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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Enveloped by his magnetic field, Nie Tian continued to dodge the piercing light as quickly as he could. Even still, more and more wounds appeared on his body.

Dong Baijie's caution made him suffer a great deal and realize that even though his chaotic magnetic field had helped him win during his previous fights, it wasn't invincible.

Its influence on spiritual tools was far weaker than fleshy bodies and psychic power.

It had effortlessly eliminated the psychic power blast wave shot out of the giant wolf's mouth, keeping Nie Tian unscathed, which convinced him that the magnetic field would be able to influence and restrain the Heaven stage Dong Baijie to a great extent, as long as he dared to enter!

Unfortunately, Dong Baijie was too smart to do that. The moment he sensed the bizarre nature of the chaotic magnetic field, he intentionally evaded it and put a sizable distance between it and himself.

He only used his long, iron-gray spear to unleash countless light rays that resembled sharp arrows to attack Nie Tian, who was hiding within the strange magnetic field.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

At that moment, the long spear was still emanating pale-gray, incomparably sharp light rays, which would cut into any part of Nie Tian's flesh upon contact.

Even though the twisting power was doing it utmost to avert the light from the long spear, it was only influencing a small portion of the light.

"This won't work." Nie Tian realized that if this went on and he couldn't find a way to restrain the long spear, he would sustain even more injuries and eventually lose the fight.

Dong Baijie, on the other hand, was standing ten meters away, staring at him, as if he was waiting for the time when he could no longer put up a fight.

SHEW!

With a fierce look on his face, Nie Tian suddenly took out his last Ice Blast Pearl and threw it towards Dong Baijie.

Since Dong Baijie was standing quite close to him, the moment the Ice Blast Pearl left Nie Tian's hand, he detected the terrifying frost power it contained.

He wanted to jump backwards at the first possible moment. However, because he was standing too close to Nie Tian, he failed to get out of the range of the Ice Blast Pearl before it violently exploded!

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

Countless ice shards and rays of icy light that were as deadly as sharp darts shot out of the fist-size Ice Blast Pearl and spread out in every direction.

In a split second, all the ice shards and icy light started rotating at a fast speed, forming a devastating ice storm.

Dong Baijie, who was still fleeing at the fastest speed possible, was immediately engulfed.

With a raging fighting spirit, he let out heaven-shaking roars as he once again used his secret magic to condense his power into a giant, gray wolf over his head.

Afterwards, he staggered, as if he even found it hard to maintain a steady foothold.

As a matter of fact, after a series of brutal fights with the Heaven stage experts, he only had about ten percent of his strength left in him. Even though he had spent some time to recuperate when Nie Tian crossed the light river, he had no more than twenty percent of his strength back at that time.

In order to kill Nie Tian as quickly as possible, he had condensed a giant wolf, which ended up being eliminated by Nie Tian's energy balls.

Then he had infused massive amounts of his power into the long spear that he had sent into the chaotic magnetic field. Furthermore, he was actually consuming his strength as the spear continued to unleash violent light rays.

This time, in order to protect himself from the ice storm, he had to condense another giant wolf.

By doing this, he had actually pushed his strength to the limit!

ROOOOOOAR!

The giant, gray wolf roared as it strove to block the power of the ice storm with its enormous body.

However, the Ice Blast Pearl that Wu Ji had bestowed upon Nie Tian was a weapon that was meant to kill.

Therefore, the ice storm that it created was by no means something that the giant wolf could withstand.

Under the ruthless attacks of the countless ice shards and icy light rays, the giant, howling wolf's body shrunk rapidly.

In the meantime, Dong Baijie's face was extremely grim. Seeing the wolf shrinking in size, he also realized that he was in an unfavorable situation. He hastily took out a few low-ranked spiritual tools and tried to hold off the ice storm with them.

A banner embroidered with an image of an outsider war god flew out of his bracelet of holding.

As soon as it appeared, a war god of an unknown race floated out of it and started to contend with the violent ice storm.

However, it was only seconds before the war god with an outsider's appearance was ripped into pieces.

"Dammit! It's not useful."

Dong Baijie muttered to himself as he took out a green shield, as if he didn't pity the spiritual tool that he had just lost at all.

The moment the shield appeared, it blossomed with bright light and turned into a dark-green light shield, enveloping the constantly shrinking gray wolf.

However, it also only took about ten seconds for the ice storm to tear the newly-formed protective shield into shreds.

After that, Dong Baijie took out a few more different spiritual tools from his bracelet of holding and used them one by one to contend with the ravaging ice storm.

Each and every one of them had been looted from the Lesser Heaven stage trial takers after he entered the Heaven Gate trial.

Therefore, most of them were of rather low ranks and had limited power. More importantly, none of them agreed with his cultivation attribute, and thus he couldn't put them to full use.

On the other hand, the ice storm was created by the Ice Blast Pearl, a fine work of Wu Ji, a Profound realm expert. It was originally meant for Greater Heaven stage experts or the young, chosen ones from the other realms.

It was expected that none of those low-ranked spiritual tools could withstand the ravaging, terrifying power unleashed by the Ice Blast Pearl, and broke one by one.

Enveloped by the chaotic magnetic field, Nie Tian had been observing Dong Baijie the whole time as he shifted his position to avoid the light. "He's barely hanging on!"

He realized that Dong Baijie, who was now barely protected by the shrinking wolf, already couldn't even maintain a fast foothold, which meant that he was on the verge of breaking down, like a oil lamp that was running out of its oil.

"I'd better kill him while he's weak!" Nie Tian's spirit was greatly lifted.

He, who had been cautious and maintained a distance away from Dong Baijie, suddenly started moving towards him.

The magnetic field moved with him as he strode forward.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The iron-gray spear that had been unleashing piercing light remained floating in place when Nie Tian moved away from his original place.

Unconstrained by the chaotic magnetic field, the light that the long spear radiated grew increasingly dazzling.

It was just that since Nie Tian was no longer in the vicinity, it could no longer hurt him.

At that moment, Dong Baijie sensed Nie Tian's movements and refocused on controlling the long spear. "Go!"

As a result, the spear immediately relocated Nie Tian, pierced into the magnetic field, and started shooting out countless pale-gray light rays to attack him.

PUFF!

Moments later, another bloody hole was pierced open on the side of Nie Tian's waist. He gave a muffled groan under the great pain, and sped up as he charged towards Dong Baijie.

At that moment, the might of the Ice Blast Pearl was already on the decline.

Apparently, the ice storm that the Ice Blast Pearl had created was gradually being worn down by the gray wolf and the series of spiritual tools that Dong Baijie had brought out.

As he approached Dong Baijie, he knew very well that the ice storm would lose effect before long.

"You are courting death?!" Rage appeared in Dong Baijie's eyes as he saw Nie Tian dashing towards him.

At that moment, another intense burst of fighting spirit rose in his heart.

He infused almost all of his remaining psychic power and spiritual power into that long spear of his.

After all, that spear was the most powerful and effective tool at his disposal. After receiving more power, the long spear immediately gained a violent surge in its might.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Dozens of thick, pale-gray light beams shot out of it, making it almost impossible for Nie Tian to evade them.

"I've prepared for this!" Nie Tian let out a cold harrumph and stimulated the third talisman that his master had bestowed upon him. As soon as he did, seven layers of jade-like light shields were formed around him.

Dong Baijie's attack, which he had summoned almost all his strength to launch, aimed to kill Nie Tian. However, the several dozen light beams were all blocked by the light shields, none of them making it through.

Meanwhile, only two of the seven light shields broke after withstanding the attack of the piercing light.

PUFF!

Face distorted and sinister, Dong Baijie coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Reluctant to give up, he summoned every last bit of his power and potential, and commanded the long spear to shoot out a dozen more light beams, but they also ended up being blocked by the light shield around Nie Tian.

As the result of Dong Baijie's final, all-out attack, two of the five remaining light shields were broken.

At that time, Dong Baijie had truly drained all his power. He had even advanced his power at the price of his fleshy body, in order to launch the attack that he deemed fatal.

However, as it turned out, Nie Tian didn't die from it.

After seeing that Nie Tian was still stepping steadily towards him even though he was covered in blood, mixed expressions flashed across Dong Baijie's face as he said, "You win!"

With a vigorous motion of his hand, he torn a piece of skin and flesh off of his hand back, along with the Heaven Gate pattern on it.

"I quit! Tell me your name, kid!" Speaking out loudly, Dong Baijie tossed the Heaven Gate pattern to Nie Tian.

At the same time, his long, gray spear flew out of the chaotic magnetic field and found Dong Baijie's hand with perfect precision.

"My name is Nie Tian, and I'm from the Realm of Flame Heaven."

"Nie Tian! Okay!" A faint hint of admiration could be seen in his angry eyes as he looked deeply at Nie Tian. "When you have comprehended the first and middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation, come and find me in the Realm of a Hundred Battles. My name can be considered well known in the Realm of a Hundred Battles. You can ask people for the address of my residence."

As soon as he uttered these words, he was sucked out of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace. Nie Tian didn't even get a chance to respond.

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Nie Tian was just about to say something when he found that Dong Baijie had already been dragged out of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace by a mysterious force and was nowhere to be seen.

SHEW!

By that time, the piece of flesh that carried Dong Baijie's Heaven Gate pattern had reached Nie Tian's side and the hexagram inside of it immediately flew into the back of his hand.

After receiving the hexagram, Nie Tian briefly examined it with his psychic power and saw that there were also numerous ancient symbols floating within it, just like the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

All the ancient symbols were aligned in a perfect order, making it very easy and pleasant to read.

"Middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation!" Nie Tian's expression flickered. A hint of smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he no longer felt the pain from the numerous wounds covering his body.

In order to obtain the first and middle part of the incantation, he had used up all of the three life-saving talismans and three Ice Blast Pearls that his master had given him.

However, he had a feeling in his heart that compared to the incantation, all those were nothing.

Due to Dong Baijie's voluntary withdrawal, the Heaven stage area returned to peace.

Nie Tian dropped to the ground, took out several pieces of spirit beast meat from his bracelet of holding and started munching in silence.

While eating, the close to a dozen piercing wounds on his body still had blood flowing out of them.

To prevent himself from bleeding out and dying, he had to treat the wounds and stop the bleeding as quickly as possible.

He tried to draw spiritual power from his dantian's spiritual sea and use it to heal his wounds.

All of a sudden, he sensed that wisps of wood power that contained a thriving life aura swirled out of the vortex of wood power in his spiritual sea.

Not only that, unusually strong heartbeats echoed out from within his chest, as a valiant life force was suddenly born within his heart.

The vigorous wood power and the life force infused into Nie Tian's blood and flesh at the same time.

The two kinds of power that were somewhat similar to each other flowed rapidly within his blood vessels and meridians, before they soon converged on the bloody holes.

In the next moment, all the puncture wounds stopped bleeding.

"What!?" Flabbergasted, he looked down at a bloody hole on his arm, and saw that not only had it stopped bleeding, but there were even muscle fibers wiggling inside of the wound.

Like a spacial rift that was about to close up, the messy wounds were healing and shrinking at a slow speed.

As a matter of fact, since Nie Tian could see it with his eyes, the healing process was actually very fast.

For commoners, if their flesh had been punctured, it would usually take weeks or even months to heal the wound.

However, with the help of the wood power from his spiritual sea and the life force that originated from his heart, his wounds were healing at a speed that was many times faster than a normal person's rate.

"Those two kinds of power have sped up the healing of my wounds!" Nie Tian's eyes lit up and his face was filled with excitement as he came to realize that his bloodline power, which wasn't fully awakened yet, was much more mysterious and powerful than he had expected!

Before long, he could no longer sense any pain from the wounds on his limbs and abdomen.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

It was at that moment that more starlight streamed out of the vast and boundless starry river in the ceiling of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

Dong Baijie's withdrawal and the fact that he had left the middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation to Nie Tian seemed to have triggered a certain restrictive spell of the palace.

Upon seeing more starlight falling out of the heavens, Nie Tian instantly grew excited, as he knew that he could channel it into his soul, along with the mysterious power it carried.

Without any hesitation, he assumed the lotus position and used the secret magic that he had learned to attract the falling starlight.

Soon, countless rays of starlight converged on him and streamed through the top of his head into his soul.

A fourth fragmentary star gradually took shape within his soul.

At that moment, Tang Yang's voice rang out from within the Greater Heaven stage area. "You win, Ning Yang!" Face covered in blood, he cut the Heaven Gate pattern off of the back of his hand.

Soon after he cast the piece of flesh that carried his Heaven Gate pattern to the man he called Ning Yang, he was seized by a mysterious force and dragged out of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

As a result, Ning Yang, Su Lin's martial uncle, was now the only one standing in the Greater Heaven stage area.

After Tang Yang's Heaven Gate pattern merged with his own, a hexagram imprinting gradually took shape in his Heaven Gate pattern, which stored the final part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

Apparently, Ning Yang had also gone through a bloodbath to finally obtain the complete final part. Therefore, he looked somewhat weary at that moment.

Suddenly, he turned his head and caught sight of Nie Tian.

"It's not Su Lin!!" After going blank for a moment, he frowned and carefully looked Nie Tian up and down.

"It's nor Dong Baijie, Wu Ling, or Xuan Ke…" Ning Yang was increasingly confused.

After all, he had assumed that Su Lin would be the one to obtain the first part of the incantation. He had never doubted that.

Although he wasn't sure that Su Lin would be able to loot the middle part of the incantation from Dong Baijie, who he had assumed to be the winner of the Heave stage area, he had never expected that any other Lesser Heaven stage youngster had what it took to snatch the first part from Su Lin's hands.

However, looking at the unfamiliar young man sitting by himself in the Heaven stage area while no one could be seen in the Lesser Heaven stage, he had to accept the fact that he had obtained the first and middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

He still couldn't figure out how Nie Tian had achieved it.

However, caught in confusion and frustration, he suddenly discovered the starlight that had been pouring out of the starry river above his head.

He, who was currently in a bad shape, sat down on the ground.

He only briefly scanned the symbols within the hexagram with his psychic awareness before he understood the method to attract the starlight.

Originally, all the starlight that fell out of the ceiling answered Nie Tian's call and flowed towards him.

However, since Ning Yang started casting the newly-obtained spell, two thirds of the starlight started converging onto him.

The drop in the amount of starlight Nie Tian received immediately drew his attention. His eyes snapped open and he looked over at the distant Ning Yang. His eyebrows furrowed.

From the look of it, Ning Yang, who had forced Tang Yang to withdraw from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, was currently in a better condition than Dong Baijie back when he had finished his fights.

Moreover, Ning Yang's cultivation base was at the peak of the Greater Heaven stage!

On the other hand, Nie Tian had already used up all the life-saving talismans and Ice Blast Pearls.

With a cultivation base so significantly inferior, as audacious as he had been, Nie Tian didn't dare go on a suicide mission by crossing the seven-colored river after seeing that Ning Yang's condition wasn't very bad.

He was fairly certain that if he did cross the river, the chances of the Heaven Palace sect from the Realm of Mystic Heaven eventually collecting all three parts of the Fragmentary Star Incantation were quite high.

With those thoughts in mind, he no longer looked at Ning Yang, but rather focused on attracting the starlight towards him.

An unknown period of time passed.

By the time that another fragmentary star was formed in his soul and started to shine brightly, he could no longer feel the existence of more starlight.

He looked up and saw that the starry river was still profound and boundless.

It was just that no more starlight fell out of it.

He didn't know why, but he had a feeling that a mysterious connection had been formed between the vast starry river and the four fragmentary stars in his soul.

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Four fragmentary stars were shining with bright light within Nie Tian's soul.

Since no more starlight was streaming out of the ceiling of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, Nie Tian could receive no more power.

He gradually woke up from his cultivation of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

Separated by a seven-colored light river, he looked at Ning Yang from the Heaven Palace sect and found that he was looking right back at him.

Due to the separation of the seven-colored light river, the two of them didn't say anything, but only looked each other in the eye.

After a short while, Nie Tian stopped looking at Ning Yang, but rather started cultivating again with the incomparably pure spiritual Qi of heaven and earth in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

As one energy ball after another was created, Nie Tian absorbed the spiritual energy and the special type of energy within them to restore his spiritual power and psychic power at the same time.

After an unknown period of time, his spiritual sea in his dantian brimmed with spiritual power.

His psychic power was also replenished to its peak state after being nourished by the special energy for some time.

Moreover, he sensed that a mysterious change had taken place in his soul due to the existence of the four fragmentary stars.

It was just that since he hadn't had the time to study the first and middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation, and so he didn't know the true profundity of those four fragmentary stars yet.

By that time, the piercing injuries that Dong Baijie had inflicted on him had also healed to a great extent. They even formed scabs in such a short time.

He could no longer sense any pain from the wounds, and he had faith that it wouldn't be long before all the wounds were completely healed.

Only then did he rise to his feet and begin strolling around the Heaven stage area to see if he could find something useful.

After all, those who had been killed by Dong Baijie might have some valuable items with them.

However, after a thorough search, he didn't find any valuable spiritual tools on the mangled bodies.

He immediately realized that Dong Baijie must have long since looted their bracelets of holding when he had killed them.

Nie Tian continued to walk about within the Heaven stage area, hoping to run into some windfall.

Ning Yang, who was in the adjacent area, saw Nie Tian's behavior. With a frown, he instantly reached a conclusion that Nie Tian wasn't high-born. Otherwise, he would never seek to loot items from those dead Heaven stage experts.

Obviously, if Su Lin had been the last person standing in the Heaven stage area, she would not have wasted any of her time on searching for items. All of her energy would be concentrated on cultivation.

After all, it was almost impossible to find a place more suitable for Qi warriors to cultivate in than the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

Ning Yang was determined to find out about Nie Tian's identity the first moment he left the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

He assumed that, considering the Heaven Palace sect's power, it wouldn't be difficult to find Nie Tian and snatch the first and middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

With these thoughts, he stopped looking at Nie Tian. Instead, he started recuperating with the especially rich spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.

Before long, Nie Tian, who failed to find anything, dropped the idea of looting items and also began taking in the pure spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth to temper his spiritual sea.

At that time, his spiritual sea was already brimming with spiritual power. Vortexes of different types of power were also rotating non-stop.

Two vortexes of spiritual power, one vortex of flame power, and one vortex of wood power were all rotating at a high speed within the misty, white spiritual sea.

His spiritual sea, which was twice the size it had been when he was in the early Lesser Heaven stage, was refining the spiritual power within it round after round.

However, no matter how fast the four vortexes rotated, it seemed that they could no longer refine more spiritual energy into the spiritual sea.

At that moment, Nie Tian had the feeling that he had reached another bottleneck.

He immediately realized that as long as he could make another step forward, he would be able to break through from the middle Lesser Heaven stage into the late Lesser Heaven stage!

Bearing that thought in mind, he wasn't in a hurry to upgrade his spiritual sea. Instead, he calmed himself and started recollecting the details of the numerous dangerous fights he had survived since he had entered the Heaven Gate.

As he did, numerous scenes of those fights flashed across in his eyes; the precise and measured attack techniques of the Greater Heaven stage experts, the oppressing sensation Tang Yang had forced on him, Wu Ling's evil psychic power, Su Lin's mind games, Xuan Ke's secret help, and the twists and turns in his fight against Dong Baijie…

He sorted through all those battle scenes in his heart and recollected all the enlightenment and lessons that he had come to in those fights.

He realized that the Heaven Gate trial was much more dangerous and complicated than the Green Illusion dimension trial.

Among the numerous things he had learned from this trial, he learned how powerful the young chosen ones from the other realms could be and that there were complicated relations between the numerous forces in the Domain of the Falling Stars…

After a while, he stopped thinking about the experience he had gained, but rather concentrated his attention on himself.

With Wu Ji's former instruction in mind, he started to meticulously ponder the profundity of the spiritual power, psychic power, and flesh power.

Perhaps it was because of the existence the seven-colored light river, or the fact that he was in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, but he was able to maintain a very clear mind when he pondered the profound mysteries of the different types of power.

He seemed to be suddenly enlightened when he reached the points that he found deep and hard to understand.

Just as he felt that he was about to make another breakthrough and step into the late Lesser Heaven stage, more starlight started streaming down from the ceiling of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace again.

Without any hesitation, he averted his focus from understanding of the different types of powers to attracting the starlight.

The new round of starlight fell from the starry river and was divided and absorbed by him and Ning Yang.

Soon, another fragmentary star took shape in Nie Tian's soul when the starlight stopped. He once again submerged himself in self-tempering and enlightenment.

Then awhile later, more starlight poured out of the ceiling of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace again…

The process repeated several times.

By the time a seventh fragmentary star took shape in Nie Tian's soul, the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace suddenly started trembling.

The two seven-colored light rivers that had been separating the areas rose up into the air, before they flew towards Nie Tian and Ning Yang respectively, like two rainbows.

As soon as they infused into Nie Tian and Ning Yang's bodies, they seemed to turn into two seven-colored snakes that slithered into their spiritual seas.

It was when Nie Tian discovered that a seven-colored light river, which was hundreds of times smaller than the actual one, appeared within his soul that he was suddenly seized by a force and dragged out of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

As he was dragged downwards, he saw the magnificent palace gradually rising before flying into the depths of the boundless starry river.

While plummeting uncontrollably downwards, Nie Tian caught sight of Ning Yang and saw that he seemed to be attempting to approach him.

However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get an inch closer to Nie Tian.

It appeared that even though the two of them had left the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, a mysterious force was preventing them from approaching each other.

Perhaps it was a law and balance created by the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

It was as if according to the law, it was deemed unfair to place Nie Tian and Ning Yang, two cultivators with cultivation bases so different, together.

It was because of the mysterious force that as Nie Tian and Ning Yang plummeted downwards like falling stars, they grew further and further apart.

Nie Tian had a vague feeling that the place where he was going to land was going to be the dilapidated city that he had come from.

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Back in the location Nie Tian had departed from…

The floating, dilapidated city had long since landed on the meteor surface, and there was no longer seven-colored light or mysterious energy fluctuations emanating out of it.

However, a number of bizarre-looking buildings had appeared within it; some of them were the shape of awls and others were the shape of columns.

There were also a few buildings that people could immediately tell were outsiders' residences, each of which looked like enormous trees that stretched up into the sky.

In the center of the city, numerous powerful experts from the Realm of Flame Heaven were gathered by the side of a dilapidated, ancient teleportation portal.

After Miao Chen and Tang Yang had left the city, all the other foreign cultivators, who had entered the Heaven Gate trial via the Realm of Flame Heaven and failed to make their escapes, had been killed.

All the young disciples of the seven sects, who had been in hiding, had answered their seniors summons and gathered to this place.

Among the people present were Jiang Lingzhu and Li Fan from the Cloudsoaring sect, Feng Luo and Yu Tong from the Blood sect, An Shiyi from the Spiritual Treasure sect, Zheng Bin from the Mystic Mist sect, Hong Can from the Hell sect, Zou Yi from the Ghost sect, and Guan Qiu from the Grayvale sect.

Originally, no less than eighty people from the seven sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven had participated in the trial. However, only about ten of them had managed to survive up to this point.

All the other survivors had learned about what had happened through Feng Luo and Li Fan after their arrival.

According to Feng Luo's description, they learned that Nie Tian was the first to enter the city and be transported away.

He had seen it perfectly clearly when Nie Tian was enveloped in a bubble and had shot up from the center of the city into the vast starry river.

Soon after him, Miao Chen and Tang Yang also flew up into the depths of the starry river.

Since Li Fan had a special timing device, he told Jiang Lingzhu and An Shiyi, who seemed quite concerned about Nie Tian, that Nie Tian had been gone for three months.

In the past three months, they hadn't been able to find any trace of him.

According to Li Fan's estimation, Nie Tian was probably already dead.

After all, no matter where Nie Tian had gone to, Tang Yang and Miao Chen had gone there too.

Both of them were in the Greater Heaven stage, and Tang Yang was even more formidable and deadly.

As a matter of fact, if Tang Yang and Miao Chen hadn't left the city, the trial takers from the seven sects probably wouldn't have had the chance to finish off the other foreign cultivators.

As far as they were concerned, Nie Tian couldn't possibly handle either Tang Yang or Miao Chen.

The chances were that as soon as the three of them had arrived at their destination, Tang Yang and Miao Chen had immediately made their move and slaughtered Nie Tian.

It had been almost six months since the Heaven Gate trial had started. Some of the weak disciples from the seven sects had been buried in the numerous scattered meteors, while others had been hiding in distant corners and only came out to this place after receiving their seniors' summons. Some of them actually ran into some mysterious things on those distant meteors.

Now, they were all gathered around the teleportation portal in the dilapidated city, as they all assumed that it was their way out of the Heaven Gate dimension.

For the past month, after they had eliminated all the remaining foreign cultivators in the region, they had spread out to search for interesting things.

However, they found nothing after searching through the nearly one thousand meteors in the vicinity.

Standing on a meteor that was as far as they could go, they saw another vast expanse of void filled with countless meteors.

However, that meteor region was separated from theirs by a boundless, starry river, and there were no stone bridges between the two.

After a moment of thinking, they came to realize that that meteor region was probably one of the two other "arenas" for the Qi warriors who had entered through the other two Heaven Gates.

They were aware that the other two Heaven Gates had opened in the Realm of Mystic Heaven and the Realm of a Thousand Devastations, and both of those realms were far stronger than theirs, especially the Realm of Mystic Heaven, which was ranked first among the nine realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars.

Powerful experts who had managed to obtain keys and eventually enter the Heaven Gate trial from there must be very strong and deadly.

It was lucky for cultivators from the Realm of Flame Heaven that there was an unbridgeable, starry river between the two meteor regions.

If there had been a long bridge connecting the two regions, they would never have had the audacity to cross that bridge and provoke those people from the Realm of Mystic Heaven and the Realm of a Thousand Devastations, in which case they might draw fire upon themselves.

"That Nie Tian kid is probably dead. I know that you have certain feelings for him, but try not to be too sad about it."

Qiu Heng, a middle Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior from the Spiritual Treasure sect, frowned and said softly to An Shiyi, "You've made significant progress in your cultivation in this Heaven Gate trial. You should consider yourself lucky. From what I can tell, with the enlightenment you've received here, you'll be able to step into the Greater Heaven stage before long.

"When you do that, your status in the sect will rise again, and the mistakes you made in the Green Illusion dimension trial will also be written off. I doubt that the sectmaster will mention it again.

"The An clan and your sister An Ying will be proud of you, and more importantly, benefit from your achievement.

"Burdening yourself with Nie Tian's death won't do you any good, will it?"

Qiu Heng knew a thing or two about space traveling magics, and he had visited Black Cloud City because of the appearance of the spacial rifts.

According to seniority, he was An Shiyi's martial uncle, and he had been treating her well over the years.

However, he had vanished when he learned that Gan Kang, whose status was even higher in the sect, had set his mind on An Shiyi and had been doing everything he could to force her to marry him.

He was aware that he couldn't afford to upset Gan Kang and make him an enemy just for An Shiyi.

However, when he learned later that Gan Kang had attempted to abandon the Spiritual Treasure sect, he surfaced again and started showing his concern for An Shiyi.

Then, when he realized that An Shiyi had also obtained a Heaven Gate key in the wasteland outside of Black Cloud City, he grew increasingly warm towards her.

"He's not dead. I have faith in him," An Shiyi said with a cold tone, looking askance at him with loathing flickering in her eyes.

She knew perfectly clearly that he and Gan Kang were the same, as they were both after her beauty.

Even though Qiu Heng had never said anything, she was smart enough to see what he was thinking.

After all, when the Green Illusion dimension trial mishap had happened, she was degraded by the sectmaster and harassed by Gan Kang and the other old, licentious elders while he was nowhere to be found.

The reason was none other than that he was afraid of retaliation from Gan Kang and the others.

On the other hand, ever since Nie Tian had gone to the Spiritual Treasure sect, he had always been there for her every time she had run into a crisis.

In order to protect her, not only did Nie Tian make enemies with Gan Kang, but he even turned his back on the Spiritfount Pill, which was of great importance to him.

Furthermore, Nie Tian had gone out of his way several times to help her, and he even ended up putting himself and his companions in danger because of that.

Compared to Nie Tian, Qiu Heng and his words meant nothing to her.

She tried to ignore him when he said those things about Nie Tian and expressed his pretentious concerns. She actually had to hold herself back, because otherwise, she would have lashed out at him already.

Qiu Heng put on a false smile as he said, "Well… please don't think being Wu Ji's disciple makes him invincible. Wu Ji might be a good mentor, but he made a huge mistake sending Nie Tian to the Heaven Gate trial. Letting him participate in the trial with his Lesser Heaven cultivation base… either Wu Ji is already a dotard, or Nie Tian is blindly brave."

"Qiu Heng! Who are you talking about?!" Li Fan's cold snort rang out not very far away.

Even Feng Luo shot a cold look at Qiu Heng and said, "Will you shut up?"

Zheng Bin glared at him and muttered in a disdainful tone, "What a clown."

Hong Can from the Hell sect, Zou Yi from the Ghost sect, and Guan Qiu from the Grayvale sect also let out cold harrumphs as they cast their unpleasant gazes towards Qiu Heng.

