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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Walking towards Feng Luo, Nie Tian had his eyes fixed on Yu Tong. Hatred was written all over her face, and she looked like she wanted to eat him alive.

"Hahaha!"

After letting out a soft, embarrassed laugh, Nie Tian chose to ignore her. Slowly, he and Zheng Bin walked over to the area of scattered stones.

Just as he was about to enter the area within the Earth Web's coverage, Nie Tian seemed slightly hesitant, as he was a bit worried that this was a trap set up by Feng Luo.

However, he took the step forward and nothing happened.

Feng Luo had a grim face as he stood beside a shattered meteorite. Glaring at Zheng Bin, he said, "Your explanation!"

Facing Feng Luo so closely, the previously loud Zheng Bin suddenly became somewhat timorous.

He gave an embarrassed laugh as he shot a glance towards the calm Nie Tian next to him, while saying, "Ask him."

Then Feng Luo and Yu Tong's gazes instantly shifted to Nie Tian.

"We exerted all our means to deal with a middle Greater Heaven cultivator from the other realms!" Feng Luo snorted as he said, "Even still, we suffered a terrible defeat and almost died fighting him. Therefore, we had no choice but to retreat to this area and refrain from making any rash actions, so as to gather enough strength to fight that person again! Jia Peng was also at the middle Greater Heaven, and by no means weaker than our opponent. What did you use to kill him?"

Although he saw the seven extra light dots on the back of Zheng Bin's hand, Feng Luo still didn't believe what Zheng Bin said.

"If you can't give a rational answer, I won't let you off!" Yu Tong coldly said.

An intense, bloody aura quietly emerged from her curvaceous body and suffused into the air around her.

Deep under the ground, countless strands of Earth Web blood strings that she had condensed were quietly slithering around like snakes.

It seemed as though she would immediately make a move if Nie Tian's answer sounded wrong in the slightest, despite what Feng Luo had said.

She couldn't help but grit her teeth when she remembered how Nie Tian had humiliated her in the Green Illusion dimension, and his unspeakable actions in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

"Well…"

Nie Tian hesitated for a moment. Then he told himself that only by uniting against their common enemy within the Heaven Gate trial, would trial takers from the Realm of Flame Heaven maintain their power to return to their homeland in the future.

He decided to reveal some of his strength.

"Firstly, I used a Ice Blast Pearl. That was how I injured Jia Peng when he first approached me.

"After that, skin cut open and flesh torn, Jia Peng fell into special magnetic field that I created."

While speaking, he reached out his hands and held them in front of his chest, palms facing each other. He quietly unleashed his psychic power, flesh power, spiritual power, as well as flame power, forming a chaotic magnetic field that covered a range of three meters.

In the instant that the chaotic magnetic field appeared, the expressions of Feng Luo and Yu Tong suddenly flickered.

It was especially true for Yu Tong!

The Earth Web, which she had formed using the Blood sect's secret technique and a high ranked spirit equipment, suddenly escaped her control in the moment that the chaotic magnetic field formed!

The energy within the area Nie Tian was in turned incomparably disorderly and violent. The chaotic magnetic field that only covered a three meter radius seemed to have twisted the Earth Web, which was lying under the ground!

Neither the blood strings nor her psychic power were able to penetrate into the chaotic magnetic field.

A great ripple occurred in the Earth Web when the magnetic field spread out!

The fear of losing control of the Earth Web rose in Yu Tong's heart.

It was also at this moment that Feng Luo sensed that something was going on, and suddenly took a step forward.

With that step, he entered Nie Tian's magnetic field. Immediately after, he let out a muffled groan as his face turned even more pale.

All of a sudden, Feng Luo was completely drowned by the bizarre sensations that Jia Peng had previously experienced.

He felt a sudden dizziness and nearly passed out.

Nie Tian hastily stepped backwards, freeing Feng Luo of the influence of the magnetic field without the need for his own efforts.

As he moved backward, the magnetic field moved with him. Feng Luo, who was on the verge of fainting, suddenly became clear-headed.

He stared at Nie Tian, eyes filled with shock and disbelief. Gasping for air, he asked, "Did your master teach you how to wield this strange, chaotic power?"

Nie Tian nodded. "Yes, he did."

Feng Luo's eyes lit up as he spoke in a low voice, "No wonder they all say that Senior Wu Ji is an unusual character in the Realm of Flame Heaven. I guess it's possible that you two killed Jia Peng."

"Be quick and stop your magnetic field!" Yu Tong couldn't help but shriek.

At this moment, she discovered that the Earth Web she had gone to great lengths to condense was about to be ripped apart by Nie Tian's chaotic magnetic field.

She was very clear about what would happen if it did. She knew what kind of injuries she'd suffer once it was fractured and thrown into a state of chaos!

"I, I don't know how to stop it." Nie Tian suddenly realized that he had been damaging Yu Tong's Earth Web and hastily jumped away from his original location.

Fortunately, the effect of gravity in the ice-cold river of stars was extremely small.

With little effort, he managed to spring into midair, and the magnetic field surrounding him followed him into the sky.

After the magnetic field rose into the air as a result of Nie Tian leaving the ground, Yu Tong immediately looked relieved.

Apparently, the Earth Web wouldn't be affected by the magnetic field, as long as the magnetic field wasn't in contact with the blood strings that ran under the ground.

Nie Tian soon landed outside of the range of Yu Tong's Earth Web.

There, he waited for the magnetic field to wear out its energy and disperse by itself.

Off to the side, Feng Luo and Yu Tong spent a moment to calm themselves before rushing over to Nie Tian.

They stopped at the edge of the reach of the Earth Web. Standing about ten meters away from Nie Tian, they used an extremely strange gaze to examine him.

Nie Tian looked back at them.

After a while, a faint smile floated on Feng Luo's face as he turned to Yu Tong and said, "Little Tong, set aside your grudges with him for the time being. This kid learned this strange technique from his master Wu Ji, and maybe more… We might benefit from his existence. The foreign cultivator who attacked us earlier probably has already recovered his strength. It won't be long before he comes back to try and kill us.

"Both of us spent a lot of energy during that previous fight.

"It's highly unlikely for the two of us to beat him.

"Unless we have Nie Tian to help us. With his strange magnetic field and Wu Ji's Ice Blast Pearls, we might be able to defeat that man.

"What do you say?"

Feng Luo spent great effort to try to persuade Yu Tong to temporarily put aside the enmity between her and Nie Tian, for the sake of working together to fight that foreigner.

Clenching her jaw, Yu Tong cast another fierce look toward Nie Tian and finally gave a sigh of grievance. "As you wish, Uncle Feng."

Their previous fight against the foreign cultivator was such a close call for them, that both she and Feng Luo had spared no effort. Even still, they only managed to narrowly escape.

However, Feng Luo had sustained injuries and it was impossible for him to recover within a short period of time.

If that man came back for them and caught Feng Luo in this situation, she could only watch Feng Luo die. And then it would be her turn.

The mere thought of the merciless and vulgar look within that man's eyes, she couldn't help but tremble with fear, while goosebumps appeared on her skin.

Thus, she agreed to Feng Luo's proposal.

"Fine. Let him come with us."

Unwilling to spare Nie Tian another glance, Yu Tong turned around and walked off. She returned to the area with shattered stones alone and randomly chose a location to sit down, starting to calm the rattled auras inside of her.

A while passed and the effect of the magnetic field on the Earth Web had finally been lifted.

"The man we fought earlier came from the Realm of Dark Underworld. Just like Jia Peng, he's also in the middle Greater Heaven stage…"

As Feng Luo walked back to the area filled with shattered rocks, his attitude towards Nie Tian was clearly different from before.

He explained the situation of the expert from the Realm of Dark Underworld in detail to Nie Tian.

Nie Tian took all the information that Feng Luo told him to heart as they returned to the area with the shattered rocks. He realized that Yu Tong was deliberately avoiding him, but he didn't take it to heart. Instead, he sat beside Zheng Bin and closed his eyes to adjust his breathing and aura.

He attempted to completely restore the energy he had consumed to create the chaotic magnetic field before the foreign cultivator returned.

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Before long, Nie Tian fully restored the energy that he had spent on forming the chaotic magnetic field.

After opening his eyes, he found that Feng Luo had been quietly examining him up and down from the side.

Seeing that he had awakened, Feng Luo briefly nodded toward him and said, "If that man ever comes again, the magnetic field that you've previously formed will definitely be of great help."

"Okay, I'll use it to help you," Nie Tian promised.

"As for the Ice Blast Pearls…" Feng Luo pondered for a moment and said, "I'm afraid that they won't be of much help."

"What do you mean?" Nie Tian was intrigued.

Feng Luo gave a bitter smile and said, "I forgot to tell you just now that the man cultivates frost and ice spiritual incantations. Therefore, the attribute of his spiritual power is that of frost.

"Therefore, he probably won't be influenced in the least bit by the ice shards and ice blades released by the Ice Blast Pearl.

"On the contrary, it's possible that he could gain control of the pearl's power and use it against us."

Upon hearing that the foreign Qi warrior cultivated frost power, Nie Tian immediately gave up the idea of using the Ice Blast Pearls. "I see. So I won't use the Ice Blast Pearls."

"I sustained injuries during our previous fight with that man and still need time to recover." Feng Luo seemed somewhat embarrassed as he said, "Of course, I'll do my utmost to fight him when he comes back. However… I doubt that I'll provide much help."

"What about her?" Nie Tian cast his gaze towards Yu Tong.

Yu Tong was sitting silently next to a giant rock, continuously releasing intense, bloody auras.

"Little Tong didn't suffer any serious injuries from our previous battle. Plus, she has advanced to the middle Lesser Heaven stage after the tempering that she received from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range. However, I doubt that she'll be able to do much to help, considering her Lesser Heaven cultivation base."

With these words, the way Feng Luo looked at Nie Tian grew somewhat strange.

After all, he still found it hard to believe that Nie Tian and Zheng Bin managed to kill Jia Peng when the two of them were both in early Lesser Heaven stage.

"Wu Ji…"

Eventually, he attributed all of the unfathomable things that had happened to Nie Tian to Wu Ji, and thus his respect for Wu Ji rose to a whole other level.

"Middle Lesser Heaven stage!" Nie Tian shot another glance at Yu Tong.

He didn't anticipate that the witch would make another breakthrough in such a short time.

As many miraculous encounters as he had, he hadn't been able to break through into the middle Lesser Heaven when he left the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

He was totally amazed at Yu Tong's unparalleled cultivation talent.

Even though she was sitting on the ground, the red-garbed Yu Tong seemed quite graceful, and surprisingly, curvaceous.

All of a sudden, she seemed to have sensed Nie Tian's staring and turned around to glare at him, saying, "What are you looking at?"

Nie Tian laughed embarrassedly. "N-nothing."

Now that the two of them needed to live under the same roof for the time being, he didn't want to piss her off. Hence, he grinned as he shifted his gaze to Zheng Bin.

Zheng Bin smiled back at him and said, "I have faith that we will beat that foreign cultivator this time."

Clearly, Zheng Bin had become much more confident after killing Jia Peng with Nie Tian. Especially after adding Feng Luo and Yu Tong to their alliance, he felt that they had reason to be confident while facing another middle Greater Heaven expert.

He was so confident that he even started to think about how many spiritual materials he would get after slaughtering that foreign cultivator.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

At that very moment, a bone-piercing, cold gale blew past.

The wind carried frost power so destructive that it could easily freeze a man's flesh and bones. Over the past several days, Nie Tian had experienced it quite a few times.

As soon as the harsh, cold wind grazed his skin, he took out a spirit stone from within his bracelet of holding and started absorbing its spiritual power without any hesitation.

As he mobilized the power within the spirit stone, a faint aura of spiritual power silently spread out from inside of him, forming a shield protecting him from the fierce coldness.

Zheng Bin, Yu Tong, and Feng Luo also understood the bitterness of the cold wind. Every one of them frowned while trying their best to fend off the coldness.

As soon as Feng Luo channeled the blood and aura inside of him, his eyebrows rose, as if he had come to some discovery.

"Something is wrong," Feng Luo said in a low voice. "The wind seems to be stronger than it used to be. I believe it's that man's doing."

Nie Tian was taken aback by Feng Luo's words. "He can even mobilize the cold currents in this ice-cold dimension?"

"I don't know for sure." Feng Luo pondered for a moment and said, "But I'm fairly certain that since he cultivates frost power, he doesn't need to defend himself against such a cold gale, and even worse, he may even benefit from it!

"After absorbing the frost power from within the gust of wind, his strength may be significantly bolstered!

"Everyone, keep your eyes open!

"Whether or not this gust of wind is caused by him, I believe he'll take the opportunity to attack us!"

After hearing Feng Luo's words, Nie Tian's expression turned grim as he quietly unleashed his psychic power to detect even the slightest changes to the temperature in the vicinity.

The moment his psychic power left his body, Nie Tian sensed that there seemed to be threads of soul power, which carried a bloody aura, within the biting wind.

Apparently, that soul power had already beat him to covering the entire area that they were in.

Meanwhile, his own psychic power had merely reached a ten meters radius.

He looked toward Feng Luo, eyes filled with astonishment.

Feng Luo slightly nodded toward Nie Tian, a hint of admiration appearing in his eyes. "It seems that it wasn't pure luck that you beat Little Tong more than once."

It was Feng Luo who had dispersed a bloody aura into the surroundings. Therefore he detected Nie Tian's psychic power the moment he released it.

He also immediately came to a surprising finding that Nie Tian's psychic power was purer and stronger than Yu Tong's.

However, Yu Tong was in the middle Lesser Heaven stage!

Having an outstanding psychic power meant that Nie Tian would grow rapidly in his future path of soul cultivation.

After developing to a certain extent, his psychic power would upgrade and become soul power, which carried countless secrets, and only high-leveled Qi warriors would be able to use.

Upon closer examination, Feng Luo was increasingly amazed at the strength of Nie Tian's psychic power.

"Wu Ji…" He muttered to himself as his admiration to that eccentric old man rose to another level.

"Uncle Feng!" Yu Tong suddenly cried out. "Something happened to my Earth Web!"

After hearing her words, both Nie Tian and Feng Luo sensed that the cold wind seemed to have changed it direction and went directly downwards, as if it were attempting to penetrate the earth.

Beneath the ice-cold ground, the numerous blood strings of the Earth Web seemed to have been frozen by the frost power and turned into ice strings.

Having its blood strings frozen, the effect of Yu Tong's Earth Web had been greatly compromised. She might even suffer a significant backlash from it.

Furthermore, even if she wanted to retrieve the blood strings, she wouldn't be able to, since the earth, together with the blood strings, had already been frozen solid.

Within such a short time, the cold wind that had blown over out of nowhere had completely invalidated Yu Tong's secret spell.

Anxiety could be seen from within her devilish, beautiful eyes.

At that moment, a slim figure suddenly shot up into the air from a meteor that was rather far away.

The man closed in on them at a extremely fast speed, as if he had been carried by the fierce, biting wind.

He was wreathed in a cold aura that was visible to the naked eye, which seemed to be constantly fluctuating around him, stirring the direction of the wind.

"I was right. He is behind all this!"

The moment Feng Luo saw him, he realized what was going on and why a gust of cold wind was suddenly born.

"Yee?! Two more brats to the crowd!" With a glance of everyone from afar, the man burst into laughter. "Good. Two more Heaven Gate keys to collect!"

At first glance, he saw that Nie Tian and Zheng Bin were only in the Lesser Heaven stage.

In his eyes, with cultivation bases so poor, Nie Tian and his group were practically sheep waiting to be slaughtered and Heaven Gate keys waiting to be looted.

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"Uncle Feng! I've completely lost control of my Earth Web!"

Panic could be seen on Yu Tong's face as numerous strands of scarlet blood strings whizzed out of her palm before pouring into the ground.

She was doing her utmost to manipulate the blood strings back into a defensive field in the area around them.

Unfortunately, every single one of the blood strings underground had been frozen by the frost power and turned into a net of ice strings, which could no longer follow her commands.

CRACKLE!

Feng Luo stood by a small crater that he had filled with blood. As soon as the cold gale blew past, the pond of blood was frozen.

Originally, Feng Luo planned to use the blood as a source of energy, with which he could strengthen the Earth Web and cast all kinds of Blood sect secret magics.

However, now that the blood had been turned into a giant piece of semi-translucent and sparkling ice, it also fell out of Feng Luo's control.

In the blink of an eye, the defensive system and all the preparations that Yu Tong and Feng Luo had made were breached and ended up in vain.

Meanwhile, the man from the Realm of Dark Underworld rode the bitingly cold wind as he got nearer and nearer.

The slim man's name was Zhao Mo, a powerful Qi warrior from an extremely cold part of the Realm of Dark Underworld.

A suffocating, bleak light shot out of his narrowed eyes as he gave a grin that was as fierce as the wind.

From Yu Tong and Feng Luo's expressions, he could tell that as the cold wind grew increasingly strong, the defenses that they had condensed with blood already lost their effect.

Their mysterious, unpredictable blood magic and sophisticated layout was exactly the reason why Zhao Mo had retreated from his last battle against them.

With the experience from their last fight, he cast his frost magics before the actual fight to manipulate the flow of the cold wind in the vicinity.

Feng Luo's speculations were correct. The sudden gust of wind was indeed Zhao Mo's doing.

SHEW!

Zhao Mo suddenly accelerated and like a flash of icy light, he descended towards the meteor that Nie Tian and his group was on.

At the same time, Nie Tian didn't say a word. He placed his hands opposite to each other as he started summoning each and every kind of power within him.

In a split second, a chaotic, twisting magnetic field was born in between his hands, rapidly spreading in every direction.

"One meter, two meters, three meters…"

The chaotic magnetic field expanded at an amazing speed.

During the process, Nie Tian gave Feng Luo a meaningful look, urging him to stall Zhao Mo temporarily, in case he lay his murderous hands on him before the magnetic field was fully formed.

Feng Luo nodded vigorously and immediately stepped toward Zhao Mo.

A strong, bloody aura was released from within every one of Feng Luo's pores, and moments later, he was wreathed in a thick blood mist.

Within the murky blood mist, numerous blood-colored lights constantly flashed past, forming a terrifying storm of blood.

"Hahaha!"

With a sneer, Zhao Mo from the Realm of Dark Underworld shook his head; he wasn't in a hurry to attack.

Meanwhile, he shifted his gaze from Feng Luo to the anxious Yu Tong, who was now sitting off to the side.

An overtly obscene look could be seen in his cold eyes as his gaze constantly shifted back and forth between Yu Tong's delicate face, slender, jade neck, and curvy physique.

The sneer on his face gradually filled with lust.

Yu Tong, on the other hand, experienced a sudden rush of coldness all over her body, as if an ice-cold serpent had stealthily wrapped around on her bare skin.

Yu Tong unnaturally wiggled her body in an attempt to get rid of the uncomfortable feeling as she averted her sight.

"Interesting!" Zhao Mo gave a low laugh. With a complacent face, he shifted his gaze back to Feng Luo.

As soon as he did, the lust in his eyes vanished, replaced by a bone-piercing coldness.

"You won't escape death this time."

With these words, Zhao Mo waved his hands through the air, casting a mysterious frost power incantation.

As he formed the hand seal, the wind that had been blowing randomly suddenly seemed to come together and started moving as a whole.

It was as if the scattered cold currents had simultaneously received a common order and thus madly rushed towards Feng Luo.

Ear-piercing howls rang out from within the strong wind.

In the meantime, Zhao Mo let out a cold harrumph and said, "Get the hell out of there!"

CRACKLE!

Upon his command, the icy ground cracked open and numerous blood strings that had been frozen by Zhao Mo's frost power shot out from the earth!

Hundreds of blood-colored ice shards followed Zhao Mo's command and flew into the air one after another.

Off to the side, Nie Tian, who was focused on casting his spell, spared the battlefield a glance, and was immediately flabbergasted by the numerous blood-colored ice shards that were floating in the air.

Every blood string that Yu Tong had used the Blood sect secret magic to refine had been coated with a layer of ice.

The weapon that was originally meant for dealing with Zhao Mo was now being used against its own master.

POOH!

Yu Tong suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, and her glittering, devilish eyes immediately darkened.

Meanwhile, her delicate face seemed to have turned as pale as Feng Luo's.

It was only in the blink of an eye that she had been severely injured.

Eyes filled with panic, she looked over towards Zhao Mo. When she saw Zhao Mo rapidly weave his fingers in the air, commanding the numerous blood-colored ice shards to pierce towards Feng Luo, she screamed out loudly to Nie Tian and Zheng Bin, "Help my Uncle Feng!"

Since she was currently experiencing a deviation of Qi and blood, she couldn't even calm the rampage inside of her, much less summon enough strength to attack Zhao Mo.

"Help him?" A sneer appeared on Zhao Mo's face, as if he found the idea very laughable. Shaking his head, he said indifferently, "You want these two Lesser Heaven stage brats to help him? Have you lost your mind?"

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

All of a sudden, ten of the blood-colored ice shards that had been floating in the air whizzed in Nie Tian and Zheng Bin's direction.

Zheng Bin's face turned pale with fright. He desperately jumped backward.

POOH! POOH! POOH!

Several scarlet ice shards nearly hit him and pierced into the frozen ground.

As they stabbed into the ground, their ice coating cracked open, showing the blood strings inside.

However, it was only a moment before the frost power that had been hiding in the earth spread to the blood strings and froze them again.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

On the other hand, the few scarlet ice shards that flew towards Nie Tian fell into his magnetic field and instantly shattered.

It seemed that not only the ice coatings, but even the scarlet blood strings that lay inside couldn't withstand the distorting force of the magnetic field and exploded into fine fragments.

PUFF!

Because of the explosion of the blood strings, Yu Tong once again coughed up a mouthful of blood.

It seemed that there was a unearthly link between her and the numerous scarlet blood strings

As long as the blood strings were damaged, Yu Tong would sustain injuries herself accordingly.

"What?!"

For the first time, Zhao Mo, who was about to use the rest blood-colored ice shards to attack Feng Luo, spared Nie Tian a thorough look.

Only then did he realize that there seemed to be a faint, mysterious aura around the kid who he even didn't bother to look at.

WHOOSH!

Just as Zhao Mo was pondering, Nie Tian made a vigorous leap and shot towards Zhao Mo like a bullet.

The moment he moved, the chaotic magnetic field that had been wreathed around him followed him into the air.

By this point, the coverage of the chaotic, twisting magnetic field had already reached an eight meters radius!

Within the magnetic field, psychic power, spiritual power, flesh power, flame power, and a surge of newly joined frost power twisted together and clashed with each other, giving rise to an extremely unstable aura.

The twisting power that rampaged within seemed to have grown even mightier than when he used it against Jia Peng.

"It's because of the frost power!"

Nie Tian's expression slightly flickered as he came to that realization while charging towards Zhao Mo.

The cold, whistling wind carried countless threads of frost power that came from Zhao Mo. When he was forming the magnetic field earlier, the frost power was also pulled inside.

Adding power with a new attribute as fuel, the might of the magnetic field was once again boosted.

As he closed in on Zhao Mo, he could keenly sense that the fierce, bitingly cold wind around him seemed to have been affected by the magnetic field.

In the middle of the magnetic field, he could no longer feel the bone-piercing coldness, as all the frost power within the wind had been sucked into the chaotic magnetic field.

Zhao Mo from the Realm of Dark Underworld gave a cold snort, and a faint grim look appeared in his eyes as he looked at Nie Tian

The reason was that just now he tried to use his psychic power to examine the seemingly bizarre magnetic field that had been surrounding Nie Tian, but the moment a wisp of his psychic power flowed into the magnetic field, he lost contact with it!

"Weird little brat."

Zhao Mo frowned as he obtained a new understanding of Nie Tian's chaotic magnetic field.

Unlike Jia Peng, he didn't enter it so quickly.

Instead, he jumped backward as Nie Tian approached, keeping a distance between Nie Tian and himself. He wanted to gain a better knowledge of whatever it was that surrounded Nie Tian.

Standing a safe distance away, he started to weave his hands in front of him while his eyes emanated a fierce, ice-cold light.

Half of the blood-colored ice shards stopped attacking Feng Luo, turned around, and whizzed towards Nie Tian.

Nie Tian, who was still being carried forward by the momentum, turned to look back, and found that hundreds of scarlet ice shards were flying in his direction like bloodthirsty snakes.

BOOM! BOOM!

Manipulated by Zhao Mo, one ice shard after another shot into Nie Tian's chaotic magnetic field.

Each and every one of them exploded, sending out fine, fragmented ice into the area around Nie Tian. The blood strings that had been hidden inside also shattered one after another.

PUFF! PUFF!

Sitting on the ground, Yu Tong couldn't stop from coughing up blood. However, she could only summon all her strength to resist the frenzied Qi and blood inside of her. Looking extremely frail, she didn't say a word.

"Nie Tian! Those blood strings are connected to Little Tong's life essence. Don't let them enter the magnetic field around you. Otherwise, she might die!" Feng Luo almost screeched to warn Nie Tian.

"Ah!!"

Only after hearing Feng Luo's reminder, did Nie Tian look back and realize that the explosion of the blood strings had dealt great damage to Yu Tong.

He looked Yu Tong in the eyes and said, "Sorry, my bad. I'll be more careful."

Face as white as sheet, Yu Tong seemed quite fragile and delicate. Hearing Nie Tian's words, she cast him a cold glare and said, "Go to hell!"

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Because of Feng Luo's reminder, Nie Tian paid a lot more attention to the incoming blood-colored ice shards, and tried his best to avoid absorbing them into his chaotic magnetic field.

However, Zhao Mo didn't plan to let him off so easily.

From where he was standing, a distance away from Nie Tian, he once again operated his spiritual incantation to stimulate the frost power within the remaining flying ice shards.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The whizzing, scarlet ice shards instantly sped up, turning into red meteors as they plummeted towards him.

Meanwhile, Zhao Mo snorted coldly. "Freeze!" Then, the thick frost mist that had wreathed him also abruptly rushed towards Nie Tian.

CRACKLE!

An unusual noise came through from the sky when the thick and cold mist whizzed through the air, as if even the air were freezing up.

The cold mist stopped right between Nie Tian and Zhao Mo, creating an enormous shield.

Nie Tian, on the other hand, didn't have even the slightest intention of avoiding it.

He instantly entered the cold mist together with the chaotic and distorted magnetic field.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

As soon as the cold mist entered the chaotic magnetic field, it instantly turned into small fragments of ice, which were assimilated by the chaotic magnetic field.

Subsequently, Zhao Mo lost contact with the very frost power he himself had unleashed.

"What the hell?!" Zhao Mo stood aghast.

As of this moment, the grimness in his gaze when he looked at Nie Tian started to fade away, gradually replaced by panic.

He noticed that he had no good way to deal with the strange magnetic field that was surrounding Nie Tian. As soon as his attacks fell into it, they would immediately be distorted and assimilated, becoming fuel for the magnetic field.

Even the psychic power that he had unleashed was completely obliterated once it penetrated into the magnetic field.

Zhao Mo finally lost his composure.

He continuously moved backward and completely gave up on trying to get closer to Nie Tian. Simultaneously, he fixed his attention on the bizarre magnetic field, searching in his head for a way to break it.

"Yee?"

It wasn't long before Zhao Mo noticed something. His expression flickered slightly as a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

He had just noticed that the magnetic field wrapping around Nie Tian appeared to be slowly shrinking as time passed!

"Hah!"

Zhao Mo started to grin complacently and said from afar, "As it turns out, the magnetic field that you have formed can't persist for long. Things have just become much simpler. All I need to do is wait for the magnetic field to disappear, and then kill you effortlessly. I absolutely don't need to waste anymore energy on you."

As soon as these words came out, the thick frost mist, along with the scarlet ice shards that had been pursuing Nie Tian, all changed their direction.

They all turned around in the air, and swooped down towards Feng Luo and Zheng Bin.

Yu Tong was the only one who hadn't been targeted. Obviously, he had other plans for her.

"Oh, damn!" Nie Tian softly cried out as he saw that Zhao Mo only moved backwards to avoid him, refusing to confront him directly.

At this moment, he had also finally come to realize the most significant weakness of the chaotic magnetic field: it would fade away as time passed!

If his cultivation base and his strength were profound and powerful enough, he would have caught up to Zhao Mo before the chaotic magnetic field faded away.

In that way, he would be able to inflict serious damage on Zhao Mo by relying on the chaotic magnetic field.

Unfortunately, he only had the cultivation base of Lesser Heaven, while Zhao Mo was in middle Greater Heaven stage. The huge gap in their cultivation bases made it impossible for him to get close to Zhao Mo, even if he went all out.

Zhao Mo's wise move made him understand that it was by luck that he had been able to inflict serious damage on Jia Peng with the chaotic magnetic field, after which Zheng Bin had taken the opportunity to kill him from behind.

If Jia Peng hadn't fallen into the chaotic magnetic field, but instead jumped back to avoid Nie Tian like Zhao Mo did, he and Zheng Bin would have had only a very slim chance of winning.

With these thoughts, a bitter smile appeared at the corner of Nie Tian's mouth. He finally realized how big of an influence a poor cultivation base could be.

Zheng Bin and Feng Luo were both busy dealing with the ice shards and the cold mist, and after hearing what Zhao Mo said, their hearts sank.

The two of them had also realized that the magnetic field that Nie Tian formed around him couldn't last permanently.

The magnetic field was shrinking by the second.

The moment the magnetic field disappeared completely would be the time when Zhao Mo heartlessly murdered Nie Tian.

"What should we do?"

The same question rose in everyone's mind, everyone except Zhao Mo. Each and every one of them racked their brains for a way to defeat Zhao Mo.

As of that moment, the magnetic field that had wreathed Nie Tian had already shrunk to the point where it could only cover a one-meter range.

The chaotic and distorted magnetic field was soon going to disappear completely. However, the four of them realized that none of them could figure out a way to turn the situation around.

Fortunately, the cold, strong wind that had been biting their skin slowly vanished while Nie Tian and Zhao Mo were caught in a standoff.

Apparently, Zhao Mo could only change the direction and the speed of the wind but couldn't create wind out of still air. Therefore, the wind eventually calmed.

Without the fierce and ruthless cold wind, the four of them were slightly relieved. However, that was when the magnetic field around Nie Tian completely wore out.

At that very moment, a ruthless smile abruptly appeared at the corner of Zhao Mo's mouth." It's time to put an end to this!"

WHOOSH!

Numerous strands of white frost mist were once again unleashed from within Zhao Mo's body, which kept condensing and taking the shape of ice snakes that feasted on human flesh.

"Frost Snake Shadows!"

One after another, the ice snakes gradually congealed, turning from a bunch of ephemeral shadows into a tangible form.

When the cold mist was on the verge of reaching him, Nie Tian found that all of the ice mist had already condensed and morphed into dozens of extremely lifelike, icy snakes.

Each and every one of the ice snakes were imprinted with Zhao Mo's psychic consciousness. It was as if they had been infused with wisps of Zhao Mo's soul.

Feng Luo was on the ground behind Nie Tian. When he saw the dangerous situation, he rushed over roaring, hoping to help Nie Tian block the attack.

However, the moment he moved, a large number of blood-colored ice shards swiftly shifted their positions, blocking his way without leaving the smallest of gaps.

"Run!" Feng Luo cried.

The ice snakes rushed forth, baring their fangs. Face grim and cold, Nie Tian had a sudden moment of enlightenment. His gaze landed on his bracelet of holding as he prepared to take out one of the talismans that his master had bestowed upon him.

However, when his psychic power entered his bracelet of holding and swept through his belongings, he saw that the Flame Dragon Armor was releasing raging flames.

"Flame Dragon Armor…"

A light flashed across Nie Tian's eyes. After a moment of hesitation, he experimented by sending a request for help to the Flame Dragon Armor.

Even though Zhao Mo's cultivation base was quite lofty, his cultivation attribute was frost power.

On the other hand, the flame power that the Flame Dragon Armor constantly released was precisely the nemesis of frost power. These two powers were incompatible as light and darkness. Once they ran into each other, they wouldn't give up until the more valiant and powerful side annihilated the weaker side.

Almost in the same moment that he sent out a thought requesting help, an answer was given.

