Chapter 139: The Hell Sec (2/2)

Upon seeing him, a bone-piercing hatred shot out of Yu Tong’s glittering eyes, as if she was going to eat him alive.

Over at the Ghost sect group, Mo Xi cunningly laughed and said to his fellow sect members in a low voice, “I can’t believe that he’s here too.”

Duan Yuan from the Hell sect let out a cold harrumph. “He’s finally here!”

Over at the Mystic Mist sect group, Zheng Bin seemed to have remembered something as he shook his head and heaved a sigh.

Over at the Spiritual Treasure sect group, a faint gladness appeared in An Shiyi’s beautiful pupils.

Under the curious gazes of the crowd, Nie Tian walked along the stone path and arrived beside Li Fan and the others.

“Uncle Liu, it’s good to see you again,” Nie Tian said.

Liu Yan nodded and forced a smile as he said, “It’s good that you made it out of there too.”

“What is it? Something’s wrong?” Nie Tian inquired, seeing the strange expression on Liu Yan’s face.

“Oh, nothing.” Liu Yan didn’t explain. Instead, he said, “It’s something that happened in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range. Anyways… we’re going to step through the Heaven Gate soon. Let me introduce you to the fellow sect members who are also going to participate in the trial…”

With these words, he introduced every Cloudsoaring sect disciple who was also going to enter the Heaven Gate to Nie Tian.

“Little martial uncle…”

“Greetings, little martial uncle…”

“…”

Most of these people were a lot older than him, with their cultivation bases being either in the Heaven or Greater Heaven stage. In the past, if they had visited the Nie clan in Black Cloud City, Nie Donghai and Nie Beichuan would have to personally receive them at the clan gate.

However, times change. Willing or not, when Liu Yan introduced Nie Tian to them, they could only politely greet him.

After all, Nie Tian was Wu Ji’s disciple.

After finishing introducing the participants from the Cloudsoaring sect, Liu Yan pointed towards the participants from the other six sects and started introducing them to him in a low voice.

Nie Tian only recognized a few of those people, while most were new to him.

He listened attentively, and memorized every single one of them in his heart. He knew very well that, once he stepped into the Heaven Gate, most of those people…would become his enemies.

Moreover, this trial was totally different from the Green Illusion dimension trial. In there, given they were strong enough, his opponents were allowed by rule to kill him anytime, anywhere.

On his way over, he had already read from the notes that Wu Ji had left in the command medallion that once he stepped through the Heaven Gate, he would be faced with battles, the cruelty of which might go beyond his imagination.

As Liu Yan gave the introductions, he carefully observed every single one who had come from the seven sects.

However, he noticed that other than the participants from the seven sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven, there were also a group of people who stood alone, away from all other groups.

They had a lazy attitude as they chattered with each other and laughed. At the same time, they kept pointing at participants from the seven sects in a manner that was very impudent.

Liu Yan didn’t introduce them.

Curious, Nie Tian asked, “Uncle Liu, are they also going to enter the Heaven Gate?”

Liu Yan nodded with a grim expression. He slightly lowered his voice and said, “Yes, they’re not from the Realm of Flame Heaven. They’re from the other realms. You see, every time, three Heaven Gates appear in three different realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars.

“However, there are nine realms in the Domain of the Falling Stars, which means six of them won’t have Heaven Gates appear in them.

“Therefore, normally, experts from those six realms will spare no means to send their most talented individuals or those who have the most powerful backgrounds to the realms where Heaven Gates do appear.

“I also don’t know where those people came from, but they all came over via the Hell sect.

“They could be from the same realm, or many different realms. I don’t recognize any of them, so I didn’t introduce them to you.”

“Oh, I see,” said Nie Tian. “But how did they obtain the Heaven Gate keys?”

“Meteors that fell to the Realm of Flame Heaven covered the entire realm.” Liu Yan explained, “Some of them landed in the territories of the seven major sects while others landed in some far, uninhabited corners. When they heard about the meteor rain hitting our realm, they traveled here via inter-spacial teleportation portals, and spread out to collect Heaven Gate keys from those remote meteors.” Suddenly, Liu Yan stopped talking and his expression turned grim.

“Something’s wrong?” Nie Tian inquired.

Hatred could be seen from Li Fan’s face as he interrupted, “None of them were from the Realm of Flame Heaven, so when they fought for the Heaven Gate keys on those meteors, their means were extremely brutal and savage.

“Every one of them has their hands covered in blood. At least a hundred cultivators from our realm were butchered by them.

“Most of the dead were cultivators from the subordinate clans of the seven major sects, and they all died miserable deaths.

“Some of them were from subordinate clans of the Cloudsoaring sect.” Li Fan explained their bloody doings.

A cold look appeared in Nie Tian’s eyes. “I see.”