the demons' invasion.

Their sect elders had even come up with a detailed plan regarding how to divide their territories in the Realm of Flame Heaven in the future.

This was also why they dared to behave so recklessly and even bring out their future intentions with the Realm of Flame Heaven before they stepped into the Heaven Gate.

In their eyes, the opening of the Heaven Gate had actually heralded the doom of the seven major sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven.

…

On the prismatic meteor.

After hearing Zheng Bin's words, Nie Tian had a serious expression on his face as he cautiously examined the enormous meteors in the distance.

A distant, hexagon-shaped meteor that was much bigger than the one they were standing on was the limit of his sight.

A vague figure that he couldn't catch a clear glimpse of, suddenly shot into the sky.

That figure was Jia Peng!

Nie Tian's expression slightly flickered. "Over there! Someone just jumped into the air. By acting so recklessly, he clearly isn't afraid of being noticed by those who are lurking in the dark. He must be very confident about himself. If I'm not mistaken, that man… is a cultivator from another realm."

Confusion is written all over Zheng Bin's face. "Where? I don't see anything."

Nie Tian carefully pointed toward the meteor and explained to Zheng Bin, "There. That hexagonal meteor. How can you not see it?"

"I can only vaguely see the outline of that meteor, but I don't see anyone leaping into the air." Zheng Bin shook his head before suddenly coming to a realization. "Your eyesight must reach farther than mine."

Nie Tian was taken aback by his words.

Since he had always been different from the children he grew up with, adding on that he had been tempered by Hua Mu, it was only natural that his vision, hearing, and probing ability surpassed Zheng Bin's.

What he could hear, see, and sense, might not be achievable to Zheng Bin.

"That man is wandering around. I bet he is searching for people like us." Nie Tian's face turned grim while his eyes were still fixed on the fat man. He continued, "Sooner or later, he'll come to our meteor to search after finishing searching the other ones.

"Every foreign trial takers has a cultivation base of the Greater Heaven stage. As long as they release their psychic awareness to search for us, we won't be able to hide, no matter what we do.

"The moment he comes, we'll be exposed, and have nowhere to retreat to." Nie Tian replied in a deep voice.

Scared, Zheng Bin turned around to look at a few meteors that were floating in the starry sky behind him. "How about we go that way? However, you should know that when I went to check those meteors earlier, there were also quite a few dead bodies on them."

Nie Tian shook his head and said, "There isn't a place where we can remain safe forever. Once those Greater Heaven stage experts kill off all the weak ones near them, they'll gradually reach out into their surroundings in search of more to kill.

"If we escape in that direction, it will be very likely that we run into other Greater Heaven experts.

"Moreover, the man coming our way is moving at a speed that is much faster than ours, so even if we don't encounter anyone else on our way, that man will eventually catch up to us.

"We might as well stay here, and when he gets here we fight him to the death!" Nie Tian said with a decisive expression.

"But…" Zheng Bin said with a painful look on his face. "You and I only have the cultivation bases of the early Lesser Heaven. With our strength, there's absolutely no chance of us escaping from the hands of a Greater Heaven stage expert.

"Only by joining hands with the other Greater Heaven stage experts from the other sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven, will we have a narrow chance of surviving.

"However, the thing is we don't know where they are…"

Nie Tian frowned and said with great determination, "Whatever your decision is, I'm going to stay and fight. Standing your ground is better than running off and trying to find other ways to win."

With these words, he turned away from Zheng Bin, and focused on the gradually approaching man, making plans in his heart.

Fifteen minutes later.

That previously vague figure became clearer, due to the shortening of the distance .

Eyes narrowed, Nie Tian took a deep breath and said, "It's that fat man, the one from the Realm of Earth Sieve. He claimed that every single trial taker from the Realm of Flame Heaven would die in here, right before he stepped into the Heaven Gate."

Since the distance between them had shortened, Zheng Bin was now able to see a figure continuously shooting into the air like a cannonball.

However, he could only see the frame of the person and was unable to see his face and tell that person's identity.

When he realized that the person was none other than the fat man who had made those harsh remarks in front of the Heaven Gate, Zheng Bin was astonished. "That guy appears to be at the middle Greater Heaven stage!"

Nie Tian looked over at Zheng Bin with a confused expression.

"Since we arrived at the Hell sect early, I secretly poked around and gathered some information," Zheng Bin hastily explained. "That fat man's name is Jia Peng. He's from the Realm of Earth Sieve, and has a cultivation base of the middle Greater Heaven. Plus, he has a powerful background."

"Middle Greater Heaven stage…" Nie Tian muttered to himself and nodded as he said, "You don't need to mind me. Leave if you want, I won't blame you."

After saying these words, he fell back into silence, calculating the time that Jia Peng would take to arrive. He was already preparing himself for the upcoming battle.

The first thing that came to mind was the chaotic magnetic field technique he had learned from the mysterious land.

Since it didn't affect him, he had yet to know what kind of effect that magnetic field would have on people.

However, he had a faint feeling that the chaotic magnetic field, which required an enormous amount of psychic power, spiritual power, and flesh power to condense, would definitely have a special use.

Looking at Nie Tian, who was prepared to stand his ground, Zheng Bin looked extremely hesitant, as if he was fighting an inner war in his heart.

He had abandoned Nie Tian twice; once in the Green Illusion dimension and once in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

Both times, he had deemed that Nie Tian would be killed beyond the shadow of a doubt.

However, both times, Nie Tian had managed to survive at the end, and he even came out almost unscathed.

Now he was faced with a choice again. Leave Nie Tian be? Or fight side by side with him?

He looked deeply at Nie Tian.

On his face, he didn't see the slightest bit of panic. Graveness and toughness was all there was.

Nie Tian slowly adjusted his breathing. Within his eyes, there seemed to be…a trace of excitement and expectancy.

Not only did Jia Peng's arrival not destroy Nie Tian's confidence, it seemed to have actually aroused his fighting spirit!

A stern look could be seen on Zheng Bin's face as he suddenly said, "I'll fight with you!"

He finally made a different decision when he was faced with the same choice again.

"Okay, good." Nie Tian replied without much thinking. "Move slightly away from me. I need to make some preparations." After that, he held his hands in front of him, palms facing each other, and started to mobilize his psychic power, spiritual power, and flesh power.

He started to form the mysterious, twisting magnetic field.