In the next moment, the Flame Dragon Armor whizzed out from within Nie Tian's bracelet of holding.

As soon as the Flame Dragon Armor came out, heaven and earth became as hot as a sea of fire. In a flash, the numerous ice snakes that were about to bite Nie Tian's skin melted into water.

Seconds later, the water vaporized because of the excessive heat and vanished into thin air.

"Flame Dragon Armor!"

Zhao Mo, who was fairly certain that the ice snakes would finish off Nie Tian, suddenly had his expression flicker. Immediately later, strands of blood flowed out of the corner of his eyes.

The numerous ice snakes were formed as a result of the condensation of Zhao Mo's fully refined frost power and psychic power, and thus could be considered to be the extension of his limbs!

As the result of the ice snakes melting, the spiritual power and psychic power that he had gone great lengths to refine instantly turned to nothing, severely damaging his body!

However, the thing that had truly astonished him was not the injuries on his body but the Flame Dragon Armor!

Zhao Mo came from the Realm of Dark Underworld. Lai Yi, the person who had brought the Flame Dragon Armor to the Realm of Flame Heaven, was also from the Realm of Dark Underworld.

From the way Zhao Mo looked, he obviously knew about the origin of the Flame Dragon Armor, and knew what the Flame Dragon Armor meant and represented.

After seeing that Nie Tian was able to summon the Flame Dragon Armor from his storage bracelet, and that the Flame Dragon Armor also seemed to have healed its damage… Zhao Mo actually no longer dared to stay!

After shooting one last glare toward Nie Tian, he dashed away with the fastest speed possible.

His figure seemed to have turned into a beam of cold light and soon disappeared into the distance.

Meanwhile, the Flame Dragon Armor was still floating in the air and unleashing raging flames, bringing burning summer heat to the ice-cold star river.

Nie Tian, along with Yu Tong, Feng Luo, and Zheng Bin, all stared blankly towards the direction which Zhao Mo escaped into, at a loss for words.

They simply couldn't believe their own eyes when they saw Zhao Mo running for life after the mere sight of the Flame Dragon Armor.

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"He just ran off like that?"

Scratching his head, Nie Tian gradually descended from midair, face filled with confusion and disbelief.

At the same time, the Flame Dragon Armor was still floating there above him, unleashing flaming energy to disperse the coldness in the air.

Feng Luo, Yu Tong and Zheng Bin all looked up at it, flabbergasted.

"That set of armor…"

Feng Luo suddenly remembered that when they were in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, he and Yu Tong had seen the Flame Dragon Armor collecting Earthflame Crystal Strings not far away from them.

However, it had flown away soon afterwards, and he never saw it since.

By that time, he had already been convinced that the Flame Dragon Armor was a Spirit Channeling grade treasure, something rarely seen in the entire Realm of Flame Heaven.

He saw perfectly clearly that it flew out of Nie Tian's bracelet of holding just now. Did it just answer Nie Tian's summoning? Did that mean that Nie Tian was its master!?

At that moment, he suddenly remembered the giant fire dragon that appeared out of nowhere during Nie Tian and Yu Tong's last fight.

He combed through these thoughts and soon come to the realization that the Spirit Channeling grade treasure must indeed belong to Nie Tian!

"I can't believe that Wu Ji loves this disciple of his so much that he even bestowed a Spirit Channeling grade treasure upon him while he is still in Lesser Heaven stage." Thinking to himself, Feng Luo's eyes glittered with a strange light.

"Spirit Channeling grade treasure!" Zheng Bin gave a soft exclamation.

FIZZ!

At that moment, due to the fact that Zhao Mo had fled and the Flame Dragon Armor was releasing a scorching heat, the previously frozen blood strings gradually unfroze and regained their life force, relieving the crisis hanging over Yu Tong's head as a result.

Yu Tong, who was certain that she would die beyond a shadow of a doubt, was still sitting in place, but a faint shade of redness appeared on her originally pale face.

As Nie Tian landed on the ground, he noticed that the numerous scarlet blood strings morphed into lines of blood-colored light, flashing into her body.

With every blood string that entered her body, her face gained another bit of redness. Her injuries seemed to be rapidly recovering.

With the frost power gone, the blood in the small pond next to Feng Luo also unfroze and began churning again.

WHOOSH!

Without any hesitation, Feng Luo cast a spell within his mind and the blood in the pond immediately flew into his body.

Almost simultaneously, he seemed to be in good spirits again. He sat down, took out a dark-red medicinal pill, and swallowed it.

He no longer paid any attention to the Flame Dragon Armor, nor did he ask Nie Tian about it.

Yu Tong was still focused on collecting her blood strings. However, she couldn't help but spare Nie Tian glances from time to time, her eyes once again devilish and beautiful.

Although hatred could still be seen in her gaze, a hint of curiosity could be found hidden in that intense hatred.

She seemed to be wondering how many secrets Nie Tian had.

The rage punch, the Spirit Channeling grade treasure, and the chaotic magnetic field… All these mysteries that Nie Tian had revealed one by one finally put her heart at ease regarding how she had been repeatedly defeated by him.

However, the thought of what Nie Tian had done to her later made her grit her teeth with hate. The desire to fight him once again rose in her heart.

"Thanks to you, we've survived another fight, Nie Tian." Zheng Bin from the Mystic Mist sect heaved a sigh of relief as he dropped to the ground and took out some spirit stones to recuperate.

As far as he was concerned, he was in no position to ask about the Flame Dragon Armor, and Nie Tian probably wouldn't give straight answers even if he did. Therefore, he said nothing.

After Zhao Mo from the Realm of Dark Underworld left, the other three had been surprisingly quiet, which made Nie Tian rather uncomfortable.

"Why did that Zhao Mo turn around and run at the mere sight of the Flame Dragon Armor? What was he afraid of?" Staring at the Flame Dragon Armor that was still floating in the air, he murmured quietly as he searched for an answer in his head.

After a moment of fruitless pondering, he also sat down on the ground and started restoring his strength with a spirit stone.

This time, he also took out a Flame Crystal.

He had consumed some of the flame power within him to form the chaotic magnetic field, and the best way to replenish it was with a Flame Crystal.

He quietly operated the Flame Spirit Incantation.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The floating Flame Dragon Armor seemed to have received some kind of signal and suddenly shone with a bright light.

However, it didn't fly back into Nie Tian's bracelet of holding, but rather dove down from midair and stopped about five meters away in front of Nie Tian's chest.

SHEW!

A fine strand of translucent and sparkling Earthflame Crystal String shot out of the Flame Dragon Armor and entered Nie Tian's palm.

Not only did the Earthflame Crystal String carry extremely rich flame power, it also carried the profound truth of flame power deep within itself.

With the operation of the Flame Spirit Incantation, the Earthflame Crystal String rapidly followed Nie Tian's meridians up his arm, before stopping in the vortex of flame power within his spiritual sea.

As soon as it allowed the Earthflame Crystal String inside, the small vortex of flame power started to madly revolve!

One after another, fiery sparks splashed out of the vortex of flame power, before flowing to the far edge of the vortex. Apparently, the vortex of flame power was refining the Earthflame Crystal String.

While Nie Tian was flabbergasted by what was happening to him, the Flame Dragon Armor had already turned into a cloud of fire and disappeared into his bracelet of holding.

Nie Tian didn't feel a thing when it did, as he was completely absorbed by the fascinating changes in the vortex of flame power within his spiritual sea.

He saw that numerous fire sparks were flying out of the eye of the vortex of flame power and landing on the edge of the vortex, extending its radius.

Nie Tian could keenly sense that the small vortex of flame power was expanding at a noticeable speed!

At the same time, it seemed that numerous unknown, fiery, magical symbols had seeped out of the Earthflame Crystal String and merged into the vortex of flame power.

For some unknown reason, the moment those fiery, magical symbols merged with the vortex, Nie Tian was struck by a feeling that his understanding of flame power had reached a whole new level.

When he had cultivated the Flame Spirit Incantation days before, he found quite a few areas that were difficult to understand.

He originally planned to go back to Cloudsoaring sect and ask for enlightenment from his master when the Heaven Gate trial was over.

However, all the parts that he had a hard time comprehending seemed to have solved themselves in front of him when he contemplated them now.

He felt like his mind had been suddenly opened up when the Earthflame Crystal String was refined in his vortex of flame power.

Nie Tian was both excited and amazed by how much the Earthflame Crystal String had boosted his cultivation of the Flame Spirit Incantation. He also realized that it was a gift from the Flame Dragon Armor.

After all, the Flame Dragon Armor was a Spirit Channeling grade treasure that possessed its own soul. After sensing that he started cultivating a fire-attributed incantation, it had decided to lend him a hand.

"What a precious treasure!"

Nie Tian inwardly cheered over how lucky he was to have obtained the Blood Core and the Flame Dragon Armor.

As he looked back, his life seemed to have taken a turn for the better only after he had found out about the unique features of the Blood Core and explored it with Flamecloud Gems.

…

At the same time…

Like a beam of cold light, Zhao Mo was still racing away at a speed so fast that he could travel hundreds of meters within a second.

He seemed to have a certain destination in mind. He constantly checked the meteors around him as he dashed forward.

Meanwhile, he unleashed his psychic awareness to scan the surroundings, as if he was searching for something.

Only after traveling for over an hour, and being separated from Nie Tian by dozens of gigantic meteors, did his psychic awareness finally lock onto his target.

SHEW!

Zhao Mo dashed towards it at full speed.

Moments later, he found the one he had been looking for on a bumpy, uneven meteor.

It was a man with hair that was as red as fire. With a burly, robust frame, he had detailed flame patterns on his bare arms.

At first glance, his naked arms seemed as if they were wreathed in blazing flames.

"Zhao Mo! What are you doing here?" The man frowned and said with an unfriendly tone, "The fifty meteors in this region belong to me. Don't tell me you're here to steal my territory!"

With these words, two beams of flickering, fiery light shot out of the man's eyes, which made him look incomparably terrifying.

"No, that's not why I'm here!" It seemed that Zhao Mo was perfectly aware of how formidable the man was, and hurriedly explained, "I know that we have an agreement. I would never try to steal from you! Tang Yang, since we both are from the Realm of Dark Underworld, I've come here to tell you something!"

"What is it?" Tang Yang seemed to have run out of patience.

"The Flame Dragon Armor that Lai Yi took to the Realm of Flame Heaven is now in the possession of a Lesser Heaven stage trial taker. And that kid summoned it in front of me just now!" Zhao Mo exclaimed.

"What?!" A tremor ran through Tang Yang's body. "Are you sure it was the Flame Dragon Armor?"

With a bitter smile, Zhao Mo nodded heavily and said, "And the Flame Dragon Armor has already merged with the Blood Core!"

Upon hearing these words, the fiery light in Tang Yang's eyes became even more violent and terrifying.

"Where is he?!" Tang Yang roared.

"I'll take you to him!" Zhao Mo replied as he got ready to move out.

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Nie Tian slowly awoke from his cultivation.

After this round of cultivation, the vortex of flame power within his spiritual sea had expanded to three times as large as it had been before.

Not only that, thanks to the Earthflame Crystal String, he obtained a much deeper understanding of the flame power.

As for the difficult points that he had run into while practicing the Flame Spirit Incantation, he also found the answer to each and every one of them, which caused him to acquire new enlightenment regarding this specific fire incantation.

He had a feeling that it wouldn't be long before he could make a breakthrough in his cultivation base and step into the middle Lesser Heaven stage.

"Flame Dragon Armor, Earthflame Crystal Strings…"

With a serious face, he unleashed a wisp of his psychic awareness into his bracelet of holding, and saw that the Flame Dragon Armor was now wreathed by placid flames.

Therefore, he was certain that the Flame Dragon Armor's soul was still digesting the profound mysteries within the Earthflame Crystal Strings in a way that he couldn't comprehend at the moment.

The Flame Dragon Armor and its soul would only fully awaken when they completely refined all the Earthflame Crystal Strings collected from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

By that time, it would be a lot easier for Nie Tian to communicate with the Flame Dragon Armor's soul.

Feng Luo looked over at Nie Tian as soon as he opened his eyes. "You're finally awake."

Nie Tian nodded. "How are you doing?"

Feng Luo smiled bitterly. "I'm afraid it'll be hard for me to fully recover within the Heaven Gate. I suffered major injuries and lost vital energy from both fights against Zhao Mo. Nie Tian, I think we should get out of this place as soon as possible. I fear that Zhao Mo will return soon. When he does, I bet he'll return with methods to deal with that Spirit Channeling grade treasure of yours."

"You're right." Nie Tian agreed with him. "We can't stay here for long."

"Little Tong! Zheng Bin!" Feng Luo softly called out to them, waking them from their cultivation. "We need to evacuate this place now so that Zhao Mo won't be able to find us easily. We'll spend as much time as we want to recuperate once we find a location that's safe enough."

After hearing these words, Yu Tong and Zheng Bin both rose to their feet.

"Which direction did you come from?" Feng Luo asked Nie Tian.

Nie Tian pointed in the direction that he and Zheng Bing had come from and said, "There."

"What's the situation over there?" Feng Luo asked.

"Nothing special," Nie Tian replied. "We didn't find anything there. We spent a long time wandering around, but didn't run into any powerful foreign expert other than Jia Peng. That was the reason why we left that area and came to this area to explore."

"It wasn't that nothing went on over there." Feng Luo shook his head and told him the truth. "The reason why you found nothing going on over there was that you settled it by killing Jia Peng."

"What do you mean?" Zheng Bin asked, puzzled and surprised.

Feng Luo went on to explain, "According to Zhao Mo, all the cultivators from the other realms reached an agreement before entering the Heaven Gate. When they stepped into the Heaven Gate, each of them would take charge of a certain area. All the cultivators from the Realm of Flame Heaven within that area would become their prey.

"The area that you came from was allotted to Jia Peng. He was responsible for all the cultivators from the Realm of Flame Heaven in that area.

"However, the area we are in is Zhao Mo's territory. Zhao Mo told me during our first fight that if we go further in this direction, we'll enter the area that belongs to another Realm of Dark Underworld cultivator, Tang Yang.

"All of those foreign cultivators view us as nothing more than animals waiting to be slaughtered."

Zheng Bin gave a cold snort and said, "Well, did they? I beg to differ. The two of us killed Jia Peng, didn't we?

Feng Luo looked off into the distance, as if he was trying to get a hold of his bearings. "Only the result will tell us who is the hunter and who is the prey."

After awhile, he said, "Let's go in that direction. Hopefully, we'll be lucky enough to come across some powerful experts from the seven sects. Only by joining hands with cultivators from the seven sects, will we have a chance of surviving the fights against those people from the other realms."

"That sounds good." Nie Tian and Zheng Bin both gave their assent.

Immediately afterwards, they left the meteor under Feng Luo's leadership, and marched in the direction that he had indicated.

In the meantime, Feng Luo constantly sent his psychic awareness into their surroundings, carefully scanning for signs of life, in case they might run into foreign cultivators who were as powerful as Zhao Mo.

Lucky for them, they didn't discover any signs of life or abnormal movements near them along their way.

After passing eight gigantic meteors in succession, the four of them arrived on an oval-shaped meteor that was just as enormous as the ones that they had passed.

"There's a dead body over there!" Having a superior sight, Feng Luo spotted a corpse that had been dead for an unknown period of time.

From the way the man dressed, Feng Luo could tell with certainty that he was a trial taker from the Ghost sect. The cold air in the starry sky had already frozen the corpse. It seemed that the man had been penetrated by a sharp tool and died.

The Heaven Gate pattern on the back of his hand had already been plundered, along with the bracelet of holding on his wrist.

Upon a closer look, Feng Luo immediately recognized the man. "That's Wang Luo. He was in late Heaven stage."

Zheng Bin walked up to the corpse and squatted down. After a brief examination, he said, "From the look of it, he's been dead for a long time. It seems that there are foreign trial takers in this area."

Looking a bit distracted, Yu Tong asked, "Should we keep going?"

By that point, Nie Tian and Zheng Bin had already replenished their strength. Even though Yu Tong and Feng Luo hadn't recovered to their peak state, they were ready for another fight if it came down to it.

If they kept marching forward, it would be extremely likely that they would run into another powerful expert from the other realms.

By that time, they would be forced to fight, whether they wanted to or not.

"Being scared of them won't do us any good." Not even the slightest fear could be seen on Nie Tian's face. "I've long since readied myself for the fierceness of the Heaven Gate trial. Plus, isn't the purpose of us being here to kill those bastards from the other realms and let them know that the Realm of Flame Heaven will never be blithely trampled upon by anyone, right? Now that their seniors and masters want a piece of the Realm of Flame Heaven, let's show them what we are made of and kill them all in the Heaven Gate!"

Feng Luo nodded vigorously, looking at Nie Tian with undisguised admiration. "I'll never doubt Senior Wu Ji's eye for talent again! Although you're only in Lesser Heaven stage, you've proven yourself to be resourceful, and more importantly, you understand the greater good. I only thought you were ballsy when it came to girls. Now I know that you're also quite daring while facing major issues!"

After hearing the part where Feng Luo said Nie Tian was ballsy when it came to girls, Yu Tong's face instantly flushed.

She cast Feng Luo a cold glare first, and then turned to stare viciously at Nie Tian. "Nie Tian! You and I are far from over! There'll be a battle between the two of us after we finish the Heaven Gate trial!"

Nie Tian gave a forced chuckle and then said, "You should know that for every time that you've lost to me, you had…"

Upon hearing these words, Yu Tong exploded with rage as she charged towards Nie Tian, threatening to kill him right away.

"Alright, alright!" Feng Luo hurriedly stopped them. "Can you two pick another time to do this? Do you really want to bicker while powerful killers are lurking around?"

Fearing that the bickering would escalate into a fight, Feng Luo instantly pointed in a direction and marched on, indicating for everyone else to follow him.

Zheng Bin's gaze switched between Nie Tian and Yu Tong for a while, and with a soft chuckle, he sped towards Feng Luo.

"Nie Tian! You just wait and see!" Yu Tong threatened with a cold tone.

Nie Tian seemed indifferent as he said, "You think I'm scared of you? I can tell you right now that when I beat you next time, I'll…" Eyes glittering with a strange light, Nie Tian openly laid his gaze on Yu Tong's ample chest before immediately leaping forward with a broad laugh.

"Nie Tian! I'm gonna kill you!!" Screaming, Yu Tong chased after Nie Tian.

After chasing for a while, Yu Tong seemed to have truly been provoked by Nie Tian, and her body was once again wreathed in a faint blood aura.

Her eyes turned red and devilish. However, it didn't make her look sinister, but instead gave her a dangerously charming look.

"Stop it, you two!"

Traveling at the forefront of the group, Feng Luo let out a stern shout as he suddenly came to a stop.

On a huge stone in front of him lay the corpse of a Qi warrior from the Blood sect. The head had been separated from the body, and the blood around his neck had already been frozen.

Utterly discomfited, Yu Tong couldn't help but let out a screech as soon as she saw the corpse. "Uncle Han!"

She was no longer in the mood to settle her grudge with Nie Tian.

A pained expression could be seen in Feng Luo's eyes. "Just like me, Han He was also in the early Greater Heaven stage. I didn't expect him to die like this." He stepped forward and reattached the man's severed head to the body, so as to honor him with a "full-body death". Face grim, he looked off into the distance and said, "It seems that we don't have a choice now. Whoever is awaiting ahead of us, I'll have their head!"

"Damn them! They killed Uncle Han!" Yu Tong's eyes glittered with blood-colored light.

SHEW!

Feng Luo no longer attempted to hide his whereabouts as he bounced high into the air, traveling forward at a high speed.

Nie Tian and the others followed him closely.

They saw many more dead bodies along their way, all of which belonged to Qi warriors from the Ghost sect, Blood sect, Mystic Mist sect, and Grayvale sect.

The most powerful one among the dead was a middle Greater Heaven stage expert from the Grayvale sect.

Even Nie Tian, who had claimed that he had no fears, felt as if a shadow had been cast over his heart after seeing the numerous corpses of powerful experts scattered around on the ice-cold ground.

Every one of the dead had a cultivation base higher than his, but none of them had escaped death.

Therefore, he was convinced that the foreign Qi warrior who was in charge of this area must be very powerful, maybe even more powerful than Jia Peng and Zhao Mo.

It was very likely that the man was in the late Greater Heaven stage.

He didn't have the confidence that the four of them combined could match up to a late Greater Heaven stage expert.

However, he knew for sure that after seeing their butchered fellow sect members, Feng Luo and Yu Tong were already determined to avenge them, no matter how great the consequences would be.

From Feng Luo and Yu Tong's eyes, Nie Tian could tell that whoever that man was, and however strong he was, they would still find him and fight him.

"That man must be on that meteor!" Face filled with shock, Feng Luo exclaimed as he looked into the distance and saw a meteor that was almost five times the size of the nearby ones.

Having a sight superior to his peers, Nie Tian was the second one to get a clear sight of the enormous meteor.

Astonishment immediately stretched across his face.

Upon a closer look, he saw that there seemed to be a dilapidated city on that shockingly gigantic meteor.

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"There's a city!"

Feng Luo's face turned grim as he apparently didn't expect there to be a dilapidated city within the Heaven Gate.

Surprised, Yu Tong and Zheng Bin also came to a stop. They followed Feng Luo and Nie Tian's gazes and looked off into the distance. However, they could only see the vague outline of a enormous structure, and couldn't tell for sure what it was.

The shockingly large meteor that the city was sitting on was about an hour away from where they were standing.

By that time, they all realized that the reason why they had seen more and more corpses along their way was that they had been getting closer and closer to that city.

Feng Luo turned to Nie Tian and asked, "Can you get a clear view of that city?!"

Nie Tian nodded.

A surprised expression could be seen on Feng Luo's face, since Yu Tong, who had a cultivation base higher than Nie Tian's, was still narrowing her eyes and trying very hard to get a clear look of the city.

However, by the shocked expression on Nie Tian's face, Feng Luo was fairly certain that he had seen that city.

While everyone else was still looking toward the distant, dilapidated city, Zheng Bin, who had an inferior sight, had long since given up. He pointed to a nearby place and said, "There're two more dead bodies over there…"

On the ground lay two frozen corpses in the Spiritual Treasure sect's garments. Both of them had their heads cut off.

Feng Luo took a look at them. With an expression that was already somewhat numb, he said, "I believe all these men died because of that city."

At that time, even Feng Luo, who had been eager to avenge his fellow sect members, had gradually calmed down.

They had seen quite a few corpses of middle Greater Heaven stage experts along their way to the city. He could imagine how fierce the battles were going to be inside.

According to his speculations, fierce battles were taking place within that city at this very moment.

It was just because they were too far away from it that they couldn't see or sense them.

The numerous corpses had made Feng Luo think about the consequences and weigh things over again.

On one hand, he was already a bit shaken and doubted that the four of them would be able to come out of the city alive if they chose to barge in.

On the other, after seeing so many powerful experts be drawn to that city like a moth to flames, he was extremely curious about why that city was so attractive to them.

"Well…" Feng Luo's gaze swept through the other three before finally stopping on Nie Tian. "As you all have seen, there are more and more dead bodies along the way as we get closer to that city. I bet you'd agree that their deaths had something to do with that city. There must be something within the city that's been attracting people in the vicinity.

"If we go over there, it's possible we could get killed before we can even reach the city gate.

"If we managed to get inside the city, we would undoubtedly face even bigger challenges and danger and there would be a higher chance that we will be killed. I want you to think it over and then tell me your decision!"

"How about… we circle around it?" Zheng Bin said in a low voice.

Yu Tong had already calmed down and her bloodshot eyes had also returned to normal. Apparently, she was aching over the tough choice. On one hand, she wanted to avenge her fellow sect members. On the other, she feared that she would get herself killed by approaching the city.

She didn't give an answer right away.

"Let's get down there and have a look!" Nie Tian said with decisiveness.

Feng Luo looked deeply at Nie Tian and with a nod, he said, "I envy your fearlessness."

Nie Tian grinned.

Perhaps motivated by Nie Tian's attitude, Feng Luo pondered the situation for a moment and gave his answer, "I want to take a look over there too. I know I'll live the rest of my life in regret if I don't!"

"Good! It's settled then. I'll go too!" Yu Tong also made up her mind.

"Since you're all going. I have no choice but to go with you guys." Helplessness was written all over Zheng Bin's face.

He realized that he was the weakest among the group. He knew that if he ever parted ways with Feng Luo, Nie Tian, and Yu Tong, and ran into any foreign cultivator, he would end up being killed.

Therefore, even though he knew perfectly well that great danger lay ahead, he chose to go with everyone else.

"Let's go!" Feng Luo took a deep breath and wisps of blood aura immediately flew out of him and into the surroundings. "Stick together everyone! Don't get far from each other! I'll slow down as we travel forward so that you'll be able to keep up and we won't be separated if anything were to happen along our way."

"Understood!" Zheng Bin said loudly.

Under Feng Luo's leadership, the four of them paid close attention to their surroundings as they approached the city at a relatively slow speed.

Several minutes passed.

As they were marching along a slender stone protrusion, passing from one meteor to another, Feng Luo's expression suddenly flickered. He called out, "Watch out for what's in the starry river beside you!"

Nie Tian's eyes widened as he turned his head to looked at the vast starry sky on both sides of the stone protrusion.

He saw numerous corpses, which clearly neither belonged to humans nor belonged to the same species, floating silently in the starry sky.

With a single glance, he could tell that some of them belonged to the same species as the demons that had escaped from the Hell sect's Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation.

The demon corpses were gigantic, extremely muscular, and wore armor with interesting and exotic patterns.

Unlike the demons that had escaped from the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation, they had accessories, armor, and sharp weapons on them.

From their dilapidated state, the weapons probably had undergone many years of erosion, and had long since lost their energy.

Aside from the large demons, there were numerous outsiders of other kinds; some had multiple eyes, some had long tails, some were covered in dense body hair, and some had scales all over their body.

Nie Tian looked blankly at them for a while before his expression suddenly flickered. "Outsiders! There are so many of them! It seems that a bloody war once broke out between them in this river of stars! But how come the bodies didn't fall after they died, but rather floated in the starry sky for all eternity? Does it…"

He suddenly looked towards the dilapidated city and said, "Does it have something to do with that city?"

Upon hearing Nie Tian's words, the other three, who were still amazed at the scene of the numerous outsider corpses, grew even more curious about what secrets were hiding within the city and what the outsiders had been fighting over.

"Let's go!" Feng Luo exclaimed. "Whatever happens, I want an answer!"

As of this moment, even the most reluctant Zheng Bin had become intrigued, as he was also determined to march over to the city and find the answer.

SHEW!

Without spending much effort, Feng Luo shot into the air, as if he only had the weight of a feather.

Just as Nie Tian was about to follow Feng Luo and leap forward, intense battling sounds suddenly echoed out of the meteor that they were heading to.

One dazzling light after another shot into the dim, starry sky in front of them, like numerous shooting stars.

"There are people fighting over there!"

At that moment, Zheng Bin and Yu Tong snapped out of their daze and readied themselves for battle.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The three of them followed Feng Luo as they rapidly flashed past the stone protrusion and landed on the mentor in front of them.

This meteor was right next to the gigantic meteor that the city was located on.

As soon as they passed this meteor, they would be able to find out what was happening on the meteor where the city was located.

CLANK! CLANK!

The clashing sounds of spiritual tools rang out from the meteor ahead of them, along with occasional cursing.

Feng Luo, who was dashing forward wreathed in a thick, bloody mist, pulled out a long saber that shone with a terrifying blood-colored light from his back, and asked, "Who is it?"

"Feng Luo! Is it Feng Luo?" A voice that sounded both surprised and elated rang out before Feng Luo could see the person. Apparently, that person was also from the Blood sect, since he was able to tell it was Feng Luo's voice in such a short time.

"Shi Xuan!" After racking his brains for a moment, Feng Luo also recognized the voice of that person. He immediately accelerated, leaving Nie Tian and others behind.

Nie Tian sped up after Feng Luo.

Before long, he arrived at a place that was covered in a thick blood aura and discovered that Feng Luo was already fighting a Qi warrior from the other realms.

Behind him sat a Qi warrior from the Blood sect, gasping for air, blood continuously flowing out of his back and arms.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

At the same time, numerous shadows that had been condensed out of blood were hovering in the air as they constantly attacked the foreign Qi warrior from every direction.

With a look at the foreign Qi warrior, Nie Tian realized that he had seen him before entering the Heaven Gate.

The man was able to spare the energy to check out and taunt Nie Tian while fighting Feng Luo. "Good. Another one that has come to his own grave. Four more Heaven Gate keys delivered to my door."

Upon hearing these words, Nie Tian took a closer look at the man's left hand, and discovered that there were six dots of red light on the back of his hand.

This meant that he had already slaughtered five people and snatched their Heaven Gate keys.

BOOM!

At that very moment, a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering sound thundered out from within the dilapidated city, which now everyone had a clear view of.

The tall and majestic city shook violently, as if it were on the verge of collapsing.

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RUUUUMBLE!

Heaven-shaking, earth-shattering rumbling sounds rose up from the dilapidated city, along with beams of multi-colored light.

All of a sudden, the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of Nie Tian's hand grew scaldingly hot, as if it had been triggered by the changes that were taking place inside the city.

"Hmm?" Eyebrows knit together, the foreign Qi warrior who had been fighting Feng Luo seemed to have noticed the fluctuations emanating from the city.

He instantly rained more deadly attacks on Feng Luo, as if he was in a hurry to finish him off and rush to the city as quickly as possible.

"Yee? What's going on?" With a surprised look on his face, Zheng Bin looked down at the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of his hand.

Not only him, Shi Xuan and Yu Tong also experienced unusual sensations from the Heaven Gate patterns on their hands as soon as the loud sounds echoed out.

Yu Tong snapped out of her daze and rushed to Shi Xuan's side. "Are you okay, Uncle Shi?"

She took out a dark-red medicinal pill and handed it over to him.

Shi Xuan, who had already retreated from his battle with the foreign Qi warrior, seemed completely spiritless as blood kept dripping down his garments.

He was standing in a pool of blood that emitted a strong blood aura into the surroundings. It was hard to know if it was his own blood or if it was created by the secret blood technique that he had cast.

Without without the slightest hesitation, Shi Xuan grabbed the medicinal pill from Yu Tong's hand and swallowed it.

However, he didn't sit down to recuperate, but rather clenched his jaw and bolted to Feng Luo's aid as they attacked the foreign Qi warrior together after a brief adjustment.

"Du Huang! You've killed many of my fellow sect members. Don't you even think about trying to escape the Heaven Gate alive!" As Shi Xuan let out an angry roar, the blood suddenly flew out of the blood pool and swirled up into the air before condensing into a blood cloud. Within the murky blood cloud, dark shadows were quietly taking shape, gradually strengthening the power of the blood cloud.

Upon hearing Du Huang's name, Zheng Bin's expression slightly flickered as he turned to Nie Tian and explained, "He's Du Huang from the Realm of Earth Sieve! A powerful cultivator in middle Greater Heaven stage who has mastered the art of lightning power!

"Although Feng Luo and Shi Xuan are both in early Greater Heaven stage, Shi Xuan has clearly sustained heavy injuries. I'm afraid he won't be able to provide much help to Feng Luo. Therefore, even if the two of them gang up on Du Huang and attack him at the same time, I doubt that they will beat Du Huang."

Nie Tian's eyebrows knitted together. "Du Huang…"

As a matter of fact, Nie Tian had long since discovered that even though Shi Xuan's attacks were still seemingly fierce, he was actually quite frail at the moment.

Nie Tian unleashed his psychic power and sensed that the life fluctuations within Shi Xuan's body were already rather weak, which meant that Shi Xuan had already overdrawn his life and potential.

It wouldn't be long before Shi Xuan lost all battle power.

If Feng Luo hadn't rushed to his aid, given a short while, Shi Xuan would have completely worn out his energy and been killed by Du Huang.

In Nie Tian's eyes, they clearly couldn't count on Shi Xuan to help Feng Luo defeat Du Huang.

On the other hand, after recuperating for some time, Feng Luo had restored his strength and healed his injuries. However, he was still only eighty percent of his peak state.

