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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It wasn't very long before Nie Tian realized that he had lost more than half of his psychic power, and thus retracted the wisp of his psychic awareness from the hexagram.

However, during this period of learning and contemplation, he had mastered the basics and could practice the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

Then, he once again focused his attention on channeling the falling starlight into the vortex of starlight in his spiritual sea.

The rotation of the vortex of starlight wasn't regular at all; sometimes it sped up and sometimes it slowed down. Sometimes, it even reversed and rotated in the other direction.

The fragments of the starlight seemed to be refined in their own mysterious way. In any case, it grew purer and purer. Once in awhile, a drop of liquidized starlight would form at the bottom of the vortex of starlight.

The way the vortex of starlight worked was completely different from the other vortexes in his spiritual sea. When he practiced the Qi Refining Incantation, the spiritual energy he brought in would go through rounds of refinement and then flow to the far edge of his spiritual sea, and gradually build up towards the center.

Cultivation at the Lesser Heaven stage was about continuously refining spiritual energy and filling the spiritual sea with the misty, refined spiritual energy.

However, the starlight Nie Tian had channeled into his vortex of starlight via the Fragmentary Star Incantation turned into liquid stardew after refinement.

The stardew seemed fundamentally different from the misty spiritual power, as within it seemed to lay more mysteries and secrets.

As time went by, more and more drops of stardew were formed at the bottom of the vortex of starlight and soon gathered into a small pool of stardew.

Time passed quickly. Soon the curtain of night began to rise, and daybreak was at hand.

By first light of the day, Nie Tian could still channel a trivial amount of starlight into his vortex of starlight, but the efficiency had been greatly reduced.

By the time the sun was high in the sky, the starlight he could receive was next to none.

Only then did he finally awake from his cultivation and stop his contemplation of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

He examined himself with his soul and found that he had recovered most of his spiritual power.

It seemed that the shallow stardew pool in his vortex of starlight could also be used as a source of power at any time now.

It was just that he had consumed most of his psychic power just to go through very little of the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation. He only learned how to create the stardew, but not how to use it.

Furthermore, the learning and contemplation had consumed a significant amount of his psychic power.

An Shiyi, who was sitting next to him, was the first one to notice his awaking. She immediately stopped her cultivation and turned to look at him with a charming smile on her face. "You're finally awake!"

In her hands were a few spirit stones. Apparently, she was in the middle of recuperation herself.

After hearing her words, Jiang Lingzhu also opened her eyes. She looked at Nie Tian with her still-misted eyes before looking up and saying, "Wow, it's already morning."

Unlike An Shiyi, Jiang Lingzhu hadn't been recovering with spirit stones. Rather, she had actually fallen asleep during her cultivation.

Ever since she had returned from the Heaven Gate trial, she hadn't had much time to rest; the intense demon Qi and fierce outsiders had done a number on her.

She could only restore a clear mind via a deep slumber.

"Yeah, I'm glad that you guys are alright." With a smile, Nie Tian glanced around and saw that Hong Can, Feng Luo, Li Fan, and other survivors of the Heaven Gate trial were gathered around Li Jing, explaining to her the things that had taken place in the Heaven Gate, while she silently sat in the middle.

Yu Tong was sitting right beside her master, Shen Xiu, but she seemed to be paying attention to Nie Tian the whole time.

The moment Nie Tian woke up, she noticed it and instantly shot a glance at him with a complicated expression on her face.

The Blood sect disciples with low cultivation bases could be seen around the sect, clearing up the battlefield.

Dilapidated walls and scattered rocks could be seen at every corner of the Blood sect, underneath some of which dead bodies of low-tier outsider and Blood sect disciples could be seen.

The cleaners' faces were all ghastly as they bore the pain while doing the work. Some even burst into tears as they did.

However, most of the Greater Heaven stage experts had no expressions on their faces as they seemed to be rather used to fellow sect members dying.

All those who gathered around Li Jing looked quite indifferent. Apparently, they weren't shaken by the loss their sect had suffered.

After glancing around, Nie Tian looked over his shoulder and saw the Bone Blood Demon lying on the ground. Even though he could still sense a strong aura rising from it, there was no longer any sign of life fluctuations.

He then realized that the Bone Blood Demon had used up the life power he had infused into its heart while he was recuperating.

If he wanted to awaken it again, he would have to apply the same method.

With these thoughts, he silently took out a few chunks of spirit beast meat from his bracelet of holding and started munching.

The spirit beast meat contained rich life power, and by consuming it, he would be able to rapidly recover the life power he had lost by dripping his blood onto the Bone Blood Demon's heart.

"Li Fan, you may now go and talk to Nie Tian," Li Jing blurted. "And after that, you're welcome to stay in the Blood sect or take Jiang Lingzhu and leave."

Surprised, Li Fan turned around and saw Nie Tian awake. He rose to his feet and walked to Nie Tian's side before saying, "Nie Tian, your awakening of the Bone Blood Demon caused you some trouble. Senior Li demands that you become a disciple of the Blood sect and that I go back to the Cloudsoaring sect to deliver her message."

With these words, Li Fan heaved a sigh and continued, "I'll inform my master and martial granduncle when I get back and see what they decide."

"What?!" Nie Tian expression flickered. "She wants me to join the Blood sect?"

Li Fan smiled bitterly. "The Bone Blood Demon is too important to the Blood sect. She would never allow you, its controller, to return to the Cloudsoaring sect with it. The Bone Blood Demon may even change the course of the war and determine the destiny of the Realm of Flame Heaven, so…"

He shook his head and said disheartedly, "Truth be told, I'm afraid your master may agree to her offer if it can really turn the situation around."

Nie Tian was at a loss for words.

Jiang Lingzhu, who was sitting beside him, bowed her head and didn't say a word.

Even she understood that Li Jing's proposal was very hard to refuse when the survival of the entire realm that was at stake.

After learning from Li Fan that the entire Realm of Flame Heaven was in danger, the first thing that came to Nie Tian's mind was the safety of his grandfather and aunt, since they were the most important ones to him. "If the outsiders sack the Realm of Flame Heaven, what will happen to Black Cloud City?"

He also cared a great deal about Wu Ji, but he was fairly certain that, considering his level of strength, he would be able to save himself even if the Realm of Flame Heaven fell.

What he worried the most was that Black Cloud City would be ravaged by low-tier outsiders and Nie Donghai and Nie Qian be killed.

"I don't know." Li Fan's eyebrows were deeply furrowed. "But I can assure you that I'll do everything within my power to search for your grandfather and aunt on my way back to the Clousoaring sect, and I'll do my best to keep them safe."

After a brief pause, Li Fan added, "If they're still alive."

Nie Tian's expression turned grim. He pondered for a moment before taking all the cultivation materials he had looted from the foreign Qi warriors out of his bracelet of holding and laying them in front of Li Fan. He said, "These things won't help me much. Now that I'll stay here for god knows how long, I want you to take these things back and consider them as my humble contribution to the Cloudsoaring sect."

After looking deeply into his eyes for a few seconds, Li Fan put all the items away and said, "Staying here isn't necessarily a bad thing for you. For all I know, you'll have your chance to return to the Cloudsoaring sect when the Realm of Flame Heaven is safe again. I need to take Lingzhu back now. You take care!"

"You too, Uncle Li," Nie Tian said.

"I will." Li Fan beckoned for Jiang Lingzhu to leave with him.

At that very moment, Li Jing turned to Shen Xiu and said, "Elder Sister Shen, I need you to escort them back to the Cloudsoaring sect. Also, help Li Fan find Nie Tian's two kin in Black Cloud City. Keep them safe and bring them back to the Blood sect."

It seemed that she had overheard every word of Nie Tian and Li Fan's conversation.

Shen Xiu also rose to her feet. "Understood."

Seeing that Li Fan and Jiang Lingzhu were leaving, An Shiyi rose from Nie Tian's side and said with her face filled with reluctance, "I'll go with you."

Li Fan shook his head and said, "There's no need; the Blood sect has just fought off a wave of outsiders, so I believe this is probably the safest place in the Realm of Flame Heaven right now. Even though the survivors of the Spiritual Treasure sect are now helping defend the Cloudsoaring sect, it won't be easy to get through the outsiders' siege and into the Cloudsoaring sect."

"But my clan is also in Black Cloud City," said An Shiyi.

Li Fan went blank for a moment before he said, "Fine."

He knew that An Shiyi was worried about the An clan and her sister An Ying. Although he knew the way back would be full of terror, he didn't think he would be able to talk An Shiyi out of it.

Nie Tian also knew that she had made up her mind, so he said with a serious tone, "Take care of yourself, sister. We'll meet again soon."

An Shiyi's eyes lit up. "You too."

"As our sectmaster commands, I'll escort you to the Cloudsoaring sect." Shen Xiu slowly descended in front of Nie Tian. Looking at him, she said, "As long as your grandfather and aunt are still alive, I'll find them and bring them back here."

Nie Tian rose to his feet and bowed respectfully. "Many thanks!"

He had heard that Shen Xiu's strength was second only to Li Jing in the Blood sect. Now that she had given him her word, he was quite confident that she would be able to deliver.

As long as his grandfather and aunt were still alive, Shen Xiu would most likely secure them and bring them back.

The Blood sect showed their willingness to go to great lengths to erase his worries and make him stay in the Blood sect.

Immediately after she finished talking, Shen Xiu led Li Fan, An Shiyi, and Jiang Lingzhu as they walked out of the Blood sect. Qiu Heng from the Spiritual Treasure sect tailed them.

The disciples of the Mystic Mist sect also left the Blood sect and headed to their sect.

Only the disciples of the Grayvale sect chose to stay in the Blood sect, knowing that their sect had already been sacked.

Hong Can from the Hell sect and Zou Yi from the Ghost sect planned to spend the next two days recovering their strength and then join the defense over at the Ghost sect.

After everything was settled, the Blood sect returned to peace. Some disciples of the Blood sect spread out to collect blood from the outsiders' corpses, in preparation of reforming the grand, sect-protecting spell formation.

Wearing a long dress, Li Jing walked gracefully to Nie Tian's side and said, "Now I'll teach you the Demon Driving Incantation, which will allow you to gain true control of the Bone Blood Demon."

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When Li Jing moved her fiery-red lips and started telling Nie Tian about the Demon Driving Incantation, everyone voluntarily vacated the area, including the disciples from the Grayvale sect and Ghost sect.

Even if they wanted to overhear what was being said, they wouldn't be able to hear a word since Li Jing had already sound-proofed the area where Nie Tian and she were in.

Slowly and softly, she lectured to Nie Tian about the wonders and secrets of the Demon Driving Incantation.

Nie Tian didn't say anything and quietly memorized every word that came out of her mouth. Later, when Li Jing explained the cultivation method word by word, he occasionally raised his questions.

Li Jing spent a whole morning elaborating on the Demon Driving Incantation to Nie Tian.

At noon, Li Jing finally finished her lesson and, looking at Nie Tian with her piercing eyes, she said, "You'll have two days to contemplate the incantation, and in the meantime, you can come to me whenever you run into points where you don't understand. We'll set out to the Ghost sect in two days and I'll need you to awaken the Bone Blood Demon the same way you did. And then, we'll use it to kill outsider invaders and save the Ghost sect."

"Alright." Nie Tian nodded.

"So this is it for today." She pondered for a moment before the ring on her finger suddenly shone with a bright light. In the next moment, four Soul Restoring Pills appeared in her palm. "I heard that you had outstanding tolerance for the strong medicinal efficacy of the Soul Restoring Pills. Here. You can use them to recover your psychic power."

She handed over the Soul Restoring Pills as she spoke.

"Thank you." Without any hesitation, Nie Tian grabbed the pills and swallowed them all at once.

Currently, he had fully restored his spiritual power and his flesh power was also growing back bit by bit as he digested the spirit beast meat. Only his psychic power, which he had consumed a great deal of to learn the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation, was still quite low.

As a Profound realm expert, Li Jing easily spotted his problem and thus gifted him four Soul Restoring Pills.

"Don't overconsume your psychic power again." Li Jing slightly frowned as if she even saw through the fact that he had overused his psychic power to study the Fragmentary Star Incantation. "Your current priority is to study the Demon Driving Incantation. Only when you master it will you truly master controlling the Bone Blood Demon and be able to display its full strength.

"I'll answer your questions regarding the Demon Driving Incantation while Yu Tong will see to it that you have whatever else you need."

With these words, Li Jing turned around and left the square.

Looking blankly at her elegant figure disappearing into the distance, complicated emotions rose in Nie Tian's heart.

He could still remember that during the Treasure Convention at the Spiritual Treasure sect, the moon had been painted to the color of blood while Li Jing had sat on a floating, scarlet lotus, commanding a gigantic blood monster to tear open the Heaven Burning Earth Flame Formation and slaughter countless disciples of the Spiritual Treasure sect.

He had been chased after by powerful experts from the Blood sect and barely escaped.

Never had he ever imagined that one day this fierce woman would sit down with him and pass on the Blood sect's secret magics to him.

Li Jing arrived at the area where all the Blood sect disciples were gathered. Her gaze swept through the crowd before it landed on Yu Tong as she said with a plain tone, "You'll be responsible for delivering food to Nie Tian's room over the next two days. Grant him whatever he needs. If he asks for anything you can't get, come and find me."

Yu Tong answered respectfully, "As you wish, sectmaster."

"Good." Li Jing slightly nodded.

Nie Tian spent the following day cultivating in his room.

First of all, he replenished his psychic power with the four Soul Restoring Pills and directed the extra power to the seven fragmentary stars in his soul.

Then, he focused on contemplating the profundity of the Demon Driving Incantation.

It was a secret magic that could allow people to communicate with Blood Demons. There were two ways to accomplish that: one, to establish a connection with blood, or two, to communicate with it via the resonation of their souls.

According to Li Jing, since low-rank Blood Demons didn't even possess a soul, the spell-caster would have to establish connection with it using blood.

However, high-rank Blood Demons like the Bone Blood Demon usually would possess an incomplete soul, so the spell-caster could communicate with it through the resonation of their blood or souls.

During their attempts to refine the Bone Blood Demon, Shen Xiu had once forcibly infused her own blood into it.

She had even sealed the Bone Blood Demon's incomplete soul in the Blood Spirit Pearl, nurturing it with her own blood day and night.

If the Bone Blood Demon had been awakened during that time, it would have taken Shen Xiu as its master.

Then, Shen Xiu would have been able to communicate with it and control it via the connection between her blood and the blood she had infused it with, or by resonating with its soul that she had sealed away in the Blood Spirit Pearl.

However, due to Yu Tong's low cultivation base, when the Bone Blood Demon had been awakened, she had failed to suppress the rebellion of its incomplete soul, which eventually broke free from the constraint of the Blood Spirit Pearl and flew back into its mind.

Therefore, that was when Shen Xiu had lost her last chance at gaining control of the Bone Blood Demon.

Li Jing had advised Nie Tian to try and awaken the Bone Blood Demon via the resonation of their souls, since this method was more advanced.

However, Nie Tian had more confidence in the other method. After all, he had successfully awakened the Bone Blood Demon before by dripping his blood onto its heart.

Hence, he planned to try out both methods.

But in order to ensure that he had grasped the essence of both methods before using them on the Bone Blood Demon, he intended to practice with a few low-rank Blood Demons first and see the results.

In the middle of the night, Nie Tian, who was quite confident in his understandings of the Demon Driving Incantation, grew excited and restless.

Just as he was about to rise to his feet and move out, Yu Tong walked into his room, holding a sizable silver platter.

As she approached, Nie Tian saw on the platter were many fresh fruits that exuded spiritual energy and greasy, grilled spirit beast meat.

"Here's your food for the day." She sat the big platter on the ground next to Nie Tian and rapidly turned around, as if she didn't want to spend one more second in the room.

"Wait a moment," Nie Tian said in a low voice.

"What else do you want?" Yu Tong turned back and said.

"I need eight more plates of food like this," Nie Tian calmly answered. "I eat more than normal people."

"Fine." Yu Tong turned around and stepped towards the door.

As she walked away, she muttered to herself with a disdainful expression on her face, "Hope your stomach bursts and kills you!"

Moments later, she came back to Nie Tian's room holding two giant platters that were filled with all sorts of food. As she approached him, she found that Nie Tian had already emptied the first platter.

Yu Tong was astounded for a moment before she put the food down and walked out.

A while later, when she returned with three more giant platters filled with food, she stared at Nie Tian the whole time as if she didn't believe that Nie Tian had actually eaten all the food by himself.

She thought he was playing tricks on her after learning that he was so important to the realm of the Flame Heaven.

She didn't believe that someone could actually gulp down so much food that quickly.

However, the moment she walked into the room, she saw Nie Tian doing what could only be referred to as inhaling his food.

Knowing that she wouldn't be able to finish even one platter in a whole day, she watched Nie Tian wolf down his food as if she was watching a monster devour its prey.

Now she was certain that it was no trick.

Only a moment later did she snap out of her daze and go to fetch the rest of the food Nie Tian had demanded.

A while later, Nie Tian finished all the food under Yu Tong's gaze. He burped and said drowsily, "Now get me a Blood Demon. I want to try out the Demon Driving Incantation."

With a frown, Yu Tong blurted, "Are you kidding? You've barely learned it!"

"I can't guarantee that I'll succeed. But it won't hurt to try, will it?" said Nie Tian.

"Most of our low-rank Blood Demons died fighting outsiders, and the outsiders ate their bodies." Yu Tong explained. "All that survived are high-rank ones that have their own masters. You won't be able to manipulate them. You can only conduct your experiments on the Bone Blood Demon… which should have been my master's."

Undisguised indignation could be seen in her eyes as she spoke.

She still couldn't let go of the idea that Nie Tian had stolen the most powerful weapon from her sect by awakening the Bone Blood Demon and bringing it under his control.

"Only the Bone Blood Demon?"

After a moment of hesitation, Nie Tian waved his hand, telling her that her service was no longer needed.

Yu Tong left while killing intent could be seen in her eyes.

After she left, Nie Tian rose to his feet. With a deep frown, he walked to the place where the Bone Blood Demon had collapsed.

Facing one of its giant feet, he reached out his hand and pressed one finger on it. He wanted to see if he could establish a connection with it via the power in their blood.

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"What?!" The moment the tip of Nie Tian's finger made contact with the Bone Blood Demon's foot bone, his eyebrows furrowed.

At that moment, he suddenly had a strong feeling that, as his internal organs worked, the spirit beast meat that he had consumed earlier was now rapidly unleashing wisps of flesh power into every corner of his body.

Normally, he would have this kind of feeling every time he consumed a large amount of spirit beast meat.

However, it felt different this time.

Instead of proceeding to cast the Demon Driving Incantation and trying to establish a connection with the Bone Blood Demon, he retracted his hand and then carefully examined himself with his psychic awareness.

He saw countless wisps of energy swimming out of his stomach towards every part of his body. However, as his heart beat more and more vigorously, all the energy wisps began converging on it.

Before, the essence he had absorbed from spirit beat meat would always have infused into his viscera and every piece of his muscle and flesh to gradually strengthen his body.

And that was the why his fleshy body had always been stronger and tougher than other human Qi warriors his age.

However, it was different this time. The energy that had originated from his internal organs didn't flow to his muscles or bones, but rather his heart.

Standing next to the Bone Blood Demon's giant foot, he focused all his attention on finding what had triggered the change.

A wisp of his soul quietly flew into his heart and observed in silence.

He saw numerous wisps of energy flowing in through the walls of his heart from all directions, but what surprised him was that there was a green thread of energy coiled up at the bottom of his heart.

He had no idea when it had been formed and why it was there. He had never noticed it before.

The wisp of his soul floated closer to the coiled green energy, observing and sensing it very carefully.

He sensed the aura of an ancient life within the coiled thread of energy. It could be the concentrated form of life power or the source of a bloodline.

He came to another surprising finding as he furthered his examination.

Within the coiled, green thread of energy lay countless translucent and sparkling blood strings that were as fine as hairs. They interwove with each other and seemed to be brimming with green-colored energy.

If the green thread of energy were a living creature, those sparkling blood strings would be its meridians.

As the wisp of his soul delved even deeper, he discovered that tiny green dots were floating within the crystal-like blood strings.

Each and every one of them shone with bright, green light, as if they were some mysterious symbols that carried the profound truths of blood.

"Bloodline!" Nie Tian's expression flickered. Then he found that all the wisps of energy that had been attracted by his heart were madly converging and disappearing into the green thread of energy.

The red wisps of energy were flesh power from the spirit beast meat.

However, the moment they entered his heart, the realm of the green energy thread, they seemed to be devoured and ground down into shreds by it.

It wasn't long before every last wisp of flesh power disappeared into the mysterious green energy thread.

However, it seemed still famished as it started swimming about within his heart like a greedy, mysterious python, foraging for more flesh power.

When it realized that it couldn't find any new prey, it finally settled down and coiled up again.

It was at that very moment that an intense dizziness struck Nie Tian.

Under the gaze of his soul, the green energy thread suddenly began to shine with dazzlingly green light.

At the same time, the green spots in the sparkling blood strings rapidly shifted into a new alignment.

"Bloodline. Talent. Life Transfer!"

A series of obscure words suddenly appeared in Nie Tian's mind. They were so clear and unforgettable that it was as if they were branded deeply on his soul.

All of a sudden, his heart started pounding rapidly and the wisp of his soul consciousness was instantly expelled!

Right before his soul consciousness was pushed out of his heart, he saw his heart fill with dazzling green light.

However, it was just a second before the green thread of energy stopped shining and coiled up at the bottom of his heart again, silent and calm.

Even still, the words that had been engraved in his mind just now became increasingly clear and meaningful.

"The life of the bloodline is awakened and I've been given another talent, Life Transfer!" Nie Tian seemed to have an epiphany.

Hua Mu had once told him that he was different, and after the Heaven Gate trial, he was increasingly certain that he had a unique bloodline power within his blood.

Perhaps, the reason why it hadn't showed any signs of life before was that his cultivation base was far too low.

Therefore, due to the recent, rapid advancement in his cultivation base, the power that had been hidden within his bloodline was finally awakened, and Life Transfer was the first talent he obtained after the awakening.

He was still standing next to the Bone Blood Demon's foot, eyes closed and still, contemplating the first bloodline talent he had obtained.

He had a feeling that the successful awakening of his bloodline talent had a great deal to do with him awakening the Bone Blood Demon.

The act of him dripping his own blood onto the Bone Blood Demon's heart to awaken it might have been a manifestation of Life Transfer.

The awakening of this particular bloodline talent almost seemed too timely to be true, as if his body knew what he needed the most at this moment and intentionally developed in this direction.

Eyes closed, he tried with all his heart to master the profound truths of the newly-acquired bloodline talent.

He had long since forgotten that he was there to use the Demon Driving Incantation to communicate with the Bone Blood Demon.

Off to the side, Yu Tong was standing about ten meters away from him, observing him from a blind corner.

She had seen Nie Tian touch the Bone Blood Demon with his finger and then rapidly retract his hand.

Then, she had detected abnormally strong energy fluctuations from within his body.

Even though she had sensed some anomalies, she hadn't been able to detect the radical change in Nie Tian's heart, no matter how hard she had tried.

As a matter of fact, no one had been able to, not even sectmaster Li Jing.

A very long time passed by…

Nie Tian slowly opened his eyes as he finished mastering the main parts of his first bloodline talent.

With a deep breath, he leaped onto the collapsed Bone Blood Demon's chest.

He crouched down and pressed one hand on its giant, grayish-brown heart, in an attempt to start the Life Transfer.

The moment he focused on the thought, the thread of green aura in his heart suddenly began to emanate bright light again.

The countless crystal-like blood strings within it and the green spots flowing within those strings blossomed with dazzling light.

All of a sudden, an extremely fine strand of green aura was separated from the green aura in his heart and flew out.

No sparkling blood strings or green shiny spots could be seen within it.

It seemed that it was made of pure life power, with no bloodline power or mysterious symbols inside of it.

The fine strand of green aura rapidly flew out of his heart and followed his meridians toward his hand that was pressed against the Bone Blood Demon's heart.

During the process, Nie Tian could keenly sense the blood in his veins growing increasingly restless to the point where he felt as if his blood was seething.

Then he found that wisps of aura that seemed to contain pure life power began to seep out of his blood and quickly swim towards the strand of green aura.

After they merged with the green aura, it rapidly expanded.

However, as more and more wisps of aura disappeared into the green aura, Nie Tian was gradually seized by an intense weariness.

A moment later, the strand of green aura that was significantly larger than before flew out of the palm of Nie Tian's hand and entered the Bone Blood Demon's heart.

Almost at the same time, its slumbering heart began to pound vigorously once again.

It was also at that moment, Nie Tian felt a mysterious connection between his blood and the Bone Blood Demon's.

BOOM!

With a loud sound, the Bone Blood Demon suddenly rose to its feet, causing Nie Tian to fall heavily to the ground.

"Ten days! It will last ten days this time!" Even though Nie Tian experienced dizziness from the loss of life power and the fall, he was very certain that the Bone Blood Demon would remain active for ten days by relying on the life power within the strand of green aura.

Furthermore, he felt that there was now a more profound connection between himself and the Bone Blood Demon.

From what he could tell, merely a thought in his mind would be able to command the Bone Blood Demon to kill his enemies for him.

He would no longer need to manifest a strong killing intent and lock onto his enemies with his psychic awareness to achieve that.

As soon as the thought of it appeared in his mind, the Bone Blood Demon would immediately read his intentions and carry them out.

However, it suddenly occurred to him that he didn't even get to use the Demon Driving Incantation yet. The method he had just applied was completely different and far more profound.

"What?!" Li Jing sensed the rise of the Bone Blood Demon and arrived within seconds. A confused expression filled her face as she asked Nie Tian, "You've mastered the Demon Driving Incantation in such little time!? And also, didn't I tell you to wait to awaken the Bone Blood Demon until we're in the Ghost sect?"

Many powerful experts of the Blood sect also rushed to the scene and every one of them had shock written across their face. "How can that be possible?! It's only been a day. How in the world did he master the Demon Driving Incantation so quickly?"

Yu Tong was also dumbstruck. She looked at Nie Tian in the same way she looked at a high-tier outsider for the first time.

"Umm, I think I may really be capable of practicing Blood sect incantations." Nie Tian said embarrassedly, knowing that the method he had just used to awaken the Bone Blood Demon had absolutely nothing to do with the Demon Driving Incantation that Li Jing had imparted to him.

Anyhow, he achieved the result he was looking for.

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"How long will it remain active this time, Nie Tian?" Brow furrowed, Li Jing asked with certain grimness in her voice.

"A few days," Nie Tian answered.

"Are you sure you are in total control of it?" Li Jing reconfirmed with Nie Tian.

Nie Tian nodded in reply.

"Everyone, there's a change of plan." Li Jing said decisively, "We'll march out to the Ghost sect today. Now that the Bone Blood Demon is awakened, we need to make the most out of it. We need to use it to kill as many outsiders as we can and as fast as we can."

As she gently raised her jade-like arm, more than twenty Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors from the Blood sect, as well as Hong Can and Zou Yi, gathered by her side, as if they had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

"Unfortunately, the outsiders killed every last one of my spirit beast mounts." After a moment of hesitation, she said, "I won't be able to get you all to the Ghost sect by myself. According to my estimation, you will need at least two days to get there, and that's assuming you don't run into any outsiders on your way there."

At that moment Nie Tian, who was still yet to recover from the dizziness, realized, to his surprise, that Li Jing planned to set off at that very moment.

The Bone Blood Demon that was more than thirty meters tall seemed to have seen through Nie Tian's concerns and suddenly crouched down next to Nie Tian.

Even crouched, the Bone Blood Demon was still more than ten meters tall, so it wouldn't be easy for Nie Tian to jump onto its shoulder.

As soon as that concern was born in Nie Tian's heart, the Bone Blood Demon lay prone on the ground so that he could easily mount its shoulder.

SHEW!

With a swift leap, Nie Tian mounted the Bone Blood Demon's shoulder and got ready to move out to the Ghost sect under Li Jing's leadership.

In this way, he wouldn't need to spend any of his own energy to get there.

"Hmm?" Li Jing noticed the actions of Nie Tian and the Bone Blood Demon.

"Nie Tian!" she called out to him. "The Bone Blood Demon is strong enough to carry more people. Since you're in control of it, tell it to carry the others on its back so that we can get to the Ghost sect as soon as possible."

The expression of every Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior flickered; anticipation could be seen in their eyes.

"Let me see if I can." The moment the thought of it entered Nie Tian's mind, the Bone Blood Demon, who was rising from the ground, once again lay prone. Then, Nie Tian beckoned for Hong Can and Zou Yi to come over.

Under Li Jing's gaze, the two of them stepped cautiously towards the Bone Blood Demon.

As they approached, a fluctuating aura suddenly spread out into the surroundings from within the Bone Blood Demon's body, within which Nie Tian detected enmity.

"Calm down," Nie Tian said in his mind.

In the next moment, the Bone Blood Demon's fierce aura became peaceful again.

"Over here." Standing on the Bone Bone Blood Demon's broad shoulder, Nie Tian beckoned for Hong Can and Zou Yi to come to his side.

The two were slightly frightened by the sudden energy fluctuations, but stepped forward with caution and jumped onto the Bone Blood Demon's shoulder.

The Bone Blood Demon seemed fine with it.

"Go, all of you," Li Jing issued the command.

After seeing that nothing had happened to Hong Can and Zou Yi, the Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors from the Blood sect jumped to Nie Tian's side one after another.

After everyone got a firm foothold, Li Jing nodded and said, "Let's move out."

After those words, the blood-colored lotus whizzed out of her ring of holding and, with a swift move, she sat on top of it and floated up into the air.

"Keep up with her," Nie Tian issued the command with his mind.

All of a sudden, an incomparably strong aura burst forth from within every vein in the Bone Blood Demon's bony body, and it rose up into the sky, as if it was no longer bound by gravity.

Hong Can's expression flickered as he shifted his gaze between the Bone Blood Demon under him and Nie Tian to his side. Utterly amazed, he said, "The Blood Demon created from a level eight Bone Giant is truly a marvelous weapon! It's your great fortune that Li Jing took you in as her disciple and made you master of this Bone Blood Demon."