Qiu Heng sensed the burning gazes and soon realized that everyone was looking at him with disgusted looks on their faces, so he instantly stopped talking.

He had no idea why they all seemed unpleasant upon hearing his comments.

Of course, he didn't know that Feng Luo, Hong Can, Zou Yi, and Guan Qiu had all fought side by side with Nie Tian once, and they had all come to admire Nie Tian, even though he was only in the Lesser Heaven stage.

Hong Can from the Hell sect said with an unpleasant tone, "Although Nie Tian's cultivation base isn't impressive, he helped us kill three foreign Greater Heaven stage experts! Who are you to say those things? How many foreign Greater Heaven stage experts did you kill? What makes you think you're better than him?"

"I bet if that kid had the same cultivation base as you, he'd be able to finish you with one strike," Feng Luo said coldly.

"Umm…" Targeted by all those people, Qiu Heng's face was filled with embarrassment.

He immediately grew timid and didn't dare to say another word, and the way An Shiyi looked at him grew increasingly disdainful.

At that very moment, a cluster of seven-colored light appeared in the sky above the dilapidated city, and a figure gradually grew clearer within the bright light.

"It's Nie Tian!"

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Gathered around the ancient teleportation portal, every survivor from the Realm of Flame Heaven looked up into the sky with fascinated expressions on their faces.

Before long, Nie Tian's figure grew clear inside of a bubble of seven-colored light as it gradually descended.

While everyone was looking up at him, Nie Tian looked down at them, and a surprised look could be seen in his eyes.

He had expected Tang Yang from the Realm of Dark Underworld to be there after being dragged out of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

However, after a careful examination, he didn't find Tang Yang among the crowd, nor any other foreign Qi warriors.

Upon seeing Li Fan, Jiang Lingzhu, An Shiyi, and Zheng Bin, he felt secretly relieved and surprised.

Jiang Lingzhu and An Shiyi waved at Nie Tian from below as he approached the city, their faces filled with elation. "Nie Tian!"

"I can't believe this guy is still alive!" Yu Tong muttered with a cold face, sighing over Nie Tian's unbelievably good fortune.

The seven-colored light bubble carried Nie Tian right towards the teleportation portal where everyone was gathered around.

WHOOSH!

When he landed on the teleportation portal, the seven-colored light that had been enveloping him the entire time melted down and merged with the portal like water.

Originally, the dilapidated teleportation portal had looked dark and lifeless. Numerous fissures could be seen on the stones that formed the portal. Even the ancient pattern that had been engraved on it seemed incomplete.

However, everything changed the moment the seven-colored light merged with it.

The fissures on the stones were filled and healed by the bright light.

The gaps and missing parts on the pattern on the floor of the formation were also knitted back together and reconnected by the light.

The ancient teleportation portal suddenly became dazzling and glowed with a bright luster, as if it were now brimming with a mysterious power.

Everyone who had been gathered there had long since wished to leave the Heaven Gate trial via that ancient teleportation portal. Therefore, they were all thrilled by the spectacle. "Wow!"

Feng Luo's expression flickered. "Nie Tian's arrival fixed the ancient teleportation portal, infusing it with new power and thus reviving it!"

He subconsciously looked at Qiu Heng out of the corner of his eyes and with a cold snort, he said, "Didn't you say that you're an expert of inter-spacial power? We spared you all kinds of spiritual materials and let you have your ways with them over the past three months. Did the teleportation portal change even a bit?"

Embarrassment stretched across Qiu Heng's face. He could only force a smile onto his face and say nothing.

Over the past months, they had searched every meteor in the region, but failed to find anything noteworthy. Thus, everyone was very eager to leave this place.

The only thing they deemed capable of getting them out of this place was the dilapidated teleportation portal in front of them.

Although Qiu Heng's cultivation base wasn't the highest among them, he had some knowledge regarding the profound inter-spacial powers.

That was the reason why everyone had been willing to give him their spiritual materials that could be used to cast inter-spacial teleportation spells.

They had hoped that Qiu Heng could restore the ancient teleportation portal to a usable state, so that they could use it to leave the Heaven Gate dimension now that they could no longer find anything of value.

However, Qiu Heng failed to make any progress with the teleportation portal after consuming numerous valuable spiritual materials.

It was still as dim and lifeless as it had always been, and not a single thing about it had changed.

However, the moment Nie Tian descended from the heavens, the seven-colored light that had enveloped him seemed to instantly activate the teleportation portal, causing everyone's eyes to glitter with excitement.

Qiu Heng had badmouthed Nie Tian moments ago in a way as if he wished that Nie Tian had died in some distant universe.

If Nie Tian had actually died as he had expected, it would be very likely that they wouldn't have been able to start the teleportation portal and leave the place.

"If you don't know how to do it, you should have told us, so that we wouldn't have thrown away so many spiritual materials!" Hong Can from the Hell sect said with an unpleasant expression on his face.

Others also shot unfriendly gazes towards Qiu Heng, thinking that he was nothing but a big talker.

An Shiyi, who was standing right next to Qiu Heng, had a hearty smile on her face as she said, "I told you that nothing would happen to him. See? Isn't he safe and sound?"

"Sure." Qiu Heng answered, but he cursed in his heart, Little bastard!

While the teleportation portal gradually regained its function, Li Fan from the Cloudsoaring sect stepped towards Nie Tian and asked, "Where did you go? How come you were gone for three months?"

"Three months?!" Nie Tian was taken aback.

He had spent most of his time fighting and recuperating in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

When the fights were finally over, he had concentrated on absorbing the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth and using it to refine his spiritual sea.

In addition, whenever starlight poured out of the starry river, he had focused his mind on channeling it to his soul, where seven fragmentary stars eventually took shape.

Therefore, he had completely lost track of time, and didn't expect himself to have spent months in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

"Yes, three months and three days, to be exact." With these words, Li Fan's expression suddenly flickered. Eyes wide, he took another look at Nie Tian and asked, "Have you broken through into the middle Lesser Heaven stage?"

Nie Tian nodded softly and said, "Yes, you're right. I made the breakthrough right before I was taken out of here."

Li Fan was increasingly shocked as he asked, "So have you made more progress?"

Nie Tian grinned, "I think I'm only one step away from stepping into the late Lesser Heaven stage, and it's possible that I might make the breakthrough any moment now."

Li Fan was flabbergasted. "What good fortune did you get in the place you went to?"

With these words, he took note that the Heaven Sparks in the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of Nie Tian's hand were gone and a hexagram had taken their place.

Although he didn't know what the hexagram represented, he had a feeling that it had something to do with Nie Tian's good fortune.

Just as Nie Tian was about to elaborate to Li Fan, he glanced around and saw that people from the other sects were looking closely at them and listening attentively.

Apparently, each and every one of them was very curious about what had happened to him.

Hence, Nie Tian chuckled and didn't answer Li Fan's question. Instead, he asked, "What about you?"

He cast his gaze towards Jiang Lingzhu. "Did you find anything of value?"

"Of course!" Jiang Lingzhu tilted her chin as she said proudly, "I found a incantation on one of the meteors, and I also looted a special tool from an outsider body."

"Wow, good for you." Nie Tian smiled and shifted his gaze to An Shiyi, who was standing quite close to him, and asked, "What about you, sister?"

An Shiyi pursed her lips into a charming smile and said, "I've also made some gains. If there were no mishaps, I believe I'll be able to break through into the Greater Heaven stage soon after returning to the Realm of Flame Heaven."

All the others realized that Nie Tian had intentionally avoided the topic, and thus didn't say anything.

As a matter of fact, since they managed to survive till now, every one of them had made some gains, whether it be physically or mentally.

There were a large number of meteors in the region, and many of them carried secrets or valuable items, so they all gained something, although some more, some less.

It was just that none of them were willing to share their findings with others.

The powerful ones, who had approached the city when it was still emanating special energy, had absorbed numerous mysterious symbols into their Heaven Sparks.

Even though they had nothing to do with the Fragmentary Star Incantation, those symbols carried the profound truths of different types of power.

Moreover, all the symbols they had received matched perfectly with their cultivation attributes.

Therefore, the way they saw it, the magical symbols alone had made the Heaven Gate trial a worthy venture.

At that time, Hong Can from the Hell sect noticed that a gate of seven-colored light had gradually took shape in the center the portal. His expression flickered as he called out to the crowd, "If my speculations are correct, this ancient teleportation portal is probably linked to the Heaven Gate near my sect.

"The Heaven Gate trial is over! By stepping into the light gate, we'll probably be able to travel back to the Realm of Flame Heaven."

After a brief pause, he continued, "However, we don't know what the Realm of Flame Heaven is like now. Great changes might have already taken place there.

"Prepare yourselves, everyone. I think the portal will be activated for some time. Let's restore our strength to the fullest and enter at our peak state.

"I'm afraid that we'll face even bigger challenges when we come out the other end."

Upon hearing Hong Can's words, everyone's heart grew heavy, and their eyes were filled with uneasiness as they looked towards the light gate.

That included Nie Tian.

Before stepping into the Heaven Gate, he had already learned from the foreign Qi warriors that they had considered the Realm of Flame Heaven to be a piece of meat ready to be carved.

Aside from them, demon armies might also have swarmed into the Realm of Flame Heaven.

People from the Realm of Flame Heaven might have already been plunged into an abyss of misery, and fights could be taking place around every corner. As soon as they returned, they would very likely face the joint invasion of demons and foreign cultivators.

"Perhaps, we don't need to go back so quickly." Qiu Heng suddenly said in a soft voice.

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Upon hearing Qiu Heng's words, everyone subconsciously turned to look at him, and uneasiness could be seen in their eyes.

After being invaded by the Blood sect and Ghost sect, the Spiritual Treasure sect was now the weakest of the seven sects, and it had almost fallen out of the same league as the other six sects.

Since the Earth Flame Beast had broken free from the deepest parts of the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, the entire mountain range had undergone an upheaval, and the grand Heaven Burning Earth Flame formation, which the Spiritual Treasure sect's livelihood depended on, had also been completely destroyed.

That was why every disciple of the Spiritual Treasure sect had become anxious whenever they thought about their future.

Before entering the Heaven Gate, when Qiu Heng had learned that demons would descend upon the Realm of Flame Heaven, he imagined that the Spiritual Treasure sect would probably not have the ability to hold off their invasion now that the Heaven Burning Earth Flame formation was gone.

The reason why he wasn't so eager to go back to the Realm of Flame Heaven was that he worried that returning to his sect might put an end to his life.

He was truly terrified.

Although many of the others despised Qiu Heng, a few of them fell into silence after hearing his words.

They all believed that the Realm of Flame Heaven was in an abyss of suffering. Even worse, it might have been taken over by the demons already…

If that was the case, their returning now was none other than going to their own grave.

"What's the matter?" Hong Can from the Hell sect frowned as he looked at those who had lost their fighting spirit and said, "You all agree with Qiu Heng?"

Feng Luo snorted coldly and said, "The realm of Flame Heaven is in turmoil so it needs us now more than ever! We have to return as soon as possible! Without it, we'll be nothing but a handful of drifting ghosts. Each and every one of us was raised and favored by our sects. It's only right that we protect them when others want to take them away from us!"

Li Fan nodded in assent.

However, Zou Yi from the Ghost sect and Guan Gu from the Grayvale sect, together with a couple of others, still remained in silence.

After a while, Zou Yi suddenly said, "After the trial, some of us may now be on the verge of breaking through. I'd say it's better that we make the breakthrough here and return with more strength. From the way it looks, the teleportation portal is going to last for a while, so we still have some time before we have to go back to the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"We can use this period of time to draw enlightenment from our experiences over the past few months, and study the good fortune that we've obtained here.

"Perhaps, returning when our strength has reached a maximum would be a better choice. After all, that way we'll be able to contribute more.

"What do you all say?"

Zou Yi's gaze swept through the crowd.

Guan Qiu, Qiu Heng, and two disciples of the Mystic Mist sect nodded in assent.

Hong Can took a glance at them, and after a moment of pondering, he said, "Alright, let's take a while to adjust ourselves, but hurry. I'll keep an eye on the teleportation portal and remind you when it shows signs of running out of energy so that we can teleport back to our realm before the it closes."

"Ok, let's get started," said Feng Luo.

Everyone sat down by the side of the ancient teleportation portal. People from the same sect gathered into small groups and started contemplating their gains in the Heaven Gate trial.

Nie Tian sat with Li Fan and Jiang Lingzhu. Calming himself and narrowing his eyes, he used his psychic awareness to examine his spiritual sea.

Two vortexes of spiritual power, one vortex of flame power and one vortex of wood power, were rotating at a high speed within his spiritual sea.

It seemed that the misty, white spiritual power within them had already been refined to the fullest after numerous rounds of refinement, and he wouldn't be able to further refine it before his spiritual sea upgraded.

He was aware that he had reached a bottleneck, and given the right stimulation, he would instantly make the breakthrough and step into the next stage.

He continued to observe his spiritual sea as he took out a spirit stone. As soon as he started absorbing energy from it, he felt a strange sensation.

He looked down at the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of his hand.

The two hexagrams within the pattern started to shine with faint starlight.

Then, eyes wide, he looked up into the starry sky.

Countless stars were hanging high in the ice-cold starry river; some of them were glittering with bright light, while others looked rather dim.

Some stars seemed extremely distant and were only the size of grains, while others were the size of grapes.

He felt that the hexagrams had somehow interacted with those stars while he had examined his spiritual sea and meditated.

He looked at the stars with rapt attention and found that they seemed to shine brighter now, and he even felt that the starlight was slightly gathering towards him.

He wanted to channel the starlight into his soul, but when he cast the incantation, he couldn't feel any change in his soul.

On the contrary, a flash of starlight flashed across his spiritual sea, which was brimming with spiritual power.

"Yee?!" Surprised, he immediately shifted his focus from his soul to the sea of spiritual power in his dantian.

At that moment, he also realized that the two hexagrams on his hand had grown dazzlingly bright.

More and more starlight poured down from the ice-cold starry sky and converged on Nie Tian's hexagrams.

As he operated the Qi Refining Incantation, the starlight started to flow into his arms and gradually circulate through his entire body.

Before long, a small light spot was born in his spiritual sea and grew increasingly bright.

Deeply intrigued, Nie Tian concentrated his attention on his spiritual sea. While he observed the shining light spot, another one took shape next to it.

Immediately afterwards, his originally calm spiritual sea started to ripple with raging, huge waves, as if it all had been caused by those two tiny light spots that looked like stars.

The misty, white spiritual energy constantly rose and descended violently within his spiritual sea. As the two vortexes of spiritual power started to rotate at a unprecedentedly high speed, Nie Tian sense that more spiritual energy was allowed into his spiritual sea.

CRACKLE!

The spirit stone in Nie Tian's hand suddenly shattered into pieces, seemingly drained of its spiritual energy in a flash!

Without saying a word, Nie Tian took out six more spirit stones from his bracelet of holding; holding three in each hand, he started absorbing the energy within them.

After all, unlike the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, there wasn't even the slightest bit of the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in this place. Therefore, he had to used spirit stones if he wished to upgrade his spiritual sea.

At that moment, Li Fan, who had been contemplating beside him with his eyes closed, seemed to have felt something and snapped open his eyes.

Sitting next to him, Jiang Lingzhu also opened her eyes and looked at him with a surprised and confused expression on her face.

Both of them had sensed the violent energy fluctuations that Nie Tian emanated into the surroundings.

Li Fan's eyes glittered with a sharp light as he used his psychic awareness to examine the unusual spiritual power fluctuations. A moment later, he grinned and said, "This kid is indeed quite beyond ordinary."

He could tell that Nie Tian was currently on the verge of breaking through.

Jiang Lingzhu was taken aback. "Is he going to enter the late Lesser Heaven stage soon?"

Li Fan nodded and said in a soft voice, "I bet he obtained a good fortune in that mysterious place, way more than us. After disappearing for three months, he now seems like a totally different person. Although I don't know exactly what happened to him, I assume what he had gained in those three months will be life-changing for him!

"I think it's safe to say that, among all the trial takers, he gained the most fortune, and he's the biggest winner of the Heaven Gate trial!"

Shocked, Jiang Lingzhu didn't say anything in reply, but rather secretly glanced around, fearing that others might have overheard their conversation.

"Do we need to guard him while he cultivates?" She asked in a low voice.

Li Fan smiled and shook his head. "We would probably need to if it were before, but now it's a different time. I don't think we need to now. The Realm of Flame Heaven is probably at war with the wave of demons. Facing such great calamities, I believe the seven sects will stick together, at least for the time being. From what I can tell, that kid seems to have won acknowledgment from Hong Can, Feng Luo, and Zou Yi, and they all believe Nie Tian has the potential to become one of the strongest experts in all the realms. I doubt that they'll try to make a move on him."

"The speed this guy advances at is simply unbelievable…" Jiang Lingzhu sounded somewhat frustrated. "He was merely in the fourth level of the Qi Refining stage when I first met him. I would never have imagined that his cultivation base would surpass mine in such a short time."

Li Fan said with a slight smile, "I have to say martial granduncle is a perfect judge of talent."

It was also at that moment that a third vortex of spiritual power, together with a small vortex that was filled with starlight, appeared in Nie Tian's violently moving spiritual sea!

Afterwards, his turbulent spiritual sea rapidly returned to peace.

That was when he realized that he had made another breakthrough and stepped into the late Lesser Heaven stage.

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Pieces of broken spirit stones were scattered in front of Nie Tian.

Li Fan and Jiang Lingzhu both realized that he had made the breakthrough and since they didn't want to disturb him or attract others' attention, they stopped looking at him.

After glancing around, they discovered that the others were still contemplating or recuperating with spirit stones, and no one seemed to have noticed what happened with Nie Tian.

Only Yu Tong, who was sitting next to Feng Luo, looked over from time to time for unknown reasons.

Since she had considered Nie Tian to be her number one opponent, she never stopped thinking about having a fair fight with him someday.

Because of her repeated losses to him, he had become her mental devil, especially when every time he had defeated her, his cultivation base had been lower than hers.

That fact left her extremely frustrated.

"That guy used so many spirit stones. Don't tell me he made another breakthrough!" Yu Tong exclaimed in her heart, her eyes filled with deep hatred. However, a while later, her expression grew somewhat complicated.

When she had first met Nie Tian in the Heaven Gate trial, Feng Luo told her, after a brief examination, that Nie Tian had stepped into the middle Lesser Heaven stage.

The fact that Nie Tian had managed to break through into the middle Lesser Heaven and caught up to her stage had already been shocking to her.

No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't imagine what he had experienced in the past three months that led him to another breakthrough in his cultivation base in such a short time.

Nie Tian's rapid advancement had put her under great pressure, and she feared that it wouldn't be very long before the gap between their cultivation bases grew larger and larger.

"I won't fall behind! And I won't lose to you again!" Yu Tong gritted her teeth as a sense of competition rose in her heart.

Then she refrained from thinking more about it, and immediately submerged herself in cultivation.

WHOOSH!

After an unknown period of time, Nie Tian woke up from his cultivation and let out a mouthful of air.

By that time, there were three vortexes of spiritual power, one vortex of flame power, one vortex of wood power, and a vortex of starlight in his spiritual sea.

The six vortexes that contained different types of power rotated regularly and peacefully.

After the violent movements triggered by the spirit stones was over, his spiritual sea seemed to be ready for more expansion.

He could have taken more spirit stones out of his bracelet of holding and continued with his cultivation.

However, he had a feeling that the seven-colored light shooting out of the teleportation portal had become dimmer, which could be a sign that the energy was running out.

After all, the light had protected him and transferred him from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace back to this place, so a subtle connection had been born between them.

As expected.

Just as he was about to say something, the light gate in the middle of the ancient teleportation portal suddenly became twisted and blurry.

He realized he was right, and the portal really was running out of power.

At that same moment, Hong Can, who had been observing the teleportation portal, came to the same realization and called out, "Wake up, everyone!"

His shout woke everyone from their recuperation or meditation.

Hong Can's expression was very grim as he said, "We have to go now! Let's get into the portal one by one! And remember, prepare yourselves!"

Upon hearing his words, everyone sprung to their feet. Even Qiu Heng from the Spiritual Treasure sect didn't utter a word of objection.

After all, he also knew that when the seven-colored light went out and the teleportation portal ran out of power, whoever chose to stay would very likely be trapped in this dimension forever and would never return to the Domain of the Falling Stars again.

Since there was no life and no spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in here, he couldn't cultivate in this place.

With his current cultivation base, he couldn't possibly travel between dimensions. No matter how many spirit stones he had on him, he would run out one day.

When he did, even the cold wind alone would drain his power and kill him.

After realizing that he had no other choice, he looked back at An Shiyi and urged her to get in first with a cold tone, "Let's go!"

An Shiyi knew that her previous comments had angered Qiu Heng, so she said with no expression on her face, "Fine."

She even expected that Qiu Heng might secretly undermine her after they returned to the Spiritual Treasure sect.

However, since she had made quite significant gains in the Heaven Gate trial, she was confident that she would soon step into the Greater Heaven stage, and by that time, she wouldn't need to care how Qiu Heng felt any more.

"We disciples from the Hell sect will go first; the rest of you follow us!" After uttering these words with decisiveness, Hong Can took the initiative to enter the seven-colored light gate.

The other Hell sect disciples immediately followed him into it.

Back when he had descended from the palace, Nie Tian had searched the crowd for Zhao Haifeng.

The fact that he had killed Wu Tao, the guest elder from the Nie clan, in Black Cloud City made Nie Tian engrave his name in his heart.

He knew that Zhao Haifeng and Duan Yuan had both entered the Heaven Gate, therefore he had been secretly trying to find a chance to kill those two.

However, it seemed that foreign Qi warriors had gotten to them before Nie Tian could, and they had died in the trial like many other disciples from the seven sects.

He felt sorry that he couldn't avenge Wu Tao himself.

No matter what, the Heaven Gate trial had come to an end.

Since the seven sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven were joining hands in fighting their common enemies, and Zhao Haifeng and Duan Yuan were already dead, he decided to put aside his enmity towards the Hell sect.

At that moment, Nie Tian thought of Liu Yan's death and roared in his heart, "Tang Yang, I hope we'll meet again!"

Zhao Haifeng and Duan Yuan had died, but Tang Yang hadn't. Nie Tian made a promise to himself that he'd use his entire life to hunt down Tang Yang, even if it meant that he would have to kill him in the Realm of Dark Underworld.

Just as he was sorting through his thoughts, many others had already entered the light gate one after another.

He saw An Shiyi cast him a glance before entering, as if she wanted him to go with her.

However, under Qiu Heng's urging, she could only step into the gate.

"Let's go, Uncle Li."

Nie Tian decided not to wait any longer and stepped into the bright light gate.

Moments later, he disappeared into the light gate.

In the Blood sect's territory, the Realm of Flame Heaven…

A Heaven Gate that unceasingly radiated blinding light had taken shape over a distant mountain valley for a few days.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

One by one, a few figures whizzed out of the light gate and fell into the valley.

As soon as they flashed out of the Heaven Gate, the patterns on the back of their hands grew blurry before they completely vanished.

The Heaven Sparks within vanished with them, not even leaving the slightest trace.

Standing on the valley ground, Hong Can looked down at the back of his hand, which was now as clean as a blank piece of paper, and then looked up at the Heaven Gate in midair, pondering what had happened.

After obtaining a firm foothold on the ground, every trial taker noticed the changes to their Heaven Gate patterns that they had already grown used to.

"The Heaven Gate pattern is gone! The secret magics and incantations stored within the Heaven Spark are also gone!"

"What the hell?! What's going on!?"

"I should have spent more time sorting through the symbols and comprehending the mysteries within the Heaven Sparks in the Heaven Gate dimension!"

"Dammit!"

Looking at the back of their hands, many of them felt regretful and frustrated.

After all, all the fragments of the secret magics they had obtained from the dilapidated city had been stored in their Heaven Sparks.

Each and every one of them had found the magics perfectly agreeable with their cultivation attribute, and thus made significant gains when they learned the profound truths that lay within them.

However, all the things that they had cherished dearly disappeared in a flash.

They all found it hard to accept.

Seconds later, Nie Tian also flew out of the Heaven Gate. After landing close to An Shiyi, he smiled at her.

The same thing happened to him. The Heaven Gate pattern on his hand also vanished as soon as he flew out of the Heaven Gate.

However, the two hexagrams that were originally in his Heaven Gate pattern didn't vanish with it, but rather appeared in the middle of his chest, as if they were some kind of tattoos.

He examined them with his psychic power and found that the ancient symbols within the hexagrams were still intact and perfectly aligned, not a single one missing.

The first and middle parts of the Fragmentary Star Incantation were still written clearly within them.

Soon, everyone was out of the Heaven Gate, and everyone had lost their Heaven Gate pattern together with everything within them. Only he got to keep the hexagrams and the legacies within.

He was the special one.

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Feng Luo from the Blood sect glanced around. Face filled with confusion, he said, "Why are we here? Shouldn't we be somewhere outside of the Hell sect?"

He looked towards Hong Can.

Hong Can frowned, shook his head, and said, "I don't know. After all, this is the first time one of the Heaven Gates had opened in the Realm of Flame Heaven in centuries, and as far as I know, there aren't any records of the past Heaven Gates."

With a sigh, Feng Luo looked off into the direction of the Blood sect, expression filled with anxiety. "And we don't know what's happening in the Realm of Flame Heaven."

Normally speaking, since the Heaven Gate had showed up in this place, it was impossible that members of the Blood sect hadn't noticed it.

According to Feng Luo's speculation, the Heaven Gate probably had been here for some time. It probably had appeared when Nie Tian had returned and the seven-colored light merged with the teleportation portal, activating the light gate in the middle.

The Heaven Gate should have been here for however long they had spent recuperating beside the teleportation portal.

It didn't make sense that no one from the Blood sect had come after such a long time.

As he and Hong Can talked, the others gradually calmed down from the frustration of losing their Heaven Gate patterns.

Li Fan took a glance of Nie Tian's left hand and noticed that the Heaven Gate pattern on his hand had also disappeared.

He seemed to have expected it to be different for him, but said nothing.

After sensing that the two hexagrams had shifted to his chest, Nie Tian didn't plan to reveal it to anyone.

After all, it contained the most precious legacies that he had obtained from his trial in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

He didn't want others to raise questions, so he had joined them in mumbling something in frustration. After seeing that no one seemed to have seen through his little scheme, he finally felt relieved.

After all, the first and middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation were of great importance. If Hong Can, Feng Luo, and Zou Yi had learned that he had them, he didn't know for sure what they would do.

He knew he had to kept it a secret for the time being.

"What do you think we should do?" Zou Yi from the Ghost sect had a grim expression on his face as he asked. "Should we split up and return to our own sects or go to the Blood sect and see what information we can get from there?"

"Let's go to the Blood sect," Hong Can said. "I have a feeling that something is not right."

"Alright." The others also expressed their assent.

None of them want to be separated from the group and return to their sects before getting an idea of what was going on in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

If they did strike out on their own, they couldn't be sure what they would run into on their way back.

They could encounter either outsider demons or cultivators from the other realms. Whichever it was, they wouldn't be in a favorable situation if they traveled alone.

At that moment, Zou Yi called out to the crowd, sounding a bit frightened. "Look! Up in the sky!"

Everyone instantly looked up and saw a line of blackish-purple smoke flowing high in the sky like a river.

They had seen smoke like that floating above the Hell sect right before they had entered the Heaven Gate.

Back then, blackish-purple smoke like this had surged out of the network of numerous spacial rifts that had appeared near the Heaven Gate. The outsiders that had been bound by the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation had experienced a sudden boost in their strength as soon as they had absorbed the smoke. As a result, they had broken free from the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation and flown into the spacial rifts.

"Demon Qi!" Hong Can's expression flickered.

Then he explained to everyone, "Years and years ago, demon Qi once filled every corner of the Realm of Flame Heaven. Although the demon Qi shares the same origin as spiritual Qi, the biggest difference is that it's tainted with filth. Human Qi warriors can't cultivate with the demon Qi, and if they do, they will lose their minds and become the outsider demons' puppets.

"By the time the powerful human Qi warriors killed the majority of the outsiders and drove the survivors out of the realm, they used profound measures to purge the demon Qi and turn it into spiritual Qi that human Qi warriors could use.

"The outsiders, on the other hand, couldn't draw power from the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.

"That was why we could use the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation to trap those outsiders for so many years. Without the demon Qi, they had no source of power; meanwhile the formation constantly drained their flesh power and used it to power our sect's defensive system.

"Now that the demon Qi has appeared near the Blood sect, it must mean that…"

Hong Can glanced at the grim-faced Feng Luo and continued, "The Blood sect has been invaded by outsiders. Perhaps, numerous demons are roaming about in the Blood sect right now."

Feng Luo's face was very grim. He didn't say a word, but he inwardly agreed with Hong Can's speculations.

The moment he saw the river of blackish-purple demon Qi floating in the sky, he realized that the Blood sect had most likely been invaded.