Meanwhile, Feng Luo had an early Greater Heaven cultivation base, which was one minor stage inferior to Du Huang's. Adding in the fact that he wasn't in his peak state, he wouldn't be able to stand a chance against Du Huang, even if there were no mishaps.

After pondering the situation for a moment, Nie Tian realized what Zheng Bin meant by saying those words. Zheng Bin wanted him to join the fight.

"He's the one who killed so many of my fellow sect members!" Yu Tong's eyes once again shed their black color and took on a red color.

Gazing coldly at Du Huang, who was currently fighting fiercely with Feng Luo in midair, she quietly unleashed a Blood sect secret magic.

One after another, numerous threads of blood-colored light shot out into the surroundings from underneath her feet. Like a cobweb, they interwove with each other as they rapidly spread out.

She wanted to condense the Earth Web again.

Nie Tian was still focused on the intense fight between Du Huang, Shi Xuan, and Feng Luo. Without sparing Yu Tong a glance, he stared at the bloody light that resembled snakes slithering rapidly in the air.

However, the lightning released by Du Huang was swimming in the sky like formidable dragons, crushing the blood snakes one by one.

Seeing this, Du Huang grinned viciously as numerous dark-green Thunder Pearls floated around him.

Each and every one them shook unceasingly, as if they were controlling the green-blue lightning dragons and continuously enhancing their might.

"The Might of the Thunder!" Seemingly worried that he would miss what was occurring inside of the city, Du Huang suddenly switched to another spiritual incantation.

Immediately, the Thunder Pearls surrounding him flew up into the sky.

They came to a halt high up in the starry sky, and instantly grew incomparably bright and dazzling, like stars that stood out in the night sky.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

In a flash, numerous thick, long lightning bolts were born from the middle of the circle of Thunder Pearls.

One after another, they shot like raindrops down to where Feng Luo and Shi Xuan were, forming a fence of lightning bolts, completely surrounding the two.

As soon as the formation was completed, the lightning dragons that had been fighting the blood snakes seemed to have been instantly bolstered, and smashed every last one of the blood snakes in a few seconds.

Feng Luo and Shi Xuan let out muffled groans at the same time, their eyes filled with anxiety and fear.

They both noticed that they had been besieged by lightning bolts that were even thicker and carried even more copious lightning power!

"Dammit!" Feng Luo exclaimed at the unfavorable situation.

At the same time, Shi Xuan's pale face was now completely devoid of any color.

His pupils shrunk while his body fell uncontrollably down towards the earth.

Nie Tian, Yu Tong, and Zheng Bin, who had been standing on the meteor's surface below them, realized that Shi Xuan had used up all his energy and lost all his battle power.

At that moment, Shi Xuan was so weak that any Qi Refining stage cultivator would be able to kill him effortlessly.

FIZZ!

A thick, long lightning bolt broke free of the formation and shot after Shi Xuan.

From the look of it, Du Huang intended to take the opportunity to annihilate Shi Xuan before he could hit the ground.

"Nie Tian!" At that crucial moment, Feng Luo called out Nie Tian's name without thinking.

Looking at Nie Tian from far up, Feng Luo's eyes were filled with supplication and urgency. He hoped Nie Tian could step forward and help him save Shi Xuan's life.

Subconsciously, he believed that only the strangely resourceful Nie Tian would be able to help Shi Xuan escape death.

Nie Tian realized that it was too late to form the chaotic magnetic field. After a moment of hesitation, he took out an Ice Blast Pearl and threw it up toward the lightning bolt that was after Shi Xuan.

The Ice Blast Pearl shot up at an amazingly fast speed, and intercepted the bulky lightning bolt when it was still quite a distance from Shi Xuan.

BAM! BAM! BAM! CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

Lightning sparks splashed out in all directions. Countless ice shards and ice blades, accompanied by cold light beams, shot out into the surroundings the moment the Ice Blast Pearl exploded, causing splendid and dazzling icy light and fragmented lightning to cloak the sky.

"Ice Blast Pearl!!" Feng Luo's expression flickered. Face filled with fear, he sped away at the fastest speed possible.

The explosion of the Ice Blast Pearl gave rise to a formidable ice storm, engulfing every single one of the large lightning bolts that Du Huang had condensed.

Numerous icy light beams and lighting bolts interwove in midair as they madly attacked each other, which formed quite a spectacle to everyone present.

PUFF!

Du Huang, who was concentrated on manipulating his lightning bolts, coughed up a mouthful of blood. As soon as he did, six of his Thunder Pearls shattered into pieces.

Face pale, Du Huang glowered at Nie Tian, eyes wreathed in boundless killing intent.

All of a sudden, he sped away from Feng Luo and Shi Xuan, and roared towards Nie Tian, making him his primary target. "Die, you little bastard!"

RUUUUMBLE!

Even more intense energy fluctuations rolled out from the remaining Thunder Pearls.

In Nie Tian's eyes, Du Huang seemed to have turned into a giant lightning bolt himself as he thundered toward him with the intent to utterly annihilate him.

At that moment, Feng Luo held up his long saber that suddenly emanated scarlet light from its tip. The bloody light seemed to have extended the incomparably sharp blade by more than ten meters. Carrying a raging blood aura and an desperate killing intent, Feng Luo slashed towards Du Huang's back. "Go to hell!"

Du Huang was completely focused on Nie Tian at that moment, and thus was totally off guard when it hit him on the back.

POOH!

Although he wasn't cut in half by the violent attack, his flesh was sliced open, and blood poured out of the wound like water.

Eyes fixed on Nie Tian, he fell from the air. The way he fell was clearly uncontrolled as he had already lost control of his fleshy body.

Apparently, Feng Luo's attack had inflicted great damage to him.

However, his cold, ferocious gaze was still locked on Nie Tian, as if he was still thinking about killing Nie Tian with his inner powers as soon as he got close enough.

When he fell near Nie Tian, Nie Tian's chaotic magnetic field had already expanded to a three-meter range.

BANG!

The moment Du Huang fell into the magnetic field, the spiritual power and psychic power inside of him was instantly distorted.

Within seconds, he lost control of all the power within him.

"You kept me waiting for so long!" With a grin, Nie Tian took out a sharp blade that he had looted from Jia Peng's bracelet of holding, and thrust it into Du Huang's forehead without any hesitation.

Like a giant nail, it went straight into Du Huang's skull.

Du Huang died instantly.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The scarlet light dots on the back of his hand seemed to have detected the death of their host and flew out, before they entered the Heaven Gate pattern on Nie Tian's hand one by one.

Nie Tian looked down and delightedly watched as six red dots were added to the back of his hand.

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BAM!

At that moment, Shi Xuan landed heavily on the surface of the meteor.

However, the sky over his head was still filled with cold light and fragmented lightning, which seemed dazzling and splendid.

Shi Xuan fell hard onto the ground five meters in front of Nie Tian. Muddleheaded, he painstakingly opened his eyes and looked toward Nie Tian, confusion filling his face.

Then he looked over at Du Huang, who was lying on the ground right in front of Nie Tian, and saw that a sword had pierced into his forehead.

With another look at Nie Tian, he noticed that there were already seven light dots on the back of Nie Tian's hand.

Only then was he finally convinced that it was Nie Tian who had killed Du Huang.

"Wu Ji's disciple…" Shi Xuan stared blankly at Nie Tian. "Admittedly Wu Ji is a good mentor, but this kid is only in the Lesser Heaven stage. How on earth did he manage to kill Du Huang at the last moment?" He couldn't figure out how Nie Tian had done it.

At that moment, Yu Tong, who originally wanted to use the Earth Web to bind Du Huang, also came to a stop.

SHEW!

Feng Luo landed softly next to Nie Tian. Looking at the seven light spots on the back of Nie Tian's hand, he said, "Good job, kid!"

His compliment was sincere.

When it was a moment of life and death, he didn't think of Yu Tong or Zheng Bin. He subconsciously called out Nie Tian's name, hoping he could save Shi Xuan's life.

This meant that deep down, Feng Luo had already acknowledged Nie Tian's strength and believed that he was stronger than Yu Tong and Zheng Bin.

As a result, Nie Tian didn't let him down. First of all, he had used the Ice Blast Pearl to relieve Shi Xuan's crisis. Then, when Du Huang fell into the chaotic magnetic field after taking a slash in his back, Nie Tian had killed him with a clean, fast move.

"I didn't do much." Nie Tian gave a smile. "It was only because you severely injured him that I found an opportunity. If it weren't for your deadly attack, Du Huang wouldn't have lost control of himself, and therefore wouldn't have fallen uncontrollably into my chaotic magnetic field."

Feng Luo let out a broad laugh and said, "Well, thanks to your Ice Blast Pearl, his spiritual incantation lost effect. Otherwise, he wouldn't have suffered from the backlash and I wouldn't have had the chance to sneak up on him from behind. You deserve the six Heaven Gate keys from Du Huang. Not only that, it's only fair that you get the majority of the loot within his bracelet of holding."

Only then did the idea of dividing the loot hit Nie Tian. He yanked the bracelet of holding off of Du Huang's wrist, in an attempt to divide the treasures within right away.

Feng Luo waved his hand, stopping Nie Tian. "There's no rush. You keep it for the time being. We still have unfinished business ahead of us."

He looked towards the dilapidated city.

"I see." Nie Tian didn't say anything else. He put Du Huang's bracelet of holding on his wrist and also gazed towards the dilapidated city that was on the meteor right next to theirs.

From time to time, multicolored light shot out into the dark sky from within the enormous city, making the city seem increasingly mysterious.

"How are you doing, Shi Xuan?" Feng Luo asked, his voice almost a growl.

Face filled with bitterness, Shi Xuan shook his head and said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to recover in a short time. And if I were to encounter any other hostile trial taker, I could only wait to be killed. I think it's better that I stay away from that city."

"Okay." Feng Luo didn't try to persuade him. Rather, he took out a small bottle of medicinal pills and tossed it to Shi Xuan. "These are some medicinal pills from our sect. Take them. When you get enough strength to move about, get out of this place. If my speculations are correct, I'm afraid there is more than one powerful foreign expert in that city. It's not safe for you to stay here for too long."

"I understand." Shi Xuan nodded as he assumed the lotus position. Without any hesitation, he opened the bottle, swallowed the medicinal pills within, and started circulating his spiritual power to stimulate the efficacy of the pill.

"Take care of yourself," Feng Luo said. With a glance at the other three, he turned around and marched toward the dilapidated city.

It appeared that he was bent to go by himself, and didn't want the three of them to go with him.

After all, in his eyes, there might be good fortune hidden within the city. However, one might have to pay an unbearable price to obtain that fortune.

He wasn't certain in the slightest that approaching the dilapidated city would be a good idea.

Therefore, he had no intention of asking any of them to go with him.

WHOOSH!

Without the least hesitation, Nie Tian, who had just obtained six red dots, walked up to Feng Luo.

Yu Tong seemed torn with indecision. After a moment of pondering, she said, "Uncle Shi, I'll stay here with you."

She decided to give up the chance.

"That's good…" Shi Xuan let out a sigh and said, "The way I see it, you made the right decision. There are surely many other opportunities in the Heaven Gate trial. You don't have to go to that dilapidated city. As long as you stay alive, I bet you will come across other opportunities."

Yu Tong gently nodded her head. "Yeah, I guess you're right."

Zheng Bin's expression seemed quite embarrassed as he said, "Well… I'll stay too. That way we can keep each other company."

Apparently, he had been frightened by the brutality and fierceness of the battles, and thus gave up the idea of pursuing the truth. He decided that staying alive was his number one priority.

From the look of it, Du Huang was the only one between them and the city.

Feng Luo and Nie Tian marched towards the city and saw no one along their way.

After passing a long stone bridge, the two of them finally reached the exceptionally gigantic meteor where the city was located. With a single glance, they saw numerous figures flashing about in front of the city.

"Uncle Li! Uncle Liu!" Upon a closer look, Nie Tian realized that Li Fan and Liu Yan were among the numerous figures who were fighting tooth and nail outside of the city.

Although the city looked dilapidated from afar, when multicolored lights were unleashed from within the city, it made the place seem magnificent and solemn.

Only at that moment did Nie Tian finally discover that the seemingly shaking and swaying city was actually not sitting on the meteor surface, but rather floating in midair.

The city was floating approximately ten meters above the meteor surface, as if it was completely unaffected by gravity.

It seemed to be constantly swaying, but in actuality, it was rapidly shifting its position.

Numerous, densely-packed, strange magical symbols that Nie Tian had never seen were engraved on the antiquated city wall; some of them resembled the sun, the moon, and the stars, some resembled tree patterns, while others looked like the claws and fangs of ancient beasts. They all looked intriguing in their own way. It was hard to tell if they were from the language of a certain species or drawings of everything in the universe.

Terrifying energy fluctuations kept rippling out of the city.

From the look of it, the strange energy fluctuations weren't hurting anyone. All the Qi warriors who had absorbed them didn't seem to experience any anomaly in them. On the contrary, enjoyment could be seen in their eyes.

It was as if they were able to gain some kind of enlightenment from the energy fluctuations that were emanating out of the city.

Four powerful experts from the other realms were rounded up by cultivators from the Realm of Flame Heaven in four separate spots in front of the city. However, not a single trace of fear could be seen on their faces as they dealt with their opponents with ease.

While Nie Tian was observing the battlefield, a Qi warrior from the seven sects was killed by one of the foreign cultivators. The Heaven Gate pattern on his hand instantly vanished, turning into a red light dot that flew into the killer's hand.

Nie Tian was certain that he had seen the face of every one of those foreign cultivators before entering the Heaven Gate.

One of the foreign cultivators had a sword that kept emanating green flames in his hand. He was none other than the man who had killed a disciple from the Mystic Mist sect right before entering the Heaven Gate, not giving any face to the Hell sect.

Nie Tian sensed that the man was probably a powerful expert with a late Greater Heaven stage cultivation base.

The other three seemed just as powerful. Each of them had about ten red spots on the backs of their hands, which signified their feats.

One light spot meant one kill.

Numerous corpses were scattered not far from the city, most of which were cultivators with late Heaven or early Greater Heaven stage cultivation bases.

Liu Yan was fighting the foreign cultivator with the sword that emanated green flames. His expression flickered when he accidentally caught sight of Nie Tian. "Nie… Nie Tian?!"

At first, he was surprised that Nie Tian was able to get to this place.

After all, every one of those who managed to get to this place had gone through countless bloody battles, and many were brutally murdered on their way. Only about ten of them were lucky enough to make it this far.

After the initial surprise, Liu Yan grew worried for Nie Tian, thinking Nie Tian was out of his mind by putting himself in such great danger while he only had a Lesser Heaven cultivation base.

"You shouldn't be here!" Liu Yan shouted. "Get out of here now!"

SHEW!

A faint, green sword-light flashed across Liu Yan's chest while he spared the attention to talk to Nie Tian.

With a muffled sound, a narrow wound was cut open on his chest. Immediately afterwards, pus flowed out of it, as if the wound had already begun festering and rotting.

After hearing Liu Yan's words, Li Fan turned around and saw that it was really Nie Tian standing not far away from them. He hurriedly said, "Kid! Get as far away as you can from this place if you don't want to die!"

Since it was too urgent, Li Fan had no time to address Nie Tian with the regular courtesy by calling him little martial uncle.

"Where are Jiang Lingzhu and the others?" Nie Tian asked in a loud voice.

"Lingzhu is too weak for a fierce battle like this. We've arranged for her to stay in a safe place." Then, a pained look could be seen from within Li Fan's eyes as he continued, "But most of the others are dead."

Nie Tian's expression flickered as he took another glance at the dead bodies scattered in the vicinity. Surely, a few of them were disciples of the Cloudsoaring sect.

FIZZ!

At that moment, a small cluster of green flames splashed onto Li Fan's shoulder.

In a split second, his shoulder started to fester, as if it was contaminated by some extremely toxic liquid.

Rapidly and decisively, he used his sharp blade to cut away the skin and flesh that had been infected, as if it was the only way to stop the fester from spreading.

"Get out of here! Now!!!" Li Fan let out an thundering shout.

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Nie Tian noticed that after Li Fan cut off the infected flesh, it fell to the ground and completely rotted away in seconds.

"Miao Chen's spiritual power is tainted with poison!" Nie Tian's expression changed drastically.

He inwardly respected Li Fan's decisiveness as he was fairly certain that if he didn't act so fast, the fester would have spread out rapidly to his whole body.

Reluctance to get rid of the festered part would have resulted in him losing that arm within a short time.

Standing next to Nie Tian, Feng Luo looked coldly at the Qi warrior with the sword that kept releasing green flames, his face especially grim. "That's Miao Chen from the Realm of Black Marsh. He's in the late Greater Heaven stage!"

Since Feng Luo was a senior member of the Blood sect, and the Blood sect was close to the Hell sect, he had heard of many of the Qi warriors that had traveled to the Realm of Flame Heaven through the Hell sect.

Miao Chen was the one who had left him the deepest impression.

"You know that man?" Nie Tian asked.

He didn't respond to Li Fan and Liu Yan's warnings, as he had already made up his mind and readied himself for what was awaiting him when he decided to come over with Feng Luo.

He didn't have even the slightest intention to retreat.

Brow furrowed, Feng Luo said in a manly voice, "Yes, I do. You need to pay extra attention to that man, Nie Tian. Among all the realms in the Domain of the Falling Stars, Qi warriors from the Realm of Black Marsh are the vilest and are extremely hard to deal with. Most of them are experts with poisons and toxins. Every corner of the Realm of Black Marsh is filled with toxic air and miasma, causing the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth they cultivate with to carry toxins.

"As the result, their spiritual power contains various kinds of toxins. Whenever their spiritual power makes contact with a person's skin and enters that person's flesh, then…"

Feng Luo looked toward Li Fan, eyes filled with respect. "Remember, if those green flames ever touch your skin, you must immediately cut off that piece of flesh like the way Li Fan did. Only in that way will you be able to minimize the damage and preserve your battle prowess.

"The more reluctant you are to cut yourself, the more the deadly poison will rot away your healthy flesh!"

After uttering these words, Feng Luo pulled out his long saber that radiated blood-colored light. Emanating a strong blood aura himself, Feng Luo dashed toward Miao Chen from the Realm of Black Marsh.

Besieging Miao Chen were Li Fan, Liu Yan, another late Greater Heaven stage expert from the Hell sect, and an early Greater Heaven stage cultivator from the Mystic Mist sect.

Even though he was being attacked by four powerful cultivators at the same time, Miao Chen seemed to have no problem handling the lot of them.

He made Hong Can, the cultivator from the Hell sect, his main target.

Since the other three were only in the early Greater Heaven stage, he didn't attach any importance to them.

A number of green flames were hovering around Miao Chen. Like fireflies in the night sky, they unceasingly released an uncanny, green light into the surroundings as they slowly swayed in midair.

Only those green flames alone were capable of injuring Li Fan, Liu Yan, and the cultivator from the Mystic Mist sect, keeping them from approaching.

Every now and then, the green flames would suddenly shoot away from Miao Chen and chase after the three of them, as if they had their own consciousness.

Whenever this happened, Li Fan and the other two would hurriedly retreat and avoid their attacks, fearing that they be infected by the fire that seemed to be from the underworld.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

All of a sudden, a cluster of green flame whizzed towards the Qi warrior from the Mystic Mist sect.

Seeing that it flew right towards him, the man hastily condensed all of his spiritual power and formed a shield of white mist around him.

Even though the bright shield seemed as delicate as a cicada's wings, it could provide very strong defense. However, the moment the green flame made contact with it, corrosion spread out rapidly from the contact point.

No one expected that not only could the green unearthly flame fester human flesh, but it could also corrode the light shield formed by spiritual power.

The man's face turn pale with fright. He hastily cut the link between him and his light shield, and retreated with all his power. Only by doing that did he barely escape a calamity.

Gasping for air, the Mystic Mist sect cultivator looked at the green flames with an expression of utter terror.

"They really are vicious!" Nie Tian's expression flickered.

By that time, Nie Tian had come to a brief estimation of the situation of the four battles. He was fairly certain that the battle against Miao Chen was the most fierce one.

From what he could tell, the reason why Feng Luo didn't rush to attack the other three foreign experts, but instead Miao Chen, was that he had also deemed Miao Chen to be the strongest and the hardest to deal with among the four.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

One after another, light beams of various colors once again shot out from within the dilapidated city. Simultaneously, a surge of strange energy fluctuations spread out into the surroundings.

The floating city once again swayed about and shifted its position.

Coincidentally, the city shifted closer toward the place where Nie Tian was standing, causing the energy fluctuations to closely reach Nie Tian before they dissipated into the air.

The moment the eccentric energy fluctuations reached Nie Tian, the seven scarlet, light dots on the back of Nie Tian's hand suddenly grew scaldingly hot.

At the same time, he had the feeling that the dots on his hand seemed to have absorbed something.

With rapt attention, he looked down at the light dots in the Heaven Gate pattern. Not only did he find them to be even more dazzling and bright, it seemed that they had been imprinted with a number of complicated, mysterious symbols .

Confused and intrigued, Nie Tian lifted his head and looked toward the floating city in front of him. To his surprise, he found that there seemed to be less magical symbols on the city wall than there were before.

"What?!…" He suddenly realized that the strange symbols on the city wall had entered the seven red dots on his hand came.

Furthermore, he believed that only those with Heaven Gate patterns on their hands would be able to obtain the mysterious symbols from the city.

Originally, he only had one light dot in the Heaven Gate pattern on his hand.

After killing Du Huang, he had absorbed six more light dots.

It suddenly struck him that it was very likely that the more light dots one had, the more magical symbols they would be able to receive when energy fluctuations rippled out from within the city and reached their body.

The Qi warriors from the other realms must have always known about the existence of the miraculous, floating city within the Heaven Gate.

They probably also knew about the numerous, magical symbols on the wall of the city, along with the fact that the more light dots one had on their hand, the more fortune one would be able to gain from the city.

That must have been the reason why they plotted with each other and spread out to their assigned territory to slaughter Qi warriors from the Realm of Flame Heaven.

They did all that to gain more benefits from this Heaven Gate trial.

At that very moment, Nie Tian felt a sudden suction force from the seven red dots on his hand, pulling him forward.

He immediately looked towards the dilapidated city.

After standing in place for a long time, he subconsciously started to step closer towards the city under the influence of the energy fluctuations.

He sensed that as long as he remained enveloped by the energy fluctuations, he wouldn't need to spend any effort and the seven light dots on his hand would automatically take in magical symbols hidden within the energy surge.

Moreover, it appeared that the closer he got to the city, the more intense the energy surge he could receive, therefore the more benefit he could collect.

He finally came to realize why so many powerful experts would slaughter their way towards this city from all directions.

After all, the more light dots one possessed, and the closer one got to the city, the more fortune one would obtain.

In fact, people could have gotten along with each other as they approached the city together and used their own light dots to collect those magical symbols.

However, greed seized them when they learned that those light dots on their hands could be snatched!

It was especially true with the cultivators from the other realms. Knowing perfectly well that they possessed superior strength, they naturally started the massacre after seeing that cultivators from the Realm of Flame Heaven were trying to get a share of their resources.

They did it to obtain more mysterious symbols from the city.

By this point, Nie Tian had fully understood the secrets behind everything.

Without even the slightest hesitation, he stepped towards the floating city. Meanwhile, the burning sensation from the seven dots on his hand grew stronger as he approached the city.

Just as excitement rose in his heart, the energy fluctuations suddenly stopped.

The unprecedented, magical feeling of absorbing the mysterious symbols into his body disappeared with it.

"Yee!?" Off to the side, another foreign Qi warrior caught sight of Nie Tian. Elation and greed immediately filled his eyes.

He noticed that there were as many as seven light dots on the hand of this Lesser Heaven stage youngster in front of him.

"Interesting!" With a chuckle, he instantly made Nie Tian his target.

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That person was Kan Xingming, a middle Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior from the Realm of Earth Sieve.

His cultivation attribute was the wood power, one of the five fundamental element powers (see note 1). The three people that besieged him came from the Ghost sect and Grayvale sect, and all of them were in the early Greater Heaven stage.

Kan Xingming wore a bizarre set of spiritual armor, which appeared to be made of petrified vines and willow leaves and apparently contained the essence of plants and vegetation.

The aura that he emanated was full of a special kind of life force, as if it could nourish plants and had other mysterious uses.

The spiritual weapon that he used was a wooden staff that was dark-green in color. It also carried a strong life force, and within its natural wood vein pattern seemed to lay the true essence of wood power.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

One after another, numerous rattan vines flew out of his spiritual armor and effortlessly intercepted the violent attacks of the three people surrounding him.

He stealthily glanced at Nie Tian.

Although all three of his opponents were in the Greater Heaven stage, there were only a total of five scarlet light spots within the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of their hands.

This meant that even if he slaughtered the three of them, he would only be able to obtain five light spots.

However, not far away from him was Nie Tian with seven red dots on the back of his hand, while he was only in the Lesser Heaven stage.

As long as he could kill Nie Tian, the gains he would obtain would far surpass those from painstakingly killing those three powerful experts.

Therefore, he moved closer towards Nie Tian in a slow and inconspicuous fashion, while shielding off the attacks of the three people around him.

Greed and a strong killing intent shot out of his eyes.

"Go!" All of a sudden, a fresh, green leaf broke away from the chest area of his spiritual armor. It was as if the leaf itself possessed a consciousness as it floated straight towards Nie Tian.

It seemed that the fresh, green leaf was floating and shaking as it flew forward, but actually it traveled at an extremely fast speed.

In only five seconds, the leaf was already quite close to Nie Tian. It also rapidly expanded to the size of a palm-tree leaf and intended to wrap Nie Tian within it.

Only by that point did Nie Tian, who was slowly stepping towards the dilapidated city, suddenly sense the unfavorable situation.

However, it was too late. The large leaf continued to expand and swiftly attached itself to Nie Tian's chest.

As soon as it made contact with Nie Tian, it immediately grew roots, which reached deep into his flesh, as if it had turned into a terrifying plant.

The flesh power within his body was pulled by a bizarre force as it madly flowed toward that leaf.

As the green, fresh leaf greedily absorbed Nie Tian's flesh power, it mutated at an astonishing speed, and soon turned into a strange plant, enveloping Nie Tian.

One sharp thorn after another grew from the plant and penetrated into Nie Tian's flesh.

The newly-born plant madly sucked on Nie Tian's life essence and flesh power.

Kan Xingming's eyes were brimming with brutality and mania. With a deep laugh, he licked his lips and said with a complacent tone, "Not bad. The essence within the kid's flesh and blood is quite pure. I never anticipated that a Lesser Heaven stage brat would possess flesh power so rich and copious. I just hit gold!"

Apparently, the leaf that he had unleashed could grow into a strange plant that fed on the flesh power of living creatures.

Moreover, the flesh power the plant had absorbed could be guided into Kan Xingming's body through secret arts, which enabled him to rapidly replenish his own injuries and also enhance his battle prowess.

Originally, he had thought that Nie Tian, who was only in Lesser Heaven stage, wouldn't possibly have such rich flesh power within him.

However, when he noticed that the leaf kept sucking flesh power out of Nie Tian's body for quite some time, he laughed more and more happily.

"Awesome! This is awesome!" From what he saw, it would not be too long before Nie Tian's flesh power would be completely drained.

By that time, not only would he be able to obtain plentiful flesh power from Nie Tian, he could even collect seven scarlet light spots by killing Nie Tian.

With seven more light spots, Kan Xingming would be able to take in even more magical symbols, and therefore gain more fortune.

Off to the side, Li Fan, who had been constantly dodging the attacks of the green flames, glanced over towards Nie Tian while fighting, and saw the dangerous situation that he was in. "Nie Tian!"

At that moment, Nie Tian had already been wrapped up by a huge plant and his robust body was becoming more shriveled by the second as the pure life essence within every corner of his body was rapidly being drained.

With a loud shout, Li Fan alerted Feng Luo and Liu Yan. The two of them immediately noticed Nie Tian's situation.

Feng Luo looked slightly surprised. He seemed to feel that Nie Tian shouldn't be so easily stopped and controlled.

However, he didn't seem very anxious after seeing that Nie Tian had almost been engulfed by the large plant.

The reason was that he discovered that Nie Tian's expression wasn't filled with fear and despair.

Despite having fought side by side with Nie Tian against Zhao Mo and Du Huang, Feng Luo still wasn't able to fathom Nie Tian's true strength. However, he was fairly confident that Nie Tian wouldn't be killed that easily.

Therefore, he didn't immediately rush to Nie Tian's aid, but rather decided to keep observing.

On the other hand, Li Fan and Liu Yan's hearts were burning with anxiety as they both wanted to rush over and free Nie Tian from the dangerous situation.

Kan Xingming seemed to have noticed their intentions, and called out, "Brother Miao, take good care of your opponents."

Miao Chen arched his lips as he seemed to think that Kang Xin Ming was giving his opponents too much credit. "Don't worry. None of them shall even dream of interrupting you."

With these words, numerous green, ghost-like flame clusters stormed toward Li Fan and Liu Yan.

Immediately after that, Li Fan and Liu Yan were rounded up by the flame clusters and were only able to move about to dodge their attacks within a very small space. From the look of it, there was no chance that they could break free from the water-tight besiegement.

As anxious as the two of them were, they had to figure out a way to handle the corrosive power within the green flames.

Otherwise, before long, they would be devoured by the flames, turned into two set of pale-white skeletons, and broken into pieces after falling to the ground.

"Damn it!" Li Fan cursed. He had long since told Nie Tian to get as far away as he could from this place, but not only did Nie Tian not listen to him, he even was so daring as to approach the dilapidated city, as if he actually had a death wish!

Finding himself at his wit's end dealing with the flames that had trapped both him and Liu Yan, Li Fan grew increasingly mad at Nie Tian and his blind audacity.

"My life essence is wasting away, my flesh is shriveling and blood is drying up…" Eyes narrowed, Nie Tian sensed the changes within him with rapt attention. He looked relatively calm and no fear could be seen on his face.

Although he couldn't move his arms and legs, if he wanted to, he was able to summon the Flame Dragon Armor from within his bracelet of holding, or trigger one of the life-saving talismans that his master had bestowed upon him.

However, he didn't.

The reason was that when he was completely wrapped up by the plant and his life force was slowly sucked away, a strange feeling was born in his heart.

He felt excited!

His heart throbbed vigorously, as if it was yearning for something.

He had always known that he was different from ordinary people.

Compared to others, his psychic power was stronger and his fleshy body was sturdier. He could even continuously temper his own body by consuming spirit beast meat.

Although he had come across great danger in many occasions before, strange changes had alway occurred to his heart when he was on the verge of dying.

All those strange encounters had proven that there were definitely secrets hiding within his body.

Furthermore, Hua Mu had once told him that he might be able to reveal some of his secrets during the Heaven Gate trial.

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

His heartbeat grew stronger and stronger as his life force faded away.

Gradually, he started to feel dizzy due to the significant loss of life force. However, he entered a strange state at that moment, and his soul consciousness seemed to have floated to where his heart was.

Muddleheaded, he saw dazzling light suddenly shoot out from the vessels within his own heart.

His blood vessels seemed to have turned into transparent crystal tubes, within which countless strange sparks flickered. The light seemed to be constantly evolving, as if his heart was undergoing a profound change that he couldn't comprehend.

BOOM!

A violent tremor suddenly struck his mind, and after his soul consciousness returned to his head, he snapped out of the mysterious state.

In the next moment, an aura that was full of violence and domination emerged abruptly from within his heart.

The unusual plant that had wrapped him up suddenly started to wither at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

The rich life force that the plant had sucked away from Nie Tian's body returned back into his body in an extremely short time.

His wizened body also expanded rapidly like a ball that was being inflated.

Within only several dozen seconds, he recovered to his original look once again. He was in high spirits and appeared to be uninfluenced in the slightest.

Meanwhile, the plant wilted, was reduced to flying dust, and disappeared completely as he shook his body with relief.

Note:

The Wu Xing is also known as the Five Elements, Five Phases, the Five Agents, the Five Movements, Five Processes, the Five Steps/Stages and the Five Planets of significant gravity (Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Mars)

It is the short form of the five types of Qi dominating at different times. It is a fivefold conceptual scheme that many traditional Chinese fields used to explain a wide array of phenomena, from cosmic cycles to the interaction between internal organs, and from the succession of political regimes to the properties of medicinal drugs. The "Five Elements" are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. This order of presentation is known as the "mutual generation" sequence. In the order of "mutual overcoming", they are Wood, Earth, Water, Fire, and Metal.