Flying beside them on her lotus, Li Jing said ironically, "No, the pleasure is mine."

At the same time, a dark-red medicinal pill flew out of Li Jing's lotus and towards Nie Tian.

"You must have consumed a lot of essence of Qi and blood to awaken the Bone Blood Demon." Li Jing said lightly. "Here's a Blood Pill, refined from the blood of fourth grade spirit beasts. One third of it should be enough to restore all the Qi and blood essence you've expended."

The blood-colored lotus soared side by side with the Bone Blood Demon in the dawn sky, hundreds of meters above the ground.

The Blood Pill that Li Jing had gifted Nie Tian somehow remained within a reachable distance as it floated in front of him.

As soon as Nie Tian reached out to grab the pill, he sensed the wisp of spiritual energy that had been wreathing the pill rapidly returning to its master, Li Jing.

"One third will be enough?" He muttered to himself.

Hong Can from the Hell sect reassured Nie Tian in a low voice, "Blood Pills refined from the blood of fourth grade spirit beasts contain extremely rich Qi and blood essence. I know that you're quite special, but I'm certain that one third will be more than enough to recover all the energy you've lost. Senior Li treats you well. These pills are rather hard to get in the Realm of Flame Heaven. Don't force yourself with it."

He knew that Nie Tian had become a key factor to the situation of the whole realm, and thus didn't want anything to happen to him before they even arrived at the Ghost sect.

Nie Tian understood his good intentions.

Therefore, since he also couldn't be sure of the medicinal efficacy of the pill, he pinched one third of of the pill and threw it into his mouth.

The moment it entered his stomach, it started to unleash an amazingly large amount of energy.

Nie Tian used his soul to examine himself and found numerous wisps of energy rapidly spreading out from his stomach to every corner of his body, filling every drop of his blood.

It wasn't long before he felt enlivened and filled with thriving life force.

As energetic as he felt, he could tell that he hadn't reached his peak state.

Knowing that the medicinal efficacy of one third of the Blood Pill wasn't enough, he opened his eyes and glanced around, discovering that Li Jing was sitting on her red lotus, looking forward.

The other Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors were either cultivating with their eyes closed, talking to one another, or observing the situation on the ground.

No one was paying any attention to him.

With a frown, he quickly shoved another third of the Blood Pill into his mouth.

Immediately after that, another surge of extremely rich energy filled his abdomen before it gradually dispersed into every part of his body.

It wasn't long before his Qi and blood essence were restored to the fullest, and even with a large amount to spare.

Just as the extra Qi and blood essence couldn't find a place to go, Nie Tian's heart beat abnormally strong for a moment.

In the next moment, the wisps of energy that had been swimming aimlessly in his flesh and blood seemed to have found their destination: his heart.

Without the slightest hesitation, he sent a wisp of his soul to examine his heart, and found countless fine wisps of energy madly pouring into his heart.

Upon such scene, the originally calm thread of green aura immediately grew ecstatic. It rapidly swooped toward one wisps of energy after another.

Only several minutes later, all the energy wisps were ripped apart and devoured by the thread of green aura.

However, the restless green aura was still slithering up and down in Nie Tian's heart, as if it was looking for more.

After a moment of hesitation, Nie Tian secretly shoved the last third of the Blood Pill into his mouth, wanting to see if that could satisfy that mysterious green aura.

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It wasn't long before all the essence of blood and Qi was absorbed by the thread of green aura residing in Nie Tian's heart.

However, the green aura didn't grow a bit afterwards, and no change could be seen.

The fact that he had awakened his first bloodline talent, Life Transfer, merely by consuming spirit beast meat made him anticipate that after consuming a whole Blood Pill, which contained far richer essence of flesh and blood, it would cause the green aura to change in some way, or even awaken a second bloodline talent.

Staring at the silent green aura, he was somewhat disappointed, thinking that he might need to reconsider the profundity of bloodline power.

He gradually calmed himself and started contemplating.

Then he realized that the thread of green aura must have been there for some time, and it might even existed before he had participated in the Heaven Gate trial. It was the significant amount of spirit beast meat that he had consumed throughout these months that had provided him with enough power to awaken that first bloodline talent.

He had just happened to have that meal of spirit beast meat when he had built up to the verge of breaking through, and that was why he was under the impression that a meal of spirit beat meat had made the difference.

Therefore, in order for the green aura to upgrade again, he would need to feed it with far more essence of flesh and blood.

A single Blood Pill was far from enough to achieve that.

"Bloodline…" Nie Tian marveled at the profundity of the mysterious power that resided his heart and ran through his veins.

He was also prepared to spend a long time to awaken his second bloodline talent.

It was at that moment that Zou Yi from the Ghost Sect called out, pointing down, "Look! Down on the ground!"

Nie Tian opened his eyes and looked down through the gaps between the Bone Blood Demon's huge bones, and found that they were flying over a vast expanse of dark red wasteland.

On the wasteland, a group of human commoners were fleeing.

Chasing after them were two giant low-tier outsiders, one of which was even munching on a tender, pale arm that apparently belonged to a human girl.

With a grim look in his eyes, Zou Yi said, "Nie Tian, can you control the Bone Blood Demon to fly closer to the ground?"

"Sure." The thought of it appeared in Nie Tian's mind.

In the next moment, the Bone Blood Demon dashed down from midair at a high speed, and when it was less than a hundred meters from the ground, Zou Yi jumped off of the Bone Blood Demon.

As he gracefully descended, numerous pitch-black banners whizzed out of his bracelet of holding. As soon as they appeared, they unfurled against the wind, and the sinister ghosts on them could be seen.

All of a sudden, a strong cold aura that originated from Zou Yi's mind and the vicious ghosts on his banners rushed toward the two low-tier outsiders.

Since they didn't know how to use the power of their soul to defend themselves, upon the impact of Zou Yi's psychic attack, they could only run away, holding their heads and screaming.

At that moment, the banners swooped down from midair, and the banner poles, which were as sharp as blades, pierced deeply into the low-tier outsiders' gigantic bodies. They dropped dead in the next moment.

Upon seeing that Zou Yi had killed the two low-tier outsiders that had been chasing after them, all the fleeing commoners stopped and gathered around him, their faces filled with excitement and hope. "It's Lord Zou Yi from the Ghost Sect!"

"Lord Zou Yi, You've come back from the Heaven Gate!"

Apparently, Zou Yi knew them. He asked, "How's Northland City holding up?"

"The outsiders have killed most the citizens who stayed and fought." One of them answered. "Only a handful were lucky enough to make it out alive."

A pained expression appeared on Zou Yi's face as he nodded to that person and said, "You should go to the Blood Sect. You'll be safer there."

With these words, Zou Yi leaped swiftly back onto the shoulder of the Bone Blood Demon, which had remained in the air for him.

"Aihh…" Hong Can from the Hell Sect let out a deep sigh as he shook his head.

Nie Tian's expression also turned grim.

Li Jing, who was still sitting on her blood-colored lotus, had floated in her original position as the Bone Blood Demon descended.

Only after seeing that Zou Yi had returned to the shoulder of the Bone Blood Demon did she drive her lotus and head out toward the Ghost Sect again.

After flying over the dark-red wasteland for an hour, sitting on the Bone Blood Demon, Nie Tian saw a city that greatly resembled Black Cloud City.

"Northland City," Zou Yi said, gnashing his teeth.

Nie Tian rose to his feet and looked down at the city from the shoulder of the Bone Blood Demon, his face growing increasingly grim.

What he saw was an empty city and a few low-tier outsiders roaming about inside of it. None of the human citizens or members of the Ghost Sect's subordinate clans were anywhere to be found.

After searching for a while, he couldn't even see one human survivor.

Apparently, this city, which was the size of Black Cloud City, had been raided by the low-tier outsiders and fallen.

Even though he was looking at Northland City, Nie Tian was actually picturing Black Cloud City in his mind.

Just like Northland City, Black Cloud City was also the residence of commoners and clans that clung to the seven sects.

In a city like this, there would usually be no more than two Greater Heaven stage cultivators and a handful of Heaven stage cultivators protect the city. When an army of low-tier outsiders came at their city gate, it would be almost impossible for them to save the city on their own.

Northland City was now in ruins. What would Black Cloud City be like?

Nie Tian couldn't help but grow worried. He was afraid that even if Shen Xiu, Li Fan and the others had arrived at Black Cloud City, it might have already been too late.

His grandfather and aunt might have already fallen victim to those hideous low-tier outsiders.

"You'll pay for this, outsider demons!" The lifeless Northland City had made Nie Tian realize how brutal this war between humans and outsiders was.

If the Realm of Flame Heaven was ever taken by the outsiders, perhaps some powerful experts from the seven sects might survive, but how many members of their subordinate clans and common citizens would survive?

"Let's go. Northland City is a lost cause. I can't sense any signs of life." Sitting on her blood-colored lotus, Li Jing let out a soft sigh and drove her lotus forwards. "The decisive battle will be the one at the Ghost Sect. If we want to save the day, we'll have to beat the main force of the outsider army at the Ghost Sect. Only by doing that will we be able to prevent further casualties."

Zou Yi retracted his gaze from Northland City underneath them and began to thrum with an increasingly strong killing intent.

"Outsiders!!" Zou Yi bellowed in his heart.

With a thought, Nie Tian commanded the Bone Blood Demon to catch up to Li Jing as they flew towards the Ghost Sect.

On their way there, they saw two other cities that were similar to Northland City.

They were closer to the Ghost Sect, and they had more low-tier outsiders roaming inside of them. As they had expected, not a single survivor was seen.

The thought of the countless human lives that the outsider invaders had taken gradually numbed Nie Tian emotions.

It became clear to him that the conflict between humans and outsiders had become irreconcilable; either they would either wipe out the invading outsiders, or every human in the Realm of Flame Heaven would be annihilated.

"Mortals and cultivators with low cultivation bases can never protect themselves from a calamity like this," Nie Tian muttered to himself. "Should we fail, they'll inevitably fall prey to the outsiders."

After seeing the three cities filled with countless mangled bodies of his own kind, Nie Tian had become more and more determined.

He knew that he needed to be stronger than the outsiders not only for himself and his family, but for every survivor in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Only when he was strong enough would he become the master of his own fate and the fate of all those who counted on him.

He no longer paid any attention to the human corpses that he could see from time to time.

Instead, he calmed himself, and then began cultivating with spirit stones, hoping to improve his strength with every second he could find.

After all, he knew very well that they currently needed all the help they could get.

After an unknown period of time, Li Jing's voice echoed out, "We're almost there."

Everyone on the Bone Blood Demon, including Nie Tian, immediately focused their sight on the distant horizon.

At first glance, Nie Tian's expression flickered. In front of his eyes was an enormous cloud of demon Qi, inside of which figures of numerous outsiders constantly flashed about.

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Nie Tian saw in front of him a five-kilometer-wide area covered in demon Qi so dense that it seemed like an enormous, blackish-purple vortex, enveloping the entire Ghost Sect.

Upon closer examination, the vortex looked very much like the vortexes in Nie Tian's spiritual sea.

The only difference was that it was filled with raging demon Qi, the power source for outsider demons.

The vortex of demon Qi slowly rotated as hundreds of figures of outsiders flashed about within it.

There were about a dozen bright, purple clusters with the vortex, which shone so brightly that even the dense demon Qi couldn't conceal them.

Nie Tian looked with rapt attention, and found that each of them had a well-dressed high-tier outsider in the center.

Each of those high-tier outsiders seemed to be no weaker than Worldly realm human Qi warriors. They all rippled with vigorous energy fluctuations which seemed to be powering the vortex of demon Qi, enabling it to gnaw away the Ghost sect's Wail of Myriad Ghosts grand formation.

For every bit the demon Qi vortex rotated, it pulled more demon Qi in the vicinity toward it.

However, Nie Tian couldn't see what was going on within the Ghost Sect, and neither could he sense anything with his psychic awareness from a position so far away.

"Stop!"

Looking at the raging demon Qi from afar, Li Jing stopped her blood-colored lotus.

Immediately afterwards, Nie Tian conveyed the same notion to the Bone Blood Demon. In the next moment, the Bone Blood Demon also came to a stop, and floated in midair with everyone on its shoulders.

Just as Nie Tian looked over at Li Jing with a confused face, wondering what her plan was, he sensed a wave of powerful energy fluctuations rush out of Li Jing's spiritual sea towards the demon Qi-covered area like an immense wave of a blood ocean.

He instantly understood that Li Jing was using her own methods to gather information on the situation at the area where the main force of the outsider army was gathered.

At the same time…

Nie Tian saw that in the center of the demon Qi vortex was a magnificent city, which seemed ancient and built by countless huge, green rocks.

The city was approximately the same size as Northland City, but there were sinister ghosts engraved on every gate to the city.

Numerous green veins and patterns could be seen on the walls of the city, within which vicious ghosts were twisting and struggling.

The way it looked felt as if the ancient city had been wreathed by countless ferocious ghosts.

The entire city was enveloped by a semi-sphere of misty green light, within which numerous ghosts were whizzing about, shrieking so loudly that the sound could pierce any intruders' eardrums.

At the center of the green stone city was an enormous bottomless pit, and bone-piercing coldness constantly flowed out of it.

Upon closer examination, it was actually countless ghosts that had been flying out of the abyss. Like an endless swarm of locusts, they rapidly disappeared into the green walls of the ancient stone city.

It seemed that the ghosts were fueling the Wail of Myriad Ghosts spell formation with an endless stream of mysterious power from the netherworld.

A handful of powerful experts from the Ghost Sect were sitting by the edge of the huge pit, eyes closed, faces ghastly.

They were constantly changing their hand seals while a banner fluttered against the wind beside them. It seemed that they were the ones who were summoning the endless stream of ghosts from the depths of the earth with the banner's help.

However, it was obvious that they were rapidly consuming their own strength as they performed the ritual.

There were a few others standing behind them. Whenever one of the spell-casters could no longer go on, another expert from the Ghost Sect would step in and take his place.

Those who were replaced would silently step away from the spell formation and use all kinds of medicinal pills to recover their strength, so as to step in whenever someone else was drained of power.

Off to the side, a skinny old man from the Ghost Sect was talking to Chang Sen from the Hell Sect.

The elder that resembled a bag of bones was none other than the sectmaster of the Ghost Sect, Ghost Eye.

The name of Ghost Eye was so widespread that no one even remembered his real name. He had adopted this name since he had joined the Ghost Sect, and had never changed it, not even after he had been made sectmaster.

His eyes were emerald and profound, as if there were two oceans hiding behind his pupils, within which tens of thousands of ghosts were trapped and wailing.

Any human Qi warrior whose cultivation base was lower than his would immediately experience a disturbance in their minds as long as they dared to peer into his eyes.

If he wanted to, he could even effortlessly rip the souls out of the minds of those who had inferior cultivation bases.

Obviously, Chang Sen wouldn't need to worry about that, since he was the most powerful Qi warrior in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"Ghost Eye, how long do you think the spell formation will hold?" Chang Sen asked with a frown.

"Two days." As soon as Ghost Eye spoke, strong energy fluctuations spread out along with his voice, seemingly capable of changing the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth and turning the area around him into the gruesome netherworld. "As you can see, those elders won't be able to hold on for much longer. If the Wail of Myriad Ghosts formation is breached, they won't have much energy left in them. If it comes to that, we'll need to count on your people to fight the outsiders."

Chang Sen nodded and said, "I see. The reason I chose the Ghost Sect to be the place to fight the most decisive battle against the outsiders was that you could summon ghosts from the netherworld to power the Wail of Myriad Ghosts formation. But unfortunately, powerful experts need to expend a significant amount of energy to perform the summoning ritual. If our Demon Trapping Purgatory formation could still work, I would be able to use it to draw power from the trapped outsider demons, and use that power to activate an impenetrable defensive system."

"What do you think of the odds that we prevail?" Ghost Eye asked, eyes glittering with profound light.

Chang Sen pondered in silence for a while before saying, "Thirty percent chance, at the most."

Upon hearing Chang Sen's answer, Ghost Eye also fell into silence. After a long while, he said, "Do you know what the situation is at the other sects?"

"Probably worse than us." With a grim expression on his face, Chang Sen said, "The Grayvale Sect has already fallen. Li Jing might be able to hold on for a bit longer, but it's only a matter of time before the Blood Sect falls. The Mystic Mist Sect can be ignored. We can't possibly count on them to change the situation. We can only hope that Wu Ji will beat their opponents in the Cloudsoaring Sect."

With these words, Chang Sen shook his head and sighed, "But Eccentric Wu's lifespan is running out. If he goes all-out to fend off the outsiders, even if he succeeds, he won't be able to persist for long. This was also why I didn't have the heart to make a move on him when you and Li Jing went to the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range."

"My choice accidentally gave the Realm of Flame Heaven a slightly better chance of surviving. Otherwise, the tie might have already been broken."

Ghost Eye let out a cold harrumph. "If we can somehow live through this calamity, I'll definitely take revenge against the other realms, especially that person from the Realm of Earth Sieve!"

Chang Sen shook his head and said, "It's hard to say if we will be able pull through."

"What!" Ghost Eye's expression suddenly flickered. A strange expression appeared on his ghastly face as he called out, "Li Jing is here!"

Chang Sen was also astonished. "Can it be that she has already finished off all the outsiders at her sect?"

Chang Sen had always known that Ghost Eye had been close to Li Jing. The two of them usually got together to discuss cultivation methods. They even had a unique way to communicate with each other which even he couldn't fathom.

Ghost Eye narrowed his eyes, and countless ghosts began to flash across in his pupils, as if every one of them carried symbols that only he knew how to interpret.

"Yes, she did," Ghost Eye said in high spirits. "And she's not alone. That Bone Giant also came with her!"

"What?" Shock could be heard from Chang Sen's voice. "Did she manage to turn that eighth level Bone Giant into a Blood Demon? With the Bone Blood Demon and Li Jing here to help us, our odds will improve by at least twenty percent. Then we won't have to stay behind the grand formation and defend. We may consider meeting them in battle!"

"Exactly! It's time to stretch my legs!" A horrifying smile appeared on Ghost Eye's face.

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"Now that we're here, the real battle shall begin."

After retracting the soul consciousness that she had sent out to Ghost Eye, Li Jing turned to look at Nie Tian, Hong Can, and the others as she said, "Nie Tian, you remain on the Bone Blood Demon's shoulder and don't go anywhere. You just need to command it to kill as many low-tier outsiders as possible. When you've killed enough of them, those high-tier outsiders will notice you and come to you."

Then she turned to Hong Can and Zou Yi and said, "You cooperate with Nie Tian, but try not to fight high-tier outsiders in close quarters."

With those words, she and the red lotus she sat on sailed through the air towards the center of the demon Qi-covered area like a blood-colored rainbow.

As she approached the vortex of demon Qi, numerous blood threads that were as thick as human arms suddenly extended out of her crystal-like lotus.

Like blood-colored lightning bolts, they whizzed down from mid-air and pierced into the chests of dozens of low-tier outsiders.

Those low-tier outsiders, who had been rampaging in the demon Qi, instantly let out miserable wails and stopped breathing.

Nie Tian was amazed by this scene.

This was the first time that he had seen Li Jing fight. When he had gone to the Blood Sect before, he had almost immediately engaged in fierce battle with Groete, and couldn't spare the attention to look at her.

Therefore, the lethality of Li Jing's attacks astonished him beyond words.

"Profound realm! Is this the power of a profound realm expert?"

Nie Tian's expression flickered as it suddenly occurred to him that the blood-colored lotus that Li Jing had been sitting on might also be a Spirit Channeling grade treasure.

While he was shaken by that thought, a gigantic blood shadow, the might of which he had witnessed twice already, flew out of the blood-colored lotus.

As soon as it flew out, even more scarlet blood threads came out of the red lotus along with it, which, upon a closer look, seemed like numerous blood chains, locking onto the blood shadow's gigantic body.

However, Nie Tian knew that those scarlet chains that seemed to have blood running within them were actually a part of the blood shadow.

BLUB BLUB!

The scarlet threads that had pierced and killed dozens of low-tier outsiders seemed to have turned into huge vessels, rapidly channeling purple outsider blood to the enormous blood shadow.

Only seconds later, those low-tier outsiders turned into nothing but bags of bones as they were drained of every last drop of their blood.

By the time the shriveled low-tier outsiders were thrown to the ground, the blood shadow, whose outline was rather obscure, had already expanded to five times its original size.

ROOOOAR!

The blood shadow threw its head back and let out a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar. In the next moment, an intense blood aura that was laced with a faint, purple mist rose from inside of it and filled its surroundings.

"What an awesome Spirit Channeling grade treasure!"

Hong Can from the Hell Sect couldn't help but marvel at its formidable power. "Its soul can even leave the entity and use the Blood Sect's Blood Refining Incantation to strengthen itself with the outsiders' blood. Li Jing has indeed gone all-out to fight this battle!"

"The soul of the Blood Lotus is a special kind of Blood Demon. Sectmaster Li Jing applied many secret magics in order to refine it, and our sect's Ghost Refining Incantation was among them." Zou Yi from the Ghost Sect said after taking a deep breath, "Even though the soul of the Blood Lotus seems illusionary, it's actually every bit as real as you and I. Its body is made of condensed blood."

"The Blood Lotus's soul is a special kind of Blood Demon?" Nie Tian was taken aback.

Never had he thought that the enormous blood shadow was actually the Blood Lotus's soul, and that the Ghost Sect's Ghost Refining Incantation had played an important role in its refinement. Now he understood why it was so powerful.

"Li Jing! You've arrived just in time!"

At that moment, Ghost Eye's eerie voice echoed out from the eye of the enormous demon Qi vortex.

Upon hearing his voice, Zou Yi's expression immediately grew respectful as he said, "Sectmaster!"

All of a sudden, the small figure of a man shot out of the green stone city covered in raging demon Qi and charged towards the area where all the high-tier outsiders were gathered.

It was none other than Ghost Eye, the sectmaster of the Ghost Sect.

The moment he appeared, two sinister ghosts floated out of his ocean-like, unfathomable pupils, which rapidly expanded to several dozen meters tall.

After those two ghosts flew out of his pupils, his pupils seemed to instantly shed their gruesomeness, and no more ghosts could be seen flashing across within them.

It was as if all the ferocious ghosts hiding deep within his pupils had morphed into two giant ghosts at that instant and shot out from his eyes.

"Two Heaven Ghosts!" Hong Can exclaimed.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

Right after that, nine pitch-black banners rushed out from Ghost Eye's back. Each and every one of them was more than ten meters tall and five meters wide.

The ghosts within the banners screeched, struggled, and bore their fangs at each other, before they eventually emerged as nine green ghosts.

"Nine Earth Ghosts!" Zou Yi's expression flickered as he said loudly, "Our sectmaster has used his full strength!"

Those two Heaven Ghosts and nine Earth Ghosts were Ghost Eye's most powerful and precious weapons. He had spent years breeding them.

The fact that he had sent them out all at once made it clear that he was holding nothing back!

Even though Nie Tian was observing from a position very far away from the Heaven Ghosts, he couldn't help but have a feeling that they could easily take his soul.

The moment Ghost Eye shot out of the ancient stone city, a high-tier outsider also dashed out towards him from the area where all the high-tier outsiders were gathered.

At the same time, another one let out a cold harrumph and flew towards Li Jing.

Soon after that, a grotesque outsider voice rang out from the center of the demon Qi vortex. It was a language Nie Tian couldn't understand, but as soon as he heard it, numerous low-tier outsiders swarmed out of the demon Qi vortex and charged toward Nie Tian and his companions.

That was when he realized that the high-tier outsiders had also noticed their arrival, and the real battle had just broken out.

"Nie Tian, tell the Bone Blood Demon to descend."

Hong Can stretched his neck and rubbed his hands together so tightly that his knuckles made cracking sounds. Apparently, he had been waiting for this for a long time.

Without saying anything, Nie Tian immediately commanded the floating Bone Blood Demon to land.

Simultaneously, all of the Greater Heaven stage experts, who had been sitting on the Bone Blood Demon, drew their spiritual tools and began thrumming with misty spiritual auras, ready to dash out into the low-tier outsider army at any moment.

BOOM!

The Bone Blood Demon landed heavily on the ground. As everyone else jumped off and charged forward with angry roars, Nie Tian swiftly shifted his position from the back of its shoulder to over its left shoulder.

With a thought, Nie Tian issued a command: kill these ugly creatures, and kill them as fast as you can!

CRACK! CRACK!

As the Bone Blood Demon strode forward, with every step it took, its feet crashed deeply into the earth, as if it were running on a gigantic sponge.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

One after another, numerous lines of intense blood aura shot out from the gaps of its exposed bones before piercing through the incoming low-tier outsiders like blood-colored spears.

Those lines of blood aura greatly resembled the blood chains that had shot out of Li Jing's Blood Lotus, only they were from the Bone Blood Demon's body.

Immediately after they pierced into the outsiders, they rapidly expanded, as if they were leeches that were sucking away their victims' blood.

"Blood Refining Incantation!"

Flabbergasted, Nie Tian watched as the numerous lines of blood aura, which were now filled with purple outsider blood, flew back and disappeared into the Bone Blood Demon's bones.

Only days ago, the Bone Blood Demon would have had to rip the outsiders apart and shower itself with their blood to obtain more power.

However, it had either received inspiration from the Blood Lotus or made growth so significant that it actually learned how to send its bloody aura own out to fetch blood from outsiders. With this far more efficient method, it would definitely be able to enhance its battle prowess exponentially.

CRACKLE! CRACKLE!

After acquiring more strength, the Bone Blood Demon effortlessly cut through a swarm of low-tier outsiders like they were nothing but melons and cabbages.

Sitting atop its shoulder, Nie Tian saw that it had killed almost a hundred low-tier outsiders in a short period of time.

Apparently, they were no match for its formidable strength. None of them could even withstand a single strike.

The great blow that the Bone Blood Demon had dealt to the army of low-tier outsiders had exceeded the efforts of all the Greater Heaven stage cultivators combined.

On the other hand, a high-tier outsider seemed to have notice the unstoppable Bone Blood Demon, and gracefully rose out of the center of the demon Qi vortex like a beautiful, violet flower, before floating towards Nie Tian and the Bone Blood Demon.

"A little girl…"

Eyes narrowed, Nie Tian saw that it was a little girl covered in devilishly beautiful flowers. Looking at her delicate small face, for some unknown reason, Nie Tian couldn't help but feel a surge of coldness.

What had made him uneasy was that his instincts told him that there was a ferocious monster lurking under her tender skin.

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The Bone Blood Demon stopped killing low-tier outsiders as its eyes that seemed to have no pupils within them became fixed on the little girl.

Its reaction greatly surprised Nie Tian, and his expression grew increasingly grim.

He was very well aware that the Bone Blood Demon had its own soul, and as incomplete as it was, it enabled the Bone Blood Demon to judge the strength of its opponents.

The fact that it started to act strangely the moment it saw the little girl coming towards it made Nie Tian realize that the little girl must have some secrets.

The closer the little girl got, the more nervous he felt.

Unlike all the other high-tier outsiders he had seen, she looked like a ten-year-old human girl. Her face was delicate and beautiful, and the skin on her face seemed so tender that even the slightest contact would scrape it.

Upon a closer look, numerous violet flowers could be seen covering her torso as if they were some kind of armor that had grown out of her body.

Every once in awhile, purple lightning would swim out of them and across her body.

The little girl traveled in the air in a way that made it look as if gravity had no effect on her. As she approached Nie Tian, she looked Nie Tian in the eye and smiled as she said in perfectly clear human language, "A strong Blood Demon from the Blood sect… You came from the Blood Sect. Did you run into that fool Groete?"

Nie Tian was dumbstruck by her words and said, "Who are you?"

"My name is Zelia." The little girl seemed very blunt. With a friendly expression on her face, she continued, "He's my little brother. You're here, and he and Sarah didn't come after you. Does it mean that you killed them? Well, if you did, I'll have to thank you for it."

"Little brother?" Nie Tian was completely confused.

The high-tier outsider in front of him looked much younger than Groete. He would have never have pictured her as Groete's older sister.

Furthermore, from the look of it, she couldn't care less if Groete was dead or not. As a matter of fact, she might actually be happy if he were actually dead.

"It's interesting how a person that is so weak is the master of this Blood Demon…" While Nie Tian was in his daze, Zelia giggled and looked at a Greater Heaven stage expert from the Blood Sect. With a casual wave of her hand, a black spear, which seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, shot towards him.

The black spear flew so fast that, like a bolt of lightning, it went through the Greater Heaven stage expert in the blink of an eye.

SHEW!

Immediately after killing the man, the black spear flew back into her hand.

She tilted her head sideways as she looked at Nie Tian. A faint smile could still be seen at the corner of her mouth.

Upon witnessing this scene, a surge of coldness ran through Nie Tian's body.

Hong Can and Zou Yi, who had been fighting low-tier outsiders that had been coming at them from all directions, witnessed the astounding scene and called out, with shock in their eyes, "Protect Nie Tian!"

They both knew that only Nie Tian could manipulate the Bone Blood Demon and thus determine how the war went. Therefore, they both feared for his safety.

SHEW!

Zelia was still smiling as the black spear once again flew out of her small palm.

It whizzed through the forehead of another Greater Heaven expert from the Blood Sect, and the corpse collapsed not far from Nie Tian.

"Weaklings." Zelia held out her hand, palm facing up, and the black spear appeared in it in the next moment.

Her eyes, which were glittering with a purple light, swept through all the Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors who were now gathered by Nie Tian's side, with an expression on her face as if this was no more than a game to her.

Every Qi warrior who met her gaze felt like they had been thrown into an icy pit, and were overwhelmed by coldness and fear.

"Kill her!" Without any hesitation, Nie Tian issued the command to the Bone Blood Demon. He couldn't bear to see her kill people like she was crushing bugs.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

All of a sudden, numerous blood auras shot out from every part of the Bone Blood Demon and flew towards Zelia at an extremely high speed.

As Zelia let out a giggle, the outline of her small body suddenly become blurry, as if the space around her had somehow shaken slightly.