With a concerned expression on his face, Qiu Heng from the Spiritual Treasure sect said in a soft voice, "Now that the Blood sect has been invaded, do we still go there? The Ghost sect is not far from the Blood sect. How about we go there instead?" Knowing that there was probably a swarm of outsiders in the Blood sect, all he wanted was to get as far from it as he could. He didn't want to get into fierce fights the moment he returned to the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Feng Luo let out a cold harrumph and said, "You do what you like! As a disciple of the Blood sect, I'll defend my sect with my life!"

With these words, he didn't even look at the others and dashed straight towards the Blood sect.

Yu Tong followed him as soon as he moved out.

At that time, Nie Tian realized that all the others had remained in place and didn't say anything.

After all, none of them were from the Blood sect, and they didn't have the spirit to die for it.

This was especially true of the disciples of the Spiritual Treasure sect, whose sect had been invaded by the Blood sect and Ghost sect. Numerous expressions flashed across Qiu Heng's face as he beckoned for An Shiyi to say something.

He wanted An Shiyi to express her unwillingness to go to the Blood sect.

However, An Shiyi completely despised him, so she ignored his urging gaze.

Upon seeing her reaction, Qiu Heng cursed her inwardly. However, since he couldn't do anything to her now, he could only secretly add it to his hatred towards her.

"We're still quite a distance from the Ghost sect. Who knows what we will run into on our way there." After a moment of hesitation, Hong Can made up his mind and said, "The disciples of the Hell sect will go to the Blood sect. The rest of you make your own choice."

With these words, he led the other Hell sect survivors to chase after Feng Luo.

Upon seeing Hong Can leaving with such determination, Zou Yi from the Ghost sect spoke up, "The Ghost sect had always fought side by side with the Blood sect. We have more reasons to stand together now that the Realm of Flame Heaven is stricken by great calamities! Wait for us, Brother Hong! Count the Ghost sect in!"

With these words, he led members of the Ghost sect as they also ran in the Blood sect's direction.

After all, the Hell sect, Ghost sect, and Blood sect had been in the same alliance. It was natural that the Ghost sect and Hell sect went to their aid when the Blood sect was in danger.

However, the Spiritual Treasure sect, Cloudsoaring sect, Grayvale sect, and Mystic Mist sect had been enemies with the other three sects.

Nie Tian didn't know what choice they would make at this moment.

"What do you guys say?" Li Fan asked in a manly voice.

Guan Qiu from the Grayvale sect pondered for a moment and said, "With Hong Can and those other guys gone, our strength is significantly weakened, and there's a long way ahead of us if we choose to return to our own sects. I think we should go with them and see what's going on in the Blood sect."

"That's what I think too," Li Fan agreed.

Shi Hang, the Greater Heaven stage expert from the Mystic Mist sect also nodded and said, "Agreed."

Li Fan turned to look at Qiu Heng, the only one who hadn't said anything. "What about you?"

"Well…" Qiu Heng smiled bitterly.

"Hmm. You do whatever you like." Li Fan didn't even wait for him to give an answer. He quickly turned to Nie Tian and Jiang Lingzhu and said, "Let's go."

"Wait. I'll go with you," An Shiyi suddenly called out and trotted to Nie Tian's side.

Seeing that An Shiyi had made her stance, Qiu Heng's face immediately sunk.

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"Bitch! Wait till we get back to the Spiritual Treasure sect! See how I'll deal with you then!" Anger filled Qiu Heng's cold eyes as he watched An Shiyi walk side by side with Nie Tian, talking and smiling.

At that time, the Heaven Gate in midair had already disappeared.

All the disciples from the other sects followed along after Hong Can and his fellow sect members had dashed off in the same direction as Feng Luo.

Qiu Heng was the only one left behind.

After inwardly cursing An Shiyi for a while, he looked up and saw the surging demon Qi. He couldn't help but start to feel terrified.

He was well aware that it was very unlikely that he could safely return to the Spiritual Treasure sect by himself.

Even if he ran into only one outsider on his way back, considering his cultivation base, he probably would end up killed.

After hesitating for a while, he let out a sigh and sped off after everyone.

Nie Tian marched side by side with An Shiyi behind Li Fan and the others. He turned to her and asked, "What's wrong with that guy? It seems that he doesn't like you very much. Isn't he a senior of the Spiritual Treasure sect? He should protect you and help you all the time, but why did he force you to do and say things that he was unwilling to?"

Actually, Nie Tian had long noticed the unpleasant look in his eyes since he came back from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace and landed in the teleportation portal.

Afterwards, he discovered that Qiu Heng had disagreed with everyone else in many occasions, and whenever they faced danger, he would do everything to keep himself safe.

He had behaved exactly the same when the others were determined to go to the Blood sect. However, he didn't have the courage to say his opinion, so he beckoned for An Shiyi to do it for him.

From what Nie Tian could tell, even though Qiu Heng had a rather high status in the Spiritual Treasure sect, he was small-minded and hard to get along with.

"Oh, him?" An Shiyi's slender eyebrows furrowed as she said in a low voice. "He's thinking the same thing Gang Kang did."

"Gan Kang!" Nie Tian suddenly realized what was going on and said, "So that's how it is…"

He had long since learned from An Ying what intentions Gan Kang had with An Shiyi and how he had tried to force her to marry him.

Now that An Shiyi told him that Qiu Heng harbored the same intentions as Gan Kang, Nie Tian immediately knew what kind of person he was.

He looked deeply towards An Shiyi.

She was wearing a long, rose-red dress, which brought out her curvaceous body. Every smile and move of hers was elegant, and her captivating eyes could easily sink any man.

She was in her prime, as beautiful as a blossoming flower, which many men wished to pick.

Being so charming, but not from a powerful family, no wonder men from the Spiritual Treasure sect pursued her all the time.

Nie Tian had long since heard that countless men from the Spiritual school and Treasure school drooled over her beauty, and many of them held lofty positions in the sect.

"Gan Kang is dead, and now comes this Qiu Heng person…" Nie Tian gave a snort and said, "If he dares to step over the line and mess with you, I'll make sure he goes to meet Gan Kang in hell!"

"Gan Kang is dead?" An Shiyi's jaw slightly dropped, rounding her red lips.

She only knew that Gan Kang had abandoned the Spiritual Treasure sect and disappeared from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range. She thought he had left the Realm of Flame Heaven and gone to the Realm of Dark Underworld with Lai Yi.

As long as Gan Kang was alive, he would always be a giant stone weighing down on An Shiyi's mind.

Especially now.

According to the foreign trial takers, powerful experts from the other realms had been plotting against the Realm of Flame Heaven and would surely invade, or already had.

The Realm of Dark Underworld was one of them.

An Shiyi had been worrying that Gan Kang would return to the Realm of Flame Heaven with powerful backers one day, and take her or force her to marry him again.

Therefore, upon hearing about his death, she was surprised and happy and also found it a bit hard to believe.

Nie Tian nodded and reassured her in a low voice, "Someone brought me his and Lai Yi's heads."

An Shiyi's deep eyes were wide as she looked at him, face full of disbelief. "Was it senior Wu Ji?"

"No." Nie Tian shook his head and didn't want to say anything about Hua Mu. "Anyways, you just need to know that Gan Kang and Lai Yi are both dead now."

"It's not senior Wu Ji?!" A light flashed across An Shiyi's eyes as she now found Nie Tian even more mysterious and unfathomable.

The one thing she was certain about Nie Tian was that he was a person of many secrets.

She had known Nie Tian for years.

When she had first met him, he was still a boy, a boy she found interesting, but after the tempering of the Green Illusion dimension trial and Heaven Gate trial, he had already grown to a burly young man, much bigger than other boys his age.

Aside from the physical changes, Nie Tian had also taken on a few qualities of a mature man.

Compared to before, he was more confident, determined, and daring. As his cultivation base advanced by leaps and bounds, he was now a powerful young Qi warrior.

For unknown reasons, An Shiyi now found him more like a real man now, a man who had saved her quite a few times and asked for nothing in return, giving her a sense of safety which she had never felt with anyone else.

"Interesting guy!" An Shiyi seemed carried away by her thoughts as she slightly bit her lower lip like a teenage girl.

At that moment, people in the front suddenly stopped.

Nie Tian and An Shiyi also came to a stop. After glancing around, they found themselves in the middle of a valley.

Gravel could be seen everywhere around them. Not far ahead of them, Feng Luo and Yu Tong's faces were grim as they stood in front of hundreds of dried-up, stone-made ponds.

All those ponds should have been filled with blood, which disciples of the Blood sect could use to cultivate.

However, not only was every single one of the blood ponds now empty, but they couldn't even find a single disciple of the Blood sect.

This place was very close to the gate of the Blood sect. Normally, disciples of the three Heaven stages could be seen here around the clock, tempering their body in the blood pond or practicing magics with the blood.

After seeing that Li Fan, Guan Qiu, and the others had also arrived, Feng Luo looked a bit surprised. "I didn't expect that you guys would come, but anyways, I, Feng Luo, want to thank you all for coming to the Blood sect at such a difficult time. If the Blood sect somehow lives through this calamity, we will surely come to your aid whenever your sects are in danger."

"No need to thank us," Li Fan said. "We're in the same boat now. We fought side by side in the Heaven Gate trial, and managed to kill those people from the other realms. I believe that as long as we stand as one, neither the outsiders nor the foreign Qi warriors will be able to take the Realm of Flame Heaven. We will persevere!"

Brow still deeply furrowed, Feng Luo nodded and said, "I hope you're right."

Hong Can from the Hell sect also had a grim expression on his face as he looked in the direction of the Hell sect's main gate and said, "From the look of it, the Blood sect had probably been attacked by the outsiders. I can sense that the demon Qi over at the gate of the Blood sect is very strong. It's just that, limited by my cultivation base, I can't tell if there are auras of outsiders within that Qi."

"Neither can I," Feng Luo let out a sigh and said. "The Blood sect definitely has been attacked. It's just that I can't tell how bad it was. After all, the era when outsiders walked this realm was too far from us, and thus we know nothing of them."

"However," Hong Can said worriedly, "what I can tell is that the demon Qi is gradually polluting the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the Realm of Flame Heaven. By the time that all the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the Realm of Flame Heaven has been polluted and turned into demon Qi, we will have an even smaller chance of winning this war."

"Damn them!" Jiang Lingzhu said angrily with a cold snort. "People from the other realms knew that outsiders would invade the Realm of Flame Heaven, but not only did they refuse to help us, they even wanted to get a piece for themselves!"

With a serious face, Hong Can said, "They have been drooling over our realm for a long time now. The Hell sect has been overseeing the Realm of Flame Heaven for centuries. We know what they've been thinking. Unfortunately, since our seven sects aren't strong enough, they never gave up the idea of taking the Realm of Flame Heaven."

BAM!

All of a sudden, a subtle sound rang out from under the valley ground they were standing on.

As soon as they heard the sound, Feng Luo and Yu Tong exchanged a look and strange lights could be seen in their eyes.

In the same moment, Nie Tian's heart began beating unusually as the sound echoed out.

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"What was that!?" Face filled with surprise, Li Fan subconsciously looked down at the ground under his feet and unleashed his psychic awareness to examine what was under there.

However, it only reached a position about thirty meters below the surface before it was obstructed by a layer of blood and couldn't go any further.

After hearing the strange sound, the others also unleashed their psychic awareness to scan the surroundings and ran into the same obstruction as Li Fan had.

None of them were able to detect what was under the ground.

"You're wasting your energy," Feng Luo said. "That layer of blood was established by our sectmaster. Considering your cultivation bases, none of you will be able to penetrate it with your psychic power."

BAM!

At that moment, another strange sound rang out from under the ground.

Feng Luo and Yu Tong's expressions looked increasingly intense, as if they knew something wasn't right.

"What's going on? One heartbeat echoing out every once in awhile is quite normal, but never have I experienced two heartbeats taking place so closely together." Feng Luo rubbed his chin as he looked blankly at the ground under his feet. He seemed to have forgotten the situation that they were facing and muttered to himself, "Something's wrong. It's been so many years and it has never behaved this way.

"Other than the occasional heartbeat, it hasn't showed any sign of life in so many years.

"Even the sect elders declared that it was a lost cause and abandoned it."

Yu Tong pondered for a moment and said, "Uncle Feng, could it be that the upheaval in the Realm of Flame Heaven caused changes to it?"

Nie Tian suddenly jumped in and said, "Someone once told me that the appearance of the Heaven Gate would give rise to many changes in the heaven and earth."

"Senior Wu Ji said that?" Feng Luo asked.

Nie Tian knew he had better not tell others about Hua Mu, so he said, "Yeah."

"Is it really caused by the drastic changes in the heaven and earth?" Feng Luo's mind drifted away for a moment before he suddenly turned to Yu Tong and said, "Do you have your master's Blood Spirit Pearl with you?"

"Yes, I do," Yu Tong answered. "My master feared that my cultivation base wasn't competitive enough for the Heaven Gate trial, and thus bestowed the Blood Spirit Pearl upon me."

"Your master has been guarding that thing the entire time," said Feng Luo. "Back when it was created, your master was one of the major spell-casters and the Blood Spirit Pearl played an important role. With the pearl you can summon it from underground."

After pondering the matter for a long time, Feng Luo took a deep breath and continued, "Little Tong, cast the spell. I want to see it."

"Ahhh?!" Yu Tong was taken aback. "Are you sure? I think it's better if we leave it be. If we actually awakened it, I'm afraid…"

"Don't worry." Feng Luo said. "We should be able to control it with the Blood Spirit Pearl. It's almost a fact that our sect has been invaded by outsiders. Perhaps, while we are talking, more outsiders are swarming into our sect. In such a special moment, even if it were awakened, it won't make the situation worse.

"As a matter of fact, if you could control it with the Blood Spirit Pearl, we might be able to use it to turn the situation around!" Feng Luo's eyes glittered with bright light.

Shock could be seen on Hong Can's face as he said, "Feng Luo, are you talking about that thing your sect acquired from another realm via our sect?"

Feng Luo nodded and said, "Yeah, exactly."

Hong Can continued, "Didn't your sect say that it was a terrible purchase and since that thing had run out of life force, it would never awaken again?"

"That's true," Feng Luo replied.

"So what's the matter now?" Hong Can asked. "Did that thing make those sounds just now?"

"Actually, I don't know what's going on," Feng Luo said with an embarrassed look on his face.

Intrigued, Nie Tian turned to Li Fan and asked, "What are they talking about?"

Li Fan shook his head as he also had no idea of what they were talking about.

At that moment, An Shiyi, who was standing beside Nie Tian, turned her head and said, "Aside from the numerous forbidden spells that the Blood sect disciples practice, they have another special technique, which is that they can create Blood Demons with different vessels. The vessel can be a human body or a body of other race. As long as the creature hasn't lost all its life force, they can use their secret magics to refine it and turn it into a Blood Demon that only answers their commands.

"I'm guessing there's a Blood Demon hidden underground.

"It's just that it seems that this Blood Demon isn't fully refined and awakened. Otherwise, people from the Blood sect would have used it to fight the invading outsiders already.

"That's probably the case." Li Fan agreed.

With an approving expression in his eyes, he looked at An Shiyi and said, "If you ever decide to leave the Spiritual Treasure sect, you're welcome to join the Cloudsoaring sect. Our sect isn't that complicated. If you come to our sect, I promise that you won't need to worry about others undermining you or forcing you to do anything."

With these words, Li Fan intentionally shot a glance at Qiu Heng, who just arrived.

Finally catching up to the crowd, Qiu Heng didn't hear their conversation about the Blood Demon, but he heard Li Fan's last sentence.

He, who was already in a bad mood, let out a snort but didn't say a word.

He was smart enough to realize that due to his previous statements and behavior, almost everyone currently had a rather low opinion of him.

He knew that if he dared to confront Li Fan at this moment, the chances were that he would become a target of public criticism again.

Therefore, he chose to bear Li Fan's insinuation.

"Many thanks!" An Shiyi bowed gracefully towards Li Fan and said sincerely, "Sure, if the day ever comes when I run into walls everywhere in the Spiritual Treasure sect and I have to leave, I'll consider joining the Cloudsoaring sect."

"You should know that betraying your sect is a serious crime!" Qiu Heng said coldly.

"I'll have my master ask for senior Fang Hui's approval first." Nie Tian interrupted and said. "I trust that he'll give face to my master."

Upon hearing these words, Qiu Heng's face turned even grimmer.

It was known to all that Wu Ji and Fang Hui were sworn friends, and Fang Hui's status in the Spiritual Treasure sect was even higher than the sectmaster's.

If Wu Ji personally asked for her, Fang Hui would definitely grant him the favor, which would make the process of An Shiyi joining the Cloudsoaring sect well-reasoned and smooth.

"Okay. Let me try." Yu Tong's voice echoed out.

At that moment, persuaded by Feng Luo, Yu Tong seemed a bit nervous as she took out the Blood Spirit Pearl from her bracelet of holding.

As soon as she held out the Blood Spirit Pearl, the entire valley was illuminated by the bright blood-colored light, as if someone had painted the valley with blood.

Numerous blood shadows could be seen within the Blood Spirit Pearl. They constantly shifted their position as if they were starting some kind of mechanism.

Yu Tong sat down on the ground and cupped the Blood Spirit Pearl with two hands as she used her psychic awareness to communicate with it.

After some time, numerous blood-colored threads suddenly shot out of the pearl before soon penetrating into the ground.

In the next moment, loud, scary rumbling sounds echoed out in the originally silent valley, and the dried-up stone ponds started to rapidly shift to the side, clearing out the center of the valley.

CRACKLE!

One after another, numerous gigantic stones seemed to be manipulated by a certain unknown power and rose up from under the ground, soon leaving a deep hole that was almost a hundred meters wide.

As soon as the stones rose up, an intense, bloody aura filled the air.

Upon catching a whiff of the aura, Feng Luo and Yu Tong both had intoxicated expressions on their faces, as if they could draw power from it.

On the other hand, everyone who wasn't from the Blood sect frowned and seemed disgusted upon smelling the bloody aura.

Only Nie Tian seemed to not be bothered by the pungent smell.

Perhaps it was because he had absorbed Yu Tong's blood strings and merged them with his own blood during their fight in the Green Illusion dimension.

Hong Can from the Hell sect stepped closer to the huge hole and, at first glance of what was under there, he exclaimed, "It's indeed that thing!"

The others also moved closer to the edge of the huge hole and looked down into it with curious expressions on their faces.

In the middle of the huge hole lay a skeleton that was more than thirty meters long.

There wasn't a single piece of skin or flesh to be seen on the pale-gray bones. However, a dense network of fine blood vessels could be seen on each and every bone, within which blood seemed to be flowing slowly.

A giant, grayish-brown heart was still beating inside of the ribcage.

The previous strange sounds must have come from this heart.

Aside from the fact that it was exceptionally large, the structure of the skeleton was almost the same as a human's. However, several sharp bones seemed to have grown out of its back and pierced into the bottom of the deep hole.

"A Bone Giant!!" Shi Hang's expression flickered as he hastily asked, "What level was it at before your sect got it?"

"The eighth level," Feng Luo replied.

Shi Hang from the Mystic Mist sect was flabbergasted. "Dear lord! How did you have the audacity to turn it into a Blood Demon?"

The strength of an eighth bloodline level Bone Giant was equal to that of a Soul realm human Qi warrior. However, the strongest Qi warriors in the entire Realm of Flame Heaven were only in the Profound realm.

If the Blood sect managed to turn it into a Blood Demon, but lost control of it, the Bone Blood Demon it became would very likely destroy the entire Realm of Flame Heaven!

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"Don't worry. It's still a failed project." With a calm expression on his face, Feng Luo urged everyone not to get too close to it and then turned to Hong Can and explained, "Normally speaking, the Blood Demons we create are slightly weaker than they were when they were alive. Even though this Bone Giant once was at the eighth level, at the most, it would only reach the seventh level if we ever manage to refine it successfully.

"The fighting power of a seventh level Blood Demon would be equal to a Profound realm Qi warrior. Therefore, even if it is awakened and somehow escapes from our hands, our sectmaster would be able to overtake it."

Hong Can frowned and said, "I hope you're right."

"I'll get down there and have a look!" Very carefully, Feng Luo jumped off of the edge of the huge hole and landed right next to the Bone Giant.

The Bone Giant was still emitting an intense bloody aura and upon a closer look, blood was indeed flowing within the numerous, fine veins that could be seen on every bone.

BOOM!

Another vigorous heartbeat echoed out from within the Bone Giant's heart, startling everyone who had been looking on by the edge of the huge hole.

Nie Tian's expression also slightly flickered.

Every time the giant, gray heart of the Bone Giant beat, Nie Tian's heart accelerated with it, as if his heart was influenced by it.

He unleashed a wisp of his psychic awareness to examine the Bone Giant.

He found that its whole body was emitting an extremely strong aura of flesh and blood, and because of that he could feel the terrifying power that was hiding within this huge body that looked like a skeleton.

However, for unknown reasons, even though the Bone Giant's heart was beating, there were no signs of it awakening.

Feng Luo looked into the Bone Giant's round eye sockets and found that there were two dark-green, lifeless jewels.

He circled around the Bone Giant before he unleashed a ray of bloody light, and upon contact with the Bone Giant, the light immediately bounced back as several rays of faint light.

Then, he climbed onto the Bone Giant's body and approached its chest area.

When he arrived, with rapt attention, he looked at the grayish brown, huge heart that was surrounded by numerous rib bones.

After some time, he shook his head and said, "Still no signs of life power."

"Life power?" Nie Tian was surprised and turned to Li Fan and asked, "I can sense that that Bone Giant is emanating strong fluctuations of flesh and blood. Is it only because it lacks life power that it can't be awaken?"

"Yes, you're right." Li Fan let out a sigh as he looked at him with a meaningful gaze and said, "Your master's time is about to come to an end. It's the life power that determines one's life span. So even if he still has a vigorous aura of flesh and blood inside of him, he will die anyways when his life energy runs out.

"It could be the case for this Bone Giant. Even though it's wreathed in a formidable aura of flesh and blood, since it has been drained of its life force, it can't be truly awakened.

"Life power is an extremely complicated energy. Just like the soul, it is another fundamental thing that separates all living creatures from the dead, so in case you run out of either of the two, that would mean you're dead."

"Oh, really…" Nie Tian rubbed his chin as his mind drifted away.

He had a faint feeling that the part of his bloodline power that he had yet to awaken was none other than the life power.

Even though he knew nothing of the life power, he had a feeling that his bloodline power would make his lifespan significantly longer than that of common human Qi warriors.

This meant that as long as he worked hard with his cultivation, he wouldn't need to face the problem that his master did.

And he wouldn't need to worry that he would die of age before his cultivation base could advance to the next stage.

Standing on the Bone Giant's rib cage, Feng Luo shook his head and said with a helpless look on his face, "What a pity. Life power is one of the most mysterious and profound powers in this world. This Bone Giant basically has every necessary thing but life power. If there's life power that we can use to stimulate it and vest it with new life force, I assume that we'll be able to actually awaken it.

"With the Blood Spirit Pearl, we'll be able to control it and use it to fight the invading outsiders.

"If we can do that, it will be like adding another Profound realm expert to our side, which could potentially change the situation over at the Blood sect."

With these words, Feng Luo lept out of the deep hole and was about to tell Yu Tong to use the Blood Spirit Pearl to reseal the hole with the huge stones.

After all, without life power, even though there was a slight anomaly in the Bone Giant's heartbeat, they wouldn't be able to truly awaken it.

He didn't want to waste more time in this place.

BOOM!

At that very moment, a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering sound echoed out from the Blood sect's direction.

Feng Luo's expression flickered as he looked towards the source of the sound with rapt attention and discovered that numerous clusters of blackish-purple demon Qi were descending from the heavens and converging on the Blood sect.

He could even vaguely see the outsiders figures and hear the outsiders' roars from within those demon Qi clusters.

"The grand Blood formation has probably been breached!" Yu Tong's face turned pale with fright as she hastily said. "We have to get over as fast as possible. The breaching of the grand formation means that outsiders are now able to roam about in the sect without any restrictions. We have to stop them!"

Everyone else had noticed the grim expressions on Yu Tong and Feng Luo's faces.

Qiu Heng from the Spiritual Treasure sect shrugged, his eyes filled with fear and reluctance.

He had anticipated that a huge upheaval would strike the Blood sect, but after hearing that the Blood sect's grand spell formation was torn open, he felt increasingly uneasy.

Various expressions flashing across his face, he pondered whether he should get away while he still had the chance.

"Dammit!" Feng Luo said with a begrudging tone. "If we can somehow awaken and manipulate the Bone Giant, we would undoubtedly provide vital assistance to my sect!"

Nie Tian's eyes shone with a bright light. "All it lacked was life power…"

An idea suddenly came to him: even though he hadn't fully awakened his life power, there might be some of it in his blood!

It occurred to him that he had been able to completely heal the numerous puncture wounds on his body soon after his fight, not leaving a single scar.

Compared to normal humans, his healing ability was frighteningly exceptional.

He was certain that it had something to do with the life power that was hiding deep within his blood.

He believed that only the mysterious life power would be able to achieve that.

Therefore, since his blood carried life power, if he could somehow put his blood into the Bone Giant's grayish brown heart, he might be able to provide it with the only thing it lacked and turn it into the Blood Demon that the Blood sect had been racking their brains to create for years.

Even if it could only be awakened for a short period of time, as long as Yu Tong could control it, they would still inflict serious damage to the outsiders!

"Wait a moment!" With these thoughts in mind, Nie Tian stopped Feng Luo and under everyone's confused gazes, he jumped into the deep hole in the ground.

Expression flickering, Yu Tong, who was going to use the Blood Spirit Pearl to reseal the huge hole, said angrily, "What the hell are you doing? What wicked plans do you have now?!"

"Nie Tian! What are you doing?" Li Fan also called out to him.

Jiang Lingzhu and An Shiyi were also surprised by Nie Tian's behavior and wondered what he was going to do this time.

Face dead serious, Feng Luo shouted, "Get out of there now!"

However, Nie Tian completely ignored their urging and rapidly climbed onto the Bone Giant's body. Seconds later, he arrived at its chest area where Feng Luo had been moments ago.

Under his feet was the Bone Giant's huge, grayish-brown heart.

"Give me some time." Face grim, Nie Tian took out a dagger from his bracelet of holding and sliced open the tip of his right middle finger.

He held it down right above the giant heart and let his blood drip onto it.

PLOP! PLOP! PLOP! PLOP!

One after another, the blood drops dripped onto the heart, and as soon as they did, the heart rapidly absorbed them like a dry sponge.

After absorbing several dozen drops of Nie Tian's blood, the heart started beating at a frequency much higher than before.

Furthermore, the Blood Demon's dark-green, lifeless eyes started to flicker with a faint light.

At that moment, Nie Tian felt some discomfort as it seemed that he had lost a significant amount of his flesh and blood essence.

He stopped and looked down at the Blood Demon, eyes brimming with anticipation.

WHOOSH!

A blood shadow that was significantly bigger than the others suddenly appeared within Yu Tong's Blood Spirit Pearl.

"Bone Blood Demon!" Yu Tong exclaimed with an disbelieving expression on her face.

"You've awakened the Bone Blood Demon!" Eyes wide, Feng Luo looked at Nie Tian with a flabbergasted expression on his face, as he was terrified by Nie Tian's achievement.

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The light that shone out of the Bone Blood Demon's bizarre-looking eyes made everyone present nervous and uneasy.

Cupped by Yu Tong's slender fingers, a blood figure that was significantly larger than the others appeared within the Blood Spirit Pearl, which clearly had a connection with the Bone Blood Demon.

There was no need for Feng Luo and Yu Tong to say anything; everyone else realized that the Bone Blood Demon was gradually awakening.

Feng Luo had stated that the only thing that had been keeping the Bone Giant from awakening was that it lacked life power, and only by solving that problem would they be able to restore life to it and turn it into a Bone Blood Demon.

However, just by dripping some of his own blood onto the giant's heart, Nie Tian managed to restart its heart and restore it to an awakened state!

As everyone looked towards Nie Tian, their eyes were full of disbelief, as they now found Nie Tian unfathomable.

As Nie Tian climbed out of the deep hole and returned to Li Fan's side, Li Fan asked with a low and serious voice, "What did you do? How come you were able to awaken the Bone Blood Demon with your own blood?"

Both Jiang Lingzhu and An Shiyi also looked at him from the side, their eyes filled with curiosity.

Further to his side, Yu Tong, who was still holding the Blood Spirit Pearl with her hands, also had a strange look in her devilish, yet beautiful eyes.

At that moment, Nie Tian suddenly came to realize that he might have behaved a bit too rashly, and now felt regretful.

Originally, the secret within his bloodline was only known to Hua Mu. Even he didn't know much about it himself.

Perhaps it was because he was too eager to test out the mysteries of his bloodline, or to reverse the situation that the Realm of Flame Heaven was in, that he didn't think too much before dripping his own blood into the Bone Blood Demon's heart.

He didn't expect that his blood would actually infuse the Bone Blood Demon with new life power, and now it actually showed signs of awakening.

He realized that its awakening was great news to the Blood sect.

However, he had ignored the fact that he might unveil the secret regarding his bloodline by doing that.