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Nie Tian held his hands in front of his chest, palms facing each other, as he condensed his psychic power, spiritual power, and flesh power to start expanding the chaotic, twisting magnetic field outwards with himself as the center.

An abnormal surge was gradually born in between his palms.

Once that surge was created, it rapidly spread out towards its surroundings like water ripples.

"What?!" Zheng Bin, who was now standing several meters from him, widened his eyes in the instant that he sensed the strange energy surge.

"One meter, two meters…" Nie Tian quietly counted in his heart as he acutely sensed the range that the magnetic field had covered.

At that moment, he realized that even though Zheng Bin kept a distance from him, he was still within a five meters radius.

Nie Tian slightly frowned and gave him a meaningful look to indicate for him to move away a bit further.

After receiving his indication, Zheng Bin stepped back without the slightest hesitation.

A trace of seriousness appeared on Zheng Bin's face.

Actually, he didn't need Nie Tian's indication. He had already prepared to move further away the moment he sensed that something wasn't right.

Following the gradual extension of the twisting magnetic field, he… was already trembling with fear even before the magnetic field had enveloped him, as his instincts had already told him that something was brooding in the area.

When the magnetic field was generated, Zheng Bin unleashed a strand of his psychic power in an attempt to probe into the mysteries within the magnetic field.

However, the second his psychic power entered that magnetic field, Zheng Bin experienced a sudden twinge of pain in his head and momentary dizziness.

It felt as if his soul was being wrung by an unknown force.

That feeling scared him into stepping backwards in the instant that Nie Tian indicated that he should.

After he distanced himself ten meters away from Nie Tian, his eyes flickered with a strange light as he fixed his gaze on Nie Tian.

However, he no longer dared to release his psychic power to pry into the secrets of that magnetic field.

"Five meters!"

Soon, the magnetic field that Nie Tian had formed with his psychic power, spiritual power, and flesh power reached a five meters range coverage.

However, it still wasn't Nie Tian's limit.

If he wanted to, he could continue to fuel it with his psychic power and further extend the range of the magnetic field to ten meters!

However, by doing that, he would be exhausted of almost all his psychic power, and wouldn't have enough psychic power to use the items that his master had bestowed upon him, when Jia Peng arrived.

Therefore, he maintained the five meter range.

However, just as he was about to stop expanding the magnetic field, he suddenly felt a change in his spiritual sea.

Gradually, strand after strand of flame power flowed out of the small vortex of flame power in his spiritual sea.

The flame power quietly entered his meridians, flowed to his palms, and infused into the magnetic field.

After receiving the strands of flame power, the originally disordered magnetic field immediately became even more violent and chaotic!

It was only a small amount of flame power. However, after it was added to the magnetic field, it seemed to have greatly enhanced the power of the magnetic field!

"What is this?" Surprised, Nie Tian probed into the magnetic field with his soul, and started pondering.

"The reason why the magnetic field has been disordered is that it is formed by my psychic power, flesh power and spiritual power. Three different types of power merging and interweaving with each other is what made the magnetic field violent.

"However, although the spiritual power and flame power share the similar origin, they have their unique features and attributes.

"Strictly speaking, the flame power should be considered as a fourth type of power.

"Only a small amount of flame power managed to massively increase the might of the magnetic field. Does this mean that…the power of the magnetic field will continue to increase if I add in more different types of power?"

He soon grasped the secrets of the magnetic field.

"Since I don't have an attribute myself, I can cultivate many more spiritual incantations with a variety of attributes.

"Every spiritual incantation of a different attribute can be considered as a different type of power at my disposal. If I infuse the many different types of power into the magnetic field, wouldn't it increase the might of the magnetic field to an even greater extent?"

His eyes lit up as he found a method to continuously increase the might of the magnetic field.

At that moment, Jia Peng from the Realm of Earth Sieve once again launched his corpulent body into the air.

As Jia Peng moved even closer to them, Zheng Bin finally had a clear view of the man's face. "It's him indeed!"

There were a number of scattered stones around Nie Tian and Zheng Bin. The two deliberately crouched down, so that Jia Peng wouldn't be able to see them from the air.

Nie Tian took a deep breath and immediately cleared his mind. "He's almost here." Without any hesitation, he took out two items from his bracelet of holding.

The first was a talisman that could be used as a life-saving item, and the second was a translucent, sparkling Ice Blast Pearl that unceasingly released a frosty aura.

According to Wu Ji, the talisman could neutralize one all-out attack of a late Greater Heaven expert, and thus save his life.

He only had a total of three talismans and similar to the Ice Blast Pearl, they were all single-use items. He should not use it unless it was a crucial moment.

After all, Jia Peng was a middle Greater Heaven stage expert. Nie Tian didn't have the confidence to survive his attacks if he didn't use a talisman.

Moreover, it would be the first time that he used the chaotic, twisting magnetic field on someone. He wasn't sure how powerful it would be and whether he would be able to block Jia Peng's attack with it.

He also wasn't sure what kind of damage the Ice Blast Pearl would inflict on the enemy. Hence, he decided to cast it out the moment Jia Peng entered the attacking range of the Ice Blast Pearl.

SHEW!

The rotund Jia Peng once again landed and bounced forward.

Meanwhile, Jia Peng's psychic awareness was like a densely-knit net, stretching outward into his surroundings.

With his middle Greater Heaven cultivation base, the range of his psychic awareness far surpassed Nie Tian's.

"Well, finally, some life auras." Jia Peng grinned, as a merciless excitement shot out of his small eyes.

Looking coldly at the prismatic meteor that Nie Tian and Zheng Bin were on, he disdainfully said, "Do you really think hiding behind rocks will work? Entering the Heaven Gate with only Lesser Heaven cultivation bases, you must have a death wish."

Muttering, Jia Peng's wobbling body directly charged towards the area that Nie Tian and Zheng Bin were at.

"He's coming at us," Zheng Bin reminded Nie Tian in a low voice.

"Yeah," Nie Tian nodded and said, "Zheng Bin, move slightly further away and maintain a fifty meter distance from me! I haven't tested the power of the Ice Blast Pearl that my master gave me, so I fear that I might hurt you."

Zheng Bin was astounded and hurriedly moved backwards, as if he had heard how powerful the Ice Blast Pearl was before.

Seeing that Jia Peng was charging directly at them, Nie Tian realized that they had already been exposed.

He stopped being secretive, he confidently walked out from behind the big rock, directly facing Jia Peng.