In the next moment, she vanished from Nie Tian's sight, and reappeared behind the Bone Blood Demon.

With a smooth thrust of the black spear in her hand, she penetrated the spiritual power shield of another Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior, and a split second later, the Qi warrior himself.

The Bone Blood Demon immediately turned its gigantic body around, and the bloody auras also circled back and whizzed towards Zelia again.

"Hahaha!" Zelia laughed as she once again blurred into action and reappeared in the next moment by the side of another Greater Heaven stage expert from the Blood Sect.

The black spear in her hand turned into a flood dragon before it snapped its jaws toward that Blood Sect expert.

The raging demon Qi behind her madly converged onto the flood dragon before the frenzied dragon pierced through its victim's body.

In such a short period of time, three Greater Heaven stage experts had died by her hands.

More importantly, none of them could even put up a fight.

Not only did Nie Tian have a grim expression on his face, but the expressions on Hong Can and Zou Yi's faces were also grimmer than ever.

None of them had ever seen someone kill like she had.

"Attack her together!" Zou Yi screamed as he used the Ghost Sect's psychic magics to create several fierce ghosts with his psychic power, before unleashing them towards Zelia' soul.

Nie Tian immediately sensed a layer of psychic power flowing out of Zelia, creating a spherical shield with her at the center.

Zelia smiled and said, "You must have a death wish!"

Strings of purple light that resembled lightning bolts suddenly appeared in her pupils and began to rapidly interweave with each other. From the look of it, she had also applied soul magics that only high-tier outsiders could master.

"Ahhh!!" Zou Yi held his head with his hands as he let out miserable cries; blood spilled out of his nose, eyes, and ears.

It was as if Zou Yi had sustained severe injuries in a flash.

The Ghost Sect had always been known for their powerful psychic magics, and Zou Yi, who was a middle Greater Heaven stage expert, was by no means weak. Even still, Zelia almost killed him with a single blow.

"It's not fun. I don't wanna play with you anymore," Zelia twitched her mouth and said with a bored expression on her face.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

All of a sudden, fiendish-looking plants grew out of the earth that everyone was standing on. They were either black or purple in color, and they seemed to have been lurking under the ground for some time, waiting for Zelia to summon them.

Hong Can stood aghast. "Demon plants!"

The plants that could be seen everywhere grew madly, and soon became more than ten meters tall.

Nie Tian looked down with rapt attention, and found that close to the ground, there was a layer of demon Qi so thick that it seemed to have liquidized, which was providing the plants with nutrients, making them grow at an astonishing speed.

Suddenly, numerous purple flowers grew out of the tops of the weeds.

Each and every one of them was the size of a human head and, upon a closer look, shared the same shape and color as the flowers that grew on Zelia's torso.

"Let's get out of here!!" Hong Can called out to Nie Tian.

Nie Tian simultaneously issued the command to the Bone Blood Demon. However, he looked down and saw that the Bone Blood Demon's legs had already been trapped by the vines of those vigorous plants.

It was at that moment that the flowers flew off of the plants and rotated as they chased after every living being in the area.

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Everything happened so fast that by the time Nie Tian had realized the danger, the purple flowers had already left the plants and chased after all the Greater Heaven stage experts like countless rotating blossoms made of sharp blades.

Meanwhile, the Bone Blood Demon had been tangled up by the plants and was experiencing great difficulty in moving its legs.

Nie Tian unleashed his psychic awareness to examine his surroundings, and was vaguely able to sense that a continuous stream of strange aura, which thrummed with fluctuating surges of a mysterious energy, was flowing out of Zelia and quietly infusing into the ground.

"This is her bloodline talent!" Nie Tian, who had recently awakened his first bloodline talent, immediately realized that Zelia was using her bloodline talent to infuse the plants with rich demon Qi, and therefore provide them with the life force they needed to grow rapidly.

BANG!

For every bit the Bone Blood Demon moved its legs, numerous vines would break and fall to the ground before they turned into purple liquid and seeped back into the earth as a fertilizer.

At the same time, more new plants would crawl up the Bone Blood Demon's legs in an attempt to hold it down.

POOH!

A purple flower rammed right into a Blood Sect expert's chest like a cannon shell. His chest immediately became a bloody mess, with big chunks of flesh flung out from his body by the rotating, razor-like petals.

FIZZ!

Then the devilish flower exploded, filling the area with a cluster of raging, purple flames.

Engulfed by the flames, the Greater Heaven stage expert's skin and flesh rapidly melted away from his bones as he soon became nothing but a skeleton.

"Corrosive flames!" Nie Tian's expression flickered.

The flowers alone were already dreadful enough. He didn't expect that they could also create acidic flames that even Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors couldn't withstand upon exploding.

"It's your turn now." A vicious smile appeared on Zelia's face as her eyes that resembled two glittering, purple gems fixed on Nie Tian.

PUFF! PUFF!

Several flowers suddenly exploded and turned into a dozen clusters of purple flames.

The corrosive flames seemed to have their own souls as they swiftly avoided the Bone Blood Demon's blocking hands and flew towards Nie Tian, who was standing on the Bone Blood Demon's shoulder.

Faint, lavender-colored smoke lingered in the space that the purple flames sailed through.

Face very grim, Nie Tian racked in his brain for a way to defend against the incoming flames while controlling the Bone Blood Demon with his will.

Just as he felt that he was at his wits' end, he heard a series of rapid and vigorous heartbeats from the Bone Blood Demon.

He immediately turned around to look at the Bone Blood Demon's eyes, which were a mysterious green color, similar to Ghost Eye's pupils.

As its heart pounded faster and faster, its grayish-green eyes gradually shed their original color and took on a dark-gray color.

Numerous fine threads could be seen swimming about within those eyes as they occasionally glittered with bright light.

Then, Nie Tian looked down towards the Bone Blood Demon's chest, and saw its giant heart throbbing abnormally rapidly behind those impenetrable rib bones.

ROOOOOOAR!

The Bone Blood Demon threw its head back and roared. An intense aura of death spread out with it at the center.

Nie Tian unleashed his psychic awareness to scan his surroundings, and saw that the gray aura was rapidly extending in every direction, as if it were bringing death to the entire area.

"Bloodline power!" For the first time, Zelia's expression flickered, her delicate face turning pale all of a sudden.

In the next moment, Nie Tian noticed that the twisted plants around the Bone Blood Demon that were still madly growing out of the ground seemed to have suddenly reached the end of their lives and rapidly withered away.

The clusters of purple flames that were coming straight at him also immediately dissipated.

"Eighth level bloodline power!" Face ghastly, Zelia coughed up a mouthful of blood and stumbled backwards, before dashing straight back into the enormous vortex of demon Qi.

As the aura of death spread further into the surroundings, all the plants withered and died.

Upon seeing this scene, Hong Can, Zou Yi, and the others also ran away from Nie Tian and the Bone Blood Demon at the fastest speed possible, fearing that the gray, deadly aura would catch up to them.

After all, they had witnessed all the plants withering away and all the flowers exploding as soon as they were enveloped by that aura.

Even the flames that were created from the explosion of the flowers only lasted for a second before being extinguished.

Not a single sign of life could now be found within a three hundred meter radius of the Bone Blood Demon.

Nie Tian, who was still standing on the Bone Blood Demon's shoulder, was also greatly shaken by this scene. Just as he began to fear for his own safety, he suddenly sensed, with his psychic awareness, that he was enveloped by a green energy shield that was invisible to the naked eye.

It was the green energy that had protected him from the harm of the deadly aura.

"Bloodline power: Death! A bloodline talent that only Bone Giants can awaken!"

Nie Tian trembled slightly and experienced a numbing sensation in his scalp, since he was shocked to his core by the might of the Bone Blood Demon's bloodline talent.

Back when Li Jing had taught him the Demon Driving Incantation, she had explained the uniqueness of this Bone Blood Demon to him, and told him that Bone Giants were a strong race who lived in the depths of the river of stars.

The mysterious truths of death ran through their veins, making them extremely powerful and dangerous.

Perhaps that was the reason why infusing one of them with life power and turning it into a Blood Demon had been so difficult.

After all, life power and death power were like fire and ice; they negated each other.

After snapping out of his daze, Nie Tian said, "Let's get over there!" pointing towards an area where a significant amount of low-tier outsiders were gathered in the rich demon Qi.

He wanted to kill as many outsiders as he could while the Bone Blood Demon was still unleashing that deadly, gray aura.

CRACKLE! CRACKLE!

The Bone Blood Demon strode in the direction that Nie Tian had indicated, the three hundred meters-radius field filled with a deadly aura moving along with it.

Nie Tian watched, his eyes wide, as one low-tier outsider after another collapsed to the ground with loud crashes soon after they were enveloped by the aura of death.

As the Bone Blood Demon marched on with huge steps, more and more low-tier outsiders dropped dead.

Their power levels were all far too low to possess the ability to awaken any powerful bloodline talent or profound soul power.

The unbridgeable gap between their strengths and the Bone Blood Demon's made it impossible for them to escape its sphere of death.

Just like that, the Bone Blood Demon killed more than one hundred low-tier outsiders with its aura of death in a few seconds.

It was at that moment that Nie Tian sensed that the Bone Blood Demon's eyes gradually began resuming their original grayish-green color, and the death power in the field it had created was also becoming unstable and weakening bit by bit.

At the same time, the coverage of the gray aura shrunk from three hundred meters to one hundred meters.

"It must have awakened its bloodline power with the energy it had absorbed from the outsiders' blood, and now it's running out of energy." Nie Tian instantly realized that the Bone Blood Demon's sphere of death wouldn't last much longer.

Therefore, he hastily commanded it to lunge into the heart of the demon Qi vortex, where more low-tier outsiders were gathered.

Before entering the demon Qi vortex, Nie Tian summoned every type of power to form a chaotic magnetic field that could barely envelop him.

"Is that death power?!" Li Jing exclaimed while flashing about in the deepest part of the demon Qi vortex, fighting two high-tier outsiders at close quarters.

She suddenly sensed the arrival of the Bone Blood Demon and turned her head, eyes glittering with bright light.

Under her gaze, waves of low-tier outsiders fell like countless withered weeds as the Bone Blood Demon approached. Wherever it walked, all lives went extinct.

Li Jing's eyes widened. "Don't tell me that it awakened its bloodline power as a Bone Giant!"

Looking at Nie Tian, who was standing atop the Bone Blood Demon's shoulder, her slender eyebrows twitched as a subtle elation appeared on her face.

…

Seeing that the little girl had returned, another high-tier outsider approached her and said, "Lady Zelia!"

"Bad news," Zelia said. "The Blood Demon created from a Bone Giant has awakened its bloodline talent: Death."

Upon hearing her words, all the high-tier outsiders shot their gazes toward the Bone Blood Demon and the young man on its shoulder, Nie Tian.

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Under his enemies' gazes, Nie Tian showed no sign of fear. Instead, he grinned and issued a command to the Bone Blood Demon, "Continue!" Although the Bone Blood Demon's sphere of death had already shrunk to a one hundred meter radius, it rampaged through the crowd of low-tier outsiders as it always had, reaping many lives.

One low-tier outsider after another was cut down, bereft of any life force.

Standing atop the Bone Blood Demon's shoulder, Nie Tian observed the overall situation as he continued to issue commands to the Bone Blood Demon.

Although his vision had been blocked the moment he commanded the Bone Blood Demon to charge into the demon Qi vortex, he had already wrapped seven spots of starlight with his psychic awareness and flown them out into the battlefield to serve as his Heaven Eyes.

They enabled him to have a clear view of everything that was happening within the demon Qi vortex.

He noticed that it seemed that all the human Qi warriors, who had daringly charged into the demon Qi vortex to fight outsiders, were able to resist the erosion of the demon Qi with little effort.

At that moment, Ghost Eye, sectmaster of the Ghost Sect, was manipulating his two Heaven Ghosts and nine Earth Ghosts to fight two powerful high-tier outsiders.

Those two high-tier outsiders seemed as skinny as Ghost Eye; one of them was handling the Heaven Ghosts and Earth Ghosts, while the other was in close combat with Ghost Eye.

Strong auras hovered around Ghost Eye and his two opponents like invisible ghosts, clearing the area they were in of the least bit of demon Qi.

Apparently, there was also a battle of souls going on between them.

Off to the side, Li Jing, who was sitting on her Blood Lotus, was also dealing with two high-tier outsiders at the same time.

The blood shadow that had come out of the lotus was chasing after one high-tier outsider while Li Jing formed mysterious hand seals, using the Bloodflow Reverse Incantation to attack another.

Not far from Li Jing, a burly human Qi warrior wearing sackcloth was using a wide sword to fight against a male high-tier outsider, who was significantly taller than him and had his whole body covered in pitch-black armor.

The fight between that burly man and his opponent instantly caught Nie Tian's attention.

He commanded the Heaven Eye that was floating near them to quietly move closer to get an accurate assessment of the high-tier outsider's battle prowess.

However, while the Heaven Eye was still two hundred meters away from it, the high-tier outsider, who was fighting the burly man, seemed to notice it.

All of a sudden, more black armor grew out of his body, covering every inch of his skin, leaving only his purple eyes, which were now fixed on the approaching Heaven Eye.

BANG!

As soon as the outsider laid his devilish eyes on the Heaven Eye, it exploded.

A violent tremor ran through Nie Tian's body as he experienced a excruciating pain in his soul. Even his pupils dilated slightly.

A sense of fear rose in his heart as he realized that this high-tier outsider must be the most powerful one in the demon Qi vortex.

Now with only six Heaven Eyes at his disposal, Nie Tian didn't dare to command another one to approach that outsider. Instead, he deployed them around it, and made sure that each of them was a safe distance away from it.

Then, Nie Tian took note that the powerful high-tier outsider wasn't using any tools while fighting the burly Qi warrior.

He only extended his giant hands to summon power from the surrounding demon Qi and form bright, purple light balls on his palms.

Light-purple veins could be seen within the light balls, embellished with numerous shimmering, bright dots.

Each purple light ball was like a fist that carried terrifying power as they were cast toward the burly man, who would immediately raise his wide sword to defend.

Upon colliding, a heaven-destroying, earth-extinguishing sound would filled the air, along with the purple light dots that were sent flying in all directions after the light balls exploded.

Nie Tian kept track of the flying, shimmering light dots via his Heaven Eyes, and saw that, instead of dissipating into the air or falling to the ground, they floated to the ancient stone city where Qi warriors from the Ghost Sect and Hell Sect were fighting low-tier outsiders.

Whoever made contact with them, no matter if they were human Qi warriors or low-tier outsiders, would immediately explode and become pieces of flesh flying everywhere, dying a horrible death.

Nie Tian was flabbergasted.

He immediately realized that the armored high-tier outsider had infused those purple light balls with his bloodline power, and the shimmering light dots that looked like tiny amethysts were the embodiment of his wild bloodline power.

Only a few fragments of them could kill any low-tier outsider or Greater Heaven stage human Qi warrior upon contact.

Furthermore, it seemed that those tiny bits of that high-tier outsider's bloodline power didn't even bother to distinguish friend from foe. Whoever they touched, perished.

It was as if the low-tier outsiders who were too weak to withstand the blow also deserved to die.

Apparently, that high-tier outsider despised all lives that were weaker and had inferior status than him, including the low-tier outsiders who had sworn their allegiance to him.

"He's so strong!!" Nie Tian couldn't hide his fear. It was at that moment that it suddenly occurred to him who that burly man, the opponent of that high-tier outsider, might be: the strongest Qi warrior of the Realm of Flame Heaven, Chang Sen!

Only the strongest expert, Chang Sen from the Hell Sect, could match up to the strength of that formidable high-tier outsider. Anyone else would have died already.

After having come to this realization, Nie Tian commanded the Bone Blood Demon to stay away from Chang Sen and that high-tier outsider.

He was fairly certain that even the Bone Blood Demon wouldn't survive a battle against that deadly high-tier outsider.

After retracting his attention from Chang Sen and the high-tier outsider, he redirected his six Heaven Eyes to float toward the ancient city made from green stones, where he saw numerous Greater Heaven stage experts from the Hell Sect and Ghost Sect rushing out of the city gates to fight low-tier outsiders that outnumbered them by several times.

All those who stayed behind the city walls were disciples who had cultivation bases lower than the Greater Heaven stage, and thus couldn't fight within the demon Qi.

They could only rely on the Wail of Myriad Ghosts grand formation to protect them from the erosion of the demon Qi.

Upon a closer look, even the Greater Heaven stage experts only seemed qualified to fight low-tier outsiders; those who were engaged in fierce battles with high-tier outsiders were all at the Worldly realm or Profound realm.

They were the ones who could pose a threat to the high-tier outsiders and make a difference in the battle that was going to determine the future of the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"Get over there!" Having obtained a thorough understanding of the situation, Nie Tian continued to command the Bone Blood Demon to go to areas where low-tier outsiders were gathered, in an attempt to kill as many low-tier outsiders as possible with the Bone Blood Demon's death aura while it still persisted.

As one low-tier outsider after another dropped dead, the Bone Blood Demon's life power, which Nie Tian had infused into it with his new-found bloodline talent, was rapidly running out.

"Something is wrong. The Bone Blood Demon is losing its life power way too fast." As Nie Tian pondered the reason, he realized that since the Bone Blood Demon had established its sphere of death, the life power in its heart was declining at a speed that was ten times faster than before.

At this point, he had a feeling that it wouldn't be long before the Bone Blood Demon completely drained its life power.

Originally, according to the feedback he had received from the life power he had infused into the Bone Blood Demon's heart, he had estimated that the Bone Blood Demon would remain active for about ten days.

However, now that the Bone Blood Demon was going all-out to kill low-tier outsiders with its death aura, Nie Tian sensed that it wouldn't be long before it fell into another deep slumber.

Nie Tian received a sudden enlightenment. "Death power negates life power. Whenever the Bone Blood Demon uses death power, which was its bloodline power, it will cause it to over-consume and soon run out of its life power."

SHEW!

It was at that moment that two lines of purple light that resembled two shooting stars appeared in the distant sky. Nie Tian examined them with his Heaven Eyes, and was surprised to find that they were Groete and Sarah, who he had met in the Blood Sect.

Nie Tian's expression flickered.

Sarah was as strong as Li Jing. Her arrival might once again tip the balance in favor of the outsiders.

The thought of it made Nie Tian worry.

However, he noticed that both Groete and Sarah seemed extremely weak at that moment, the devilish light they emanated constantly flickering.

Nie Tian grew confused.

"Lady Zelia! Lord Caro!" The moment Sarah flew into the demon Qi vortex, she called out in their language. "A powerful expert, who didn't seem to be from the Realm of Flame Heaven, ambushed us on our way back from the Blood Sect. Lord Groete and I are the only survivors. From what I can tell, that person was as strong as you are, my lord. He could have killed us too, but he didn't."

"What?!" Zelia exclaimed. "A person who's as strong as Uncle Caro?! Are you sure, Sarah?"

"Yes, I'm very certain of that!" Fear could still be seen between Sarah's furrowed, slender eyebrows. "I think it's about time we returned to our clan, my lady. If my speculations are correct, Qi warriors from the other eight realms may have already decided to come to aid the Realm of Flame Heaven."

Numerous expression flashed across Zelia's small face. After a moment of silence, she nodded and said, "I see."

…

At the border between the Ghost Sect and Blood Sect's territories.

An old man was sitting in a slack fashion with his back against a giant, ancient tree, looking up at the spiritual energy that was fluctuating in the sky, as if he were pondering something.

Four high-tier outsiders were lying not far away from him, who were the ones who had invaded the Blood Sect with Groete and Sarah.

From the look of it, they had been dead for quite some time.

"The Astarte clan… The Realm of Flame Heaven used to belong to the Astarte clan. The reason why the Astarte clan has returned to the Realm of Flame Heaven must be that they have learned about the turbulences that are going on within the Domain of the Falling Stars. However, they should know that even if they somehow manage to sack the Realm of Flame Heaven, they can't possibly take the entire Domain of the Falling Stars.

"Therefore, the purpose of their invasion of the Realm of Flame Heaven might just be to temper their young lord and lady.

"Every tempering event has its limit.

"Now that I've personally tempered one of them, it's about time that this event ended.

"By the time I get to the Ghost Sect, the members of the Astarte clan might have already returned to their own realm." Muttering to himself, the old man slowly rose to his feet and paced his steps as he walked towards the Ghost sect.

If Nie Tian were here, he would have recognized this old man, since he was none other than the doctor who had saved Nie Tian's life and informed him of the Heaven Gate trial, Hua Mu.

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In the Ghost Sect…

Nie Tian was originally worried that the arrival of Sarah and Groete would tip the scales against him.

However, while he was pondering the matter, Zelia's shout caught his ears. When he looked over, he saw an anxious expression on her face as she called out in the outsiders' language.

Then, a handful black pearls appeared in her splayed hand.

One after another, they rose into the sky before coming to a stop above the eye of the demon Qi vortex.

They generated a great attractive force to the raging demon Qi below it and gradually merged into one giant pearl.

All of a sudden, that one giant pearl unleashed a strong energy wave into its surroundings and shot up into the heavens.

As it did, the vast demon Qi vortex that had enveloped the entire Ghost Sect rose along with it.

It was at that moment that all the high-tier outsiders seemed to receive messages; they all stopped fighting their opponents and rose up into the sky.

Upon seeing the situation, some powerful Qi warriors, under the leadership of Chang Sen, Ghost Eye, and Li Jing, also leapt into the air in an attempt to chase after their enemies. However, they were all pushed back to the earth by an irresistible, mysterious force.

They could only watch as the vortex of demon Qi rose higher and higher, and when it reached a certain height, it began to move horizontally.

At that moment, the Ghost Sect, which had been covered in raging demon Qi for a very long time, finally saw sunlight again. The ancient city made of green stones was once again visible under the setting sun.

Staring at the departing demon Qi vortex, powerful experts from the Ghost Sect and Hell Sect discussed the matter amongst themselves. Confusion could be seen on their faces.

"What happened? The outsider army has retreated?"

"This is strange. I saw two high-tier outsiders coming. Why did they leave when they had more added to their force?"

"Is their invasion of the Realm of Flame Heaven over?

"What in the world is going on?

…

At the same time, the numerous outsiders that had been besieging and attacking the Cloudsoaring Sect and Mystic Mist Sect also seemed to have received orders, and rapidly retreated like an ebbing tide.

Even the outsiders who had been slaughtering commoners in mortal cities seemed to receive orders, and rapidly withdrew from where they were.

All outsider forces, wherever they were, began to move towards the Hell sect.

Standing on the Bone Blood Demon's shoulder, Nie Tian couldn't spot another outsider in his vicinity. Without a target, the Bone Blood Demon stood stood still in its original position, staring at nothing.

A short while later, the circle of death it had created with its death power also vanished completely.

Only then did the mountain-like Bone Blood Demon run out of life power and collapse to the ground.

Nie Tian had noticed the signs of its imminent collapse, and jumped off of it before it did.

Hong Can from the Hell Sect, Zou Yi from the Ghost Sect, and a handful of survivors from the Blood Sect gathered to Nie Tian's side, confusion written across their faces.

They shifted their curious gazes between the collapsed Bone Blood Demon and the empty sky.

Chang Sen, Ghost Eye, and Li Jing also retracted their power. Ghost Eye's two Heaven Ghosts flew back into his pupils, and his nine Earth Ghosts went back into the banners. Similarly, the enormous blood shadow flew back into Li Jing's Blood Lotus and became dormant again.

Sitting on the Blood Lotus, Li Jing turned to Chang Sen and said, "You know their language. Did you hear what they said? Why did they leave so abruptly?"

Ghost Eye also looked at Chang Sen with a confused expression on his face and waited for his answer.

"Those two high-tier outsiders who came last were ambushed by a Qi warrior that was as strong as Caro on their way here. However, that person intentionally spared their lives and killed the others they were with." With a frown, Chang Sen continued, "The appearance of that person made the outsiders assume powerful experts from the other eight realms had come to help defend the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"They were afraid that more powerful experts from the other realms would show up, so they decided to take the initiative and retreat." Chang Sen also seemed quite confused as he shook his head and said, "However, as far as I know, it's impossible for those from the other realms to come to our aid. They are all eagerly waiting for the outsiders to uproot us from the Realm of Flame Heaven. Even if we somehow prevailed, we would have lost most of our strength after the bloodbath."

"At that time, they would have been able to swoop in and reap the Realm of Flame Heaven without breaking a sweat."

"Someone as strong as Caro?" Ghost Eye's expression flickered. He knew very well that Caro was the most formidable outsider of all those that had descended upon the Realm of Flame Heaven this time, and if he were his opponent, instead of Chang Sen, he wouldn't have stood a chance.

"Yes, that's what that outsider said," said Chang Sen.

Li Jing let out a sigh of relief and said, "Whoever that person is, he put an end to the war, and the situation in the Realm of Flame Heaven is finally stable again. The entire Realm of Flame Heaven has sustained heavy losses from this war. We might need years to recover our strength.

"We've taken safety and survival for granted for too long. This calamity actually may not be the worst thing for us." Chang Sen pondered for a moment and said, "Only desperate situations like this will stimulate those who are truly capable to display their remarkable talent! Bloody wars will help them grow and the future of the Realm of Flame Heaven will depend on them."

With these words, he swept his gaze over the crowd of survivors, who were now gathered at his side.

Finally, his gaze landed on Nie Tian, who was standing in front of the collapsed Bone Blood Demon. He turned to Li Jing and said, "What's the story with that kid? Why did the Bone Blood Demon your sect spent years refining take orders from him? It seems that he's only at the Lesser Heaven stage and doesn't practice your sect's secret magics."

Ghost Eye's gruesome eyes were also fixed on Nie Tian as he said, "I saw him kill quite a few low-tier outsiders with the Bone Blood Demon, and he even dealt a great blow to the noble outsider, who they referred to as Zelia. It's hard to believe that a Lesser Heaven stage junior played such an important role in this critical battle.

"If it wasn't for the fact he had awakened the Bone Blood Demon, the Blood Sect might have shared the same fate as the Grayvale Sect." Li Jing sighed softly.

"Who is he?" Chang Sen asked.

"He's the disciple Wu Ji recently took in," Li Jing answered. Then, she suddenly tilted her chin and said with a determined tone, "But he's already a member of the Blood Sect. The Bone Blood Demon is too important to us. I'll never allow the person who controls it to leave the Blood Sect!"

Surprise stretched across Chang Sen's face as he said, "Wu Ji's disciple?! Eccentric Wu surely know how to pick his disciples! No one can beat him at that. You've got to give him that."

"I told you that he's a disciple of the Blood Sect now!" Li Jing said in an imposing manner.

"Well, you can talk to Wu Ji about that." Chang Sen didn't take a stance in the matter. He went on to say with a grim expression, "The Realm of Flame Heaven is not safe yet. Those from the other eight realms will soon learn about the retreat of the outsiders. I believe it won't be long before powerful experts from the Realm of Earth Sieve and the Realm of Dark Underworld descend upon our realm."

Upon hearing these words, neither Ghost Eye or Li Jing were in the mood to talk. They both flew towards the Ghost Sect's green stone city.

The Qi warriors from the Hell Sect, Ghost Sect, and Blood Sect also followed them back into the city.

Only Nie Tian remained in his original position, staring blanking at the Bone Blood Demon that had collapsed to the ground.

With his strength, he couldn't possibly carry it from the wasteland where he was standing to the stone city.

Fortunately, Li Jing realized his concern, and rapidly flew back to his side from the city.

Sitting on her Blood Lotus, she said to Nie Tian, "Follow me."

As soon as she uttered these words, numerous blood-colored ribbons flew out of the Blood Lotus. They wrapped around the gigantic Bone Blood Demon like pack ropes and pulled it up into the air.

"You come with me." With a flip of Li Jing's finger, a blood thread that was as soft as cotton stretched out, wreathed Nie Tian, and dragged him to the top of the Blood Lotus.

While flying the Bone Blood Demon back to the Ghost sect, Li Jing shot a glance at Nie Tian and asked, "Didn't you tell me that it would remain active for ten days?"

"It sped up its consumption of life power when it unleashed its bloodline power." Nie Tian told the truth.

"I see." Li Jing nodded and said in a domineering tone, "From now on, whoever asks about you, you'll tell them that you've become a member of the Blood Sect."

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In the mountain rage where the Hell Sect was located.

Surrounded by three mountain peaks that were thousands of meters high, wisps of demon Qi were oozing out of a huge, dark pit that seemed to lead to the deepest parts of the earth.

The demon Qi that flowed out of the pit gradually filled the area in a fifty miles range, within which not a single wisp of the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth could be found.

WHOOSH!

The enormous demon Qi vortex appeared from the direction of the Ghost Sect and flew toward the huge pit while carrying numerous low-tier outsiders.

As the vortex landed next to the bottomless pit, a significant amount of low-tier outsiders marched out of it and stepped to the edge of the pit.

Under the leadership of Zelia, Caro, and Groete, high-tier outsiders also descended to the edge of the pit from the top of the demon Qi vortex.

At that moment, strong spatial fluctuations were suddenly born within the pit, as if it had become a portal that led to another heaven and earth.

"The portal is open. The three rifts that lead to our world have all opened." Face calm, Zelia looked into the unfathomable, dark pit. It seemed that she wasn't very frustrated by their failure to take the Realm of Flame Heaven. "Now that the legacies of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace have reappeared in this world through the Heaven Gate trial, the game between the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace and us has finally begun.

"Those three rifts were sealed by saints from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace thousands of years ago.

"Now they're open again. The Qi warriors from the Domain of the Falling Stars won't be able to seal them with their strength alone.

"Only by obtaining the first, middle, and last part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation will a person be able to learn the secret magic of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, and use it to channel power from the starry river to reseal the rifts." With these words, Zelia turned to look at the three enormous mountain peaks surrounding the pit.

She knew perfectly well that they weren't naturally formed. Instead, they had been moved from other parts of the Realm of Flame Heaven by saints with divine abilities from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

There were powerful, secret formations hidden within each of the mountain peaks, with every formation having its own central hub.

