Chapter 159: The Floating City (2/2)

From the look of it, Du Huang was the only one between them and the city.

Feng Luo and Nie Tian marched towards the city and saw no one along their way.

After passing a long stone bridge, the two of them finally reached the exceptionally gigantic meteor where the city was located. With a single glance, they saw numerous figures flashing about in front of the city.

“Uncle Li! Uncle Liu!” Upon a closer look, Nie Tian realized that Li Fan and Liu Yan were among the numerous figures who were fighting tooth and nail outside of the city.

Although the city looked dilapidated from afar, when multicolored lights were unleashed from within the city, it made the place seem magnificent and solemn.

Only at that moment did Nie Tian finally discover that the seemingly shaking and swaying city was actually not sitting on the meteor surface, but rather floating in midair.

The city was floating approximately ten meters above the meteor surface, as if it was completely unaffected by gravity.

It seemed to be constantly swaying, but in actuality, it was rapidly shifting its position.

Numerous, densely-packed, strange magical symbols that Nie Tian had never seen were engraved on the antiquated city wall; some of them resembled the sun, the moon, and the stars, some resembled tree patterns, while others looked like the claws and fangs of ancient beasts. They all looked intriguing in their own way. It was hard to tell if they were from the language of a certain species or drawings of everything in the universe.

Terrifying energy fluctuations kept rippling out of the city.

From the look of it, the strange energy fluctuations weren’t hurting anyone. All the Qi warriors who had absorbed them didn’t seem to experience any anomaly in them. On the contrary, enjoyment could be seen in their eyes.

It was as if they were able to gain some kind of enlightenment from the energy fluctuations that were emanating out of the city.

Four powerful experts from the other realms were rounded up by cultivators from the Realm of Flame Heaven in four separate spots in front of the city. However, not a single trace of fear could be seen on their faces as they dealt with their opponents with ease.

While Nie Tian was observing the battlefield, a Qi warrior from the seven sects was killed by one of the foreign cultivators. The Heaven Gate pattern on his hand instantly vanished, turning into a red light dot that flew into the killer’s hand.

Nie Tian was certain that he had seen the face of every one of those foreign cultivators before entering the Heaven Gate.

One of the foreign cultivators had a sword that kept emanating green flames in his hand. He was none other than the man who had killed a disciple from the Mystic Mist sect right before entering the Heaven Gate, not giving any face to the Hell sect.

Nie Tian sensed that the man was probably a powerful expert with a late Greater Heaven stage cultivation base.

The other three seemed just as powerful. Each of them had about ten red spots on the backs of their hands, which signified their feats.

One light spot meant one kill.

Numerous corpses were scattered not far from the city, most of which were cultivators with late Heaven or early Greater Heaven stage cultivation bases.

Liu Yan was fighting the foreign cultivator with the sword that emanated green flames. His expression flickered when he accidentally caught sight of Nie Tian. “Nie… Nie Tian?!”

At first, he was surprised that Nie Tian was able to get to this place.

After all, every one of those who managed to get to this place had gone through countless bloody battles, and many were brutally murdered on their way. Only about ten of them were lucky enough to make it this far.

After the initial surprise, Liu Yan grew worried for Nie Tian, thinking Nie Tian was out of his mind by putting himself in such great danger while he only had a Lesser Heaven cultivation base.

“You shouldn’t be here!” Liu Yan shouted. “Get out of here now!”

SHEW!

A faint, green sword-light flashed across Liu Yan’s chest while he spared the attention to talk to Nie Tian.

With a muffled sound, a narrow wound was cut open on his chest. Immediately afterwards, pus flowed out of it, as if the wound had already begun festering and rotting.

After hearing Liu Yan’s words, Li Fan turned around and saw that it was really Nie Tian standing not far away from them. He hurriedly said, “Kid! Get as far away as you can from this place if you don’t want to die!”

Since it was too urgent, Li Fan had no time to address Nie Tian with the regular courtesy by calling him little martial uncle.

“Where are Jiang Lingzhu and the others?” Nie Tian asked in a loud voice.

“Lingzhu is too weak for a fierce battle like this. We’ve arranged for her to stay in a safe place.” Then, a pained look could be seen from within Li Fan’s eyes as he continued, “But most of the others are dead.”

Nie Tian’s expression flickered as he took another glance at the dead bodies scattered in the vicinity. Surely, a few of them were disciples of the Cloudsoaring sect.

FIZZ!

At that moment, a small cluster of green flames splashed onto Li Fan’s shoulder.

In a split second, his shoulder started to fester, as if it was contaminated by some extremely toxic liquid.

Rapidly and decisively, he used his sharp blade to cut away the skin and flesh that had been infected, as if it was the only way to stop the fester from spreading.

“Get out of here! Now!!!” Li Fan let out an thundering shout.