Seconds later, Jia Peng's sinister, cunning laugh echoed out.

The fat on his face trembled with excitement. "No matter where you came from, by stepping into the Heaven Gate with Lesser Heaven cultivation bases, you'll be at the bottom of the food chain. There is only one road open to you two: the road to extinction."

BOOM!

The fat Jia Peng suddenly accelerated, and whistled over like a human cannonball.

One after another, threads of yellow light splashed out from within him from time to time, which seemed to allow him to counter the gravity to greatly stall the descending of his soaring body .

"Earth attribute, earth power!" With a single glance, Nie Tian could tell that Jia Peng's cultivation attribute was earth, one of the five fundamental elements.

People who cultivated earth-attributed spiritual power could alter gravity for themselves.

Furthermore, the gravity in such an icy starry sky far away from the Realm of Flame Heaven was much weaker to start with. All these factors allowed Jia Peng to remain in the air for a long time!

When Jia Peng was only a hundred meters away from him, Nie Tian suddenly hurled out his tightly gripped Ice Blast Pearl.

SHEW!

The Ice Blast Pearl turned into a beam of cold light that seemed to trail with a white, icy tail as it shot towards Jia Peng.

Nie Tian had already imprinted a wisp of his psychic awareness inside the Ice Blast Pearl. When the Ice Blast Pearl was about to reach Jia Peng, a fierce fighting spirit rose in his heart as he cried out, "Explode!"

In the next moment, the Ice Blast Pearl that was glistening with an icy light instantly shot out tens of thousands of icy light beams.

Countless icy shards and icy blades also shot out from that small Ice Blast Pearl, completely filling the area that Jia Peng was in.

CRUNCH!

Immediately after, the bright icy shards and icy blades seemed to form a tornado, which soon escalated into an ice storm that engulfed Jia Peng.

ROOOOAR!

Within the icy storm, Jia Peng screamed like a dying pig as the skin on his fat body was instantly split open.

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The whirling ice shards and ice blades turned into an enormous ice storm, filling the entire sky.

In the center of the storm, Jia Peng's body was dripping with blood as pieces of torn flesh flew out from his body.

"Ice Blast Pearl!"

Nie Tian's expression flickered as he became somewhat fearful towards the power that was released by the seemingly insignificant, cold pearl.

It was only the size of a fist. However, it had shot out tens of thousands of bright, glittering ice shards and ice blades after exploding.

Not only were they incomparably sharp, but they also contained an formidable frost power!

Furthermore, it seemed that since the starry river was cold and desolate, the Ice Blast Pearl was able to display its power to the fullest.

Even though Jia Peng, who was in the middle Greater Heaven stage and cultivated earth-attributed spiritual incantations, was still a hundred meters away from Nie Tian, his whole body had already been badly mangled.

A faint smile appeared at the corner of Nie Tian's mouth. "The things that master has prepared for me are indeed awesome!"

Looking at Jia Peng, who was screaming miserably within the ice blast, he was secretly elated.

Zheng Bin, who was standing off to the side, was also astonished after seeing the damage that the Ice Blast Pearl had dealt.

He had heard of the terrifying might of Ice Blast Pearls, but never had he seen one in person.

This time, the ice storm that was caused by the Ice Blast Pearl made him truly understand why it had such a terrifying reputation.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

Just as Nie Tian secretly smiled, an ash-yellow aura suddenly wreathed Jia Peng, who was in the middle of the ice storm.

The aura consisted of Jia Peng's earth-attributed spiritual power, which was strong and intense.

CRACK! CRACK!

The frost power of the ice storm interwove with the ash-yellow aura, causing an ear-piercing noise to echo out.

Although Jia Peng was wailing like a ghost, and had sustained quite some damage, he gradually stabilized himself.

It seemed that the rock-solid power he unleashed forcefully changed the gravitational field around him.

By the time the gravitational force suddenly doubled, the ice storm that was hovering in midair abruptly dropped down.

The strange feeling of space caving in suddenly appeared in Nie Tian's mind, making him realize something was going to happen.

It was also at this moment when the small eyes of Jia Peng suddenly glared at Nie Tian as he temporarily broke free due to the ice storm sinking.

SHEW!

In the next moment, his fat body became completely unaffected by the bindings and effects of the ice storm.

His blood uncontrollably dripped to the ground. All of a sudden, he dashed towards Nie Tian, with those drops of blood resembling a drizzle of bloody rain.

"Die!" Jia Peng roared. He was like a caged beast that was on the verge of dying as he madly charged over.

At that moment, the ice storm behind him gradually dissipated, as if it had already worn out all of its power during the extremely short period of time.

Standing quite a distance away, Zheng Bin's expression suddenly flickered as he couldn't help but cry out to warn Nie Tian, "Be careful, Nie Tian!"

"Okay," Nie Tian answered. He had already been secretly making preparations. His palms were already facing each other and the air in between his hands was already changing due to the hand seal.

He knew perfectly well that he had just recently learned the Flame Spirit Incantation, and it was almost impossible for him to hurt Jia Peng with it.

Out of all the techniques at his disposal, the chaotic, twisting magnetic field might be the only one that could affect Jia Peng. After using the Ice Blast Pearl, the next thing to do was to further wear out Jia Peng.

Besides that, there was still the most explosive technique that he could use: the rage fist strike!

He was already secretly gathering his power. He was just waiting for Jia Peng to charge into the chaotic, twisting magnetic field, and then strike him with it when he was affected.

WHOOSH!

Nie Tian was enveloped in a magnetic field that was formed by the mixture of psychic power, spiritual power, flesh power, and flame power. It was growing increasingly violent and disorderly.

Meanwhile, the magnetic field seemed to be adjusting itself according to Nie Tian's mental state.

SHEW!

Jia Peng's fat body finally streaked across the sky and plummeted to the ground with a loud crash.

"Earth's Core Fission!"

As he let out a loud cry, numerous beams of ash-yellow light that resembled drifting ribbons flew out from his ten fingertips.

Those light beams seemed to carry a strange energy that could change gravity and evoke enormous changes within the earth's core.

However, as soon as they entered the endlessly twisting magnetic field surrounding Nie Tian, all of the light beams disappeared!

Not only that, but an additional type of power was added to Nie Tian's chaotic, twisting magnetic field.

Apparently, that power came from the ash-yellow light, which was none other than Jia Peng's earth-attributed spiritual power.