Only the person who had all three parts of the Fragmentary Star Incantation would be able to use the incantation to restart the grand spell formation and channel power from the starry river to seal the portal.

Caro, who was covered in black armor from head to toe, asked, "My lord, the other two rifts are in the Realm of Mystic Heaven and the Realm of a Thousand Devastations. The human Qi warriors in those realms are more powerful than the ones in the Realm of Flame Heaven. Do they have the ability to stop the spread of the demon Qi?"

"No, they don't." Arrogance could be seen on Zelia's face. "If they did have a way to do that, they wouldn't have sent their most powerful experts to the Heaven Gate trial and fought others to the death for the three parts of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

"The reason why the powerful clans from our world chose not to invade the Realm of Mystic Heaven and the Realm of a Thousand Devastations was that they knew that they wouldn't have the best odds if they fought those powerful experts on their turf, where the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth was everywhere.

"Meanwhile, powerful human experts from the Domain of the Falling Stars probably won't dare to travel to our world via the spatial rifts.

"The reason why we chose to attack the Realm of Flame Heaven was because human cultivators in this realm are too weak to stop us from traveling here and returning.

"However, it's safe to say that the moment the three great spatial rifts are opened, the war between us and the Domain of the Falling Stars will have begun.

"If the three great spatial rifts can stay open, it'll take no more than five decades to fill the Realm of Mystic Heaven, the Realm of a Thousand Devastations, and the Realm of Flame Heaven with demon Qi.

"If we step into the three realms via the spatial rifts at that time, we'll definitely gain the upper hand in fighting against the human Qi warriors.

"That's when we'll start the full-blown war against the Domain of the Falling Stars."

Caro frowned and said, "The leaders of the Domain of the Falling Stars probably also know about this. I bet they'll try to find a way to gather all three parts of the Fragmentary Star Incantation. If they somehow manage to do that, they would be able to reseal the spatial rifts in the three realms. What will we do if it comes to that?"

Zelia chuckled and said, "It's not as easy as it sounds. The Qi warrior powers in the Domain of the Falling Stars aren't as united as you may think. They fight and kill each other all the time. What else do you think was stopping powerful experts from the other realms from coming to help defend the Realm of Flame Heaven?

"It's almost impossible for one person to gather all three parts of the incantation. Furthermore, that person will need to be strong and intelligent enough to achieve total mastery of the legacies that hide with those magical symbols. Only then will they be able to restart the spell formations.

"Whoever obtains a part of the incantation won't give it away so easily. It'll take quite some time for one person to get all the parts, and during that period of time, the Domain of the Falling Stars will remain in turmoil.

"Also, as soon as we go back, I'll request that our monarchs cast secret bloodline spells to speed up the spread of the demon Qi.

"If they agree to help, we might only need ten years to fill the Realm of Mystic Heaven, the Realm of a Thousand Devastations, and the Realm of Flame Heaven with demon Qi, and turn them into our paradise.

"It's just a matter of time before all nine realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars become our colonies. The great clans have longed for them for quite some time. Nothing will stop them." With these words, Zelia softly waved her hand and said, "Let's go home."

Immediately afterwards, the enormous demon Qi vortex moved over and enveloped all high-tier and low-tier outsiders. Then it carried them into the depths of the bottomless pit and vanished in the spatial fluctuations.

In the Realm of a Thousand Devastations…

Wisps of demon Qi were coming out of a huge pit in the ground that was exactly the same as the one in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Around the unfathomable pit were also three exceptionally high mountain peaks that reached thousands of meters into the sky.

On the top of one mountain peak stood a handful human cultivators. They all had grim expressions on their faces as they looked down at the pit that was wreathed with demon Qi.

"The fact that the outsiders aren't here doesn't mean that they won't come. As long as this spatial rift isn't sealed, more demon Qi will pour into the Realm of a Thousand Devastations."

"If we don't do anything about it, we won't have a smidgen of spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth left in our realm in a few decades. At that time, the truly powerful outsider clans will throw their full strength at the Domain of the Falling Stars."

"None of our disciples returned from the Heaven Gate trial with legacies from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace. Even the Heaven Palace Sect in the Realm of Mystic Heaven only got their hands on one part. I heard that the other two parts were seized by a kid from the Realm of Flame Heaven, as unbelievable as it sounds."

"The Heaven Palace Sect originally planned to have Su Lin and Ning Yang obtain all three parts of the incantation, but they somehow failed."

"If we can't unite the three parts, we won't be able to seal the three great spatial rifts and stop the poisonous demon Qi from spreading into the Realm of Mystic Heaven, the Realm of a Thousand Devastations, and the Realm of Flame Heaven. If we can't do that, the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in these realms will grow fainter and fainter, and soon be completely replaced by demon Qi. At that time, these realms will no longer be suitable for Qi warriors to practice cultivation in."

"Rest assured, this is a more urgent matter to the Heaven Palace Sect than us. The spatial rift in the Realm of Mystic Heaven appeared right outside the Heaven Palace Sect. If the demon Qi keeps spreading, they'll be forced to move their sect to another location. They won't let others have the other two parts of the incantation for long."

"I guess you're right. So let's wait and see what the Heaven Palace Sect's next move will be."

After observing the huge pit and discussing for a short while, the experts from the Realm of a Thousand Devastations soared into the sky and disappeared.

In the Heaven Palace Sect, the realm of Mystic Heaven…

Su Lin and Ning Yang were on their knees in a magnificent stone palace. After bringing out all their encounters in the Heaven Gate trial, they bowed their heads low and fell into silence.

In the middle of the stone palace, a spirit was floating in front of them. It was so blurry and was flickering so much that it seemed that it could disappear at any moment.

After remaining silent for quite a while, the spirit said in a profound, calm voice, "If we can't obtain the whole incantation, we won't be able to seal the three great spatial rifts that lead to the demons' world. If we sit around and let it happen, the Realm of Flame Heaven, the smallest of the three, will drown in demon Qi in no more than two decades.

"By that time, the Realm of Flame Heaven will completely lose its value, and all of its human residents will evacuate.

"If it comes to that, everything we've done will be in vain. I'll send messages to the Realm of Earth Sieve and the Realm of Dark Underworld to tell them to stop their operations against the Realm of Flame Heaven. Meanwhile, I need you two to go to the Realm of Flame Heaven with my edict. You'll find the boy who has the other two parts of the incantation and gather all three parts."

At that moment, a command medallion that seemed to be made of gold and jade flew out from within the floating spirit and stopped in front of Ning Yang, floating.

"Show it to Chang Sen, sectmaster of the Hell Sect, and he'll know what to do."

"Got it," Ning Yang and Su Lin said simultaneously, their faces still facing the floor.

The floating spirit gave a cold harrumph. "If you two fail again this time, you know what punishment awaits, don't you?"

Fear could be seen on Ning Yang and Su Lin's ghastly faces as they couldn't help but shiver.

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Deep into the night, in the ancient, green stone city…

Since the outsiders had left the Ghost Sect, long-lost peace was stored to the city. Disciples of the Ghost Sect who were lucky enough to have survived the calamity were either weeping over their loved ones' deaths or cultivating wholeheartedly, preparing themselves for the challenges that were to come.

The sectmasters of the Hell Sect, the Ghost Sect, and the Blood Sect, along with their sect elders, were discussing their plans to deal with the pressure that might come from the other eight realms.

Nie Tian, on the other hand, was resting in a residence arranged for him by Zou Yi in the southwest part of the city.

The enormous Bone Blood Demon was placed in the middle of his courtyard, exposed under silver moonlight.

Nie Tian was sitting cross-legged in his room, the door to which was left open. He held an unfurled scroll in his hands, which carried an incantation that Li Jing had instructed him to memorize by heart.

Written on the scroll were the words: Blood Refining Incantation.

It was the Blood Sect's most fundamental spiritual incantation. Every disciple of the Blood Sect would have to practice cultivation with it.

Unlike the spiritual incantations of the other sects in the Realm of Flame Heaven, the Blood Refining Incantation needed to be practiced with spirit beast blood.

The Blood Refining Incantation would allow its users to absorb spiritual energy from spirit beast blood and channel it to their spiritual sea.

Aside from the Blood Refining Incantation, Li Jing had also bestowed three Blood Pills upon him, so that he could channel the spiritual power within them to his spiritual sea and thus create a vortex of blood power there.

Since the incantation was quite plain and simple, Nie Tian went through it and grasped the essence of it rapidly.

However, when he tried to refine a Blood Pill with it, he found that he couldn't channel the wisps of blood power that the Blood Pill released to his spiritual sea at all, no matter how hard he tried.

He discovered that some blood power wisps were attracted to his heart, where they were devoured by the green energy thread that resided in it, while the others dissipated into his blood on their way to his spiritual sea.

"The way the Blood Refining Incantation works is basically to gather blood power to the cultivator's spiritual sea. It seems it doesn't suit me very well." By the time the medicinal efficacy of the Blood Pill wore out, Nie Tian threw the scroll back into his bracelet of holding and started meditating with his eyebrows slightly furrowed.

After a thorough self-examination, he found that, although the blood power of the Blood Pill had made him feel more energetic and the green energy thread in his heart seemed to have grown a bit larger, none of the blood power had flowed to his spiritual sea.

He didn't understand what had gone wrong.

Subconsciously, he cast a glance at the Bone Blood Demon in the courtyard.

It immediately occurred to him that the Bone Blood Demon had used that very Incantation to refine the blood of numerous low-tier outsiders in the Blood Sect and the Ghost Sect, but as far as he knew, Bone Giants didn't have dantians or spiritual seas.

The blood essence that the Bone Blood Demon had absorbed with the Blood Refining Incantation seemed to have also dispersed into its blood.

"Can this be because I have a special bloodline within me?" The thought suddenly occurred to Nie Tian.

"Blood Refining Incantation?" It was at that moment a figure appeared in the courtyard. Nie Tian's eyes searched for the source of the voice, and then he saw a blurry figure in the courtyard. As the figure approached, it grew clearer and clearer.

"Mister Hua?" Nie Tian's expression flickered. "What brings you here?"

"I've come for you," A gentle smile appeared on Hua Mu's face as he said. "I think I saw you practice the Blood Sect's Blood Refining Incantation."

Nie Tian nodded. "Yeah, but I don't think it suits me."

"You're wrong." Hua Mu shook his head and said with a sincere tone. "That incantation suits you perfectly. It's just that you don't need to stick to the method written on that scroll. You only need to use it to refine and accumulate blood power. Forget the rest."

Nie Tian was shocked by Hua Mu's words. "Just like the way I practiced it just now? That was the right way?"

"Yes, only those who don't have a special bloodline in them will need to channel blood power to their spiritual sea. But you're different. You have life blood running through your veins, and from what I can tell, you've already awakened your bloodline." Hua Mu seemed a bit excited as he continued, "You can use the Blood Refining Incantation to strengthen your life blood, and that's why I said this incantation suits you perfectly."

"How did you know, Mr. Hua?!" Nie Tian was taken aback.

Then, he remembered that right before he had left for the Heaven Gate trial, Hua Mu told him that he might learn about his own secrets during the trial. At that time, he hadn't been able to understand what Hua Mu meant.

As he recalled it now, Hua Mu must have been talking about the green aura in his heart, which was the embodiment of his awakened bloodline power.

He had also awakened his first bloodline talent: Life Transfer.

The more he thought about it, the more he found that everything Hua Mu had done contained deep meanings.

"I saw your uniqueness the day I met you." Hua Mu nodded and said.

Then, after a moment of silence, he sighed and continued, "Although, there's another reason why I helped refine your body and rid you of impurities."

"What do you mean?" Nie Tian asked with a serious expression.

He was aware that Hua Mu had done many things to help him, whether it was killing Lai Yi and Gan Kang in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, or informing him about the Heaven Gate.

For that, he had been nothing but graceful.

"Just like your master, I'm also nearing the end of my life. I hope you can use your life blood to extend my lifespan for me. Of course, your current bloodline power level doesn't allow you to do that now." With a smile on his face, Hua Mu continued, "But I can wait for few more decades. I believe that, given time and considering your talent, it won't be hard for you to give me more years then."

"Life Transfer?!" Nie Tian's expression flickered.

Hua Mu's eyes lit up. "You've already awakened the Life Transfer bloodline talent?"

Nie Tian nodded and answered, "Yes, it's the first and only bloodline talent I've awakened."

"Excellent!" Hua Mu seemed very excited upon hearing Nie Tian's answer. "This is amazing. I knew you had it in you! If that's the case, you might just need ten years to accumulate enough strength to perform Life Transfer on me! I made the right choice!"

Then, Hua Mu went on to say, "By the way, your grandfather and aunt are safe. I took them to a safe place before Black Cloud City was flooded by low-tier outsiders. They are probably being taken to the Cloudsoaring Sect as we speak. Don't you worry about them."

Nie Tian hastily rose to his feet and bowed deeply towards Hua Mu. "Many thanks, Mr. Hua!!"

Hua Mu waved his hand and said, "There's no need for this. Oh right, did you make any gains during the Heaven Gate trial?"

"I obtained the first and middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation." Nie Tian answered, without holding anything back.

For unknown reasons, he had a feeling that he could completely trust Hua Mu.

"You obtained the first and middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation?!" Hua Mu's eyes widened.

Nie Tian raised his shirt and showed the two hexagrams on his chest to Hua Mu.

With a glimpse of it, Hua Mu's eyes further widened and he shuddered slightly, as he seemed to be truly shocked.

Hua Mu stared at the hexagram for a while before moving his complicated gaze up to look Nie Tian in the eye while saying, "I already considered taking you to another realm after you got the Flame Dragon Armor. Now that you've obtained the first and middle parts of the Fragmentary Star Incantation, there are even more reasons that you can't stay in the Realm of Flame Heaven."

"What?!" Nie Tian was surprised.

"Those two hexagrams on your chest are of great importance. Their significance may surpass your imagination. If you continue to stay in the Realm of Flame Heaven, I'm afraid catastrophic things will happen to you, things even I won't be able to protect you from." Hua Mu took a deep breath and continued, "If you can trust me, leave with me tonight."

"But my master Wu Ji and the sectmaster Li Jing will protect me." Nie Tian explained.

Hua Mu shook his head. "They won't be able to. If the Heaven Palace Sect from the Realm of Mystic Heaven demands something, no one in the entire Realm of Flame Heaven will dare to say no."

"So… where do we go?" Nie Tian asked while he seemed to be in a state of bewilderment.

"I'll take you to a place where you can sit the turmoils out, and then you can return to the Realm of Flame Heaven when it's safe." Hua Mu sounded somewhat anxious after learning that Nie Tian had obtained two hexagrams. "It's better that we leave tonight. Delaying means trouble!"

"Leave the Realm of Flame Heaven?"

Hua Mu nodded vigorously. "Exactly, I have to take you to a place out of the Heaven Palace Sect's reach, where you'll conceal your identity and spend some time to draw enlightenment from the first and middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation. When you've gained thorough understandings of the profound mysteries within those two hexagrams, even if the Heaven Palace Sect somehow found you, they won't be able to forcibly take them away from you.

"At that time, they'll have to rely on you, whether they're willing to or not. They might even take you to the Heaven Palace Sect.

"Once you're in the Heaven Palace Sect, you won't have to worry about those people from the Realm of Dark Underworld any more. They won't dare to make a move, even if they know that the Flame Dragon Armor is in your possession."

Hua Mu's words were very overwhelming to Nie Tian. Confused and disoriented, Nie Tian said, "I'll do what you think is the best."

"Okay, let's go."

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Deep into the night, in the Ghost Sect…

Chang Sen, Ghost Eye, and Li Jing were discussing their next move and how they were going to handle the potential threat from the other eight realms.

There were three inter-spatial teleportation portals in the Realm of Flame Heaven; each of them was established in the Hell Sect, the Ghost Sect, and the Spiritual Treasure Sect respectively.

The seven sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven had always traveled to the other eight realms in the Domain of the Falling Stars via those teleportation portals.

However, when the outsider army had invaded the Realm of Flame Heaven, all three of them had failed. When the seven sects wanted to send out signals for help through them, they discovered that all the other realms, including those they had close relations with, had denied their requests to teleport.

Originally, the seven sects had planned to teleport their young and weak away to the other realms first, and then use the portals to evacuate their powerful experts if the Realm of Flame Heaven's loss became inevitable.

However, it seemed that the other eight realms had already reached a mutual understanding; each and every one of them had declined the seven sects' requests to travel to their realms via the inter-spatial teleportation portals.

It was at that moment that Chang Sen and the other sect leaders had realized that the other eight realms had abandoned the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Chang Sen's expression was very grim. "Now that the outsiders are gone, if there are no mishaps, those people from the Realm of Dark Underworld and the Realm of Earth Sieve will soon learn about it and descend upon us. From what I can tell, we don't have to worry that the outsiders will invade us again in the near future. Instead, those three inter-spatial teleportation portals have become my biggest concern, since the other realms might try to use them to get to our realm.

"In my opinion, we should seal all three of them as soon as possible.

"Even though the Realm of Dark Underworld and the Realm of Earth Sieve are relatively near us, if the portals are no longer available, they will have to spend a significant amount of time and effort traveling across the starry river to get to our realm.

"Furthermore, traveling in the starry river can be very dangerous.

"I want them to suffer great losses on their way, even if we can't stop them from coming to the Realm of Flame Heaven!"

After Chang Sen shared his views, both Ghost Eye and Li Jing nodded briefly in assent.

Immediately afterwards, Ghost Eye ordered an elder of the Ghost Sect to seal the inter-spatial teleportation portal in their sect.

Chang Sen also set out to use a secret magic to inform the guardians of the inter-spatial teleportation portal in the Hell Sect to turn it off, and also prepared to urge Fang Hui from the Spiritual Treasure Sect to do the same to theirs.

However, at that very moment, the elder Ghost Eye had just sent to seal the portal rushed back in. Urgency and fear could be seen on his face. "Sectmaster, by the time I got to the inter-spatial teleportation portal, two visitors from foreign realms had already arrived. They have the edict of the sectmaster of the Heaven Palace Sect with them, and they want to see you, Chang Sen."

Ghost Eye's expression suddenly flickered. "People from the Heaven Palace Sect? Edict of their sectmaster?"

Chang Sen and Li Jing were also taken back by the news.

Ghost Eye turned to look at Chang Sen.

Chang Sen remained silent for a while before nodding and saying, "Send them in. Let's see what they have to say."

Therefore, Ghost Eye beckoned for the elder to bring them in.

Moments later, the Ghost Sect elder brought Ning Yang and Su Lin to the meeting hall where the three sectmasters were.

After they came to a stop, Ning Yang bowed in a respectful yet proud fashion. "Greetings, seniors."

Then, he took out the edict and passed it on to Chang Sen, Ghost Eye, and Li Jing. When the three of them examined it and were convinced that it was authentic, Ning Yang took his time to explain that he was here for Nie Tian, who had obtained the first and middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

After that, he went on to explain why they need them without holding anything back; how they would have to gather all three parts of the Fragmentary Star Incantation to reseal the spatial rifts that had appeared in the Realm of Mystic Heaven, the Realm of a Thousand Devastations, and the Realm of Flame Heaven, and only by doing that would they be able to stop the demon Qi from pouring into the three realms.

Everything Ning Yang said was news, even to Chang Sen. After learning about the significance of the Fragmentary Star Incantation and the outsiders' true intentions, the three of them all had grim expressions on their faces.

"If we don't seal the spatial rift in your realm as soon as possible, given the size of your realm, it'll take no more than twenty years for the demon Qi to fill every corner of your homeland. By that time, the outsiders might not even need to launch a war to take the Realm of Flame Heaven. The seven sects and all the commoners might have already taken the initiative to emigrate to another realm.

"The reason we're here is to solve this problem for all of us. Nie Tian's cultivation base is far too low. He can't possibly make the best of those two parts of the incantation within such a short period of time.

"I hope you can look at the bigger picture and give him to us. I promise you that I'll only take away his two fragmentary star marks, and I won't endanger his life.

"Furthermore, as long as we get what we want, we'll urge the other six realms to stay out of the conflicts between your realm and the Realm of Dark Underworld and the Realm of Earth Sieve.

"Seniors, I believe that you understand what it means to "give to get", and what's best for the Realm of Flame Heaven."

After making his intentions and reasons clear, Ning Yang stood in silence, waiting for Chang Sen and the other two to make their decision.

Li Jing seemed both surprised and worried. "Nie Tian?! I can't believe it's Nie Tian! Never would have I expected that Nie Tian obtained two fragmentary star marks during the Heaven Gate trial!"

After pondering the matter for a while, Chang Sen made up his mind. "Li Jing, those fragmentary star marks are of great importance. Whether we can unite all three of them will determine the fate of our realms. I'll never forget Nie Tian's contribution to help defend the Realm of Flame Heaven.

"However, after all, he's only at the Lesser Heaven stage; even if he gets to keep those two fragmentary star marks, he won't be able to make the best use of them. The consequences will be catastrophic. Not only will the Realm of Flame Heaven face calamities, but the Realm of Mystic Heaven and the Realm of a Thousand Devastations will also suffer great turbulence."

He turned to Li Jing and continued, "Tell him to give up the fragmentary star marks, and I'll compensate him for his loss."

Ghost Eye seemed somewhat anxious after learning what the huge pit that had suddenly appeared in the Realm of Flame Heaven meant.

He also knew that now that Ning Yang had come with his sectmaster's edict, he wouldn't take no for an answer.

After weighing the pros against the cons in his head, he found Ning Yang's proposal acceptable. After all, by sacrificing Nie Tian's two fragmentary star marks, they would protect the Realm of Flame Heaven from both outsider invaders and potential threats from the other two realms.

Meanwhile, Li Jing also understood that she wouldn't be able to save Nie Tian's fragmentary star marks, no matter how hard she might try.

She was very aware that now that the situation involved the will of the sectmaster of the Heaven Palace Sect, no one in the Realm of Flame Heaven would be able to turn it around.

Most importantly, if Nie Tian refused to do so, the Realm of Flame Heaven would be put in even greater danger.

Numerous expressions flashed across Li Jing's face. After pondering in silence for quite a while, she looked at Ning Yang and said, "Are you sure you won't hurt Nie Tian when you remove his fragmentary star marks?"

Ning Yang solemnly promised her that they had a way to peel away the fragmentary star marks without compromising Nie Tian's future cultivation.

He even promised that the Heaven Palace Sect would compensate him after receiving his fragmentary star marks and also pressure the Realm of Dark Underworld and the Realm of Earth Sieve to halt their operations against the Realm of Flame Heaven.

His words eventually erased Li Jing's concerns. She said, "Alright, I'll take you to him."

"I'd appreciate it if you did so now," said Ning Yang.

Then, Li Jing led him and a few others to Nie Tian's residence, where the Bone Blood Demon was lying in the courtyard.

However, before they even descended from midair, Chang Sen, Ghost Eye, and Li Jing's expressions flickered simultaneously.

None of their soul consciousnesses detected any sign of life in the residence, which meant that Nie Tian wasn't there.

"What's wrong?" Ning Yang was confused.

Li Jing's eyebrows furrowed slightly as she said, "He might have gone out. It's alright. I remember his aura. As long as he's still in the city, I'll be able to find him soon."

Upon saying these words, sitting on her Blood Lotus, she unleashed a wave of spiritual power from her spiritual sea, which rapidly spread out in every direction.

Several minutes later, she shuddered slightly and said, "He's not in the city!"

"How can that be?!" Chang Sen was also surprised. "That kid wouldn't leave for no reason. Can it be that he sensed danger? But considering his cultivation base, he couldn't get very far."

"Split up and search for him!" Ghost Eye immediately blurred into action. Like a ghost shadow, he flew up into the air and disappeared.

Right after him, Chang Sen and Li Jing also rose into the sky and flew away in the other direction.

By daybreak, the three of them had returned to the green stone city, frustrated expressions on their faces. Apparently, none of them had found Nie Tian.

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At daybreak, a small boat could be seen traveling as fast as a flash in the boundless, misty sky.

The boat was five meters long and made from some unknown material.

Numerous spirit stones filled the bottom of the boat; every one of them was emanating bright light as they rapidly used up their spiritual power.

From time to time, Hua Mu would bring out more spirit stones from within his ring of holding and toss them to the bottom of the boat, as it seemed that he did so to fuel the flying boat.

The speed at which the boat traveled was about twice as fast as the Bone Blood Demon.

Standing next to Hua Mu, Nie Tian turned his head to look at the Lightning Shuttle with a measuring gaze, and marveled at it.

According to Hua Mu, this Lightning Shuttle was very valuable and rare. Even the Spiritual Treasure Sect didn't have the techniques and resources available to build one of them.

If a Qi warrior traveled in one of them, not only would they save their strength, since it didn't require its owner to power it with their own power, but they could even practice cultivation or draw enlightenment from their spiritual incantations during the commute.

Normally, only powerful sects like the Heaven Palace Sect would possess valuable spiritual tools like this, and only their high-ranking officials would be allowed to use them.

Nie Tian was very surprised that Hua Mu had such a precious spiritual tool.

He had a feeling that Hua Mu was a very important person in the Domain of the Falling Stars, and that the name Hua Mu could be a fake name.

Just as Nie Tian was pondering the matter, Hua Mu frowned. He turned to look in the direction of the Ghost Sect and said, "All three of them have come searching for you.

"I didn't expect the Heaven Palace Sect to act so quickly. Fortunately, we left early enough. Otherwise, if Chang Sen, Ghost Eye, or Li Jing found us, it would give rise to a lot of trouble.

"I don't know who the Heaven Palace Sect has sent here. But whoever it is, if he or she learns about our whereabouts, you won't be safe anymore."

"Are they looking for you too?" Nie Tian asked; shock could be heard in his voice.

Hua Mu shook his head. "No, I'm not who they're looking for. They must be searching for you because of the pressure they received from the Heaven Palace Sect. I knew that the Heaven Palace Sect would come and collect them when you told me that you have two fragmentary star marks on you. I just didn't expect them to come so soon. After all, the outsiders have just retreated."

Through Chang Sen, Ghost Eye, and Li Jing's actions, Hua Mu was able to suss out the Heaven Palace Sect's deal with them.

"Those fragmentary star marks are really that important?" Nie Tian asked.

"Yes, they are." Hua Mu pondered for a moment, and then explained to Nie Tian why they were. It was the same thing that Ning Yang had explained to Chang Sen, Ghost Eye, and Li Jing.

After learning that the hexagrams on his chest could determine the fate of the Realm of Flame Heaven and two other realms, Nie Tian's expression flickered drastically.

Hua Mu seemed to have seen through his concerns and said consolingly, "You don't need to worry too much. It will take at least twenty years for the demon Qi to fill the Realm of Flame Heaven. As for the Realm of a Thousand Devastations and the Realm of Mystic Heaven, since they are vaster, it will take about fifty years for the demon Qi to fill them.

"Meanwhile, according to my estimations, you'll need only five to six years to study and fully grasp the profound truths within the first and middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

"At that time, the Heaven Palace Sect will no longer be able to forcibly take the fragmentary star marks away from you.

"Only then will they compromise and accept you into the Heaven Palace Sect, along with your fragmentary star marks.

"Although the Realm of Flame Heaven, the Realm of a Thousand Devastations, and the Realm of Mystic Heaven might have to fight the influence of the demon Qi in the coming five to six years, their foundations won't be shaken.

"And that's the way you'll benefit the most."

With these words, Hua Mu looked at Nie Tian and said with a solemn tone, "Nie Tian, now that you've chosen the path of cultivation, you'll have to think more about your future. If you give up those fragmentary star marks, you'll regret it for the rest of your life. You risked your life for them. Why would you hand them over to the Heaven Palace Sect?"

"If I can keep them and save the Realm of Flame Heaven at the same time, of course I'll never give them up!" Nie Tian blurted.

A grin appeared on Hua Mu's face as he said, "Good boy. Also, you can rest assured that your grandfather and aunt will be safe in the Cloudsoaring Sect. They have Wu Ji to shelter them. I don't think the Heaven Palace sect will do anything to them. From now on, the Heaven Palace sect will leave no corner unchecked in their search for you, but I'll make sure they don't find you.

"In five to six years, when you've mastered everything in the fragmentary star marks and you can put your knowledge to use, then you can return to the Realm of Flame Heaven, open and square. Or you can go directly to the Realm of Mystic Heaven.

"By that time, not only will they not hurt you, but they might even provide you with cultivation resources and rely on you to save their realm."

Nie Tian nodded and said, "I trust that you are doing this for my benefit, right?"

"Of course, why would I trick you?" Hua Mu patted on his shoulder. "If I wanted to hurt you, you would have died already. The Flame Dragon Armor alone was already reason enough for some people to kill you. If you did give up your fragmentary star marks this time, and only relied on Wu Ji and Li Jing to protect you, I doubt that they'd be able to stop that person from the Realm of Dark Underworld."

"Who are you talking about?" Nie Tian asked with a grim face.

"There are two major Qi warrior sects in the Realm of Dark Underworld, the Flame God Sect and the Spirit God Sect. Lai Yi and Tang Yang are both from the Flame God Sect. The Flame Dragon Armor's former owner is the sectmaster of the Flame God Sect, who everyone refers to as Flame God, but he didn't have the Blood Core. Therefore the Flame Dragon Armor wasn't complete. He had gone to great lengths just to get the Flame Dragon Armor without the Blood Core. Would he really let you have it after learning that the Flame Dragon Armor had merged with the Blood Core?

"He might even have personally come to the Realm of Flame Heaven to search for you, along with people from the Heaven Palace Sect. Would you still want to stay in the Realm of Flame Heaven then?"

"Okay, I see."

As the two of them spoke, the Lightning Shuttle carried them as it whistled through the misty sky and flew further and further away from the Ghost Sect.

One day passed…

It was dusk when the Lightning Shuttle flew past the Mystic Mist Sect and appeared over a boundless ocean that was covered in faint, white mist.

Numerous islands were scattered everywhere like the stars in the sky. Most of them were uninhabited, with only a handful inhabited by fishermen.

The Lightning Shuttle flew for a while longer before it slowed down above an insignificant isle, which was oval and only the size of Black Cloud City.

A small mountain took up almost the entire isle.

