Chapter 44: Yuan Feng From the Grayvale Sec (1/2)

The battle was over.

The trial takers gathered around An Ying and her sect brothers, flattering Pan Tao and praising An Ying for undertaking the heavy responsibility of holding off the Frost Python.

It seemed the deaths of Qin Shun and Zu Fang hadn’t affected their mood. After all, no one had been very close to them before entering the Green Illusion dimension together.

Seeing that the Lurker Lizard and the Frost Python had fled, Tong Hao, who had been guarding Nie Tian, left to join the crowd.

Nie Tian actually enjoyed being able to have some time to himself. He sat on the ground by himself, ignoring the clamoring crowd.

Instead, he narrowed his eyes, looking around as he pondered the unusual and strange occurrences that had occurred earlier.

“Psychic awareness traveling under the ground…”

Normally speaking, being in the sixth level of Qi Refining, his psychic awareness shouldn’t be powerful enough to penetrate deep into the earth, not to mention search underground for a long time.

However, when he calmed himself earlier, and tried to sense the movements of the Lurker Lizard, his psychic awareness unexpectedly managed to leave his body.

As far as he knew, only Qi warriors who were much stronger than him would be able to do that.

Ever since he was young, he had been aware that he was special.

Because he had always been taller and stronger than his peers, none of them could defeat him by relying on physical strength alone.

But he had only been aware that he was physically stronger than his peers, not that his psychic power… was also superior.

With this battle, he had gained a better understanding of himself.

“It almost completely drained my energy for my psychic awareness to leave my body a single time. I should avoid using this skill as much as possible.”

As he was thinking to himself, an intense sleepiness struck him. He felt as if he needed to sleep for a very long time to fully restore the energy he had consumed.

Since there was no more threat from the spirit beasts, he let his guard down, became relaxed, and gradually closed his eyes.

Not too far away….

Pan Tao was still being complimented by everyone, and from several dozens of meters away, he snuck a glance at Nie Tian.

When he noticed that Nie Tian had already started recuperating immediately after the battle, he came to have a higher opinion of him.

In his eyes, Nie Tian had already become one of the most important members of their team, his importance only second to An Ying’s.

He even attached more importance to Nie Tian than Zheng Rui.

“Alright, alright.” Seeing that Nie Tian was already resting, he could no longer stand the noise of the people around him. “Let’s all stop here and rest! Nobody knows whether the spirit beasts we’ve just scared off will return or not.”

“Everyone, rest and reorganize where you are. Get your strength back as quickly as possible!

“We have to make sure our battle prowess is always at a high level!”

An Ying nodded and instructed, “No talking until your spiritual power is recovered. You all talk a lot, but are unable to help when the situation is critical.”

She also took a glance at Nie Tian from afar.

Early on, when everyone was taken over by fear and didn’t know what to do, it was Nie Tian who had stepped up.

She had no idea of what happened to him after that, and why he looked so exhausted now, but Nie Tian’s calmness and wits at that crucial moment had left a deep impression on her.

Like Pan Tao, she also secretly deemed Nie Tian as an important team member, even though she said nothing.

Hearing Pan Tao’s and An Ying’s orders, the trial takers, who were still immersed in excitement, finally quietened down, and sat down in a circle with An Ying and Pan Tao in the center.

Each and every one of them reached into the cloth pouches that hung by their waists, and one after another, took out glittering, translucent spirit stones.

Eyes closed, they clenched their hands tightly onto the spirit stones and absorbed the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth from within them, thus quickly restoring the strength they had consumed.

Before entering the Green Illusion dimension, their clan’s seniors had told them that the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth in the Green Illusion dimension was much poorer than that of the world they lived in.

Without help, restoring their strength would be an extremely slow process.

Therefore, every one of them was given spirit stones by their clan seniors before they entered the Green Illusion dimension so that they would be able to restore strength at a higher speed.

However, Nie Tian didn’t take anything with him, due to the fact that the Nie clan was already in decline.

When everyone closed their eyes and started absorbing spiritual power from their respective spirit stones, Pan Tao left the crowd quietly.