Strands of ash-yellow light aura started to interweave with all the different types of power within the twisting magnetic field.

Not only did the newly entered energy not calm the magnetic field, it even fueled its frenzy!

"What?!" After landing heavily on the ground, Jia Peng suddenly felt that he had lost connection with the spiritual power that he had unleashed.

When he found that he could no longer fight the gravity and uncontrollably descended toward the ground, a slight fear rose in Jia Peng's heart.

Jia Peng's expression flickered as he sensed the danger. "What is that!?"

He tried his best to remain the air, but failed.

He wasn't a rash person. When he sensed the unfavorable situation, he instinctively wanted to withdraw.

Unfortunately, when he approached the area above Nie Tian, he lost control of the gravitational field, which had never happened in the past!

The earth-attributed spiritual incantation he had cast was unable to alter gravity, not even in the least bit!

BOOM!

His fat body followed its previous trajectory as he fell into Nie Tian's twisting magnetic field.

POOH!

In the moment he entered, Jia Peng's expression turned pale as he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Even though he was in the middle Greater Heaven stage, as soon as he entered the magnetic field, he realized that his abundant and strong psychic power seemed to have been completely manipulated by the twisting magnetic field!

Affected by the the turmoil of the magnetic field, the psychic power within his mind seemed to have also become frenzied and disordered.

He had a feeling that the numerous strands of his psychic power were being forced to intertwine together, and become tighter and tighter as time passed!

Possessing a Greater Heaven cultivation base, his psychic power far surpassed Nie Tian's. This was originally one of the sharp weapons that he could use to completely overtake Nie Tian.

However, now his significant advantage in psychic power had become his burden!

His head felt like it was about to split and his mind was twisted into an muddle. Even blood gradually seeped out of his mouth, eyes, nose, and ears.

ROOOAARRRR!!

Jia Peng madly roared out as he unleashed ash-yellow spiritual power blasts that resembled arrows in every direction.

However, once those sharp arrows of spiritual power left him, they were affected by the chaotic, twisting magnetic field.

All of the spiritual power blasts were pulled by an unknown force to fly disorderly within the magnetic field, causing the berserk magnetic field to become increasingly terrifying!

Jia Peng discovered that he had thoroughly lost control of himself.

Not only his psychic power, but even his spiritual sea had become frantic and chaotic, as if he had completely fallen prey to the magnetic field.

When he discovered that the Earth Spears that he had released were unable to even reach Nie Tian, he chose to focus all his energy on controlling his spiritual sea, no longer daring to make any rash moves.

He attempted to gradually adapt himself to the strange magnetic field.

"Hmm?" Nie Tian, who was prepared to blast out the rage punch at any moment, saw that Jia Peng was bleeding from his seven apertures. Unexpectedly, he didn't strike at the first possible moment.

He thought to himself that even though Jia Peng had a cultivation base of the middle Greater Heaven stage, he started bleeding from his seven apertures in the instant that he fell into the magnetic field.

Furthermore, the ash-yellow spirit force blasts that Jia Peng unleashed were also affected by the magnetic field and started to fly about disorderly.

Jia Peng's attack didn't affect him at all, while Jia Peng himself…seemed to have gradually lost control of himself.

He wasn't in a hurry to make a move because he knew that he would be left powerless once he cast the terrifying fist strike with all his strength.

Since he was in a starry river far away from the Realm of Flame Heaven, danger could be lurking anywhere, and Zheng Bin hadn't fully obtained his trust.

He intended to preserve his strength as long as he could. Before Jia Peng could post a threat to him, he wasn't anxious to make a move.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Standing within the chaotic, twisting magnetic field, Jia Peng glared at Nie Tain. He had already attempted many methods to adapt to that magnetic field.

However, the various methods that he had thought of had all been proven unable to resist or adapt to the magnetic field.

Finally, he gave up.

The anguish in his head gradually grew beyond his tolerance. Even more blood flowed out of his mouth, nose, and ears.

He suddenly bit on the tip of his tongue in an attempt to use the piercing pain to keep himself sober. He used all his strength to trudge backwards as he tried to leave that strange magnetic field.

Seeing through Jia Peng's intentions, Nie Tian finally approached him with a cunning grin. "Do you want to leave now?"

Yet he still didn't plan to strike him. Instead, he wanted to test the might of the magnetic field via Jia Peng and dig into the true mysteries that lay within.

Since Jia Peng wasn't able to attack him, he could continue to watch and sense the chaos within the magnetic field more closely.

At that moment, he became increasingly eager to learn the profound truths of the magnetic field.

"Don't leave so soon. Now that you are here, we should spend some time and talk," Nie Tian teased as he slowly approached Jia Peng, before stopping in front of him and blocking the way he had attempted to escape in.

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"Get the hell away from me!" Jia Peng's expression was sinister as his face was covered in blood. Blood unceasingly flowed out from his mouth, nose, and ears.

By this point, he was truly terrified of the chaotic magnetic field.

He discovered that he couldn't resist it at all. No matter how hard he tried to control himself, he couldn't counter the influence of the magnetic field.

Thus, he had no choice but to escape as quickly as possible.

However, when he tried to run away, Nie Tian, the youngster he originally attached little importance to, unexpectedly had the audacity to stand in his way.

His bloodshot eyes were brimming with frenzy and wrath.

"Hmm?!" Nie Tian softly hummed as a light of excitement appeared within his eyes. Then, he started to laugh.

He just made another discovery.

As time passed, the chaotic magnetic field that was originally five meters in diameter had already shrunk to a range of three meters.

The three meter range was already slightly unsafe, since Jia Peng, who found it hard to move away from Nie Tian, was only barely enveloped by it.

However, he surprisingly discovered that the three-meter magnetic field could move along with him as he walked to block Jia Peng's way out.

Meanwhile, the three meter radius didn't change as he moved about.

When Nie Tian approached Jia Peng, the chaotic magnetic field that surrounded him followed his steps.

Due to the shift in Nie Tian's position, Jia Peng, who was about to leave the magnetic field, was once again in the center of it!

The magnetic field would always be centered around Nie Tian. As long as he moved, the magnetic field…would also shift with him.

Such a discovery made him seethe with excitement. This meant that once he created the magnetic field, he wouldn't have to remain in his original location.

He would be able to move around freely and fight his opponent, since the magnetic field would always follow him.

Nie Tian couldn't stop grinning. "This is awesome!"