When the Lightning Shuttle slowly flew to a position halfway up the mountain, Hua Mu reached out with one hand, and a spiritual light flashed across in front of him. A stone as smooth as jade suddenly split open, and a cave appeared.

Hua Mu grabbed Nie Tian's hand as they jumped off of the Lightning Shuttle and landed at the mouth of the stone cave. After storing the Lightning Shuttle back into his ring of holding, Hua Mu led Nie Tian into the cave.

It was a wide stone cave, where numerous luminous pearls were embedded in the cave walls, lighting the cave as if it were under broad daylight.

As they walked deeper, a small teleportation portal appeared in front of them.

Hua Mu stopped and said, "The place we are going to is quite turbulent. Actually, it was the tenth realm of the Domain of the Falling Stars. It's just that it's been abandoned by Qi warriors from the other nine realms for some reason, and now it's completely unsuitable for Qi warriors to practice cultivation in.

"However, it's become a place where Qi warriors who aren't welcome in the other nine realms gather. Among them are fugitives from the other realms who have committed serious crimes, and those who practice cultivation via dangerous, forbidden techniques.

"I'll take you there, but I won't be able to stay for long. You'll need to depend on yourself to make a living over there.

"However, I have faith in you. You've survived worse."

Nie Tian went blank for a moment. "The tenth realm of the Domain of the Falling Stars?"

"Exactly, the Realm of a Hundred Battles is the realm that's the closest to it, but the distance between them is still extremely far." With an embarrassed smile on his face, Hua Mu continued, "That's the only place that the Heaven Palace Sect can hardly get to and doesn't have any influence in. As long as you are careful and keep your secrets to yourself, they won't be able to find you.

"One more thing, don't trust anyone who lives there."

To Hua Mu's surprise, Nie Tian nodded and said, "Great! If that's that case, I'm quite intrigued."

"…I guess it's perfect for you then." Hua Mu pointed towards the small teleportation portal and beckoned for Nie Tian to step inside of it.

As soon as they both entered the portal, Hua Mu cast a spell to start it.

In a few seconds, the two of them were engulfed by a dazzlingly bright light, and by the time the light dimmed, they were already nowhere to be found.

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In the Realm of Split Void…

In the center of Shatter City, numerous human Qi warriors were gathered by the side of large inter-spatial teleportation portal.

Every once in awhile, the portal would emanate bright light, and human figures would gradually became clear in its center, after which a black-garbed Qi warriors would walk up to them and demand spirit stones.

The amount of the spirit stones would depend on the distance of the teleportation, but the deal was that everyone needed to pay in spirit stones to use the portal, whoever it was.

Other than that, those who came to Shatter City for the first time would need to get a identity medallion, within which the time that they were allowed to stay in the city was marked.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The portal began to shine with misty, bright light. When the dazzling light faded away, Nie Tian and Hua Mu slowly walked out of the portal.

At that moment, a Qi warrior in black garb rapidly approached them.

"Three hundred spirit stones," The person said indifferently.

Hua Mu nodded, not saying a word. Then he took out three hundred spirit stones from his ring of holding and handed them over to the person.

Nie Tian secretly used his psychic awareness to wrap a bit of the light of the fragmentary stars in his soul, and then used this Heaven Eye to pry into the person's cultivation base. As it turned out, he was at the early Greater Heaven stage.

A bloody-red skull was embroidered on the man's chest, which seemed to serve as a sigil of his identity.

Nie Tian glanced around and found that every black-robed Qi warrior around him had the same skull pattern on their chest. Apparently, they were from the same force.

The man stared coldly at Nie Tian. "This one doesn't have an identity medallion."

Just as Hua Mu was about to say something, a Qi warrior suddenly rushed into the teleportation portal, which was now lit up again and already had three people standing inside.

Those three seemed to have paid in full to leave the place, but the one of them didn't.

Before he could even get a firm foothold on the portal, a burly, black-robed man stepped over, grabbed his head with one hand, and dragged him out of it. It seemed as if he was picking up a chicken.

"Your identity medallion has expired," The burly man said with an indifferent expression on his face. "You can either extend your stay with more spirit stones, or pay for the teleportation service with spirit stones so you can leave."

"I don't have any spirit stones. Please, let me leave." The poor man pleaded.

"Alright. Since you don't have any spirit stones, I'll have to let you leave Shatter City." The black-robed man grabbed the poor man and picked him up from the ground as numerous threads of lightning shot out of his sturdy hand. Like chains, they wrapped the poor man so tightly that he couldn't even struggle any more.

"No! I don't want to leave the city! I want to use the portal to leave the Realm of Split Void! Please!" The poor man begged and cried.

The black-robed man grinned sinisterly. "Do you think we Blood Skulls will let people use the portal for free? Since you dared to come here, you should know the rules. If you don't have any spirit stones, you'll rot out there."

With these words, the black-robed man dragged the person towards the gate of Shatter City, completely deaf to his screams.

From the way he screamed, Nie Tian realized that being kicked out of the city meant nothing but death.

Nie Tian turned to Hua Mu and asked, "What's outside of Shatter City?"

Hua Mu pointed up. Nie Tian looked up and found that the entire city was enveloped by an enormous light shield, which seemed to be shimmering with faint spiritual power.

"There are two upsides to staying inside of Shatter City; first of all, you won't need to continuously spend spiritual power to resist the tainted spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth. Second of all, fighting is prohibited in Shatter City. Whoever has paid for their stay will be given an identity medallion and receive protection from the Blood Skulls while they are in the city.

"However, once they are out of the city, the Blood Skulls will protect no one. They can kill and loot all they want.

"A bunch of extremely violent and vicious people always lurk outside of Shatter City, waiting for people to walk through the city gate. If they think they can take the person, they will instantly jump on him and kill him."

As he explained this to Nie Tian, Hua Mu handed a few spirit stones to another black-robed man to apply for an identity medallion for Nie Tian.

After receiving a triangular identity medallion from the Blood Skull member, Hua Mu shoved it into Nie Tian's hands. "Here. This identity medallion is yours now. You can infuse it with a wisp of your psychic awareness."

Nie Tian did as he was bid and sent a wisp of his psychic awareness into the identity medallion, where he saw an exquisite spell formation with ninety light dots floating inside it.

The moment his psychic awareness flew into the spell formation, it was seized by an unknown force.

Then, he found that one of the ninety light dots had already started to shimmer, as if it were spending power to keep the wisp of his psychic awareness within the spell formation.

"Those ninety light dots represent the time you've bought in Shatter City." Hua Mu explained. "For every day that passes, one light dot will die out. In ninety days, all the light dots will vanish, and the wisp of your psychic awareness will dissipate with them.

"That will means that your allowed time is up.

"If you wish to continue to stay in Shatter City, you'll have to pay spirit stones to get more time from the Blood Skulls.

"One spirit stone for one day.

"Of course, if you want to use the inter-spatial teleportation portal to leave the Realm of Split Void, you'll have to prepare more spirit stones."

As they spoke, Hua Mu led Nie Tian away from the portal.

"The psychic awareness in every identity medallion is unique. So even if you kill someone, you won't be able to take away their time and add it to yours.

"Plus, as soon as the owner of the identity medallion is dead, the psychic awareness in the identity medallion will vanish, and the light dots along with it.

"The reason why the Blood Skulls are doing this is because they can get more spirit stones this way."

"Ninety light dots stand for ninety days," Nie Tian muttered to himself. "That means I have three months."

"Exactly. You have three months in your identity medallion." Hua Mu looked at him with an measuring gaze and asked, "How many spirit stones do you have in your bracelet of holding?"

After a brief examination, Nie Tian replied, "A little more than three hundred."

Those spirit stones were either bestowed upon him by Wu Ji or looted from foreign cultivators during the Heaven Gate trial.

When he had parted with Li Fan, he had given him the majority of the spirit stones and cultivation materials he had looted during the Heaven Gate trial for him to take back to the Cloudsoaring Sect as payback.

After all, he had learned that, at that time, the Cloudsoaring Sect had been under siege, and Li Jing would never let him return to the Cloudsoaring Sect. That was the only way he could make his contribution.

As of now, he only had three hundred spirit stones, a handful of Blood Pills, a few Flame Crystals, and the Flame Dragon Armor in his bracelet of holding.

If he had known that he would have to leave the Realm of Flame Heaven and come to a place where he could only buy his stay with spirit stones, he would have never been so generous.

"A little more than three hundred?" Hua Mu rubbed his chin and pondered for a while before taking out three translucent stones. He handed them to Nie Tian and said, "These are spirit jades. Each one of them is worth one hundred spirit stones in the other realms. However, in Shatter City, the Blood Skulls will only give you ninety spirit stones for one of them."

Nie Tian rubbed them with his hands and sensed that the spiritual energy they contained was indeed a hundred times richer than spirit stones.

Hua Mu noticed his wonder, and thus explained to him, "Spirit stones, spirit jades, and spirit crystals are the main currency that we Qi warriors use. Spirit stones usually exist close to the surface; spirit jades can be found in deeper parts, while spirit crystals can only be mined from the heart of the earth.

"One spirit crystal is worth a hundred spirit jades, and one spirit jade is worth a hundred spirit stones."

As they continued to walk, Hua Mu explained the value and nature of the three major types of materials that contained spiritual energy to Nie Tian in detail.

"Those spirit jades are for you to break through into the Heaven stage. Don't use them on anything else unless you have to.

"You've probably noticed yourself that the light shield can only stop the tainted spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth from entering the city, but it can't purge it and turn it into usable spiritual Qi.

"So you'll have to use spirit stones in your future cultivation.

"You'll need copious amounts of spiritual energy when you make the breakthrough. I reckon three spirit jades will be enough.

"You can use your spirit stones to practice cultivation. But the amount you have is far from enough. You need to come up with ways to earn more, because only in that way will you last in Shatter City.

"From now on, you won't have a clan or a sect to rely on, and you'll have to make your own living. This is also part of the reason I brought you here."

They talked and walked before coming to a stop in front of a sizable residence, and then Hua Mu said, "We're here. This is the place I've arranged for you to work in."

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Thump! Thump! Thump! Hua Mu knocked gently on the wooden gate under dim moonlight.

A short while later, the gate opened, and a teenage girl in a long, ocean-blue dress and a ponytail appeared.

The moment Nie Tian saw the girl, he felt as if the entire Shatter City had been lit up.

He had never seen a face so beautiful. Her beauty overshadowed every girl he had ever seen, including Jiang Lingzhu, An Shiyi, and Su Lin.

The girl's eyes were as pure as crystal, and not even the least impurity could be found within them. It was as if she could make any man alive fall for her with one glance.

Nie Tian was deeply captivated by her eyes; as a matter of fact, since the moment he saw her, his gaze never moved away from them, as if they had captured his soul and were pulling it away from him.

"Long time no see, Mr. Hua." The girl sounded neither warm nor cold.

Only then did Nie Tian suddenly snap out of his daze and realize that he had been staring at her the whole time.

He immediately averted his gaze from her, fearing that he would lose Hua Mu's face and the girl would think less of him.

Hua Mu had long since taken note of Nie Tian's reactions. He chuckled and patted his shoulder, saying, "No need to feel embarrassed. Everyone who sees her for the first time reacts the exact same way as you did."

Before Nie Tian could explain, Hua Mu turned to the girl and introduced, "This is my nephew, Hua Tian. This is his first time in the Realm of Split Void. He wants to temper himself, so I plan to leave him here with you and your master for a while. Also, since he knows nothing of this realm, I hope you can help enlighten him.

"You can throw any chore his way and pay him accordingly. No need to give me face and overpay him.

"I see." Pei Qiqi looked Nie Tian up and down with a measuring gaze before saying with a frown, "His cultivation base is quite low. Does he know anything about equipment forging?"

"No, he doesn't," Hua Mu answered on Nie Tian's behalf.

"If that's the case, he won't get paid very well." Pei Qiqi's tone was indifferent, and she didn't take Nie Tian's ego into consideration, even though she knew that Nie Tian was Hua Mu's nephew.

Nie Tian, who had just recovered a clear mind, heard her words and realized that she didn't have a high opinion of him, but he didn't utter a word.

"It's alright. I'm no stranger to your master's rules." Then, Hua Mu smiled as he turned to Nie Tian and said, "This is Pei Qiqi. You'll listen to her from now on. If you want to earn spirit stones, then you'll need to prove yourself worthy. Qiqi won't treat you better just because you're my nephew."

"I understand," Nie Tian replied, nodding.

"Okay, this is it. I still have some urgent matters to tend to. Please excuse me." Hua Mu turned around and prepared to leave.

"Mister Hua," Pei Qiqi called out softly.

Hua Mu turned back and, looking at her confused face, he asked, "Yes?"

"Now that you're here, don't you want to meet my master?" Pei Qiqi asked. "After all, it's been a long time since you were here, and it's hard to say when you'll get the chance to meet again."

A hint of panic appeared in Hua Mu's eyes as he shook his head and said, "Maybe next time. I'm really in a hurry."

With these words, he rapidly walked away without looking back, as if he were afraid that the longer he stayed, the less he would have the heart to leave.

Watching Hua Mu leave hastily, Nie Tian wondered that it might be the first time that he had seen Hua Mu so flustered.

Watching Hua Mu leave, Pei Qiqi sighed, as if she were pitying something.

Nie Tian discovered that her mind seemed to have drifted away, so he quietly formed a Heaven Eye with the power from the fragmentary stars in his soul and used it to examine her cultivation base.

However, when he did, he found that he couldn't sense a single thing, as if she were in another dimension, even though she was standing right in front of his eyes.

Nie Tian had never had such strange feelings before.

Ever since he had learned how to form the Heaven Eyes and use them to examine another's cultivation base, he had only failed once, which was when he had used it on the outsider commander Caro. Caro had glanced at his approaching Heaven Eye, and it had immediately exploded.

Other than that, he had never failed, but Pei Qiqi was an exception. He believed that, considering her age, she couldn't have reached Caro's cultivation stage.

The reason he sensed a special anomaly on her must be because she was not ordinary.

"What are you doing?" Pei Qiqi seemed to have sensed the anomaly. She let out a cold harrumph and said with an unpleasant tone, "You're quite daring for someone with such a low cultivation base!"

Nie Tian smiled embarrassedly. "Well… Sorry. It's my habit."

It seemed that he had yet to recover his ability to have proper conversations with a girl so beautiful.

"Your habit?" Pei Qiqi put on a long face as she turned around and stepped into the courtyard. "Follow me."

Nie Tian did as he was bid.

"Senior Martial Sister Pei." As soon as she entered the courtyard, a short, fat young man that looked like a barrel approached her and asked, smiling, "Who was that? And who's this?"

"His name is Hua Tian, Mr. Hua's nephew. He'll stay with us for some time. It was Mr. Hua that I talked to just now." It seemed that Pei Qiqi felt relieved that she could dump Nie Tian on the fat young man. "You'll be responsible for him from now on. This is his first time in the Realm of Split Void. You'll tell him about this realm and find him something to do first thing tomorrow."

"No problem. Hua Tian, is it? You'll report to me from now on." The fat young man said casually.

Nie Tian was at a loss for words.

Hua Mu had assigned him to Pei Qiqi just now, and Pei Qiqi had promised Hua Mu to take care of him.

He had never expected that so soon after Hua Mu left, Pei Qiqi would assign him to this fat boy. He wasn't sure whether it was because he had offended her by examining her with his Heaven Eye or that she just attached no importance to him.

"What are you waiting for? Let's go. What? Are you upset that you can't work under Senior Martial Sister Pei?" The fat young man twitched his mouth and said with an unpleasant tone, "Forget about it. Senior Martial Sister Pei doesn't take those who come here because of their relationship with my master. You should consider yourself lucky now that I'm willing to take you with me."

He grabbed Nie Tian by his hand and forcibly dragged him away from Pei Qiqi.

After the two of them were gone, Pei Qiqi frowned and muttered to herself, "Mr. Hua has always lived by himself. How come he's all of a sudden shown up with this nephew? Another strange thing is that when that guy used his psychic awareness to examine me, my spatial field suddenly began to operate by itself."

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The fat young man's name was Li Ye. He showed Nie Tian to a remote stone room and took out an earthen jar of hard liquor from his ring of holding.

He drank in large gulps as he explained the situation in the Realm of Split Void to Nie Tian. It wasn't long before his cheeks turned red and he seemed rather drunk.

Even still, he talked consistently, and everything he said made good sense to Nie Tian.

While listening to him, Nie Tian secretly used his Heaven Eye to examine Li Zhi's cultivation base.

"He's in the late Heaven stage and his cultivation attribute is fire!" Nie Tian was taken aback.

From what he could tell, Li Ye was roughly his age. Although he hadn't progressed very fast when he had been in the Nie clan, his cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds ever since he had learned the secrets of the Blood Core and participated in the Green Illusion dimension trial.

As of now, he was already at the late Lesser Heaven stage, higher than Yu Tong, Jiang Lingzhu, and his other peers from the seven sects.

He was even as strong as the top young disciples from the Hell Sect, if not stronger.

He had thought that reaching the late Lesser Heaven stage at his age was already a great achievement.

Never had he imagined that Li Ye, who was just around his age and had been cultivating in such a poor environment, would be at the late Heaven stage.

"Ring of holding!" Then, he soon came to notice that Li Ye was wearing a ring of holding instead of a bracelet of holding, which was cheaper and more common.

Ever since he had attended the Treasure Convention in the Spiritual Treasure Sect, he had learned that the value of a ring of holding would go far beyond a bracelet of holding.

Since a ring of holding was smaller in size than a bracelet of holding, yet its storage room was larger, the process of forging a ring of holding was much more difficult.

This made their price several times or even more than ten times higher than a bracelet of holding.

That was also why only young disciples like Jiang Lingzhu and Yu Tong, who were the core disciples of their sects in the Realm of Flame Heaven, were qualified to use a ring of holding.

Normally, only cultivators at the Worldly realm or higher would have accumulated a large enough fortune to purchase one of them.

The fact that Li Ye possessed such a valuable ring of holding even though he was quite young made Nie Tian increasingly curious.

As more liquor went down Li Ye's throat, he became increasingly animated while he went on about the situation in the Realm of Split Void. Two hours later, he rose to his feet and staggered toward the door, saying, "Have a good sleep. I'll come for you in the morning." With these words, he stepped through the door while taking another jar of liquor from his ring of holding and starting to gulp it down.

Watching Li Ye wobbling away, Nie Tian frowned in silence, sorting through the information that Li Ye had poured onto him.

According to Li Ye, once upon a time, the Realm of Split Void used to be a very powerful realm in the Domain of the Falling Stars, even stronger than the current Realm of Mystic Heaven.

There was a special place in the Realm of Split Void, the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

It was in the central area of the Realm of Split Void. Its vast land area, copious spiritual and material resources, and rich spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth had once made it very popular among Qi warriors.

However, none of these made the Void Illusion Mountain Range unique.

What had made it known throughout the Domain of the Falling Stars was that there was a huge space disruption zone in the mountain range.

The space disruption zone was very unstable. Every once in awhile, numerous spatial rifts that led to unknown dimensions would appear within it, however they would constantly shift their positions throughout the mountain range. They never remained in one position for more than one day.

Some of them led to realms ruled by powerful outsiders, while others led to completely unexplored heavens and earths; on many occasions, they led to lands where danger lurked at every corner.

The Void Illusion Mountain Range attracted powerful experts from all over the Domain of the Falling Stars to come and explore. One after another, they went through those spatial rifts to unknown dimensions, but not every one of them returned.

Only a handful of them returned after successfully discovering brand-new dimensions and then extending their sects' influence to them, resulting in their obtaining cultivating resources richer than they had imagined.

According to him, most of the dimensions affiliated with the nine realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars had been initially discovered through the Void Illusion Mountain Range. Afterwards, they had set up teleportation portals to facilitate travel between their own sects and the dimensions they found.

For example, the Green Illusion dimension had been discovered by a powerful expert from the Spiritual Treasure Sect who had gone through one of the spatial rifts in the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

The uniqueness of the Void Illusion Mountain Range made the Realm of Split Void the most popular realm in the Domain of the Falling Stars. An unending stream of powerful experts poured into the mountain range to try out their luck.

As the result, one of the most powerful Qi warrior sects in that era took root and flourished in the Realm of Split Void: the Void Palace Sect.

The Void Palace Sect had been considered as powerful as the Heaven Palace Sect in the Realm of Mystic Heaven. It even once overshadowed the Heaven Palace sect during its prime.

Through the spatial rifts in the Void Illusion Mountain Range, the Void Palace Sect discovered quite a few unexplored realms where they had looted countless cultivation resources, making them richer than any other sect in the Domain of the Falling Stars.

As the Void Palace Sect thrived, numerous talented youngsters from throughout the domain flooded in, hoping to join the sect; plenty of foreign, renowned experts also came knocking on their door and expressed their willingness to be nothing more than a guest elder.

However, just as they were in the middle of their prime, their powerful Qi warriors discovered a dimension where the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was far richer, and the landmass was far vaster than the Realm of Split Void.

It wasn't long before they decided to send out all their best Qi warriors to explore that new dimension.

Without any delay, their most powerful experts set out for the foreign dimension one after another, the place where unexplored spirit mines were supposed to be everywhere.

However, none of them ever returned. No one knew what had happened to them.

The mysterious spatial rift in the Void Illusion Mountain Range that led to that dimension also soon disappeared.

The Void Palace sect's overnight collapse put the Realm of Split Void in utter chaos that lasted for decades. Until one day, when numerous sizable spatial rifts suddenly opened up in the Void Illusion Mountain Range and began to leak tainted spiritual Qi that was poisonous to human Qi warriors.

With one whiff of it, common people would lose their mind and go mad.

As more of the poisonous Qi poured into the Realm of Split Void, a significant amount of mortal residents died, along with numerous plants and spirit beasts.

As time passed, even powerful Qi warriors began to find the environment of the Realm of Split Void hard to endure, and thus evacuated.

It wasn't long before only three settlements remained in the realm: Shatter City, the Land of the Abandoned, and Ash City.

All three of them relied on grand spell formations that were powered by massive amounts of spirit stones to keep the poisonous Qi out.

Once Qi warriors left these places and exposed themselves to the tainted spiritual Qi, they would have to spend great effort to resist its erosion.

Therefore, few powerful experts were willing to risk their lives to explore the Void Illusion Mountain Range, and even fewer returned with valuable findings.

Nine out of ten who were willing to try their fortune in the Void Illusion Mountain Range never returned, and among those who somehow made it back alive, the majority returned empty-handed.

Only a handful were able to bring back valuable information or resources.

The decline of the Void Palace Sect and the harsh environment of the Realm of Split Void made the once-prosperous Realm of Split Void rapidly hit rock bottom.

Since it was no longer fit for Qi warriors to live and cultivate in, it was soon abandoned by the other nine realms, and its name was removed from the Domain of the Falling Stars.

After that, the current Realm of Split Void became the place where Qi warriors who were driven out of their own realm gathered.

Some of them had committed serious crimes in their own realms and were wanted everywhere, which made the Realm of Split Void the only place they could stay off the radar and start a new life, if they were lucky.

Others were kicked out their sects and realms because they cultivated spiritual incantations and secret magics that were extremely evil or dangerous. By coming to the Realm of Split Void, they were able to continue with their experiments.

Those were the kinds of people who took shelter in Shatter City, the Land of the Abandoned, and Ash City.

In those settlements, three forces gradually came to power: the Blood Skull, the Wild Fire, and the Dark Moon.

The Blood Skull took Shatter City, the Wild Fire controlled Ash City, and the Dark Moon seized the Land of the Abandoned.

Technically, none of those forces were Qi warrior sects, but rather companies of powerful outlaws. Perhaps that was why their names seemed rather casual.

None of them would take in youngsters with low cultivation bases and temper them.

Instead, they would only take in members who were already strong.

The three forces' main duty was to keep order in Shatter City, the Land of the Abandoned, and Ash City. As long as no riots broke out, they would have a consistent spirit stone income.

From time to time, they would also go on missions to root out dangerous bandits who wandered in the wasteland outside the settlements.

Meanwhile, conflicts between the three forces also broke out occasionally. Whenever that happened, their members would always spare no effort to fight.

After all, as long as their own side stood victorious in the end, they could continue to live in their territory without paying anything, and the contributions they made on battlefield would also be rewarded with cultivation materials, such as spirit stones, medicinal pills, and spiritual tools.

Sometimes, they would even arrange for fearless members to enter the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

Those who volunteered to go would also be given handsome rewards.

Whenever they discovered a new dimension, they would either explore it themselves, or set up portals and sell them to powerful Qi warrior sects from the other nine realms, obtaining substantial fortunes in return.

Of course, it had become extremely difficult for people to discover new dimensions ever since the great upheaval in the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

Very few people could return alive, and even if they did, they would come back empty-handed and covered in wounds.

"The Realm of Split Void, the Void Illusion Mountain Range, and the once-most powerful Void Palace Sect." Nie Tian muttered to himself as he pondered everything Li Ye had told him about this tenth realm of the Domain of the Falling Stars. For some unknown reason, he grew increasingly fascinated with it.

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Having sorted through the information about the Realm of Split Void that Li Ye had given him, Nie Tian went on to start cultivating without any delay.

The night passed…

At daybreak, Nie Tian sat in his room, wordless and cross-legged, holding two shattered spirit stones in his hands.

Having cultivated for only half a night, he had consumed two spirit stones.

In order to make another breakthrough in his cultivation base, he would have to spend a long time expanding his spiritual sea again.

During this process, he would need to allow new spiritual energy into his spiritual sea and refine it round after round.

Only when he had accumulated enough refined spiritual energy in his spiritual sea, and he had received the proper enlightenment, would he have a chance to make a breakthrough.

After all, aside from the three vortexes of spiritual power, there was still a vortex of flame power, a vortex of starlight, and vortex of wood power within his spiritual sea.

He would have to channel spiritual power with the relevant attributes to cultivate those three vortexes.

He had a feeling that since he had cultivated spiritual incantations of three different attributes, he would have to refine those vortexes and receive relevant enlightenment with all of them in order to break through into the next stage.

This meant that, for him to make every breakthrough, he would have to spend three times as much time and effort.

Given that there wasn't the least bit of spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in Shatter City, he could only practice cultivation with his spirit stones. Considering that he had spent two spirit stones after cultivating for half a night, he might need eight spirit stones for one whole day if he cultivated all day long.

However, he only had three hundred spirit stones in his bracelet of holding, which were only enough to get him through a month or so if he cultivated like that.

Furthermore, he only had three months on his identity medallion, and when that time was up, he would be forced to pay the Blood Skulls with spirit stones to extend his stay.

"The spirit stones I have are far from enough." Nie Tian started to grow worried.

"You're awake." Instead of knocking, Li Ye walked straight into Nie Tian's stone room. After taking a few greenish-black logs out of his ring of holding and placing them on the ground, he turned to Nie Tian and said, smiling, "You'll start working for me from today on, and I'll reward you accordingly with spirit stones."

Nie Tian's eyes lit up and he asked with an elated tone, "How?"

"It's very simple."

Li Ye took out a dagger and demonstrated by cutting one greenish-black log into square slices.

Then he turned to Nie Tian and said, "This is Blackbound Wood, a third level Medium grade spiritual material. It can be used to build spell formations. Slice these logs into squares the way I did and I'll give you one spirit stone in return."

"As long as you do it the way I showed you, you should be able to make 150 slices out of these logs. If you can't make 150 slices out of them, then you must have wasted my materials, and you won't get paid!"

"One more thing, this dagger is only for you to use. I'll need it back when you're finished."

With these words, Li Ye tossed the dagger to Nie Tian and beckoned for him to work.

The moment Nie Tian grabbed the dagger, he sensed that the dagger was exceptionally heavy and continuously emanated a strong coldness.

He immediately realized that the dagger must be beyond ordinary.

He took a Blackbound Wood log and, assuming a firm grip on the dagger, started cutting the way Li Ye had showed him.

At first, he pressed the dagger down with fifty percent of his strength. The wood only slightly cracked open but didn't break.

"Wow!"

Surprised, Nie Tian exclaimed softly and started to push harder. Only when he put in all of his strength did he finally slice a piece of wood from the log.

"This Blackbound Wood is very hard, even harder than most rocks." After cutting one slice off, Nie Tian marveled at its hardness, and then he trimmed the edge according to the example Li Ye had set for him.

He used almost half an hour to finish his first slice under Li Ye's gaze.

During the whole process, Li Ye simply looked on and didn't say a thing.

Only when he saw Nie Tian get the first slice done did he say, "You're quite strong physically for a person at your level."

"How do you know?" Nie Tian looked up at him.

"Nothing." Li Ye rubbed his nose and muttered, "Normally, considering your cultivation base, you should need to summon your spiritual power to cut a Blackbound Wood log. Only by infusing the dagger with their spiritual power, will a person at the Lesser Heaven stage be able to sever a log that tough. However, you managed to sever it with your psychical strength. That's quite impressive."

"Oh, that's how it is." Nie Tian smiled and said, "I guess I'm a bit stronger physically than people my age.

"And it's alway been like that." Li Ye twitched his mouth and said, "I'll leave you to it now, and I'll come back before nightfall to check on your progress."

"Alright." Nie Tian nodded.

After Li Ye left, Nie Tian, who was very eager to earn more spirit stones, concentrated on cutting the Blackbound Wood.

An unknown period of time passed, and he finished turning one log into a dozen delicate square slices.

All of a sudden, his belly started growling, and that was when he realized that it was already almost sundown. Without any hesitation, he took out some dried spirit beast meat from his bracelet of holding and started munching.

While wolfing the meat down his throat, a sense of frustration rose in his heart as he realized that he had spent most of the day to finish a dozen pieces.

After rushing through his meal, he immediately went back to wood-cutting.

At sundown, Li Ye came back as expected and, with a glance of the work Nie Tian had done, he said, "I count twenty pieces. Like I said, one spirit stone for one hundred pieces. You'd better speed it up."

Then he put the twenty wood slices away and swaggered out of Nie Tian's room.

Frustration filled Nie Tian's face.

He didn't practice cultivation or sleep that night. Instead, he spent the whole night cutting wood.