The system of five phases was used for describing interactions and relationships between phenomena. After it came to maturity in the second or first century BCE during the Han dynasty, this device was employed in many fields of early Chinese thought, including seemingly disparate fields such as geomancy or Feng shui, astrology, traditional Chinese medicine, music, military strategy, and martial arts. The system is still used as a reference in some forms of complementary and alternative medicine and martial arts.

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As the plant turned into flying dust, Nie Tian opened his mouth and laughed loudly. "Good, it feels good."

That plant had developed from a leaf that contained pure wood power.

And apparently, the wood power was only a branch of life power.

Not only did the unusual heartbeat cause Nie Tian to restore the life energy that he had lost to the plant, but it even channeled the wood power that was stored in the leaf into his body as well.

As soon as the wood power dispersed into his flesh and blood, it made his vital energy become even more vigorous.

He felt that his energies and spirits had reached a state of fullness that had never been achieved before.

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

At this moment, his heart was still beating unusually strongly and still had no sign of settling down.

A thirst that originated from his heart seemed to be urging him to absorb even more wood energy and obtain even more vital energy to strengthen his flesh and blood.

He abruptly looked towards Kan Xingming and saw the panic and cluelessness on his face.

Besieged by three Qi warriors, Kan Xingming distracted himself by observing Nie Tian from time to time. His movement in controlling the vines had even started to become a bit stiff.

"There are even more leaves on that man's spiritual armor that contain rich wood power…" Muttering to himself, Nie Tian probed into his own heart, and slowly came to the realization that the abnormality of his heartbeat seemed to have developed from its strong thirst for wood power.

He subconsciously stepped towards Kan Xingming.

WHOOSH!

Kan Xingming, who was fighting near the dilapidated city wall, dropped from the sky. He snorted and once again shot two fresh, green leaves out from the chest area of his spiritual armor.

The two leaves continuously evolved and released an odor that could twist all living things as they floated towards Nie Tian.

However, Nie Tian's expression didn't even change in the slightest. He continued to step closer despite the fact that the two leaves were coming his way.

It was because at this moment, he felt that the thirst in his heart had become unprecedentedly raging and fierce!

He even had a feeling that even though the two leaves were unearthly items refined by the Greater Heaven stage Kan Xingming, they would absolutely not hurt him!

His confidence originated from the thirst and the excitement in his heart!

BANG BANG BANG!

His heartbeat was still growing faster. An extremely complicated life fluctuation suddenly exploded from within his heart and spread out into his surroundings, with him being the center.

The eye-catching veins on the two leaves seemed to be instantly affected.

Nie Tian looked at them with rapt attention. He realized that the two leaves, which were traveling at a high speed towards him, had evolved. They had developed into two slender, flexible vines, and like spiritual snakes, they intended to bind around Nie Tian's neck.

BANG!

Along with the vigorous beating of Nie Tian's heart, both of the green vines seemed to be suddenly taken over by a mysterious force.

The green vines that resembled vipers suddenly broke free of Kan Xingming's control. The psychic communication between him and the green vines was forcefully cut off by a mysterious and advanced power.

Kan Xingming's expression changed drastically. The sudden elimination of the psychic power that he had attached to the green vines had inflicted a minor injury on him.

In Kan Xingming's eyes, the two green vines were supposed to drop down to the ground due to the effect of gravity, since they had already escaped his control.

However, they stopped right before Nie Tian's chest and floated there.

Shocked, he watched as Nie Tian slowly reached out his hand to touch one of the green vines, without even a smidgen of hesitation in his eyes.

The moment Nie Tian's finger touched it, the green vine instantly released pure wood power!

The wood power that Kan Xingming had spent many years collecting and refining turned into dark-green, drifting light as it swiftly flew into Nie Tian's finger.

A layer of faint, dim-green aura flourished within Nie Tian's body, causing him to seem rather mysterious.

It wasn't long before all of the wood power in the green vine was completely drained by Nie Tian.

WHOOSH!

Having lost all of its wood power, the green vine disintegrated and turned into flying ash.

Fear stretched across Kan Xingming's face.

BOOM!

A fierce evil spirit, summoned by an expert from the Ghost sect, ruthlessly rammed into Kan Xingming's back.

Kan Xingming was sent staggering.

Meanwhile, the spirits of the two Qi warriors from the Grayvale sect were lifted. They both manipulated their spiritual tools to madly attack him as he stumbled back.

On the other hand, Nie Tian didn't bother to check Kan Xingming's situation, but rather once again extended his hand with a concentrated look in his eyes, and reached towards the other green vine.

Upon contact, the green vine was also quickly drained of all wood power and turned into flying dust just like the last one.

Eyes narrowed, Nie Tian remained calm and collected as he silently used his psychic awareness to pry into the abnormality of his heart.

It could be because his cultivation base was too low and his psychic power hadn't congealed into soul power, that he failed to enter his heart to conduct a thorough investigation and unveil the mysteries within.

He could only faintly feel the wood power that he had taken in seemed to have already merged with his own blood.

His blood carried the pure wood power as it slowly flowed towards his throbbing heart .

His heart was being nurtured as it continued to take in wood power, as if it were in a state where it was gradually awakening.

His eyes were wide and his face was filled with disbelief. "Bloodline!"

He didn't know why, but he was very certain that bloodline power was now flowing within his body. Or to be more precise, his heart!

His master Wu Ji had once told him that bloodline power would often exist in the outsider races who had incomparably valiant bodies.

Numerous years ago, the formidable outsider tribes, whose power had been unmatched across the entire river of stars, were only able to be known as the mighty masters of the universe because of their bloodline power, their innate valiant bodies, as well as their lifespans that were much longer than humans'.

Only an extremely small number of human Qi warriors could awake their bloodline power, the reason being that they had outsiders among their ancestors.

Those people might be born with bloodline power. It was also possible that they could awaken their bloodline power at some point as they grew up and built up their strength.

It seemed that he belonged to the latter.

His whole life, he thought that there had been something unusual about his heart, but never did it occur to him that a formidable bloodline power was hiding inside of it.

Only after he had taken in enough wood power to nourish his heart, did the bloodline power that was hidden deep inside finally show a sign of awakening.

"Could it be that… my father isn't human?" Overwhelmed by the thought, Nie Tian wondered.

He was one hundred percent certain that his mother was a member of the Nie clan, and there weren't any records of their clan members having relationships with anyone from an outsider tribe in the history of the Nie clan.

The Nie clan was a human clan that couldn't be more ordinary. None of their members were born with unearthly power. All of them were born with bodies that were no different from that of commoners'.

Since his bloodline power didn't come from the Nie clan, then naturally… it must have come from his father, who he knew nothing about and had mysteriously disappeared.

"My father is either an outsider himself, or a hybrid who has outsider blood running in his veins." Having realized his unusual birth for the first time, Nie Tian felt muddleheaded. Even still, he struggled to sort through the things that had happened to him in order to find the truth.

He had temporarily forgotten about where he was, along with the cruel Heaven Gate trial that he was in, and the floating city in front of him.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Just as he was contemplating these matters, multi-colored light beams once again shot out from within the city.

Simultaneously, the unusual energy fluctuations that had disappeared once again spread out from within the dilapidated city and rapidly rippled into the surroundings.

This time, Nie Tian, who was already very close to the floating city, was the first one to experience the unusual feeling.

In the moment the energy fluctuations dispersed into the surroundings, the seven scarlet light spots on the back of his hand instantly turned red-hot and started to shine with brilliant light.

The seven scarlet light spots were like seven bright stars as they continued to slowly swim around in the Heaven Gate pattern.

Without Nie Tian realizing it, numerous mysterious symbols were secretly taken into the seven glittering light spots.

POOH!

Also at this moment, Kan Xingming, who had three of his leaves forcefully taken by Nie Tian, seemed to have fallen into Qi deviation, and suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Face filled with hate and rage, he shot towards Nie Tian.

"It's good that you're coming!" With a chuckle, Nie Tian placed his palms opposite to each other and immediately started to form the chaotic magnetic field.

All he needed was for Kan Xingming to enter it!

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"Little bastard!" Kan Xingming yelled viciously as numerous thick, long vines that resembled sharp swords stabbed madly towards towards Nie Tian. "You did this! Go to hell!"

Obviously, he hated Nie Tian more than the other three!

From his point of view, if it weren't for the fact that Nie Tian had messed up his inner Qi by absorbing the wood power within those three leaves of his, causing him to fall into a Qi deviation, those three people definitely would not have been able to take advantage of the situation and inflict serious injuries on him.

He was in a terrible condition right now, and had already lost the confidence to kill the three experts from the Ghost sect and Grayvale sect.

At that moment, the only one he had the confidence to kill was Nie Tian!

Other than his hatred towards Nie Tian, there was still another reason for his strong desire to kill him.

Since Nie Tian had the lowest cultivation base, Kan Xingming was very certain that he could easily kill him and and snatch the exceptionally pure flesh power inside of Nie Tian's body.

By taking and refining all that power, he would be able to recover his injuries within a short time.

He planned to increase his battle prowess by killing Nie Tian, thus again obtaining the strength to kill his three opponents!

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The numerous thick vines shone with fresh, green light as they whizzed towards Nie Tian.

It was also in this moment that Nie Tian, whose palms were opposite each other, successfully established the chaotic magnetic field.

Actually the coverage of the magnetic field was still limited and only reached a two-meter range with Nie Tian being the center.

Kan Xingming's deadly vines aimed for none other than Nie Tian's forehead and neck.

Since the vines would have to pierce into Nie Tian to kill him, they would inevitably have to enter the twisted magnetic field!

Just as Nie Tian had expected, the numerous vines penetrated into the magnetic field in the next moment.

The vines immediately lost their fierce momentum after falling into the magnetic field.

The vines that were originally as sharp as swords turned into soft and powerless snakes in an instant!

In a split second, the wood power within the numerous vines became violent and distorted as they were cut off from Kan Xingming's control.

The psychic power that Kan Xingming had attached to the vines had also been cut off from his commands, which caused his mind to be thrown into disordered state and a terrified look to appear in his eyes.

"Wood power!" Nie Tian grinned. After the chaotic magnetic field was successfully completed, his hands had been freed. He used them to continuously reach towards the vines that were floating inside the chaotic magnetic field.

Whenever he touched a vine, strands of emerald-green light would suddenly flow out of them.

The numerous light strands seemed as though they were influenced by the abnormal fluctuations in Nie Tian's heart. In an instant, they were pulled into his body, entered his veins, and were directed to his heart through the flow of his blood.

An excitement, accompanied by an even stronger yearning, was born in Nie Tian's heart as though his demand for the wood power had become endless.

Following the exhaustion of the wood power within the vines, every single one of them was distorted by the magnetic field, and then abruptly exploded into pieces.

Nie Tian's Qi and power had become increasingly exuberant after taking in the wood power.

He could feel perfectly clearly that the bloodline power hidden within him seemed to have made another step on its road to full awakening!

Fear stretched across Kan Xingming's face as he appraoched Nie Tian at a fast speed.

A deep fear suddenly rose in his heart as he now realized that if he dared to continue to attack Nie Tian with his wood power, then it would be completely useless and lost to him, like throwing a piece of meat at a dog to drive it away.

Having suffered greatly, Kan Xingming gave a muffled groan, his eyes filled with a pained look.

Cultivating wood power himself, Kan Xingming was fairly convinced that he had encountered an even higher leveled and more profound kind of power.

That magical power must be more sophisticated and formidable than the wood power, which enabled Nie Tian, who had such a low cultivation base, to overtake him so easily.

He no longer dared to attack Nie Tian or even approach the magnetic field that enveloped him.

He was already preparing to escape.

However, it was at that moment that mad attacks from the Ghost sect and Grayvale sect experts once again rained towards him.

One after another, malevolent devils roared as they suddenly grabbed his arm and wrapped around his waist.

Nie Tian looked up with rapt attention, and saw that the devils were holding the falling Kan Xingming still in the air, and preventing him from moving an inch.

The two Grayvale sect experts continuously bombarded the middle of Kan Xingming's back with a silver-colored shield and a pearl glittering with azure light.

After one last heavy bombardment of the shield and pearl, Kan Xingming, who had been grabbed and fixed in the air by the devils, dove uncontrollably into Nie Tian's chaotic magnetic field.

As soon as he fell into the magnetic field, Kan Xingming's face, which was already covered in bloodstains, turned pale, and the light in his eyes started to fade.

In the chaotic magnetic field, Kan Xingming's psychic power, which was now the only remaining power that he had left, instantly escaped his control.

He completely lost the ability to resist!

"Hurry!" Seeing that Kan Xingming was about to die, the Ghost sect expert immediately shouted loudly and prompted his devils to rip Kan Xingming into shreds.

He did it because he wanted to seize the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of Kan Xingming's hand, where he saw eight scarlet light spots!

By obtaining those eight scarlet light spots, he would take everything that Kan Xingming had obtained from his hunt into his own possession!

The two Grayvale sect experts' expressions changed drastically, as they also wanted that the last person to kill Kan Xingming to be themselves, since only the person who laid the final, life-ending strike on Kan Xingming would be able to obtain those eight scarlet light spots.

They were all indescribably excited.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Devils whizzed over one after the other. However, just as they were about to make contact with Kan Xingming, they were instantly affected by the chaotic magnetic field.

The devils suddenly became distorted and twisted, and under the violent influence of the chaotic magnetic field, they began to show signs of disintegration.

That Ghost sect expert's expression suddenly flickered, and as he urgently swooped down from midair, he forcefully stopped himself midway.

He looked at Nie Tian, eyes filled with shock and confusion, as though he couldn't fathom what was going on, and why the devils, which he had condensed with his psychic power and spiritual power, suddenly showed signs of disintegrating as soon as they were submerged in the odd fluctuations around Nie Tian.

The two Grayvale sect experts saw that he suddenly stopped and also noticed the strange changes to his devils.

The two of them also came to a stop, and floating in midair, they quietly unleashed their psychic awareness in an attempt to pry into the mysterious magnetic field.

However, the moment their psychic awareness entered the field, it immediately became chaotic and uncontrollable and their minds were bombarded with unbearable stabbing pains.

The throbbing pain made them realize how terrifying and formidable the magnetic field around Nie Tian was.

Having seen through their mind, Nie Tian laughed in a low voice and raised his hand, before violently slapping Kan Xingming's skull.

CRUNCH!

The terrifying sound of bones breaking into pieces came from Kan Xingming's skull. The only remaining life force in Kan Xingming's eyes finally dispersed completely.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

As Nie Tian had expected, after Kan Xingming stopped breathing, the eight scarlet light spots flew out and merged into the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of Nie Tian's hand.

Meanwhile, the pattern on Kan Xingming's hand started to fade away little by little, and before long, completely disappeared.

Soon the fluctuations of life force in Kan Xingming's corpse also vanished. However, the rich wood power within his spiritual armor persisted.

Eyes narrowed, Nie Tian stared at Kan Xingming for awhile before he suddenly took off Kan Xingming's bracelet of holding and threw it into midair.

"If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have been able to kill him. I only happened to be in the right place at the right time. Most of his possessions are in that bracelet of holding. You should have it."

With these words, Nie Tian stretched out his hand and pressed it against chest area of Kan Xingming's spiritual armor.

When his palm made contact with the miraculous spiritual armor, concentrated wood power suddenly surged out of it. Without wasting a smidgen of it, Nie Tian absorbed and channeled it into his heart little by little.

He could keenly feel the joy in his heart, and became more convinced that his heart needed the nourishment from plentiful wood power to gradually awaken his bloodline power.

He was also more certain by this point that the most important spiritual item in Kan Xingming's possession was the spiritual armor on him.

He had the feeling that it was a bit immoral for him to obtain Kan Xingming's eight scarlet light spots, together with the man's most valuable item.

However, that spiritual armor was extremely helpful to the complete awakening of his bloodline power. Therefore, although he knew that it was slightly inappropriate to do so, he couldn't afford to pass on the opportunity.

In midair.

The expert from the Ghost sect held out his hand and grabbed Kan Xingming's bracelet of holding that had flown to his chest. As soon as he used his psychic awareness to examine the items inside, his face dropped.

Indeed, there were numerous spiritual materials and medicinal pills of many kinds inside, but the majority of them had been looted from trial takers from the seven sects.

Most of the people who Kan Xingming had killed were low in their cultivation base and as such, the spiritual materials and medicinal pills that he had plundered from their possession were merely ordinary items.

None of them caught the Ghost sect expert's eyes.

Even still, Nie Tian wanted him to share those valueless items with the two experts from the Grayvale sect. This made him very discontent.

"What's inside?" One of the Grayvale sect experts asked.

"Nothing of value." The Ghost sect expert had a grim expression on his face. Annoyed by Nie Tian's behavior, he contemplated as to whether he should demand an explanation from Nie Tian.

However, at that time, the devils that he had released to kill Kan Xingming were on the verge of disintegrating in Nie Tian's chaotic magnetic field.

Keh! Keh!

Nie Tian noticed that the chaotic magnetic field had already distorted those devils beyond recognition.

He grabbed Kan Xingming's corpse with one hand and slightly shifted his position.

As soon as he changed his position, that magnetic field also followed him. Only then did those devils escape the influence of the chaotic magnetic field and once again solidify from their state of being nearly ripped apart.

"Gentlemen, these people from the other realms are our common enemies. I realize that I've taken a bit more than I should. I apologize for it.

"But I promise that I'll try my best to make it up to you in the future.

"Even if that still isn't enough to settle your discontent with me, we'll work it out after we kill all those foreign cultivators, shall we?"

Nie Tian looked up at the three experts and said with an embarrassed smile.

"Nie Tian, Wu Ji's disciple, I'll remember you, kid!" The expert from the Ghost sect glared viciously at him and decided to drop it for the time being.

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Chapter 164: Enlightenment!

Zou Yi from the Ghost sect threw the bracelet of holding to Guan Qiu from the Grayvale sect as he clearly didn't attach any importance to the items within. "I'm not interested in any of the things inside. You guys take it."

However, a hint of happiness could be seen on Guan Qiu's face after he caught the bracelet of holding.

Unlike Zou Yi, he was from a poor and low background and he didn't have strong backers in the Grayvale sect. As a result, he didn't have much prepared before entering the Heaven Gate trial.

Even if there were only a few spirit stones and medicinal pills in the bracelet, he would gladly take them.

Down below, Nie Tian clasped his hands towards Zou Yi and said, "Many thanks. If we loot anything in the future, I'll leave it all to you. I promise."

Zou Yi nodded and said no more. He took a glance around the battlefield, targeted another man from the other realms, and dashed straight towards him.

The two experts from the Grayvale sect also didn't bother to argue with Nie Tian seeing that Kan Xingming was already dead. They also chose their next target and rushed to attack another foreign trial taker.

Besieged by the green flames, Li Fan spared Nie Tian glance, and found to his surprise that he was standing there unscathed, while Kan Xingming, on the contrary, was dead in front of him. He blurted, "I can't believe you survived…"

"The kid isn't even injured!" Liu Yan was also shocked at the scene while the two of them were trapped in a small space, continuously evading the erosion of the green flames and looking for a way to break away from them.

"I knew that kid wouldn't die so easily," Feng Luo muttered.

Among everyone present, he was the only one who had always believed that Nie Tian would survive Kan Xingming's attack.

That was because Nie Tian and Zheng Bin together had managed to kill Jia Peng, and after that Nie Tian had revealed a strange skill while facing Zhao Mo, causing Zhao Mo to escape in fear.

In his eyes, Nie Tian, who possessed a Spirit Channeling grade treasure and was carrying all kinds of powerful items that Wu Ji had bestowed upon him along with many secret magics at his disposal, could no longer be assessed in conventional ways.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

Unusual energy fluctuations rippled out of the floating city as it quietly shifted its position without following any obvious pattern.

Standing extremely close to the city wall, Nie Tian continued to receive numerous magical symbols through the fifteen scarlet light spots on the back of his hand.

Each and every spot started to grow dazzling and blaze like stars as they adorned the Heaven Gate pattern. Furthermore, it seemed that they were also slowly rotating in a specific pattern.

He glanced through the battlefield and realized that after obtaining Du Huang and Kan Xingming's light spots, he currently had the most light spots on his hand.

Even the three foreign cultivators, including Miao Chen, didn't have as many as he did.

He started to have a feeling that since he was the one with the most light spots, the strange energy ripples seemed… to have slightly bent towards him.

In that way, he would also soon become the one to receive the most magical symbols.

"What secrets are behind all this?" he thought to himself.

While he was pondering the matter, that hand of his that was still pressed against Kang Xingming's spiritual armor and madly absorbing the rich wood power within it.

The spiritual armor that was forged with numerous leaves and vines gradually lost its glow as Nie Tian continued to channel away its wood power.

It wasn't very long before its fresh, green color completely faded away and was replaced by a dark-brown color.

When he could no longer feel the wood power from within the spiritual armor, his heart that had been thumping strangely and violently also slowly return normal.

A misty, green aura silently flowed out of him. His power and strength had reached a level of satiation that had never been achieved before.

He felt that there was a rich life force contained within his flesh, which seemed to carry secrets that were currently incomprehensible to him.

Eyes narrowed, he glanced around and immediately realized that he could now see and hear even further, and the coverage of his psychic power had also increased by a wide margin.

All these changes made him convinced that the wood power from that spiritual armor was indeed a tremendous help to him.

"Hmm?"

At that moment, he suddenly noticed that some of the wood power that had been absorbed into his body quietly flowed into his spiritual sea.

After entering, the wood power began to swirl around at a low speed inside his spiritual sea, before it soon sped up and took the form of another spiritual vortex.

A fresh green aura surged within the vortex that was brimming with life force.

The mysterious life force seemed to be nourishing his spiritual sea and accelerating the speed of refinement and rotation of the vortex of spiritual power and vortex of flame power within.

It was at that moment that a feeling occurred to him, that he was about to break through from the early Lesser Heaven stage into the middle Lesser Heaven stage.

He felt that his state of mind, his understanding of the Flame Spirit Incantation, as well as his mastery of spiritual power had already reached the critical point of breaking through.

It appeared as though he did not need to make any effort or cultivate through meditating; he would automatically step into the middle Lesser Heaven stage.

Everything seemed so natural that he experienced not even the slightest discomfort. It was like how a canal formed by itself when water flowed.

WHOOSH!

The strange energy fluctuations once again gradually retreated towards the city.

Meanwhile, the scarlet light spots on the back of Nie Tian's hand that had absorbed a large amount of magical symbols also cooled down.

By this point, the number of complicated patterns and symbols on the wall of the dilapidated city had grown fewer and fewer.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The beams of rainbow-coloured light also abruptly shrunk back into the city. At this very moment, an extremely strong attractive force suddenly came from the city.

The floating city suddenly stopped swaying and became as steady as a mountain.

Loud creaking sounds came through from the four walls of the square city while four heavy, thick stone gates slowly cracked open in the city walls, where originally no gates could be seen.

As soon as the gates opened up, multi-colored light flowed out from within, forming four glorious passages leading into the city.

Everyone who was in the midst of battling simultaneously noticed the strange changes to the city and subconsciously stopped fighting momentarily as all of their attention was seized by the city.

Each and every one of them sensed a strong attractive force from within the city.

The city seemed to be summoning all those who had Heaven Gate patterns on their hands, and the more light spots a person had on their Heaven Gate pattern, the stronger summoning and suction force they could feel.

Nie Tian stared blankly at the widely opened stone gate that was the closest to him and immediately realized that he was completely unable to resist the suction force that came from within. Step by step, he headed towards that stone gate.

As for the others, they had long since harbored avaricious thoughts towards whatever was in the city. Therefore, when they felt the attractive force, they didn't even try to fight it.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

They all bolted forward like flashing lightning as every single one of them wanted to be the first to enter.

Compared to Nie Tian, who was moving towards the city step by step, their speed was faster by god knew how many times.

BOOM!

When Zou Yi from the Ghost sect, who had long since given up attacking the foreign cultivator, stepped into the gate tunnel, he felt a strong shock to his body and a wisp of blood escaped from the corner of his mouth.

He was forced to a stop.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

All the others were also bombarded and pushed back by a strong force when they entered the gate tunnel.

Those who were the most anxious to enter were all stopped at the gate and repelled by that force, unable to step through.

From the look of it, the more light spots a person had on the back of their hand, the weaker the pushing force they would have to fight against. Therefore, Miao Chen and the other foreign cultivators had less resistance as they plodded forward.

On the other hand, since Li Fan, Liu Yan, Feng Luo hadn't killed any disciples from the other six sects, none of them had the chance to gain more scarlet light spots.

As a result, when they attempted to step through the city gate, every step forward was extremely difficult and energy-consuming.

Meanwhile, even though Nie Tian's cultivation base was the lowest, he actually walked past Zou Yi and continued forward, due to the fact that he possessed the most scarlet light spots.

Various expressions flashed across Zou Yi's face as he watched Nie Tian surpass him.

Killing intent could be seen in his eyes.

"Don't you dare do anything to him!" Li Fan shouted out loudly and dashed to Zou Yi's side together with Liu Yan, one flanking Zou Yi from each side, fearing that he could not restrain himself from attacking Nie Tian.

Even Feng Luo said, standing not far from Zou Yi, "It's the kid's fortune that he obtained the most light spots. If you want to forcibly take his fortune away, I'm afraid it will give rise to fights among the seven sects. You'd better think it over before you do anything!"

Li Fan and Liu Yan were staring coldly at Zou Yi, as if they were telling him to resist the temptation, however strong it was.

He looked at Nie Tian who was moving forward one step at a time, and turned to look at Li Fan, Liu Yan, and Feng Luo, who were glaring at him from all sides, like tigers eyeing their prey. He finally chose to give up. "Fine, fine. Little punk! Remember, you owe me one!"

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Li Fan from the Cloudsoaring sect fiercely glared at Zou Yi and shouted, "He doesn't owe you a damn thing! If you dare to make a move, don't blame me for being rude!"

Liu Yan also had a serious expression on his face. Even though Zou Yi had expressed that he wouldn't think of killing Nie Tian again, he still couldn't let his guard down for fear that Zou Yi wouldn't keep true to his words.

When they entered the city gate tunnel, they all felt the resistance and realized that the more scarlet light spots one had obtained, the easier it was to enter the city.

It meant that by madly killing disciples from the seven sects, the cultivators from the other realms were actually wanting to enter that city.

Nie Tian was five meters ahead of Zou Yi. His cultivation base was puny, yet his luck was unbelievably good, allowing him to obtain fifteen scarlet light spots. By killing Nie Tian, Zou Yi would easily strip away everything that belonged to Nie Tian.

Moreover, the Ghost sect and the Cloudsoaring sect hadn't been friendly in the slightest, and as a matter of fact, they had only temporarily joined forces because of the calamity that was about to strike the Realm of Flame Heaven.

He wasn't certain that Zou Yi could resist the devil in his heart.

Not only were Li Fan and Liu Yan carefully guarding against Zou Yi, they were also secretly vigilant towards Feng Luo from the Blood sect.

They didn't know that after Feng Luo and Nie Tian had fought Zhao Mo side by side, their tension had already eased up.

In their eyes, Feng Luo and Zou Yi fell into the same category: their former enemies.

They even suspected that Feng Luo favouring Nie Tian was in fact because he had ulterior motives and was purposely concealing the greediness in his heart so that he could suddenly make a move at a crucial moment.

"What are you looking at me for? I have no desire for that boy's fortune." Feng Luo sounded a bit unpleased.

Li Fan gave a loud harrumph. "I'm not you. Only you know what you are thinking."

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

It was also at this moment that two figures flashed towards where everyone was from afar.

"Zhao Mo! Tang Yang!" Feng Luo turned his head around and a strange look appeared in his eyes. From what he could tell, things were not looking good.

The moment Tang Yang, who had a tall and sturdy frame and numerous blazing patterns tattooed on his arms, arrived in front of the city, he asked Zhao Mo, who was by his side, "Where is he?!"

The truth was Zhao Mo, who was also from the Realm of Dark Underworld, had led Tang Yang as they trailed behind Nie Tian. Now they finally arrived caught up to them.

Standing not far from the city gate where everyone was, Zhao Mo narrowed his eyes, pointed at Nie Tian, and said, "That's the boy I was talking about."

Upon a closer look at Nie Tian, Tang Yang couldn't help but exclaim, "What?! He's got fifteen Heaven Sparks! How on earth did he obtain fifteen?" Tang Yang had an disbelieving expression on his face.

By Heaven Spark, he was referring to the fifteen scarlet light spots in the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of Nie Tian's hand.

Apparently, he knew the meaning behind them and what they represented.

"Heaven Sparks?" Zou Yi from the Ghost sect softly whispered, finally learning the name of those red light spots.

"Heaven Sparks…" Nie Tian also heard Tang Yang's words. He looked down at the red spots on the back of his hand, which had become incomparably hot, and muttered to himself, "So these things are called Heaven Sparks. From the look of it, the seven sects from the Realm of Flame Heaven know nothing about them, but those from the other realms seems to know the secrets behind them."

"That kid is mine!" Tang Yang violently shouted as clusters of flames suddenly emerged from within him, as if he had become a person who had been engulfed in violently surging flames .

Releasing blazing flames, he blurred into action. Like a flaming meteorite, he plummeted towards the city gate where Nie Tian stood.

"Damn!" Zou Yi, Feng Luo, Li Fan, and Liu Yan, who were gathered in the city gate tunnel, had their faces turn pale with terror.

Zou Yi and Feng Luo were from the Ghost sect and Blood sect respectively. Before they entered, they had went through many channels to find out about the two strongest Qi warriors amongst all the foreign cultivators.

One was Miao Chen, who had already arrived here. He was the one from the Realm of Black Marsh, and his spiritual power was tainted with deadly toxicity and through mere contact, would rot away a man's flesh.

The other one was Tang Yang, who everyone was looking at. He was from the Realm of Dark Underworld, and had a late Greater Heaven stage cultivation base. He was proficient in the arts of the flame.

When the three foreign cultivators, including Miao Chen, saw that Tang Yang had come, they were also secretly surprised. "Tang Yang!"

Miao Chen had a grim expression on his face, clearly quite fearful of Tang Yang. "This guy found this place too quickly. Dammit!"

Only Miao Chen knew how many plots he had secretly concocted in order to prevent Tang Yang from finding this place.

After stepping through the Heaven Gate, he confirmed through some mysterious means that the floating city would appear on this enormous meteorite.

In order to prevent Tang Yang from finding this place, he secretly carried out a crafty scheme to make sure that the area that Tang Yang was responsible for was the furthest away from this meteorite.

He did so to make sure that Tang Yang wouldn't be able to perceive the energy fluctuations when the floating city appeared.

Even if Tang Yang realized that the area that he was allotted was extremely remote when the floating city appeared, Miao Chen was confident that he would probably have seized the most of the fortune by the time Tang Yang came for him.

As a matter of fact, if it weren't for Nie Tian, Tang Yang would indeed still be at his allotted region, hunting down disciples from the seven sects one after the other and accumulating Heaven Sparks.

As far as Tang Yang was concerned, the more Heaven Sparks one obtained, the stronger one's connection would be to that dilapidated city. Therefore, his plan was to determine the accurate location of the floating city through obtaining the most Heaven Sparks.

However, Zhao Mo had found him and told him about the appearance of the Flame Dragon Armor and the fact that the Flame Dragon Armor had integrated with the Blood Core.

The Flame Dragon Armor was from Tang Yang's sect. Now that it not only had become complete again, but it had even fallen into the hands of a Lesser Heaven stage junior from the Realm of Flame Heaven, he naturally wanted to snatch it without any delay.

That was why Tang Yang immediate put an end to his plan of hunting and killing the disciples from the seven sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Under Zhao Mo's lead, they had raced in Nie Tian's direction. Moreover, when that floating city had first appeared and released energy fluctuations, Tang Yang instantly perceived them.

Therefore, Nie Tian actually contributed greatly to the fact that Tang Yang had rushed over in time.