All of a sudden, he reached out toward Jia Peng's neck, which was already within arm's reach.

Bright spirit auras flowed out from his five fingers, and his arm was gradually filled with surging flesh power as veins bulged from it.

His whole arm was full of terrifying power.

"Screw off!" Jia Peng roared madly. At the same time, a layer of ash-yellow spiritual aura suddenly floated out to envelop him.

"Earth Shield!" The ash-yellow spiritual power carried strong and rich earth power as it formed a protective shield around him.

Considering his Greater Heaven cultivation base, Jia Peng believed that the protective shield was tough enough to withstand any attack from a Lesser Heaven stage cultivator.

Let alone Nie Tian who was only in the early Lesser Heaven stage!

FIZZ! FIZZ!

However, as soon as the shield was formed, it was distorted by the chaotic magnetic field.

The power within the shield was instantly torn into pieces and turned into ash-yellow motes of light that soon dissipated within the magnetic field.

The protective screen that Jia Peng spent great amounts of energy to create disappeared in the blink of an eye.

At that moment, Nie Tian's hand irresistibly and firmly grabbed onto Jia Peng's neck.

He tightened his fingers forcefully.

He had hoped to hear the sound of bones shattering, but didn't. Instead, it felt as if he were gripping a metal pillar.

"What?!" He was secretly astonished.

However, it was just a second before he realized what was happening.

Jia Peng's neck suddenly unleashed a surge of ash-yellow spiritual power, which forcefully entered Nie Tian's hand and travelled upward into his arm.

In seconds, his arm became as heavy as a huge rock that weighed a thousand tons, making it powerless.

His joints even made faint creaking noises, seemingly unable to withstand the enormous weight.

"Hey!" A savage smile appeared on Jia Peng's blood-covered face. "Do you really think that you can kill me with your early Lesser Heaven cultivation base? If not for this strange magnetic field, then considering your puny strength, I could have killed you with a single strike!"

BOOM!

An even heavier surge of power forced it way into the hand that Nie Tian had used to grip Jia Peng's neck, as unstoppable as a hot knife cutting through butter.

Nie Tian's hand instantly drooped downwards, and he became unable to raise it.

The earth power that Jia Peng sent into Nie Tian's arm went berserk inside of him, madly ravaging his flesh and meridians.

Nie Tian let out a muffled groan as he suffered a great blow. Therefore, he started to use all his strength to rid himself of Jia Peng's earth power.

He also realized that Jia Peng…had just tricked him.

Jia Peng always knew that the shield he created wouldn't be able to persist within the magnetic field.

It was only a pretense to throw Nie Tian off guard.

He didn't use much earth power to create the shield. His true power was all gathered on his neck.

He was waiting for Nie Tian to grab his neck so that he would be able to channel his devastating power into Nie Tian's hand via contact!

He didn't move at all. However, he managed to successfully harm Nie Tian within his chaotic magnetic field.

Jia Peng madly laughed with a cunning expression in his eyes. "Little bastard! You're still too green!"

Looking at Nie Tian, who was painfully resisting the earth power that had entered his body, Jia Peng once again started to move away with great difficulty, with no regard to the blood that was still dripping down his face.

He was only one more step from escaping from the chaotic magnetic field.

"Almost there!" Jia Peng rejoiced in his heart.

He was sure that once he escaped from the effects of the strange magnetic field, he would be able to instantly kill Nie Tian from a safe distance!

However, just as he was about to succeed, Zheng Bin from the Mystic Mist sect waved his sword as he pierced towards him.

CLANG!

The tip of the sword directly struck the middle of Jia Peng's back, causing ash-yellow dots of light to splash out from his back.

However, the sword failed to pierce into Jia Peng's back. Instead, it was sent flying by a strong counter force.

Eyes brimming with a murderous aura, Jia Peng turned around. "Brat, you're courting death!"

He now planned to finish off Zheng Bin first after getting out of the magnetic field.

On the other hand, when Nie Tian sensed that something wasn't right, he had already taken out the spiritual talisman that his master had given him from his bracelet of holding. He was prepared to receive Jia Peng's revenge at any time now.

At that moment, Nie Tian suddenly went blank watched Zheng Bin dashing toward Jia Peng with an ash-gray skeletal tail. Apparently, he hoped that the sharpness of the tail would be enough to pierce Jia Peng's defenses.

POOH!

Zheng Bin, who had somehow severed the tail of the mysterious outsider creature, stabbed it into Jia Peng's back with all his strength.

The ash-gray bone completely ignored the defenses condensed by Jia Peng's earth power as it completely entered Jia Peng's body.

The vigor in Jia Peng's enraged eyes instantly faded.

He looked into Zheng Bin's eyes with a blank expression on his face. Then he turned his head back and blankly looked down at the bone that was jutting out from his chest, before collapsing to the ground with a loud crash.

The middle Greater Heaven stage Jia Peng, from the Realm of Earth Sieve, was first injured by the Ice Blast Pearl, then bound down by the chaotic magnetic field, and finally killed after being penetrated by the outsider's tail.

Zheng Bin sat on the ground as he gasped for air, still yet to recover from the shock.

Off to the side, Nie Tian was unceasingly gathering his spiritual power and flesh power to resist the earth power that Jia Peng had sent into him.

After a long time, he finally stopped the ravaging earth power inside of him, and his chaotic magnetic field also dissipated into the air.

He raised his head and saw Zheng Bin, who was standing not far from him, looking back at him.

"I can't believe a Greater Heaven stage expert possesses such formidable power!" Nie Tian sighed.

In order to kill Jia Peng, he had used an Ice Blast Pearl and condensed the chaotic magnetic field. Despite that, his efforts almost went to waste if not for Zheng Bin's attack at the crucial moment.

Furthermore, Jia Peng wasn't the strongest among all the experts from the other realms. He was only in the middle Greater Heaven stage.

More importantly, the reason why Jia Peng got himself killed was that he had never expected that Nie Tian would possess powerful weapons like the Ice Blast Pearl, and thus fallen into the chaotic magnetic field unprepared.

Otherwise, considering his strength, Jia Peng could have killed them as easily as if he were slaughtering livestock.

There were also late Greater Heaven stage experts from the outside realms waiting for them. If they didn't meet Jia Peng, but a late Greater Heaven stage expert instead, would they still win?

Nie Tian's expression turned grim.

