Chapter 57: Risky Cultivation (1/2)

Despite the fact that everyone urged him to stay, Nie Tian still chose to leave the group.

The reason he gave was that the desert was more suitable for his cultivation.

Of course, Jiang Lingzhu and Pan Tao didn’t believe that for a minute.

After all, only Qi warriors with a flame cultivation attribute would be able to rapidly enhance their cultivation bases in the desert.

However, so far there hadn’t been any sign that Nie Tian had such a cultivation attribute.

Even if Nie Tian’s cultivation attribute was indeed flame, the volcano area, where Zheng Bin and other Mystic Mist sect disciples were, should be a better place for him to cultivate.

Therefore, everyone was sure that it was merely an excuse. However, they still couldn’t understand why Nie Tian chose to leave while they were facing the double threat of the Blood sect and the Ghost sect.

Meanwhile, Nie Tian didn’t give them a reasonable explanation. He simply parted with the group while carrying hundreds of kilograms of Lurker Lizard’s meat on his back.

Having parted ways with the group, Nie Tian walked alone for half a day before coming to find a secluded sand dune. Then he started to devour the Lurker Lizard’s meat non-stop, as he proceeded with his cultivation.

He didn’t want to waste any more time. He only wished to consume all the meat before the energy that it contained completely faded away.

The only reason why he had risked his life and left the group was that he wished to break through into the eighth level of Qi Refining with the help of the Lurker Lizard meat as soon as possible.

He didn’t dare to waste another second.

During the next two days, all he did was wolf down the meat and cultivate around the clock!

As the result, it only took him two days to expand his spiritual sea by another thirty percent.

Since he was no longer marching at a fast pace, and not worrying about anything else for that matter, he used all of his time to cultivate. In this way, his cultivation improved even faster than he had anticipated.

Not only did his cultivation base improve significantly, but as his fleshy body grew stronger, the range of his psychic power reached as far as ninety meters!

He enjoyed the process, and the result of seeing improvement every day. The feeling of himself becoming more powerful every day made him go all out with his heart and soul.

…

On the other hand, in the desert…

Yu Tong of the Blood Sect held a dark-red compass in her hand. She bit her fingertip and dripped a drop of fresh blood onto its surface, whereupon it turned into countless thin strands of blood which swam about in the compass, as if they were alive.

Then, a misty blood aura was released from the compass, making it look more mysterious than ever.

Soon after, the thin strands of roaming blood lines gradually permeated the compass, disappearing one after another.

“Appear!” exclaimed Yu Tong.

Instantly, tiny, blood-colored lights emerged from the compass, flickering and wiggling slowly.

Mo Xi of the Ghost Sect, as well as everyone else, began to slowly edge closer. “The Blood Searching Compass of the Blood sect really is magical and true to its name!” Mo Xi said with sincere admiration.

He knew that each and every blood-colored light on the compass represented the fluctuations of Qi and blood, symbolizing living beings.

A large number of blood-colored lights gathered in one spot, and moving unceasingly, meant that a group of people were traveling together.

Eyes fixed his on the compass, Du Kun said, “Nineteen blood-colored lights represent nineteen people. If I’m correct, those are the trial takers from the Spiritual Treasure sect and the Cloudsoaring sect.”

“Yee?!” He reached out his hand, pointing at a solitary blood-colored dot on the compass. “How come there’s one person here?”

Mo Xi looked over with rapt attention, and found that there was quite a distance between that light and the other nineteen lights. Obviously, they weren’t in the same place.

The group of lights were on the move, while the single light didn’t move at all and instead remained at its original spot.

“I guess this person… has been kicked out of the team.” Du Kun from the Ghost Sect giggled. “That guy must be a trouble maker. They knew perfectly well that we would chase after him, yet kicked him out anyways. Clearly, they didn’t care if he died. Only a guy who displeases everyone would be removed from the group in a situation like this. Pathetic.”

At this time, Yu Tong put the Blood Searching Compass away, and pointed in a direction. “That way. Fifteen kilometers from here, there’s someone all alone.”

Brow furrowed, Mo Xi turned to Du Kun, “Our main target is the group of disciples from the Cloudsoaring sect and Spiritual Treasure sect. It isn’t worth it for all of us to change direction just for one person. Whoever this guy is who got kicked out of the group, it can’t possibly be Jiang Lingzhu or An Ying. With your strength, you can kill whoever it is, as long as it’s not one of those two.”

Du Kun understood immediately. “I’ll go kill him.”

“Okay, regroup with us once you get rid of him,” said Mo Xi. “Don’t take too long.”

“Got it.”

Du Kun followed the direction that Yu Tong had indicated, and left the group.

Mo Xi called out, “Move faster guys, we have to catch up to them and kill them in the desert. We can’t allow them to get into the volcano area.”