Tang Yang roared before diving forcefully towards the city gate where Feng Luo and Li Fan were at, like a fierce, burning beast. "Get the hell out of my way, all of you! I'm not interested in you. As long as you stay where you are and don't try to stop me, I'll consider sparing your lives!"

"It's Tang Yang!!" Zou Yi and Feng Luo's expressions flickered. They subconsciously dodged to the side, clearing out a path that led straight into the city.

Even though Feng Luo had already developed an admiration towards Nie Tian, he knew how powerful Tang Yang was and was not willing to put his life on the line for Nie Tian. By that time, he had also spotted the ten bright spots on the back of Tang Yang's hand, which indicated that ten powerful experts from the seven sects had already died by his hands.

Li Fan and Liu Yan were both in the early Greater Heaven stage. After sensing Tang Yang's unstoppable momentum and that Tang Yang's eyes were were ablaze with frenzied flames as he stared unwaveringly at Nie Tian, they couldn't help but feel secretly frightened.

They were now certain that Tang Yang's target was Nie Tian!

They weren't clear as to how Nie Tian had offended Tang Yang, yet they knew that once Tang Yang got close to Nie Tian, Nie Tian would most likely be killed in a flash.

They exchanged a glance and saw the bitter and helpless look in each other's eyes.

If Zou Yi and Feng Luo were willing to join hands with them to stop Tang Yang, perhaps they could stall Tang Yang for a while.

However, by stepping away and clearing a path for Tang Yang, Zou Yi and Feng Luo had already made their stance clear.

They did not dare to hamper Tang Yang!

Without Zou Yi and Feng Luo, there was no possibility whatsoever that they could block Tang Yang with just the two of them.

Just as they were hesitating, Zhao Mo from the Realm of Dark Underworld also dashed towards them after Tang Yang.

Zhao Mo was in the middle Greater Heaven stage, and thus could also overtake any of them. Apparently, he bore the intention of assisting Tang Yang by dashing after him.

Tang Yang by himself was already terrifying. Now that Zhao Mo was also in the picture, how were they going to contend against them?

When Zou Yi and Feng Luo realized that Zhao Mo had also rushed towards this city gate, they grew increasingly uneasy. Without any delay, they quickly stepped back to make an even larger space for them, fearing that Tang Yang and Zhao Mo would kill them for being in their way. However, Li Fan and Liu Yan didn't move a bit.

"Screw off!" An enormous, flaming light beam suddenly shot out from Tang Yang's chest. Inside of the light beam, there were many specks of flaming light flickering about, interweaving into a marvelous flame pattern.

A mysterious flame incantation that carried the intent to burn everything to ashes seemed to be branded within that mysterious blazing pattern!

BANG! BANG! BANG!

One after the other, Liu Yan and Li Fan summoned their spiritual tools in an attempt to block the flaming light beam. However, in the moment that the flaming light beam made contact with their spiritual weapons, they were blasted so heavily to the point where they coughed up blood.

Their Medium grade spiritual tools were sent flying to the side while still sputtering with fragmented flames.

BANG!

With another attack, the flaming light beam viciously struck Liu Yan in the chest. Liu Yan was sent flying backwards and heavily fell to the ground behind Nie Tian.

Nie Tian had long since quietly turned around to observe their movements since Tang Yang and Zhao Mo appeared. He witnessed Liu Yan sail through the air in a perfect arc and fall to the ground with a loud crash.

"Uncle Liu!!!" Nie Tian's wide eyes grew so bloodshot that they seemed as if were about to bleed.

By the time Liu Yan fell to the ground, the vigor in his eyes had already dispersed and he was completely devoid of life force.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The fearful, flaming light beam madly sped along for another several meters inside the city gate tunnel that shone with multi-colored light before it finally dissipated, as if it had also been affected by the pushing force inside the tunnel.

Li Fan's eyes also immediately reddened. Watching Liu Yan be killed right before his eyes, he immediately planned to fight Tang Yang to the death.

At that moment, Feng Luo, who was the closest to him, grabbed him and held him back with all his strength, despite Li Fan's struggling, so as to stop him from going on a suicide mission.

Feng Luo was certain that Nie Tian was Tang Yang's one and only target!

As long as the other people didn't try to stop him from getting close to Nie Tian, he wouldn't bother to kill them.

Liu Yan was only annihilated by Tang Yang because he recklessly stood between him and Nie Tian.

Tang Yang did not even spare Li Fan a glance as he stepped forward. It was obvious that he did not attach any importance to someone who only had an early Greater Heaven cultivation base.

Seeing that Liu Yan had been killed by Tang Yang with one strike, Zou Yi stood still, flabbergasted. "He's so strong!

His expression flickered as he stealthily took another step back, making even more room for the god-like Tang Yang.

Tang Yang's whole body was ablaze with flames as he strode forwards. Coupled with his tall and sturdy frame, he was like a burning, moving mountain. His eyes were fixed on Nie Tian as he shouted, "Boy! Hand over the Flame Dragon Armor and I will honor you a complete-corpse death! If you dare to disobey me, I will burn you to ashes, not leaving a single bone!"

By the time the words left his mouth, he had already walked past Feng Luo, Li Fan, and Zou Yi. Step by step, he approached Nie Tian.

The clusters of blazing flames that had been hovering around him seemed to fight with the multi-colored light within the gate tunnel, creating crackling and rattling sounds.

Tang Yang, who had long hair trailing over his shoulders, gradually built up his imposing manner. Now he was like a flaming, demonic god, unceasingly unleashing deadly, tyrannical flames.

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The city gate tunnel was several dozen meters deep.

Tang Yang caught up from behind while unleashing monstrous flame power. In merely a split second, he sped past Li Fan and Feng Luo and continued to proceed forward.

He didn't even take one glance at Liu Yan's corpse as he flashed past.

He rapidly gained on Nie Tian, and it wasn't long before he was only fifteen meters away.

CRACKLE!

While the seven-colored light within the gate tunnel constantly bashed the burning flames that wreathed Tang Yang, they repeatedly neutralized each other.

"Yee!?" Tang Yang suddenly came to a stop, as if he was also astonished by the strong resistant force that had been crushing him and pushing him back.

Separated by a distance of fifteen meters, he coldly looked at Nie Tian as he secretly examined the resistant force that seemed to stem from the seven-colored light. He seemed to be pondering something.

"Nie Tian! Get away from him! Go as far as you can!" Seeing from behind that Tang Yang was getting closer and closer to Nie Tian, Li Fan hurriedly reminded him with a loud voice, hoping that Nie Tian would continue to move forward and keep a distance between him and Tang Yang.

While calling out, Li Fan's face was full of grief and indignation. As he looked at Liu Yan's corpse, his heart was brimming with hatred.

However, he also understood perfectly that with his cultivation base, it was impossible for him to avenge Liu Yan by killing Tang Yang in the city gate tunnel.

He only wished that Nie Tian wouldn't follow in Liu Yan's footsteps.

"Hand over the Flame Dragon Armor and I will honor you with a complete-corpse death!" Tang Yang never even looked at Li Fan. Instead, he stared at Nie Tian and threatened him again.

Red-hot, bright lights rapidly condensed one after another in front of Tang Yang as he spoke.

The bright, fiery lights continuously changed their form, before they once again converged and morphed into a thick and long flaming light beam, inside of which were hidden the profound truths of the flame power.

As soon as the fiery light beam was formed, the seven-colored light in the gate tunnel suddenly flooded toward Tang Yang.

ZZZZZLA!

Countless dazzling sparks were sent out into the surroundings when the two types of light met, making the energy in the area between Tang Yang and Nie Tian extremely turbulent.

"Uncle Liu…" Turning back to look at Liu Yan's cold body, Nie Tian's eyes were filled with rage.

However, he knew that with his current cultivation base, it was absolutely impossible for him to kill Tang Yang.

After all, Tang Yang was much more powerful than Jia Peng and Du Huang.

Tang Yang shook his head and called out, "Hey!"

It seemed that he couldn't wait any longer and decided to not give Nie Tian another chance.

BOOM!

Under his command, the thick, flaming light beam, carrying a terrifying flame energy, abruptly charged towards Nie Tian.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The seven-colored light, which was originally scattered everywhere within the city gate, gathered together from all directions and condensed into multiple seven-colored light shields, rippling forward to resist the light beam.

The clashing momentum of the light beam made it advance forward with extreme difficulty due to the resistance of the seven-colored light shields.

One inch at a time, the thick, flaming light beam broke through the multiple layers of light. However, it was gradually neutralized by the power of the seven-colored light shields and became smaller and smaller. The flame energy that it carried was also rapidly dissipating.

The seven-colored light rays that were everywhere in the city gate tunnel seemed to prohibit fights of any kind.

Upon detecting any sort of violent power, the seven-colored light rays would immediately interfere and obliterate the attack, regardless of whoever launched it.

However, the might of the late Greater Heaven stage Tang Yang's attack was by no means insignificant.

Even though there were layers of obstructions from the seven-colored light rays, which had caused the flame light pillar to slow down, it was still, bit by bit, rumbling towards Nie Tian.

When the flame light pillar was only two meters away from Nie Tian's chest, Nie Tian was already dripping with sweat.

"Get out of here! Now!!" Feng Luo couldn't help but call out to Nie Tian.

Nie Tian, who had stood in place for a while, snapped back to his senses. He temporarily cast aside his emotions and stepped out again towards the inside of the city.

As he took his first step, he immediately felt the strength of the pushing force increase dramatically. He couldn't tell if the power that originated from the seven-colored light rays was preventing everyone from entering or testing them.

He had no choice but to madly draw power from his spiritual sea and stimulate his vortex of spiritual power, vortex of flame power, and vortex of wood power to the peak.

The high speed revolution of the three vortexes not only provided him with rich energy, but it seemed to also be very efficiently purifying his spiritual sea.

Within his spiritual sea, the refining process of the different kinds of power seemed to have sped up by several fold with the frantic revolution of the three vortexes.

BOOM!

When he took the tenth step, he suddenly experienced a violent shudder in his mind. It felt like he had broken out of a tight cage.

"Middle Lesser Heaven stage!" Even though he didn't have an idea as to what exactly had happened within himself, he was certain that he had just broke through from the early Lesser Heaven stage into the middle Lesser Heaven stage.

He never expected that he would make a breakthrough in his cultivation base while he was in the middle of painstakingly stepping forward within the gate tunnel.

Not having the time to ponder the profundity of the middle Lesser Heaven stage, he once again concentrated on moving forward as fast as possible.

At that moment, even though the fiery light beam had already shrunk to one tenth of its original size, it was still closing in on him.

It was now only one meter away from the middle of Nie Tian's back.

The flame energy that the flaming light beam unleashed caused the area that he was in to become incomparably hot.

Numerous seven-colored light rays were still gathering and rushing towards towards Nie Tian, as they still wanted to obstruct the flaming light beam.

Nie Tian abruptly turned around. He glared at the flaming light beam that had become as thin as an arm and ferociously swung his fist at it.

Splendid and dazzling light blossomed from within his fist.

BAM!

At the moment his fist struck the flaming light beam, sparks sputtered all over the place and numerous threads of fiery light shot out in all directions.

"You must have a death wish!" A sinister grin appeared on Tang Yang's face as he seemed to suddenly infuse a new surge of power into the fiery light beam, causing it to rapidly expand in size.

A violent flame energy suddenly burst forth from the light beam.

Nie Tian's face turned pale upon the scene.

Without pausing to think, he immediately summoned a life-saving spiritual talisman that Wu Ji had bestowed upon him from within his bracelet of holding.

As soon as the talisman landed in his palm, he sent out a wisp of thought to trigger it. Within a split second, it turned into light shields of spiritual power, enveloping Nie Tian.

There were as many as seven layers of light shields that constantly released a jade-like glow. There was a thin separation between the layers.

Numerous threads of spiritual power appeared within the seven light shields. They interwove with each other and evolved into numerous detailed, spiritual patterns.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The fiery sparks that had sputtered out from the fiery light beam disappeared into thin air as soon as they fell onto the outermost light shield.

Then, the expanded light beam rammed into the light shield with great force.

All of a sudden, the seven layers of light shields shone with endless precious light. The numerous complicated spiritual patterns within started to flow back and forth as if they had their own life and soul.

The violent thrusting force, along with the resistant force of the light shields, burst out from the point of contact.

Upon the strong impact from the gigantic light beam, Nie Tian, who originally trudged forward with great difficulty, was instantly sent forward by more than ten steps.

A gentle, formidable force was emanating from within the seven layers of spiritual power shields, secretly protecting him from any injuries.

At that moment, the four outermost light shields flew out from the sphere, wrapped around the flaming light beam, and immediately started to battle at close quarters with the flame power within the light beam.

The mysterious strength that had come from Wu Ji, bit by bit, ripped apart and crushed the flame essence that had been imprinted by Tang Yang.

Under the frenzied biting and tearing of the numerous mysterious spiritual patterns on the light shields, the flaming light beam once again rapidly shrunk until it disappeared completely.

WHOOSH!

The four layers of spiritual power shields morphed into a bright light ball, and flew back to Nie Tian.

As soon as it made contact with the remaining three layers of light shields, it began to fluctuate and soon spread out to form two layers of light shields.

Therefore, there were still five layers of light shields wreathing Nie Tian.

Not only was Nie Tian unscathed, he even took advantage of the impact force that came from Tang Yang's attack and got closer to the inside of the city.

Seeing that his flaming light beam had completely disappeared, Tang Yang gave a muffled snort as his expression slightly changed. "A life-saving spiritual talisman from a Profound realm expert!"

For some unknown reason, the surging flames that were surrounding him seemed to have grown smaller by a large extent.

His arrogant attacks seemed to have triggered the counter-attack of the seven-colored light rays that filled every corner of the gate tunnel, as they diverted their attention from the others, and madly surged towards him.

The pushing and squeezing force that he suffered was suddenly multiplied by several times.

Nie Tian, who was at the forefront, originally found it hard to take even one step. However, at this moment, he felt that the resistance had suddenly grown weaker.

With the five light shields protecting him, he continued to summon strength to speed up his footsteps. Without any delay, he rapidly charged towards the inner city.

He gradually put space between himself and the city gate, which was several dozen meters high. Before long, he and Miao Chen, who had entered through another gate, became the first ones to step into the city.

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The moment Nie Tian entered the city, he stood there aghast, eyes filled with disbelief.

In front of his eyes was a vacant, vast city. Contrary to what he had pictured in mind, there weren't any nicely decorated buildings or pavilions made of jade. There was only seven-colored light that drifted about in the air like colorful ribbons.

Just as he secretly felt disappointed, the light seemed to have sensed his existence and converged on him from every direction.

In a flash, thousands of light rays arrived at his side and turned into a seven-colored light shield, enveloping him like a giant bubble.

As soon as the colorful light shield was formed, it flew up, taking him into the air.

Nie Tian was dumbstruck.

He had no idea what was happening. He attempted to resist, using the power of the spiritual shields, and stop himself from moving.

Only then did he suddenly notice that the remaining spiritual power shields were already gone.

Enveloped by the light bubble, he flew up towards the starry sky above his head at an unimaginable speed.

While traveling, he looked at his surroundings with rapt attention, and found that Miao Chen was enveloped in another bubble and had also shot up into the sky.

The two of them were several hundred meters away and could clearly see each other. Nie Tian saw unveiled complacence within Miao Chen's eyes.

It was when he found that Miao Chen was more elated than afraid that he slightly relaxed and tried not to overthink it. He stopped resisting and let the giant bubble take him into the boundless, starry sky.

When he looked down, the numerous gigantic meteors had all shrunk to the size of pieces of grain.

The city that brimmed with seven-colored light had already become hard to find, and soon disappeared from his sight.

However, at the same time, more and more people enveloped in seven-colored bubbles entered his sight one after another.

He saw a tall, burly man surrounded by raging flames shooting into the sky in a seven-colored bubble. Upon a closer look, it was none other than Tang Yang from the Realm of Dark Underworld.

Apparently, Tang Yang had also stepped into the city after him.

He grew a bit nervous since he had absolutely no idea what would happen. He kept glancing around, but all he saw was endless darkness.

He unleashed his psychic awareness into his surroundings, but detected no sign of life. There was only coldness.

Time passed by rapidly as the bubble carried Nie Tian upwards.

All of a sudden, he felt the bubble slow down a bit.

Subconsciously, he looked up.

A majestic, enormous palace appeared in the depths of the starry sky above him, like an unwavering mountain.

Beneath the base of the palace, countless light rays of various colors interwove with each other, sending out terrifying energy surges.

SHEW!

The bubble carried him up as it flew into a dazzling, transparent tunnel under the palace, and then shuttled him into the palace.

Seconds later, the seven-colored bubble appeared in an immeasurably wide palace hall.

Wisps of extremely rich spiritual energy entered the floating bubble and blew into Nie Tian's face.

With merely a sniff of it, he felt enlivened and cleansed of all exhaustion, as if his spiritual sea was also rejuvenated by the puff of spiritual energy.

Amazed, he couldn't help but start glancing around at the inside of the splendid palace hall while scanning the area with his psychic awareness.

The ceiling of the hall was extremely vast and adorned with shining dots, which upon a closer look were small stars, making it seem like a river of stars. Even though those tiny stars seemed very far away, he could tell that they were releasing energy fluctuations.

From time to time, gentle starlight would flow out of the star river and pour into the palace hall.

Two rivers of seven-colored light flowed in the palace hall, dividing the enormous hall into three areas.

Miao Chen was in one of them that was separated from the one that Nie Tian was in by a large area.

Numerous complicated, beautiful patterns were imprinted on the palace walls that were far away from where Nie Tian was. Within them seemed to lay the profound truths of many kinds of power.

Nie Tian grew fascinated with only a single glimpse of them. However, after staring at them with rapt attention for a while, he found himself losing his psychic power at a fast speed.

Apparently, it consumed a tremendous amount of psychic power to study the mysterious patterns on the walls.

Without any hesitation, he retracted his focus from them, and continued to observe the vast area that he was in.

WHOOSH!

Another seven-colored bubble appeared in the area that Nie Tian was in, within which was a white-robed young man.

Face grave and stern, he sat inside of the bubble with a simple, unsophisticated sword on his lap. He gently stroked the sword with hands that were even more slender and beautiful than those of a girl, as he scanned the area with a thoughtful gaze.

"This guy…" At first glance, Nie Tian was sure that he had never seen the man, and that the man had never showed up in the floating city.

After a brief examination, he could tell that the white-robed young man was also in the Lesser Heaven stage, just like him.

"He's also in the Lesser Heaven stage." Nie Tian grew intrigued and couldn't help but start to look him up and down more closely. His expression suddenly flickered.

To his surprise, he saw as many as sixteen Heaven Sparks on the back of the young man's left hand.

This meant that he might have already taken the lives of sixteen trial takers.

Nie Tian consider himself lucky because by only killing Du Huang and Kan Xingming, he managed to obtain fifteen Heaven Sparks, although the process had been hard and dangerous.

Furthermore, he had taken advantage of others' help in both kills.

The fact that they were both in the Lesser Heaven stage but the white-robed young man had even more Heaven Sparks than him made Nie Tian secretly astounded.

While Nie Tian looked the white-robed young man up and down, the young man also glanced around and eventually laid his gaze on Nie Tian and the fifteen Heaven Sparks on his hand.

Like Nie Tian, he was also surprised. Then he greeted Nie Tian by briefly nodding towards him.

Nie Tian nodded back.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

At the same time, another two seven-colored bubbles appeared not far from Nie Tian.

They held one young man and one young woman, and both had a Lesser Heaven stage cultivation base.

The young man had an angular face and was wearing a black robe. His loose, shoulder-length hair gave him a somewhat wild look.

He had a long saber with no sheath on his back. On the blade were detailed and sophisticated patterns, among which was a closed eye.

It seemed like a mysterious symbol and Nie Tian had the feeling that it could snap open at any time.

It seemed as if, whenever it opened, it would unleash a power so mighty that it would even outshine the stars in the sky.

Noticing that Nie Tian was staring at him, the black-robed young man gave a casual, handsome grin; not even the slightest hint of fierceness could be seen in his eyes.

At that moment, Nie Tian noticed the Heaven Sparks that were glittering with scarlet light on the back of his hand. "Eighteen Heaven Sparks!"

The white-robed young man had sixteen and the black-robed young man had eighteen, while the two of them only had a Lesser Heaven stage cultivation base.

Nie Tian was taken aback by the amount of Heaven Sparks that they had obtained.

After a brief moment, he shifted his gaze to the only female among them.

The young woman was in a blue robe. Her eyes were so bright and her face was so delicate that she even seemed unreal. Compared to Jiang Lingzhu and An Shiyi, she was even more unearthly beautiful, and her charm was also something that Nie Tian had never seen.

She had no accessories on her, save a green ring on her finger.

She sat cross-legged within the seven-colored bubble. Eyes closed and silent, she didn't move a hair, as if she had already merged with the heaven and earth, and was rapidly taking in spiritual energy from her surroundings.

Her hands were flattened out on her knees, with her palms facing up, so Nie Tian couldn't see how many Heaven Sparks she had.

However, Nie Tian had the feeling that this charming young woman must also be a deadly character, by no means weaker than the other two young men.

She must have felt Nie Tian's gaze, but she did nothing in response, not even sparing him a glance.

She only took a quick glance at the other two young men before focusing all her attention on the two seven-colored light rivers and people in the other two areas.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

Nie Tian followed her gaze and realized that figures were starting to appear in the other two areas.

Among the figures that rapidly appeared in the area closer to his, most were in the Heaven stage and had about ten Heaven Sparks or less on their hands.

In the area further away from his, Nie Tian saw Miao Chen from the Realm of Black Marsh and Tang Yang from the Realm of Dark Underworld.

Separated by two seven-colored light rivers, Tang Yang stared coldly at him, as if he wanted to cross the rivers to get Nie Tian, but was held back by certain worries and had decided not to act rashly.

Miao Chen stood right next to Tang Yang, chuckling softly because of the situation.

Anger appeared on Tang Yang's face. However, he didn't seem interested in talking to Miao Chen, so he didn't do anything in response to Miao Chen's sneer.

Separated by the light rivers, Nie Tian could only see them, but couldn't hear anything.

At that moment, the black-robed young man smiled at Nie Tian and said, "Little bro, you don't look familiar to me. Which realm of the Domain of the Falling Stars are you from?"

As soon as he talked, the white-robed young man with a cold aura around him also cast his gaze towards Nie Tian.

Only the young woman didn't move a muscle, as she appeared to be completely indifferent regarding Nie Tian's origin and status.

"The Realm of Flame Heaven," Nie Tian answered without giving it too much thought.

"The Realm of Flame Heaven…" the young man in black chuckled and said, "The weakest realm of the nine. You're lucky that one of the Heaven Gates opened in your realm. I bet the seniors in your sect must have gone to great lengths to get you in here."

Nie Tian went blank for a moment before he said, "Yeah, you're right. I'm lucky."

"Is that so?" The young man in black had a incredulous expression on his face. Eyes narrowed, he looked Nie Tian up and down carefully and asked, "Middle Lesser Heaven stage?"

Nie Tian nodded.

The young man in black shook his head as the expression on his face grew unfathomable.

He said no more, but his gaze was filled with ferocity, as if he had already made Nie Tian his target.

After hearing Nie Tian admitting that he had a middle Lesser Heaven stage cultivation base, the white-robed young man didn't say a word, but rather stared at him like he was staring at a dead man.

As always, the young woman in blue turned a deaf ear to all that had happened.

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WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

One after another, more powerful experts from the other realms appeared in seven-colored bubbles, in the vast palace hall.

Most of them had Heaven and Greater Heaven stage cultivation bases, and thus appeared in the other two areas.

After some brief observation, Nie Tian found that there were six people in the area for Heaven stage cultivators, and eight people, including Miao Chen and Tang Yang, in the area for Greater Heaven stage cultivators.

Each and every one of them had about ten Heaven Sparks on the backs of their hands.

Apparently, they had all gone through bloody battles to get where they were. Their success was made from numerous corpses.

The truth was that Nie Tian was the only Qi warrior from the Realm of Flame Heaven that had made it to the ancient palace.

The others must have failed to get through the gate of the dilapidated city.

Nie Tian frowned deeply. "I'm the only one from the Realm of Flame Heaven…"

A while had passed and no one new appeared in the three areas of the palace hall.

Separated from Nie Tian by the Heaven stage area, Tang Yang still shot glances at him from time to time, like a tiger that was constantly checking its prey.

However, it seemed that he was aware that it would be impossible for him to cross those seven-colored light rivers.

Therefore, he didn't even bother to try. However, he wasn't any less torn with regret that he didn't go all-out and kill Nie Tian before entering.

In the area for Lesser Heaven stage cultivators, Nie Tian and the other three were in the four corners of the squared floor.

Nie Tian's gaze shifted between the other three, and he noticed that they were all quietly adjusting their breathing and auras, as if they were preparing for something.

It seemed they all knew what would happen in the ancient palace.

And Nie Tian was the only one who knew nothing of it.

However, none of them showed any interest in explaining it to Nie Tian as they each sat in their own corner, silently taking in the extremely rich spiritual energy in the air.

Upon seeing this, Nie Tian immediately started channeling the spiritual energy with the Qi Refining Incantation.

As soon as he started, the rich and pure spiritual energy in his vicinity started to madly converge on him.

The energy was so pure that it didn't even need to be refined. The moment it flowed into his spiritual sea, it merged with the spiritual power that had already been there.

The vortex of spiritual power in his spiritual sea started to revolve at an astonishing speed as it rapidly expanded, as if it had become a tornado.

Meanwhile, the vortex of flame power and vortex of wood power quietly revolved.

Since the spiritual energy that Nie Tian had taken in was very pure and untainted with power of any attribute, those two vortexes didn't undergo much change.

"The spiritual energy is so pure and refined here!"

After a brief moment of cultivation, Nie Tian felt enlivened and relaxed. He even discovered signs that his spiritual sea was experiencing another expansion and upgrade.

Ever since he had stepped into the Lesser Heaven stage, the size of his spiritual sea hadn't changed at all.

When he was in the early Lesser Heaven stage, all he had done was refine the spiritual energy in his spiritual sea over and over again, in order to make the faint spiritual energy within it pure and condensed.

He had always thought that was all there was to the cultivation in the Lesser Heaven stage.

However, as soon as the pure spiritual energy in the palace entered his vortex of spiritual power, he knew he was wrong.

His spiritual sea, which had undergone countless rounds of refinement, once again started to develop and expand.

Furthermore, it expanded unprecedentedly fast this time!

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

Under his channeling, the spiritual energy in the air near Nie Tian madly converged onto the seven-colored light shield that he was in.

Like a sponge, he rapidly absorbed the spiritual energy and directed it into his spiritual sea in order for it to continue expanding.

"Yee!?" The black-robed young man seemed to have detected an anomaly and snapped his eyes open.

He stared closely at Nie Tian and observed his slightly strange way of absorbing spiritual energy, before he smiled and said, "Only a cultivator who just broke through and opened up a new piece of dry land in their spiritual sea would be able to absorb the spiritual energy in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace so rapidly. This means that this guy only entered the middle Lesser Heaven stage recently. Interesting!"

He managed to see through Nie Tian's situation by no more than observing the strange energy flow that had been created by him while cultivating.

He was right. Nie Tian had only reached the point where he naturally entered the middle Lesser Heaven stage when he was in the gate of the floating city.

Whenever a breakthrough was made, the spiritual sea was always very eager to fill the void with new-found energy. Therefore, when he started to use the Qi Refining Incantation to cultivate, the speed that he channeled spiritual energy to his spiritual sea was faster than the other three.

And there was another reason to it: the three of them already had their spiritual seas brimming with spiritual energy.

They would have to spend more time and strength to upgrade their spiritual seas in order for them to contain more spiritual energy.

On the other hand, there was an area in Nie Tian's spiritual sea that was completely empty and ready for new spiritual energy.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

White, misty spiritual energy flooded into Nie Tian's spiritual sea, swelling it like a shriveled balloon.

After an unknown period of time, his spiritual sea expanded by fifty percent from its original size.

Suddenly, the spiritual energy that he had recently allowed into his spiritual sea started to fly about in a violent and disorderly fashion. It slowly condensed and evolved, before eventually taking the form of another vortex of spiritual power.

By that time, other than the vortex of flame power and vortex of wood power, there were two vortexes of spiritual power within Nie Tian's spiritual sea.

As soon as it was fully formed, the speed at which he absorbed the spiritual energy doubled.

Even more spiritual energy rushed madly into and further enlarged his spiritual sea.

Nie Tian's spirits were greatly lifted. His heart brimmed with joy as he realized that he had progressed at a tremendous pace while cultivating in the mysterious, ancient palace.

Even the spiritual energy in the mystical land where the Flame Dragon Armor had taken him wasn't as pure and rich as the energy in here.

Nie Tian was aware that if he didn't make good use of the opportunity and temper himself, he would regret it for the rest of his life.

By that time, he had already cast the trial and the Heaven Sparks on his hand out of his mind. He solely focused on cultivation and taking in as much as spiritual energy as possible, hoping that he could finish upgrading his spiritual sea before something else happened.

Time passed by quickly without him realizing it. It could have been a day since he started cultivating for all he knew.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The countless, bright stars in the ceiling of the palace all suddenly shot out dazzling starlight at the same time.

The starlight seemed to have traveled across endless space to pour down from the river of stars.

After the starlight shone on them, all the detailed patterns on the palace walls also became bright and dazzling, enabling everyone to have clear views of them.

It was at that moment that Nie Tian snapped out of his cultivation. He looked up at the starlight that had lit up every corner of the palace hall, not knowing what it meant.

However, it was only a moment before he realized that the fifteen Heaven Sparks on the back of his hand had become incomparably hot.

By this point, his spiritual sea had already doubled in size. The amount of spiritual power that he could store in his spiritual sea seemed to have reached its limit in such a short time.

He had the feeling that if he had cultivated in other places instead of here, even if he had an endless supply of spirit stones, he would have needed a year and a half to make the same achievement.

SHEW!

A beam of extremely bright starlight shone on a spot on the palace wall, and the complicated pattern in that area instantly became clear and vivid.

Nie Tian looked over and soon sensed the speedy lost of his psychic power. However, he had the strange feeling that a mysterious connection was created between him and the pattern.

Subconsciously, his psychic power morphed into an invisible hand and pressed on the detailed pattern.

At that moment, a strong attraction force was born from within the fifteen Heaven Sparks on his hand.

In the next moment, he saw the pattern gradually separate itself from the wall and fly towards him.

He wasn't the only one. The other three young cultivators also narrowed their eyes, searching for their own targets.

Three pieces of delicate patterns grew bright and dazzling after being illuminated by three beams of starlight. One after another they separated themselves from the solid wall and flew towards the three youngsters.

In the other two areas, Heaven and Greater Heaven stage experts were also using the same method to pull the delicate patterns towards them.

Under the channeling of Nie Tian's psychic power, the pattern seemed to be drawn by a mysterious force, and eventually flew into the Heaven Sparks on Nie Tian's hand.

As soon as it entered, Nie Tian's psychic power entered those Heaven Sparks with it. A chain of ancient, mysterious writing flew into his mind.

"Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace Legacy, first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation."

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Nie Tian's mind shook violently.

The mysterious words in the Heaven Sparks were mostly randomly scattered and out of order. It seemed like it would need to be rearranged and lined up in order to learn their true meaning.

However, among the mess of disordered words, a handful of words were perfectly lined up.

They were written with the ancient symbols of the ancient Qi warriors.

Those words read, "Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace Legacy, first part of Fragmentary Star Incantation."

"Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace!" Nie Tian's expression slightly flickered. He withdrew his mind and glanced around at the vast palace hall. Looking at the small stars that were shining on the ceiling, he suddenly came to realize something.

This place must be the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace that those words were referring to, and all the comers were here for its legacies.

Before now, his psychic power had been unable to enter the Heaven Sparks. Therefore, even though he had absorbed quite a few magical symbols from the dilapidated city, he hadn't been able to study them.

It was as if the fifteen Heaven Sparks had been covered in a invisible shield, blocking his psychic awareness from peeping into them.

However, as soon as the detailed pattern entered the Heaven Sparks on his hands, the impeding shield seemed to suddenly lifted.