Zheng Bin smiled bitterly and said, "The inferiority in our cultivation base is too great. I don't understand why this Heaven Gate would mix Lesser Heaven, Heaven, and Greater Heaven stage cultivators together. We should only have Lesser Heaven stage cultivators as our opponents. It's too unfair for us to fight against Heaven and Greater Heaven stage cultivators!"

Nie Tian slowly walked towards Jia Peng's corpse. "We're fortunate to still be breathing."

He took the bracelet of holding off of Jia Peng's wrist and released a strand of his psychic awareness to search through the items within.

His expression flickered as he cried out at the first glance of the items within, "We've struck gold!!"

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"What!?" Zheng Bin also grew intrigued. Without even thinking about it, he stood up and walked towards Nie Tian.

At this moment, dots of light flew out of the Heaven Gate pattern on Jia Peng's hand.

Like fireflies, they quietly flew towards Zheng Bin.

Within a flash, each and every light dot disappeared into the Heaven Gate pattern on Zheng Bin's hand.

At the same time, the Heaven Gate pattern on Jia Peng's hand gradually turned dark and fuzzy, before it completely vanished.

The sudden change caused Nie Tian's expression to flicker. He curiously looked at Zheng Bin.

Zheng Bin looked down at the light dots on the back of his hand and quietly counted them. After that, he said, his voice sounding a bit confused, "There are seven more light dots…"

He waved his arm and carefully examined it. He discovered that it seemed nothing had changed after those light dots had entered his Heaven Gate pattern.

Face filled with confusion, he contemplated over what had happened.

"Those light dots ought to have come from those who died." Nie Tian said, eyes glittering with a profound light. "Six of them belonged to the people who Jia Peng killed, and the other dot belonged to Jia Peng himself."

When he fought Jia Peng earlier, he noticed that there were six small dots of light in the Heaven Gate pattern on Jia Peng's hand.

However, he didn't have to time to read into it back then.

Zheng Bin killed Jia Peng by piercing through his body with the outsider's tail bone. This must have caused all the light dots that Jia Peng had collected, and the one that belonged to Jia Peng himself, to fly into Zheng Bin's hand.

"By killing another trial taker, one can collect their victim's Heaven Gate key? What does this mean?" Zheng Bin was deeply puzzled.

Nie Tian shook his head and said, "I'm not quite sure either. However, I don't think that's a bad thing."

With an intense look on his face, he continued, "From the look of it, those bastards from the outer realms must have already learned about the secrets of the Heaven Gate trial. Not long after they arrived, they already started hunting down other trial takers.

"They might not be after the treasures that their opponents carried. These light dots…could be what they truly want!

"Clearly the mechanism of the Heaven Gate trial encourages trial takers to kill each other!"

Nie Tian's expression turned grim.

Zheng Bin's heart shivered. "If that's the case, anyone we meet in the future will very likely attack us, won't they? It won't matter whether we have enmities with each other or we know each other, right?"

"I'm afraid so." Nie Tian sighed.

Zheng Bin hesitated for a while before saying, "You contributed the most to killing Jia Peng. At least four of these seven light dots should be yours. It's just that I don't know how to give them to you."

After listening to Nie Tian's explanation, Zheng Bin had a feeling that people who obtained more light dots would gain greater benefits in the future.

In order to kill Jia Peng, Nie Tian had used a Ice Blast Pearl and cast the strange magnetic field. He even suffered injuries during the fight.

He had only dealt the last strike when Jia Peng was about to use up his strength. He never thought that he would take all the benefits which should have been shared by the two of them.

He felt that it was somewhat unfair for Nie Tian.

Nie Tian smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, you deserve them. Without your final strike, not only would I have been unable to obtain those light dots, I could've even been killed by Jia Peng.

"You saved my life. Don't blame yourself for it."

Then he chuckled and said, "Come on, I'll show you Jia Peng's possessions!"

After Nie Tian finished speaking, one item after another flew out from Jia Peng's bracelet of holding.

About ten seconds later, the icy ground between him and Zheng Bin was filled with treasures of all kinds.

There were spiritual materials, spirit stones, medicinal pills, as well as six spiritual tools of rather high ranks within the pile of treasures.

Zheng Bin's expression flickered as he said with a sullen tone, "There is so much stuff here. This Pure Gold Blade belonged to a elder martial brother of mine. Some of these spiritual materials also came from the Mystic Mist sect…"

Clearly, many of the items in Jia Peng's bracelet of holding didn't belong to him.

He had looted all the treasures and spiritual tools that his victims had owned.

After Nie Tian classified the pile of treasures, he turned to Zheng Bin and said, "I've totalled everything up. There are are thirty-two spirit materials of different grades, eight thousand spirit stones, five bottles of medicinal pills, and six spiritual tools. How about we each take half?"

"Won't it be unfair to you?" Zheng Bin seemed overwhelmed by such an unexpected favor. He waved his hand and continued, "You played the most important role in killing Jia Peng, and plus I've already gotten the seven light dots. I'd feel ashamed if we split Jia Peng's possessions."

"Be quick about it." Nie Tian looked somewhat displeased.

Zheng Bin hesitated for a moment, since he secretly desired those treasures. Then he said, "If that's the case, I'll take the items that belonged to the Mystic Mist sect, as well as a few items that suit me. How does that sound?"

He knew that he couldn't compare himself to Nie Tian. Nie Tian had Wu Ji from the Cloudsoaring sect to back him, which allowed Nie Tian to enter the Heaven Gate trial with a considerable amount of spiritual materials and medicinal pills in his possession.

Although he was one of the core disciples of the Mystic Mist sect, almost everyone trial taker from the Mystic Mist sect had a cultivation base that was higher than his, and their status also wasn't something that he could match.

Because of that, he had far fewer spiritual materials than Nie Tian. Having discovered that there was no usable spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth within the icy river of stars where he had to remain in for a long time, the problem of how to get hold of more resources had already become a headache to him.

When Jia Peng's enormous wealth was suddenly placed in front of him like that, it would be impossible for him to not be moved at all.

Nie Tian magnanimously took a step back. "No problem, you choose first."

"Thanks. As a matter of fact, I do need a few things." A hint of happiness appeared on Zheng Bin's face as he finally abandoned the pretense of courtesy. He went ahead and took the few treasures that originally belonged to the Mystic Mist sect, and a few spiritual materials that were suitable for his cultivation. After that, he took a few spirit stones and medicinal pills before he stopped.