After a brief hesitation, Nie Tian explained, "Well, I was taken to a mysterious palace during the three months that I was gone, where it grew fruits that contained rich life power. I ate one of them. And afterwards, I felt as if I had been vested with another kind of power.

"However, I soon found myself losing the new power bit by bit. So I figured it won't be long before I lose it completely anyway. I might as well try to awaken the Bone Blood Demon by giving it some of my blood. After all, that life power didn't belong to me and didn't seem to do me any good.

"I didn't expect that it would actually work. I was surprised, too."

Upon hearing Nie Tian's words, Hong Can's expression flickered as he said, "Don't tell me that you ate a Fruit of Life?"

"What?" Nie Tian went blank for a moment.

He was surprised that Hong Can took his falsehood so seriously and actually thought of this kind of fruit. He found it very amusing. "It must have been the Fruit of Life that I ate!"

Hong Can took a deep breath and with a incomparably serious expression he said, "I heard that the Fruits of Life grows on a Tree of Life.

And by eating one Fruit of Life, any living creature would be able to greatly enhance their life power and lengthen their lifespan by a great extent!

"For example, your master Senior Wu has been troubled by his lifespan problem, since without further replenishment of his life span, he won't be able to advance into the Soul realm before his time runs out.

"If he can get a Fruit of Life, he would be able to extend his lifespan for another several hundred years. With the newly acquired time, given his profound wisdom, he would undoubtedly make new understandings and step into the Soul realm!

"However, the Fruits of Life are too rare in the Domain of the Falling Stars, much less the Realm of Flame Heaven. They are merely a legend to us."

Then, Hong Can said with a envious tone, "Kid, you are truly so damn lucky that you even got to eat a Fruit of Life in the Heaven Gate trial! It was the life power in the Fruit of Life that dispersed into your blood, and by dripping your blood onto the Bone Giant's heart, you infused it with life force and awakened it.

All the others fell into an uproar upon hearing that Nie Tian had eaten a mysterious treasure called the Fruit of Life. Each one of them had an envious expression on their face.

"The Fruit of Life?!"

"He actually had a Fruit of Life?!"

"This kid can't get any luckier, can he?!"

"With one Fruit of Life, he would gain another several hundred years of life! With that large amount of time, if he doesn't give up cultivating, he will eventually reach the peak of cultivation."

"Wu Ji sure is a perfect judge of talent!"

"Dammit!" Qiu Heng from the Spiritual Treasure sect snarled in his heart. "He actually obtained a Fruit of Life?!"

"Uncle Feng! I, I'm afraid that I won't be able to control it any more!" At that moment, Yu Tong's voice suddenly echoed out, her Blood Spirit Pearl-holding hands shaking nonstop. She felt that soon she would be taken over by the violent fluctuations that originated from the Blood Spirit Pearl.

From the way she looked, it was as if the Blood Spirit Pearl had become as heavy as a mountain and she was about to drop it.

The sizable blood shadow in the Blood Spirit Pearl was madly twisting and wiggling, and it seemed that it wouldn't be long before it broke out of the pearl.

Feng Luo's face turned pale with fright as he instantly shifted to Yu Tong's side. Without uttering a single word, he pressed his palm against Yu Tong's back.

Nie Tian could vaguely see that numerous threads of blood-colored light flowed out of Feng Luo's palm and into Yu Tong's back.

However, it didn't seem that Yu Tong could better control the Blood Spirit Pearl even after receiving a supplement in her power. The blood shadow within was still madly stampeding, seemingly eager to break free of its confinement.

"Hmm?" At that moment, Nie Tian noticed that numerous light rays started to interweave within the Bone Blood Demon's pupils as they grew increasingly bright.

At the same time, the blood inside of the fine veins all over the Bone Blood Demon's body started to flow at a faster speed.

An extremely dangerous aura flowed out of the Bone Blood Demon and filled the air in the vicinity, making everyone observing from the edge of the hole tremble with fear.

After all, this Bone Blood Demon possessed the eighth level bloodline power. In case it was fully awakened, even though there would be a dip in its power, it would still be as powerful as a Profound realm human Qi warrior.

However, the strongest person among them all was only in the middle Greater Heaven stage.

If they ever lost control of the Bone Blood Demon, every one of them would be eliminated within one breath.

Feng Luo didn't stop passing his flesh power onto Yu Tong as he said, "Nie Tian, you are the one who bestowed life power upon the Bone Blood Demon. Why don't you think of way for us to make it follow our commands?" However, it seemed that it weren't going to solve the problem, and with Yu Tong's current strength, she wouldn't be able to bring the Bone Blood Demon under her control anyways.

Since he had witnessed Nie Tian work miracles more than one time during their Heaven Gate trial and that it was Nie Tian who had awakened the Bone Blood Demon, he counted on Nie Tian to turn the situation around.

"Me?" Nie Tian smiled bitterly. Not knowing a thing about the Blood sect's forbidden techniques, he racked his brains but still couldn't come up with a way to calm the Bone Blood Demon.

He could only send a wisp of his psychic awareness into the Bone Blood Demon's body and see if he could find something.

As soon as his psychic awareness left him, he was suddenly stricken by a strange feeling.

He had a feeling that there was a discarnate soul in the surrounding heaven and earth, which seemed to be attracted to him.

Simultaneously, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The Bone Blood Demon's madly beating heartbeat and Nie Tian's suddenly seemed to have synchronized at this moment!

The Bone Blood Demon, who had bones as sharp as blades protruding out of every joint, began to stir its limbs.

Before long, it gradually sat up straight and rose to its feet.

The few giant bone protrusions that had grown out of its back shone with a suffocating light. They seemed so hard and sharp that no shield or armor would be able to stop them.

All of a sudden, its dark-green, unfathomable eyes fixed on the Blood Spirit Pearl in Yu Tong's hands.

The discarnate soul in the Blood Spirit Pearl immediately flew out of the pearl and into its pupils.

WHOOSH!

In the next moment, the Bone Blood Demon that was at least thirty-meters tall abruptly jumped up into the air before landing right in front of Nie Tian with a loud crash.

Upon landing, its gigantic feet slightly sank into the ground filled with stones, as if they were as fragile as a piece of tofu in its presence.

Its dark-green eyes looked down on Nie Tian. From the look of it, it could only detect an aura on Nie Tian that made it feel comfortable.

The aura originated from the life power within Nie Tian's heart and the blood that was running throughout his body, and it was the same life power that had vested it with new life force and brought it back to life!

Upon seeing the discarnate soul flying out of the Blood Spirit Pearl and into the Bone Blood Demon, Nie Tian had a strange feeling that the monster that the Blood sect had spent countless efforts to refine only had a sense of recognition and dependency towards himself.

"Get away from it!" Li Fan's expression flickered as he called out. He grabbed Jiang Lingzhu with one hand and An Shiyi with another and pulled the two of them away from Nie Tian.

People from the other sects also had their eyes fixed on Nie Tian and the giant demon as they stepped back away from them.

"Nie Tian! What are you doing with our Bone Blood Demon?!" Yu Tong yelled at him, her eyes wide.

"Calm down!" Feng Luo held her and stopped her from rushing towards Nie Tian.

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At that moment, everyone could tell that even though the Blood sect had expended a lot of effort on this Bone Blood Demon, it seemed that it only recognized Nie Tian now.

It stepped to Nie Tian's side and stood still, as if it was his faithful guard.

Yu Tong burst into a rage; she knew perfectly well how much effort her sect had expended to refine this special Blood Demon.

When this Bone Giant with an eighth level bloodline power had been brought to the Blood sect, it had been considered a vital project through which they would be able to make a breakthrough in their demon refining techniques.

In the following years, the entire Blood sect had almost stretched their resources to the limit for this Bone Giant, including using all kinds of precious spiritual materials and countless barrels of spirit beast blood.

Several powerful demon refining experts of the Blood sect had worked day and night on the Bone Giant, even to the extent of neglecting their own cultivation.

However, it eventually ran out of life power anyways and failed to turn into a Blood Demon.

But after having expended endless hours and resources on it, the Blood sect hadn't completely given up on it and hoped that one day they would overcome the problem of its life power and thus awaken it and turn it into a powerful tool of the Blood sect.

Yu Tong never imagined that the Blood Demon that her sect had poured their heart and soul into would eventually end up in Nie Tian's pocket.

She found it almost impossible to accept!

BOOM!

It was at that moment that more loud sounds that shook the land and rocked mountains rang out from the direction of the Blood sect.

ROOOOAR!

Immediately after that, an ear-piercing roar seemed to ring out from the same location.

Faces filled with terror, everyone turned around to look.

Moments later, they saw a blackish-purple, ten-meter-tall outsider demon charging towards them along with a mass of demon Qi.

Even though the outsider wasn't able to travel in the air, every lunge it took could cover several dozen meters.

It closed in rapidly on Nie Tian and the others while holding a gigantic spiked club with its veiny, sturdy arms. As it neared, it unleashed more and more demon Qi into its surroundings.

It seemed that the outsider had sensed fluctuations of Qi and blood in this area and, realizing that there were humans in the area, immediately rushed here.

As soon as it appeared, the constantly spreading demon Qi in the sky moved along with it and descended towards Nie Tian and the others like clusters of blackish-purple clouds.

Upon seeing the outsider, Qiu Heng's face immediately turned ghastly. "An outsider demon!"

He subconsciously flinched and wanted to get away from this place as soon as possible, since he didn't want to fight the fierce outsider to the death.

"Prepare to fight!" Hong Can roared.

Nie Tian instantly felt the tension. His gaze was fixed on the approaching outsider as he secretly readied himself for the upcoming fight. A strong killing intent could be seen within his eyes.

As soon as he focused his killing intent on the outsider, the Bone Blood Demon beside him dashed towards it without even the slightest hesitation.

SHEW!

The thirty-meter tall Bone Blood Demon suddenly shot out like an arrow, and arrived in front of the outsider in a flash.

ROOOOAR!

Upon seeing the Bone Blood Demon gaining on it at such a fast speed, the outsider let out a strange shriek.

However, its shriek didn't last very long before it suddenly came to a stop.

At that moment, the Bone Blood Demon's five, razor-sharp fingers had already pierced into the outsider's heart.

The Bone Blood Demon had punctured the outsider's heart with one strike.

Its dark-green pupils glittered with bright light, but not a trace of expression could be seen on its bony face.

Afterwards, it lifted its arm with ease and raised the outsider high into the air.

Then, it reached out its other bony hand and thrust it into the outsider's abdomen. After that, it pulled both its arms to the sides and ripped the ten-meter long outsider body in half.

Blackish-purple blood immediately spewed out of the outsider and poured down like a rain, filling the space they were in.

Bathed in the rain of blood, the Bone Blood Demon's dark, deep eyes shone brighter and brighter.

Meanwhile, the blood falling onto its body rapidly seeped into its bones and entered the fine veins and meridians that could be found on every piece of bone.

The aura that the Bone Blood Demon radiated into the surroundings grew increasingly bloody and vigorous, as if it had just obtained new power from the outsider it just killed.

CRACKLE!

The dead outsider's body dropped to the sides. Standing in a pool of blackish-purple outsider blood, the Bone Blood Demon's giant, bony feet seemed to be still absorbing the blood.

Numerous spots that glittered with a dark luster floated to the surface of the blood pool before soon disappearing into the Bone Blood Demon's vein-filled foot bones.

A wave of even stronger aura rippled out of the Bone Blood Demon, and when it spread to everyone around it, each and every one of them had frightened looks in their eyes.

Feng Luo from the Blood sect stared blankly at the Bone Blood Demon and said, "This… this is unbelievable! It can actually use blood refining techniques to absorb flesh power from its enemies' blood! I don't think the other Blood Demons our sect created had this kind of skill, did they?"

Yu Tong was also flabbergasted as she said, "It's at least two levels higher than any other Blood Demon that our sect has created. My master and many others performed numerous experiments on it. I'm afraid that this Blood Demon will…" Yu Tong's voice trembled and her eyes were filled with fear and worry.

"I can't believe it managed to tear apart an outsider so effortlessly. This Bone Blood Demon is truly awesome!" Nie Tian was also secretly shocked.

Since there was still a subtle connection between his psychic awareness and the Bone Blood Demon, he could faintly sense that ever since the Bone Blood Demon had been awakened, its life power was on the decline.

It seemed that the several dozen drops of blood were far from enough to provide it with life power and lifespan over a long period of time.

He had the feeling that it wouldn't be very long before the Bone Blood Demon ran out of its life power and fell into a deep slumber.

However, upon a brief examination of himself, Nie Tian found that he had already lost quite a bit of his energy.

After all, he was only in the Lesser Heaven stage and his bloodline power hadn't been fully awakened yet.

The life power in his blood was still quite faint, far from enough to power a creature that had run out of its lifespan, even if he were willing to offer more of his own blood.

After realizing this point, Nie Tian said, "Senior Feng Luo! I'm afraid this Bone Blood Demon won't remain active for a long time. I think it's slowly burning its life power away. Let's bring it to the Blood sect and let it kill as many outsiders as it can!"

Feng Luo snapped out of his thoughts and said, "You're right! Follow me!"

He even forgot to say anything to the others, including Yu Tong, as he dashed straight towards the sect gate of the Blood sect.

He also knew in his heart that the life power Nie Tian had given the Bone Blood Demon probably wasn't enough to keep it active forever.

Furthermore, the devastating power the Bone Blood Demon had displayed make him fearful and excited at the same time. Therefore, he was very eager to use it to kill as many outsiders as they could before it fell into a deep slumber again.

WHOOSH!

At his fastest speed, Nie Tian dashed towards the Blood sect after Feng Luo.

The more than thirty meters tall Bone Blood Demon only needed to move its bony legs at a low speed to keep up with the two of them.

Even though Nie Tian didn't send out commands of any sort, it ran after Nie Tian, simply following his aura.

Since its soul wasn't as complete as those of living beings, it wasn't very intelligent, and it was basically only following its instincts.

After Nie Tian and Feng Luo had left, the rest of the group remained standing in their original location, aghast and yet to recover from the overwhelming scenes.

The Bone Blood Demon had killed the outsider so quickly that they didn't even realize it when the fight was over and the outsider was torn in half.

The fact that the Bone Blood Demon killed their enemy and followed Nie Tian made it clear to them that it answered Nie Tian's commands.

Having control over such a powerful creature, Nie Tian, who was only in the Lesser Heaven stage, undoubtedly had a fearful killing machine at his command.

With this weapon of mass destruction, Nie Tian would have become invincible if the Realm of Flame Heaven hadn't been invaded by outsiders.

If Nie Tian eventually brought this Bone Blood Demon to the Cloudsoaring sect, their strength would be greatly enhanced and they would easily surpass all the other sects, with the Hell sect as the only exception.

"Nie Tian! Give back our Bone Blood Demon!"

Seeing that the Bone Blood Demon had effortlessly torn apart a giant outsider and sped away after Nie Tian, Yu Tong was so outraged that she felt like puking blood.

Then, she also sped away in the direction that Nie Tian had left in.

She still couldn't accept the fact that Nie Tian had so easily taken away something that her sect had spent years of effort and countless resources on.

"Let's go! Follow Nie Tian!" Hong Can didn't bother with Yu Tong's behavior, but rather his spirits were lifted after seeing what the Bone Blood Demon had done, and thus urged everyone else to move out.

"Move out! To the Blood sect!" The formidable power of the Bone Blood Demon seemed to have suddenly given everyone enough courage to not be afraid of the invading outsiders.

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WHOOSH!

An outsider covered in black scales, with a horn growing out of its jaw, suddenly popped up from behind a mountain.

Without any hesitation, it rushed towards Feng Luo with a fierce roar.

As it did, clusters of purple-black demon Qi shot towards him as well, like plummeting meteors.

Only moments later, Feng Luo was submerged by the demon Qi. He formed a shield of blood-colored light to hold off the attack of the demon Qi.

He knew very well that once the demon Qi found its way into his body, he would lose consciousness and fall victim to the outsider.

The outsider that had black scales from head to toe laughed in a sinister fashion while the curved horn that grew out of its jaw shone with purple light.

Nie Tian, who was not far behind Feng Luo, saw what happened and, pointing at the outsider, issued a command to the Bone Blood Demon beside him. "Go!"

As soon as he focused his killing intent on the outsider, the Bone Blood Demon made it its target.

The Bone Blood Demon, who was almost twice as tall as the outsider, strode towards the outsider, and before it could even respond, the Bone Blood Demon had already reached out its hands, which resembled two unstoppable blades and thrust them towards the outsider's chest.

FIZZ!

Before its bony hands reached the outsider, numerous beams of blood-colored light shot out of its hands, blowing off the black scales that had been covering the outsider's chest.

The outsider's torso immediately became a bloody mess, and without any protection, its blackish-purple flesh was shown.

Screaming, the outsider attempted to grab the Bone Blood Demon and bite it with its teeth. However, with a heave, the Bone Blood Demon once again ripped the outsider apart with its bare hands.

As soon as the outsider's blood sputtered onto its body, its dark eyes began to flicker with a strange light, as if it were trying to use the Blood sect's blood refining magic to extract and absorb the essence within the outsider's blood.

The raging demon Qi gradually dispersed and, enveloped by a blood-colored light shield, Feng Luo noticed that the Bone Blood Demon had already torn apart the outsider. With gratitude in his eyes, he briefly nodded towards Nie Tian.

He was well aware that the level of the outsider seemed to be even higher than his.

If it weren't for the fact that Nie Tian had commanded the Bone Blood Demon to help him, he probably would have been suffocated by the demon Qi and soon fallen prey to the outsider.

"Nie Tian! Give our Blood Demon back!" Yu Tong screamed as she arrived in a blood-red dress that brought out her curvy frame.

"Not now, Little Tong!" Feng Luo let out a snort. With a weary expression on his face, he said, "We need the Bone Blood Demon to save our sect. We couldn't have awakened it without Nie Tian and arguing about who it belongs to is not our priority. We should consider ourselves lucky now that we can use it to help us.

"Especially in this time of peril!"

His tone grew increasingly stern as he continued, "Huge calamities have stricken the entire Realm of Flame Heaven. If my speculations are correct, every sect is under attack as we speak!

"The fact that Nie Tian awakened the Blood Demon is not only the Blood sect's fortune, but it's also the entire Realm of Flame Heaven's fortune!"

"That's right." Hong Can from the Hell sect also arrived at that time.

He leaned in and said, "Yu Tong, I hope you can put aside your grudge against Nie Tian for the time being. At least wait until the Realm of Flame Heaven is safe. Everyone in the Realm of Flame Heaven needs him, none more so than your sect!"

Zou Yi from the Ghost sect also jumped in and said, "Hear me out, Yu Tong. You have to understand what's better for your sect and make the right choice."

They all urged Yu Tong to look at the bigger picture and temporarily put away her personal feelings.

Standing off to the side, Nie Tian rubbed his nose and smiled, not saying a word.

Seeing that Nie Tian looked rather proud of himself, Yu Tong grew even more angry. However, facing everyone's urging and scolding, she could only bear with it for now.

As a matter of fact, she never expected that she would end up in the position that she was currently in.

Not only had Nie Tian repeatedly defeated her in the Green Illusion dimension and the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, he had even daringly taken advantage of her. This had made her want to kill him at any cost.

Originally, Feng Luo was her solid backer.

However, now that the Realm of Flame Heaven was going through a difficult time, and due to Nie Tian's importance, Feng Luo had actually taken Nie Tian's side. Even the Ghost sect and the Hell sect had done the same.

She was so enraged that she wanted to kill herself.

"Alright, alright. Just don't do it again." Feng Luo saw Yu Tong's expression, so he stopped berating her and said a few words to lighten her mood. He turned to Nie Tian and said, "Keep doing what you just did and unleash the Bone Blood Demon as soon as you see more outsiders. Since we don't know how long the Bone Blood Demon will remain active, we'd better make every second count and inflict as much damage on the outsiders as we can!"

"Okay, I will." Nie Tian nodded.

Hong Can chuckled as he expressed his admiration towards Nie Tian, "I realized that you were a special lad when we were in the Heaven Gate trial. I believe that you'll have your position in the Realm of Flame Heaven one day."

"I'm flattered. Thank you!" Nie Tian replied, but he didn't take Hong Can's words to his heart.

"Shall we continue?" Feng Luo asked.

Nie Tian nodded. "Let's go!"

With these words, Feng Luo once again moved out. Nie Tian and the Bone Blood Demon followed along closely.

After that, they ran into a few more outsiders on their way to the Blood sect's sect gate.

With no exception, all of them died by the Bone Blood Demon's hands and afterwards, it used blood refining techniques to absorb the power from their blood.

Even though the Bone Blood Demon's life power was still on the decline, the aura it released into the surroundings grew increasingly terrifying.

Before long, Nie Tian and the others arrived at the Blood sect's sect gate.

Standing a certain distance from the gate, they saw that the entire Blood sect, which was surrounded by mountains from every direction, had already been submerged in dense demon Qi, and so they couldn't get a clear view of what was going on inside the gate.

However, the outsiders' angry roars constantly echoed out of the cloud of demon Qi, and they could vaguely see a handful of gigantic figures ramming the sect gate.

Standing in the middle of the road that led to the Blood sect, Feng Luo looked deeply at the demon Qi-wreathed sect gate.

The road ahead had already been blocked by dense demon Qi. Therefore, if they wanted to get into the Blood sect, they would have to go into the demon Qi.

However, he knew that the demon Qi, which could serve as the outsiders' power source, was very much deadly to human Qi warriors.

Even if they didn't have to fight outsiders in the demon Qi and only needed to pass the demon Qi-covered area, they would still have to spend plenty of spiritual power to resist the demon Qi.

As soon as they walked into the demon Qi, it would be very likely that their senses would become impaired and their psychic awareness become dulled.

ROOOOAR!

Another outsider roar rang out from the depths of the demon Qi-covered area, causing everyone's face to turn grim.

"What should we do?" Zou Yi from the Ghost sect unleashed his psychic awareness to probe the demon Qi-covered area in front of them.

Moments later, his expression flickered and said, "There are at least seven outsiders roaming about a hundred meters ahead of us, and every one of them is at a rather high level. If we choose to go into the demon Qi, there's a chance that we will be torn into shreds and devoured by those outsiders before we can even get to the sect gate."

Meanwhile, Nie Tian didn't say a word, but also sent his psychic awareness into the raging demon Qi ahead of him.

He closed his eyes to focus solely on scanning the demon Qi-covered area. However, as soon as his psychic awareness entered, his originally sharp senses and his ability to detect life auras dropped significantly.

While his psychic awareness swam about in a sea of demon Qi, he could feel a clear and strong obstruction.

Even still, after extending his psychic awareness for some time, he managed to detect the violent aura of a living being.

"Here's one!" As soon as he located the life aura, he issued the command.

Almost simultaneously, the Bone Blood Demon locked on the target and dashed into the demon Qi.

To Nie Tian's surprise, the Bone Blood Demon seemed to be completely unaffected by the demon Qi and didn't even need to spend the least bit of energy resisting it.

In the blink of an eye, the thirty-meter tall Bone Blood Demon disappeared into the dense demon Qi.

While focusing his psychic awareness on the outsider he had just located, Nie Tian waved to Feng Luo and the others and said, "Hold on. I'll have the Bone Blood Demon secure us a path. I'll try my best to locate every outsider in that area and command the Bone Blood Demon to kill them."

"That's good." Feng Luo felt a bit relieved. "If the Blood sect somehow lives through this calamity, our entire sect will be in your debt, Nie Tian. And when the Realm of Flame Heaven is once again stable, you're welcome to come visit our sect as a honored guest, even if the confrontation between the seven sects is reestablished.

"I can give you my word that no disciple of the Blood sect will treat you as their enemy!"

"That's very generous of you," Nie Tian said with a brief smile. With these words, he focused his mind on locating the outsiders within the demon Qi.

ROOOOOOAR!

It wasn't very long before a bloodcurdling scream rang out from the depths of the demon Qi.

The outsider that Nie Tian had located just now had already died by the Bone Blood Demon's hands.

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Everyone heard the scream and knew that it meant the Bone Blood Demon had taken out another outsider.

"Good job!" Hong Can couldn't conceal the elated expression on his face. "If you can kill off every outsider in the demon Qi, then even if we can't make the demon Qi disperse, we will have a better chance making it to the sect gate of the Blood sect."

Feng Luo sounded excited as he urged Nie Tian, "Keep going, Nie Tian! Since we don't know the situation over at the sect gate, we'd better command the Bone Blood Demon to kill as many outsiders as we can!"

Even though Yu Tong had always considered Nie Tian as her sworn enemy, she cast a gaze of anticipation towards Nie Tian at that moment.

Nie Tian nodded and closed his eyes again, using his psychic awareness to scan the demon Qi-covered area for new targets.

Before long, his psychic awareness discovered and locked onto another vigorous life force belonging to an outsider.

As soon as he issued the command with his mind, the Bone Blood Demon made another murderous move in the dense, sight-blocking demon Qi.

Seconds later, another miserable scream echoed out and the outsider he had just targeted was slaughtered.

Without saying a word, Nie Tian repeatedly sent out his psychic awareness to search the area for more outsiders.

One after another, more miserable shrieks rang out from within the demon Qi.

None of the outsiders survived the Bone Blood Demon's fatal attacks.

Zou Yi's face was filled with excitement as he said, "A sixth! Only one more to go! We'll have a clear path ahead after it's dead. Then we can try and walk into the demon Qi."

Everyone rubbed their hands together as they all assumed that the only remaining outsider would also die in a split second, just like the others had.

With excitement on their faces, they watched Nie Tian, waiting for him to lock his psychic awareness onto the seventh outsider.

Nie Tian took a deep breath. After sending out his psychic awareness to detect outsider auras several times in a row, he was already somewhat weary.

The demon Qi was like a turbulent sea, making every movement of his psychic awareness extremely taxing.

After all, he was only in the late Lesser Heaven stage. The level of refinement of his psychic power was far inferior to Zou Yi or Hong Can.

Having consuming his psychic power nonstop for such a long time, he already found it hard to concentrate and the sharpness of his perception had also greatly dropped.

Even still, he once again unleashed his psychic awareness into the demon Qi.

However, the moment his psychic awareness entered the demon Qi, he felt a bit dazed. Even though he could detect the existence of the outsider, whenever he attempted to lock onto it, it would always disappear without leaving a single trace.

After attempting for quite some time, he still couldn't accurately locate the outsider with his psychic awareness.

It seemed as if that outsider had realized what Nie Tian was trying to do and had been rapidly shifting its position within the demon Qi.

A short time later, Nie Tian opened his eyes and felt rather lightheaded.

"What's wrong, Nie Tian?" Standing right next to him, An Shiyi said in a soft voice, concern written all over her delicate face. "There no need to force yourself. Stop if you have to. You've already done a good job."

Li Fan also saw his poor condition and said, "Yeah, leave it be if you can't locate that last outsider. Your cultivation base is still rather low. If you continue to consume your psychic power, you'll overburden yourself. Even if you manage to locate that outsider, you probably will be too weak to command the Bone Blood Demon to kill it."

"How about you rest for a while?" said Jiang Lingzhu.

"We can't afford to rest," Feng Luo said with a bitter expression on his face. "Time is of the essence here. Our sect is in great danger. Plus, the Bone Blood Demon won't stay active for a long time. We need to make the best out of every second it's awake and command it to kill as many outsiders as we can."

Hong Can from the Hell sect took out a medicinal pill and shoved it into Nie Tian's hand as he said, "Nie Tian! Here's a Soul Restoring Pill! It will help you replenish your psychic power within a short time."

"Soul Restoring Pill?" Feng Luo seemed to suddenly come to a realization and took out three medicinal pills from his bracelet of holding. He handed them to Nie Tian and said, "I almost forgot. Here are some Soul Restoring Pills! Take them now and recover your psychic power as soon as you can, so that you can go ahead and finish off the one last outsider."

"Sure!" Nie Tian saved the pleasantries and swiftly swallowed all four Soul Restoring Pills.

Feng Luo's expression flickered as he called out, "Wait! You need to take them slowly!"

Li Fan and Hong Can were also shocked when they saw Nie Tian consume all four Soul Restoring Pills at once.

They also wanted stop him, but before they could say anything the pills were already down Nie Tian's throat.

"Moron!" Jiang Lingzhu stamped her foot and said, "You're only in the Lesser Heaven stage. One Soul Restoring Pill is more than enough to restore your psychic power!"

After swallowing all the Soul Restoring Pills, Nie Tian asked with his face filled with confusion, "Can I not take them all together? Don't tell me that there are side effects."

With a deep frown, Li Fan said, "The effect of four Soul Restoring Pills could be too strong for you. I'm afraid that your body won't be able to take it. Furthermore, these Soul Restoring Pills are very valuable. It's a huge waste that you took them all at once."

"Nie Tian, steady yourself for the effect!" An Shiyi warned him.

"Ah, I see. You're worried that the pills are too strong for me." With a deep breath, Nie Tian sat down on the ground and focused his mind on sensing the efficacy of the Soul Restoring Pills.

It wasn't very long before wisps of power were born in his abdomen, which rapidly followed his meridians up into his soul.