Two days later, Nie Tian finally finished the 150 slices, and thus he went up to Li Ye and and traded them for one spirit stone.

"You can't do it this way." Li Ye said, sounding rather drunk, "You're too slow, and I don't recommend you to put your cultivation on hold to earn spirit stones. If I were you, I'd work during the day and find time to practice cultivation during the night."

"But if I do that, I'll spend spirit stones way faster than I earn them from you," Nie Tian said angrily.

"Sorry, I can't help you with that." Li Ye laughed and said, "You can only blame yourself for not having any equipment forging skills. This is what people get for doing simple work like this." With those words, he walked away, seemingly quite content.

Nie Tian assumed that he was intentionally giving him a hard time to show him who was boss, so he paced himself with his work. In the following two weeks, he cut wood during the day and cultivated with spirit stones during the night.

In return, he received five spirit stones from Li Ye.

However, he had used about a hundred spirit stones during his cultivation, reducing the number of spirit stones in his bracelet of holding to about two hundred.

He had made several attempts during the night to use the Fragmentary Star Incantation to channel starlight into his spiritual sea.

However, although he could see numerous shining stars through the light shield that enveloped Shatter City, none of the starlight could penetrate the light shield and infuse into his vortex of starlight. For that reason, he had to suspend his refinement of starlight.

On the other hand, due to his spirit stone shortage, he was forced to use the few Flame Crystals in his possession to cultivate the Flame Spirit Incantation, so as to enrich the flame power in his vortex of flame power.

During this period of time, he barely left his room, not to mention saw Pei Qiqi again.

One day, Li Ye walked into Nie Tian's room. He counted and put away a hundred wood slices and tossed a spirit stone to Nie Tian, saying, "I bet you're not happy about the spirit stones you get doing this, right?"

"Yeah." Nie Tian said.

"Do you want to earn more?" Li Ye asked, his eyes shining with bright light.

Greatly intrigued, Nie Tian asked, "What do I have to do?"

"I see that you're quite down-to-earth, so I'll give you an opportunity. As long as you do as I say, I promise you that you'll get more spirit stones in a day than what you get doing what you do for two weeks." Li Ye's words sounded very appealing.

"I'm all ears." Nie Tian said.

"Since you're quite strong physically, I can use your help to get some stuff out of the Void Illusion Mountain Range." Li Ye said.

"Leave Shatter City and enter the Void Illusion Mountain Range?" Nie Tian's expression flickered.

"Don't worry. We won't be walking there. We'll teleport to the Void Illusion Mountain Range via the teleportation portal in the city square. That way we won't have to deal with the bandits who wander outside the city." Li Ye chuckled and continued, "Senior Martial Sister Pei is coming too. It was her who set up a small teleportation portal in the Void Illusion Mountain Range, through which we can travel back and forth between Shatter City and the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

"I'm in!"

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First thing in the morning, Li Ye came to Nie Tian's room and took him to the courtyard.

A short while later, Pei Qiqi arrived in a long, ocean-blue dress.

Seeing her again after two weeks, Nie Tian's eyes lit up as he was once again captivated by her stunning beauty.

He even had to draw power from the seven fragmentary stars in his soul to calm his pounding heart.

"Hua Tian?" Pei Qiqi walked closer in a graceful fashion. After a glance at Nie Tian, she turned to Li Ye and asked, "What's he doing here?"

"Senior Martial Sister, I have discovered that although his cultivation base is low, his physical strength is rather impressive," Li Ye hastily explained. "He can sever a Blackbound Wood log without using his spiritual power. As you know, the place we're going to is very special. The more we use our spiritual power, the more fluctuations we'll trigger.

"If we bring him with us, he can help us carry more stuff back without putting us in danger."

Pei Qiqi hesitated for a moment before saying, "His cultivation base is way too low. I'm afraid that he won't be able to resist the tainted spiritual Qi, and it will corrupt his mind before we even get to our destination. We're going on a mission. I don't want to take a burden with us."

"Rest assured, Senior Martial Sister. I'll take care of him if it comes to that. You won't have to do anything." Li Ye gave his word.

"A burden?" Nie Tian rubbed his nose, an unpleasant expression filling his face.

Ever since he had left the Nie clan, he had never been proven to be a burden, not during the Green Illusion dimension trial, nor the turmoil in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, or the Heaven Gate trial.

He found it laughable that he had become a burden in Pei Qiqi's eyes.

"You want to protect him all the way there? You think he's worth it?" Pei Qiqi asked again.

Li Ye nodded. "Yeah."

"Okay." Pei Qiqi didn't say another word, but rather headed out towards the teleportation portal in the city square.

Nie Tian and Li Ye followed her.

This was the first time that Nie Tian had the opportunity to walk out of his residence after he had come to Shatter City. He kept glancing around as they walked.

Complicated banners hung high up from numerous stone pavilions on both sides of the wide streets.

All sorts of advertisements were written on the banners; some said spiritual materials, some said spiritual tools, some said unexplored dimensions, some said latest information on the Void Illusion Mountain Range, while others said quest recruitment. People could find almost everything they needed in those shops.

Among the numerous Qi warriors that walked in the early morning streets, most had rather high cultivation bases.

Nie Tian used his Heaven Eye to examine a few of them, and found that the Qi warriors that were going into or coming out of those pavilions were all powerful Heaven or Greater Heaven stage experts.

He even discovered two Worldly realm Qi warriors.

Although none of those Qi warriors summoned their spiritual power, Nie Tian managed to detect intense killing intent from every one of them.

Apparently, as Hua Mu had warned him, no one in Shatter City was innocent. They all had blood on their hands and had risen from piles of dead enemies.

To Nie Tian's surprise, many of those powerful experts in the street recognized Pei Qiqi, and greeted her with smiles filling their faces.

"Greetings, Miss Pei."

"Long time no see, Miss Pei."

"Please tell your master that I send my regards."

Pei Qiqi, on the other hand, only nodded to a few of them, neglecting most of the greeters. The only verbal response she gave was to a Worldly realm Qi warrior, who asked her to give his regards to her master, and the response was: "Sure".

What made Nie Tian even more surprised and confused was that, not only did none of them seem to be irritated by her indifference, but not a single one of them dared to show even the slightest lust in their eyes.

After all, Pei Qiqi was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen in his life. He had even momentarily got lost in a daze the first time he had met her.

It appeared to Nie Tian that all the powerful experts in Shatter City lived their lives on the edge. From their imposing manner when they talked to others, he could tell that none of them were gentlemen.

Even still, they were all very well-behaved when they greeted Pei Qiqi. Their words were proper and their eyes didn't wander, which Nie Tian found very odd.

Harboring suspicion in mind, he observed increasingly closely, and that was when he saw fear in some greeters' eyes.

It was as if, in those people's eyes, the unearthly beautiful Pei Qiqi was some wild beast that could go mad and eat them alive at any moment.

This made Nie Tian look at her differently, and subconsciously keep a sizable distance between her and himself.

Pei Qiqi's face remained cold and expressionless the entire time, and she didn't smile back at anyone.

Eventually, the three of them arrived by a teleportation portal in the central square.

The moment they arrived, a few black-robed men with Blood Skulls embroidered on their chests approached Pei Qiqi, smiling.

Compared to the fierceness and coldness they had exhibited toward Nie Tian the day he and Hua Mu had arrived, they were now like completely different people.

Facing Pei Qiqi, not only did they put away their domineering manners, but they even seemed a bit flattering.

One of them took the initiative to bow and ask respectfully, "Do you wish to use the teleportation portal, Miss Pei?"

"Yes." Pei Qiqi answered. With a subtle movement of her eyes, she beckoned for Li Ye to handle it.

Without any hesitation, Li Ye stepped over to that person and said, "Uncle Liu Kang, we want to go on a brief trip to the Void Illusion Mountain Range, and these are for your trouble." With these words, he took out fifty spirit stones and handed them to the black-robed man.

The Blood Skull Li Ye referred to as Liu Kang grabbed the spirit stones and turned around to put in coordinates and set up the teleportation portal.

From the way Liu Kang skillfully entered the coordinates, Nie Tian could tell that Pei Qiqi and Li Ye had used the portal to go to the Void Illusion Mountain Range more than once.

A short while later, Liu Kang turned to Pei Qiqi and said, "It's all set, Miss Pei."

Pei Qiqi nodded and stepped into the portal, and then Li Ye followed her in.

Just as Nie Tian was about to enter, Liu Kang stopped him with his hand and said with a cold face, "Who are you?"

Nie Tian could remember clearly that Liu Kang had been on duty the day he and Hua Mu had arrived, but obviously, Liu Kang didn't remember his face at all.

"He comes with us." Li Ye beckoned for Nie Tian to enter the portal.

Only then did Liu Kang raise his arm and let Nie Tian through while measuring him up with a suspecting gaze, wondering at his status.

Nie Tian trotted to Li Ye and whispered in his ear, "The Blood Skulls have great respect for you, don't they? The first time I was here, they acted as if they wanted to eat me alive."

"Hahaha, of course they did!" Li Ye let out a soft laugh and said proudly, "You should know that my master helped them build this very teleportation portal. If it weren't for my master, it would never have been established."

"Oh, that's how it is." Everything suddenly made sense to Nie Tian.

"Alright, I'll start the portal now." That said, Liu Kang, who was standing beside the portal, pressed his hand against a strange pattern.

In the next moment, Nie Tian, Pei Qiqi, and Li Ye were engulfed by a blindingly bright light and disappeared from Shatter City.

In the Void Illusion Mountain Range…

Numerous crevices could be seen on a mountain peak that was approximately a thousand meters high. All of a sudden, a bright ball of light shone within one of the crevices.

When the light faded away, three people appeared.

Nie Tian looked down and discovered that the three of them were standing in a teleportation portal significantly smaller than the one in Shatter City.

Not only that, but it also it looked very simple and crude, as if the builder hadn't used many precious materials to build it.

According to the limited knowledge regarding inter-spatial teleportation he had received from Wu Ji, Nie Tian had a feeling that the portal they were standing on didn't have the capacity to carry out inter-realm teleportation.

That meant that the range of this teleportation portal was limited to the Realm of Split Void, unlike the grand inter-spatial teleportation portal in Shatter City, which could even teleport people to realms outside of the Domain of the Falling Stars.

Removing his gaze from the small teleportation portal, Nie Tian glanced around and discovered that they were in a stone cave within one of the crevices.

There was nothing other than the teleportation portal in the cave, and the mouth of the cave was sealed by a faint shield of spiritual power.

The purpose of the light shield was probably to prevent the polluted spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth from entering the cave so that those who teleported to the cave wouldn't be caught off guard and inhale it.

With rapt attention, he looked through the translucent, misty shield, and saw a handful of spatial rifts wiggling non-stop in midair.

Nie Tian couldn't help but wonder where those spatial rifts led to.

Every now and then, terrifying electric arcs would sputter out of them, along with clusters of green fire.

Even though he was still separated from them by a spiritual power shield, Nie Tian had a feeling that the mere act of touching those electric arcs or green flames would instantly get him killed!

"Li Ye, Hua Tian is your responsibility now." Upon saying these words, Pei Qiqi stepped through the light shield without looking at either one of them.

Nie Tian's eyes suddenly lit up.

The moment Pei Qiqi walked out of the safe zone, he keenly detected strange spatial fluctuations coming from within her.

It was as if she had used an invisible spatial energy shield to seal herself away from the outside world.

Without any delay, Nie Tian closed his eyes and sent out his psychic awareness to examine her.

He was shocked to find that the aura of Pei Qiqi's flesh and blood had completely disappeared from the area.

However, she had just stepped out of the stone cave and was standing only several meters away from him.

"Spatial magic! This girl actually practices and mastered the profound spatial energy!" At that moment, Nie Tian took a deep breath as he finally discovered one of the numerous secrets that Pei Qiqi seemed to have.

Only until then did he understand why she had the audacity to bring Li Ye to such a dangerous place, where a wrong turn would kill all of them.

It was known that the Void Illusion Mountain Range was a place where spatial energy was the most unstable, and space disruption zones appeared the most throughout the entire Domain of the Falling Stars.

Perhaps, only people who had mastered spatial magics would dare to set foot in this place at such a young age.

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"Let's do this." Upon seeing that Pei Qiqi had headed out, the fat Li Ye took out a bracelet from his ring of holding. He handed it to Nie Tian and said, "Put it on."

Flickering light could be seen inside the light-green jade bracelet. The moment Nie Tian grabbed it, a green light shield that looked like a layer of lake water spread out and enveloped him.

Li Ye took out another bracelet that looked exactly the same and wore it on his wrist. He was surrounded by a green light shield in the next moment.

At that time, Li Ye said with a serious tone, "I'll take the jade bracelet back when we return to Shatter City."

Nie Tian smiled. "I understand."

He used a wisp of his psychic awareness to examine the jade bracelet, and discovered that a mysterious spell formation was branded within it, which was constantly drawing power from the bracelet to maintain the misty, green light shield.

From what Nie Tian could tell, it must serve the purpose of keeping the polluted spiritual Qi in the Void Illusion Mountain Range away from him.

"Alright, we're good to go." Li Ye walked out of the stone cave and stood within a crevice that was halfway up the mountain.

Nie Tian followed him out of the cave.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The moment Nie Tian left the cave, he noticed that wisps of green aura rose from the outer surface of the green light shield, whereupon they made contact with the polluted spiritual Qi.

Without putting too much thought into it, Nie Tian followed Li Ye as they rapidly went down a craggy stone path to the foot of the mountain.

Pei Qiqi was already waiting there.

After coming to a stop, Nie Tian released his psychic awareness to scan the vicinity.

He didn't discover any signs of life within five hundred meters around him, which was the limit of his psychic power.

He stretched his sight as far as he could, but pale-white rubble and oddly-shaped rocks were all he could see.

When he looked up, he saw nothing but a few spatial rifts slithering in the sky.

From the look of it, they were moving without following any pattern. When they swam close enough to make contact with the mountain, they gashed the mountain like it was a piece of tofu.

That was when Nie Tian realized that the numerous crevices on the mountain had formed in this way.

Nie Tian's expression flickered. "Something is wrong!"

He hadn't been able to get a clear view at the waist of the mountain, but now that he was standing at the mountain's base, he looked up and realized that the mountain peak must have been more than a thousand meters high.

He took note that the peak of the mountain was as smooth as a mirror.

As he thought about what the slithering spatial rifts could do, he realized that it must have been cut short by one of the rifts.

The mountain he saw now was probably only half the height of what it used to be, or maybe even less.

Just as he was pondering the matter, Li Ye's warning woke him from his daze. "Hua Tian, stay close! Don't get separated from us! Also, don't try to use your psychic awareness to examine those spatial rifts. Stay as far away from them as you can. You never know what's going to shoot out of them in the next second, but you should know that whatever comes out of them will kill you the moment it makes contact with you, considering your cultivation base!"

Li Ye's words made Nie Tian feel as if he were going to face deadly enemies on the battlefield. He nodded nervously and said, "Don't worry. I'm not looking forward to dying so young. From now on, wherever you go, I go."

"That's the smart thing to do." Li Ye appraised.

Then, under Pei Qiqi's leadership, the three of them began marching tightly together through the field of rubble.

As they traveled forward, Pei Qiqi could always skillfully steer clear of the spatial rifts floating low above them. On several occasions, she even seemed to march straight toward a spatial rift, making Nie Tian's heart pound with nervousness, but when they drew near, the spatial rift would swim away for some unknown reason.

It appeared that she could anticipate the patterns that the spatial rifts moved in and act accordingly.

This ability of hers alone gave her great advantages while traveling in the Void Illusion Mountain Range. If they were to be involved in a battle, such an ability would undoubtedly give her the upper hand.

After marching for a long while, Nie Tian started to see numerous pale-gray skeletons in the cracks between the rocks along their path.

The majority of them seemed to belong to humans, with a small proportion seeming to belong to sizable spirit beasts.

Nie Tian turned to Li Ye and asked, "Didn't you say that there were no longer spirit beasts in the Realm of Split Void?"

Li Ye, who seemed bored by the journey, answered, "Most of the spirit beasts died because they couldn't adapt to the terrible living conditions in the Realm of Split Void. However, very few of them somehow managed to survive the hostile environment. Not only that, they even developed the ability to draw power from the tainted spiritual Qi in the air and use it to practice cultivation.

"Those mutant spirit beasts turned out to be much more powerful than they were before.

"Remember, you have to be extra careful if you ever run into a spirit beast in the Void Illusion Mountain Range. Most of the poor guys who died here were either killed by spatial rifts or torn to shreds by those formidable spirit beasts.

"Many of them never even got the chance to explore any of the spatial rifts."

"The strong prey on the weak, and the fittest survive." Nie Tian muttered to himself. "It seems that those laws are especially true here."

The two of them talked while marching forward.

Li Ye took his time to answer every question that Nie Tian asked.

After a short while, Pei Qiqi, who had been walking in the forefront by herself the entire time, suddenly came to a stop.

Li Ye walked up to her and asked, "Is something wrong, Senior Martial Sister?"

Brow furrowed, Pei Qiqi beckoned for Li Ye and Nie Tian to stop talking. "I smell blood," she said. In the next moment, her ocean-blue figure blurred into a flash, and rapidly disappeared into the distance.

"Come on! Let's go and see what's going on!" Li Ye sounded quite excited as he sped off after Pei Qiqi.

Nie Tian chased after him.

It wasn't very long before the two of them stopped behind an enormous rock where three bodies were lying on the ground. From the fresh bloodstains on them, they could tell that a bloody battle had just taken place there.

All three of them had a pattern of a meteor with a blazing tail on their garments. Apparently, they were with the Wild Fire, which controlled Ash City.

"Pei Qiqi!" A man's cry rang out from a position not far from them. Extreme terror could be heard in the man's voice.

Upon hearing the cry, Nie Tian and Li Ye rushed to the source of the sound, where they saw a Qi warrior, who had a gray, crescent moon pattern on his garments, pinned to a big rock by four sharp swords, one in each limb.

Pei Qiqi was standing in front of him and staring at him with a cold look in her eyes.

From the look of it, those four swords belonged to Pei Qiqi, and a brief battle had broken out between them before Nie Tian and Li Ye had arrived.

Nie Tian used his psychic awareness to examine the man's cultivation base, and found that he was in the late Heaven stage, just like Li Ye.

"Pei Qiqi! As long as you spare my life, I'll give you a very valuable piece of information!" The way the man looked at Pei Qiqi was as if he was looking at a demon. He pleaded, "I swear that the information is worth much more to you than my life!"

"Okay, spill it," Pei Qiqi said indifferently.

"You'll have to promise me that you'll spare my life first!" The man stared straight into Pei Qiqi's eyes.

Pei Qiqi nodded in reply.

The man was very emotional as he said, "The Wild Fire just discovered a spirit jade mine not far from here. Although it seems that someone has mined it before, it's still quite rich! I know that you need spirit jades, since they are very rare and indispensable if you want to build teleportation portals."

"I'll tell you the location of the mine, and you'll let me off, okay?"

Pei Qiqi shook her head. "No."

In the next moment, the four swords that pinned him down on the rock suddenly flew into the air, before they whizzed down toward the man's heart and neck.

"Pei Qiqi, you devil! You promised that you'd let me live!" The man's miserable wails filled the air.

"Can't believe you trusted a woman." Pei Qiqi twitched her mouth as she watched the four swords pierce into the man's heart and neck. After the man stopped breathing, she said, "Also, your information is worth nothing to me."

Then, the four swords withdrew from the poor man and flew back into Pei Qiqi's ring of holding without a single bloodstain on them.

"You're here already." She turned around and saw Nie Tian and Li Ye.

"Yes, Senior Martial Sister. We just arrived." Li Ye said.

Looking at Pei Qiqi's peerlessly beautiful face, a sense of coldness ran through Nie Tian's body, even though he maintained a calm face.

"Wait for me here." Pei Qiqi turned around and crouched down. She grabbed her victim's bracelet of holding and thoroughly examined it for valuable items.

From the way she skillfully looted the man's belongings, Nie Tian could tell that she had done the same thing to god knows how many people.

By this point, Nie Tian felt that he had come to a better understanding of the girl in front of him, which added to the reason why the outlaws in Shatter City had behaved and humbled themselves while facing Pei Qiqi.

"Looting the dead…" Nie Tian's eyes lit up as he suddenly thought of the three dead Wild Fire members that he had seen on his way to this place.

Since he was in desperate need of spirit stones, he took the initiative to turn around with the intention to hurry back and search those bodies for valuable items.

Pei Qiqi, who was still searching the dead man up and down, realized what Nie Tian's intentions were without even needing to turn her head around, and thus said, "It'll be a waste of your time. I saw those bodies too. Do you think I would leave out valuable things?"

After hearing her words, Nie Tian went blank for a moment before he sped off anyways, since he didn't want to pass up on the opportunity to loot anything, no matter how little their value.

"Moron…" Pei Qiqi muttered.

"Apparently, he isn't familiar with the way you do things." Li Ye remained in his original place, as if he knew what the result would be, and was waiting to taunt Nie Tian when he returned.

As expected, Nie Tian returned in a short while, empty-handed and dispirited.

"Well…?" Li Ye asked with a smirking face.

Nie Tian's face looked very grim as he shook his head and said, "She really did take everything. I couldn't even find one spirit stone."

"Hahaha. That's what I thought." Li Ye laughed broadly. "Now you know why senior martial sister beat us here. I've worked for her for so many years, and that's how I learned her way of doing things."

"Let's go." Pei Qiqi urged impatiently, as she seemed to think that Nie Tian was wasting her time.

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Disappointed, Nie Tian could only follow Pei Qiqi and Li Ye as the three of them marched out again.

With Pei Qiqi there to lead them, Nie Tian and Li Ye didn't have to worry too much about the spatial rifts that slithered right above their heads as they traveled forward.

"Why do you think that man found that place, senior martial sister?" Li Ye suddenly asked.

"Are you talking about the spirit jade mine?" Pei Qiqi asked, not turning her head to look at Li Ye.

"Yeah." Li Ye sounded puzzled. "We went to great lengths to find that spirit jade mine. The terrain in that area is extremely complicated. It's almost impossible to get through. I don't understand how those Wild Fire people found it."

"We can find it, so can others. There's nothing to understand." Pei Qiqi said indifferently.

Upon hearing her words, Nie Tian's expression flickered as he suddenly realized the information the Dark Moon member had given Pei Qiqi earlier was indeed of no value to her, since that spirit jade mine had been Pei Qiqi and Li Ye's destination the entire time.

Nie Tian turned to Li Ye and asked, "Do members of the Wild Fire and Dark Moon come to the Void Illusion Mountain Range a lot?"

"Of course," Li Ye answered without thinking. "The Wild Fire, Dark Moon, and Blood Skull all have small teleportation portals set up in the Void Illusion Mountain Range so that they can save themselves the trouble of journeying from their bases to here.

"It's because of those teleportation portals that they can send their members to explore the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

"Of course, unlike before, the Void Illusion Mountain Range is no longer filled with spiritual materials, and it's almost impossible to find any new dimensions through those floating spatial rifts.

"However, people still like to try out their luck in remote corners of the mountain range where it's more dangerous, but less explored.

"Furthermore, strange items shoot out of those spatial rifts from time to time, most of which can be used to forge high grade spiritual tools.

"It's just that the Void Illusion Mountain Range has become more and more fatal. On one hand, this is the place where those strong spirit beasts that survived the horrible environment live. On the other, those spatial rifts often become violent for no apparent reason, and with their terrifying destructiveness, they can devour any human who dares to approach in the blink of an eye."

Li Ye explained everything to Nie Tian as a way to kill time while the three of them traveled forward.

A short while passed…

Pei Qiqi stopped again and said, "Someone is here."

Upon hearing her words, Nie Tian unleashed his psychic awareness to scan the vicinity.

However, no matter how hard he tried, he failed to detect anything.

That was when he came to realize that the strange spatial energy fluctuations in the Void Illusion Mountain Range significantly undermined the accuracy and range of his psychic awareness, but as a master of spatial magics, Pei Qiqi didn't have that problem.

SHEW!

A moment later, Pei Qiqi suddenly sped up, as she didn't want to slow herself down just to wait for Nie Tian and Li Ye.

Upon seeing that, Nie Tian, who had gained nothing so far, dashed after her at his fastest speed possible.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

Under the slithering spatial rifts, Nie Tian saw six members of the Wild Fire standing atop a few giant, irregular rocks in a field filled with rubble.

Each and every one of those Heaven stage Qi warriors emitted an intense, murderous aura.

"Pei Qiqi!" Their expressions flickered as they caught sight of Pei Qiqi.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Nie Tian and Li Ye arrived shortly after Pei Qiqi.

Unlike last time, Pei Qiqi didn't seemed to be in a hurry to attack them this time. Instead, she seemed to be pondering something while looking up at the numerous interweaving spatial rifts that were swimming closely above their head.

Li Ye also looked up, and a grim expression could be seen on his face.

Nie Tian was puzzled by their behavior. However, from Pei Qiqi and Li Ye's expressions, he assumed that something was happening within those spatial rifts.

Pei Qiqi retracted her gaze and the wisp of her psychic awareness that she had sent into one of the spatial rifts, as it appeared that she had learned the truth. "Who's in there?"

The expression of a Qi warrior from the Wild Fire flickered upon hearing Pei Qiqi's inquiry. "How do you know there are people in there?"

The fat Li Ye let out a cold harrumph and said, "We found the spirit jade mine long ago, and you're asking us how we know? You six are watchers, aren't you? How many of you are in there, mining Space Spirit Jades? What cultivation stages are they at? Be honest, and you shall live!"

Nie Tian's expression flickered as he thought to himself, "The mine is in one of the spatial rifts?! And what are Space Spirit Jades?"

"Actually, we only need one mouth that talks." Seeing that none of the six people were willing to say anything, Pei Qiqi grew impatient, and once again summoned her four flying swords from within her ring of holding.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Without even the slightest delay, the swords shot towards four of them.

The moment the six Wild Fire members saw the swords, their faces turned pale with fright, and they couldn't help but cry out, "Ethereal Swords!"

Nie Tian's eyes widened as he became amazed by the way the swords traveled in the air.

They flew straight towards their targets for a short while before suddenly vanishing into thin air, as if they had entered another dimension, where even their auras were completely untraceable.

Nie Tian couldn't determine the location of the swords no matter how hard he tried via his vision or his psychic awareness.

PUFF! PUFF! PUFF!

When the swords appeared in Nie Tian's sight again, they had already pierced into the four Wild Fire Qi warrior's necks, killing them on the spot.

Furthermore, the four victims weren't even the ones that the swords had originally aimed at in the first place!

"Ethereal Swords…" Nie Tian subconsciously touched his own neck as a rush of coldness ran through his body. Dread could be seen in his eyes as he looked at Pei Qiqi.

From what he could tell, Pei Qiqi was able to temporarily hide her Ethereal Swords in the void, so as to prevent their victims from determining their position.

When they appeared again after traveling briefly in another dimension, they had already pierced into their victims' flesh.

Therefore, it was when the four Ethereal Swords disappeared that they became unstoppable.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Two Ethereal Swords pulled themselves out of their victims' necks without the least bit of blood on them. Without any hesitation, they flew towards the remaining two Qi warriors from the Wild Fire.

"Who's in there?" Pei Qiqi asked indifferently. "What cultivation levels are they at? I won't ask again."

Their mental defenses collapsed when the two of them saw the Ethereal Swords disappear shortly after they shot towards them. Thus, they scrambled to answer Pei Qiqi's question.

"We have four people in there! One at the early Greater Heaven stage and three at the late Heaven stage!"

"The early Greater Heaven stage expert is our exalted Yang Ling."

"They went in an hour ago. They put us here as scouts, and told us to collect Space Spirit Jades that fly out of the spatial rifts."

"Due to the special circumstances, they can't use their spiritual power while they're in there. Once they do, it will cause violent changes to the spatial rift and make it extremely unstable and dangerous!"

"That is all that we know. Please, let us go!"

The two Heaven stage members of the Wild Fire, who had been roisterous in their daily lives, had even lost their will to fight facing Pei Qiqi.

"Yang Ling!" Li Ye's eyebrows furrowed as he said, "Senior martial sister, that guy isn't easy to deal with."

Pei Qiqi said, smiling, "He's hard to deal with when we're out here, but it's a whole other story if we fight him in there."

PUFF! PUFF!

The disappeared two swords suddenly showed up and pierced into the two Wild Fire members' hearts while they were still fighting to appease Pei Qiqi.

All six members of the Wild Fire died by Pei Qiqi's Ethereal Swords.

"Time to loot the dead." Nie Tian's eyes lit up as he rushed to one of the bodies in an attempt to loot their valuables.

"Stop!" Pei Qiqi's face grew long as she called out, "Don't you know the rule? I killed them in battle, which means all the spoils of battle belong to me!

"If you want to gain a fortune, kill someone yourself!

"And all the belongings of those who you killed with your own strength will belong to you."

"Hua Tian, listen to senior martial sister. That is the rule." Li Ye hastily mediated between the two of them.

Nie Tian, who was already halfway to one of the corpses, stopped and, with an embarrassed smile on his face, said, "Fine."

Then, he watched as Pei Qiqi slowly walked to the corpse that she had set her mind on and started searching for spiritual materials.

Only until she had looted every valuable item from the six bodies did she rise up and say, "Alright, let's get inside."

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CRACKLE!

At that moment, an immaculate white jade fell out of the intersection of two spatial rifts and onto the ground.

It was the size of a fist, and emanated a mysterious misty light, along with strong spatial fluctuations.

Pei Qiqi, Nie Tian, and Li Ye, who were just about to enter the spatial rift, went blank for a moment.

Nie Tian and Li Ye exchanged a glance, and strange expressions appeared on their faces.

Staring at the jade, Nie Tian asked, "This is a Space Spirit Jade?"

Li Ye nodded and, looking at the intersection of spatial rifts, he said, "Yang Ling and those Wild Fire members are mining Space Spirit Jades inside."

Pei Qiqi stepped over to the jade and crouched down to grab it. The moment her hand touched the jade, it morphed into a line of white light and disappeared into her ring of holding.