The items that he took were roughly a fifth of all the treasures that they had looted.

He wasn't greedy at all.

Nie Tian nodded inwardly. After Zheng Bin finished his selection of items, Nie Tian quickly stored the remaining treasures into his bracelet of holding.

After killing Jia Peng together, the tension between the two of them eased to a great extent.

Especially for Zheng Bin.

After fighting together with Nie Tian this time, he had discovered that he actually didn't know Nie Tian at all when they were in the Green Illusion dimension.

At this moment, he couldn't help but think of the various details of their adventure within the Green Illusion dimension. His expression suddenly flickered as an idea hit him. "Was it you who first discovered Yu Tong's Earth Web back when we were in the Green Illusion dimension? Also, was it because of you that Yu Tong suddenly fell unconscious and had to withdraw?"

Although he didn't know Nie Tian back then, he was quite familiar with Pan Tao. Therefore, when Pan Tao said that he had sensed abnormalities from underground, Zheng Bin found it strange.

As he recalled it now, Pan Tao had left together with Nie Tian at that time.

"Hahaha, the past is the past. No need to overthink things." Nie Tian laughed and didn't give a clear answer.

However, Zheng Bin saw through his words.

With a slight nod, Zheng Bin said, "I feel like I've just come to know you. If I had known what kind of power you possessed and what you were capable of when we were in the Green Illusion dimension, I would've done everything in my power to help you and save you."

Nie Tian gave a broad smile, not saying anything. Then he sat down on the ground, took out some spirit beast meat from his bracelet of holding, and started eating in order to recover the injuries to his meridians and internal organs.

"Thanks for everything." With these words, Zheng Bin walked towards Jia Peng's corpse and retrieved the tail bone that was stuck inside.

WHOOSH!

A pile of sparkling and translucent Flame Crystals that contained rich flame power were piled by Nie Tian's feet.

There were about several dozens of them, most of which came from Jia Peng.

He believed that there had been disciples of the Ghost sect and Blood sect among Jia Peng's victims, who also obtained a few Flame Crystals when they were in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

Now, Nie Tian could make full use of all these Flame Crystals to continue cultivating the Flame Spirit Incantation.

"It seems that the spiritual materials and spirit stones that I've obtained from killing a Greater Heaven stage cultivator can sustain me for quite some time. I've struck gold this time…" Muttering to himself, Nie Tian gripped a Flame Crystal in his hand as he started to cultivate attentively.

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After an unknown period of time passed, Nie Tian awoke from his cultivation. Out of the pile of Flame Crystals in front of him, seven had been drained of their flame power and shattered into pieces of mundane rock.

The vortex of flame power within his spiritual sea clearly increased in size by a significant amount after this round of cultivation.

The flame power contained within it was much thicker and purer than it was before his fight with Jia Peng.

Previously, his meridians and muscles had suffered a certain degree of damage as a result of the earth power that lay within Jia Peng's attack.

Nie Tian had deliberately consumed a large amount of spirit beast meat before cultivating. The pure flesh power that came with it seemed to have quietly spread throughout his body, healing his internal injuries without him even realizing it.

Standing about ten meters away, Zheng Bin said with a warm smile, "You're finally awake."

Wearing white garments, he looked rather handsome.

Nie Tian rose, nodded his head, and said, "How long was I out for?"

He didn't have any instruments that could tell time. However, from his experience in the Green Illusion dimension, he knew Zheng Bin had an instrument that could tell the time within mysterious realms.

"Two days," Zheng Bin replied.

Nie Tian rubbed his nose and he said with a chuckle, "It seems our luck isn't that bad after all. It's hard to imagine that no one actually discovered us during these last two days."

"Hahaha!" Zheng Bin also laughed, "You know what? I don't know why, but after we killed Jia Peng together, I'm suddenly not that scared anymore. Of course, it's mainly thanks to you. Your fearlessness when facing Jia Peng seems to have inspired me. I'm certain that I will be able to obtain a lifelong benefit from my experience here, given that I can live through the Heaven Gate trial!"

"Oh, really?" Nie Tian was both surprised and flattered.

Zheng Bin rose to his feet. "Yeah, it seems to me that you don't have the word fear in your vocabulary. Of course, it might be all the trump cards up your sleeves that allow you to have such inexorable confidence."

He looked towards a distant meteor that was floating in the starry sky as he said, "Perhaps it's time we looked around in other places."

This was him proposing to leave and explore.

He wouldn't have the confidence and courage to leave this seemingly safe place if he were to go off alone.

The various miraculous methods that Nie Tian had used to fight Jia Peng made Zheng Bin feel that he would be much safer if he traveled together with Nie Tian.

He had already made up his mind that he would stick together with Nie Tian during the Heavenly Gate trial as long as he could.

"Sure…" Nie Tian also rose to his feet.

He had already obtained a primary understanding of the Flame Spirit Incantation after the last two days of cultivation. His injuries had also fully healed.

At present, he was at his peak state, and had also developed a high confidence in the might of the chaotic magnetic field.

Therefore he also believed that it was time to explore other places.

After the two of them reached an agreement, they left the meteor that they had never dared to leave before, and moved towards nearby meteors.

Within the icy river of stars, they explored meteor after meteor. They would go to a nearby meteor to search for life. After finding no signs of life, they would head towards another one.

Time quickly passed. Within the blink of an eye, another three days went by.

They had already moved far away from the meteor they originally hid on. However, they still couldn't find any signs of life.

All they had found were a few frozen corpses. There were corpses of people from the Mystic Mist sect, Ghost sect, and Blood sect, all of them killed brutally.

Mentally prepared for the cruelty and fierceness of the Heaven Gate trial, Nie Tian turned a blind eye to the corpses, and seemed completely unaffected.

Zheng Bin had already known that Jia Peng had killed some of his senior martial brothers, so he also maintained his calm when seeing the corpses.

The two of them took their time to cultivate and meticulously traveled from one meteor to another, without any destination in mind.

One day…

As they traveled, Nie Tian unleashed his psychic awareness every so often to scan for any abnormalities in the surroundings. He suddenly detected an intense bloody aura in front of them.

As he narrowed his eyes, his psychic awareness seemed to become invisible tentacles, stretching out of his soul and carefully probing forwards.

Gradually, he discovered the traces of the blood strings from a Earth Web underneath the earth that lay ahead.