As Hong Can had said, the Soul Restoring Pills helped him rapidly recover his psychic power.

The moment those wisps of power entered his soul, he felt a huge boost in his psychic power.

The efficacy of the Soul Restoring Pills was even stronger and faster than the special energy that he had extracted from the energy balls in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

As more and more wisps of power merged into his soul, it only took a short while for him to be full of psychic power again.

However, more power wisps kept rising from his abdomen and swimming up to his soul.

Normally, since his soul was already brimming with psychic power, the process of more power crowding into his soul shouldn't be an enjoyable one.

Too much psychic power could overstretch his soul and cause many unpleasant changes.

For example, he could become muddleheaded, get overly excited, or even lose his mind.

However, Nie Tian sensed that after his soul was filled to the brim, the incoming wisps of psychic power naturally flowed into the seven fragmentary stars that hung high within his soul.

The seven fragmentary stars that he had obtained by channeling starlight into his soul in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace were emanating bright light, making his soul look somewhat mysterious and profound.

As more and more wisps of power swam into the fragmentary stars, they began to shine with an even more dazzling light.

It seemed as if they could take in an unlimited amount of power. Moments later, all the swimming wisps of power that the Soul Restoring Pills had generated disappeared into the seven fragmentary stars.

By the time Nie Tian could no longer felt the generation of more power from his abdomen, he noticed that the seven fragmentary stars had grown slightly bigger and he had a feeling that the energy they contained was now purer and more condensed.

As he refined and absorbed the four Soul Restoring Pills, everyone else gathered around him and watched him with strange expressions on their faces.

They didn't see even the slightest pained look or signs of struggle on Nie Tian's face. On the contrary, all they saw was enjoyment.

Everyone made a racket since they all deemed Nie Tian to be a strange young man with too many secrets.

"He actually absorbed all four Soul Restoring Pills?"

"He's only in the Lesser Heaven stage. How could he have taken in so much psychic power?"

"He's a freak!"

Hong Can also couldn't help but sigh, "No wonder people say Wu Ji is the best mentor in the Realm of Flame Heaven."

At that moment, Nie Tian opened his eyes and, having recovered to his peak state, once again started scanning the area enveloped by the raging demon Qi.

This time, he could feel that his perception was greatly heightened.

Seconds later, he accurately located the outsider and locked onto it.

ROOOOAR!

All of a sudden, an outsider roar thundered out from the depths of the demon Qi.

In the next moment, a cold, wicked awareness rushed straight toward Nie Tian.

Standing by Nie Tian's side, Hong Can also detected the anomaly and called out, "It's a high-tier outsider!"

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Nie Tian experienced a sudden, excruciating pain in his head. His body shuddered as he immediately retracted his psychic awareness.

By doing that, he lost track of the outsider he had just locked onto, and thus wasn't certain if the Bone Blood Demon would be able to locate it by relying on the brief moment that he had focused his killing intent on it.

At the same time, a gruesome, cold awareness seemed to have traced Nie Tian's psychic power back to his mind.

In his soul, the seven fragmentary stars suddenly began to shine with incomparable dazzling starlight.

The numerous rays of starlight were like sharp blades, continuously cutting the demon shadows that had been flying around in his soul into shreds.

Soon as the demon shadows disappeared, Nie Tian's headache disappeared with them.

Nie Tian opened his eyes and, looking into the demon Qi with his eyes filled with shock, he said, "That outsider is different from the other six!"

"Are you alright?" Li Fan asked.

Nie Tian nodded and answered, "I'm fine."

A serious look could be seen in Hong Can's eyes as he looked at Nie Tian.

After probing for a moment using his psychic power, he nodded, looking a bit surprised as he said, "You keep going beyond my anticipation, kid. That is a powerful, high-tier outsider. However, you somehow managed to remain unscathed under its psychic attack. Impressive."

"High-tier outsider?" Nie Tian went blank.

Even his master Wu Ji didn't know the outsiders as well as disciples from the Hell sect.

As the original residents of the Realm of Flame Heaven, those outsiders once were the rulers of this heaven and earth.

However, since it had already been far too long since the outsiders had dominated the Realm of Flame Heaven, of the seven sects in the Realm of Flame Heaven, only the Hell sect, who had imprisoned outsiders with the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation, knew a thing or two about them.

The reason behind it was that the Hell sect had been created by a grand Qi warrior who had taken part in the fierce fights between human Qi warriors and the outsider demons.

The other six sects, on the other hand, had been established after all the outsiders had been killed or driven out of the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Therefore, it was natural that they didn't know much about outsiders.

With a grim expression, Hong Can explained, "High-tier outsiders are different from the ordinary outsiders that we encountered earlier. High-tier outsiders aren't as big as the low-tier outsiders, but they are the nobles of the outsiders and lords of the low-tier outsiders. Every high-tier outsider possesses intelligence just as developed as us human Qi warriors.

"In addition to that, high-tier outsiders possess something we don't have: powerful bloodlines. Each one of them is born with miraculous powers and abilities running in their veins!

"Back when we beat the outsiders away from the Realm of Flame Heaven, those high-tier ones were the truly formidable enemies.

"When they knew they would inevitably lose the Realm of Flame Heaven, all the high-tier outsiders evacuated first while the low-tier outsiders kept fighting so as to cover their escape.

"That was why we didn't have a single high-tier outsider in the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation.

"So I bet none of you have ever seen a high-tier outsider."

With a stern look on his face, Hong Can continued, "Actually, I've anticipated that there would be high-tier outsiders pulling the strings now that they dared to come back to the Realm of Flame Heaven. However, I didn't expect that a high-tier outsider would actually appear here, in the Blood sect."

Nie Tian's expression slightly changed, and everyone else's heart also grew heavy after hearing how formidable those high-tier outsiders were.

"Low-tier outsiders are usually very big and physically strong, but they basically fight only because of their bloodthirsty nature. However, the high-tier outsiders are a whole other story. Not only are they intelligent and possess formidable bloodline power, but they even master various battling skills.

"Furthermore, only those High-tier outsiders know how to wield their soul power!"

Hong Can took a deep breath and stared into the demon Qi-covered area with a somewhat uneasy expression on his face. "From now on, I want everyone to be careful and brace yourself for what may come! That high-tier outsider is far more powerful and deadly than regular low-tier outsiders. There's a fundamental difference between their strengths and that's not something that can be defined by levels!"

WHOOSH!

A figure could be vaguely seen in the surging demon Qi.

It seemed that it had ditched Bone Blood Demon and come from the depths of the demon Qi-covered area to the edge of it.

Step by step, the figure walked out of the demon Qi and completely unveiled itself to the crowd.

It was about two-meters tall. Its skin was blackish-purple and its face actually resembled that of an exceedingly handsome human male's.

He had a well-built frame and was wearing a set of fine armor. From the faint smile hanging at the corner of his mouth, he didn't look very different from a human.

However, upon a closer look, Nie Tian discovered that his pupils and hair were all blackish-purple and he had two curved horns growing out of his forehead.

Furthermore, he had a tail that was about two meters long growing out of his posterior, which dragged on the ground as he stepped forward.

"Did you turn that Bone Giant into a Blood Demon?" He suddenly spoke, his voice sounding exotic and strange.

Even still, it was none other than human language that came out of his mouth.

Jiang Lingzhu's expression flickered as she exclaimed, "He can even speak our language?!"

Not only her, everyone else expect Hong Can stood aghast, looking at the high-tier outsider with eyes filled with disbelief.

The appearance of this high-tier outsider had completely overthrown their previous impression of the outsiders and made them realize that the outsider nobles were almost a different race from all the other outsider demons that they had ever seen.

CRACK!

The sound of bones piercing into the earth rang out from behind the high-tier outsider as the Bone Blood Demon's figure gradually grew clearer in the demon Qi.

Upon seeing the Bone Blood Demon slowly stepping out of the dense demon Qi, Nie Tian's uneasiness was lifted to some extent.

"Kill him!" Hong Can called out to Nie Tian.

Apparently, he was terrified by the high-tier outsider to the point where he was at a loss of what to do, and killing him was the only thing he could think of.

"Was it you?" With a low chuckle, the high-tier outsider fixed his eyes on Nie Tian and asked. "Are you the one who is issuing commands to that Blood Demon created out of a Bone Giant?"

"Umm, yes," Nie Tian answered.

"That's good." The high-tier outsider nodded as his smile grew broader. "That means if I kill you, I won't need to deal with that Blood Demon."

With these words, he slowly stepped towards Nie Tian.

A broad, blackish-purple saber suddenly appeared in his slender-fingered right hand. The moment it appeared, the demon Qi that had been floating in the sky and behind him seemed to be suddenly attracted by a mysterious force and converged on him from all directions.

In a split second, his body was once again submerged in raging demon Qi.

Nie Tian lost sight of him.

He could only see a cluster of raging demon Qi, which was still gathering more demon Qi from above and behind it, gradually closing in on him.

"Nie Tian!" Feng Luo cried out.

With an anxious expression on his face, Nie Tian cried, "I can't locate it with my psychic awareness!"

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After a few attempts, Nie Tian had already mastered the method to control the Bone Blood Demon. He needed to either lock his psychic awareness onto an enemy as a way to command the Bone Blood Demon to attack it, or he needed to see the enemy with his eyes and command the Bone Blood Demon with a gesture of his hand.

Only in these two ways would the barely-intelligent Bone Blood Demon with an incomplete soul be able to realize what was the target.

However, because of the high-tier outsider's profound magic, Nie Tian's psychic awareness wasn't able to lock onto him.

At the same time, since he was surrounded by surging demon Qi, Nie Tian couldn't accurately point to him and issue a command to the Bone Blood Demon.

Therefore, at this point, Nie Tian couldn't find a way to command the Bone Blood Demon to kill the high-tier outsider.

"Protect Nie Tian!" After realizing that Nie Tian couldn't use the Bone Blood Demon to kill the high-tier outsider for the time being, Feng Luo immediately changed his tactics.

He was very well aware that Nie Tian was the only one who could manipulate the Bone Blood Demon. If anything should happen to him, they would immediately lose control of the Bone Blood Demon. At that point, not only would they have no weapon with which to dispose of the outsiders, but the Bone Blood Demon could also potentially attack and kill them.

By that time, everyone within the Bone Blood Demon's sight would become its target.

Every single one of them had witnessed how it had slaughtered the other outsiders, so they all knew how deadly it could be.

They knew what would happen if this frightening creature ever applied the same method to them.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

As the high-tier outsider approached, the raging demon Qi rapidly spread into the surroundings.

More demon Qi that had been floating in the sky seemed to answer his broad saber's summons, and rushed down from the heavens.

The disciples of the seven sects didn't have any notion of what to do while facing the approaching demon Qi.

All they did was step backwards to put distance between them and the demon Qi.

After all, there wasn't any demon Qi in the path they had taken to get there, so it was the only direction that could be considered relatively safe.

SHEW!

Nie Tian followed everyone as they rapidly retreated to stay away from the demon Qi's reach.

Face grim, everyone from the seven sects hastily summoned power from within their spiritual sea, and with their spiritual power of various attributes, they rapidly formed shimmering light shields around them.

The shields were of different colors due to the different attributes, such as fire, ice, thunder, and water.

Since they were all worried that the demon Qi might bore into their fleshy bodies, they could only form light shields to prevent it from happening.

"Hahaha, it won't work." The high-tier outsider's clear laughs rang out from within the cluster of blackish-purple demon Qi. "We are transforming the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth into our Qi. It won't be long before every corner of the Realm of Flame Heaven is full of it. By that time, the Realm of Flame Heaven will be rid of your kind."

As he let out loud laughs, the demon Qi that kept pouring down from the heavens suddenly changed its course.

One cluster after another, the dense demon Qi flooded down towards the area that Nie Tian and the others were escaping to, and only seconds later, a sea of demon Qi blocked their escape route.

As a result, they had no choice but to stop and fight the high-tier outsider in a sea of demon Qi.

Apparently, fighting in the demon Qi was very advantageous for the high-tier outsider.

On the other hand, Nie Tian and his group would have to use their spiritual power to maintain a protective shield around them at all times, so as to keep the demon Qi away.

Furthermore, during their fight, their psychic awareness would definitely be affected by the demon Qi and their senses would be weakened.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The sounds of blades whizzing through air echoed out as bright, purple lights flashed within the demon Qi like slithering, purple lightning bolts.

Hong Can realized that the outsider was about to launch attacks with his saber and cried out, "Watch out, Nie Tian!"

Having seen that their escape route had been cut off, the other disciples of the seven sects realized that it would only be a matter of time before they were engulfed by the demon Qi.

Therefore, upon hearing Hong Can's words, they gathered around Nie Tian and braced for battle.

Enveloped by shields of different colors, everyone had taken out their spiritual tools, but because of the dense demon Qi, their facial expressions were no longer clear to Nie Tian.

However, he knew in his heart that, at that moment, no one wanted anything to happen to him, except maybe Qiu Heng.

After all, he was the only one who could control the Bone Blood Demon, so he was of the utmost importance if they wanted to survive the fight against the powerful, high-tier outsider.

BOOM! BOOM! CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

As they swung their spiritual tools, multi-colored lights shot out and immediately clashed with the purple lightning bolts.

Spots of various colors sputtered about around Nie Tian as the power of different attributes slammed into the demonic power, making the area they were in surge with violent energy fluctuations.

Since Nie Tian was in the center of the circle of protectors, he wasn't harmed.

He could see that everyone was fighting with difficulty and they all had fear in their hearts.

However, since they had no other choice, they could only go all-out to fight the high-tier outsider.

KA! CHA!

One of the purple lightning bolts cut through their line of defense and shot towards a Heaven stage Qi warrior from the Grayvale sect.

As soon as the lightning bolt made contact with the water-blue light shield surrounding him, the shield shattered into pieces and the lightning bolt struck him right on his chest.

That man immediately went limp and collapsed to the ground. No more movement was made.

ZZZZZLA!

Like a snake, another bolt of lightning wreathed a Heaven stage expert from the Hell sect.

The icy light shield surrounding him was instantly crushed into ice shards and the purple lightning bolt coiled around his fleshy body. It continued to contract. Even though the man struggled with all his strength, he soon stopped breathing. Only until then did the lightning bolt dissipate into the demon Qi.

In such a short time, they lost two Heaven stage experts to the purple lightning bolts.

BANG!

At the same time, the high-tier outsider's laughs constantly echoed out from the demon Qi as it seemed that he wanted to take his time to kill them and he enjoyed the process very much.

Nie Tian and the others couldn't see the outsider himself, but could only see numerous purple lightning bolts flying towards them from all directions like evil spirits.

They wanted to rush out to find the high-tier outsider and fight him up close.

However, they knew that once they left Nie Tian, considering his Lesser Heaven stage cultivation base, he probably would be instantly killed.

When Nie Tian was dead, the Bone Blood Demon would uncontrollably massacre everyone it saw. It would be a disaster for everyone.

Therefore, the only sensible move was to protect Nie Tian.

Nie Tian realized that they were in an unfavorable situation and understood why everyone had gathered around him and were protecting him.

After his attempts to located the high-tier outsider had failed, he suddenly dropped to the ground in the middle of the defensive circle.

As soon as he sat down he rapidly cleared his mind. He forced himself not to think about the people who had died protecting him, the difficult situation they were in, and the fierce fight that was going on.

With a deep breath, he adjusted his aura and focused his attention on his soul.

The seven fragmentary stars were still shining with bright light, but after he had taken the four Soul Restoring Pills, they had grown bigger in size and the light they emanated lit up his soul.

He focused on the thought of drawing power from the fragmentary stars.

In the next moment, seven light spots wrapped in his psychic awareness suddenly flew out of his soul.

The moment the light spots, which were only detectable to him, flew into the dense demon Qi, a strange feeling occurred to him.

He felt like each one of them served as an eye to him!

Before, he could only scan the area around him and search for movements and signs of life with his psychic awareness.

But now, he was able to command the seven spots of starlight to move around and thus gain an incomparably clear view of what was happening within the demon Qi.

Not only that, the upgraded psychic awareness the light spots contained could even enable him to see through the bodies of the disciples from the seven sects when the starlight shone on them. He could actually see their blood flowing and accordingly judge how powerful their souls were and how high their cultivation bases were.

With the help of the seven "eyes" that were shining with bright starlight, Nie Tian could now see even the finest hair on the high-tier outsider's face!

He instantly locked onto him, and no matter where the outsider went, the "eyes" could shine bright starlight on him and help Nie Tian's determine his location.

The Bone Blood Demon, who had been in a daze in the demon Qi, suddenly received Nie Tian's command as it heaved a ferocious roar and bolted towards the high-tier outsider!

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"What?!" The high-tier outsider almost simultaneously sensed the anomaly, and thus dashed towards Nie Tian, hoping to get to him before the Bone Blood Demon could arrive.

He knew that Nie Tian had already found a way to locate him and set him as the Bone Blood Demon's target.

Moments ago, he had been certain that the Bone Blood Demon wouldn't be able to pose a threat to him, much less the bunch of Heaven stage human cultivators.

The way the Bone Blood Demon looked at him as it ran towards him made him realize that something had changed.

His broad saber suddenly flew out of his hand while shining with dazzling purple light.

On the other hand, Nie Tian, who was surrounded by the others, saw his movements very clearly with the help of his seven additional "eyes".

However, at that moment, none of the others knew that the high-tier outsider had already launched an attack towards Nie Tian.

Nie Tian's killing intent grew increasingly intense as he focused his mind on the high-tier outsider and issued his command to the Bone Blood Demon, "Kill him now!"

The Bone Blood Demon, which was significantly bigger than the high-tier outsider, took a few huge steps and rapidly arrived at the outsider's side.

It lifted up its gigantic foot that was wreathed in a blood aura and stamped down towards the high-tier outsider.

At the same time, with an effortless wave of its giant hand, the Bone Blood Demon stopped the saber's dashing momentum.

The brilliant light the saber gave out also suddenly went dim.

Even though the broad saber still managed to hack into the Bone Blood Demon's bony palm, only a few grayish-brown sparks sputtered out of the contact point; the Bone Blood Demon's hand wasn't damaged at all.

Seeing the Bone Blood Demon's gigantic foot block the heavens and crush down towards him, the high-tier outsider's expression flickered as he blurred into a flash and escaped.

The Bone Blood Demon's hollow eyes were fixed on the high-tier outsider as it unrelentingly chased after him and tried to stamp him with its feet. Moreover, it grew faster and swifter as it continued.

After evading for a short while, the high-tier outsider realized that he couldn't get rid of the Bone Blood Demon. Therefore, with a cold snort, he started to release a strange soul fluctuation.

At the same time, his broad saber flew back into his hand.

"Quite impressive." Dragging his broad saber on the ground, he took a deep look at Nie Tian with his dark-purple eyes, before turning around and dashing towards the Blood sect where the demon Qi was even richer.

Since the Bone Blood Demon had locked onto him, it sped away after him.

The demon Qi that the high-tier outsider had summoned to this place seemed to be drawn to him and also followed him towards the Blood sect's sect gate like tidewater.

Nie Tian's seven "eyes" also followed along as the outsider dashed to the area where the demon Qi was the densest.

However, after chasing for a while, they seemed to run of psychic power, as if they had reached the limit of the distance they could cover.

They wouldn't be able to cover more ground unless Nie Tian moved along with them.

When the seven "eyes" lost track of the high-tier outsider, the Bone Blood Demon stopped and fell into a daze again.

As the demon Qi flowed away after the outsider, Nie Tian and the others were exposed to clear air again.

Upon seeing that the demon Qi had dissipated, everyone let out a sigh of relief and dissipated their colored light shields, so as not to lose more spiritual power.

Without wasting any time, they all took out their spirit stones to recover their strength.

"Nie Tian, did you find a way to regain control over the Bone Blood Demon?" Hong Can from the Hell sect turned to Nie Tian and asked while absorbing energy from the spirit stone in his hand.

"Yeah, I did." Nie Tian nodded.

By that time, the seven spots of starlight wreathed in seven wisps of his psychic awareness had already returned to his soul.

He found that the psychic awareness that had returned to his soul had consumed more than half of its energy.

And when the seven light spots rejoined the seven fragmentary stars, they had also shrunk to one third of their original size.

Therefore, he realized how psychic power-consuming this process was.

Surprise could be seen on Feng Luo's face as he asked, "Did you really? Even I couldn't use my psychic awareness to accurately locate that high-tier outsider in the demon Qi. Considering your cultivation base, you shouldn't be able to do that…"

After a brief moment of pondering, Nie Tian said, "It's a magic that master taught me."

Once again, he gave credit to Wu Ji, since he didn't dare to tell them that he had obtained the Fragmentary Star Incantation, using which he had refined seven powerful and mysterious fragmentary stars in his soul.

"Oh, so that's how it is." Feng Luo nodded but still harbored suspicion.

According to his understandings, as powerful as Wu Ji was, he shouldn't have the ability to enable Nie Tian, a young man in the Lesser Heaven stage, to master psychic techniques so miraculous.

"Well, do you have more Soul Restoring Pills?" Nie Tian asked softly.

"Did you consume a lot of psychic power just now?" asked Hong Can.

Nie Tian nodded in reply.

Without the slightest hesitation, Hong Can took out three more Soul Restoring Pills. He passed them to Nie Tian and said, "Here. They're all I have left."

Without saying a word, Nie Tian grabbed them and immediately shoved them into his mouth. Only after that did he say to Hong Can, "Thank you!"

Zou Yi from the Ghost sect also handed two Soul Restoring Pills to Nie Tian. "Here. I only have two left."

Their previous fight had made him realize that it was almost impossible for them to turn around the situation with their own strength alone, and if it weren't for the fact that Nie Tian had eventually locked onto the high-tier outsider and commanded the Bone Blood Demon to attack him, they wouldn't possibly have driven him away by themselves.

Therefore, since Nie Tian needed his psychic power to manipulate the Bone Blood Demon, the wisest thing to do was to give Nie Tian Soul Restoring Pills so that he could recover his psychic power as soon as possible.

That was the reason why, knowing perfectly well how valuable the Soul Restoring Pills were, he gave them to Nie Tian anyways.

"Thank you." Nie Tian expressed his gratitude before wolfing them down.

When Nie Tian had consumed the previous four Soul Restoring Pills, the psychic power had rapidly filled his soul and after that, most of it flowed into the seven fragmentary stars.

He was also aware that the precious Soul Restoring Pills could nourish the seven fragmentary stars to a great extent.

If they hadn't been in such a special situation where everyone depended on him to control the Bone Blood Demon, no one would indulge him so much as to allow him to take seven Soul Restoring Pills in such a short time, including Wu Ji.

Having proved the miraculousness of the fragmentary stars in his soul, he wanted to fuel them as much as he could and make them shine as brightly as possible.

"Here you go…"

At that moment, Yu Tong suddenly held out one Soul Restoring Pill for him. Reluctance could still be seen on her face.

Nie Tian went blank for a moment before he looked at her, wide-eyed, and said, "This isn't poison, is it?"

"What?! Suit yourself!" Yu Tong's face dropped as prepared to take the pill back.

Nie Tian chuckled and swiftly grabbed the Soul Restoring Pill in her palm. Then he stuffed it in his mouth and said, "Thank you, ma'am." He never imagined that Yu Tong would give him such a precious medicinal pill.

Anger could still be seen in Yu Tong's eyes as she said, "Consider it as a loan. You'll have to give one back to me when the Blood sect's crisis is over! I'm only giving it to you for the sake of the Blood sect and my fellow sect members. Don't you overthink it! We're not over! I'm still looking forward to straightening things out with you!"

"I see. I see." Nie Tian said, laughing heartily. Meanwhile, he thought to himself, don't count on it, stupid.

Then he glanced around and saw everyone else staring at him, their faces filled with astonishment.

Seeing that no one else was offering more Soul Restoring Pills, he closed his eyes and directed the wisps of power the pills generated to nourish the seven fragmentary stars in his mind.

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While Nie Tian refined the Soul Restoring Pills, bloody battles were taking place in the Blood sect.

By the time Nie Tian recovered and arrived a few kilometers away from the main gate of the Blood sect' along with his group, they saw that the entire Blood sect had already been enveloped by the dense demon Qi.

Numerous gigantic outsiders were roaring as they attacked the disciples of the Blood sect with all kinds of powerful weapons.

All the outsiders could move freely and see clearly in the demon Qi, completely unaffected by it.

Not only that, it seemed that they could even draw power from the demon Qi to recover their strength and push their battle prowess to another level.

On the other hand, not a single high-tier outsider could be seen, as it appeared that they only issued commands with their soul consciousness, but didn't fight in the battlefield.

Each and every magnificent stone palace and pavilion that originally could be seen everywhere had collapsed.

Blood stains could be seen around the ruins and rubble, but not a single Blood sect disciple could be found.

With another look, mangled bodies could be seen in some low-tier outsiders' hands and mouths…

Apparently, those low-tier outsiders had an innate thirst for human flesh.

The biggest difference between them and the high-tier outsiders was that they weren't as intelligent; they were basically at the same level as low-grade spirit beasts.

In the center of the Blood sect's central square, the sectmaster of the Blood sect, Li Jing, was sitting on top of a lotus that was glittering with bright, blood-colored light.

She was wreathed in a rich, bloody aura, and a enormous blood shadow was floating over her head. The blood shadow unleashed raging power to its surroundings and formed a gigantic scarlet light shield, enveloping and sheltering numerous Blood sect disciples gathered at the square.

The square was surrounded by numerous blood pools, the blood within rushing up into the air like reversed waterfalls and madly poured into the enormous blood shadow under the command of Li Jing's secret magic.

The mountain-like blood shadow continuously expanded while unleashing suffocating energy fluctuations.

Shen Xiu, Yu Tong's master, and many other powerful experts of the Blood sect were gathered around Li Jing. Every one of them had their spiritual tools in hand as they braced themselves for battle with anxious looks in their eyes.

They were very well aware that the enormous blood shadow needed a constant supply of blood to maintain its power.

However, the spirit beast blood that they had stored in their sect wasn't limitless. Besides, they had used up a large proportion of their blood storage to power their grand, sect-protecting spell formation.

Once the spirit beast blood ran out, the last defensive line created by the blood shadow would immediately fall apart.

At that time, all the outsiders would swarm into the central square and start a massacre.

A large number of low-tier outsiders were already gathered around the scarlet light shield. Some were gnawing on the body parts of the Blood sect disciples who had failed to get under the light shield in time, while others madly rammed into the light shield over and over again.

Upon a closer look, five high-tier outsiders with purple hair and pupils were among the crowd of low-tier outsiders.

Significantly shorter than the low-tier outsiders around them, those five high-tier outsiders stood together and conversed with one another in their own language. They would point to Li Jing from time to time as they chatted with relaxed expressions on their faces.

It seemed that they were waiting for the numerous low-tier outsiders to wear out the power of the scarlet light shield.

And when the low-tier outsiders had torn open the light shield, they would attack together and kill sectmaster Li Jing.

Every one of the five high-tier outsiders was tall, skinny, and wore exquisite outfits. The females were beautiful and the males were handsome.

Just as they were chattering cheerfully, the other high-tier outsider, who had been driven away by the Bone Blood Demon, descended among them.

The five chattering high-tier outsiders stopped talking the moment he arrived.

Each and every one of them bowed towards him in a respectful way. A devilish female outsider stepped forward and said, "You shouldn't be here, Lord Groete. It's not safe here."

"Where are your guards, my lord?" another male outsider asked.

From the look of it, the high-tier outsider who they referred to as Groete was not as strong as they were.

However, his status must be much higher than any one of them. Therefore, they remained humble and wore smiles on their faces the whole time.

Perhaps, the reason they had arranged for that Groete outsider to stay away from the battlefield was that he was still young and relatively weak.

Apparently, the other five had attached great importance to Groete's safety, even more so than taking the Blood sect.

Eyebrows furrowed, Groete continued, "I ran into some trouble. I encountered a handful of human Qi warriors who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. They were all pretty weak, and I could have single-handedly killed them all. However, they had a powerful Blood Demon to help them, and it was created from a Bone Giant that possessed an eighth level bloodline power.

"It killed all my guards and forced me to come here."

The female outsider, who dressed very alluringly, frowned and said, "A Bone Giant that possessed an eighth level bloodline power?!" Most of her curvaceous body was exposed, with purple armor only covering her chest and waist. "If the Bone Giant was manipulated by one of the human Qi warriors, you could have stop it by killing its commander, right?"

"Of course I know that, Sarah. And I tried." Groete sounded a bit frustrated. "He seemed to be an unimpressive young man. Originally, I thought I would be able to evade his psychic awareness and kill him before he could command the Bone Giant to harm me.

"But the strangest thing was that even though his cultivation level was rather low, he somehow managed to locate me through my shield.

"As soon as he did, the Bone Blood Demon started attacking and chasing me, not giving me a chance to get close to him.

"Fortunately, it seemed that the method he used to locate me was limited to a certain range. When I was far enough away from him, the Bone Blood Demon could no longer keep track of me and thus stopped chasing me."

