Chapter 133: Fighting off the Enemy (1/2)

CLANK!

The double-headed battle axe that had been pursuing Nie Donghai suddenly dropped to the ground, and its brilliant golden light faded away.

CRUNCH!

Duan Yuan was kneeling on the ground with one knee. When he attempted to stand up, the sharp, clear sound of snapping bones rang out from his chest.

A big mouthful of blood once again spurted out of Duan Yuan’s mouth. Before he could stand upright, he staggered and dropped back to the ground.

Duan Yuan looked at Nie Tian with his eyes filled with fear and disbelief.

Nie Tian was only in the early Lesser Heaven stage. Moments before, he had managed to cast out such a terrifying power that was like an unstoppable flood, and instantly inflicted serious damage on him, by only using some kind of strange spiritual technique and without any help from a spiritual tool.

He examined himself with his psychic awareness and realized that Nie Tian’s fist strike had fractured his bones in four places.

Not only that, a surge of raging flame energy that hadn’t faded yet, was still wandering in his body, causing constant, stabbing pain in both his muscles and meridians.

After taking that one strike, Duan Yuan had even lost the strength to control the double-headed battle-axe, and thus was no longer able to hurt Nie Donghai.

“That’s…”

Both Hu Qingwen, who was about to shoot out another arrow, and Zhao Haifeng, who was manipulating his bone spears, had strange expressions on their faces.

Eyes filled with disbelief, they all cast their gaze towards Nie Tian.

Never had they imagined that Nie Tian, who was one whole stage inferior to Duan Yuan, could have injured him.

This didn’t make sense!

With a fierce look on his face, Nie Tian grinned and said, “You said yourself that the cultivation base is not the only factor to measure one’s strength, didn’t you? Profound spiritual incantations and exquisite spiritual techniques can make up for one’s deficiency in cultivation. The reason why I was able to hurt you is because I have exquisite spiritual techniques at my disposal.”

Zhao Haifeng was aghast. “Are the spiritual techniques that Eccentric Wu taught him really… really that awesome?”

“Return!” With a wave of his hand, the bone spears that were constantly hovering around An Rong blurred into three streaks of ice-cold light and flew away from An Rong’s surroundings.

After drawing her bow to the fullest, Hu Qingwen also stopped. She was still aiming An He but didn’t shoot any arrows.

An Rong and An He both heaved a sigh of relief and looked towards Nie Tian.

“How are you doing, Duan Yuan?” Zhao Haifeng said with a frown.

Sitting on the ground, Duan Yuan’s chest area was already covered in blood that he had coughed up.

Duan Yuan only put on a bitter smile while sitting cross-legged, focusing all his energy on obliterating the force that was wandering within him and continuously damaging his flesh and bones.

He couldn’t even spare a breath to talk.

“I can’t believe he injured him so badly…” Zhao Haifeng was increasingly astonished.

After throwing the punch, Nie Tian was also barely able to remain standing in place, holding on to the last of his strength.

His state wasn’t necessarily better than Duan Yuan’s.

The rage fist had practically drained all of his spiritual power and the power within his flesh.

At the moment, he had no battle prowess left other than his only remaining psychic power.

He acted as if nothing had happened, but couldn’t stop worrying inwardly. He knew that from now on, not only was he unable to help his grandfather and An Rong, he would even become a burden to them.

All Zhao Haifeng had to do was lay a hand on him and the tough front that he had put on would collapse in an instant.

He had been aware that by using the rage fist, it would put him in this kind of situation, but he had no other choice.

After all, Duan Yuan was too strong, with a cultivation base that was one whole stage superior. He couldn’t think of another way to seriously injure Duan Yuan besides using the raging fist, which he picked up from the mysterious land.

“Alright,” Zhao Haifeng said. “Since he is the disciple of Eccentric Wu, even given the fact that his cultivation base is low, he still should be considered to be a man worth killing.”

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The three pale-white bone spears that had been floating in the air suddenly emanated countless beams of ice-cold light, within which lay a formidable frost power.

Apparently, Zhao Haifeng was ready to strike.

“Watch out!” Seeing that Zhao Haifeng had targeted Nie Tian, both Nie Donghai and An Rong gathered towards Nie Tian without even thinking about it.

Bitterness could be seen in Nie Tian’s eyes as he stared at the bone spears thrumming with frost power without any way out.

BOM BOM BOM!

All of a sudden, the completely depleted Nie Tian felt his heart start beating madly.

At the same time, a wisp of soul will, only detectable to him, came through from afar and descended in Black Cloud City.

“Flame Dragon Armor…” Only moments passed before Nie Tian recognized it. Elation filled his glittering eyes.

After finishing collecting all the Earthflame Crystal Strings from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, the Flame Dragon Armor had finally tracked Nie Tian down and followed his aura to Black Cloud City.

It seemed to have sensed that he had fallen into a terrible situation. Therefore, it had begun to speed toward him even more quickly than before.