Chapter 80: The Trial Ends (1/2)

“He’s still alive?!!”

Zheng Bin stood there, staring aghast at Nie Tian.

An Ying and Jiang Lingzhu seemed as if they had seen a ghost, and could scarcely believe their own eyes.

The Lesser Heaven stage Yu Tong had clearly used the Blood sect’s forbidden technique, Earth Web, to trap Nie Tian and start to refine his blood.

When they left, Nie Tian was already on the verge of dying. In fact, he hadn’t even been breathing. The only thing that was standing between him and death’s door was his weakening heartbeat.

How could Nie Tian have survived a situation like that?!

Every one of them found it hard to believe.

Pan Tao was the first to rush to Nie Tian’s side. He circled around Nie Tian a few times, examining him carefully. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with him, he punched his shoulder heartily and blurted, “You little brat, how did you survive?!”

That was the the question that everyone wanted to ask.

At that time, everyone who had run after the people from the Ghost sect and the Blood sect had returned to Nie Tian’s side, and were staring at him with eyes wide, waiting for him to give an explanation.

Nie Tian forced a laugh and said, “The witch proved to be her own undoing.”

“What do you mean?” asked Pan Tao.

“She seemed to have suffered from a backlash when she was casting the blood refining technique.” Nie Tian’s expression was the same as ever. With a calm tone, he continued, “If she had managed to pull through, every drop of my blood would have been drained and refined. However, using the Earth Web with her Lesser Heaven cultivation base seems to be a bit beyond her.

“I sensed that when she was refining my fresh blood, something suddenly went wrong, and then she immediately lost all power.

“Since she could no longer continue with her spell, the blood that had been removed from my body gradually flowed back inside of me. Those countless scarlet blood strings also exploded into pieces, turning into a bloody mist as they slowly dissipated.”

As Nie Tian spoke, Jiang Miao, who was standing next to him, had a subtle, strange look in her eyes, since this explanation of his was clearly different from the one he had given her.

According to him, those scarlet blood strings had exploded, but Jiang Miao had clearly watched as the numerous blood strings, which contained rich blood and Qi, had actually disappeared into him, where they seemed to have been refined by Nie Tian.

Fortunately, Jiang Miao harbored gratitude towards him, and thus didn’t expose his secrets.

After he gave the explanation, thoughtful expressions could be seen on everyone’s faces. Some believed him, while the others… secretly doubted the authenticity of the words. Among that latter group were An Ying, Jiang Lingzhu, Pan Tao, and Zheng Bin.

Those who truly understood the profound mysteries of the Blood sect’s blood refinement technique all knew that once the technique was started, even if Yu Tong had indeed suffered from a backlash, it still wouldn’t stop.

Even if Yu Tong had died, the blood refinement technique would still last long enough for Nie Tian to die tragically due to excessive blood loss.

At the very least, it was impossible for the fresh blood that had been previously extracted from Nie Tian to flow back on its own.

In short, it was definitely impossible for him to have come out unscathed. Even if he somehow survived, he shouldn’t be as radiant as he was now.

Seeing that everyone remained silent, with some of them looking at him with puzzled expressions, Nie Tian hurriedly changed the subject. “How about you guys? Did you catch up to them and kill them all?”

Pan Tao smiled bitterly. “No. Mo Xi, the witch, and two others escaped. We chased them for a while and killed three of the rear guards.

“The weird thing is that Mo Xi and the others seemed to have suddenly disappeared.

“If we could have killed Mo Xi and that witch, at least we would be able to justify ourselves to our elders after we leave the Green Illusion dimension.” With that, he sighed regretfully.

Yu Tong sustained severe injuries, leaving Mo Xi as the only powerful enemy, but still they failed to take them out in spite of that. This left them all with a sour taste in their mouths.

The others also felt that they were useless, thus no one spoke to defend themselves.

Finally, An Ying spoke up. “It’s about time to go. Let’s head to the Secret Dimension Gate. According to my calculations, the trial is going to end soon. We’ll only need to rough it out for a few more days. Let’s feast when we’re out of the Green Illusion dimension.”

Everyone nodded in assent.

It was at this point that Zheng Bin suddenly turned to Nie Tian and said, “We… thought you’d die for sure, and only then did we leave. We didn’t know you could make it. Otherwise, we would have stayed and helped you.”

An Ying, Jiang Lingzhu, and Nie Xian also looked at him with apologetic looks on their faces.

Nie Tian, on the other hand, didn’t take it seriously. He knew that Zheng Bin and the others’ decision was a wise one. If not for his inexplicable uniqueness, it would have been absolutely impossible for him to survive.

They knew nothing about it, therefore abandoning a doomed person and trying to turn the situation around by killing Yu Tong wasn’t wrong in the slightest.