Chapter 74: The Blood Sect’s Earth Web (1/2)

The trial takers from the three sects waited silently by the Secret Dimension Gate.

Unfortunately, no other survivors arrived in the following days.

It was only half a month away from the conclusion of the Green Illusion dimension trial. Logically speaking, if there were other survivors, they would have arrived already.

Even though no one said anything, everyone was sure that those who hadn’t arrived had most likely been killed by the Ghost sect and the Blood sect.

During that period of time, Nie Tian couldn’t obtain enough spirit beast meat to cultivate at a high speed.

His daily allotted portion of spirit beast meat wasn’t even one tenth of what he had gotten in the past. He wasn’t even able to get enough to sate his hunger.

Han Xin took small bites of the spirit beast meat in her hand as she glared at Nie Tian. “It’s all because of that Nie Tian,” she said. “If he hadn’t eaten so much earlier, we wouldn’t be left with so little rations of food now.”

The other trial takers from the Mystic Mist sect also glowered at Nie Tian while roasting the spirit beast meat.

Sitting beside Pan Tao, Jiang Lingzhu, and their group, Nie Tian pretended that he hadn’t heard their whispers.

The spirit beast meat the Mystic Mist sect had brought to this place was originally more than enough to support them until the gate reopened, so when Nie Tian had requested spirit beast meat earlier, Zheng Bin wasn’t stingy at all and had accommodated his need as much as possible.

However, with the arrival of Jiang Lingzhu, Nie Xian, An Ying, and the others, food stores immediately ran low.

Due to the pursuit of the Ghost sect and the Blood sect, Jiang Lingzhu, An Ying, and the others were forced to travel light, and as a result most of their spirit beast meat had been discarded along the way.

Although Jiang Lingzhu possessed a bracelet of holding, due to her lack of experience, she hadn’t thought to stock up on food.

The food that they had been carrying had been consumed long before they arrived at the gate.

Furthermore, there weren’t any spirit beasts near the Secret Dimension Gate, and they didn’t dare to travel too far to hunt, for fear the Blood sect and the Ghost sect might launch an assault on them. Therefore, they had no choice but to ask for food from the Mystic Mist sect.

Yet, Nie Tian alone had devoured a large proportion of the Mystic Mist sect’s meat stock during the past few days.

There was still half a month left until the Secret Dimension Gate would open, and unfortunately,they were already seeing the bottom of the spirit beast meat storage.

Without a better solution, they could only eat less and live frugally, hoping that they could rough it out till the day the gate was reopened.

However, whenever the Mystic Mist sect disciples felt starving, they would think of Nie Tian, the “bottomless pit”.

In the same way, whenever it came time to distribute food, they would stare at Nie Tian resentfully, and whisper curses.

Knowing that he wouldn’t win in an argument, Nie Tian completely ignored their grumbling and pretended he heard nothing.

Grrr.

After swallowing a small piece of spirit beast meat, a loud sound rumbled out from Nie Tian’s belly. With a bitter expression, he rubbed his belly and murmured, “Just hang in there for a few more days.”

Now that they had a food shortage, Nie Tian was being rationed just as much as everyone else.

Even those who had small appetites couldn’t get full, not to mention him.

At this moment, Jiang Miao, who was sitting next to Nie Tian, handed her ration of spirit beast meat to him. “Here, take it,” she whispered. “I don’t eat much, and I’m not hungry anyway.

“Well, look what we have here!” Jiang Lingzhu said with a taunting laugh.

An Ying glanced over, but said nothing as she quietly went back to her share.

Pan Tao chuckled.

Jiang Miao’s face immediately flushed. Embarrassed, she lowered her head, not daring to look at Nie Tian.

Nie Tian froze for a moment, looking at Jiang Miao, confused. Soon, he noticed that the baby-faced Jiang Miao was clearly thinner than before.

Nie Tian didn’t reached out to grab the meat, but rather stood up and said, “Thank you, but actually I’m not that hungry. I’ll go take a look in the vicinity to see if I can find stuff to eat.”

“You can’t go out there!” Jiang Miao replied hastily. “It’s too dangerous!”