From the look of it, only those who got into the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace would be able to send their psychic power into the Heaven Sparks, so as to learn the profound mysteries that hid within.

Having understood how it worked, Nie Tian took a deep breath and once again concentrated on observing the numerous patterns on the distant walls.

After the starlight had shone on them, each and every one of them had begun glittering with bright light.

Every one of them became so clear and vivid that Nie Tian's eyes could capture even the most subtle veins and lines.

Some were patterns of the sun, moon, and stars; some were patterns of ravines and mountain ranges, while others were of veins of ancient trees. They all represented the various things in the world.

However, it seemed not all of them could be absorbed and drawn in by his psychic power.

As his gaze shifted from one pattern to another, he noticed that he couldn't build up a mysterious connection with any one of those patterns.

His gaze roamed here and there, continuously sweeping across the wall, before it suddenly fixed on one pattern that was filled with numerous fragmentary stars, which made it seem like a dazzling and bright star atlas.

The moment his gaze landed on it, a mysterious connection was established between Nie Tian and the pattern.

The fifteen Heaven Sparks on his hand once again became extremely hot. At the same time, a strong attractive force was born within them.

In the next moment, the mysterious pattern that seemed to be made of stars was pulled out of the wall and slowly flew towards him, soon merging with his Heaven Sparks.

Nie Tian carefully probed his Heaven Sparks and found that as soon as the pattern of fragmentary stars entered the Heaven Sparks, it seemed to disintegrate.

The complicated and detailed star atlas exploded and turned into numerous ancient symbols, which scattered around inside the fifteen Heaven Sparks.

His psychic awareness drifted around from one Heaven Spark to another, and he discovered that the numerous, unreadable symbols that he had absorbed from the dilapidated city had morphed into ancient scripts.

There were hundreds of ancient scripts within the fifteen Heaven Sparks, each of which shone brightly and looked like fragmentary stars that were drifting around indefinitely and quietly.

Although he could recognize most of those ancient scripts, since they weren't in the correct order, he couldn't decipher the true meaning behind them.

However, he was quite certain that they recorded the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

Another thing was that he had the feeling that the ancient scripts that he obtained was far from enough to complete the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

In order to obtain the legacy, not only would he have to add more scripts to his Heaven Sparks, but he would also need to spend countless hours to rearrange the disorderly scripts and put them in the right order.

Only in that way would he be able to understand the profound mysteries within the Fragmentary Star Incantation and start cultivating with it.

WHOOSH!

He breathed out a mouthful of waste after channeling two more patterns from the wall into his Heaven Sparks. He could tell that he had already consumed a large amount of his psychic power.

He decided to slow down his pace. Instead of continuing to channel the patterns on the palace walls, he turned around to look at the other three cultivators in the Lesser Heaven area.

He was convinced that the three of them were here for the one and only purpose: to obtain the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation, legacy of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

He discovered that the three of them were doing exactly what he had done, absorbing patterns from the distant walls and adding magical symbols into their own Heaven Sparks.

He paid more attention to the blue-garbed young woman.

Since she had placed her hands on her knees, palms facing up, Nie Tian never had the chance to see how many Heaven Sparks she had.

At that moment, she was also using her psychic power and the special connection to absorb mysterious patterns from the walls into her Heaven Sparks.

This gave Nie Tian the chance to get a clear view of her hands, and on the back of her milky left hand he saw as many as twenty Heaven Sparks!

Nie Tian counted inwardly. Convinced that there were twenty Heaven Sparks on the young woman's hand, Nie Tian's expression flickered. "Twenty!"

According to his understanding, having more Heaven Sparks meant killing more trial takers and having greater power.

The fact that the teenager in white had sixteen Heaven Sparks and the teenager in black had eighteen had already made him pay special attention to the two of them.

However, only until now did he finally realize that the young woman was actually the most fierce one and the one who he should be the most careful with.

His speculation was soon proved valid.

He discovered that shortly after him, the white-robed young man and black-robed young man both stopped channeling and absorbing patterns from the walls due to overconsumption of their psychic power.

Only the blue-garbed young woman was still searching for patterns that she had connections with on the walls, her eyes glittering with a bright light. Before long, a few more detailed and beautiful patterns flew into the Heaven Sparks on the back of her left hand.

The black-robed young man grinned and said, "Wow, no wonder people say Su Lin from the Heaven Palace sect in the Realm of Mystic Heaven is quite a character."

"Realm of Mystic Heaven, Heaven Palace sect!" Nie Tian's eyebrows rose.

Right before he headed off to the Hell sect, Wu Ji had imprinted the things that required his attention in the command medallion and had told him to read them on his way. That was where the Realm of Mystic Heaven and the Heaven Palace sect had previously come up.

According to the information that Wu Ji had obtained, the one of the other two Heaven Gates had opened up in the Heaven Palace sect in the Realm of Mystic Heaven.

Meanwhile, the other one had opened up in the Realm of a Thousand Devastations.

There were nine realms in the Domain of the Falling Stars: the Realm of Mystic Heaven, Realm of Endless Ice, Realm of Unbounded Desolation, Realm of a Thousand Devastations, Realm of a Hundred Battles, Realm of Black Marsh, Realm of Earth Sieve, Realm of Dark Underworld, and Realm of Flame Heaven.

Each of these nine realms had a few Qi warrior sects located in it, whose strength varied from one another.

Of all the realms, the Realm of Mystic Heaven, the Realm of Endless Ice, and the Realm of Unbounded Desolation were known as the three strongest realms.

Close behind them were the Realm of a Thousand Devastations, the Realm of a Hundred Battles, and the Realm of Black Marsh. The Realm of Earth Sieve, the Realm of Dark Underworld, and the Realm of Flame Heaven were ranked last.

The Realm of Mystic Heaven had always been considered among the most powerful of the nine realms. Some people might even say that it was the number one powerful realm.

On the other hand, the Heaven Palace sect was widely accepted as the most powerful Qi warrior sect in the Realm of Mystic Heaven, whose status in the Realm of Mystic Heaven was even more unshakable than the Hell sect in Realm of Flame Heaven.

At least in the Realm of Flame Heaven, the four sects with the Spiritual Treasure sect as their leader had been dissatisfied with the Hell sect's dominant position.

However, all the sects in the Realm of Mystic Heaven acknowledged the Heaven Palace sect's ruling position, and would even take orders from the Heaven Palace sect at all times!

Since Su Lin was from the Heaven Palace sect, her arrogance and the fact that she was able to obtain twenty Heaven Sparks seemed to make sense now.

Under Nie Tian and the other two's gazes, Su Lin attracted one more pattern into her Heaven Sparks, and only then did her eyes finally stopped searching.

After all, the process was too consuming on psychic power, even so for her. Therefore, she also needed time to recuperate.

She didn't look at anyone, but rather sat in silence and used her unique, secret magic to channel the rich spiritual energy in her surroundings, as if she wanted to use the spiritual energy in the air to restore her psychic power.

Even though Nie Tian was confused and incredulous, seeing that Su Lin was doing it, he thought he might as well try it as well.

The only way that Nie Tian knew to replenish his psychic power was through protracted sleep.

According to his experience, by breathing spiritual Qi of the heaven and earth alone, he wasn't able to restore any of the psychic power that he had lost.

However, when he copied what Su Lin was doing and used the Qi Refining Incantation to circulate the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, he was surprised to discover that the spiritual energy in this place contained a small amount of unknown energy that actually could replenish his psychic power.

The unknown energy was extremely faint, about one hundredth of the intensity of the spiritual energy.

Even so, Nie Tian was amazed and thrilled at the fact that he had a way to restore his psychic power in this place.

Eyes narrowed, Nie Tian pondered in silence for a while before his expression suddenly flickered. "There is a special kind of energy in the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth. This means that the more spiritual energy I take in, the faster I'll be able to restore my psychic power…"

He suddenly remembered the secret magic that he had learned from one of the giant arms in the mysterious land.

That arm had its fingers stretched out like a claw, as if it had attempted to rip the heaven out of the sky.

He recalled that by casting that secret magic in that mysterious land, he had managed to channel the relatively rich spiritual energy into himself much more effectively and speed up his cultivation by multiple times.

Since it primarily relied on a high concentration of spiritual energy, he didn't try it on the Cloudsoaring mountain.

However, he was currently in a place where there was a endless supply of unprecedentedly rich spiritual energy!

He gave a bright smile. "There's no better place to use that technique than here!"

Without wasting any time, he calmed himself and started to cast the secret magic to gather spiritual energy.

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With his new-found understanding, Nie Tian lifted up one hand and started to channel the spiritual energy in the surroundings.

Within moments, a strong attraction force was born in the center of his hand.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

The incomparably rich spiritual energy in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace began to madly converge on his hand.

It wasn't very long before a ball of semi-liquidized spiritual energy gradually took form in his palm.

The spiritual energy ball expanded to the size of a table, while misty spiritual energy constantly rose up from the liquid surface within it, releasing massive amounts of raging energy fluctuations.

"Hmm?" Both the white-robed young man and the black-robed young man detected the anomaly, opened their eyes, and cast curious gazes towards Nie Tian.

Eyes narrowed, Nie Tian quietly cast a spell to absorb the pure spiritual energy within the ball.

PHEW! PHEW!

One after another, numerous wisps of light flowed out of the spiritual energy ball and rapidly flew into Nie Tian's body.

The two vortexes of spiritual power within his spiritual sea started to revolve at an unprecedentedly high speed.

The infusion of the pure, condensed spiritual energy instantly filled his spiritual sea to the brim.

At the same time, Nie Tian had a very clear feeling that the special energy was quietly flowing into his mind, rapidly replenishing his overused psychic power.

Only after a few moments had passed did his eyes start to glitter with brilliant light, as if he had already restored his psychic power to a great extent.

However, the giant spiritual energy ball in his palm hadn't shrink in the least bit, and the energy within was still incomparably copious.

But the special energy had already been completely sucked away in such a short time.

He couldn't detect any residual bit of it.

Brow furrowed, Nie Tian searched in his brain for awhile before he made up his mind.

He decided to give up the spiritual energy ball.

SHEW!

With a flick of his fingers, the spiritual energy ball left his palm and flew away like a balloon.

Although Nie Tian had given up controlling it, the spiritual energy ball stopped about five meters to his left and floated there. The semi-liquidized spiritual energy within it was still sending out strong energy ripples.

Perhaps because he was its creator, even though he decided to set it free, there was still a mysterious link between him and the spiritual energy ball.

However, Nie Tian didn't think too much about it.

After all, the purpose of him creating the energy ball was to more effectively absorb the unknown energy in it, so as to recover his psychic power.

After casting away the first energy ball, Nie Tian repeated the spell that he had picked up from the mysterious land, and created another spiritual energy ball.

Before long, it too expanded to the size of a table.

With the same method, Nie Tian rapidly absorbed the energy within.

However, since his spiritual sea had already expanded to the limit of middle Lesser Heaven stage and he couldn't take in any more spiritual energy, he only pulled away the special energy within the ball and channeled it to his mind.

With another surge of replenishment of his psychic power, Nie Tian's eyes shone with an increasingly bright light.

Thrilled by his new findings, he flicked the spiritual energy ball that was devoid of the special energy to the side. "Next!"

With the same method, he condensed another energy ball and absorbed only the special energy from it.

Over and over, he repeated the process to restore his psychic power.

Before long, there were already seven spiritual energy balls floating around Nie Tian, emanating intense energy fluctuations.

By that time, Nie Tian had already restored all the psychic power that he had consumed from attracting the complicated patterns from the walls.

Not only that, he even felt a certain growth in his psychic power!

He smiled to himself and stopped cultivating. Once again, he started examining the patterns on the distant walls.

Soon afterwards, he found a pattern that he felt a connection with, and used his psychic power to pull it towards him before it flew into the fifteen Heaven Sparks on the back of his hand.

As soon as it entered, it once again exploded and turned into dozens of ancient scripts, scattered within the Heaven Sparks.

"He has recovered his strength already?!" The face of the black-robed young man from the Realm of Unbounded Desolation turned grim after he noticed that Nie Tian had already stopped cultivating and begun taking in more magical symbols of the Fragmentary Star Incantation again.

The white-robed young man from the Realm of Endless Ice also cast an astonished gaze towards Nie Tian. Even though he didn't say a word, he seemed to grow uneasy.

The two of them had both reached the peak of the Lesser Heaven stage. Even still, they couldn't recover so quickly after such a great consumption of their psychic power.

Meanwhile, Nie Tian's cultivation base was inferior to theirs, and he was from the weakest realm of the nine, the Realm of Flame Heaven…

As a matter of fact, the white-robed young man had despised Nie Tian from when they had first met, thinking that it was a joke that a middle Lesser Heaven stage boy from the Realm of Flame Heaven had come here for the legacy.

He had also noticed that the young man from the Realm of Unbounded Desolation had already viewed Nie Tian as his prey.

He originally thought that it wouldn't be long before the guy from the Realm of Unbounded Desolation gave in to the temptation of killing Nie Tian, and Nie Tian wouldn't stand a chance if he did.

However, now…

He shook his head upon realizing that Nie Tian was much more than what he originally had in mind. He was convinced that there must be something unusual about him.

PHOOH!

At that moment, the blue-garbed Su Lin from the Heaven Palace sect awoke from her cultivation and fixed her beautiful eyes on Nie Tian for the first time.

With her unique, secret magic, she managed to fully restore her psychic power within a short time.

Even still, she found herself one step behind Nie Tian.

She unleashed her psychic power and sensed that it would still take the other two about an hour to fully replenish their psychic power.

"Perhaps it was because his cultivation base was low and his psychic power was puny that he was able to recover so quickly." Su Lin muttered to herself. Without dwelling on it, she continued to attract the detailed patterns that contained the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation with her psychic power.

A long time passed.

Out of the corner of her eyes, Su Lin noticed that Nie Tian had taken in three patterns in a row before coming to a stop, seemingly depleted of psychic power.

"Three!" She finally started to attach importance to Nie Tian. Her mind drifted away while she was in the middle of absorbing a pattern.

She knew perfectly well how much psychic power was required to attract three patterns that were imprinted with the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

She herself could only attract five patterns even when her psychic power was at the fullest.

However, in order not to completely drain her psychic power, she would usually stop at four. After all, she preferred to be on the safe side.

The other two young men, on the other hand, didn't dare to pull more than three patterns into their Heaven Sparks in a row, despite the fact that they had both reached the peak of the Lesser Heaven stage.

The fact that Nie Tian could also attract three patterns into his Heaven Sparks meant that his psychic power was at least at the same level as the other two young men.

Su Lin was also well aware of what status they had in the Realm of Unbounded Desolation and the Realm of Endless Ice.

She couldn't help but wonder how a middle Lesser Heaven stage young man from the Realm of Flame Heaven had acquired psychic power so impressive, and how he managed to recover his psychic power so rapidly.

Eyes glittering with a curious light, she studied Nie Tian from head to toe and whispered to herself, "I have to pay more attention to him."

After detaching and pulling three more detailed patterns into his Heaven Sparks, Nie Tian once again stopped.

He used the same method to condense another spiritual energy ball, and then drained it only of its special energy that could help him restore psychic power.

Immediately after, he released the energy ball into his surroundings and went ahead to create a new one.

Time passed quickly.

Nie Tian repeated the process of using his psychic power to attract the patterns that carried the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation into his Heaven Sparks and replenishing it with the energy balls.

Before long, there were already about thirty balls of pure spiritual energy floating around him.

Since he recovered his psychic power far faster than the other two young men and slightly faster than Su Lin from the Heaven Palace sect, the ancient symbols that he had obtained outnumbered all of them.

In the end, the four of them together took all of the detailed, delicate patterns that stood out into their Heaven Sparks.

Nie Tian's gaze went wall to wall, searching for more patterns that he could interact with, but his search turned out fruitless.

That was when he realized that all the ancient symbols that carried the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation were in the Heaven Sparks on their hands by now.

The other three soon came to the same realization.

At that moment, the black-robed young man from the Realm of Unbounded Desolation suddenly reached out his hand and pulled a long, strangely-shaped saber from his back. Smiling at Nie Tian, he said, "It's time to do some reaping."

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As soon as the black-robed young man spoke, Nie Tian looked over at him.

"Are you talking about me?" Nie Tian grinned and asked.

The four of them were the only ones in the Lesser Heaven stage area, and all the ancient symbols of the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation were now stored in their Heaven Sparks.

If they wanted to collect all the magical symbols and complete the first part of the incantation, the only way would be to snatch magical symbols from the other three.

Actually, when Nie Tian realized that the four of them had all been collecting magical symbols of the same incantation, he had expected there to be a fierce fight between them eventually.

In the others' eyes, he had the lowest cultivation base, and thus was the weakest.

However, due to his superior psychic power recovering ability, he had obtained the most magical symbols.

Therefore, it didn't surprise him that the black-robed young man targeted him. He had actually made preparations for such an occasion.

"Hahaha!" The young man in black laughed wildly as he pointed his long saber towards Nie Tian and said, "I made you my target soon after I got here. I assume you're smart enough to see that."

Nie Tian nodded. "You're right. I did."

"My name is Wu Ling, and I'm from the Realm of Unbounded Desolation." The black-robed man took the initiative to state his own name. The smile on his face didn't fade even in the slightest, while the bizarrely shaped saber in his hand started to emanate gray-brown colored, shimmering light.

The eyelids of the seven closed eyes on the blade were twitching, as if they were going to snap open in the next moment.

The long, dreadful saber sent out a strong killing intent into the surroundings. The gray-brown light that had flown out of the blade gradually condensed and morphed into a sinister, ferocious tiger.

ROOOAARRRR!!

The shimmering tiger let out an ear-piercing howl.

Nie Tian immediately experienced a stabbing pain in his head, as if the howl was already so powerful that it actually defied the space and obstruction of Nie Tian's body, and reached the deepest part of his soul, giving him a violent shudder.

His pupils shrunk as he hurriedly used his psychic power to form layers of shields to prevent the roars of the tiger from piercing into his soul.

FIZZ! FIZZ! FIZZ!

More strands of grayish brown light shot out of the long saber like slithering lightning bolts.

The ferocious tiger bared its fangs and brandished its claws as it swooped towards Nie Tian in the middle of a rain of slithering lightning bolts.

Wu Ling, on the other hand, took his time and walked towards Nie Tian after them.

PUFF!

It was at that time that the seven-colored bubble around Wu Ling suddenly burst.

The tall Wu Ling landed heavily on the floor of the palace hall. His eyes were brimming with a thirst for blood and the aura that he released into the surroundings was filled with a killing intent.

PUFF! PUFF! PUFF!

Nie Tian, Su Lin, and the white-robed young man from the Realm of Endless Ice also dropped to the ground from midair.

It was as if the moment killing intent was born in Wu Ling's heart, the area that they were in changed.

The seven-colored bubbles that had shuttled the four of them to the palace burst at the same time.

Now the four of them were standing in the four corners of the hard, ice-cold stone floor, separated from each other by about a hundred meters, with the rich, misty spiritual Qi of heaven and earth filling the space between them.

Seeing that Wu Ling could no longer suppress the urge to fight Nie Tian, Su Lin from the Heaven Palace sect of the Realm of Mystic Heaven frowned, as if she was hesitating.

She seemed to be trying to decide if she should attack the white-robed young man from the Realm of Endless Ice.

By that time, every one of them had realized that in order to complete the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation and take the legacy back to the Domain of the Falling Stars, they would have to snatch Heaven Sparks from the other three.

After all, only by obtaining all the Heaven Sparks from the other three would they be able to get all the symbols that constituted the incantation.

The reason why Su Lin didn't make a move immediately after Wu Ling was that she originally considered Wu Ling to be her first target.

However, apparently Wu Ling knew about her strength and didn't want to meet her on battlefield so soon, so he chose to fight Nie Tian instead.

She soon saw through Wu Ling's plans.

There were two reasons why Wu Ling picked Nie Tian. For one thing, by attacking Nie Tian, he would naturally leave the white-robed young man to Su Lin, who he believed would wear out some of her strength.

For another, in Wu Ling's eyes, Nie Tian was so much weaker that any of them that he wouldn't need to spend much energy to kill him.

By the time he killed Nie Tian and looted his fifteen Heaven Sparks, Su Lin and the young man in white would probably still be locked in battle.

At that time, he would have two options. One, join hands with the white-robed young man and fight Su Lin together. Two, sit out the fight and deal with the winner of the two.

Wu Ling thought his plan was impeccable, and making Nie Tian his first opponent was undoubtedly the optimum choice.

However, both Su Lin and the white-robed young man saw through his plans.

They didn't instantly start fighting, since they both feared that if they did and Wu Ling managed to finish off Nie Tian very quickly, he would gain the upper hand and take advantage of their fight.

Therefore, the two of them exchanged a glance and remained in their own places.

From the look of it, they had reached a mutual understanding without saying a word.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

One after another, the strands of shimmering light morphed into numerous wiggling lightning snakes, and bit towards Nie Tian.

In the middle of the flood of snakes, a roaring tiger lunged towards Nie Tian, emanating a strong thirst for blood.

ROOOAARRRR!! ROOOAARRRR!!

Heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roars came out of the ferocious tiger's mouth and went straight towards Nie Tian's mind.

In face of the constant roars, the shields that Nie Tian had condensed with his psychic power repeatedly shattered and reformed.

By doing that, Nie Tian consumed his psychic power at an astonishingly fast speed.

Nie Tian's expression flickered. "He's really hard to deal with!"

Just as he was about to summon strength to contend with the tiger that was roaring towards him, an idea suddenly occurred to him.

He glanced at the about thirty spiritual energy balls that were floating around him and noticed that one of them was floating right in between him and the incoming tiger.

Although he had discarded those spiritual energy balls after sucking them dried of the special energy, since it was him who created them, there were still mysterious connections between him and every single one of them.

He made an experiment by sending a wisp of psychic awareness into that spiritual energy ball.

He instantly got the feeling that the spiritual energy ball had become a part of him, an extension of his limbs, as he could keenly sense the unceasing energy fluctuations within it.

"Go!" With a wisp of his psychic power, Nie Tian commanded the spiritual energy ball to fly towards the roaring, incoming tiger.

SHEW!

The spiritual energy ball that had been floating in midair followed his command and rammed forcefully into the ferocious tiger.

Upon collision, the ball that contained immense spiritual power instantly exploded.

BOOM!

Dazzling light shot out of the shattered ball. Like a small sun, its explosion gave rise to a blast wave that contained destructive power.

The roaring tiger, along with the hissing snakes flying by its side, was instantly engulfed by the blinding light.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

Under Nie Tian's gaze, they were all torn into shreds by the light and blast wave created by the explosion of the spiritual energy ball!

The explosion of the spiritual energy ball completely eliminated Wu Ling's attack!

Wu Ling felt a strong shock to his tall and well built body. Eyes filled with surprise, he looked at the place where the spiritual energy ball exploded.

From his grim face, Nie Tian could tell that Wu Ling never expected the spiritual energy balls that he had condensed and cast aside to be put back to use at that moment.

While he was standing there aghast, Nie Tian, who had savored the sweet taste of victory, gave a smile and unleashed several wisps of psychic power.

They simultaneously entered six spiritual energy balls, and strong connections were instantly created between them and Nie Tian.

Nie Tian felt as if he had control over them so accurate that they had become his arms and fists.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

Under the command of his psychic awareness, the six spiritual energy balls rapidly floated towards Wu Ling.

Upon seeing the six spiritual energy balls whizzing towards him, Wu Ling's face turned so grim that it was as if he had kicked his bare foot into a steel plate.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

With a cold harrumph and a swing of his long saber, numerous ten-meter long light blades flew out of his saber.

Three of the six closed eyes on the blade also violently snapped open.

All of a sudden, not only did the energy fluctuations that emerged from Wu Ling double, but the aura around him also became turbulent and bloodthirsty.

"BREAK!"

One light blade after another shot through the air in perfect arcs before slashing down on the six spiritual energy balls.

Upon contact, the energy balls immediately exploded, sputtering out countless sparks into every direction.

The sparks fell like stars from the starry river, filling the region where Wu Ling was standing.

Standing in a sea of fragmented sparks, Wu Ling's face distorted as he reached out with one hand and tore off his black robe with one quick motion.

A greenish-brown spiritual armor that clung tightly to his body suddenly appeared.

Numerous strands of bright light that were as sharp as arrows extended into the surroundings from within the spiritual armor.

At first glance, Wu Ling seemed to have become a giant hedgehog. The sharp, bright lights that had protruded out of his armor killed off the sparks around him in a split second.

Staring at Wu Ling, who was now holding a long saber and covered in a bizarre armor, Nie Tian muttered to himself, "He must be one of the chosen ones that my master warned me about."

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Before Nie Tian headed to the Hell sect to participate in the Heaven Gate trial, Wu Ji had mentioned to him that chosen ones from the other nine realms would also be there.

They were all talented young cultivators who had profound, high-level spiritual tools and spiritual incantations at their disposal.

Apart from that, every single one of them had a master with unlimited resources… any of whom could possibly be even more powerful than Wu Ji.

Furthermore, the Qi warrior sects that they were from were also far stronger than the Cloudsoaring sect, and could potentially have longer histories and more resources than the Hell sect.

Wu Ji urged him to be extra careful if he came across such chosen ones.

In Nie Tian's eyes, Wu Ling from the Realm of Unbounded Desolation must be one of the chosen ones that his master had warned him about.

The long, strange saber in his hand and the spiritual armor he was wearing were both far beyond ordinary.

Nie Tian had seen Wu Ling being engulfed by the millions of sparks created when the spiritual energy balls exploded.

However, as soon as Wu Ling unveiled his spiritual armor, just the bright light that shot out of it managed to kill off every last one of the sparks.

Afterwards, Wu Ling stood there, completely unscathed. Only the light that had shot out of his spiritual armor slightly dimmed.

"It seems that I've underestimated the Realm of Flame Heaven." Wu Ling made his way through a sea of sparks as he strode towards Nie Tian.

With every step he took, countless rays of light shot out from his spiritual armor, extinguishing the sparks near him.

Wu Ling frowned as he said. "I didn't expect the Realm of Flame Heaven to have people this impressive…" From the look of it, he had finally started to consider Nie Tian as a worthy opponent and no longer dared to underestimate him.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The long saber in Wu Ling's hand constantly exuded faint auras. All of a sudden the three eyes on the blade focused on Nie Tian.

As soon as they locked onto Nie Tian, Nie Tian started to experience stabbing pains in his eyes, after which tears began uncontrollably flowing out of them.

Meanwhile, a surge of bloodthirsty, evil psychic power entered Nie Tian's mind.

Clearly, the evil psychic power didn't come from Wu Ling, but rather came from the saber itself.

To be exact, it came from the three wide open eyes on the blade.

The eyes were originally a dark, blue-violet color. However, at that moment, they suddenly shed their original color and became green, red, and black.

He had the feeling that he had been locked down by three terrifying, fiendish devils, and the moment they entered him, they started gnawing on his mind.

Nie Tian hurriedly steadied his mind and rapidly retracted the psychic power that he had sent out to control the spiritual energy balls.

He gathered all his psychic power in his mind and turned it into giant, sharp blades, madly cutting through the evil psychic power that had invaded his mind, hoping to get rid of it as soon as possible.

"I can't believe that your psychic power is every bit as strong as mine!" Wu Ling grinned. His expression was brutal and sinister as he continued, "But what a shame. Apparently you don't seem to know any psychic magics. It makes sense though. After all, you're from the Realm of Flame Heaven, which is the weakest of all nine realms. Plus, considering your poor cultivation base, I guess you haven't met the qualifications to learn those profound psychic magics yet."

With a vicious grin on his face, he gradually sped up as he approached Nie Tian.

At that moment, Nie Tian's mind had already been occupied by the evil psychic power and could no longer command the spiritual energy balls to block Wu Ling's way forward.

The distance between them quickly shortened from dozens of meters to less than ten meters.

Within such a short distance, the effect of all of Wu Ling's spiritual incantations and secret magics would be maximized.

All of a sudden, he stopped.

SHEW!

A blade of light that was almost twenty meters long shot out of his bizarrely shaped long saber, and started to devour the spiritual energy around it the moment it was formed.

Seconds later, the originally long and thin light blade expanded several times and became a terrifying, wide blade that could slice open the heavens. Without any hesitation, it slashed towards Nie Tian.

"What a pity…" Su Lin from the Heaven Palace sect in the Realm of Mystic Heaven softly shook her head, assuming Nie Tian would die beyond the shadow of a doubt.

She also noticed that Nie Tian's mind had already been invaded by the evil psychic power that had originated from the three demonic eyes on Wu Ling's blade.

Even though Nie Tian's psychic power was by no means weaker than Wu Ling's, he didn't seemed to know any high-leveled psychic magics that he could use to contend with the psychic attack of the three demonic eyes.

Under the fierce attack, Nie Tian's soul seemed to have already been occupied, and thus he couldn't even bring himself up to defend against the incoming slash of the terrifying light blade.

She was convinced that Nie Tian was facing inevitable doom.

At that moment, the surge of evil psychic power had already turned into a hurricane within Nie Tian's soul, raging and havocking, as if it was going to tear his soul into shreds.

The shield that Nie Tian had condensed with his psychic power rapidly repeated the process of shattering and reforming under the devastating impact.

Nie Tian did his utmost to defend his soul.

He could vaguely see three light dots within the center of the dark hurricane, colored green, red, and black. It was as if the three demonic eyes were issuing commands from within the eye of the hurricane.

Apparently, the frightening eyes on Wu Ling's saber had penetrated Nie Tian's mind along with the the invasion of the evil psychic power.

It was precisely due to their existence that Nie Tian's mind was currently in utter chaos. It seemed that Nie Tian hadn't found a way to effectively fight back with his own psychic power.

As Nie Tian felt his psychic power draining at frightening speed, and his defense was on the verge of breaking down, he decisively took out another talisman that his master had bestowed upon him.

Under the stimulation of a wisp of his psychic power, the talisman instantly flew out of his bracelet of holding.

In in the next moment, seven layers of jade-like spiritual power shields enveloped Nie Tian.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

As soon as the shields took form, the evil psychic power that had invaded Nie Tian's mind started to change.

Numerous bright sparks flowed out of the seven layers of shields and rapidly entered Nie Tian's soul.

The moment they fell into the ravaging hurricane, the three demonic eyes that had been blinking and unleashing strange power from the center died out, like candles that had been blown out by a strong gale.

At the same time, the link between Wu Ling's saber and the evil psychic power was cut off.

HISSS! HISSS!

One after another, countless strands of dark aura rose out of the corners of Nie Tian's eyes before vanishing into the seven layers of dazzling spiritual power.

As a result, Nie Tian's chaotic mind was instantly returned to peace.

It was also at that moment that an incomparably giant light blade whizzed down towards him.

BANG!

As soon as it slashed onto the light shields surrounding Nie Tian, a loud sound echoed out along with blinding light and bright sparks.

From the front part where contact was made, the light blade cracked inch by inch and shattered into small pieces. However, only two of the seven layers of light shields were compromised and disappeared.

Meanwhile, Nie Tian experienced nothing but a surge of power pushing him backwards. No harm was inflicted.

It was just that he had consumed a significant amount of his psychic power to defend his soul.

"A talisman from my master can withstand the full-force strike of a Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior. As powerful as Wu Ling is, he's only in the Lesser Heaven stage. Even though he boosts his attack with his formidable spiritual weapon, the might of his attack can't match that of a raging attack from a Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior."

Nie Tian gradually became clear-headed and with a grim face, he stared at Wu Ling.

Enveloped by five light shields and completely rid of influence of the evil psychic power, Nie Tian once again summoned his psychic power.

In an instant, numerous wisps of his psychic power shot into the remaining spiritual energy balls before all sixteen of them were sent flying towards Wu Ling with great strength and vigor.

After realizing that he had failed to kill Nie Tian with one strike, Wu Ling secretly frowned. Looking at the remaining five layers of jade-like shields surrounding Nie Tian, he gave a cold snort and said, "It seems that you've got a good master."

Su Lin, who had been observing the fight between Wu Ling and Nie Tian the whole time, was amazed by the spectacle of Wu Ling's attack ending up fruitless and Nie Tian, on the other hand, regaining a clear head and launching a counterattack with the rest of the spiritual energy balls.

