Chapter 166: Another Breakthrough! (2/2)

When he took the tenth step, he suddenly experienced a violent shudder in his mind. It felt like he had broken out of a tight cage.

“Middle Lesser Heaven stage!” Even though he didn’t have an idea as to what exactly had happened within himself, he was certain that he had just broke through from the early Lesser Heaven stage into the middle Lesser Heaven stage.

He never expected that he would make a breakthrough in his cultivation base while he was in the middle of painstakingly stepping forward within the gate tunnel.

Not having the time to ponder the profundity of the middle Lesser Heaven stage, he once again concentrated on moving forward as fast as possible.

At that moment, even though the fiery light beam had already shrunk to one tenth of its original size, it was still closing in on him.

It was now only one meter away from the middle of Nie Tian’s back.

The flame energy that the flaming light beam unleashed caused the area that he was in to become incomparably hot.

Numerous seven-colored light rays were still gathering and rushing towards towards Nie Tian, as they still wanted to obstruct the flaming light beam.

Nie Tian abruptly turned around. He glared at the flaming light beam that had become as thin as an arm and ferociously swung his fist at it.

Splendid and dazzling light blossomed from within his fist.

BAM!

At the moment his fist struck the flaming light beam, sparks sputtered all over the place and numerous threads of fiery light shot out in all directions.

“You must have a death wish!” A sinister grin appeared on Tang Yang’s face as he seemed to suddenly infuse a new surge of power into the fiery light beam, causing it to rapidly expand in size.

A violent flame energy suddenly burst forth from the light beam.

Nie Tian’s face turned pale upon the scene.

Without pausing to think, he immediately summoned a life-saving spiritual talisman that Wu Ji had bestowed upon him from within his bracelet of holding.

As soon as the talisman landed in his palm, he sent out a wisp of thought to trigger it. Within a split second, it turned into light shields of spiritual power, enveloping Nie Tian.

There were as many as seven layers of light shields that constantly released a jade-like glow. There was a thin separation between the layers.

Numerous threads of spiritual power appeared within the seven light shields. They interwove with each other and evolved into numerous detailed, spiritual patterns.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The fiery sparks that had sputtered out from the fiery light beam disappeared into thin air as soon as they fell onto the outermost light shield.

Then, the expanded light beam rammed into the light shield with great force.

All of a sudden, the seven layers of light shields shone with endless precious light. The numerous complicated spiritual patterns within started to flow back and forth as if they had their own life and soul.

The violent thrusting force, along with the resistant force of the light shields, burst out from the point of contact.

Upon the strong impact from the gigantic light beam, Nie Tian, who originally trudged forward with great difficulty, was instantly sent forward by more than ten steps.

A gentle, formidable force was emanating from within the seven layers of spiritual power shields, secretly protecting him from any injuries.

At that moment, the four outermost light shields flew out from the sphere, wrapped around the flaming light beam, andimmediately started to battle at close quarters with the flame power within the light beam.

The mysterious strength that had come from Wu Ji, bit by bit, ripped apart and crushed the flame essence that had been imprinted by Tang Yang.

Under the frenzied biting and tearing of the numerous mysterious spiritual patterns on the light shields, the flaming light beam once again rapidly shrunk until it disappeared completely.

WHOOSH!

The four layers of spiritual power shields morphed into a bright light ball, and flew back to Nie Tian.

As soon as it made contact with the remaining three layers of light shields, it began to fluctuate and soon spread out to form two layers of light shields.

Therefore, there were still five layers of light shields wreathing Nie Tian.

Not only was Nie Tian unscathed, he even took advantage of the impact force that came from Tang Yang’s attack and got closer to the inside of the city.

Seeing that his flaming light beam had completely disappeared, Tang Yang gave a muffled snort as his expression slightly changed. “A life-saving spiritual talisman from a Profound realm expert!”

For some unknown reason, the surging flames that were surrounding him seemed to have grown smaller by a large extent.

His arrogant attacks seemed to have triggered the counter-attack of the seven-colored light rays that filled every corner of the gate tunnel, as they diverted their attention from the others, and madly surged towards him.

The pushing and squeezing force that he suffered was suddenly multiplied by several times.

Nie Tian, who was at the forefront, originally found it hard to take even one step. However, at this moment, he felt that the resistance had suddenly grown weaker.

With the five light shields protecting him, he continued to summon strength to speed up his footsteps. Without any delay, he rapidly charged towards the inner city.

He gradually put space between himself and the city gate, which was several dozen meters high. Before long, he and Miao Chen, who had entered through another gate, became the first ones to step into the city.