After that, she turned to Li Ye and Nie Tian and said, "It seems we don't need to go in so fast."

Li Ye gave a wretched, low-pitched laugh. "The mere thought of having those Wild Fire people mine Space Spirit Jades for us makes me wanna laugh."

Nie Tian also found the scene rather laughable.

It wasn't hard to imagine that, at that very moment, four powerful experts of the Wild Fire were sparing no effort to mine Space Spirit Jades.

They probably had never expected that it was Nie Tian, Pei Qiqi and Li Ye who were now collecting the fruits of their labor from the spatial rifts, instead of their own people.

It was at that moment that Nie Tian came to wonder why they didn't put the Space Spirit Jades they had painstakingly mined into their own bracelets of holding or rings of holding, but threw them out instead.

He expressed his doubts to Li Ye, hoping he could give him an answer.

"Technically, the Space Spirit Jade mine isn't in the Void Illusion Mountain Range, but rather in the intersection point between those spatial rifts. I don't know what caused it, but whoever enters it won't dare use their spiritual power, not even in the least bit! Whatever the attribute is, the use of any spiritual power will immediately trigger great upheavals.

"Furthermore, due to the special spatial fluctuations, all sorts of storage spiritual tools will also lose their effectiveness in there.

"That's why I brought you here. It'll take nothing but physical strength to mine Space Spirit Jades in there. Your cultivation base won't matter. Since you're quite strong, I bet you'll be able to help us mine more Space Spirit Jades.

"Oh, one more thing, you'll have to take off the jade bracelet I gave you before you enter the spatial rift.

"The spiritual power shield the jade bracelet creates will also trigger strong fluctuations in there and thus put us in danger."

BANG!

While they were speaking, another Space Spirit Jade fell out of the intersection of spatial rifts.

It landed right next to Nie Tian's feet.

Just as Nie Tian bent down to take a closer look at it, Pei Qiqi came over and snatched it.

Then, she looked at Nie Tian, who had a frustrated look in his eyes, and said, "I killed those six Wild Fire members. Therefore, these Space Spirit Jades, which were intended for them, should belong to me. Don't you think so?"

"Yeah, I guess," said Nie Tian.

So far, he already had a good idea of this woman's fierceness and brutality, so he didn't even imagine trying get anything out of her pocket.

Moreover, he assumed that it was still going to be a while before they left the Void Illusion Mountain Range. Therefore, he still had time, and other chances might present themselves.

"Good." Pei Qiqi was quite content that Nie Tian had learned the rule.

After that, more Space Spirit Jades flew out of the intersection of spatial rifts.

Pei Qiqi took each and every one of them, not even leaving one for her junior martial brother, Li Ye, not to mention Nie Tian.

It seemed that Li Ye was already used to the way she did things, as he smiled the whole time, without even the least bit of anger in his eyes.

Nie Tian also found a way to make peace with Pei Qiqi's possessive and domineering behavior. After all, neither him nor Li Ye had been of any help to her after they had arrived in the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

Time passed quickly. Two hours later, the amount of Space Spirit Jades that shot out of the intersection of the spatial rifts had gradually reduced.

After noticing that, Pei Qiqi frowned and said, "It's about time."

She looked up at the intersection point of the spatial rifts. "Those Wild Fire members must have grown weary after mining nonstop for so long. I think it's about time they came out of there to get some fresh air and eat something.

"However, they only need to consume their physical strength in there, so that means their spiritual power is still at a high level.

"If we wait for them to come out and deal with them here, it will be a tough battle for us."

With these words, she took a deep breath and said, "I'll go inside first. You two come in after me."

SHEW!

Pei Qiqi blurred into a ocean-blue flash and flew into the intersection point between the spatial rifts.

Li Ye's spirit was lifted. "It's our turn now. I'll go first. You pay attention and watch how I do it. Also, don't forget to put away your jade bracelet before you enter!"

WHOOSH!

With a vigorous leap, Li Ye's fat body charged toward the part where several spatial rifts met.

The misty, green light shield around him disappeared right before he entered.

Nie Tian, who had closely observed how Pei Qiqi and Li Ye had done it, imitated them and bolted toward the location where they had disappeared. As he had been instructed, he put away his jade bracelet the moment before he shot into the spatial rift.

SHEW!

In the next moment, Nie Tian found himself in a spacious cave.

On the walls of the cave, he could see numerous shiny, translucent stones, which Nie Tian believed to be none other than unmined Space Spirit Jades.

"Pei Qiqi!" Standing not far from him, four Qi warriors of the Wild Fire were glaring at the three of them, bone-piercing cold looks in their eyes.

Their leader was a man who was so tall and skinny that he looked like a bamboo pole.

The moment he saw Pei Qiqi, he seemed to have guessed what had happened to their partners on the other side. "You've killed all six of them, haven't you?"

"Not only have I killed them, but I've also taken the Space Spirit Jades that you mined." Pei Qiqi said bluntly.

The man gave a cold snort and said, "Pei Qiqi, do you really think you can do whatever you like in the Void Illusion Mountain Range?"

"Well, at least you're not strong enough to kill me." Pei Qiqi didn't back down a bit.

"You've come to the wrong place." Yang Ling grinned and said, "No matter how powerful you are out there, you can't use your spatial magics in here. Do you really have the confidence that you'll be able to kill the four of us only relying on your physical strength?"

"You bet I do." Pei Qiqi replied firmly.

While the two of them went tit for tat against each other, Nie Tian glanced around, and noticed that numerous lines of colorful light were slithering about within the cave.

As fine and splendid as they seemed, Nie Tian had a feeling that once they were triggered, their power would be enough to set the whole cave ablaze.

Therefore, he guessed that those gorgeous light ribbons were the unstable factors that Li Ye had warned him about.

They would annihilate whoever dared to use their spiritual power inside the cave.

"Li Ye, can I use my psychic power here?" He asked softly.

Li Ye's face was very grim as he said, "No! Don't you try to use your psychic power here. If you do, your soul will undoubtedly suffer a severe backlash, which might turn out to be fatal!"

"Alright." Nie Tian gave up on the idea.

"The way I see it, this is actually good for us," Li Ye continued. "Yang Ling and his men have cultivation bases that are higher than ours. We can't use our psychic power, but neither can they. As a matter of fact, you might have come to the perfect place this time. Your physical strength might play a crucial role here."

With these words, Li Ye took a step back and stood behind Nie Tian.

"As you can see, I'm too fat to fight physical battles. There's no way I can beat them. It's time for you to prove yourself." Li Ye urged Nie Tian to fight the battle for him.

"Li Ye, Hua Tian, you take the other three. Leave Yang Ling to me." Pei Qiqi issued the command.

"Good! Very good!" Yang Ling laughed evilly. "I finally get to see how awesome Pei Qiqi of Shatter City is! You've killed more than a few members of the Wild Fire with your spatial magics in the Void Illusion Mountain Range. I'll walk out of here with your corpse today!"

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Normally speaking, those who had a higher cultivation base would have a more refined and stronger fleshy body.

Therefore, even if the uniqueness of this place didn't allow them to use their spiritual power, the early Greater Heaven stage Yang Ling should have the upper hand in fighting everyone else relying only on his physical strength.

Although Nie Tian hadn't been able to see through Pei Qiqi's cultivation base, he assumed, considering her age, that she couldn't be at a cultivation stage higher than Yang Ling.

It might even be possible that she was also at the late Heaven stage, the same as Li Ye. It was her special incantations that had enabled her to kill so many powerful experts with higher cultivation bases in the Void Illusion Mountain Range, which made her seem more powerful than she really was.

On the other hand, the way Yang Ling had behaved backed Nie Tian's assumption. He had to know that Pei Qiqi's actual cultivation base was lower than his, and thus had such great confidence in winning.

After a moment of pondering, Nie Tian came to the conclusion that Pei Qiqi's true cultivation base was probably the same as Li Ye's.

"You three, go and kill those two brats." Yang Ling let out a cold harrumph and strode towards Pei Qiqi.

On his way, he pulled up a shovel that he had used to mine Space Spirit Jade from the ground next to his feet.

Nie Tian looked at the shovel with rapt attention, and found that there indeed weren't even the slightest spiritual power fluctuations around it, which meant that even Yang Ling was afraid that using his spiritual power here would make himself suffer a great backlash from those colorful lights and put his life in danger.

Pei Qiqi shifted two steps to her side and skillfully avoided Yang Ling's attack. In the meantime, she urged Nie Tian and Li Ye to fight, as if she didn't think much of Yang Ling at all. "Li Ye, Hua Tian, what are you doing? Fight your enemies!"

"Go!" Li Ye suddenly shoved Nie Tian from behind, causing him to stagger into the center of the three Heaven stage Wild Fire members.

The three of them grinned viciously before each of them picked up a shovel from the ground and hacked towards Nie Tian.

"No spiritual power, physical strength only…" Surrounded by three powerful experts, Nie Tian looked at the sinister expressions on their faces and smiled.

Ever since he was a boy, he had eaten more than other juniors in the Nie clan. Every time he had fought his peers with higher cultivation bases, he had won thanks to his unparalleled physical strength.

After he left the Nie clan, he had consumed large amounts of spirit beast meat and tempered his fleshy body during the Green Illusion dimension trial, the upheaval in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, and the bloodbaths in the Heaven Gate trial. His physical strength had risen to a point where it was terrifying.

Seeing the three Wild Fire members attacking him together with shovels, he didn't cower in the least.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The moment those shovels slashed down from the air, Nie Tian struck with his fists at the speed of lightning, knocking the shovels out of his enemies' hands.

Before they could recover from their astonishment, Nie Tian rammed into one of them like a stampeding, wild beast.

CRUNCH!

The sound of bones cracking rang out from within the person's chest.

He immediately coughed up a mouthful of blood as he was sent flying backward to a corner of the cave.

BANG!

By the time he crashed into the cave wall, the light had already disappeared from his eyes.

"What the hell?!" Standing not far from Nie Tian, Li Ye couldn't help but exclaim as he held a dagger in his hand.

Actually, Li Ye hadn't just stood by and watched after shoving Nie Tian into the crowd of enemies.

He had taken out a sharp dagger that shone with cold light and snuck up upon one of the Wild Fire members in an attempt to attack him from behind.

He found the perfect opportunity to stab the man the moment he swung his shovel down towards Nie Tian.

However, just as his dagger was about to go into the man's back, Nie Tian ran into him and knocked him flying like a war chariot.

Li Ye remained in the middle of his stabbing action as he looked blankly at the man who had crashed into the cave wall with blood spilling out of his mouth and nose.

After going blank for a moment, Li Ye couldn't help but blurt, "What in the world are you made of, Hua Tian?"

The eyes of the other two turned red after seeing their friend be killed by Nie Tian with one strike.

The two of them roared as they fetched their shovels and once again swung them towards Nie Tian's back and left arm.

"Hahaha!" Nie Tian laughed and said, "Attacking me with your laughable physical strength… You must have a death wish!"

BANG! BANG!

As soon as their shovels made contact with Nie Tian's body, their expressions flickered drastically.

They felt as if their full-strength swings had been met with a solid rock that was even tougher than the Space Spirit Jades embedded in the cave wall.

Nie Tian, on the other hand, felt nothing but a mild ache after taking the hits. He didn't even have a scratch on his body.

"You two can die now!" After realizing that he was significantly stronger than them, Nie Tian decided to go all-out to attack and hold nothing back.

With a swift move, he clutched the backs of their necks with his hands.

BANG!

The two powerful Wild Fire experts felt like an iron lock had been hooked onto their necks. Pushed by Nie Tian's irresistible strength, their foreheads clunked together, causing them to bleed from the forehead.

Just as the two of them were dizzy and disoriented, Nie Tian picked them up by grabbing their necks again. When their feet left the ground, they desperately struggled to kick Nie Tian.

However, compared to the tall and robust Nie Tian, they were much smaller and weaker.

The kicks they summoned all their strength to launch dealt no damage to Nie Tian. Nie Tian still stood unwavering, seemingly completely unaffected.

Before long, the two Wild Fire experts' faces turned dark-red, and they had great difficulty breathing. It seemed that they were going to suffocate in the next moment.

"Hua Tian! Kill them now!" Li Ye reminded him in a loud voice.

It was at that moment that Nie Tian frowned as he noticed the strong killing intent in his dying enemies' eyes. Apparently, they knew that they would face certain death if they didn't do anything, so they decided to resort to their spiritual power, hoping to kill Nie Tian before he killed them.

CRUNCH!

Just as they were about to summon their spiritual power, Nie Tian snapped their neck bones with a violent squeeze.

In the next moment, their heads sagged down as they died instantly.

Flabbergasted, Li Ye muttered, "Such monstrous strength! Is this guy a spirit beast from the Void Illusion Mountain Range in disguise or what?!"

He simply found it unbelievable that Nie Tian had killed three powerful enemies in such a short time.

He had only brought Nie Tian to this place with the intention of using his strength to help them mine and carry Space Spirit Jades.

Never had he expected that Nie Tian had physical strength so formidable that it almost seemed inhuman.

After all, Nie Tian was only at the Lesser Heaven stage, while the three people he had killed had been at the Heaven stage.

Even though they had an advantage in both number and cultivation base, they couldn't even put up a fight when they faced Nie Tian's overwhelming strength.

"Hua Tian…" Even Pei Qiqi, who was fighting Yang Ling up close, was astounded by Nie Tian's effectiveness.

She had been focused on her battle against Yang Ling, and hadn't noticed how Nie Tian had killed his enemies.

When she overheard Li Ye marvel at Nie Tian's strength and spared them a glance, she found, to her surprise, that Nie Tian had already finished off all three of them, and Nie Tian was standing there, nonchalant and with a bored look in his eyes.

It seemed he was unsatisfied that his opponents had failed to give him any challenge.

Yang Ling also noticed Nie Tian's exceptional battle prowess, and asked with a grim face, "Who's that kid?"

After all, those three were seasoned Heaven stage Qi warriors, and they knew how to make joint attacks against their enemies.

Even Yang Ling wasn't confident that he would be able to kill them if the three of them teamed up on him.

The fact that Nie Tian had killed them in such a short time made Yang Ling's heart grow heavy.

"This is not good." After realizing that the seemingly unimpressive young man possessed formidable physical strength, Yang Ling sensed the unfavorable situation.

WHOOSH!

Without any sign, he ditched Pei Qiqi and dashed toward the entrance of the cave.

"Don't let him get away!" Li Ye yelled.

"Got it." Nie Tian replied as he turned around and beat Yang Ling to the entrance. He stood there and smiled at him.

"Didn't you say you would leave this place with Pei Qiqi's dead body?"

Yang Ling glowered at Nie Tian. "Get the hell out of my way!"

"What if I don't?" Nie Tian tilted his head and looked at Yang Ling, confidence filling his eyes. "I know I can't defeat you out there. But as long as we're in here, I can kill you as easily as I did your three lackeys."

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Fuming with anger, Yang Ling shouted, "I'll say it one more time! Get out of my way!"

Being one of the most respected characters in the Wild Fire, Pei Qiqi's previous words and Nie Tian's disdainful manner had truly enraged him.

He could make peace with the way Pei Qiqi had provoked him. After all, she had her special abilities, and no one had been able to hurt her throughout the years.

Every member of the Wild Fire, Dark Moon, and Blood Skull knew her reputation as a vicious talker.

However, who was this Nie Tian person?

A nobody with a Lesser Heaven stage cultivation base had actually dared to join Pei Qiqi to humiliate him. He couldn't let this happen!

"Hahaha!" Nie Tian laughed and shook his head as he said, "You've got quite a mouth for someone who's going to die soon."

WHOOSH!

Nie Tian shot towards Yang Ling like a cannonball as he attempted to bombard him and kill him with his rock-hard fleshy body.

Yang Ling's pupils shrank and a strong killing intent appeared in his eyes, "You're courting death!"

All of a sudden, an intense cold aura rose from within Yang Ling's body!

Even though Pei Qiqi didn't notice how Nie Tian had killed the other three Wild Fire members, Yang Ling, who possessed superior strength, had witnessed the whole process.

He was aware that if he didn't resort to his spiritual power at all, he would very likely be killed by Nie Tian in the same way he had killed his three sidekicks.

Bearing that thought in mind, he decided to make a risky move to save himself from such a desperate situation.

However, as soon as the wisps of frost power flowed out of his spiritual sea, the colorful lights that had been swimming around in every corner of the cave seemed to have discovered a vent.

One after another, they whizzed towards him like razor-sharp, fine threads.

In merely a moment, Yang Ling's slender body was covered in numerous fine wounds.

However, despite the painful injuries, he once again forcibly summoned frost power from his spiritual sea, turning his hands into two ice pitons and thrusting them towards Nie Tian's chest.

CRUNCH!

Even more colorful lights rapidly converged on his translucent, icy hands, cutting open numerous bloody wounds.

Yang Ling gave a muffled groan as his soul even seemed to have sustained serious injuries. Even still, he bore the excruciating pain and assumed a manner that implied that he would only stop when he had killed Nie Tian.

"Stop, Nie Tian!" Li Ye called out.

Nie Tian, who was rapidly closing in on Yang Ling, also sensed the danger.

He came to a stop when he was two meters away from Yang Ling and began to step backwards.

"Go to hell!" As Yang Ling let out an angry roar, the countless fine wounds on him suddenly burst open, spilling out large amounts of blood.

At that moment, Yang Ling was like a trapped monster. He no longer cared about what would happen to himself as long as he could kill Nie Tian on the spot. Even if it meant that he would pay the price of his own life.

The reckless Yang Ling rapidly approached Nie Tian while his blood sputtered in every direction.

As he did, more colorful lights whizzed by, turning his body into a bloody mess.

From what Nie Tian could tell, now that Yang Ling had become the target of every colorful light in the cave, even if he didn't attack him himself, those countless colorful lights would kill him eventually.

However, it seemed that Yang Ling had already forgotten about his own life. All he wanted was to kill Nie Tian as quickly as possible.

"You seem to have enough dancing partners already." With these words, Nie Tian decided not to fight Yang Ling head-on. Instead, he swiftly shifted his position to avoid him.

By doing that, he even showed Yang Ling the exit, but he didn't think it was a big deal, since even if he escaped from the mine to the Void Illusion Mountain Range, considering his condition, he would most likely collapse due to those deep cuts.

By that time, he and Li Ye might be strong enough to kill him. They wouldn't even need Pei Qiqi to help them.

"You can't hide from me!" Yang Ling roared as he shot numerous ice blades that carried bone-piercing coldness towards Nie Tian, hoping to use them to slice Nie Tian into shreds before he left the cave.

However, the colorful lights' targets weren't limited to those who used their spiritual power in the cave. They would also target anything that was condensed by spiritual power.

BAM! BAM! BAM!

As the ice blades flew towards Nie Tian, countless colorful lights swooped in from every direction and entangled them, causing their might to decline significantly.

By the time they reached Nie Tian, they were already like arrows at the end of their flight, leaving only a few shallow scrapes on Nie Tian's skin.

"What?!" Observing with her eyes narrowed from the side, Pei Qiqi couldn't help but exclaim, after seeing that the ice blades barely hurt Nie Tian.

According to her assessment, even though Yang Ling's ice blades had been greatly weakened by the colorful lights, they should have been able to give Nie Tian numerous bloody gashes.

After all, Nie Tian was only at the Lesser Heaven stage. How refined his fleshy body could be?

She even felt that her junior martial brother, Li Ye, would sustain serious injuries after being bombarded by those weakened ice blades.

It didn't make sense that Nie Tian was almost unhurt.

After pondering the matter for a short while, her eyes shone with a strange light.

She suddenly came to the realization that Hua Mu must have refined this young man's body before he sent him to this place, giving him an exceptionally strong and solid body.

Only that would explain why he was able to withstand those ice blades without using any spiritual power.

Before now, she hadn't attached any importance to Nie Tian. She was even slightly disgusted by the fact that Hua Mu had stuffed this nephew of his into her hands, and thus she had assigned him to Li Ye.

Only at this point did she finally look at Nie Tian in a different way.

"He's still not dead!?" The fact that Nie Tian had survived his attack left Yang Ling in shock.

He had planned to kill Nie Tian with the least effort possible before getting out of the cave and the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

Now that Nie Tian was almost unscathed, it put him in a dilemma.

"You even used your spiritual power, and this is all you've got?" With these words, Nie Tian once again swiftly shifted toward the exit. His gaze passed Yang Ling and landed on Pei Qiqi. "As long as I'm the one who kills him, I'll get to take all his belongings?"

Pei Qiqi nodded and said, "That's right. That's the rule I set, so I'll live by it myself."

"Great!" Nie Tian grinned. "This Yang Ling person is mine. Don't you fight me for him."

From what Nie Tian could tell, Yang Ling was already on the verge of collapsing.

After condensing those ice blades and controlling them to attack Nie Tian, he had already sustained a severe backlash. At this point, he was already too weak to pose a threat to him.

After getting Pei Qiqi's consent, he pointed at Yang Ling and said, "I'm standing right here. You'll have to get through me to leave this place!"

"Good! Good!! Even if I die here today, I'll kill you first!!" His thunderous rage seemed to have caused Yang Ling to lose his mind. As he barked, numerous colorful lights shot toward his gash-covered body.

At that moment, he already didn't have a single piece of undamaged skin on him.

Watching from a safe distance, the fat Li Ye said harshly, "Man… I never expected that the famous Yang Ling of the Wild Fire would end up being so miserable.

"Hey, Uncle Yang, what are you waiting for? If you don't strike soon, I suspect that you'll die even before Hua Tian attacks you."

PUFF!

His words further enraged Yang Ling and worsened his injuries. He coughed up a mouthful of blood and said, "Shut up!!!"

"I only warned you with good intentions. I suggest you save your breath. That way you'll be able to strike harder." Li Ye didn't have the slightest intention of stopping.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

Wisps of white, misty frost auras rose from within Yang Ling's body; some of them were offset by the colorful lights that converged from every direction, while others were condensing into a bright sphere with Yang Ling at the center.

"It's my turn now." Instead of waiting for Yang Ling to attack him, Nie Tian frowned and charged towards Yang Ling.

Although Yang Ling currently needed more time than usual to launch his spiritual incantation, he feared that, given enough time, he would still be able to inflict serious damage on him. After all, he was a Greater Heaven stage expert.

BOOM!

Like a frenzied beast, Nie Tian charged into Yang Ling's frost mist zone, scattering the frost auras before his fist bombarded Yang Ling's forehead.

CRUNCH!

Yang Ling's skull was smashed in before he could finish his spell. Then, his corpse collapsed to the ground.

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"Uh…" Li Ye, who had been jabbering and ridiculing Yang Ling, suddenly stopped. His jaw dropped.

Pei Qiqi's face was also filled with shock, as she had never expected that Yang Ling wouldn't even be able to withstand a single blow from Nie Tian, and died before his spiritual incantation was finished.

Only after a long time did Li Ye snap out of his daze and say, "This seems a bit too easy, doesn't it?"

"This guy…" Pei Qiqi frowned slightly as she found herself unable to remove her gaze from Nie Tian, who now seemed shockingly mysterious.

Although she had the confidence to kill Yang Ling on her own from the start, she was prepared to go through strong resistance to achieve that and didn't believe that she would have been able to kill him as quickly and effortlessly as Nie Tian had.

Nie Tian seemed somewhat bashful as he looked Pei Qiqi in the eye, smiling. "All their belongings are mine now, right?"

"Yeah, I meant what I said," Pei Qiqi replied.

Nie Tian's eyes lit up as he rapidly stepped toward Yang Ling's body with a broad smile on his face. Without any hesitation, he bent down and began searching the body for valuable items.

The early Greater Heaven stage Yang Ling also possessed a ring of holding. Nie Tian took it off with a swift motion and was about to examine what was inside of it.

"Now is not the time. Let's get out of here first," Pei Qiqi reminded him.

Li Ye also stepped over and reminded Nie Tian, "All sorts of storage spiritual tools lose their effects here, and you can't use your psychic power while we're in here. Otherwise, you'll suffer from a lethal backlash."

Upon hearing their words, Nie Tian immediately stopped and put Yang Ling's ring of holding into the pocket by his waist.

After a thorough search, Nie Tian didn't find any other valuable items.

Then, he stepped over to the bodies of the other three Wild Fire members, took off their bracelets of holding from their wrists, and put them away in his pocket.

"Every ring of holding has a spatial energy shield to prevent others from using it," said Pei Qiqi. "I'll help you disengage it when we're out of here."

"Oh, great! Thanks in advance then!" Nie Tian said, smiling.

He had also heard that a low-grade bracelet of holding didn't have a restrictive spell, so once its owner was killed, the killer would be able to snatch and use it.

Rings of holding, however, were different. Since they were more advanced, a restrictive spell was always built within every ring of holding.

Only by cracking the restrictive spell would a person other than the owner be able to check and loot what was in them.

Since Pei Qiqi's mastery of spatial magics and spells was outstanding, helping Nie Tian disengage the ring of holding's protective shield was as easy as ABC to her. If she hadn't offered to do that for him, he would have had to go through a great deal of trouble doing it himself.

"You've hit gold, Hua Tian!" Li Ye said excitedly. "One early Greater Heaven stage and three late Heaven stage experts! They must have quite a few spiritual materials and spirit stones in their storage tools! You've made a great fortune by coming to the Void Illusion Mountain Range with me. The items you've gained today will be enough to get you through quite some time in Shatter City."

"Thank you," Nie Tian said, smiling.

He was in a good mood after killing four powerful experts and plundering their belongings.

He had been worrying about getting more spirit stones since the day he had come to Shatter City. Working for Li Ye hadn't turned out to be productive for him.

He had never expected that he would obtain three bracelets of holding and one ring of holding from such an easy battle.

This was definitely a great fortune for him.

"It's like what they say: people can't get rich without good luck!" He thought to himself.

Pei Qiqi didn't have any expression on her face as she said, "Alright, it's time to get down to business. Don't forget the reason why we're here. Now that both members of the Wild Fire and Dark Moon have learned about this mine, we'd better mine as much Space Spirit Jade as we can this time. Otherwise, I'm afraid that it will be an empty mine the next time we come back."

"Exactly, the Space Spirit Jades are what we've come for," Li Ye said.

"Let's get started then." Pei Qiqi picked up a shovel and walked to a corner of the cave. Without any delay, she started digging.

"Here. Take this." Li Ye picked up a shovel from the ground and tossed it to Nie Tian before he grabbed another one for himself. While digging, he said, "Hua Tian, we discovered this Space Spirit Jade mine, and you're only here because I brought you here. Therefore, you'll give us two thirds of the Space Spirit Jades you mine from this place."

"No problem." Nie Tian, who was still in a good mood, agreed without thinking.

On the other hand, he was aware that if it weren't for Li Ye, he would never have the audacity to explore the Void Illusion Mountain Range by himself, much less find this Space Spirit Jade mine.

Hence, he assumed Li Ye's demand made sense.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

The three of them laboriously swung their shovels inside the spacious mine.

Numerous glittering spots could be seen on the walls of the stone cave, which were where the crude Space Spirit Jades were embedded.

They had to separate them from the stone walls first, and then get rid of the impurities that adhered to them. Only then would the pure, translucent Space Spirit Jades present themselves.

Most importantly, they couldn't use even the least bit of spiritual power during the process, only their physical strength.

As powerful as Pei Qiqi was in the Void Illusion Mountain Range, the unique environment made her mining efficiency far inferior to Nie Tian's.

By the time she finished with one Space Spirit Jade, Nie Tian had already mined and processed three.

Meanwhile, Li Ye was slower than even Pei Qiqi. By the time he finished with one Space Spirit Jade, Nie Tian had already had six pure Space Spirit Jades laying on the ground next to him.

Two hours later…

There was already a sizable pile of Space Spirit Jades by Nie Tian's side, while only about ten Space Spirit Jades could be seen lying on the ground next to Pei Qiqi's feet, and five next to Li Ye's.

A short while passed…

The Space Spirit Jades Nie Tian had mined and processed had already piled up into a small hill.

Pei Qiqi and Li Ye had over-consumed their physical strength and been forced to stop. After all, physical labor wasn't their strong suit. Sweat dripping from their faces, they could only stand there and watch Nie Tian work tirelessly.

Their arms felt sore and powerless as they were thirsty and famished. All they wanted was to find a place to recuperate.

"What this Hua Tian guy is made of?" Li Ye muttered to himself. Then he turned to Pei Qiqi and asked, "Senior martial sister, how about we get out of here and get something to eat?"

All their food and water was stored in their rings of holding, which they could only use outside of the mine.

Furthermore, someone would have to carry the finished Space Spirit Jades outside and then put them away into their rings of holding.

"Alright. Let's do that and come back after a short break. It seems Hua Tian is still doing good. Let him work then." Pei Qiqi sounded somewhat frustrated.

She knew very well that this was their last chance to mine the Space Spirit Jades here. As much as she wanted to stay with Nie Tian and mine as many Space Spirit Jades as possible, her fleshy body didn't allow her to do so, unlike Nie Tian's.

Upon hearing their plan to take a break outside, Nie Tian turned to them and said, "Will you carry these jades out and store them in your rings of holding for me?"

"You can just toss them through the gate to us when we're out," Li Ye said.

"That works too," Nie Tian answered.

Soon after Pei Qiqi and Li Ye stepped through the exit, Nie Tian counted the Space Spirit Jades he had mined while throwing them through the exit one after another.

Afterwards, he went back to his painstaking work to mine more Space Spirit Jades for the sake of his future life in Shatter City.

After working for several hours straight, Nie Tian still felt rather energetic.

Suddenly, after laboring for a short while, he swung his shovel at a crude Space Spirit Jade in the stone wall and a crisp clanking sound rang out.

"What?!" Nie Tian went blank for a moment before he closely examined the location where the sound had come from.

At that moment, Li Ye and Pei Qiqi returned to the mine and Li Ye said loudly, "We're back, Hua Tian. How are you doing?"

"Hey, come and take a look. Do you know what this is?" Nie Tian said.

Pei Qiqi rapidly stepped past Li Ye and arrived at Nie Tian's side. As soon as she did, a flowery scent entered Nie Tian's nose, making him feel intoxicated.