The outsider named Sarah bowed in apology and said, "I'm sorry, my lord. I shouldn't have questioned your wisdom. Now that these survivors from the Blood sect can barely hold on to their own ground, how about I go and kill those who offended you? Even though the Bone Giant possesses an eighth level bloodline power, I'll find a way to defeat it."

"Killing them all won't be a hard task for me."

Groete thought for a moment and shook his head. "No. You should keep your focus on Li Jing. She's the sectmaster of the Blood sect. I trust that she's smart enough to see that you're the only one who can pose a threat to her. If you leave, I'm afraid she won't defend any more. Instead, she probably will lead her people to fight back against us.

"Without you, I don't think these snotty fools would be able to stop her.

"I need you to stay here."

Sarah didn't dare to disobey him, so she could only nod and say, "As you wish, my lord."

"Good." Groete said, looking poised and calm. "From what I can tell, the Blood sect disciples are going to run out of their blood storage soon. As soon as they do, that giant blood shadow will lose its power source and the red light shield that has been protecting them will fall apart accordingly. It will be a smarter move for us to kill these people from the Blood sect first, and then go take care of that Bone Blood Demon.

"Those Qi warriors I encountered are still quite some distance away from here. Plus, the closer they get, the richer our Qi they have to deal with.

"The youngster who controls the Bone Blood Demon is definitely not strong enough to withstand the erosion and go through the dense Qi by himself. I'm certain that it will be a long time before someone can help him get here.

"If he can't, the Bone Blood Demon won't. Then, we'll have all the time we need to finish off the problem in front of us."

"I trust your judgment, my lord," Sarah, the female outsider, replied in a respectful way.

…

It was at this point that Shen Xiu's expression suddenly flickered. She turned to Li Jing and said, "Little Tong is here! I can sense the aura of the Blood Spirit Pearl!"

Wreathed in rich blood auras, Li Jing's figure could only be vaguely seen. Upon hearing Shen Xiu's words, she seemed rather surprised. With a voice that was somewhat eager, she said, "She's back from the Heaven Gate trial? Contact her via the Blood Spirit Pearl now! Tell her not to come back and get as far away as she can. We need to secure a seed for our sect!"

"Sure!" A pained look could be seen in Shen Xiu's eyes as she immediately tried to contact Yu Tong.

A moment later, a hint of elation appeared on Shen Xiu's wrinkled face as she called out, "Sectmaster! Little Tong isn't alone and they have awakened the Bone Blood Demon!"

"What?" Li Jing's expression flickered. "How could that be possible?! We had poured all of our resources on it and failed to awaken it due to its lack of life power. How could they have done it?"

"It was Wu Ji's disciple, Nie Tian," Shen Xiu said.

"Nie Tian?!"

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"Yeah! Nie Tian!"

Shen Xiu also sounded deeply confused. "Little Tong said Nie Tian claimed that he obtained a Fruit of Life during the Heaven Gate trial and after taking it, his blood now carries life power. And it was his blood that awakened the Bone Blood Demon and brought it under his command."

"Didn't you trap the Bone Blood Demon's mutilated soul in the Blood Spirit Pearl?" Sectmaster Li Jing said.

"Yeah, but it escaped from the Blood Spirit Pearl and merged with its fleshy body." Bitterness could be seen on Shen Xiu's face as she continued, "Little Tong's cultivation base is too low and her understandings of demon controlling magics are still shallow. If I were there, I could have overpowered its soul and brought it under my control."

"I see…" Still wreathed in a dense blood aura, Li Jing pondered for a moment and said, "If it were another time, I would never allow someone from the other sects to control the Bone Blood Demon that we cultivated with heart and soul. But these are different times."

Li Jing shifted her gaze away from Shen Xiu and focused on Groete and Sarah, who were standing quite a distance from her.

"It could be a good news for us. Tell Little Tong that we need Wu Ji's disciple to bring the Bone Blood Demon here as soon as possible.

"Even though the Bone Blood Demon can't fully restore its eighth level bloodline power, it's still strong enough to keep that Sarah outsider busy.

"At that time, I'll jump in and fight her together. I believe by doing that, we'll be able to force the outsiders to raise their siege."

Shen Xiu's spirit was greatly lifted as she replied, "Got it!"

With these words, she casted her secret magic and communicated Li Jing's plans with Yu Tong via the Blood Spirit Pearl.

…

In the place where the demon Qi had dispersed.

Feng Luo, Hong Can and all the others were gathered around Nie Tian, waiting for him to absorb the Soul Restoring Pills and restore his psychic power.

Holding the Blood Spirit Pearl in her hands, many expressions flashed across Yu Tong's delicate face as she received her master's message.

Moments later, she put away the Blood Spirit Pearl and said to everyone, "Things are not looking good in our sect!"

"Did you just connect with your master via the Blood Spirit Pearl?" Elation could be seen in Feng Luo's eyes.

Hong Can and the others were also intrigued as they all shifted their gazes away from Nie Tian onto Yu Tong.

Some of them knew that the Blood Spirit Pearl belonged to Shen Xiu, so she could communicate with Yu Tong via it when it was within certain distance.

Furthermore, none of them had an idea of what was going on in the Blood sect.

Therefore, they were rather eager to get a hold of the situation over there.

Yu Tong held nothing back as she answered Feng Luo's question. She told him about the difficult situation they were in, including that a few high-tier outsiders laid siege to them and that they were about to run out the stored spirit beast blood.

She also relayed Li Jing's message that she hoped Nie Tian could lead the Bone Blood Demon to the Blood sect and assist her in battle as quickly as possible.

Everyone let out sighs of relief after hearing Yu Tong's words.

The situation over in the Blood sect was a bit better than what they had expected. After all, most of the powerful experts were still alive and they could hold their ground since the grand spell formation hadn't yet been breached by the outsiders.

"She said that as long as Nie Tian could bring the Bone Blood Demon to the battlefield, she'll have a way to turn the situation around?" Hong Can exclaimed.

Yu Tong nodded. "Yes, that's what our sectmaster said."

"Good!" With a deep breath, Hong Can looked over at Nie Tian and said, "We'll protect Nie Tian; march out to the Blood sect together as soon as he wakes up!"

"Time is of the essence. We'd better hurry." Seeing that Nie Tian was still not awake after quite some time, Yu Tong became somewhat anxious. "My master said that they're running out of spirit beast blood. Once they drain the blood storage, the blood shadow will no longer be able to protect them with the blood shield. At that time, nothing will be able to stop the flood of countless low-tier outsiders and many of our sectmates will die!"

Upon hearing her words, a desire to wake Nie Tian rose in Feng Luo's heart.

At that very moment, Li Fan from the Cloudsoaring sect frowned and said, "He took far too many Soul Restoring Pills. We'd better let him awake by himself. Right now, all his attention is concentrated on refining the pills. If we interrupt him at such a moment and he falls into a Qi deviation, will you be responsible for the consequences? Even though you don't care about him, you should consider how it would affect the situation over in your sect!"

After hearing these words, Feng Luo swallowed the words that were already at the tip of his tongue.

He was aware that Li Fan's comments made sense. After all, with his low cultivation base, Nie Tian was trying to refine multiple Soul Restoring Pills at the same time to recover his psychic power in the shortest time possible. He didn't want to achieve the opposite result by waking him prematurely.

After a moment of hesitation, Feng Luo sat back down and said with a helpless tone, "Let's wait then. I hope he can wake up sooner rather than later. He is the only hope for the survivors of the Blood sect. They desperately need him to step up now."

Meanwhile, Nie Tian immersed himself in his soul to observe the seven fragmentary stars. As the efficacy of the Soul Restoring Pills kicked in, they were constantly expanding and shining with even brighter starlight.

The starlight seemed to have merged with his psychic awareness and caused it to upgrade into something more powerful, like an eye in the sky.

With it, he could now micro-detect the movement of nearby creatures' muscles and blood, through which he could briefly tell the person's cultivation base.

Before, he could only use his psychic awareness to sense, but couldn't see through the surface.

After his psychic awareness was mixed with the starlight, both his sensing ability and perception had heightened.

This made him realize that the power the seven fragmentary stars unleashed was a different kind of power from his original psychic power.

He had a feeling that the power that resided in those fragmentary stars was none other than soul power!

Normally speaking, only Worldly realm Qi warriors would be able to upgrade their soul and transform their refined psychic power into soul power.

The idea that he had obtained soul power through the seven fragmentary stars would be shocking to every Qi warrior in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

From the look of it, the Fragmentary Star Incantation, legacy of the mysterious Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, was indeed the ultimate reward of the Heaven Gate trial.

Immersed in excitement and elation, he observed as the wisps of power that Soul Restoring Pills generated poured into the fragmentary stars.

Some time passed and he could no longer detect any more wisps of psychic power ascending to his mind. Only at that time did he open his eyes.

As soon as he did, he saw everyone gazing at him, anxiety filling their eyes.

"Something's wrong?" Surprised, he asked.

"Have you fully recovered your psychic power?"

Feng Luo hastily asked.

Nie Tian nodded.

"Good!" Not wanting to wait another second, Feng Luo said, "We march towards the Blood sect now. They need you and the Bone Blood Demon that you control!"

"Why the hurry all of a sudden?" Nie Tian was confused.

"I'll tell you on the way!" Feng Luo said loudly.

"Alright. " Nie Tian rose to his feet and rapidly followed the others towards the area that was filled with raging demon Qi.

Before entering the demon Qi, they once again enveloped themselves with light shields of different colors, so that demon Qi couldn't infiltrate their fleshy bodies and make them slaves to the outsiders.

With a brief movement within his mind, a wisp of spiritual power flew out of Nie Tian's spiritual sea and spread out into a thin, white light shield around him.

Under Feng Luo's lead, everyone traveled rather slowly within the demon Qi.

As they went deeper into the demon Qi, the demon Qi became denser and denser, and they had to consume more of their spiritual power to keep themselves unharmed.

About fifteen minutes later.

Zheng Bin and Jiang Lingzhu were the first ones to experience discomfort. Face ghastly, they had to stop.

They had consumed more than half of their spiritual power and had to recuperate with spirit stones before they could continue their march.

An unhealthy redness could also be seen on Yu Tong's face, and the blood-colored light shield enveloping her also started to flicker.

"Their cultivation bases are too low." Feng Luo frowned and said, "Little Tong, give me the Blood Spirit Pearl. You should stay here and recover. If you think staying here is too consuming, follow the same route back, and wait for us in the area where there's no demon Qi."

Hong Can rubbed his chin before pointing towards An Shiyi and a few other Heaven stage cultivators and saying, "Considering your cultivation bases, I'm afraid you won't be able to make it to the sect gate of the Blood sect either. I suggest you do the same. Stay here or go back to where we came from."

He hadn't anticipated that as they went deeper into the demon Qi, the drain on their spiritual power would become so great.

"Alright." As she had been instructed, Yu Tong handed the Blood Spirit Pearl to Feng Luo and said, "Uncle Feng, Nie Tian's cultivation base is pretty low too. Is he gonna be alright?"

"We'll protect him and use our strength to separate him from the erosion of the demon Qi," Feng Luo said as he grabbed the Blood Spirit Pearl.

"You'd better make it to our sect!" Yu Tong said, glaring at Nie Tian.

"I will." Nie Tian's voice was firm and determined.

No one objected Hong Can's proposal. Even An Shiyi, who was rather worried about Nie Tian's safety, had a feeling that she might not be able to hold on for much longer, and thus chose to stay behind.

That said, protected by the handful of Greater Heaven experts, Nie Tian marched on to the Blood sect.

"Nie Tian, how do you feel? Do you need us to help you?"

"No. I'm good for now."

A moment passed. "No need to force yourself, Nie Tian. Let us know if you need help."

"Don't worry. I'm okay."

A while later. "Seriously, Nie Tian, do you need help?

Don't push yourself to the limit. I don't want you to collapse the moment we get there!"

"I can hold on for a little longer."

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After marching on for a few kilometers, the density of the demon Qi rose by approximately five times.

Enveloped by their respective light shields, Hong Can and the others could only see things that were within a five-meter radius.

All they saw along the road were scattered bones and blood stains that had once been human Qi warriors.

The low-tier outsiders must have torn away and devoured the flesh and then tossed the bones away at will.

The scattered bones made Hong Can and the others realize what kind of bloodbath had occurred in this place.

Gradually, even Li Fan from the Cloudsoaring sect began to experience discomfort.

With a stern expression on his face, he turned to Nie Tian and said, "Seriously, are you alright, Nie Tian? This isn't the time to be a hero. Don't push yourself to the limit."

The others also frowned as they looked at Nie Tian with grim expressions.

Normally speaking, considering Nie Tian's Lesser Heaven stage cultivation base, he should have collapsed by now.

Even for the late Heaven stage An Shiyi, if she had marched for so long in the increasingly dense demon Qi, she would have had to stop and recover with spirit stones.

The fact that they had to form light shields to protect themselves from the demon Qi had caused them to drain their spiritual power at a surprisingly high speed.

On one hand, they were shocked that Nie Tian could hang on for so long; on the other, they worried about his condition.

They were afraid that Nie Tian was barely holding on and would pass out as soon as they arrived at the sect gate of the Blood sect.

If that happened, they wouldn't be able to command the Bone Blood Demon to join the Blood sect disciples in the battlefield.

"Alright, let me see." Knowing that everyone was concerned with his condition, Nie Tian hesitated for a moment before he decided to use his psychic awareness to examine his spiritual sea.

At that moment, the light shield around him had already taken on a grass-green color, as it was now powered by the vortex of wood power in his spiritual sea.

As they marched on in the demon Qi, the power he used to form the light shields had quietly changed. Even he hadn't noticed.

However, since they were surrounded by raging, dense demon Qi and their attention was concentrated on scanning the vicinity and keeping the demon Qi away, no one actually noticed that the color of his light shield had changed, along with his aura.

But when they stopped marching and Nie Tian examined his spiritual sea, the Greater Heaven stage experts immediately came to notice the changes.

They realized that the color of his light shield was constantly changing.

Furthermore, using their psychic awareness, they detected that the aura's attribute that Nie Tian emanated was also shifting nonstop.

"Wood power!"

"Flame power!"

"Starlight! It's star power!"

"Pure spiritual power!"

As they realized that Nie Tian possessed three types of power other than spiritual power, every one of them was taken aback.

Their eyes brimmed with disbelief, as they looked at Nie Tian, but only seconds later, they seemed to have figured out the reason behind it.

With a complicated expression on his face, Li Fan said, "Nie Tian doesn't have a specific cultivation attribute. Cultivators like him, who have no innate cultivation attribute, can cultivate incantations of any attribute. Switching between different types of incantations could have made his attempt to hold off the demon Qi less consuming and painstaking.

"However, cultivating different-attributed incantations simultaneously usually requires a lot of time and energy.

"Meanwhile, we as human cultivators have very limited lifespans. Only by breaking through to the next stage will we obtain more of it.

"If someone cultivates a variety of different-attributed incantations at the same time, their cultivation path would be much more intricate than others'.

"If he's really determined to go down this road, I fear that he won't be able to go very far."

Li Fan let out a sigh as he saw through the problem and grew worried about Nie Tian's future.

"I think you are worrying too much." Feng Luo said consolingly, "Didn't Nie Tian get a Fruit of Life during the Heaven Gate trial? He'll gain another several hundred years of life with it! With all these extra years, it's very likely that he'll make great achievements even if he's determined to go down this path."

Upon hearing about the Fruit of Life, Li Fan's eyes lit up. He nodded and said, "I hope you're right. Hopefully, he can avoid the problem my martial granduncle is facing."

It was also at that moment, Nie Tian finished examining his spiritual sea and opened his eyes.

Sounding a bit hesitant, he said, "I have to ask you to get further away from me."

"Why?" Li Fan was puzzled.

"I want to see if I can use a special technique that my master taught me to keep myself safe from the demon Qi once and for all," Nie Tian said.

Upon hearing his words, everyone subconsciously stepped away.

When everyone was five meters away from him, Nie Tian placed his hands in front of his chest, palms opposite to each other, and unleashed his psychic awareness.

Moments later, the different-attributed power gradually flowed out of his palms and fingers.

The different types of power gradually interwove and formed a chaotic magnetic field between his hands, which soon spread out with him as the center.

As soon as it expanded to be larger than his spiritual power shield and enveloped the demon Qi close to him, the demon Qi seemed to be suddenly trapped.

Nie Tian secretly probed the changes that were taking place in the magnetic field and found that the numerous wips of demon Qi seemed to be pulled in and manipulated by the magnetic field, none of which could even swim a bit closer to him.

Therefore, he canceled his spiritual power shield and exposed himself to the demon Qi within the chaotic magnetic field.

He even meticulously opened his pores and saw if the demon Qi would enter his body.

He was surprised to discover that only power that originated from him stayed close around him, including the flame power, wood power, starlight, spiritual power, and psychic power.

The demon Qi, which didn't belong to him in the first place, couldn't get an inch closer to him.

"Can you please step a little further away?" Nie Tian asked.

At that moment, all the Greater Heaven stage experts had noticed the strange magnetic field with a radius of three meters around Nie Tian, and the wisps of psychic awareness they had sent into it to probe about had all been twisted and escaped their control.

Their expressions flickered as every one of them voluntarily stepped further away from Nie Tian, as if they were worried that they would be sucked into the strange magnetic field.

Upon hearing Nie Tian's request, Li Fan immediately stepped backwards.

Then, Nie Tian took a few steps towards Li Fan and discovered that as the magnetic field moved along with him, the raging demon Qi close to Li Fan was also enveloped by the magnetic field.

Under the effect of the mysterious twisting power of the magnetic field, the dense demon Qi was soon broken down into trivial, blackish-purple wisps.

Since the tiny wisps didn't belong to Nie Tian, they were pushed to the far edge of the magnetic field.

"This is awesome!" With this new finding, Nie Tian now only needed to consume a small proportion of every type of power he possessed to maintain the magnetic field, and he wouldn't need to worry about the demon Qi any longer!

With a broad smile on his face, Nie Tian said to everyone, "Okay, I'm done now. You don't have to worry about me any more. The demon Qi won't affect me any more!"

"Nie Tian," Li Fan exclaimed, "is this an incantation that martial granduncle taught you?"

"Yes, it is," Nie Tian answered.

"How come I didn't know that we had these kinds of mysterious incantations in the Cloudsoaring sect?" Li Fan muttered.

"I suppose my master recently received the enlightenment and therefore created it." Nie Tian answered casually.

Even though Li Fan had a feeling that he was lying, considering that there were people from the other sects present, he didn't pursue the matter.

Seeing that by creating a mysterious magnetic field, Nie Tian had managed to solve the demon Qi problem once and for all, Hong Can gasped in admiration, "Good job! Senior Wu Ji is indeed a miracle-worker. I'm totally convinced now."

"Yeah, no wonder he could raise those three outstanding disciples," Zou Yi agreed.

"Alright! Since you're fine, let's move out!" Feng Luo said with an urgent tone.

"You're right," Nie Tian answered.

Then, everyone moved out again and marched towards the sect gate of the Blood sect.

Enveloped by the chaotic magnetic field, Nie Tian no longer needed to worry about the demon Qi, and traveled with even more lightness than the Greater Heaven stage experts.

Meanwhile, he could even spare some energy to scan the vicinity with his psychic awareness.

After an unknown period of time, Li Fan could no longer hold on, so he stopped and said, "I need to replenish my spiritual power."

"I'm also close to my limit," Zou Yi said.

Even though Hong Can and Feng Luo were in slightly better conditions, they were also afraid that they would soon drain all their spiritual power, and by the time they arrived at the Blood sect, they would be too weak to withstand a single blow.

"Since you all need to stop and recover while the Blood sect is desperately in need of my aid, can I go first, if you don't mind?" said Nie Tian.

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In the Blood sect.

The enormous blood shadow floating high above Li Jing was still rapidly absorbing spirit beast blood from the blood pools scattered around the square, but the bottoms of those pools could already be seen.

Meanwhile, numerous low-tier outsiders were still ramming into the scarlet light shield with their full strength.

The demon Qi was so dense that it could almost take liquid form, and in some places where it slammed into the light shield, cracking sounds rang out. Apparently, the demon Qi was also gradually wearing down the defensive shield.

All the Blood sect disciples under the light shield were looking nervously at the blood in the pools, as each and every one them was well aware that once the blood pools ran dry, the giant blood shadow would immediately lose its power source and the defensive shield would fall apart along with it.

If it came to that, the countless low-tier outsiders that were hovering around them would bare their fans and claws and flood them.

That moment was exactly what Groete, Sarah, and the other four high-tier outsiders were waiting for.

"I don't think we can hold on for much longer…"

Sectmaster Li Jing realized that they were about to run out of spirit beast blood and the bloody aura around her was also gradually dispersing. Finally, she couldn't help but called out, "Contact Yu Tong again and ask about their situation!"

"Got it." Shen Xiu narrowed her eyes and tried to use the Blood sect's secret magic to contact Yu Tong again.

A while passed.

Frowning, Shen Xiu shook her head and said, "There's no response."

Li Jing was surprised. "How come?"

"I don't know, either." With a frustrated expression, Shen Xiu answered. "Little Tong knows how to use the Blood Spirit Pearl. Normally speaking, whenever I cast the spell, she'll be able to sense it. Since she's not answering me now, there are only two possible reasons; one, she's in danger and doesn't have the time to reply or two, she doesn't have the Blood Spirit Pearl any more."

After a moment of pondering, Li Jing said, "As long as the Bone Blood Demon is with them, those low-tier outsiders won't pose a threat to them. Meanwhile, all six of the high-tier outsiders are here waiting to kill us. Therefore, it's not likely that they are in danger. This means the Blood Spirit Pearl is probably not in her hands. This doesn't sound good…"

"Sectmaster!" An elder of the Blood sect reminded Li Jing in a loud voice. "We're about to run out of spirit beast blood!"

Li Jing and Shen Xiu immediately looked over at the blood pools around the square and found that indeed one of them was already completely empty.

Then, Li Jing looked up and found that the giant blood shadow had already shrunk visibly, and the scarlet light shield it created over them had also become somewhat thinner and frailer.

In some places where a few gigantic low-tier outsiders were crashing into the shield, fissures could already be seen.

"Dammit! We're losing our protection!" The other Blood sect disciples were originally sitting cross-legged and recuperating with spirit stones. After seeing the unfavorable situation, they all rose to their feet, drew out their spiritual tools, and readied themselves for battle.

Groete, who the other high-tier outsiders had referred to as lord, also took note that the enormous blood shadow was withering and said, "The stalemate is finally about to be broken."

A faint, bloodthirsty smile appeared on his face as he issued orders to his five subordinates, "Attack as soon as the light shield breaks! Put an end to their miserable lives."

"Understood," the purple eyes of Sarah, the female outsider, shone with intense hatred. "These humans took our home and imprisoned our people in the Hell sect. They even drain their life essence to power their grand spell formation. We've been waiting to return to the Realm of Flame Heaven for centuries. We will have our revenge today!!"

"Let's kill them!!" Raging killing intent could also been seen in the other four high-tier outsiders' eyes as they rubbed their hands together, waiting for the light shield to break.

CRUNCH!

The sound of sharp tools crashing into the ground echoed out from afar as a figure significantly bigger than any low-tier outsider slowly appeared in rolling demon Qi.

Since the demon Qi could dull humans' senses but not the outsiders', Groete and the other five high-tier outsiders heard the strange sound and immediately turned to look at the source of the sound, where they saw the gigantic figure.

"It's the Bone Giant!" Upon a closer look, Groete spoke as a sinister expression appeared on his handsome face. "This is impossible!"

He knew how dense the demon Qi in this area was.

He had never expected that any human Qi warrior would be able to come this far to the center of the demon Qi-covered area in such a short time, much less Nie Tian, who he had considered unworthy to be his opponent.

According to his estimation, it would take Hong Can and the other Greater Heaven stage experts at least another hour to get to this place.

By the time they arrived, the battle between them and the Blood sect might have already been over. Even it wasn't, Li Jing would have been severely injured by the six of them, and the outcome of the battle would have been set.

He had made the calculations over and over in his mind and deemed his plan impeccable.

However, the appearance of the Bone Blood Demon had proven the opposite.

He found it hard to accept.

"Sectmaster! Did you hear anything?" Excitement could be seen on Shen Xiu's wrinkled face as she exclaimed. "If my speculations are correct, that sound was the sound of the Bone Blood Demon walking towards us. Only when its fleshless feet land heavily on the ground it would create a sound like that.

"I can't be wrong. It must be the Bone Blood Demon!"

Li Jing took a deep breath and said, "You're right. I engraved that unique sound in my mind the day I brought the Bone Blood Demon back to our sect. Little Tong did a good job! So did that Nie Tian kid! Truth be told, I didn't expect that they would arrive with the Bone Blood Demon in such timely fashion."

With these words, Li Jing paused, as if she was pondering something.

Seconds later, the blood-colored lotus she was sitting on suddenly rose up into the air.

"The scarlet light shield can still hold on for some time. All disciples who are at the Greater Heaven stage or higher, come with me! Let's charge out of the shield and kill as many outsiders as we can!

"All those with cultivation bases lower than the Greater Heaven stage stay here. The demon Qi out there is too strong for you. You won't be able to resist it."

As soon as she uttered these words, the lotus she had been sitting on charged forward.

It seemed that she didn't run into any obstructions and shot out of the light shield.

Upon seeing her flying out of the shield, Shen Xiu and a few others also dashed out while summoning their spiritual tools and unleashing torrential blood auras.

The moment they left, the light shield that was originally very wide began to shrink with a much faster speed.

All those who remained in the light shield were the Lesser Heaven and Heaven stage disciples.

"Who's out there? Is it Nie Tian, Wu Ji's disciple?"

Li Jing's voice spread out in the raging demon Qi as the lotus she sat on began to glow incomparably brightly.

Dazzling, blood-colored light condensed into a giant, red cross in front of her before shooting forward.

Moments later, another two giant crosses took shape in front of her and shot forward, slicing a dozen low-tier outsiders into chunks of blackish-purple meat.

The wails and howls of the low-tier outsiders filled the air after she called out Nie Tian's name.

"She dares to come out of the shield?!" Sarah let out a cold snort before her curvaceous, tightly-wrapped body launched into the air.

The rolling demon Qi in the vicinity suddenly converged on one point, and soon a scary, dark hole took form.

The dark hole looked like a demon's wide-open mouth while foul smell continuously emanated out of it.

The edge of the hole wiggled and expanded, as if it were trying to devour something.

In the next moment, the three giant crosses Li Jing forged with her spiritual power were sucked into the hole and ground into pieces.

On the ground, Shen Xiu and a handful others dashed out of the defensive shield and started to cast Blood sect magics to kill outsiders around them.

As Shen Xiu casted a spell, an enormous net of blood strings rose from under the ground, creating mountain-shivering sounds.

The threads of the net were as sharp as razors as they cut numerous low-tier outsiders into pieces of meat.

That blood net was the the most famous forbidden technique of the Blood sect, and that was why she had passed it onto Yu Tong.

"Lord Groete, let me deal with that woman. You just need to stall that young man who controls the Bone Blood Demon. I believe that without the Bone Blood Demon there to distract me, I'll be able to finish that woman in a short time."

"Yeah, that's also what I think," Groete replied. "You just worry about that woman."

At that very moment, after the Bone Blood Demon had cleared the path for him, Nie Tian appeared in their sight, enveloped in his magnetic field.

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Nie Tian came to a stop.

The demon Qi in this area was excessively dense, so with his cultivation base, he could barely see anything with his eyes.

With a brief thought, seven starlight spots, wrapped by seven wisps of psychic awareness, flew out of the seven fragmentary stars in his soul. Like "eyes" in the heavens, they started observing the battlefield.

Moments before, Nie Tian had heard Li Jing's calling, but her voice was quickly drowned by the thunderous roars of the outsider demons.

The first thing he commanded the Heaven Eyes to do was to spread out and search for the source of the voice.

Via one Heaven Eye, he discovered that the sectmaster of the Blood sect, Li Jing, was sitting atop a blood-colored lotus, casting all kinds of Blood sect secret magics to kill the unending waves of outsiders.

At the same time, a coquettish female outsider cast her spells and formed a gigantic black hole in midair, devouring the red crosses Li Jing created.

He could tell that the female outsider was at least as strong as Li Jing, if not stronger.

Through other Heaven Eyes, he saw that Shen Xiu had formed a enormous Earth Web and used its threads, as sharp as razors, to exterminate the giant, low-tier outsiders around her.

Not far from her, nearly a dozen powerful experts of the Blood sect were also valiantly brandishing their spiritual tools and shooting out blood-colored light beams to kill low-tier outsiders.

The Heaven Eyes enabled Nie Tian to determine their cultivation bases at first glance; all of them were Greater Heaven or Worldly realm stage experts.

However, the low-tier outsider kept charging at them like an endless river. It seemed that they had no idea what fear was as they madly charged towards the Blood sect disciples under Groete's command.

Apparently, the deaths of those low-tier outsiders meant nothing to him.

Seeing numerous low-tier outsider being cut into pieces, he didn't even have any expression on his face, as if he still had many more of them to spare.

He waved his hand and the four high-tier outsiders dashed towards Shen Xiu and the others like four flashes.