Nie Tian held his steps. "It's the Earth Web!"

With furrowed brows, he looked at the icy ground in front of him, which was filled with scattered stones, while indicating for Zheng Bin to stop.

Zheng Bin's expression faintly changed. "People from the Blood sect?"

Nie Tian nodded. Pointing towards the scattered stones in front of him, he said, "There are blood strings under the ground."

Although they were both at the the early Lesser Heaven stage, Zheng Bin's psychic power wasn't as strong as Nie Tian's. Therefore, he couldn't sense the abnormalities that lay under the ground in front of them.

However, by this point, he was very certain that it was Nie Tian who had discovered the underground movements while they were in the Green Illusion dimension, and that it was Nie Tian who had discovered Yu Tong secretly activating her technique.

Having a new level of respect toward Nie Tian, Zheng Bin pondered for a moment before asking, "What do you think we should do? Do we… go back?"

There were a large number of enormous meteors in the vicinity. If they wanted to, they could keep away from the trial takers from the Blood Sect and continue exploring other meteors.

"The Blood sect…" Nie Tian pondered inwardly, looking somewhat hesitatant.

However, at that moment, the psychic awareness that he spread out told him that someone was rapidly closing in.

Furthermore, he was incomparably familiar with that person's aura.

A bitter look appeared at the corner of his mouth. "Yu Tong!"

He was well aware how much Yu Tong hated him, and he was fairly certain that she would immediately strike the second she saw him, without even saying a word.

"Let's go." Without wasting a moment, Nie Tian turned around, wishing to leave as soon as possible.

Upon hearing Yu Tong's name, Zheng Bin also had a headache, since he also knew that the woman was quite a character.

Zheng Bin hurriedly sped away after Nie Tian.

SHEW!

A scarlet, bloody figure suddenly dashed over, at a speed so fast that it seemed as if she had turned into a stream of light. It stopped after reaching the limit of the Earth Web.

The figure was none other than the witch Yu Tong.

Wearing red garments from head to toe, she stood at the edge of the Earth Web's reach, seemingly cautious with her next movement.

It was as if… she didn't dare to leave the area that the Earth Web covered.

"Nie Tian!" Having found out that the person trying to escape was Nie Tian, she was instantly agitated.

In an instant, her pupils became bloodshot, appearing demonic yet gorgeous.

At this moment, Feng Luo from the Blood sect also arrived like a flash of light. "Nie Tian…"

After seeing Yu Tong bursting into a fuming rage after finding out it was Nie Tian, Feng Luo hastily said, "Little Tong, don't be impulsive! Times have changed! This isn't the Realm of Flame Heaven, and our realm is about to face huge calamity! From now on, the seven sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven are in the same boat! You must temporarily put aside the grudges you have against Nie Tian!"

As he spoke, Nie Tian noticed that the early Greater Heaven stage Feng Luo seemed somewhat pale, as if he had exhausted plenty of his strength.

"Uncle Feng, I, I can't… not after everything he's done to me!" Yu Tong clenched her teeth as she said.

"I understand," Feng Luo smiled bitterly. Then he cast a fierce glare towards Nie Tian, as he remembered the despicable things he had done to Yu Tong when they were in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range. "This damn brat truly deserves to be killed. If we can pull through the calamity that'll hit the Realm of Flame Heaven, I will personally arrange for you to have a fair fight with him. However… considering where we are now, we can't afford to waste any strength on him!"

Yu Tong's demonic eyes were still fixed on Nie Tian, she gradually tuned down her hatred toward Nie Tian after hearing Feng Luo's exhortation.

On the other hand, Nie Tian also stopped fleeing after hearing Feng Luo's words.

"What are you doing?" Zheng Bin said with an anxious look on his face.

Yu Tong's appearance alone had given him have a headache. Adding in the early Greater Heaven stage Feng Luo, his only thought now was to run as far away as he could.

If it were another time, he would have long since abandoned Nie Tian and escaped by himself after seeing his foolish behavior.

However, now he decided to stay with Nie Tian, although he was inwardly questioning Nie Tian's choice.

Nie Tian turned around and spoke loudly to Feng Luo and Yu Tong, "Senior Feng Luo is correct. In the past, the seven sects were incompatible as fire and water. It was natural that we started killing each other whenever we met. However, it's a different time now. The Realm of Flame Heaven will soon be invaded by demons. By the time we return, it's possible that the Realm of Flame Heaven will have already been overtaken.

"Even if the seven sects have joined forces and fought off the invading demons, I'm afraid that their strength will definitely be greatly weakened. Then the ambitious ones from the other realms will very likely swoop in and take the opportunity to seize the Realm of Flame Heaven for themselves.

"This is only what will possibly happen to the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"Within the Heaven Gate trial, there are still many from the other realms, like Jia Peng, who are slaughtering our people.

"Facing a situation like this, if still we continue fighting among ourselves, won't we be digging our own grave?"

With these words, Nie Tian even slowly walked towards Feng Luo and Yu Tong.

Zheng Bin seemed to be floundering over what he should do. After a while of pondering, he also approached Feng Luo.

Feng Luo gave a cold snort as he stared at Nie Tian. "As much as I dislike you, at least you've got some logic there. However, you two are too weak. You have nothing to offer if we let you tag along. Since we all came from the Realm of Flame Heaven, I'll let you off the hook. You can go fend for yourselves."

He waved his hands, indicating for Nie Tian and Zheng Bin go away.

"But Senior Feng Luo, we've killed Jia Peng from the Realm of Earth Sieve!" Zheng Bin shouted loudly, "Are we qualified to travel with you now?"

"You've killed Jia Peng?" Feng Luo sneered. "Are you joking?"

Zheng Bin raised his hand high in the air as he showed the seven light dots on the back of his hand to Feng Luo, "Look for yourself!"

Eyes narrowing, Feng Luo took a close look at Zheng Bin's hand. Finally intrigued, he asked, "Did you two really kill Jia Peng?"

"Sure as hell!" replied Zheng Bin.

Feng Luo hesitated for a moment before exhorting Yu Tong in a low voice. Then he beckoned for them to come over and said, "Come on. I need you to give me a rational explanation as to how the two of you managed to kill Jia Peng, a powerful expert with a cultivation base of the middle Greater Heaven, with your petty strength!"

"Okay!" Zheng Bin replied as he stepped towards Feng Luo.

Nie Tian also walked over.

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