After staring aghast for a moment, she turned around to check the area that all the Heaven stage Qi warriors were in, and found that they were also in the middle of deadly battles.

After a brief assessment of the situation, Su Lin finally acknowledged Nie Tian's strength and assumed that Nie Tian was probably strong enough to wear out Wu Ling from the Realm of Unbounded Desolation.

With such a thought, Su Lin made up her mind.

She, who had been sitting in silence, suddenly turned to the white-robed young man from the Realm of Endless Ice and said, "The first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation is in our hands. Now that Wu Ling has found a worthy opponent, there's no point in us waiting around. You and I both know that only by completing the first part of the incantation as soon as possible will we have the chance to cross the seven-colored river and try to get ahold of the middle part."

With these words, she shot another glance at the area where all the Heaven stage experts were spilling each other's blood.

The white-robed young man's face turned pale with terror as he said, "What?! You even dare to think of obtaining the middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation?!"

"My sect is going to get all of the three parts of the Fragmentary Star Incantation." With a serious tone, she continued, "A martial uncle of mine is in the Greater Heaven stage area. I believe, with his strength, he'll undoubtedly get the final part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

"Originally, our sect planned for someone to enter the Heaven stage area. But unfortunately, he failed his assignment and died before entering the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

"As you know, none of the Greater Heaven stage participants will be able to cross the seven-colored river into the Heaven stage area, even if they obtain the final part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

"Only Lesser Heaven stage cultivators will be able to cross the river and enter the Heaven stage area after gathering all parts of the first part of the incantation.

"We're hell-bent on getting all three parts of the Fragmentary Star Incantation. Now that my martial uncle won't be able to go to the Heaven stage area, I'll have to do the honors."

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The reason why Su Lin from the Heaven Palace sect and the white-robed young man from the Realm of Endless Ice hadn't started fighting was that they both thought Nie Tian was too weak.

They were afraid that Wu Ling would be able to kill Nie Tian without the slightest effort, watch in safety while the two of them fought, and then reap the spoils when they were exhausted.

However, now they both realized that Nie Tian actually wasn't as weak as they had assumed and the fight between them was actually a close one. Therefore, they decided not to wait any longer, and began fighting.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

It was also at that time that Wu Ling swung his strange, long saber, and shot out numerous light blades, slicing each and every incoming spiritual energy ball into pieces.

Upon exploding, the spiritual energy balls sent out countless fragmented sparks, filling the entire sky before descending towards Wu Ling like fine rain.

Wu Ling's spiritual armor once again emanated dazzling lights that resembled sharp arrows, killing off all the sparks.

Nie Tian realized that the five jade-like light shields that the talisman had unleashed were capable of holding off all the psychic attacks from Wu Ling.

That was why he could send out wisps of his own psychic power to direct the spiritual energy balls to bombard Wu Ling, in an attempt to wear out his strength.

Wu Ling, who was originally only ten meters away from Nie Tian, was shoved backwards by the strong impact before coming to a stop fifty meters away.

From Wu Ling's expression, Nie Tian could tell that after repeatedly brandishing his long saber to slice open the numerous spiritual energy balls and killing off the sparks with his spiritual armor, he had already grown somewhat weary.

After all, every slash of his saber consumed a sizable amount of his spiritual power.

The light that shot out of his spiritual armor that he was wearing also began to dim.

Nie Tian examined Wu Ling with rapt attention and found that only those spiritual energy balls alone seemed to be wearing out a large amount of his spiritual power.

"My plan worked!" he muttered to himself.

With that in mind, while continuing to bombard Wu Ling with the remaining energy balls, he lifted his arm and pointed his hand towards the heavens as he attempted to condense more energy balls with the secret magic that he had learned from the mysterious land.

Within seconds, another table-size spiritual energy ball took shape. He extracted the special energy within that could help him replenish his psychic power with the fastest speed possible.

At the same time, he channeled some of the pure and refined spiritual energy into his spiritual sea.

Before long, his spiritual sea was refilled to the brim and the psychic power that he had consumed contending with Wu Ling's evil power was also rapidly recovering.

At that time, the energy ball already shrunk from the size of a table to the size of a balloon.

As soon as a wisp of Nie Tian's psychic power entered the energy ball, it whizzed towards Wu Ling with an amazing speed.

Without the slightest hesitation, he repeated the process to make more energy balls.

With the newly condensed energy balls, he only absorbed the special soul-nourishing energy within them and sent wisps of his psychic power into them, manipulating them to bombard Wu Ling, the moment they were drained of that special energy.

Just like that, numerous new energy balls were created and shot towards Wu Ling.

After repeating that process for awhile, not only did Nie Tian not consume any spiritual power, but he also restored his psychic power to the fullest.

Wu Ling, on the other hand, had been quite busy dealing with the bombardment of the unceasing line of energy balls. After such a large number of them exploded in front of him, the area around him had been filled with turbulent energy.

The way he brandished his long saber and stepped forward had also grown somewhat mechanical and stiff.

With more and more fragmented sparks scattered in front of him, it was as if Wu Ling was walking in a river of sparkling dots and every step he took became harder and more energy-consuming.

"His psychic power and spiritual power were both restored to their peak state!"

Stepping painstakingly towards Nie Tian, Wu Ling saw him repeatedly condense energy balls and shoot them at him. However, he found to his surprise that Nie Tian looked increasingly radiant, and the energy fluctuations inside of him showed no sign of exhaustion.

Looking at Nie Tian's excited and unwavering face, Wu Ling's confidence soon broke into pieces.

As a chosen one from the Realm of Unbounded Desolation, he initially attached no importance to Nie Tian, assuming that the kid from the Realm of Flame Heaven must be the easiest to deal with.

However, by now, he couldn't have regretted his poor judgment more.

He already wished he had chosen the white-robed young man instead of Nie Tian, in which case he likely wouldn't be in such a difficult position.

Perhaps, even facing the strongest competitor, Su Lin from the Realm of Mystic Heaven, he wouldn't have such a hard time approaching her.

"How come a character like this is from the Realm of Flame Heaven?!" Wu Ling exclaimed inwardly.

After madly condensing and casting energy balls for quite some time, Nie Tian suddenly came to a stop. "It's about time."

He realized that by that time, the seven demonic eyes on Wu Ling's blade had all opened up, and the light that shot out of each of them was no long fierce and suffocating. Apparently, it had also consumed a large portion of its power.

Furthermore, after killing off millions of sparks that sputtered out of the exploded energy balls, the spiritual armor on Wu Ling also began to look lifeless.

By this point, Nie Tian could no longer see the great confidence that used to fill Wu Ling's eyes.

Therefore, he understood that after a long period of attrition, Wu Ling was now actually on the verge of breaking down.

It was about time he ended the fight.

Without any hesitation, he summoned his psychic power, flesh power, flame power, and wood power, to create a three-meter radius chaotic magnetic field around him.

As soon as the magnetic field took form, he stepped towards Wu Ling.

The moment he entered the region that was filled with scattering sparks and turbulent energy fluctuations, the magnetic field surrounding him started to grow even more frenzied and disorderly.

By falling into the chaotic magnetic field, the countless fragmented sparks seemed to fuel the chaotic, twisting power within the magnetic field.

Only seconds later, he arrived right in front of Wu Ling.

Wu Ling's expression flickered.

The seven demonic eyes on his blade started to emanate lights of various colors.

As soon as the magnetic field took form, the five light shields that had been protecting Nie Tian seemed to be assimilated by the magnetic field.

Before, Wu Ling had repeatedly tried to attack Nie Tian with his evil psychic power.

However, seeing the attacks that the seven demonic eyes had launched were blocked by the five layers of intense spiritual energy around Nie Tian, he had temporarily stopped.

Now that he noticed that the protective light shields were no longer there, he assumed that it was about time he attacked again. Countless rays of blinding light shot out of the seven terrifying eyes and, along with a formidable, evil psychic power, shot towards Nie Tian.

However, the moment they entered the chaotic magnetic field, he lost connection with them.

Wu Ling's expression changed drastically as he suddenly experienced an excruciating pain in his mind and simultaneously, a heart-wrenching wail rang out from within his long saber.

He immediately realized that the fiendish devil that had been sealed within his blade had also sustained injuries to its soul, and was now struggling to break away from the weapon.

Just as he was about to lose control of it, Nie Tian took another step forward, completely enveloping Wu Ling in the magnetic field.

In a flash, Wu Ling's psychic power, flesh power, and spiritual power became chaotic and disordered.

PUFF!

He coughed up a mouthful of blood, feeling as if his body had been thrown into a meat grinder, unbearable pains coming from every piece of his flesh.

"It's over!" Enveloped by the magnetic field, Nie Tian summoned strength from all the different kinds of power within him, and blasted out a rage punch towards Wu Ling's head.

The punch was full of devastating energy fluctuations and the might of it surpassed any of his former attacks.

As soon as Nie Tian launched the fist strike, Wu Ling realized how powerful it was and how much damage it would inflict.

Meanwhile, the devilish saber in his hand began to scream madly, as if it were also trying to warn him against the incoming attack.

Face distorted, Wu Ling gritted his teeth after communicating with the devil soul within his saber.

CRUNCH!

At that crucial moment, after receiving a positive answer from its master, the saber, to Nie Tian's surprise, cut off Wu Ling's left hand with a clean, quick slash.

The moment Wu Ling's Heaven Gate pattern bearing hand was severed from his arm, before it could even drop to the ground, Wu Ling seemed to be dragged by a unknown, irresistible force, as he blurred into a flash, disappearing from Nie Tian's sight.

Even though he saw that Wu Ling, his original target, had vanished in the blink of an eye, Nie Tian knew that he wouldn't be able to stop the momentum of his full-force punch, and thus continued the strike anyways.

BANG!

The moment the blast of his destructive punch hit Wu Ling's left hand, which hadn't had the time to fall, it exploded into a pink mist of fragmented flesh and the Heaven Sparks within it rapidly flew into the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of Nie Tian's hand.

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After Wu Ling's left hand exploded, leaving not even a single bone behind, the eighteen Heaven Sparks that originally belonged to him instantly flew out and entered the Heaven Gate pattern on Nie Tian's hand.

Nie Tian examined the Heaven Sparks the moment they flew into his Heaven Gate pattern and found that there were numerous ancient symbols in them.

"Wu Ling…" Nie Tian glanced around and couldn't find even a trace of Wu Ling, and his psychic awareness also failed to sense his existence.

"He's gone?" Nie Tian thought to himself, confused.

After a thorough search, Nie Tian was convinced that Wu Ling had indeed disappeared from the palace.

From the look of it, Wu Ling knew the secrets of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace. When he was certain that he wouldn't be able to survive Nie Tian's rage punch, he decided to sever his own hand.

The moment his hand was separated from his arm, he seemed to be dragged out of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace by an unknown force.

After coming to an understanding about what had happened, Nie Tian felt a bit respectful toward Wu Ling. "He's quite a character!"

After all, there weren't many people who were willing to cut off their own hand with such decisiveness, even when they were facing death.

Most would rather leave things to chance than do such a brutal thing to themselves.

From such an act, Nie Tian could see the brutality and fierceness in Wu Ling's character. He even grew convinced that Wu Ling would make outstanding achievements on his cultivation path if he could keep himself safe.

Even now that he had lost a hand, Nie Tian considered him to be a major enemy of his in the future. Meanwhile, Nie Tian reminded himself to go all out to kill him if he ran into him again. Leaving him alive could cost him greatly in the future.

PHOOH!

Nie Tian forced all the disturbing thoughts out of his mind and took a deep breath before sitting down where he was.

Throwing the rage punch had cost him too much power, so he had to recuperate as soon as possible.

He understood perfectly clearly that Wu Ling was extremely dangerous, and that was also true of the long saber in his hand and the spiritual armor that he wore. Therefore, the only technique that he had anticipated to be powerful enough to kill him was the rage punch, even though he knew that the technique would drain his psychic power, flesh power, and spiritual power.

If he had been in other places he probably wouldn't have dared to use it. However, it was another story since he was in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

The spiritual energy here was far richer than anywhere he had ever been, so he would be able to rapidly recover his spiritual power via condensing more energy balls.

Furthermore, the special energy within would nourish his soul and help him restore psychic power.

That was why he had dared to use the rage punch.

After descending to the ground, the chaotic magnetic field around him still persisted.

He took out pieces of spirit beast meat from his bracelet of holding and started wolfing them down.

Within only a short period of time, he stuffed several dozen kilograms worth of meat down his throat. Without any hesitation, he started to condense energy balls and absorb the spiritual energy and faint special energy within them.

By the time the magnetic field surrounding him shrunk to a one-meter radius, he had already recovered most of his spiritual power.

He didn't pay attention to the fight between Su Lin and the white-robed young man, but rather concentrated on condensing more energy balls and restoring his strength as soon as possible.

Time passed quickly without him noticing it.

Nie Tian found his spiritual sea filled to the brim with pure spiritual power that he had absorbed from the semi-liquidized spiritual energy balls.

Afterwards, he created nine more energy balls, and recovered most of his psychic power with the special energy inside of them.

Simultaneously, a warm current was born in his stomach, replenishing the flesh power that he had consumed.

All the different types of power that he had consumed by casting the rage punch were soon to be completely restored.

Only then did Nie Tian spare his attention to observe the fight between Su Lin and the white-robed young man.

The young man was a master of frost incantations, so wherever he was, snow fell, filling the area around him.

Upon closer observation, the things that fell from the sky were translucent and sparkling, and were more like tiny crystals than snowflakes.

Each and every one of them carried bone-piercing coldness. Even the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth in that area seemed to be frozen and cracking sounds could be heard.

Underneath the young man's feet was impenetrable ice that was almost a meter thick. With every swing of the simple, unsophisticated-looking sword in his hand, which resembled a sharp blade made of ice, dozens of cold, piercing beams of light would shoot out of it.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

In the area between Su Lin and the young man, numerous crystal-like snowflakes constantly exploded, and the area seemed to be filled with strange and powerful energy fluctuations.

Quite confused, Nie Tian couldn't see what caused the explosions. When he used his psychic power to examine that area, his expression immediately flickered.

First of all, as soon as a wisp of his psychic power entered the area between them, it was pierced by the extreme coldness. He even felt a freezing sensation, as if the coldness had traced his psychic power back and reached his soul.

While he was still amazed by it, another force that was as desolate as the silver moonlight suddenly appeared.

As soon as it made contact with that wisp of Nie Tian's psychic power, Nie Tian's psychic power was snuffed out.

"A battle of psychic power!" Nie Tian was flabbergasted.

He realized what was happening.

The fights of their spiritual power and psychic power were actually taking place at the same time!

With a wave of Su Lin's hands, numerous blades that resembled crescent moons took form in front of her, before flying out to meet the white-robed young man's icy light beams.

However, the spiritual power fight between the two of them seemed to be quite regular and they both seemed to be handling it with ease.

The actual fierce fight was the fight between their psychic power.

Both of them sent their psychic power flying out of their minds, which met in fierce combat with each other in the area between them.

The white-robed young man's psychic power was like invisible ice blades that carried the profound truths of extreme coldness.

Su Lin's psychic power was as clear and chilly as the moonlight on an autumn night, which seemed even more profound and hard to perceive.

The strong impact created by the collision of their psychic power caused the crystal-like snowflakes in that area to explode one after another.

A bitter expression could be seen at the corner of Nie Tian's mouth. "A battle of psychic power at the Lesser Heaven stage! Plus, their psychic power is fighting with each other out in the open, instead of entering each other's mind…"

His understanding regarding Su Lin and the white-robed young man's strength reached a new level.

According to his master, only cultivators with late Heaven stage or higher cultivation bases would be able to have psychic power profound enough to start battles of psychic power out of the fleshy body.

The psychic power battle between cultivators with low cultivation bases would either be within their own minds or their opponents' minds.

After all, it was easier for them to cast those kinds of spells when their psychic power was still weak.

However, even though Su Lin and the white-robed young man were both at the peak of the Lesser Heaven stage, they were capable of sending their psychic power to fight out in the open.

"God, they are strong." Nie Tian shook his head as he secretly paid respect to the two of them. Upon the thought of fighting them himself, he started to grow a bit nervous.

It was also at that moment he realized that if it weren't for the talisman that his master had bestowed upon him, he probably would have already been killed by Wu Ling's psychic attack. He probably wouldn't have survived the first round.

"Even though my psychic power can't be considered weak, I need to learn some spells and techniques. Otherwise, I won't even stand a chance fighting alone against those chosen ones from the other realms!" Nie Tian was secretly determined to ask Wu Ji to teach him psychic incantations after finishing this Heaven Gate trial.

From what he could tell, the fight between Su Lin and the white-robed young man would last for a while.

Furthermore, it seemed that the two of them were fighting tooth and nail using both of their spiritual power and psychic power, and didn't even have the time to look at him.

He even believed that neither of them noticed when he had forced Wu Ling to cut off his own hand.

Nie Tian shifted his gaze away from Su Lin and the white-robed young man and looked towards the area next to where the three of them were standing, where Heaven stage cultivators were also caught in tangled fights. "The first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation. There are still middle and final parts."

There were originally six powerful experts in the Heaven stage area, but now only three were left standing.

However, there was only one corpse lying on the ground, which meant that the other two had probably given up their Heaven Sparks right before they were to be killed, just like Wu Ling had done.

From the look of it, the remaining three Heaven stage cultivators were all at the peak of the Heaven stage.

Each of them wielded a high-ranked spiritual tool as they fought in a disorderly manner. The area where they were standing was now filled with lightning, golden light, and flames while the three of them were covered in blood and their faces distorted and sinister, as if they had all gone mad.

After a brief assessment, Nie Tian was convinced that whoever the final winner would be, that one would also be seriously injured.

Then Nie Tian's gaze passed the area right in front of him and landed on the area where all the Greater Heaven stage cultivators were.

He saw Tang Yang and Miao Chen among the powerful Qi warriors who were currently fighting for the final part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

As he recalled it, when he was at the gate of the floating city, Miao Chen had single-handedly dealt with multiple Greater Heaven stage cultivators from the Realm of Flame Heaven, including Liu Yan and Li Fan.

All the cultivators around him had been afraid of his toxin-tainted spiritual power attacks.

However, Nie Tian found him now lying on the ground with a broken sword in his chest and from the look of it, he was already dead.

Tang Yang, on the other hand, was still wreathed by boundless, raging flames, fighting like a mad devil, but from what Nie Tian could tell, he wasn't in a favorable situation.

The powerful expert from the Heaven Palace sect, the one who Su Lin had referred to as her martial uncle, was currently being besieged by Tang Yang and other two experts, but on his expressionless face, Nie Tian saw nothing but calmness, as if he had utter confidence that he would overtake the three around him.

"Realm of Mystic Heaven, Heaven Palace sect!"

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The Realm of Mystic Heaven ranked first among the nine realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars.

The Heaven Palace sect was the most powerful Qi warrior sect in the Realm of Mystic Heaven, and thus held a lofty position among the numerous powerful sects in the entire domain.

Su Lin from the Heaven Palace sect was undoubtedly the strongest in the Lesser Heaven stage area, while in the Greater Heaven stage area, her martial uncle was skillfully handling three Greater Heaven stage experts at the same time.

Nie Tian was secretly amazed at how powerful the Heaven Palace sect was.

Compared to the fights that had taken place in the Lesser Heaven stage area, the fights in the Heaven stage area and Greater Heaven area were even more ferocious and bloody.

After observing for a while, Nie Tian withdrew his gaze from those two areas and refocused on Su Lin and the white-robed young man.

At that time, he had already recovered all the spiritual power and psychic power that he had consumed during his fight with Wu Ling.

Moreover, he had a feeling that after such drastic consumption, both his spiritual power and psychic power had gained some level of growth.

Only his flesh power hadn't reached its peak state.

Therefore, he took out several sizable pieces of spirit beast meat from his bracelet of holding and started munching.

While he ate, thirteen table-sized spiritual energy balls floated around him.

All of them had been drained of the special energy that could help Nie Tian recover his psychic power, but each and every one of them was still full of condensed spiritual energy.

One after another, wisps of psychic power silently flew out of Nie Tian and entered the thirteen spiritual energy balls around him.

With a thought, he commanded the spiritual energy balls to slowly float to the area between him and Su Lin.

Afterwards, he kept an eye on the fight between Su Lin and the white-robed young man as he continued to create more energy balls.

Nie Tian learned from his fight with Wu Ling that the incomparably pure and rich spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the palace could be turned into powerful weapons after being condensed into spiritual energy balls.

By doing that, he would be able to use them against the winner when the fight between Su Lin and the white-robed young man was over.

He planned to use the spiritual energy balls to wear out whatever was left of the winner's strength, and then launch the killing strike when he or she was exhausted.

He pondered his plans while unceasingly creating spiritual energy balls with the spiritual energy in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

Time passed quickly, and it wasn't very long before there were twenty-one spiritual energy balls floating not far away from him.

At that time, he saw that the cold eyes of the young man from the Realm of Endless Ice were already filled with fatigue.

Although he was still swinging his simple and unsophisticated sword, the light that it emanated was already not as bright as it had been, and the energy fluctuations within him had also grown weak.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

As Su Lin weaved her fingers in the air, numerous crescent moon-shaped blades immediately took shape.

The hundreds of curved blades formed a special formation as they pushed towards the white-robed young man, slicing the frozen ground under his feet into small fragments.

At that moment, Su Lin's eyes suddenly took on a silver color, making them look as cold as the winter moon.

In the area between her and the white-robed young man, countless crystal-like snowflakes continued to explode and scatter tiny ice shards into the surroundings.

The white-robed young man seemed to have sustained a heavy blow and suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood. His face immediately turned as pale as a piece of paper.

With a calm expression on her face, Su Lin said indifferently, "Xuan Ke, since your sect and mine have a good relationship, I don't intend to kill you. Give me the Heaven Gate pattern on your hand and I'll spare your life."

At that time, Xuan Ke from the Realm of Endless Ice came to the realization that he didn't have any other choice.

He lowered his head and pondered the matter for a while. Without saying a word, he frowned and cut a piece of flesh off of the back of his hand with his sword.

Within it sixteen Heaven Sparks were still glittering with bright light.

Compared to what Wu Ling had done to himself, what he did was much less brutal.

He only lost a piece of flesh that would grow back through time.

However, unlike him, Wu Ling did what he had to do in a moment of life or death. He didn't have the time to so carefully cut off only the skin and flesh that carried the Heaven Sparks.

Facing Nie Tian's fatal rage punch, he could only severe his whole hand as quickly as possible.

Just as Xuan Ke was about to hand the piece of his own flesh to Su Lin, he turned his head and caught sight of Nie Tian. "What!?"

Su Lin followed his gaze and also looked towards Nie Tian.

The two of them had been completely concentrated on their fight and didn't have the time to check on the fight between Nie Tian and Wu Ling.

They both anticipated that the fight between Nie Tian and Wu Ling would be still going on.

However, now that they looked over, they discovered that Wu Ling was already nowhere to be found and eighteen glittering Heaven Sparks were already added to the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of Nie Tian's hand.

This meant that Nie Tian had already defeated Wu Ling, even though they didn't know what exactly happened.

At the same time, they also noticed the twenty-one energy balls that were floating in front of Nie Tian, releasing shockingly strong energy fluctuations.

Xuan Ke and Su Lin both sent out their psychic power to examine Nie Tian, and found that Nie Tian's current battle prowess was basically the same as before he started fighting Wu Ling.

This indicated that not only had Nie Tian defeated Wu Ling, but he also rapidly recovered his strength after their fight.

Numerous expressions flashed across both of Xuan Ke and Su Lin's faces. "The Realm of Flame Heaven…"

Neither of them had ever thought that Nie Tian would be the winner of the fight between him and Wu Ling.

They found it hard to believe that a middle Lesser Heaven stage nobody from the Realm of Flame Heaven, the weakest realm of the nine, had actually forced Wu Ling to give up his Heaven Sparks.

Both of them stared blankly at Nie Tian.

However, at that moment, Xuan Ke suddenly felt like he was seized by an unknown force.

In the next moment, he disappeared from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace under Nie Tian's gaze.

Only the piece of flesh that he had cut off of his hand was left in midair. As soon as Su Lin reached out and grabbed it, the sixteen Heaven Sparks flew out of it like tiny stars, and merged into Su Lin's jade hand.

Just like Wu Ling, Xuan Ke was teleported out of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace right after he lost his Heaven Gate pattern.

At this point, Su Lin from the Heaven Palace sect and Nie Tian from the Realm of Flame Heaven were the only ones left in the Lesser Heaven stage area.

They looked each other in the eye.

Nie Tian saw nothing but composure in Su Lin's eyes as she unhurriedly took out three pills that emanated a strong medicinal aroma from her ring of holding, and swallowed them in front of him.

After a moment of silence, Su Lin said with a sincere tone, "I don't want to waste my power on you. My real enemy is the winner in the Heaven stage area. I need to be in my peak state when I go fight him in that area.

"So, I'll spare your life as long as you cut off the Heaven Gate pattern on your hand and give it to me, like what Xuan Ke just did. That way you'll be able to leave the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace alive.

"I hope you realize that even though you somehow defeated Wu Ling, you won't stand a chance against me.

"I have to tell you that if you ever decide to fight me instead of taking my offer, I'll hold nothing back to kill you and take your Heaven Sparks.

"You'd better give it a thorough consideration."

Apparently, Su Lin hoped that Nie Tian would choose to give up his Heaven Sparks and leave the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

After all, she had a bigger ambition and didn't want to waste her energy on Nie Tian.

However, she sounded so utterly confident that if Nie Tian ever dared to start a fight, she would kill him within seconds.

Nie Tian gave a smile and said, "You've consumed a lot of spiritual power and psychic power during your fight with Xuan Ke. From what I can tell, your battle prowess is only sixty to seventy percent of your peak state.

"But I, on the other hand, have already fully recovered my strength, since I finished Wu Ling off much earlier.

"You really have confidence that you can overtake me? Are you sure that I'll be the one who gets killed if we start fighting?"

With a nod, Su Lin said, "I'm sure."

Nie Tian's fighting spirit seemed to be stimulated by her blind confidence. He laughed broadly and said, "I'll take my chances!"

Without further communication, Nie Tian sent out a wisp of his psychic power and commanded the spiritual energy balls to bombard towards Su Lin.

Su Lin frowned and shook her head. "You should have taken my offer."

SHEW!

She blurred into a flash of chilly moonlight and rapidly threaded her way through the space between the energy balls, before they were even able to approach her.

Originally she was about a hundred meters away from Nie Tian, which he considered to be a safe distance.

However, she was so fast that it practically took her no time to pass the cluster of spiritual energy balls and shorten the distance between them.

It happened so fast that Nie Tian didn't even have the time to make them explode.

Neither his eyes or his psychic power could follow Su Lin and locate her as she flashed forward.

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Su Lin was too fast.

Before Nie Tian had the time to react, she had already passed through the cluster of spiritual energy balls, and was closing in on him.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

One after another, numerous crescent moon-shaped blades that were created by Su Lin's pure spiritual power slashed towards Nie Tian.

PUFF! PUFF! PUFF!

Each and every one of them cut into Nie Tian's flesh as he subconsciously jumped backwards. Blood immediately soaked Nie Tian's garments.

As soon as he got a steady foothold, he saw even more curved blades flying towards him like raindrops.

Su Lin, on the other hand, traveled towards Nie Tian like a ray of blue light as she constantly shifted her position in the space between those blades.

She was so fast that both Nie Tian's sight and psychic power failed to lock onto her. He could only watch as the sky-filling, crescent moon-shaped blades flooded towards him.

Wracked by excruciating pain, Nie Tian ran backwards as fast as he could to put a safe distance between himself and Su Lin.

It wasn't until then did he realize that Su Lin was a much stronger opponent than Wu Ling, and she probably didn't go all out when she fought Xuan Ke earlier.

By merely using a superior moving technique, she had managed to travel through Nie Tian's spiritual energy balls like a ghost and invalidate all the effort that he had spent.

According to Nie Tian's original plan, he would first use the numerous spiritual energy balls to bombard Su Lin, the same way he had Wu Ling, so as to drain Su Lin's strength.

Then, when Su Lin was exhausted, he would bring out the chaotic magnetic field and envelop her with it before he launched the fatal attack.

Unfortunately, his entire plan went down the drain the moment Su Lin made a move.

Su Lin stopped her ghostly moves when she was ten meters away from Nie Tian. With numerous shiny, silver blades that resembled crescent moons hovering around her, she said, "I'll give you another chance."

At the same time, the blades suddenly sped up and turned into a tempest, unleashing an aura so fierce that it seemed to be capable of annihilating all things.

From the look of it, as soon as it enveloped Nie Tian, he would be instantly reduced to nothing but chunks of flesh and bones.

"Do as Xuan Ke did and cut off the flesh on the back of your hand and I'll allow you to leave the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace in one piece." Robe fluctuating against the wind, Su Lin said with an indifferent face, "but, if you refuse to come to your senses, don't blame me for what I'll do to you."

While she talked, a dazzling moonlight that carried strong energy shone out of the raging blade storm.

"This doesn't make sense," Nie Tian muttered to himself.

He didn't believe that Su Lin was a merciful person. Furthermore, they didn't know each other before the trial, and from what he knew, the Cloudsoaring sect never had any relationship with the Heaven Palace sect.

According to the power that Su Lin had displayed, she would very easily break Nie Tian's defense as long as she kept going.

However, instead of continuing to rain blades on him, she stopped to threaten and urge him again.

Nie Tian didn't think Su Lin did that out of respect. If she was indeed as powerful as she said, she wouldn't need to waste her breath talking.

Nie Tian had a feeling that perhaps Su Lin was hiding something.

"Could it be that she actually sustained serious injuries from her fight with Xuan Ke? Or the power that she has consumed is actually more than what she expected?

"She hastily took three medicinal pills as soon as she finished her fight with Xuan Ke. She probably still needs time to refine and absorb those pills.

"Did she intentionally pose a threatening manner to cover her weakness?"

Eyes fixed on Su Lin, Nie Tian thoroughly thought for a moment and suddenly came to a realization.

Su Lin didn't cast any psychic power spells to attack him.

When he fought Wu Ling, Wu Ling had almost immediately gained the upper hand with the evil psychic power that shot out of the demonic eyes on his saber.

It was the talisman that Nie Tian's master had bestowed upon him that shielded off the deadly attack and saved his life.

Su Lin and Xuan Ke both saw it.

Therefore, Su Lin must have long since realized that even though Nie Tian possessed strong psychic power, he hadn't mastered any profound magics to put it to proper use.

As wise as Su Lin was, she probably knew that psychic attacks were the way to go if she wanted to end Nie Tian as quickly as possible.

What's more, Nie Tian witnessed how powerful her psychic attacks were when she fought Xuan Ke, and he was absolutely certain that her mastery of psychic power even surpassed Wu Ling.

In this situation, Su Lin didn't use psychic power against him, which had already been proved to be fast and effective, but instead, she resorted to the crescent moon-shaped blades…

"She must have over-consumed her psychic power during her fight with Xuan Ke. Her soul may have even sustained serious injuries!

"Only that would explain why she choose spiritual power magics over the direct and simple psychic power magics.

"Those three medicinal pills were probably for the injuries to her soul, and the reason why she repeatedly urged me to surrender must be that she needs time to absorb them and recover from her injuries!"

A series of ideas flashed across Nie Tian's mind before he finally came to a surprising conclusion.

Nie Tian laughed out loudly as he suddenly concentrated all his psychic power and stared into Su Lin's eyes. "Do me a favor and kill me! Please!"

In a flash, his condensed psychic power effortlessly entered Su Lin's soul.

The process was so easy and smooth that he found it hard to believe.

Normally speaking, any cultivator who knew a few psychic power magics would keep their guard up against psychic attacks at all times.

Even for him, a beginner with psychic magics, he could condense his psychic power into multiple defensive shields, preventing the enemy's psychic power from invading his mind.

Therefore, Su Lin, a chosen one from the Realm of Mystic Heaven who had just proven her outstanding power during her fight with Xuan Ke, shouldn't have so easily allowed his psychic power to enter her mind.