As soon as they did, the sky-filling demon Qi started to flow more rapidly and violently, and bright, purple spots started to fall from the sky.

The moment those spots made contact with the low-tier outsiders, their fighting spirits were immediately bolstered and they started fighting more ferociously.

On the other hand, the Blood sect Qi warriors who made contact with the purple spots let out miserable screams as their protective spiritual power shield broke down.

Then, as the demon Qi engulfed them and entered their bodies, they would fall into a dispirited state while their eyes gradually turned purple.

All those who lost the protection of their spiritual power shields would rapidly be drowned and lose their battle power, but more terrifyingly, as they took in more and more demon Qi, they would become potential trouble for the others.

In no more than a few seconds, Nie Tian saw six Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors from the Blood sect lose their protection.

Although they had killed quite a few low-tier outsiders in return, there were hundreds of them, and so having lost several dozen wasn't a big deal to them.

"No wonder they could only hold their ground and defend. Considering their strength, they can't deal with such a big outsider army." Nie Tian rapidly came to realize the disparity between the two sides' strength. Without any hesitation, he used the Heaven Eyes to lock onto a target.

It was a low-tier outsider that was approximately ten-meters tall, blackish-purple from head to toe, and had sharp fangs growing out of its mouth.

It was chasing after a Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior from the Blood sect, who was stumbling as he ran for his life.

"Go!" Nie Tian issued the command.

Upon his order, the Bone Blood Demon that had been standing by his side like a unwavering mountain instantly strode toward them.

A strong bloody aura that overshadowed those of all the low-tier outsiders rippled out of its outstandingly gigantic body, which gave a sudden boost to the observing Blood sect disciples' morale.

ZZZZZLA!

Like a red flash, a blood-colored light beam traveled through the air and penetrated the outsider's skull.

The outsider didn't even have the time to react before it was stuck down by the Bone Blood Demon from afar.

The Bone Blood Demon had possessed an eighth level bloodline power when it was alive. Even though it was now a Blood Demon, it still possessed a seventh level bloodline power, making it by no means weaker than Li Jing.

Therefore, to it, killing that low-tier outsider, who merely possessed the fourth level bloodline power, was a piece of cake.

CRACKLE!

As the Bone Blood Demon kept striding forward, its gigantic feet made of sharp bones stabbed deeply into the earth, leaving behind a line of huge holes.

It arrived by the dead outsider's side and, using only its psychic power, it made the blood rush out of the outsider's body and swirl into the air.

Then, as the blood showered down on it, its grayish-brown bones began to show a faint, mysterious luster.

After absorbing the outsider's blood, it began to thrum with an even more terrifying aura of Qi and blood.

All the disciples of the Blood sect felt a shudder upon seeing the scene while fighting their respective enemies, including Li Jing and Shen Xiu.

Many Blood sect disciples couldn't help but exclaim, "Blood Refining Incantation!"

"This Bone Blood Demon actually mastered the Blood Refining Incantation!? It can absorb power from its enemies' blood in battle!?"

"I can't believe a Bone Giant that possessed an eighth level bloodline power is so powerful after being turned into a Blood Demon!"

Even Shen Xiu, who had participated in the whole Blood Demon refining process, was amazed by how powerful it turned out to be.

"Continue!" As soon as Nie Tian's Heaven Eyes locked onto another target, the Bone Blood Demon lunged forward.

As the Bone Blood Demon, who possessed unparalleled battle prowess, swung its razor-sharp bone hands, one low-tier outsider after another was cut in half, as if they were pieces of blackish-purple tofu.

Once in awhile, it would grab a low-tier outsider and rip it apart with its bare hands.

While fighting, it didn't forget to use the Blood Refining Incantation to summon outsiders' blood and pour it onto its grayish-brown body, which seemed to provide it with eternal power.

Not only did Nie Tian not detect any energy loss from it, but he even found that its Qi and blood were actually growing stronger and stronger.

It seemed that as long as it kept killing outsiders and showering itself with their blood, it would be able to fight forever and even get stronger during the process.

The only thing Nie Tian worried about was its consumption of life power. After all, the blood he dripped into the Bone Blood Demon's heart carried a limited amount of life power.

Considering how powerful it was, every second it moved about, it was consuming a tremendous amount of life power.

Once it ran out of life power, it would once again fall into a slumber.

Just as Nie Tian was pondering his worries, Groete, the highest-ranked outsider, quietly walked towards Nie Tian.

Seeing the Bone Blood Demon growing a bit stronger after killing every low-tier outsider, he realized that he wouldn't be able to stop it by fighting it directly if he were to do it by himself.

Therefore, he deemed the wisest move would be to kill its controller: Nie Tian.

Once Nie Tian was dead, the Bone Blood Demon would run amok and start massacring everyone in sight. By that time, Qi warriors from the Blood sect would also become its target.

Grinning coldly at Nie Tian, a brutal smile appeared on his face. "Before, you had people to protect you, but you're all alone now!

"You really shouldn't have come by yourself! Considering your cultivation base, I'll crush you like an insect! Then, the Bone Blood Demon will no longer be a threat!"

With these words, Groete blurred into a purple flash and swooped toward Nie Tian.

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Li Jing, sectmaster of the Blood sect, paid attention to Nie Tian the entire time, since she knew that Nie Tian's ability to control the Bone Blood Demon would determine how the war went.

After discovering that the Bone Blood Demon was rampaging across the battlefield under Nie Tian's command, cutting down numerous low-tier outsiders, she began to think highly of him.

As soon as she saw Groete make his move, she immediately saw through his plan and said, "Elder Sister Shen! Go and protect Nie Tian!"

Upon hearing Li Jing's command, Shen Xiu, who was using her Earth Web to kill low-tier outsiders, also realized the urgency of the matter.

She immediately decided to ditch the low-tier outsiders and rush to Nie Tian's side as quickly as she could.

At that moment, a male high-tier outsider stepped out of the crowd of low-tier outsiders and blocked Shen Xiu's way. "You'll have to get through me first!"

ROOOOOOAR!

Groete let out a loud screech and dozens of low-tier outsiders instantly rushed over and surrounded the area where he and Nie Tian were standing.

Apparently, those low-tier outsiders were deployed there to stop whoever intended to come to Nie Tian's aid.

There were too many of them. Even though the Bone Blood Demon had been unstoppable, it was almost impossible for it to finish off such a large number of low-tier outsiders in a short time.

However, Groete was confident that he would be able to kill Nie Tian while the Bone Blood Demon was occupied.

"Damn!" Being blocked by a male high-tier outsider, Shen Xiu grow anxious. She wanted to order other high-stage Qi warriors from the Blood sect to go help Nie Tian.

However, she understood that, with so many low-tier outsiders standing between them and Nie Tian, her companions probably wouldn't be able to get through their defensive line and get to Nie Tian in time.

Once Nie Tian was dead, the Bone Blood Demon would immediately go out of control and consider both the outsider invaders and disciples of the Blood sect as its enemies.

If that happened, the formidable weapon they counted on to turn the situation around might soon become the final nail on the Blood sect's coffin.

Shen Xiu's heart was burning with anxiety. However, since she couldn't come up with a solution, she could only watch as Groete, the outsider lord, stepped closer to Nie Tian.

Due to the consumption of the different types of power, the chaotic magnetic field around Nie Tian had already shrunk to a two-meter range, and it was continuing to shrink as time passed.

It wouldn't be very long before it completely vanished.

Originally, Nie Tian had planned to summon the different types of power he possessed to expand the magnetic field again, but now that Groete was coming at him, he no longer had the time to do that.

He remembered how deadly Groete had been while dealing with Hong Can, Li Fan, Feng Luo, and the other experts at the same time.

With great ease, he had managed to slaughter two Heaven stage experts, making Hong Can and the rest have no choice but to defend.

According to Nie Tian's assessment, now that Groete was surrounded by even denser demon Qi, his strength would be equal to any late Greater Heaven stage experts, if not stronger.

He had dealt with a couple of opponents at this level during the Heaven Gate trial. However, every time, he had been forced to use Ice Blast Pearls and the spiritual talismans his master had given him, plus team up with other trial takers from the seven sects to barely win.

Now that he had used up all his powerful weapons and life-savers, he would have to fight with no help, so he didn't think he would stand a chance against such a powerful opponent in his current situation.

On the other hand, having come such a long way through the demon Qi, he had already consumed a large portion of the spiritual power in his spiritual sea.

According to his estimation, he only had fifty percent of his peak strength left at this point.

He didn't have the confidence that he would be able to defeat Groete even when he was in his peak state, much less now.

Seeing Groete approaching like a purple flash, Nie Tian experienced a numbness in his scalp, as well as a sudden rush of helplessness and desperation.

Groete suddenly came to a stop. Standing ten meters away from Nie Tian, he lifted his saber and pointed it towards Nie Tian as he said, "The magnetic field around you is quite interesting. It can even keep away the demon Qi."

As a matter of fact, Groete had secretly urged himself to pay extra attention when he saw Nie Tian arriving so much earlier than his estimation.

He knew very well that all those who had been there to protect Nie Tian were far stronger, but none of them had made it to this place, only Nie Tian.

This had proven Nie Tian's uniqueness.

He knew that there must have been something special about him, since he could remain unharmed in the torrential demon Qi.

Therefore, he had secretly sent out his soul consciousness to examine him as soon as he showed up.

However, the moment his soul consciousness had arrived close to Nie Tian, it had been distorted and cut off from him.

Only then did he come to realize that the strange magnetic field was what had made Nie Tian bold enough to come by himself.

With that understanding in mind, he didn't barge into it, but rather chose to test the magnetic field with his saber from a safe distance.

WHOOSH!

The saber suddenly left Groete's hand and whizzed towards Nie Tian. As it traveled in the air, raging demon Qi converged on it before soon turning it into a sinister devil, bearing fangs and brandishing claws towards Nie Tian.

Nie Tian had seen nothing like this saber, as he sensed that the saber had actually turned into a living devil.

It seemed as if the saber was made from a dreadful devil via some kind of mysterious technique, since not only could Nie Tian detect the fluctuations of flesh and blood on it, but he could even detect the aura of a soul.

He even examined it with the seven Heaven Eyes that were floating around him, and they seemed to tell him the same: it was a breathing devil, not a tool!

Meanwhile, besieged by the overwhelming demon Qi from every direction, the magnetic field already showed signs of running out of energy.

The tough situation made Nie Tian feel suffocated; he was taken over by the devastating feeling that he would be skinned and torn into pieces by the devil in the next moment.

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

His heart started pounding faster and faster as his life was threatened.

All of a sudden, he was struck by an idea: the Flame Dragon Armor! At this point, no longer afraid to expose the Flame Dragon Armor, he decided to use it save his life.

Having remained silent for a long time, the Flame Dragon Armor had been refining the Earthflame Crystal Strings it had collected and was using the energy to mend its own injuries.

Nie Tian could already sense a soul thriving with it, and thus he knew that it was getting closer and closer to fully awakening.

As soon as he called out to the Flame Dragon Armor, it instantly flew out of his bracelet of holding.

The Flame Dragon Armor whizzed out surrounded by flames, like a sun that was emanating endless light and heat into the surroundings.

Thrumming with a blazing aura that was strong enough to burn any living beings into ashes, it didn't even wait for Nie Tian to give further instructions before charging into the rolling demon Qi.

In the blink of an eye, it rammed into the sinister devil that had been created by a mix of the saber and demon Qi.

The devil felt like a sun had shot into it enormous body, as flames that could destroy the heavens and extinguish the earth began to burn inside of it while making crackling sounds.

Meanwhile, the gigantic devil started to shrink down, as if it were being burned away by the heavenly fire.

Li Jing, Shen Xiu, and other powerful experts from the Blood sect couldn't help but exclaim upon the sight of the Flame Dragon Armor, "Spirit Channeling grade treasure!"

They simply couldn't believe their own eyes.

It was especially true with Li Jing, since she knew better than anyone that, as powerful as Wu Ji as was, he only had one Spirit Channeling grade treasure in his possession, which she couldn't be more familiar with.

However, the burning armor she was looking at wasn't it.

This meant that this Spirit Channeling grade treasure's master was none other than Nie Tian!

To everyone present, it was completely unbelievable for a Lesser Heaven stage young man to own a treasure so rare.

They probably would never come across a similar case in the entire Realm of Flame Heaven.

At that moment, as flabbergasted as she was, Li Jing finally stopped worrying about Nie Tian's safety.

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Li Jing had a rough idea of Groete's strength.

From what she could tell, he only possessed a fifth level bloodline power. However, since extremely rich demon Qi reigned this area, his strength was boosted, making him seem stronger than Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors.

As a matter of fact, his true strength was at the same level as Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors.

It was just that human Qi warriors' abilities were compromised in the demon Qi while his abilities were enhanced.

Nevertheless, the Lesser Heaven stage Nie Tian obviously wasn't as strong as Groete, and it wouldn't be strange if Groete killed him with little effort.

That was why she had been worried about Nie Tian's safety.

It was the appearance of the Flame Dragon Armor that eradicated her worries. After all, a Spirit Channeling grade treasure at his disposal would greatly close the gap between their actual strength.

She had confidence that now that the Flame Dragon Armor was in the picture, Groete finally would meet his match.

Therefore, she became slightly relieved and focused all her attention on Sarah, the female outsider.

BAM! BAM!

The Flame Dragon Armor was still burning vigorously and unleashing heaven-destroying, earth-extinguishing heat. The devil, which had been created by the saber and demon Qi, couldn't withstand the devastating flame power and kept shrinking.

Moments later, the devil reassumed the shape of a broad saber.

Only now, the saber had become dark and lifeless, and its previous purple glow seemed to have been burned away by the Flame Dragon Armor.

Groete's handsome face looked very grim. His purple eyes were filled with disbelief as he tried to determine the grade of the Flame Dragon Armor.

While he was caught up in his thoughts, Sarah, who had been fighting Li Jing, called out to him, "Be careful! It's a Spirit Channeling grade treasure!"

"Spirit Channeling grade treasure!!" Groete was taken aback.

During that time, Nie Tian finally found the chance to summon enough strength to once again expand the chaotic magnetic field to a five-meter radius.

CLANG!

The burning Flame Dragon Armor suddenly rammed into Groete's saber.

The saber let out a scream that only outsiders could make, and rapidly flew spinning back to Groete.

Groete held out one hand and grabbed it before he stared at Nie Tian with a strange look in his eyes.

ZZZZZLA!

Meanwhile, numerous blood-colored beams of light shot out of the Bone Blood Demon's finger bones, and, like scarlet spears that were sharp enough to penetrate plates made by refined iron, they pierced through one low-tier outsider after another.

By doing that, the Bone Blood Demon killed more than a dozen low-tier outsiders that had been gathered around Nie Tian and Groete, sealing off the two of them from the others.

Following Nie Tian's instructions, the thirty-meter tall Bone Blood Demon spared no effort to kill the low-tier outsiders and break through the blockade.

From time to time, it would use the Blood sect's Blood Refining Incantation to compel the outsiders' thick, purple blood to fly out of their bodies and rain down on it in fine streams.

Every single bone the outsider blood rained on seemed to turn into a sponge, greedily sucking away the energy.

As the Bone Blood Demon refined more and more outsider blood, its power grew continuously, as if it would never get to the peak.

Gradually, the increasingly vigorous energy fluctuations that the Bone Blood Demon emanated made even Sarah worry about the situation.

Originally, she had confidence that she would be able to overtake it, knowing that after being turned into a Blood Demon, the Bone Giant's strength would be weakened to some extent.

However, now that she had been caught up in her fight with Li Jing and couldn't stop the Bone Blood Demon, it had already grown so strong that even she wasn't certain that she would be able to defeat it any more.

As she kept track of the Bone Blood Demon's aura, Sarah grew increasingly uneasy.

"Your highness! You have to finish off that kid as soon as possible. That Bone Giant's battle prowess is constantly on the rise.

"If this goes on, it may soon regain its original level of strength!

"Once it recovers its eighth level bloodline power, I'm afraid even I won't be able to defeat it.

"Even when its bloodline isn't truly awakened yet!"

She finally couldn't help but urge Groete to kill Nie Tian in the shortest time possible, so as to stop the Bone Blood Demon from getting stronger.

Groete let out a cold harrumph. "I don't need you to tell me what to do!"

At that moment, composure and confidence had already disappeared from his face.

What had taken their place were rage and impatience. Due to his misjudgment of Nie Tian's strength and resourcefulness, he had successively failed to kill Nie Tian when they first met and falsely estimated the time Nie Tian would have arrived; he even failed to kill Nie Tian when he had no powerful allies to protect him.

Actually, after a Spirit Channeling grade treasure had come to Nie Tian's aid at the crucial moment, not only did his attempt to kill him turn out in vain, but his saber even sustained serious damage.

With these thoughts, Groete could no longer stay calm and eventually grew frenzied.

"Kill him!" he yelled at the top of his lungs.

Upon hearing his command, the low-tier outsiders that had been attacking the Blood sect disciples immediately stopped.

Each and every one of them turned around and swooped towards Nie Tian with ferocious roars.

Bent on killing Nie Tian as quickly as possible, Groete brought out a, small round item that looked like a demon's eyeball. As soon as it appeared, a strong, mysterious soul fluctuation spread out in every direction, covering the entire Blood sect. "Rise, my minions!"

As soon as the Blood sect Qi warriors, who had remained still after being infiltrated by the demon Qi, were enveloped by the soul aura unleashed by the Demon Eye, their hollow and lifeless pupils began to shine with bizarre, purple light.

Their pale skin also gradually shed its original color and took on a blackish-purple color that was the same as the low-tier outsiders.

ROOOOAR!

One after another, they all let out mad howls and bolted towards Nie Tian along with the low-tier outsiders.

It was as if Nie Tian was the only thing they could see.

"Dammit!" Via the seven Heaven Eyes, Nie Tian had a clear view of everything happening on the battlefield, including the movement of the low-tier outsiders and the changes to those infected human Qi warriors.

He realized that Groete had started taking him seriously and had grown very eager to kill him.

That was the only explanation for why he redirected all the troops that had been fighting the Blood sect to attack him alone.

At this point, he felt that the pressure he faced might even be comparable to Li Jing and Shen Xiu. None of the other Worldly realm experts from the Blood sect had ever faced a situation so dangerous. "They're demonized!"

At that moment, Groete suddenly threw his head back and heaved a roar.

He suddenly began to thrum with a strange energy that seemed to be able to awaken his bloodline power. Under Nie Tian's flabbergasted gaze, he began to undergo horrendous changes.

Originally, Groete was only about the same size as a human male, only slightly taller.

However, in the reflection of Nie Tian's eyes, Groete's body, bit by bit, began to match the physique of a low-tier outsider!

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Groete, who was originally two meters tall, went through great changes and rapidly bulked up.

The rich demon Qi in his surroundings madly poured into his body as if it were helping him expand. Therefore, he finished demonizing in seconds, a skill only high-tier outsiders had mastered.

Now that the process was complete, he had become more than three meters tall and had bulging muscles all over his body, which seemed to be full of explosive power.

The curved horns on his forehead and his tail had also grown significantly larger.

Meanwhile, black scales had grown out of his flesh, covering whichever part of his body that hadn't been covered by his fine armor.

A violent energy fluctuation surged out of Groete's demonized body and spread far into the surrounding area, making Nie Tian increasingly astonished.

Via the seven Heaven Eyes, he saw every single change that had occurred to Groete's body. He had a clear feeling that after the process, Groete's battle prowess had risen to a whole new level.

Before, he had considered Groete to be as strong as a late Greater Heaven stage human cultivator, but after the series of astounding changes, he now deemed Groete as strong as a Worldly realm Qi warrior.

PUFF!

Groete spit out a mouthful of purple blood. His handsome face had now become sinister and full of bulging veins.

WHOOSH!

It was also at this moment the Flame Dragon Armor noticed the unfavorable situation Nie Tian was in, and thus rapidly flew back and floated right in front of him.

Clusters of raging flames flew out of the Flame Dragon Armor and spread out in a thin layer outside of Nie Tian's chaotic magnetic field, like a sheet of flames.

As the blazing sheet stretched out further and further, a shield of raging fire took form.

A faint wisp of thought flew out of the Flame Dragon Armor.

Nie Tian caught it at the first possible moment.

Eyes narrowed, he tried to comprehend it as he kept an eye on Groete.

He knew that it must be a message from the Flame Dragon Armor's soul.

Even though the message was wordless, Nie Tian somehow quickly understood the Flame Dragon Armor's intention.

It urged him to sped up the rotation of the vortex of flame power in his spiritual sea, circulate flame power through his whole body, and use it to fight his enemy.

It seemed that only in this way would he be able to make use of the Flame Dragon Armor and display its might to some extent.

Therefore, he did accordingly.

The vortex of flame power in his spiritual sea rotated faster and faster, and he now only drew power from this vortex.

Before long, fire-attributed spiritual power filled every meridian in his body, and by doing this, his skin even somehow turned crimson.

At that moment, he had a feeling that the bond between him and the Flame Dragon Armor had grown a lot stronger.

"Nie Tian! That high-tier outsider has demonized, which means he's awakened his bloodline power!" Shen Xiu, elder of the Blood sect, shouted out to him from afar, urging him to be extra careful.

OWWW! ROAAAR!

At that very moment, a wave of low-tier outsiders reached Nie Tian's side with the turned Blood sect disciples at their back, whose pupils had turned completely purple.

Apparently, they had only Nie Tian in their eyes and nothing else.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

One after another, numerous gigantic flame pillars shot out of the Flame Dragon Armor, and right as they were about to reach the incoming low-tier outsiders, each and every one of them morphed into Flame Dragons.

Baring their sharp claws, the Flame Dragons charged into the wave of low-tier outsiders.

The low-tier outsiders immediately burst into flames as soon as they made contact with the Flame Dragons. Letting out miserable wails, they hastily used all their power to contend with the fierce flames.

Even still, one by one, they dropped to the ground and died, their black-purple flesh melted off their bones.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The Flame Dragon Armor shot out many more fire clusters to deal with the Blood sect Qi warriors who had been polluted and enslaved by the demon Qi.

Nie Tian finally got to see the might of the Flame Dragon Armor. As a matter of fact, it hadn't moved yet, only sending out flame blasts, which turned into destructive Flame Dragons; even still, it managed to stop all the incoming low-tier outsiders and turned Qi warriors.

However, unleashing torrential flame power nonstop could be consuming even for the Flame Dragon Armor.

It seemed that the outsider lord, Groete, also had a clear idea that only those low-tier outsiders and turned disciples of the Blood sect wouldn't be enough to kill Nie Tian, who had a Spirit Channeling grade treasure at his disposal.

All of a sudden, while the low-tier outsiders attacked Nie Tian, Groete hid himself in a cluster of demon Qi so dense that it was like a ball of black water thrumming extremely strange energy fluctuations.

Even via the seven Heaven Eyes, Nie Tian wasn't able to precisely locate Groete within it.

All he could see was a cluster of demon Qi floating closer and closer to him.

The Flame Dragon Armor had noticed the approaching demon Qi cluster and shot out a pillar of flame significantly thicker than before toward it.

However, just as it was about to bombard on the cluster of demon Qi, the cluster broke up into nine smaller clusters, each the same size, with the energy fluctuations coming out of each one exactly identical.

As much as he wanted to, Nie Tian wasn't able to tell which of them Groete was hiding in, not even with the Heaven Eyes.

It was also true of the giant flame pillar, so it picked one of the demon Qi clusters and struck it.

As soon as it did, that cluster of demon Qi unraveled and turned into wisps of black smoke.

However, soon it regathered and regained its original shape, floating towards Nie Tian once again.

The demon Qi clusters swayed as they traveled forwards, but they shared the same target: Nie Tian.

Then, the Flame Dragon Armor went ahead and shot out more flame pillar towards the nine demon Qi clusters, but they shifted their positions as they closed in on him. From time to time, they would hide behind the low-tier outsiders and demonized disciples from the Blood sect.

By sacrificing those low-tier troops, they skillfully avoided the Flame Dragon Armor's attacks.

Before long, all nine of them reached the shield of rolling flames created by the Flame Dragon Armor, and exploded one after another, giving rise to heaven-shaking, earth-shattering sounds.

Countless dark spots were sent flying and filled the entire shield of fire, turning it into a strange purple color.

As soon as it did, Groete showed himself and passed through the layer of flames into Nie Tian chaotic magnetic field.

However, the moment he entered, his sinister face grew even more distorted, as he also realized that he was being affected by the strange force within the magnetic field.

Even though he knew that his battle prowess had dropped significantly because of the magnetic field, he had confidence that if that was all there was to it, he would be able to kill Nie Tian rather easily.

With these thoughts, he immediately launched an attack.

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With one finger, Groete pointed at Nie Tian from afar.

The different types of power interwove with each other in the magnetic field in a disorderly fashion.

The demon Qi that had been included into the magnetic field was gradually distorted and morphed into fine, purple light dots, scattered far away from Nie Tian at the edge of the magnetic field.

However, the moment Groete pointed at him, all the tiny, purple dots seemed to be suddenly attracted by some force.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

They instantly flew out of the magnetic field and converged onto Groete's raised finger. By doing that, they seemed to have strengthened his finger, turning it as sharp as a razor.

As countless purple light dots kept gathering, a purple light ball that was the size of a fist gradually took shape around his finger.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

All of a sudden, strong energy fluctuations were born from within the mysterious, purple light ball.

The incomparably rich demon Qi in the surroundings seemed to be commanded by an unknown force as it madly poured through the flame shield into the chaotic magnetic field from all directions, which then turned into even more fragmentary, purple light dots before flying into the purple light ball around Groete's finger.

It wasn't very long before the fist-sized light ball expanded to the size of a human head.

PUFF!

Groete spit a mouthful of blood towards the purple light ball. The moment his blood merged with the light ball, the entire light ball began to emanate black light.

The black light seemed to have endless life power as it rapidly spread out and painted everything black, including Nie Tian's chaotic magnetic field.

It was as if wherever it reached, all light was instantly devoured.

In Nie Tian's sight, the whole world had become pitch-black. He couldn't even see his own hands, much less Groete. All he could see was a cluster of purple light floating not far from him.

Even the power in his magnetic field seemed to be affected by the endless darkness, as all the different types of power separated from one another and couldn't twist together.

"Bloodline power! Eternal Night!" Groete snorted disdainfully, and the formidable power that originated from his bloodline created a cloak of darkness covering a fifty-meter range with Nie Tian at the center.

Sectmaster Li Jing, Shen Xiu, and many other Blood sect disciples saw the frightening magic.

From where they were standing, the area that Nie Tian and Groete were at seemed to be drowned by pitch-black ink. Not a single ray of light could be seen coming out of it.

Even when they tried to examine it with their soul consciousness, they felt disrupted by some mysterious energy and couldn't sense anything.

Li Jing's expression flickered. After all, as the sectmaster of the Blood sect, she had certain knowledge regarding the outsider demons.

Generally speaking, their powerful bloodlines could be passed on and inherited.

The more powerful the outsider was, the more powerful their descendants normally would be.

The fact that Sarah and the other high-tier outsiders called Groete "Lord" meant that Groete's parents must be powerful and lofty outsiders, and thus the bloodline they possessed was probably also beyond ordinary.

Even though Groete was still young and not as powerful, his bloodline must be superior to the other high-tier outsiders.

As he grew stronger, he would gradually awaken his bloodline and acquire more abilities. If he could enhance his bloodline power to the eighth or ninth level, he would probably become an overlord of the outsiders.

With these thoughts, Li Jing once again began worrying about Nie Tian's safety, fearing that the awakened Groete would possess the power to hurt or even kill Nie Tian.

At that moment, the Bone Blood Demon was still trying to cut through a sea of low-tier outsiders.

There had been roughly more than four hundred low-tier outsiders in the area and it had killed almost a quarter of them.

However, numerous fearless low-tier outsiders still charged towards it, as though they didn't know what death meant. Apparently, their sole purpose was to prevent the Bone Blood Demon from getting close to Nie Tian and Groete for as long as possible, and buy Groete time.

On the other hand, the Flame Dragon Armor was still unleashing raging flame pillars, burning numerous low-tier outsiders alive.

However, it was a spiritual tool after all, so only when commanded by a seasoned master of flame power would it be able to display its might to the fullest.

At this point, Nie Tian was far from being powerful enough to freely control the Flame Dragon Armor. Therefore, the things the Flame Dragon Armor could do for Nie Tian were still limited.

Creating that flame shield around Nie Tian and killing the flood of low-tier outsiders were about it.

If Nie Tian wanted to display more of its formidable power, he would have to put on the Flame Dragon Armor and truly bind their flame power and souls together.

Unfortunately, Nie Tian was only in the Lesser Heaven stage, and thus was not even strong enough to wear it.

As Groete's purple light ball grew larger and more powerful, Nie Tian's chaotic magnetic field gradually lost its effect.

Submerged by darkness, Nie Tian could only see a ball of purple light, but soon he found that looking at it made his eyes hurt and tears rolled down his cheeks before he knew it.

He heard the summoning of a mysterious soul from within that purple light ball. A profound voice told him to not hold himself back and walk to it.

