Chapter 39: The Inner Conflict! (1/2)

Zheng Rui and Pan Tao were no ordinary disciples of the Spiritual Treasure sect. Their parents and grandparents were high ranking officials of the sect.

Being mere disciples in that sect was enough for them to show off their strength amongst the trial takers, let alone the fact that they had powerful seniors supporting them.

On the other hand, Nie Tian was an outsider, not even from the clans that were affiliated with the Spiritual Treasure sect.

Both Zheng Rui and Pan Tao were too powerful and lofty to spare Nie Tian a second glance.

Therefore, they had no qualms about berating and ordering him about.

Having acted compliently up to this point, Nie Tian finally showed his true colors.

“Talk if you want,” he said from his position about three meters behind An Ying, “but keep your hands and feet to yourselves!”

With that, he lifted his foot in a flash.

BANG! BANG!

Nie Tian’s foot met Zheng Rui’s and Pan Tao’s feet in quick succession, causing muffled booms to ring out.

Zheng Rui and Pan Tao immediately felt a tremendous force spreading up their legs.

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

To their surprise, both of them were sent back several steps, causing them to stagger into a crowd of spirit beasts.

In distinct contrast, Nie Tian only shuddered slightly before standing there as still as a rock.

However, Zheng Rui and Pan Tao were disoriented as they were suddenly thrown into the fray, and had to immediately deal with the two spirit beasts that had jumped onto them. After they forced the two spirit beasts into retreat, they immediately glowered at Nie Tian with bloodshot eyes.

Zheng Rui’s eyes and face were immediately filled with surging fury. Looking almost as if he intended to eat Nie Tian alive, he shouted, “How dare you fight back!”

After fighting off his enemy, Pan Tao also glared at Nie Tian with an expression of disbelief. “You freaking dare to get physical with us?”

The rest of the trial takers also diverted part of their attention, continuing to fight the spirit beasts, yet looking over to see what was going on between the three of them.

When they saw Nie Tian responding strongly to Zheng Rui and Pan Tao’s provocative actions, all of them were shocked and looked at Nie Tian as if they were looking at a freak.

Even they, members of the Spiritual Treasure sect’s subordinate clans, dared not disobey the orders of Zheng Rui and Pan Tao. All of them had served the two cautiously so far, fearing that the slightest fault could cause trouble.

As for Nie Tian, he was nothing but a member of the Nie clan from Black Cloud City, which according to the rumors… had really gone downhill in the recent years.

Even these trial takers from other clans didn’t take Nie Tian seriously, and had been trying to find an opportunity to make fun of him.

They didn’t believe that Nie Tian would dare to rebel against them, much less have the audacity to insult Pan Tao and Zheng Rui. Despite the inherent danger of the situation, he even responded to them with direct brute force.

“So what if I feel like fighting back?” Nie Tian said, glancing at the two of them out of the corner of his eye. Without the slightest bit of respect, he continued, “It’s all thanks to sister An’s help that I’m here in the Green Illusion dimension. She’s the only one I owe anything to. When Miss An Ying said unpleasant things to me, I didn’t bicker with her out of respect for her sister.”

“Who the hell are you two? Why do I have to give you face?”

With these words, Nie Tian waved his hands, and recklessly continued, “I came to the Green Illusion dimension to broaden my view. I don’t care a bit about the spirit beasts and the Heaven Comprehending Pill. Come on. If you want to resolve things, just bring it on then! So what if you’re in the ninth level of Qi Refining? I actually do want to see for myself how good you are!”

This wouldn’t be his first time fighting with those who had a superior cultivation base.

As a matter of fact, he had fought opponents with superior cultivation bases his whole life!

Nie Hong and Nie Yuan from the Nie clan, and Yun Song from the Yun clan, all of them were eventually beaten soundly by Nie Tian.

Nowadays, after having been baptized by the dense spiritual energy of the flamecloud mine, he had already entered the sixth level of Qi Refining, and had always firmly believed in his physical strength.

Moreover, he had come to understand that unique raging fist strike from the mysterious land, which made him confident enough to face an opponent in the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Therefore, he felt no fear of Zheng Rui and Pan Tao!

All the surrounding trial takers couldn’t help but clamor.

“How arrogant of him!”

“Is this guy really from the Nie clan?”

“He dares to provoke a fight with Zheng Rui and Pan Tao from the Spiritual Treasure sect. Does he want to die?”

Every one of them, thanks to their precious spiritual tools, had significant advantages when fighting the spirit beasts, and because of that, they were able to divert part of their attention to watch the quarrel between Nie Tian, Zheng Rui, and Pan Tao, and even make comments. As if it weren’t chaotic enough.

As teenagers, not only did they do nothing to stop the conflict, they actually hoped the scene would grow bigger.

The main reason was that the spirit beasts were too weak to threaten their safety.

As the leader, An Ying had long since noticed the conflict between the three, but didn’t say anything.