Chapter 54: Help From The Heavens (1/2)

Nie Tian stared silently at the corpse of the Lurker Lizard.

It was after a long time that he finally retracted his gaze and pulled the skewers of Lurker Lizard meat out of the sand.

This time, he didn’t rush to practice the Qi Refining Incantation and absorb the energy from the meat, but instead focused on simply devouring the meat.

Only after he ate several dozens of kilograms and couldn’t force down another bite, did he finally stop, close his eyes, and sense the warm current flowing out from within his abdomen.

A surge of energy, several times richer than before, dispersed from within his stomach. However, when he practiced the Qi Refining Incantation, he found that he could no longer channel all of the power to his spiritual sea.

Before long, his spiritual sea went from being eighty percent full to being completely full to the brim.

As he continued to channel spiritual power into his spiritual sea, he found that the power was actually once again causing his spiritual sea to experience growth.

“Second grade spirit beasts have seven times the power!” His face remained expressionless; however, inwardly he was filled with ecstasy.

Originally, he planned to use two months to break through into the eighth level of Qi Refining, with the help of the spirit beast meat.

However, after discovering the meat of the second grade Lurker Lizard could provide energy that was seven times richer, he suddenly found a new goal!

“If I can consume the Lurker Lizard all by myself, it would only take ten days to make a breakthrough to the eighth level of Qi Refining!”

Seized with ecstasy, he soon discovered that since his spiritual sea was already full, a large portion of the energy was starting to disperse into his flesh and bones.

The energy contained in the Lurker Lizard’s meat that he had just consumed was too much for him to quickly absorb and channel into his spiritual sea.

He suddenly felt like his body was like a giant sponge, greedily absorbing the dispersing energy.

Before he realized it, his body temperature had risen to the point where he was like a giant, human-shaped furnace.

Soon, he was soaked in sweat, and even his surroundings seemed to be affected, as the temperature around him also rose rapidly.

They were in the desert, a place which was already extremely hot. It was only natural for the trial takers to be sweating.

However, Nie Tian’s temperature wouldn’t stop rising, giving him a terrific headache as turning his skin bright red.

“This….”

It was only at this point that he recalled how he had been afflicted by a high fever for several days after his battle with Nie Hong.

“Please don’t let something like the last time happen!” he thought, starting to get worried.

At this very moment, Zheng Rui, who had been talking eloquently with the others, suddenly blurted, “Ughh! My stomach’s feeling a bit upset, I think I need to go relieve myself.”

With that, he rushed away, an embarrassed expression on his face.

Not long after he left, Pan Tao suddenly clutched his stomach, and then also left with an odd look on his face.

Just as An Ying was about to mock the two of them, she suddenly trembled.

Trying to act as casual as ever, she said, “Eh, well, you guys guard the people from the Cloudsoaring sect, in case the Blood sect disciples come back. I’ll go check the perimeter.” With that, she sprang to her feet and walked off.

In the blink of an eye, An Ying, Zheng Rui, and Pan Tao left successively, each of them sporting a weird expression.

Some time later, Zheng Rui returned, the first of the small group to do so. The moment he sat down and was about to say something, his expression flickered again.

“What’s wrong, Brother Zheng?” Guo Qi asked, looking concerned.

“The runs,” Zheng Rui replied, rushing away with a bitter look on his face.

Not long after he was gone, Pan Tao returned, only to rush away moments later, face twisted with an odd expression.

An Ying never returned. Apparently she’d left for a long-term scouting operation.

An hour later, the three of them finally returned, looking so exhausted that they appeared to be on the verge of collapse.

“You also had the runs?” Pan Tao asked.

“Yeah,” replied An Ying. “You too?”

“Really?!” Zheng Rui exclaimed, his face pale. “You guys also had the runs?”

“Elder sister An Ying, you guys… ate the Lurker Lizard meat,” Jiang Miao said, trying to refrain from laughing, “Everybody else said the Lurker Lizard meat was too bitter, so no one wanted it. Only the three of you said that second grade spirit beast meat was the most delicious, and insisted on eating.”

Pan Tao was stunned. “It was the Lurker Lizard’s meat?”

It seemed as if something suddenly occurred to him; struggling to his feet, he looked at the distant Nie Tian.

“That guy had the most!” An Ying apparently recalled the same thing..

All of a sudden, every trial taker’s gaze converged onto Nie Tian.

They discovered that Nie Tian’s skin was very red and his entire body was dripping sweat, as if he was being baked on the shelf in an oven.

“His.. his symptoms seems to be different from yours,” said Tong Hao.