Thump!

He slowly took a step closer towards the purple light ball and found the summons coming from it even more irresistible.

However, he had a strange feeling that the moment he walked up to the purple light ball and touched it would be the moment he died.

As that feeling grew more and more intense, he did his utmost to control himself. However, he discovered that he could only slow down his steps, but couldn't stop.

Thump!

Another step was made.

He was one step closer to the only light source in the seemingly endless darkness.

After this step, he completely lost control of his body and what he wanted to do had become pointless.

Devastated, he knew that he only needed to take two more steps to reach the purple light ball, and then he would be devoured by utter darkness.

Only then would he taste the sweet relief of death.

Even though Nie Tian had considered himself to be mentally strong, at that moment, his mental defense had completely broke down and he gave up to destiny.

However, also at that very moment, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated by multiple times, and he seemed to instantly regain a clear mind.

At that moment, he felt like his soul had been suddenly lit up, and he could now see the seven fragmentary stars that hung high in the sky of his soul, emanating light more radiant than ever.

A spray of starlight that could purge the foulness and cleanse the soul poured down from the seven fragmentary stars and filled his entire soul.

He, who was about to make the final steps, suddenly stopped and remained in place like an unwavering mountain, not even moving a muscle.

His blank and bewildered eyes also began to shine with starlight, which seemed to have originated from the seven fragmentary stars in his soul and was now helping him to resist the summons of the purple light ball.

"This is merely an illusion!" Nie Tian finally was able to speak, his eyes shining with bright starlight and raging killing intent.

He lifted his fist and converged his boundless rage on it.

The rage punch he had learned from the mysterious dimension was by far the most powerful technique at his disposal.

With a loud crash, his fist bombarded the purple light ball.

BANG!

The purple light ball exploded, sending out countless fragmentary purple spots, each and every one of them bearing the intention to penetrate his skin, enter his fist, and then follow his arm to his internal organs.

However, a few wisps of dazzling starlight flew out of the vortex of starlight in Nie Tian's dantian.

They seemed to have communicated with the stars in the sky. Moments later, bright spots of starlight rained down from the heavens, shone through the dense, light-blocking demon Qi, and gathered on Nie Tian's body.

The starlight pouring down seemed to have evicted the darkness and purged the demon Qi around Nie Tian.

The dark force originating from the purple light also vanished under the starlight. Clear-minded, Nie Tian was no longer influenced by the dark magic, not even in the slightest.

All of a sudden, Groete's terrified voice echoed out from within the rapidly dissipating darkness, "Fragmentary Star Incantation!"

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From the look of it, being a highborn outsider, Groete knew about the Fragmentary Star Incantation, and that was why when he saw the starlight raining down onto Nie Tian, he looked somewhat scared.

The Blood sect had been enveloped in the dense demon Qi for so long that all the Blood sect survivors had almost forgot what the starry sky looked like. They weren't even sure if the moon, the sun, and the stars still existed.

Seeing the starlight falling from the heavens, penetrating and dispelling the demon Qi, every disciple of the Blood sect had a feeling that the starlight that had poured onto Nie Tian was their hope to get out of the difficult situation.

In their eyes, the starlight was the light of hope!

"Nie Tian!" Li Jing suddenly put a sizable distance between Sarah and herself. Wreathed in a rich bloody aura, she looked at Nie Tian, eyes filled with shock.

She was the only Qi warrior in the Blood sect who had reached the Profound realm, so her understanding of the starlight was much better than all the other Blood sect members.

As strong and resourceful as she was, when the Blood sect had been engulfed by the dense demon Qi, she found herself at the end of her wits.

However, the starlight pouring down from the heavens at this very moment carried a mysterious power that could cleanse the demon Qi.

This power was completely new to her, and it went beyond even her understanding.

Furthermore, she didn't think it was Wu Ji who had passed this miraculous incantation to Nie Tian.

If he had such a powerful incantation at his disposal, the Cloudsoaring sect wouldn't be in a similar situation as the Blood sect, struggling to stay afloat.

"Spirit Channeling grade treasure, mysterious incantation… Is he really Wu Ji's disciple?" Li Jing couldn't help but wonder.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

As soon as the flood of starlight shone on the dense demon Qi, the demon Qi dissipated as rapidly as if it had been set on fire.

Moments later, a ten-meter range, with Nie Tian being the center, was demon Qi-free.

Having lost his chaotic magnetic field, Nie Tian stood in the center of the starlight-lit area, a confused expression on his face.

On the other hand, Groete had already quietly gotten away from Nie Tian as soon as his purple light ball exploded and the starlight started cleansing the demon Qi.

At that moment, Groete was hiding away within another cluster of dense demon Qi, looking deeply at Nie Tian with his purple, devilish eyes, as if he was trying to see through all the secrets in Nie Tian.

What he didn't know was that after destroying the purple light ball with the rage punch, Nie Tian was actually in a terrible state.

The rage punch had almost drained all of his power.

WHOOSH!

All of a sudden, a ball of flame whizzed over, dragging a long, burning tail, and stopped one meter in front of Nie Tian.

After the flames gradually went out, the Flame Dragon Armor showed itself.

CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

The sounds of heavy things crashing into the ground rang out from behind Nie Tian.

Along with those sounds came the screams of low-tier outsiders and blood-spurting sounds.

By destroying the purple light ball and channeling starlight from the heavens, Nie Tian had bought the Bone Blood Demon enough time to break through the blockade.

Seconds later, the Bone Blood Demon, whose body had turned red from the bloodbath, arrived by Nie Tian's side.

Emanating a dreadful, bloody aura, the Bone Blood Demon stood back to back with Nie Tian. It constantly swung its gigantic bony hands, tearing the incoming roaring low-tier outsiders into shreds.

Before long, the bodies of the dead low-tier outsiders piled up into a hill in front of the Bone Blood Demon.

More and more purple blood kept streaming out of the mangled bodies and soon the ground was covered in it.

"Your highness!" Sarah called out to Groete. As she turned her curvaceous body, numerous thorns grew out of her, and then she whizzed towards Li Jing.

The blood-colored lotus Li Jing sat on seemed as if it was made of blood crystal, inside of which blood shadows constantly flashed about.

She felt greatly relieved after seeing that the Bone Blood Demon had reached Nie Tian's side and was now cutting down wave after wave of low-tier outsiders to keep him safe.

At that moment, the voices of Feng Luo, Hong Can, Li Fan, and Zou Yi rang out from afar.

"Sectmaster!"

"Senior Li!"

"We're here!"

After spending some time to replenish their power with spirit stones, they finally made it to the central square of the Blood sect.

"Your highness!" Sarah's voice echoed out again. It seemed she didn't dare to tell Groete what to do, so she just called out his name.

She also feared that she might irritate him and make him act rashly by advising him.

She only wanted to inform him that now that Feng Luo and the others had arrived, according to her assessment of the situation, their operation to sack the Blood sect was already destined to fail.

Furthermore, she had witnessed Groete awaken his own bloodline power and cast the Eternal Night spell, but fail to kill Nie Tian before the Bone Blood Demon rushed to his side.

As a high-tier outsider herself, she had a perfect idea of how consuming the demonizing process could be.

She knew that Groete must have lost a significant amount of his vital energy and needed to recuperate as soon as possible. In his current condition, he couldn't fight another battle.

On the other hand, the Bone Blood Demon had slaughtered more than two hundred low-tier outsiders by now, and it had accumulated its flesh power to a terrifying level.

Even she lacked the confidence to overtake the Bone Blood Demon at this point. And that was not to mention the fact that she would need to get through Li Jing first.

However, the most unbearable thing for her was that the demon Qi in the area was rapidly dissipating due to the starlight Nie Tian had brought down from the heavens.

All these unfavorable factors had made Sarah realize that if they continued to fight, they would become the losing side.

That was why she had warned Groete of the situation twice…

Meanwhile, Groete didn't lose his clear mind. With one sharp screech, he commanded all the remaining low-tier outsiders to attack the Blood sect disciples as well as Hong Can and the others who had just arrived. Then he shouted in their language, "Retreat!"

Upon hearing his order, the other five high-tier outsiders, including Sarah, immediately pulled back and dashed to his side.

They formed a circle around Groete before they leapt into the air and flew away in the dense demon Qi.

After receiving Groete's order, all the low-tier outsiders let out mad roars as they charged toward the human Qi warriors.

After all, in the eyes of Groete and Sarah, the low-tier outsiders were nothing more than expendable tools that they could sacrifice to buy enough time for them to retreat.

By the time they were quite some distance from the Blood sect, Groete let out another screech.

Only then did the frenzied low-tier outsiders stopped attacking and flee in all directions.

"Chase after them! Kill as many as you can!" Sitting on top of her blood-colored lotus, Li Jing gave the order, commanding those who were strong enough to resist the demon Qi to hunt down the fleeing low-tier outsiders.

Now that their commanders were gone, Li Jing was confident that they would be able to finish off the remaining two hundred outsider minions.

As the other Blood sect experts chased after the fleeing low-tier outsiders, Li Jing remained in place.

Neither did she chase after the low-tier outsiders, nor did she go after Groete and the high-tier outsiders.

The reason was that Nie Tian didn't make a move either, and the Bone Blood Demon was standing right next to him like a faithful guard.

She knew in her heart that the Bone Blood Demon was what had caused the high-tier outsiders to leave.

WHOOSH!

The scarlet lotus traveled through the dissipating demon Qi to the cleansed, lit-up area where Nie Tian was standing.

Upon arriving at the purged area, the bloody aura that had been wreathing Li Jing immediately dissipated, and only then did Nie Tian get a clear view of her face.

Floating in front of him was a woman in her thirties. The way she wore her makeup and the way she dressed made her look especially elegant.

She was wearing a long, rose-red dress and her curvaceous thighs were crossed as she sat atop the blood-colored lotus. Since she had canceled the spell, her scarlet pupils had resumed their original, black color.

Grabbing the lower part of her dress with one hand, she rose to her feet in a slow, graceful fashion.

The blood-colored lotus gradually descended and, when it was half a meter from the ground, she gently stepped down from the lotus.

With a wave of her hand, the lotus that seemed to be made of blood jade rapidly shrunk to the size of a fist and flew into the ring on her left ring finger.

"Sectmaster!" Feng Luo from the Blood sect wanted to explain how the Bone Blood Demon had awakened and why they had been delayed.

Li Jing gently raised her left hand.

Feng Luo immediately sealed his lips and bowed in a respectful way before turning around and joining the others in hunting down the fleeing low-tier outsiders.

At that moment, Li Fan from the Cloudsoaring sect quietly stepped into the starlight-lit area where Nie Tian was the standing.

With a serious and reverent look in his eyes, Li Fan looked at Li Jing from behind.

The elegant woman in front of her was among the few Qi warriors who stood on top of the cultivation pyramid in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

He had heard many rumors about her and knew that not only was she cruel and merciless, she was also famous for her moodiness. Even the slightest disagreement might make her go berserk and start killing.

However, it was thanks to her bold decisions that the Blood sect had prospered during the recent years.

The fact that she remained in place instead of venting her anger upon the fleeing minions had somehow made Li Fan worry.

Li Fan wondered what her next move would be. After all, she had never been one to follow the rules.

"Senior…" As soon as Li Fan uttered the first word, he found his own voice a bit funny. After laboring to calm himself, he cleared his throat and said, "Nie Tian is my martial granduncle's disciple. Even though he somehow controlled the Bone Blood Demon your sect put heart and soul into, he played an important role in raising the siege of your sect.

"He's still young and unseasoned. I hope you can give face to my martial granduncle and go easy on him," Li Fan pleaded.

"You think I was going to punish him?" said Li Jing, not even turning her head back.

"Oh? So what do you intend to do with him then?" Li Fan said, puzzled.

"Now that he has awakened the Bone Blood Demon and become the master of our sect's most valuable Blood Demon, he's a member of the Blood sect." Staring into Nie Tian's eyes, Li Jing continued, "You can tell Wu Ji later that he's no longer a member of the Cloudsoaring sect."

"What?! You can't mean that!" Li Fan stood aghast.

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"Why not?" Li Jing finally turned her head back and looked at Li Fan with a meaningful look in her eyes. She pursed her lips into a smile and said softly, "I didn't even see the least bit of the Cloudsoaring sect in Nie Tian. I bet Eccentric Wu didn't pass any Cloudsoaring sect incantations to him."

After a brief pause, she continued with a smile, "On the contrary, I sensed a hint of our sect's aura on him. I can say for sure that he has some kind of connection with our sect."

During the Green Illusion dimension trial, Yu Tong had used the Earth Web incantation to pierce countless blood strings into Nie Tian's flesh.

However, Nie Tian had somehow managed to pull all the blood strings into his body and refine them into his own blood.

As the sectmaster of the Blood sect, no one had a better mastery of all the Blood sect's forbidden techniques, therefore she keenly sensed that Nie Tian had the Blood sect's aura on him.

She was certain that the reason why Nie Tian had been able to awaken the Bone Blood Demon must have had something to do with the Blood sect's aura flowing in his veins, aside from the life power he had passed onto it.

The smile on Li Fan's face was a bit unnatural as he said, "Nie Tian has already officially made my martial granduncle his master. Everyone knows that."

"So what?" Li Jing blurted in an indifferent fashion, "It won't be a problem as long as Eccentric Wu lets him go. He has already proven his teaching ability with his two other disciples. Plus, now that his lifespan is limited, I'm afraid he won't have much time left to guide Nie Tian anyways. However, the Blood sect and I can give Nie Tian what he can't!"

Before Li Fan could say anything back, Li Jing let out a cold harrumph and continued, "Furthermore, the Blood sect has poured endless time and resources into that Bone Blood Demon. You have witnessed its strength yourself, and now it only takes orders from Nie Tian. Do you think I'll let it go back to the Cloudsoaring sect with him?"

Li Fan's face grew serious. "But it was Nie Tian who lifted the siege of the Blood sect!"

"That's not enough!" Li Jing said with a domineering tone. "If you think I'll let the person who controls the Bone Blood Demon leave, you might as well stop dreaming! Either he leaves the Cloudsoaring sect and joins the Blood sect, or I kill him and free the Bone Blood Demon from his control.

"Say no more, Li Fan. Go tell Eccentric Wu that I'll have Nie Tian, one way or another!"

With a wave of her hand, a cluster of bloody aura flew over. It enveloped Li Fan, who was just about to say something, and flew away, not giving him the chance to protest.

After Li Fan disappeared in the distant sky, she once again looked at Nie Tian, her eyes glittering with bright light.

"Eccentric Wu is indeed a good judge of talent." She thought to herself. "This kid is perfect for practicing our sect's secret magics. Now that you've awakened the Bone Blood Demon, you and our sect are connected by destiny. Sorry, Eccentric Wu…"

She was bent on making Nie Tian a disciple of the Blood sect.

At that moment, Nie Tian was sitting on the ground, recuperating with spirit stones.

The rage punch had almost drained all the power in his dantian's spiritual sea. What he needed the most at this point was to recover his strength at the fastest speed possible, so as to cope with the complicated, ever-changing situation in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

As he absorbed spiritual power from the spirit stones, starlight continued to fall through the dissipating demon Qi and converge on him.

He examined his spiritual sea and saw that the starlight he was taking in was gradually flowing into the vortex of starlight.

At that moment, he had a faint feeling that a mysterious connection between him and a dimension very far away had been established and was strengthening.

It was through that connection that the starlight, which was pure and carried the miraculous power of purging the demon Qi, had fallen from the heavens and converged on him.

As the starlight continued to fall, not only the demon Qi in Nie Tian's surrounding areas, but even the demon Qi in further areas gradually dissipated.

Of course, since the high-tier outsiders had evacuated the place and the low-tier outsiders had fled the area, the density of the demon Qi was already on the decline.

It was the starlight that had sped up the process.

Moments later, a large area with Nie Tian at the center became completely demon Qi-free and the previously blocked sky could be seen again.

Everyone in the area looked up and saw the starlit sky. Among all the stars, one seemed to shine especially brilliantly.

Now that the demon Qi in the central square had dissipated, the weaker Blood sect disciples, who had been hiding behind the scarlet light shield, walked out into the clean air with sighs of relief.

The gigantic blood shadow also shrunk under Li Jing's soul's command.

SHEW!

The blood shadow suddenly turned into a flash of blood-colored light before disappearing into the ring on Li Jing's finger.

A while passed and all the demon Qi that had gathered in the Blood sect dissipated, and the Blood sect was once again showered with silver moonlight.

Numerous Blood sect disciples with low cultivation bases looked up at the starlit sky, which seemed now brighter than ever, sighing over their survival.

"It was so close."

"It's finally over."

"I didn't expect that we'd see the sky again."

"We've lived through this calamity and we're safe for now. But I wonder when the wars in the Realm of Flame Heaven will end…"

BOOM!

The Bone Blood Demon, who had been standing by Nie Tian's side like a guardian, suddenly collapsed to the ground.

Upon the loud crash, purple-colored blood spilled all over the place.

The sound had attracted almost every Blood sect disciples' attention while Li Jing, who was standing right next to Nie Tian, was the first to make a move.

In the next moment, Li Jing was already standing on top of the Bone Blood Demon's ribcage.

She slowly crouched down and placed her ring-bearing left hand on the Bone Blood Demon's huge heart. Upon contact, numerous wisps of blood-colored light instantly flew out of her slender fingers and into the heart.

With a secret magic of the Blood sect, she carefully examined it.

A moment later, she said with a slight frown, "It has run out of life power. Without a power source, it can only fall into a deep slumber again. Only by infusing it with more life power will we be able to bring it back to life again…"

Her gaze shifted from the Bone Blood Demon to Nie Tian, a complicated expression on her face.

She knew perfectly well that she would have to rely on Nie Tian to revive the Bone Blood Demon. Nothing she did would make a difference.

Nie Tian was the only one who could awaken the Bone Blood Demon and put it to use.

She sensed that even though the Bone Blood Demon was now in a slumber, the outsider blood it had absorbed using the Blood Refining Incantation was still running through its veins.

The aura of flesh and blood that it kept exuding was also significantly intenser than before.

It seemed that all the spirit beast blood they had used on it was nowhere near as helpful as the outsider blood it had absorbed on its own.

Perhaps only Blood Demons created from powerful, alien races would be able to enhance themselves via such methods.

"Perhaps, it still has room to grow. As long as it can keep absorbing power from flesh and blood, it may even awaken its Bone Giant bloodline power some day.

"It's safe to say that the Blood sect has never seen a Blood Demon like this since its founding day.

"Not to mention in the Realm of Flame Heaven, even in the other more powerful realms, a fully awakened Blood Demon with a level eight bloodline power would be considered as an ultimate weapon!

"We can't lose such a formidable weapon to the Cloudsoaring sect! We must have it!"

Li Jing secretly made up her mind. She was bent on keeping Nie Tian in the Blood sect, even though it meant that she would make Wu Ji her enemy and disrupt the current alliance between the seven sects.

Time passed quickly.

All the Blood sect disciples who had chased after the fleeing low-tier outsiders, returned in triumph.

Only a couple of them returned in low spirits as they didn't get to kill any low-tier outsiders.

Among the crowd, Li Jing even saw Yu Tong, Jiang Lingzhu, An Shiyi, and Zheng Bin. Apparently, they had rushed to this place after seeing that the demon Qi had lifted, and met the returning Blood sect disciples on their way.

At first glance, Jiang Lingzhu and An Shiyi caught sight of Nie Tian, who was now recuperating with his eyes closed.

Without any hesitation, they rushed towards him. However, as they approached, they saw sectmaster Li Jing, and came to a stop.

"Senior Li…" Timidness filled their eyes as the two of them bowed to Li Jing from afar, wondering why she was standing beside Nie Tian.

Actually, neither of them had met Li Jing in person before, but the suffocating aura she unleashed made them certain that the elegant, well-dressed women in front of them was none other than the famous, fierce woman from the Blood sect.

Since they had both heard terrifying rumors about her, they behaved very cautiously, fearing that they might unwittingly offend her.

Li Jing examined the two of them with her fierce eyes before saying with a plain tone, "Who are you to him?"

"Umm, he's my martial uncle. My father is Jiang Zhisu." Jiang Lingzhu sounded intimidated.

"I'm his sworn sister," said An Shiyi.

"Jiang Zhisu's precious daughter…" Li Jing shot Jiang Lingzhu another glance before she nodded and said, "From now on, Nie Tian is no longer your martial uncle. He's a member of the Blood sect. You can tell your father that I've demanded him from the Cloudsoaring sect when you get back."

She didn't even bother to talk to An Shiyi. Instead, she walked away from Nie Tian.

"He's recuperating. You can stay by his side and watch him, but don't try to wake him." Her voice echoed out from the distance while she was already nowhere to be seen.

Jiang Lingzhu's expression flickered. "A member of the Blood sect?!" Her gaze shifted between Nie Tian, who was cultivating with his eyes closed, and the direction where Li Jing's voice had come from, confused about what had happened in this place.

An Shiyi's face was also filled with confusion as she stared blankly at Nie Tian.

Yu Tong, who was standing in a respectful fashion beside Shen Xiu, apologized, "I'm sorry, sectmaster. I failed to arrive in time to help defend the sect."

"You did well," Li Jing said casually, as it seemed that she also knew the things that had happened between Nie Tian and her. "From today on, Nie Tian is your junior martial brother, and I need you to forget about all your enmity towards him."

"What?!" Yu Tong was flabbergasted.

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With a slight frown, Li Jing said, "You didn't hear me? Okay, I'll say it one more time. From now on, Nie Tian will be your junior martial brother, and you'll forget about the things that happened between you and him."

Yu Tong bowed her head in silence for a while before replying, "Got it."

"Good." Li Jing said no more.

Under the starlit sky, Yu Tong's shoulders couldn't stop from shivering. Apparently, Li Jing's decision had greatly shaken her.

However, she didn't dare to disobey or argue with her. She could only do as she was bid.

After all, she had a very good idea of what kind of person the sectmaster was and what punishment she would face if she dared to go against her orders.

She could only try to slowly forget the unpleasant incidents between her and Nie Tian.

Her master, Shen Xiu, had noted her sorrow and indignation. She touched her head and said softly, "Kiddo, Nie Tian has become an important asset of our sect. I heard something about the things that happened between you and him, but the moment he awakened the Bone Blood Demon, he was bound to become one of us."

After all, Shen Xiu had had gone through winds and waves with Li Jing. She understood that now that she had made up her mind, no one's feelings would change her mind, no matter whose.

After giving the order to Yu Tong, Li Jing turned to look at Hong Can, Zou Yi, and the others.

Under her suggesting gaze, all the disciples from the other sects gathered by her side, including Li Fan, who she had released and returned to the Blood sect with the others.

Even Hong Can, who was from the Hell sect, spoke to her very carefully. "Sectmaster Li, could you tell us what happened to the Realm of Flame Heaven during the time we were gone?"

Upon hearing Hong Can's words, the expressions of all those who had returned from the Heaven Gate trial turned grim and concerned. A subdued mood rapidly spread out among them.

"Terrible things," Li Jing said with a plain tone.

Then she went on and briefly explained to them about the war between the seven sects and the foreign invaders.

Not long after Hong Can and the others had entered the Heaven Gate, it disappeared. However, at the same time, a large amount of outsiders swarmed into the Realm of Flame Heaven via opened spacial rifts; most of them were low-tier, but there were also a few high-tier ones.

However, knowing that their Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation had broken down and outsider demons would soon invade the realm via those spacial rifts, the Hell sect had evacuated before they arrived.

Most of their powerful experts had been scattered in their affiliated cities, while others had gone to the Ghost sect.

Experts from the other six sects had also learned that the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation had lost its effect and realized that they wouldn't have walls to stay behind if they chose to defend the Hell sect. Therefore, they had returned to their respective sects.

That way, not only would they be able to contend with the outsiders with the help of their grand, sect-protecting spell formations, but they could also shelter the clans that clung to them.

As they had expected, soon enough, countless outsiders had flooded the Realm of Flame Heaven, spreading out to attack all the sects and sending some of their best warriors to the cities where the experts from the Hell sect had held fast.

The war between the outsiders and the seven sects immediately unfurled and spread out to every corner of the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Later, when the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was polluted and demon Qi inundated some parts of the realm, the teleportation portals lost their effect.

Communication between the seven sects had grown increasingly difficult. As time passed, they gradually lost contact with one another.

For example, when the Blood sect had been besieged by outsiders, they found it harder and harder to receive information from the other sects.

The latest news they had received said that the Grayvale sect had already been sacked by the invading outsiders; most of their Qi warriors had died by the outsiders' hands with only a few successfully breaking through the siege, whose whereabouts unknown.

Since some powerful experts from the Hell sect had joined the defense of the Ghost sect, they had been in a stalemate with the main force of the outsider army.

Meanwhile, since the Spiritual Treasure sect had lost their Heaven Burning Earth Flame Formation, they had no choice but to go to the Cloudsoaring sect and join their camp.

On the other hand, since the Mystic Mist sect wasn't as strong as the other sects, the outsiders hadn't deployed much of their force to attack them, and thus they were currently able to defend themselves.

However, everyone knew that the main force of the outsider army had been deployed to the Ghost sect.

Once the Ghost sect lost their battle, the elite outsider troops would march on to the Mystic Mist sect and Cloudsoaring sect.

If it came down to that, the Mystic Mist sect and Cloudsoaring sect wouldn't even be able to last a day.

Great powers in the other realms knew perfectly well what was going on in the Realm of Flame Heaven, but none of them had answered the Hell sect's request for assistance.

As human Qi warriors with similar origins, the indifference of the powerful experts from the other eight realms had made the Hell sect fume with rage. However, there was nothing they could do about it.

With a plain tone, Li Jing gave a detailed explanation of the current situation of the other sects. Then she continued, "Our sect has also suffered great losses, but thanks to the awakening of the Bone Blood Demon, we escaped our doom.

"The seven sects stand and fall as one now.

"Even though we forced the outsiders to retreat this time, we didn't hurt their foundation. All those we've killed were low-tier foot soldiers.

"We'll recuperate as quickly as possible and then I'll lead some of our Greater Heaven stage and Worldly realm experts to support the Ghost sect.

"As long as the Ghost sect can hold fast or even better, defeat their enemies, the Realm of Flame Heaven will most likely live through this calamity.

"Furthermore, I doubt that the outsiders will go all-out to seize the Realm of Flame Heaven and make it their home again.

"They must also know that if they actually send all their troops to this war, the other eight realms will sense the threat and probably won't stand by any more.

"So this is more like a retaliation!

"Both the outsiders and the human Qi warriors of the Domain of the Falling Stars have their own worries. I believe this invasion of the Realm of Flame Heaven is only the beginning."

Li Jing suddenly stopped and turned to look at Nie Tian.

Facing Nie Tian, she said to Li Fan, "The reason I need to keep Nie Tian in the Blood sect is that, although he can now control the Bone Blood Demon, he still hasn't fully awakened it and its true strength is still yet to be displayed.

"If he wants to do that, he'll have to learn some of the Blood sect's secret magics.

"Magics that only disciples of the Blood sect are eligible to learn!

"I guarantee you that after he joins our sect and practices those secret magics, he'll soon become as powerful as a Profound realm expert! And his Bone Blood Demon will be able to more efficiently enhance its strength through the Blood Refining Incantation. Given time, it would grow to be the most powerful weapon we can use to defeat the outsider invaders!

"I believe Wu Ji would accept it if him losing a disciple could restore peace and safety to the Realm of Flame Heaven."

Only until now did Li Jing turn to look at Li Fan in the eyes and say with a soft tone, "I hope you can explain my intentions with Nie Tian to your master when you go back to the Cloudsoaring sect or find a way to contact him. Times are different. Nie Tian has become a crucial factor as to whether we'll be able to turn the situation around and save the Realm of Flame Heaven. I promise that as long as he joins the Blood sect, I'll personally pass our secret magics to him and not hold anything back."

"Alright. I'll pass your message to my master," Li Fan said in a low voice.

After hearing Li Jing's explanation, he now had a better understanding as to why she insisted on making Nie Tian a Blood sect disciple.

"I hope Nie Tian will tell me that he'll be able to awaken the Bone Blood Demon from its slumber again." Li Jing also shut her eyes after these words.

Upon hearing these words, everyone's gaze shifted to Nie Tian.

None of them had ever expected that Nie Tian, who had made great gains during the Heaven Gate trial, would become such a key factor after returning to the Realm of Flame Heaven.

With measuring gazes, they looked deeply at Nie Tian, who was still in the middle of his cultivation.

Not only was he refilling his vortex of spiritual power with the power he had absorbed from the spirit stones, but he was also channeling the falling starlight into his rapidly-rotating vortex of starlight.

When he had a feeling that his spiritual power was almost fully restored, he unleashed a wisp of his psychic awareness to examine the hexagram tattooed on his chest.

As soon as it entered the hexagram, the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation unfurled in front of his eyes, every single symbol incomparably clear. Without any hesitation, he started learning them by heart and contemplating the profound truths they contained.

It wasn't long before he was lost in the sea of fascinating mysteries.

Meanwhile, he also sensed that his psychic power was rapidly emptying as the learning went on.

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