Chapter 72: Patching A Lie (1/2)

Seeing that Jiang Lingzhu and Nie Xian had arrived, Nie Tian temporarily abandoned any notions of asking about the Ghostly Fire Wolf meat.

He rose to his feet after sitting quietly for a long time, looking at the two from afar.

The green-garbed Jiang Lingzhu and Nie Xian seemed distinctively thinner than before.

Jiang Lingzhu’s eyes were still bright and flickering, but she was covered in dirt, and her green robe was in tatters. From the holes he could see at the corners, Nie Tian could tell they had been caused by sharp weapons.

Meanwhile, Nie Xian, who was also from the Nie clan, looked even worse. His sect-issued green robe seemed as if it had been torn to pieces and then sewn back together.

At first glance, he looked like a beggar from the gutters of Black Cloud City, extremely dirty and disordered.

“Zheng Bin, water!” Jiang Lingzhu shouted as she approached, “Get us some water! How come you guys are here? Did you run into the Hell sect’s disciples in the volcano area?”

After coming closer, she suddenly caught sight of Nie Tian, and couldn’t help but exclaim, “Ah! Nie Tian!”

“Nie Tian!” An incredible expression appeared on Nie Xian’s face. “You’re… you’re still alive?!?!”

As far as Jiang Lingzhu and Nie Xian were concerned, Nie Tian should have been dead already.

Wandering around in the desert by himself, how could he possibly escape from the Ghost sect and Blood sect?

When Yu Tong and Mo Xi had caught up to them, Yu Tong had told them about the Blood Searching Compass and that wherever they escaped to, she would be able to ferret them out.

It would be impossible for Nie Tian to hide all traces of himself from Yu Tong’s Blood Searching Compass.

When they found him, how could he possibly escape from the Blood sect and Ghost sect disciples, much less single-handedly defeat them?

Therefore, both of them believed that Nie Tian had long since died, and had never expected to meet him here.

“Long time no see,” Nie Tian said with a smile. “I can finally rest at ease now that I know the two of you are alive.”

“Jian Xuan!” Zheng Bin barked. “What are you waiting for? Go get them some water!”

Jian Xuan, who was still in a near-daze after the near-death experience from several days ago, snapped back to reality and quickly grabbed two water canteens, then ran over and handed them to Jiang Lingzhu and Nie Xian.

Casting away her usual lady-like manners, Jiang Lingzhu gulped down water as fast as she could, resulting in her straight, elegant neck being covered in sparkling drops of water.

Nie Xian virtually inhaled the water, and it wasn’t until he finished the entire canteen that he finally stopped and sat down weakly on the ground. Puzzled, he asked, “Nie Tian, did the Ghost sect and Blood sect find you?”

“A Ghost sect disciple found me, but I killed him,” Nie Tian explained in a low voice.

Nie Xian stared deeply at him for a moment, then nodded. “Well done.”

Ever since Nie Tian showed up and fought off Yu Tong, saving them from a perilous situation, he started to have a new level of respect for this clan brother of his.

He had a vague feeling that some sort of incomprehensible miracle must have happened to Nie Tian, making his true strength unfathomable.

Therefore, he had come to believe that Nie Tian, who had previously forced Yu Tong to retreat, would have the ability to kill him, if he had only encountered one Ghost sect disciple.

After finishing her canteen of fresh water, Jiang Lingzhu began to describe the fight between them and the Ghost sect and Blood sect, under the inquisitive gazes of Zheng Bin and the others.

Just as they had been about to emerge from the desert and enter the volcanic region, the Ghost sect and Blood sect’s disciples had caught up with them. A battle immediately broke out.

During the battle, Yu Tong from the Blood sect stepped into the Lesser Heaven stage, causing her strength to skyrocket. With numerous powerful forbidden techniques, her unparalleled, godly strength wasn’t something they could match.

They hadn’t been able to see even a shred of hope of victory.

Their only option was to spread out and run, so that Yu Tong and the others wouldn’t be able to trap everyone in one spot and kill them all.

After escaping from the battlefield, Jiang Lingzhu and Nie Xian exerted all effort to lose Mo Xi, who had been chasing them persistently, until they finally arrived at this place, looking completely bedraggled.

Ever since splitting up, they never saw Ye Gumo from the Cloudsoaring sect again, and had no idea what happened to him.

Neither did they encounter An Ying and her people, and were thus unsure about their fate as well.