Chapter 161: A Change in Heart! (1/2)

That person was Kan Xingming, a middle Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior from the Realm of Earth Sieve.

His cultivation attribute was the wood power, one of the five fundamental element powers (see note 1). The three people that besieged him came from the Ghost sect and Grayvale sect, and all of them were in the early Greater Heaven stage.

Kan Xingming wore a bizarre set of spiritual armor, which appeared to be made of petrified vines and willow leaves and apparently contained the essence of plants and vegetation.

The aura that he emanated was full of a special kind of life force, as if it could nourish plants and had other mysterious uses.

The spiritual weapon that he used was a wooden staff that was dark-green in color. It also carried a strong life force, and within its natural wood vein pattern seemed to lay the true essence of wood power.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

One after another, numerous rattan vines flew out of his spiritual armor and effortlessly intercepted the violent attacks of the three people surrounding him.

He stealthily glanced at Nie Tian.

Although all three of his opponents were in the Greater Heaven stage, there were only a total of five scarlet light spots within the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of their hands.

This meant that even if he slaughtered the three of them, he would only be able to obtain five light spots.

However, not far away from him was Nie Tian with seven red dots on the back of his hand, while he was only in the Lesser Heaven stage.

As long as he could kill Nie Tian, the gains he would obtain would far surpass those from painstakingly killing those three powerful experts.

Therefore, he moved closer towards Nie Tian in a slow and inconspicuous fashion, while shielding off the attacks of the three people around him.

Greed and a strong killing intent shot out of his eyes.

“Go!” All of a sudden, a fresh, green leaf broke away from the chest area of his spiritual armor. It was as if the leaf itself possessed a consciousness as it floated straight towards Nie Tian.

It seemed that the fresh, green leaf was floating and shaking as it flew forward, but actually it traveled at an extremely fast speed.

In only five seconds, the leaf was already quite close to Nie Tian. It also rapidly expanded to the size of a palm-tree leaf and intended to wrap Nie Tian within it.

Only by that point did Nie Tian, who was slowly stepping towards the dilapidated city, suddenly sense the unfavorable situation.

However, it was too late. The large leaf continued to expand and swiftly attached itself to Nie Tian’s chest.

As soon as it made contact with Nie Tian, it immediately grew roots, which reached deep into his flesh, as if it had turned into a terrifying plant.

The flesh power within his body was pulled by a bizarre force as it madly flowed toward that leaf.

As the green, fresh leaf greedily absorbed Nie Tian’s flesh power, it mutated at an astonishing speed, and soon turned into a strange plant, enveloping Nie Tian.

One sharp thorn after another grew from the plant and penetrated into Nie Tian’s flesh.

The newly-born plant madly sucked on Nie Tian’s life essence and flesh power.

Kan Xingming’s eyes were brimming with brutality and mania. With a deep laugh, he licked his lips and said with a complacent tone, “Not bad. The essence within the kid’s flesh and blood is quite pure. I never anticipated that a Lesser Heaven stage brat would possess flesh power so rich and copious. I just hit gold!”

Apparently, the leaf that he had unleashed could grow into a strange plant that fed on the flesh power of living creatures.

Moreover, the flesh power the plant had absorbed could be guided into Kan Xingming’s body through secret arts, which enabled him to rapidly replenish his own injuries and also enhance his battle prowess.

Originally, he had thought that Nie Tian, who was only in Lesser Heaven stage, wouldn’t possibly have such rich flesh power within him.

However, when he noticed that the leaf kept sucking flesh power out of Nie Tian’s body for quite some time, he laughed more and more happily.

“Awesome! This is awesome!” From what he saw, it would not be too long before Nie Tian’s flesh power would be completely drained.

By that time, not only would he be able to obtain plentiful flesh power from Nie Tian, he could even collect seven scarlet light spots by killing Nie Tian.

With seven more light spots, Kan Xingming would be able to take in even more magical symbols, and therefore gain more fortune.

Off to the side, Li Fan, who had been constantly dodging the attacks of the green flames, glanced over towards Nie Tian while fighting, and saw the dangerous situation that he was in. “Nie Tian!”

At that moment, Nie Tian had already been wrapped up by a huge plant and his robust body was becoming more shriveled by the second as the pure life essence within every corner of his body was rapidly being drained.

With a loud shout, Li Fan alerted Feng Luo and Liu Yan. The two of them immediately noticed Nie Tian’s situation.

Feng Luo looked slightly surprised. He seemed to feel that Nie Tian shouldn’t be so easily stopped and controlled.

However, he didn’t seem very anxious after seeing that Nie Tian had almost been engulfed by the large plant.