Chapter 167: Chosen Ones from the Other Realms (1/2)

The moment Nie Tian entered the city, he stood there aghast, eyes filled with disbelief.

In front of his eyes was a vacant, vast city. Contrary to what he had pictured in mind, there weren’t any nicely decorated buildings or pavilions made of jade. There was only seven-colored light that drifted about in the air like colorful ribbons.

Just as he secretly felt disappointed, the light seemed to have sensed his existence and converged on him from every direction.

In a flash, thousands of light rays arrived at his side and turned into a seven-colored light shield, enveloping him like a giant bubble.

As soon as the colorful light shield was formed, it flew up, taking him into the air.

Nie Tian was dumbstruck.

He had no idea what was happening. He attempted to resist, using the power of the spiritual shields, and stop himself from moving.

Only then did he suddenly notice that the remaining spiritual power shields were already gone.

Enveloped by the light bubble, he flew up towards the starry sky above his head at an unimaginable speed.

While traveling, he looked at his surroundings with rapt attention, and found that Miao Chen was enveloped in another bubble and had also shot up into the sky.

The two of them were several hundred meters away and could clearly see each other. Nie Tian saw unveiled complacence within Miao Chen’s eyes.

It was when he found that Miao Chen was more elated than afraid that he slightly relaxed and tried not to overthink it. He stopped resisting and let the giant bubble take him into the boundless, starry sky.

When he looked down, the numerous gigantic meteors had all shrunk to the size of pieces of grain.

The city that brimmed with seven-colored light had already become hard to find, and soon disappeared from his sight.

However, at the same time, more and more people enveloped in seven-colored bubbles entered his sight one after another.

He saw a tall, burly man surrounded by raging flames shooting into the sky in a seven-colored bubble. Upon a closer look, it was none other than Tang Yang from the Realm of Dark Underworld.

Apparently, Tang Yang had also stepped into the city after him.

He grew a bit nervous since he had absolutely no idea what would happen. He kept glancing around, but all he saw was endless darkness.

He unleashed his psychic awareness into his surroundings, but detected no sign of life. There was only coldness.

Time passed by rapidly as the bubble carried Nie Tian upwards.

All of a sudden, he felt the bubble slow down a bit.

Subconsciously, he looked up.

A majestic, enormous palace appeared in the depths of the starry sky above him, like an unwavering mountain.

Beneath the base of the palace, countless light rays of various colors interwove with each other, sending out terrifying energy surges.

SHEW!

The bubble carried him up as it flew into a dazzling, transparent tunnel under the palace, and then shuttled him into the palace.

Seconds later, the seven-colored bubble appeared in an immeasurably wide palace hall.

Wisps of extremely rich spiritual energy entered the floating bubble and blew into Nie Tian’s face.

With merely a sniff of it, he felt enlivened and cleansed of all exhaustion, as if his spiritual sea was also rejuvenated by the puff of spiritual energy.

Amazed, he couldn’t help but start glancing around at the inside of the splendid palace hall while scanning the area with his psychic awareness.

The ceiling of the hall was extremely vast and adorned with shining dots, which upon a closer look were small stars, making it seem like a river of stars. Even though those tiny stars seemed very far away, he could tell that they were releasing energy fluctuations.

From time to time, gentle starlight would flow out of the star river and pour into the palace hall.

Two rivers of seven-colored light flowed in the palace hall, dividing the enormous hall into three areas.

Miao Chen was in one of them that was separated from the one that Nie Tian was in by a large area.

Numerous complicated, beautiful patterns were imprinted on the palace walls that were far away from where Nie Tian was. Within them seemed to lay the profound truths of many kinds of power.

Nie Tian grew fascinated with only a single glimpse of them. However, after staring at them with rapt attention for a while, he found himself losing his psychic power at a fast speed.

Apparently, it consumed a tremendous amount of psychic power to study the mysterious patterns on the walls.

Without any hesitation, he retracted his focus from them, and continued to observe the vast area that he was in.

WHOOSH!

Another seven-colored bubble appeared in the area that Nie Tian was in, within which was a white-robed young man.

Face grave and stern, he sat inside of the bubble with a simple, unsophisticated sword on his lap. He gently stroked the sword with hands that were even more slender and beautiful than those of a girl, as he scanned the area with a thoughtful gaze.

“This guy…” At first glance, Nie Tian was sure that he had never seen the man, and that the man had never showed up in the floating city.

After a brief examination, he could tell that the white-robed young man was also in the Lesser Heaven stage, just like him.

“He’s also in the Lesser Heaven stage.” Nie Tian grew intrigued and couldn’t help but start to look him up and down more closely. His expression suddenly flickered.

To his surprise, he saw as many as sixteen Heaven Sparks on the back of the young man’s left hand.

This meant that he might have already taken the lives of sixteen trial takers.