Chapter 156: Heavy Casualties (1/2)

Nie Tian slowly awoke from his cultivation.

After this round of cultivation, the vortex of flame power within his spiritual sea had expanded to three times as large as it had been before.

Not only that, thanks to the Earthflame Crystal String, he obtained a much deeper understanding of the flame power.

As for the difficult points that he had run into while practicing the Flame Spirit Incantation, he also found the answer to each and every one of them, which caused him to acquire new enlightenment regarding this specific fire incantation.

He had a feeling that it wouldn’t be long before he could make a breakthrough in his cultivation base and step into the middle Lesser Heaven stage.

“Flame Dragon Armor, Earthflame Crystal Strings…”

With a serious face, he unleashed a wisp of his psychic awareness into his bracelet of holding, and saw that the Flame Dragon Armor was now wreathed by placid flames.

Therefore, he was certain that the Flame Dragon Armor’s soul was still digesting the profound mysteries within the Earthflame Crystal Strings in a way that he couldn’t comprehend at the moment.

The Flame Dragon Armor and its soul would only fully awaken when they completely refined all the Earthflame Crystal Strings collected from the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

By that time, it would be a lot easier for Nie Tian to communicate with the Flame Dragon Armor’s soul.

Feng Luo looked over at Nie Tian as soon as he opened his eyes. “You’re finally awake.”

Nie Tian nodded. “How are you doing?”

Feng Luo smiled bitterly. “I’m afraid it’ll be hard for me to fully recover within the Heaven Gate. I suffered major injuries and lost vital energy from both fights against Zhao Mo. Nie Tian, I think we should get out of this place as soon as possible. I fear that Zhao Mo will return soon. When he does, I bet he’ll return with methods to deal with that Spirit Channeling grade treasure of yours.”

“You’re right.” Nie Tian agreed with him. “We can’t stay here for long.”

“Little Tong! Zheng Bin!” Feng Luo softly called out to them, waking them from their cultivation. “We need to evacuate this place now so that Zhao Mo won’t be able to find us easily. We’ll spend as much time as we want to recuperate once we find a location that’s safe enough.”

After hearing these words, Yu Tong and Zheng Bin both rose to their feet.

“Which direction did you come from?” Feng Luo asked Nie Tian.

Nie Tian pointed in the direction that he and Zheng Bing had come from and said, “There.”

“What’s the situation over there?” Feng Luo asked.

“Nothing special,” Nie Tian replied. “We didn’t find anything there. We spent a long time wandering around, but didn’t run into any powerful foreign expert other than Jia Peng. That was the reason why we left that area and came to this area to explore.”

“It wasn’t that nothing went on over there.” Feng Luo shook his head and told him the truth. “The reason why you found nothing going on over there was that you settled it by killing Jia Peng.”

“What do you mean?” Zheng Bin asked, puzzled and surprised.

Feng Luo went on to explain, “According to Zhao Mo, all the cultivators from the other realms reached an agreement before entering the Heaven Gate. When they stepped into the Heaven Gate, each of them would take charge of a certain area. All the cultivators from the Realm of Flame Heaven within that area would become their prey.

“The area that you came from was allotted to Jia Peng. He was responsible for all the cultivators from the Realm of Flame Heaven in that area.

“However, the area we are in is Zhao Mo’s territory. Zhao Mo told me during our first fight that if we go further in this direction, we’ll enter the area that belongs to another Realm of Dark Underworld cultivator, Tang Yang.

“All of those foreign cultivators view us as nothing more than animals waiting to be slaughtered.”

Zheng Bin gave a cold snort and said, “Well, did they? I beg to differ. The two of us killed Jia Peng, didn’t we?

Feng Luo looked off into the distance, as if he was trying to get a hold of his bearings. “Only the result will tell us who is the hunter and who is the prey.”

After awhile, he said, “Let’s go in that direction. Hopefully, we’ll be lucky enough to come across some powerful experts from the seven sects. Only by joining hands with cultivators from the seven sects, will we have a chance of surviving the fights against those people from the other realms.”

“That sounds good.” Nie Tian and Zheng Bin both gave their assent.

Immediately afterwards, they left the meteor under Feng Luo’s leadership, and marched in the direction that he had indicated.

In the meantime, Feng Luo constantly sent his psychic awareness into their surroundings, carefully scanning for signs of life, in case they might run into foreign cultivators who were as powerful as Zhao Mo.

Lucky for them, they didn’t discover any signs of life or abnormal movements near them along their way.

After passing eight gigantic meteors in succession, the four of them arrived on an oval-shaped meteor that was just as enormous as the ones that they had passed.

“There’s a dead body over there!” Having a superior sight, Feng Luo spotted a corpse that had been dead for an unknown period of time.

From the way the man dressed, Feng Luo could tell with certainty that he was a trial taker from the Ghost sect. The cold air in the starry sky had already frozen the corpse. It seemed that the man had been penetrated by a sharp tool and died.

The Heaven Gate pattern on the back of his hand had already been plundered, along with the bracelet of holding on his wrist.

Upon a closer look, Feng Luo immediately recognized the man. “That’s Wang Luo. He was in late Heaven stage.”

Zheng Bin walked up to the corpse and squatted down. After a brief examination, he said, “From the look of it, he’s been dead for a long time. It seems that there are foreign trial takers in this area.”

Looking a bit distracted, Yu Tong asked, “Should we keep going?”