After realizing what Nie Tian had done, a subtle, frightened look appeared in Su Lin's bright eyes.

Even though she considered Nie Tian's psychic power to be ridiculously puny, apparently Nie Tian launching psychic power attacks was the least she wanted to see.

The moment Nie Tian's psychic awareness entered Su Lin's mind he grew excited. "I knew it!"

Within Su Lin's mind, he found himself standing in front of three giant, floating glaciers!

The three of them must have been created and put there by Xuan Ke's psychic power. Until this point, they were still drifting around and ravaging Su Lin's soul while unleashing a bone-piercingly cold aura.

Nie Tian looked up and saw a bright crescent moon hanging high above the three glaciers.

Numerous rays of moonlight constantly shot out of the moon, morphed into silver blades, and chopped towards the three glaciers, slowly reducing the size of the glaciers.

"She might have inflicted even more severe damage on Xuan Ke's soul, which resulted in his surrender.

"However, some of his psychic power that carried an ice-cold aura was left in Su Lin's soul and took the form of three gigantic glaciers. Considering Su Lin's strength, given a little more time to dissolve the three medicinal pills, she would soon eliminate all three enormous glaciers and recover from her injuries.

"She knew that I had pretty much recovered all my strength, but she herself wasn't in a favorable condition to start a fight. After all, since the three giant glaciers are still weighing down on her mind, she won't be able to use many of her exquisite techniques and spells. She actually desperately needs time to smash the glaciers and replenish her psychic power.

"All the threatening, urging, and imposing manners were actually ways to buy more time for her recovery!"

Nie Tian literally saw through Su Lin's mind.

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The moment Nie Tian's psychic awareness entered Su Lin's soul, she realized that it wasn't looking good for her.

The three giant glaciers that Xuan Ke had condensed and left within her were still unleashing freezing coldness, causing damage to her soul.

Even though she was certain that she had also inflicted serious damage on Xuan Ke and forced him to drop out of their fight, she also knew very clearly that he had done the same to her. It was just that her injuries weren't as severe as his.

Obviously, knowing that Su Lin was stronger than him, Xuan Ke had gone all out to fight her so as to get the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

All the threats and confidence were merely a show that she had put on.

She did all of those things to scare Nie Tian off, so that she would be able to spend the least time and effort to obtain all the magical symbols that Nie Tian had and give her as much time as possible to recuperate.

After all, the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation alone wasn't her goal. Her goal was to get both the first part and the middle part.

For that reason, she could afford to waste her time and energy on Nie Tian. He needed all the time she could get to heal her wounds, replenish her power, and adjust herself to her peak state.

However, she never thought Nie Tian, a young nobody from the Realm of Flame Heaven, would defeat Wu Ling and so shrewdly see through her weakness.

Now she realized that Nie Tian was determined to launch attacks with his psychic power and hit her where it was still sore.

Su Lin's opinion of Nie Tian was completely overthrown by this point, and she finally decided to give him the credit that he deserved. "It seems that I've underestimated you, kid from the Realm of Flame Heaven."

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Inside of Su Lin's soul, numerous rays of chilly moonlight shot out of the crescent moon in the sky.

Originally, their target had been the three glaciers that Xuan Ke had put there.

However, each of the numerous rays of moonlight suddenly split into dozens of light rays as they pierced towards Nie Tian's psychic awareness that had invaded Su Lin's soul.

PHOOH!

Nie Tian's psychic awareness condensed and morphed into a vague figure.

Upon a closer look of the figure, it was none other than Nie Tian himself, only not in fleshly form.

Nie Tian's psychic awareness constantly shifted its position to dodge the piercingly cold moonlight.

At the same time, the ghost-like Nie Tian secretly approached the three enormous glaciers, from which he sensed nothing but utter coldness.

However, he wasn't the target of the bone-piercing coldness.

The cold aura that floated out of the glaciers seemed to have caught a whiff of the moonlight's aura and immediately rushed over, eliminating Su Lin's psychic attack within seconds.

Meanwhile…

Xuan Ke, who had lost his Heaven Gate pattern and disappeared from the palace, appeared outside of another dilapidated city.

Around him stood three Greater Heaven stage experts from the Realm of Endless Ice.

The wound on Xuan Ke's hand had already stopped bleeding. Sitting in the middle of those powerful experts with his eyes narrowed, he was healing the injuries to his soul with a mysterious medicinal pill from the Ice Pavilion sect.

Xuan Ke's eyes snapped open.

"What's wrong, Young Lord?" One of the Greater Heaven stage experts asked.

Xuan Ke didn't answer immediately, but rather squinted his eyes and sensed carefully with his psychic power.

A while passed and his expression flickered. A faint, strange laugh could be seen on his cold and grim face.

"That guy actually perceived the injuries to Su Lin's soul! And he even had the audacity to fight her! It seems that we've underestimated this guy from the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"Actually it's not bad news for us. Now that we can't get all three parts of the Fragmentary Star Incantation, the Heaven Palace sect had better not get it either.

"Let me help you, kid!"

Xuan Ke took a deep breath and reached out his hand. "Six Exhaustions Pill!"

"What do you want to do with it, Young Lord?!" a powerful expert from the Ice Pavilion sect asked with shock on his face.

Xuan Ke let out a cold harrumph and said, "Six Exhaustions Pill!!!"

The man didn't dare to say another word and hastily took out a prism-shaped pill. A bone-piercing cold aura floated out of it as he handed it to Xuan Ke.

Xuan Ke grabbed it and swallowed it without any hesitation. Immediately afterwards, a surge of brand new soul fluctuations rippled out from within him. He seemed to have strengthened the faint link between him and the three floating glaciers in Su Lin's soul.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

Almost simultaneously, the glaciers in Su Lin's soul seemed to have acquired a new strength, and white, icy mist started to rise from the surface of the glaciers.

The icy mist rapidly spread out into the surroundings with the three glaciers as the center.

Before long, the area within Su Lin's soul where the glaciers were floating seemed to be frozen and sealed by the bitter coldness!

All of the descending, chilly moonlight and even the crescent moon in the sky, which were embodiment of Su Lin's psychic power, seemed to be influenced by the cold aura. Both their might and the speed were greatly reduced.

The three glaciers, on the contrary, were expanding at a noticeable speed in the icy mist.

Standing in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, Su Lin sensed something had gone wrong and couldn't help but call out, "Xuan Ke!"

Raging anger filled Su Lin's eyes. Apparently, she knew perfectly well who was behind the anomaly that was now happening to the glaciers.

After seeing the expansion of the three giant glaciers and the icy mist that had come out of them, Nie Tian's expression flickered. "It must be Xuan Ke!"

Just like Su Lin, he almost immediately realized what was going on. It must be Xuan Ke who was secretly helping him by relying on the faint psychic connection between him and the glaciers.

He was aware that Xuan Ke wasn't his friend and he didn't do it because he wanted to help him.

He just didn't want to see the Heaven Palace sect from the Realm of Mystic Heaven take all three parts of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

Nie Tian thanked Xuan Ke in his heart. While Su Lin had no choice but to focus all her power to deal with the three glaciers, his psychic awareness that was originally the shape of Nie Tian suddenly changed.

It turned into a giant pillar and directly charged towards the crescent moon hanging in the sky.

That crescent moon was the embodiment of Su Lin's psychic awareness and the source of her psychic power.

At that time, the icy mist that the glaciers had unleashed had already enveloped the crescent moon, causing it to have difficulty operating.

Nie Tian saw the opportunity and commanded the enormous pillar to ram into the crescent moon.

BOOM!

After receiving a strong blow to her soul, memories of her life, along with the mysterious magics and incantations she had learned from the Heaven Palace sect, suddenly became blurry and disordered.

In the outside world, standing amongst numerous hovering, curved blades, a pained expression appeared in Su Lin's eye.

It was at that time Nie Tian finally locked onto the seemingly vulnerable Su Lin.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

Without the slightest hesitation, Nie Tian commanded the numerous spiritual energy balls to turn around and once again bombard Su Lin.

CRACKLE! BOOM!

As soon as the spiritual energy balls rammed into the crescent moon shaped blades that were hovering around Su Lin, they exploded, and the area where she was standing was filled with blinding light and surging energy fluctuations.

As strong as Su Lin was, after the joint psychic attack from Nie Tian and Xuan Ke, along with the bombardment of the numerous spiritual energy balls, she sustained severe injuries.

PUFF!

Su Lin coughed up a mouthful of blood and the light in her eyes faded to a great extent.

The defensive storm of blades that she had condensed with her spiritual power also broke down after taking the strong blow.

Su Lin created a shield of moonlight around her with her last remaining strength. The countless sparks that had sputtered out of the energy balls and filled the area that Su Lin was standing in continued to hit her protective shield.

After receiving multiple strong blasts, Su Lin was now in an extremely dangerous situation. Not only did the injuries on her soul worsen, but even her fleshy body was now on the verge of destruction.

Su Lin gritted her white teeth as she cast a ferocious glare towards Nie Tian before she pressed her right palm on the back of her left hand and muttered something.

The Heaven Gate pattern that had been tattooed on the back of her left hand suddenly seemed to be detached from her skin, and with a swing of her right hand, the Heaven Gate pattern, together with the Heaven Sparks within it, flew out of her palm.

Su Lin let out a raging shout in the vast Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace. "Xuan Ke! I'm not going to let you get away with this!"

The Heaven Gate pattern and the Heaven Sparks within it rapidly entered Nie Tian's hand.

"Do you dare tell me your name?" She glowered at Nie Tian.

"Nie Tian."

Su Lin clenched her jaw and said, "Good. I'll remember you! Mark my word. We'll take the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation back!

"We'll collect all three parts of the Fragmentary Star Incantation. No one will be able to stop us!"

As soon as she uttered these words, the light shield that she had created seemed no longer able to withstand the strikes from the countless sparks and was about to collapse.

However, at that moment, she was seized by a mysterious force, and started to emanate a seven-colored light so dazzling that Nie Tian couldn't even keep his eyes open.

When the light disappeared, Nie Tian looked over and found that Su Lin was gone.

After Wu Ling from the Realm of Unbounded Desolation and Xuan Ke from the Realm of Endless Ice, Su Lin was the third to withdraw from the fight over the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation and leave the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

After receiving Su Lin's Heaven Sparks, Nie Tian successfully gathered all the ancient symbols that carried the first part of the incantation into his own Heaven Gate pattern.

The moment Su Lin's Heaven Sparks fell into Nie Tian's Heaven Gate pattern, all the magical symbols that had been randomly scattered around immediately started to rearrange themselves!

Before long, the readable first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation presented itself to him.

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All the Heaven Sparks rapidly merged with each other on the back of Nie Tian's hand.

The numerous magical symbols in the Heaven Sparks also realigned, presenting the readable and complete first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

It wasn't long before all the Heaven Sparks in Nie Tian's Heaven Gate pattern merged and turned into a hexagram.

The hexagram was located in the center of the Heaven Gate pattern, emanating a bright glow, within which lay all the realigned ancient symbols.

With a thought, Nie Tian sent a wisp of his psychic awareness into the hexagram.

He saw a large number of ancient symbols written neatly in the sky within the hexagram, almost like an unfurled bamboo scroll.

Without any hesitation, he started to read it with his psychic power.

However, it wasn't very long before he had the feeling that he had over consumed his psychic power and had to retract his psychic awareness from the hexagram.

Although he had retracted the psychic power that he had used to invade Su Lin's mind before she was dragged out of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, he found that he had consumed a large portion of his psychic power reading the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

With furrowed eyebrows, he looked towards the Heaven stage area and the Greater Heaven stage area to find that their fights were still going on.

Only two people were still alive in the Heaven stage area. Both of them had wounds and blood all over their body. From the look of it, whoever the winner would be, he wouldn't be in a much better situation than the defeated one.

Further off in the Greater Heaven stage area, Tang Yang and another cultivator were still attacking the powerful expert from the Heaven Palace sect together.

The Greater Heaven stage expert who Su Lin had referred to as her martial uncle looked somewhat tired after killing several of his enemies.

However, Tang Yang and the other cultivator seemed to be in much worse condition.

From what Nie Tian could tell, the winner in the Greater Heaven stage area would probably be Su Lin's martial uncle.

"It seems I'd better forget about the final part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation." Nie Tian muttered to himself as he retracted his gaze. "Perhaps, I'll have a shot with the middle part."

With these thoughts, he decided that he wouldn't read the rest of the first part of the incantation.

In the Lesser Heaven stage area, where he was now the only person left, he once again used the technique that he had learned from the mysterious land to condense energy balls, and used the energy within them to replenish his spiritual and psychic power.

In the meantime, he took out several large chunks of spirit beast meat from his bracelet of holding and wolfed them down, so as to restore his peak state within the least amount of time.

He planned to wait for the right time and cross the seven-colored river into the Heaven stage area the moment one of them died.

He believed that he would only have a chance to snatch the middle part of the incantation from a Heaven stage cultivator when he was still weak from killing his opponent.

If the winner was given even a little time to recuperate with medicinal pills and the rich spiritual energy in the air, the chance of him getting the middle part of the incantation would be very slim.

PHEW! PHEW!

The intense spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth rapidly condensed into an energy ball as soon as Nie Tian cast the spell.

Just as he was about to absorb the condensed spiritual energy within it into his spiritual sea and nourish his soul with it, he suddenly noticed something.

Looking up, he saw that numerous rays of starlight were shooting out of the ceiling of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

It was the same kind of light that had shone on the mysterious patterns on the palace walls and made them bright and dazzling.

However, the Qi warriors with different cultivation bases in the three areas had already used their psychic power to channel all the mysterious patterns into their Heaven Sparks.

Therefore, there wasn't a single pattern left on the walls now.

Upon a closer look, Nie Tian realized that the starlight that was shooting out of the mysterious river of stars was actually coming towards where he was standing.

At that time, Nie Tian felt a bright light also shooting up from below. He looked down and saw the hexagram in his Heaven Gate shining like a star.

It seemed that it was the hexagram that had attracted the starlight from out of the starry river and into Nie Tian.

It was also at that moment that all the ancient symbols that Nie Tian had briefly swept through suddenly began to become clear, as if they were now deeply engraved in his mind.

Furthermore, he felt like he had an epiphany. Not only did all the ancient symbols start to make perfect sense to him, he even realized how to attract and receive the starlight that was pouring towards him.

Under his guidance, the silver starlight converged into one light beam before it entered Nie Tian's mind through the top of his head.

Nie Tian silently examined himself and found that a tiny light dot had appeared in his soul and started to shine.

With the infusion of more and more starlight from the starry river, the light dot in his soul grew brighter and brighter.

Nie Tian's body shuddered. "A fragmentary star?! A fragmentary star has fallen into my soul?! Is this a part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation?"

Eyes glittering with the light of excitement, he was fairly certain that he had solved one of the profound mysteries of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

The Fragmentary Star Incantation was actually dedicated to tempering one's psychic power. To be exact, it was a soul cultivating incantation.

There were very few secret magics regarding cultivation of the soul in the nine realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars!

Nie Tian found it hard to imagine that there was a mysterious soul-tempering incantation that could allow the starlight from the boundless starry river into one's soul and appear in the form of a fragmentary star. Therefore he cherished it like it a priceless treasure!

It was also at that moment Nie Tian finally understood why the Heaven Palace sect from the Realm of Mystic Heaven was so eager to obtain it.

He had witnessed how powerful Su Lin and her martial uncle were, and they were only the ones that he had seen.

He assumed that the Heaven Palace sect must have sent many more powerful experts into the Heaven Gate trial to assist Su Lin and her martial uncle in finishing their mission.

"Fragmentary Star Incantation! Soul cultivating magic!" Nie Tian couldn't suppress his excitement.

From his fight with Wu Ling, he had realized that even though he possessed outstanding psychic power, he didn't know how to wield it, and thus couldn't turn it into actual battle prowess.

The moment he had finished his battle with Wu Ling, he had decided to go to his master as soon as the Heaven Gate trial was over and learn some psychic magics from him.

Never would he have thought that the psychic magic that he had longed for would present itself, now branded within the hexagram in his Heaven Gate pattern.

He believed that as long as he continued to build up his psychic power and put his heart to studying the incantation, he would be able to unveil all the mysteries of the Fragmentary Star Incantation and put it to good use.

More importantly, the Fragmentary Star Incantation was more about tempering one's soul than psychic power.

When he was strong enough, his psychic power would upgrade and become soul power. Only at that time would he be able to make the most out of the Fragmentary Star Incantation and display the true might of the incantation!

He tried his best to calm himself and pull himself out of his reverie. Following the instructions of the incomparably clear symbols that were now engraved in his mind, he continued to take in the starlight.

More and more starlight poured down from the heavens and converged onto the top of Nie Tian's head, and from there it flowed into his soul.

At the same time, he glanced around and noticed that he was the only one absorbing starlight from the starry river. Everyone in the other two areas was still fighting.

He realized that only when someone had gathered all the Heaven Sparks from their opponents in the area and completed that part of the incantation, would they be able to receive the instructions of the Fragmentary Star Incantation, and thus attract the falling starlight.

"I've got to make full use of this opportunity!"

With these thoughts, he felt increasingly lucky and concentrated on using the secret magic that he had just learned to allow as much starlight as possible into his soul.

He probed into his own soul and saw that, after a large amount of starlight had poured into it, the fragmentary star was rapidly growing brighter and larger.

Only seconds had passed and the originally grain-sized star had already grown to the size of a thumb.

Within the fragmentary star, Nie Tian could sense extremely strong psychic energy fluctuations. He had the feeling that the psychic power within the small star was far more powerful and profound than all of the psychic power in his soul. Furthermore, he believed that there were still many secrets within it that he would need time to solve.

"The heavens must favor me!" he thought to himself.

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The starlight that was pouring down from the ceiling of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace wasn't limitless.

It wasn't very long before the shiny, silver light stopped falling.

At that time, Nie Tian was surprised to discover that there were three fragmentary stars in his soul.

Within his soul, all three of them hung high in the sky, shining with bright light. Not only was the psychic power they contained incomparably pure and condensed, they also carried the profound might of stars.

The existence of the three fragmentary stars made Nie Tian's soul seem full of mysteries and even slightly resemble the vast starry river.

When the starlight stopped falling, Nie Tian gradually awoke from his cultivation.

At that time, his understandings of the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation was still limited to the method to attract starlight into his soul, and he was fairly certain that he would have to further explore its secrets in the future.

As soon as he snapped open his eyes, he felt enlivened; both his spiritual power and flesh power had fully recovered.

Furthermore, after the three fragmentary stars took form in his soul, his psychic power had also reached an unprecedentedly high level!

He immediately looked towards the Heaven stage area and found that the fight between the two was already over.

The losing party had been torn into pieces, scattered around on the floor, while his head was lying meters away from the rest of his body.

It was a horrible scene.

The winner, on the other hand, was sitting among the severed limbs, wreathed in a strong, bloody aura. Face pale, eyes narrowed, he was gathering the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth to gradually restore his strength.

"The fight is over…" Nie Tian immediately rose to his feet and sent a wisp of his psychic awareness into the ten floating energy balls around him.

Without the slightest hesitation, he dashed towards the river of seven-colored light, as he had been waiting for this moment.

At the same time, he used his psychic power to manipulate the ten energy balls to follow him and cross that river into the adjacent area.

The moment he stepped into the seven-colored light river, he seemed to set off some hidden restrictive spell of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

All of a sudden, numerous beams of bright light, along with an examining and judging aura, shot out of the light river and enveloped him in the blink of an eye.

It seemed that the hexagram within the Heaven Gate pattern on Nie Tian's hand had sensed the action of the restrictive spell, and immediately started to shine with dazzling starlight.

Almost simultaneously, the examining aura in the seven-colored light disappeared.

Nie Tian instantly felt a sense of relief and then steadily walked forward in the miraculous river that was filled with light and energy.

The ten energy balls, which he had condensed with the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, followed him into seven-colored light river.

Since the energy within those balls shared the same source as the energy in the light river, they weren't rejected and no examining aura flew anywhere near them.

One after another, all the energy balls slowly followed Nie Tian across the seven-colored river.

Originally, the powerful expert sitting amongst his opponent's severed limbs didn't even notice Nie Tian, the only survivor from the Lesser Heaven stage area. Only when he sensed that someone had crossed the seven-colored light river did he look over and catch sight of Nie Tian.

Before that, he had focused all his attention on the Greater Heaven stage area, where he saw only two survivors: Su Lin's martial uncle and Tang Yang from the Realm of Dark Underworld.

At that time, their fight had reached a critical moment in which a winner was about to be born.

Knowing that he wouldn't be able to cross the restrictive river into the Lesser Heaven stage area even though he had already obtained the middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation, he had long since given up the idea of snatching the first part of the incantation.

He knew that he would only be able to challenge the survivor of the Greater Heaven stage area and try his luck with obtaining the final part of the incantation with his Heaven stage strength.

Since he was familiar with the rules within the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, he had set his mind on the Greater Heaven stage expert from the Heaven Palace sect and completely ignored Nie Tian.

The final part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation had become his sole focus, so he was very surprised with Nie Tian's arrival. As a matter of fact, he had expected that someone from the Lesser Heaven stage area might enter his area. However, he had expected that person to be Su Lin.

He was very clear about the Heaven Palace sect's scheme and was no stranger to Su Lin's fame. That was why he was taken aback when the youngster standing in front of him was Nie Tian, a young man he didn't know and had never even heard of.

A wisp of the man's psychic awareness swirled around Nie Tian and soon he drew a conclusion regarding his cultivation base. "Middle Lesser Heaven stage…"

A slight sneer appear at the corner of the man's mouth as he shook his head and thought to himself, "I can't believe Su Lin was defeated by this kid. She must have sustained serious injuries when she fought Wu Ling or Xuan Ke. Or Wu Ling and Xuan Ke teamed up to fight Su Lin, and all three of them suffered severe injuries from their fight, which created a good opportunity for this kid."

Since the experts in the Heaven stage area had started fighting before Nie Tian and the other three, the man didn't know how their fights went.

Furthermore, he never heard of Nie Tian, but he knew Su Lin, Wu Ling, and Xuan Ke rather well and knew that the three of them were all chosen ones from their respective realms.

Hence, he took it for granted that Nie Tian had swooped in at the perfect time, snatched the victory, and had then audaciously come to challenge him.

"Where are you from, kid?" he asked with an indifferent tone.

When he spoke, his eyes brimmed with greed and excitement.

"The Realm of Flame Heaven," Nie Tian answered.

The man grinned while shaking his head. "The Realm of Flame Heaven?

"Actually, this is good! I can't cross the seven-colored light river to loot the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation even if I want to, but now you've come to my door! Who would have expected this?

"Hahaha! It seems that today is my lucky day. It's hard to say if I'll be able to loot the final part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation, but I can safely say that the first part will soon belong to me!"

With these words, he slowly rose to his feet.

"My name is Dong Baijie, and I'm from the Realm of a Hundred Battles." With a smile on his face, the man took the initiative to state his own name. "I wanna thank you in advance for bringing me the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation. With that in my hands, I only have one part to go."

A strong fighting spirit rippled out from within Dong Baijie. At the same time, an aura full of brutality and killing intent shot violently into the heavens from the top of his head, in the form of a column of thick, gray smoke.

From within the thick smoke, not only did Nie Tian sense a strong psychic power, he also found the fluctuations of a special kind of spiritual power.

It seemed to be an aggregation of the man's psychic power, spiritual power, and thirst for blood!

Since the Heaven stage area had just witnessed multiple brutal fights, scattered fighting spirits could be found in every corner of the bloody battlefield.

At that moment, all those fighting spirits madly converged and infused into the smoke column that shot out of the top of Dong Baijie's head.

Nie Tian originally was convinced that Dong Baijie was in a state of complete exhaustion, like a oil lamp that had run out of oil.

However, his fighting spirit and battle prowess seemed to be soaring together with the column above his head!

Having stepped out of the river of seven-colored light, Nie Tian said nothing, and without wasting a second, he placed his palms opposite to each other in an attempt to form the chaotic magnetic field as soon as possible.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

It was also at that time the ten energy balls followed Nie Tian across the seven-colored light river and arrived by his side.

As he infused more and more of his psychic power, spiritual power, and flesh power into the magnetic field, it gradually expanded into his surroundings. Meanwhile, he quietly took the third talisman that his master had bestowed upon him out of his bracelet of holding.

He was prepared to unleash the power within his master's talisman at the first possible moment in case Dong Baijie planned to attack him with his psychic power.

After all, his biggest weakness was that he didn't know any psychic magic, and thus was quite vulnerable to psychic attacks.

Since he had successfully shielded off the attack of Wu Ling's evil psychic power with the talisman, he assumed that it would also protect him from Dong Baijie's psychic attack. Only by maintaining a clear mind and undisturbed soul would he have the chance to obtain the middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

"Give it to me!" Dong Baijie reached out his hand and asked Nie Tian to hand out the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation in an imposing manner.

Without giving Nie Tian the time to think, the gray, thick smoke column morphed into a giant gray wolf, and lunged towards Nie Tian.

"What are you waiting for!? Sever your own hand and get the hell out of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace!"

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Accompanied by Dong Baijie's thunderous roar, the giant gray wolf swooped towards Nie Tian from over his head.

The wolf was condensed by Dong Baijie's psychic power and spiritual power. Not only was it very lifelike, it even seemed to have its own consciousness.

In Dong Baijie's eyes, as long as Nie Tian was decisive enough, he still had the time to cut off his Heaven Gate pattern bearing hand and get out of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace alive, before the giant wolf got to him.

His cold eyes were fixed on Nie Tian as he waited to see what Nie Tian would choose; die fighting or retreat and live.

Upon seeing the giant gray wolf swooping towards him, Nie Tian's expression flickered as he wanted to immediately set off the spiritual talisman from Wu Ji to protect him from it.

As far as he knew, the talisman would form seven light shields around him, which would be suffice to shield off his enemy's psychic attack.

Just as he was about to stimulate the talisman, he suddenly sensed that something was different. He examined the chaotic magnetic field and found that three dots of starlight had appeared in it.

Each of them was minute, far smaller than the fragmentary stars in his soul.

However, he detected the aura of those fragmentary stars within them!

He immediately came to realize that the three starlight dots in the chaotic magnetic field originated from the three fragmentary stars in his soul.

As he thought about it now, he must have drawn some pure and advanced psychic power from the three fragmentary stars in his soul when he channeled his power to form the magnetic field.

The existence of the starlight dots made the magnetic field even more violent and chaotic.

Unprecedentedly strong energy fluctuations that seemed capable of distorting any psychic power that dared to enter were now surging about within the magnetic field.

WHOOSH!

At that moment, the giant gray wolf, which was still some distance away from Nie Tian, suddenly opened its mouth.

In the next second, a gray psychic power blast shot out of the wolf's mouth and pierced towards Nie Tian's chaotic magnetic field with a speed that was many times faster than the wolf's.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

Before Nie Tian realized it, the blast wave had already entered the magnetic field. As soon as it did, the three starlight dots within it began to shine with dazzling light.

The twisting psychic fluctuations within the magnetic field turned the magnetic field into a giant meat grinder as it unceasingly twisted and ground up the invading psychic power.

Before long, Nie Tian saw the blast wave torn into pieces and reduced to small, shimmering gray dots, which continued to be distorted and dismantled by the power within the magnetic field and soon vanished into thin air.

"It worked! It held off his psychic attack!" Nie Tian's spirit was greatly roused, and his talisman-holding hand was now more steady than ever.

The surprising performance of the chaotic magnetic field made him less nervous, and he was no longer eager to use the last remaining talisman from his master. Instead, he commanded the ten spiritual energy balls to bombard the giant wolf without any hesitation.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

One by one, numerous balls filled with semi-liquidized spiritual energy rammed hard into the wolf before exploding and sputtering millions of bright sparks into the surroundings.

The area between him and Dong Baijie was soon filled with clashing light and energy. The giant gray wolf let out mad howls as it waved its claws towards the row of energy balls.

Gradually, the giant wolf was inundated by the fragmentary light sparks that shot out of the energy balls, and its enormous frame shrunk at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, the originally strong fluctuations of psychic power and spiritual power were rapidly weakening.

Dong Baijie's ill-looking face grew even paler. His face twitched as his expression started to appear somewhat sinister and distorted. "What?! With his Lesser Heaven stage strength, he actually managed to withstand my Heavenly Wolf's attack!"

Dong Baijie found it hard to believe. As a matter of fact, he had sensed that something was wrong when he saw the wolf's psychic power blast wave eliminated as soon as it entered the area around Nie Tian.

He became increasingly shocked and uneasy when he saw the numerous energy balls wearing down the power of his Heavenly Wolf.

With his psychic power, he examined the mysterious energy balls and realized that they weren't Nie Tian's spiritual tools. The tiny sparks that had shot out of them were actually a concretion of the rich spiritual energy in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

He found it incredible that Nie Tian had managed to refine and condense the spiritual energy in the air to the point where it became semi-liquid.

After a moment of shock, he forced himself to calm down. When he looked at Nie Tian again, his eyes were filled with seriousness.

FIZZ! FIZZ! FIZZ!

One energy ball after another exploded and sent out countless tiny sparks, which eventually drowned and destroyed the giant, gray wolf.

Seeing that the area between Nie Tian and himself was filled with sputtering sparks, even the Heaven stage Dong Baijie was hesitant to step into that area as he didn't want to waste his power dealing with it.

Therefore, he blurred into action and flashed towards Nie Tian like a zigzag bolt of lightning, easily evading the area between them.

Dong Baijie originally didn't have anything in his hand, but as he approached, Nie Tian discovered that he had already drawn out a long spear.

The long spear was engraved with detailed patterns that looked like some sort of mysterious spell formation or seal.

The iron-gray spear suddenly started to thrum with a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering fighting spirit before it turned into a beam of light and disappeared from in front of Dong Baijie.

In the next moment, it appeared inside of Nie Tian's magnetic field, catching him completely off guard, as if the spear had ignored space and teleported directly in front of his face.

BOOM!

The moment the spear appeared in the chaotic magnetic field, it unleashed an even fiercer fighting spirit.

In the next moment, pale-gray light blossomed out of the long spear, turning it into a long, luminous tube, continuously releasing light and energy.

On the other hand, the twisting power within the magnetic field was like thousands of hands that grabbed onto each and every ray of the light and doing their utmost to bend them.

However, the ever-victorious magnetic field failed to stop the piercing, sharp light from the long spear, given everything had happened so fast.

PUFF!

A ray of pale-gray light pierced into Nie Tian's right arm.

A messy hole immediately appeared in that arm and blood came spraying out!

Fortunately, the ray of light missed his bones. Otherwise, they would have instantly broken into pieces.

Nie Tian was flabbergasted.

He had encountered Greater Heaven stage experts before, opponents even more powerful than Dong Baijie. However, they had either attacked him with psychic power or lost control of themselves and fallen into the chaotic magnetic field.

They all had their mind distorted by the magnetic field when they sent their psychic power into it or entered it themselves.

Dong Baijie was different. He seemed to have discovered the secrets of the magnetic field through his previous attack with the giant wolf.

That was the reason why he didn't enter or send his psychic awareness, but rather tested the water with his powerful spiritual tool.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

At that time, even more light rays shot out of the long spear. Nie Tian, who had suffered greatly from merely one light ray, had no choice but to shift his position as quickly as he could to dodge the light.

PUFF! PUFF! PUFF!

Even still, some of the light rays found his legs and abdomen, one after another. Fortunately, none of the wounds were fatal.

He could only try his best to prevent the light from piercing into his vital parts, since he obviously wouldn't possibly be able to dodge all the light rays.

Standing about ten meters away from him, Dong Baijie from the Realm of a Hundred Battles looked on as the long spear raged within Nie Tian's magnetic field, the expression in his eyes somewhat grim.

"He managed to survive till now with his middle Lesser Heaven stage cultivation base. It seems that it was no coincidence that he collected the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation from Su Lin, Xuan Ke, and Wu Ling's hands." Nie Tian's outstanding performance came as a great shock to Dong Baijie, the only survivor of the brutal fights within the Heaven stage area.

He inwardly acknowledged Nie Tian's strength.

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