In the next moment, Pei Qiqi's gentle exclamation woke Nie Tian from his drunken state. "I didn't expect that we'd run into one of these here!"

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Pure, bright light shot out of a diamond-shaped crystal, illuminating the originally dim cave like it was under broad daylight.

The crystal was embedded in a huge Space Spirit Jade. It seemed to be a part of the jade, yet it was very different.

The crystal was far clearer and more transparent, and the spatial fluctuations it emitted were far more intense.

PHEW! PHEW!

The numerous colorful light threads seemed to become attracted by it as soon as the crystal was unearthed, since they suddenly began to converge on it.

Nie Tian sensed its uniqueness and the changes it had caused. Staring at it with curiosity filling his eyes, he asked softly, "What is it?"

Pei Qiqi, who was now only inches away from Nie Tian, also had her eyes that were as bright as stars fixed on the crystal. Nie Tian could even feel her breathing grow more rapid.

It seemed that she hadn't heard Nie Tian's words, as her attention had been completely seized by the diamond-shaped crystal.

With a sniff of her pleasant, flowery scent, Nie Tian didn't ask again. Instead, he waited in silence for her to calm herself.

Standing so close to Pei Qiqi, Nie Tian ran his gaze over her delicate, milky-white face and felt it was prettier than that glittering crystal.

"What did you find, Hua Tian, Senior Martial Sister?"

The fat Li Ye walked slowly forward as he approached Nie Tian and Pei Qiqi and stuck his head through the gap between them.

With a single glance at it, Li Ye waved his hands and stamped his feet in joy. "It's a crystallized Space Spirit Jade!

"I can't believe we were able to find one of these here, in such a small Space Spirit Jade mine! We're so lucky!"

Nie Tian didn't know anything about spiritual materials that contained spatial energy. He didn't know what they could use Space Spirit Jades for, much less the use and rarity of Space Spirit Crystals.

"Is this thing more precious than a Space Spirit Jade?" He asked subconsciously.

Li Ye rolled his eyes at him as if he were talking to a fool. "Of course! Do you know the difference between the value of a spirit crystal and a spirit jade? The difference between the value of a crystallized Space Spirit Jade and a Space Spirit Jade is even greater. You can trade one spirit crystal for a hundred spirit jades in the other nine realms. However, you can trade one crystallized Space Spirit Jade for five hundred Space Spirit Jades!

"Space Spirit Jades are essential materials for building teleportation portals, while crystallized Space Spirit Jades are used to forge spatial spiritual tools that are even more powerful.

"I'm not talking about rings of holding or bracelets of holding. I'm talking about extremely precious spiritual tools that can distort space!

"Spatial spiritual tools are hard to find in any realm. Not only because they are hard to forge, but also because it's very difficult to gather all the necessary materials. From what I know, back when the Realm of Split Void was still one of the most powerful realms in the Domain of the Falling Stars and the Void Palace Sect were still thriving, the Void Palace Sect was the only sect that possessed a Spirit Channeling-grade spatial spiritual tool.

"The Void Palace sect only prospered in the Void Illusion Mountain Range because of it!

"Since crystallized Space Spirit Jades are the most important materials in forging Spirit Channeling-grade spatial spiritual tools, they are one of the most wanted types of spiritual materials throughout the realms. Powerful experts have even started wars for them!"

After realizing what it was, Li Ye's eyes turned red from excitement.

On the other hand, Nie Tian listened to his explanation while observing Pei Qiqi's expression. He discovered that when Li Ye mentioned the Void Palace Sect, Pei Qiqi's eyes suddenly wandered away from the crystallized Space Spirit Jade, as she seemed to become lost in her memories.

He even briefly saw a hint of sadness in her eyes.

However, she seemed to have put away her emotions in the next moment.

She turned to Nie Tian and said, "You'll only need to give Li Ye a third of the Space Spirit Jades that you've mined. I'm willing to give up my share."

"Why?" Nie Tian was surprised.

She pointed to the crystallized Space Spirit Jade and said, "I want that."

Li Ye jumped in and said, "Hua Tian, that crystallized Space Spirit Jade is of no use in your hands. That's a pretty good deal. Only experts in spatial magics like my senior martial sister will be able to use a spatial spiritual tool, and crystallized Space Spirit Jades are indispensable to forge high-grade spatial spiritual tools. It means much more to her than to you.

"Even if you take it and sell it, you won't be able to get a better deal than that in the Realm of Split Void."

"I see," Nie Tian nodded and said with a smile. "I've made more gains than I ever expected from this trip to the Void Illusion Mountain Range. Because you want this crystallized Space Spirit Jade so much, and you're willing to make a fair trade for it, I shall accept the honor."

Pei Qiqi was quite content. "Neat. I like your manner of doing things." After a moment of pondering, she said, "How about this: I'll help you sell the Space Spirit Jades in Shatter City, along with the spiritual materials and that you've looted from those Wild Fire members.

"You just need to tell me if you want to trade them for spirit stones or if you have something particular in mind. I'll help you with it, either way.

"I guarantee you that with me there to help you sell them, you'll get more in return than you would have if you sold them yourself."

Nie Tian's eyes lit up as he said, "Thank you!"

"Alright, it's about time that we wrapped things up here," Pei Qiqi urged. "Let's get that crystallized Space Spirit Jade, gather and process the jades that you've already dug out, and leave."

It appeared that she didn't want to wait for another second to take the crystallized Space Spirit Jade and return to Shatter City.

Upon hearing her order, Nie Tian and Li Ye got down to work again.

An hour later, they stepped out of the almost-emptied mine with the crystallized Space Spirit Jade in their hands.

In the Void Illusion Mountain Range…

Nie Tian, Pei Qiqi, and Li Ye, who had already put their jade bracelets back on, were traveling along the same route that they had taken to get to the mine.

After the battle in the mine, the jade mining, and Nie Tian's attitude when she had demanded the crystallized Space Spirit Jade, Pei Qiqi had changed her view towards Nie Tian.

On their way back, Pei Qiqi didn't march by herself in the forefront as she had done when they had come. Instead, she marched shoulder to shoulder with Nie Tian and Li Ye. She even swallowed her pride and joined their conversations from time to time.

The atmosphere was much more friendly than when they had come.

Under the night sky, the three of them approached the cave where Pei Qiqi's small teleportation portal was located. However, Pei Qiqi suddenly came to a stop and called out loudly, "Who's there!? Show yourself!"

Thump! Thump!

Heavy footsteps echoed out from the distant horizon. Li Ye's face instantly flickered as he blurted, "Damn it! Don't tell me we've run into a spirit beast in this shit place!"

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Ever since the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the Realm of Split Void had been tainted, most of the spirit beasts that had dwelt in different parts of the realm had begun to die by the hundreds.

The fittest survive. That rule applied to spirit beasts too. The ones that were old and young couldn't resist the erosion of the poisonous spiritual Qi and died.

However, a minority of the strongest ones survived and developed the ability to cultivate using the tainted spiritual Qi. Therefore, instead of perishing, they grew faster and stronger.

Most of them wandered in the Void Illusion Mountain Range and preyed on the human Qi warriors who dared to go on treasure hunts in the mountain range.

There were three major dangers one must face if one dared to go to the Void Illusion Mountain Range: spatial rifts that slithered about in every corner of the mountain range, raids led by enemies from the Dark Moon, Wild Fire, and Blood Skull, and the mutant spirit beasts that had survived the poisonous environment.

Thump! Thump!

The footsteps were so heavy that they obviously didn't come from a human. As the footsteps drew nearer, Nie Tian felt as if someone was pounding his chest with a drumstick.

Before he could have a chance to unleash his psychic awareness to scan the area, a gigantic spirit beast entered his sight. It was a extremely robust rhino that was about eight meters long and golden from head to tail.

"Golden Stone Rhino!" Li Ye exclaimed. The moment he caught sight of the mountain-like spirit beast, his fleshy face filled with fear.

"What's its grade?" asked Nie Tian.

"Normally speaking, a Golden Stone Rhino is a fourth grade spirit beast, with the fighting power of a Greater Heaven stage human Qi warrior." With a bitter smile, he continued, "However, since it has survived the harsh environment in the Void Illusion Mountain Range, it must be stronger than the Golden Stone Rhinos you can find in the other nine realms."

Nie Tian closely examined the monster through the green light shield around him.

The Golden Stone Rhino was golden throughout its body. At first glance, it looked like it was made of solid gold, but upon closer examination, it was actually covered in skin that resembled pieces of golden rocks.

A huge horn that shone with suffocating, golden light grew out of its snout.

Nie Tian had a feeling that if he ever failed to avoid that incomparably sharp horn, he would be instantly pierced through and killed. Even his exceptionally strong body wouldn't be able to stop that.

"There's nothing sharper than a Golden Stone Rhino's horn. You'd better watch out. Don't let it get anywhere near you." Li Ye reminded him with a soft voice as the ring of holding on his finger began to emanate a dark-red light.

In the next moment, a set of spiritual armor that had detailed patterns engraved on it flew out of Li Ye's ring of holding and rapidly wrapped itself around Li Ye's fat body.

Only until then did he let out a sigh of relief and seem to not be as anxious as before.

Then, under Nie Tian's gaze, he took out and held a talisman in one hand and a dark-red shield in the other.

He seemed to assume that now that the Golden Stone Rhino had appeared, a fierce battle had become inevitable.

However, from the way he posed, he apparently wasn't planning to rush into battle with the Golden Stone Rhino. Rather, he merely readied himself for scenarios where the Golden Stone Rhino made him its target.

At that moment, Pei Qiqi walked past the two of them and stepped towards the Golden Stone Rhino, a dangerous aura flowing out of her curvaceous body. "Get out of the way, you two!"

FIZZ! FIZZ!

Strange sounds rang out around her as she stepped forward, as if the spatial rifts that were swimming about in the vicinity were being influenced by the aura she emanated.

"Hua Tian, we just need to keep ourselves safe and stay out of my senior martial sister's way." With these words, Li Ye pulled Nie Tian back as the two of them hid behind a huge rock. "My senior martial sister can fully display the terrifying might of her spatial magics in the Void Illusion Mountain Range. Since the energy fluctuations here are very special and violent, many spatial light blades will be formed when she casts her spells.

"Those spatial light blades might cause friendly casualties if we're too close to them.

"Therefore, you've got to remember: get away from her once you see her start attacking with full force. Sometimes, she can be even more deadly than your enemies in the Void Illusion Mountain Range."

Knowing the way his senior martial sister fought, Li Ye warned Nie Tian about both the Golden Stone Rhino and Pei Qiqi.

Nie Tian felt slightly unfulfilled. "So we just hide here and watch while she fights the Golden Stone Rhino?"

Li Ye patted Nie Tian on his shoulder and said, "Take it from me, this is the best thing to do, for her and for us. I know that you're hot-blooded and enthusiastic. I saw that in you when we were in the mine. However, this is different. We're not in that mine any more. We're in the Void Illusion Mountain Range. You can't possibly help senior martial sister with your physical strength.

"If you join her and attack the Golden Stone Rhino together, she might have to be careful and make sure that she doesn't hurt you, so she won't be able to go all-out.

"In light of this, we might as well observe the situation from here and act when a good opportunity presents itself or she truly needs our help."

"Alright then," Nie Tian said, frowning.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The Golden Stone Rhino walked slowly toward Pei Qiqi, ferocious lights shooting out of its dark-golden pupils as its gaze became fixed on Pei Qiqi, who approached instead of running.

In its eyes, Pei Qiqi was nothing more than a piece of tasty, fresh meat, the kind it had consumed over and over again in the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Without any warning, four Ethereal Swords flew out of Pei Qiqi's ring of holding and pierced towards the Golden Stone Rhino.

PUFF! PUFF! PUFF! PUFF!

In the time it takes a spark to fly off of a piece of flint, they penetrated the Golden Stone Rhino's rock-like skin and created four small bloody holes. Blood instantly flowed out of them.

ROOOOOOAR!

Under the excruciating pain, the Golden Stone Rhino roared as it charged madly towards Pei Qiqi.

The Ethereal Swords immediately pulled themselves out from the Golden Stone Rhino's body before soaring through the air in a circle and piercing into it once again.

Nie Tian noticed that during Pei Qiqi's fight against the Golden Stone Rhino, her Ethereal Swords didn't vanish and pop up the way they had before.

It seemed that she didn't attach much importance to the Golden Stone Rhino, since it was only a fourth grade spirit beast, whose intelligence was far inferior to humans. She didn't think it was necessary to use her sophisticated spells to conceal the traces of her Ethereal Swords.

She also seemed to know that most spirit beasts that wandered in the Void Illusion Mountain Range didn't think human Qi warriors were strong enough to inflict much damage to them, according to their past experiences, so they wouldn't even dodge.

That was what the Golden Stone Rhino had done.

Since the Golden Stone Rhino's skin was very tough, the Ethereal Swords only left a handful of shallow holes. None of them had pierced through its flesh and into its vital organs.

This meant that the Golden Stone Rhino's body was so much tougher than human Qi warriors at its level that the Ethereal Swords didn't even cause any serious damage.

WHOOSH!

An energy wall that was visible to the naked eye suddenly appeared right in front of the bolting Golden Stone Rhino.

BANG!

In the next moment, the Golden Stone Rhino crashed into it, and its mountain-like body's tremendous momentum was stopped.

"Spatial Bulwark!" Nie Tian's expression flickered as he was amazed by the scene. Only then was he convinced that Pei Qiqi could indeed display her terrifying fighting prowess in the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

Then, he noticed that Pei Qiqi had shifted into an area where numerous spatial rifts were slithering about in the air.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The spatial rifts moved irregularly in the air. Nie Tian couldn't see a pattern to their movements.

He was certain that if he or Li Ye were that close to those spatial rifts, they would very likely fail to avoid them and get cut in half upon contact with them.

However, Pei Qiqi, who was an expert in spatial spells, could easily figure out the pattern they moved in. From the way her curvaceous figure flashed about in between the spatial rifts, it seemed that she was completely unaffected by them.

ROOOOOOAR!

The muddleheaded Golden Stone Rhino recovered from the collision and once again charged towards Pei Qiqi.

However, even though it had been roaming in the Void Illusion Mountain Range its whole life, hesitation could be seen in its eyes when it was about to enter the area filled with slithering spatial rifts.

It seemed to know that any contact with those spatial rifts would be enough to cut it in two, so it suddenly stopped its dashing momentum.

It bellowed at Pei Qiqi, who was shifting among the spatial rifts, to express its anger and discontentment, but it just didn't dare to take another step forward.

Without saying a word, Pei Qiqi stared coldly at it, waiting for it to barge into the area she was in.

After groaning for a short while, the Golden Stone Rhino realized that Pei Qiqi wasn't going to come out of the area. Then, it suddenly turned around and charged towards Nie Tian and Li Ye.

After all, Pei Qiqi, Nie Tian, and Li Ye were all meat in its eyes.

Now that this piece of meat was so hard to get, why not go and get the other two, especially when one of them seemed very soft and juicy.

"Oh crap! This damn beast!" Li Ye called out.

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"Can't you two hide a little further away?" Frowning, Pei Qiqi lifted her jade-like arm, and another Spatial Bulwark appeared in the Golden Stone Rhino's way.

BANG!

The Golden Stone Rhino rammed into it and its mountain-like body came to a stop.

It turned its head back and bellowed at Pei Qiqi, heaven-shattering rage filling its cry.

Pei Qiqi didn't have any expression on her face as her slender figure flashed out of the spatial rift-filled area.

She waved at the Golden Stone Rhino, letting it know that she was its opponent and provoking it to attack her again.

"Well, Hua Tian, we should have gotten a little further away from them." Embarrassment could be seen on Li Ye's face as he dragged Nie Tian and backed away. "But you can rest assured. Although the Golden Stone Rhino is as powerful as a Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior, my senior martial sister is more formidable here.

"The Void Illusion Mountain Range is my senior martial sister's Blessed Land. Whoever dares to fight her here is bound to die, human or spirit beast.

"Not long ago, she even single-handedly dealt with and killed a few dozen experts from the Wild Fire and Dark Moon here. Three of them were at the Greater Heaven stage, but even still, my senior martial sister lured them to a place where the spatial rifts were violent and killed them all."

Li Ye told Nie Tian stories of Pei Qiqi's prowess as he dragged Nie Tian away from the Golden Stone Rhino.

As they pulled back, Nie Tian occasionally looked over his shoulder to check on the battle between Pei Qiqi and the Golden Stone Rhino, and saw numerous spatial light blades appearing out of nowhere, filling the air around Pei Qiqi.

Each and every one of them was forged with her own power. Although they weren't as sharp as the Ethereal Swords, there were so many of them.

Nearly a hundred spatial light blades bombarded on the Golden Stone Rhino like a shoal of blood-thirsty fish.

A series of clashing sounds rang out as golden sparks were sent flying from the contact points. Numerous fine cuts were created on the Golden Stone Rhino's body, and blood was flowing out of them.

However, none of the wounds were deep enough to endanger its life. It was still brimming with life force and energy, and Pei Qiqi's attacks only made the Golden Stone Rhino fume with rage.

Therefore, the Golden Stone Rhino sudden turned around and once again lunged towards Pei Qiqi, who had already stepped out of the region where numerous spatial rifts slithered about.

Nie Tian, who was now observing from afar, saw the great amounts of spinning light blades and couldn't help but marvel, "Spatial light blades…"

At that moment, he finally understood why Li Ye had told him that them joining the fight would neither benefit Pei Qiqi nor themselves.

The current Pei Qiqi was like a monster that was summoning the surging spatial energy in the Void Illusion Mountain Range to launch attacks.

Her spatial magics allowed her to display more battle prowess than someone at her cultivation level should have.

If she ever ran into enemies that were significantly stronger than she was, she could always hide in areas where spatial rifts were densely-packed and active, so that her enemies could never get her, as long as they weren't experts in spatial magics.

Any person or spirit beast that dared to step amongst the violent spatial rifts would either end up sliced into pieces or fall into one of the spatial rifts.

Most of the spatial rifts led to unexplored desolate lands. Withering away in a place where there wasn't a single sign of life could be even worse than being killed on the spot.

ROOOOOOAR!

The Golden Stone Rhino roared as its attempts to approach Pei Qiqi were repeatedly frustrated by her Spatial Bulwarks.

However, her spatial light blades and Ethereal Swords never stopped cutting open more wounds all over the Golden Stone Rhino's body.

It seemed that Pei Qiqi wasn't in a hurry at all; she was intentionally taking her time with this gigantic beast, as she knew that if she continued to deplete it, it would eventually collapse due to exhaustion and blood loss.

"Wow, senior martial sister is getting better and better." Li Ye couldn't help but gasp in admiration. "She has always fought spirit beasts head-on before, and despised avoiding them. That was why she always sustained some injuries and expended a great deal energy, even when she won.

"Now that she's attained perfection in her fighting skills, powerful spirit beasts like this Golden Stone Rhino can't even get close to her. As long as she doesn't make a mistake, she'll soon be able to wear down this monster, which has a higher cultivation level than she does.

"Even though it takes a little longer this way, at least she won't get hurt or consume too much of her strength.

"This is the optimal way for her to fight in the Void Illusion Mountain Range. This is great. We don't even need to fear coming to the Void Illusion Mountain Range in the future in the slightest. As long as there are no mishaps, no one will be able to touch us."

While Li Ye went on and on about the awesomeness of his senior martial sister, the berserk Golden Stone Rhino began to move increasingly stiffly because of the massive blood loss.

Just as Li Ye had expected, the Golden Stone Rhino, which was strong enough to rip any Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior to shreds, failed to even get close enough to Pei Qiqi to attack her.

About fifteen minutes later, the Golden Stone Rhino finally lost its fierceness and grew weak. After realizing the unfavorable situation, it rapidly turned around and attempted to flee.

At that moment, Pei Qiqi finally launched her killing move by commanding the Ethereal Swords to pierce into the softest part of the Golden Stone Rhino, its neck, while it was focused solely on running.

BOOM!

Its enormous body immediately crashed heavily to the ground.

"Okay, you two can come out now," Pei Qiqi called out to them.

"I knew she'd be able to kill it. Hahaha!" Li Ye was overjoyed as he finally had the courage to return where Pei Qiqi was standing along with Nie Tian.

By the time the two of them got to the Golden Stone Rhino's side, Nie Tian discovered that Pei Qiqi had already cut off its horn with one of her Ethereal Swords and was just about to skin it.

It was known that the most valuable parts of a Golden Stone Rhino were its horn and armor-like skin.

"Well…" Nie Tian hesitated for a moment before he said, "Can you leave its meat and blood to me?"

As she was skillfully skinning the beast, Pei Qiqi stared blankly at him for a second before saying, "Spirit beasts in the Realm of Split Void cultivate with tainted spiritual Qi, which makes their flesh and blood full of impurities that human Qi warriors can't process. Surely, they're powerful, but no one has ever wanted their flesh or blood. What do you need them for?"

"Impurities…" Nie Tian seemed somewhat hesitant.

The Blood Sect's Blood Refining Incantation allowed him to refine spirit beast blood and turn it into pure power.

He was also certain that he could use spirit beast meat to strengthen his bones, nourish his muscles, and temper his meridians.

Since a fourth grade spirit beast was rather hard to find in the Realm of Flame Heaven, he was planning to use its meat and blood to enhance himself.

However, Pei Qiqi's words made him vacillate.

"If you don't need them, can you just give them to me?" Nie Tian asked. "I might be able to put them to use."

"Alright," Pei Qiqi replied in a clean-cut manner.

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They didn't have any other encounters on their way back to Shatter City, and they arrived home at sunset.

In their residence…

Li Ye had many wooden shelves in his spacious room, on which numerous scrolls regarding equipment forging were placed, along with a number of bizzare-looking spiritual materials.

This was the first time that Nie Tian had visited Li Ye's room.

"Alright. Let's divide our plunder," Li Ye said, smiling.

Nie Tian nodded before taking all the Space Spirit Jades he had mined out of his bracelet of holding and placing them on the floor.

There were 320 of them. According to their original agreement, Nie Tian should split them three ways with Pei Qiqi and Li Ye.

However, now that he had given the crystallized Space Spirit Jade away to Pei Qiqi, Pei Qiqi had agreed to give up her share of the Space Spirit Jades.

Therefore, he counted out 110 Space Spirit Jades and separated them from the rest before giving Li Ye a look, showing that they belonged to Li Ye now.

Li Ye didn't say any pleasantries. Instead, he laughed broadly as he put them away.

He had only mined a few dozen Space Spirit Jades himself, but by bringing Nie Tian with them, he had almost tripled his gains, which was far more than he had expected.

Thus, he was in a very good mood.

Afterwards, Nie Tian took out three bracelets of holding and one ring of holding, which belonged to Yang Ling and three other Wild Fire members.

Pei Qiqi had already cracked the restrictive spell on the ring using her spatial magics on their way back to Shatter City.

Nie Tian sent a wisp of his psychic awareness into the ring of holding and summoned out every spiritual material within it.

One item after another, all the valuable belongings that he had looted from the three other Wild Fire members also flew out of the three bracelets of holding.

It wasn't long before numerous spiritual materials were piled up in Li Ye's spacious room.

Standing off to the side, Pei Qiqi didn't show a shred of impatience as she watched Nie Tian go through all the items.

After all, she had changed the way she saw Nie Tian after what they had gone through together in the Void Illusion Mountain Range, along with the fact that Nie Tian had readily given the crystallized Space Spirit Jade to her. That was why she was willing to take on the responsibility to help Nie Tian trade in materials for himself.

Upon seeing that it was going to take Nie Tian some time to sort through the numerous items, she took the initiative to crouch down and help him with them.

She shot a glance at Li Ye, who was fondling a Space Spirit Jade with a foolish smile on his face, before blurting, "Come here and help us."

"Alright." Li Ye put the jade down and joined them.

After a short while, the three of them had sorted and counted everything from within the ring of holding and three bracelets of holding.

Altogether, there were 1,200 spirit stones, five spirit jades, fifty pieces of fire-attributed spiritual materials that were similar to Flame Crystals, and six wood-attributed spiritual materials.

There were also 16 bottles of medicinal pills, most of which were healing medicines, with only a couple serving the purpose of restoring flesh power and psychic power.

Nie Tian only kept the flesh power and psychic power-restoring pills for himself and put the others in a different pile.

Other than the spiritual materials and medicinal pills, there were about a dozen spiritual incantations. However, none of them were very advanced, so they were of little value to Nie Tian.

There were also three sets of Medium grade spiritual armor and six Medium grade spiritual tools.

Since each and every one of them required a certain cultivation attribute to utilize, they were of no use to Nie Tian.

Looking at the pile of items that Nie Tian had set aside, Pei Qiqi said, "Keep what you need and give the rest to me. I'll sell them for you and return the spirit stones I get to you in a few days."

"1,200 spirit stones and five spirit jades…" Nie Tian's eyes shone with excitement as he stared at the spirit stones and spirit jades.

Although he hadn't been holding on to his last spirit stone before he had gone to the Void Illusion Mountain Range with Li Ye and Pei Qiqi, he had been in need of more spirit stones.

Other than the three spirit jades that Hua Mu had left him, which he would only use to help himself break through into the Heaven stage, he didn't have enough spirit stones to cultivate with.

There were only three months left in his identity medallion. Once that time ran up, he would be immediately thrown out of Shatter City by members of the Blood Skull.

He had never imagined that their trip to the Void Illusion Mountain Range would turn out to be so fruitful.

The spirit stones and spirit jades he had obtained from killing the four experts alone were enough to last him a long time in Shatter City.

Let alone the spiritual armor, spell scrolls, and spiritual tools, which could also be traded for a substantial amount of spirit stones.

He had a feeling that this trip to the Void Illusion Mountain Range had completely turned his unfavorable situation around.

Seeing that Nie Tian seemed to be daydreaming, Pei Qiqi grew somewhat impatient and couldn't help but urge, "Alright, pick up the pace and separate what you're keeping from what you aren't."

"Okay, okay." With a broad smile on his face, Nie Tian rapidly put away the spirit stones, spirit jades, a few bottles of medicinal pills, and spiritual materials that had fire and wood attributes. Then, he shoved the rest to Pei Qiqi, along with the three bracelets of holding.

Yang Ling's ring of holding, which now only had the Golden Stone Rhino's skinned body inside, was quite precious. Considering his current cultivation base, he didn't plan to wear it for the time being. Therefore, he decided to put it away, in case an occasion might come up where he could use it.

He assumed that he wouldn't make much use of the extra bracelets of holding, so he handed them to Pei Qiqi as well.

"This is it?" Pei Qiqi asked.

Nie Tian nodded and said, "Thank you for going through all the trouble to do this for me."

"Yeah." Pei Qiqi didn't say much, but went ahead and stored everything that Nie Tian presented to her into the three bracelets of holding. Then, she said, "According to my estimation, I believe these things are worth about 5,000 spirit stones, more or less."

Nie Tian's expression flickered.

"I'll come back to you in seven days and bring you your spirit stones," said Pei Qiqi.

Just as Nie Tian was about to express his gratitude again, Pei Qiqi added, "Do you need any special spiritual materials or things that you need in your cultivation? If there's anything you need, I can use the spirit stones I get from selling this stuff to buy them for you."

Nie Tian pondered for a moment and said, "If that's the case, then please find me some spiritual materials with fire and wood attributes. If you can find spiritual materials that contain star power, buy me some of those, too. Many thanks!"

"Star power?" Shock could be seen in Pei Qiqi's eyes as she spoke after going blank for a brief moment, "It's easy to find spiritual materials with the fire and wood attributes in Shatter City. However, spiritual materials that contain star power are very rare here. People can only find very few occasionally falling out of spatial rifts in the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

"So not only will it be hard to find them, but their price will also be rather high.

"Well… for the sake of the crystallized Space Spirit Jade, I'll do my best to search for them, but I can't guarantee that I'll be able to find them for you."

Nie Tian nodded. "I understand."

At that moment, Li Ye jumped in and said, "Senior martial sister, Hua Tian doesn't know anything about spatial magics, so there's no point for him to keep the Space Spirit Jades. Why don't you buy them from him?"

Upon hearing his words, Nie Tian looked down at the pile of Space Spirit Jades and said to Pei Qiqi, "He's right. I have no use for them."

Pei Qiqi's eyebrow rose as she looked at the pile of Space Spirit Jades with a longing gaze.

Very few people had mastered spatial magics, just as there were very few spiritual materials that contained spatial energy.

The reason why she had organized this trip to the Void Illusion Mountain Range was because Space Spirit Jades were essential for her, since an enormous amount were needed for her to forge spatial tools, as well as study and research spatial spell formations.

"I'll give you 3,000 spirit stones for these Space Spirit Jades." After a brief moment of hesitation, she continued, "But I don't have that many spirit stones on hand. I'll need to sell my loot from the Void Illusion Mountain Range first, and then pay you in full."

"Sure, that's not a problem," Nie Tian said with a smile.

"Good. It's settled then. I'll take all the Space Spirit Jades with me." Pei Qiqi placed her milky-white hand on the pile of Space Spirit Jades, and in the next moment, they all flew into her ring of holding.

After that, she nodded gently at Nie Tian before stepping lightly and gracefully out of Li Ye's room.

As soon as Pei Qiqi left, Li Ye patted Nie Tian's shoulder and said with a broad smile on his face, "Well…? I treat you well, don't I?"

"Hahaha, yeah, thank you!" Nie Tian replied. "Be my guest. If there's anything you want, just go ahead and take it."

He thought Li Ye wanted to take advantage of his good mood and ask something for himself.

Li Ye shook his head. "Hahaha, I appreciate the gesture, but I'm good. I've lived in Shatter City for years. Throughout the years, I've accumulated fortune of a sort. These things are far from enough to interest me. You just need to remember that you owe me one."

"Okay, I'll keep that in mind," Nie Tian said without any hesitation.

"Good," Li Ye said. "You can go back to your room now, and I won't need you to work for me these days, so just focus on your cultivation."

Nie Tian was indeed very eager to practice cultivation. He said, "Great. I'll see you later."

"Yeah, go. Don't forget that you owe me one."

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