Chapter 168: Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace (1/2)

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

One after another, more powerful experts from the other realms appeared in seven-colored bubbles, in the vast palace hall.

Most of them had Heaven and Greater Heaven stage cultivation bases, and thus appeared in the other two areas.

After some brief observation, Nie Tian found that there were six people in the area for Heaven stage cultivators, and eight people, including Miao Chen and Tang Yang, in the area for Greater Heaven stage cultivators.

Each and every one of them had about ten Heaven Sparks on the backs of their hands.

Apparently, they had all gone through bloody battles to get where they were. Their success was made from numerous corpses.

The truth was that Nie Tian was the only Qi warrior from the Realm of Flame Heaven that had made it to the ancient palace.

The others must have failed to get through the gate of the dilapidated city.

Nie Tian frowned deeply. “I’m the only one from the Realm of Flame Heaven…”

A while had passed and no one new appeared in the three areas of the palace hall.

Separated from Nie Tian by the Heaven stage area, Tang Yang still shot glances at him from time to time, like a tiger that was constantly checking its prey.

However, it seemed that he was aware that it would be impossible for him to cross those seven-colored light rivers.

Therefore, he didn’t even bother to try. However, he wasn’t any less torn with regret that he didn’t go all-out and kill Nie Tian before entering.

In the area for Lesser Heaven stage cultivators, Nie Tian and the other three were in the four corners of the squared floor.

Nie Tian’s gaze shifted between the other three, and he noticed that they were all quietly adjusting their breathing and auras, as if they were preparing for something.

It seemed they all knew what would happen in the ancient palace.

And Nie Tian was the only one who knew nothing of it.

However, none of them showed any interest in explaining it to Nie Tian as they each sat in their own corner, silently taking in the extremely rich spiritual energy in the air.

Upon seeing this, Nie Tian immediately started channeling the spiritual energy with the Qi Refining Incantation.

As soon as he started, the rich and pure spiritual energy in his vicinity started to madly converge on him.

The energy was so pure that it didn’t even need to be refined. The moment it flowed into his spiritual sea, it merged with the spiritual power that had already been there.

The vortex of spiritual power in his spiritual sea started to revolve at an astonishing speed as it rapidly expanded, as if it had become a tornado.

Meanwhile, the vortex of flame power and vortex of wood power quietly revolved.

Since the spiritual energy that Nie Tian had taken in was very pure and untainted with power of any attribute, those two vortexes didn’t undergo much change.

“The spiritual energy is so pure and refined here!”

After a brief moment of cultivation, Nie Tian felt enlivened and relaxed. He even discovered signs that his spiritual sea was experiencing another expansion and upgrade.

Ever since he had stepped into the Lesser Heaven stage, the size of his spiritual sea hadn’t changed at all.

When he was in the early Lesser Heaven stage, all he had done was refine the spiritual energy in his spiritual sea over and over again, in order to make the faint spiritual energy within it pure and condensed.

He had always thought that was all there was to the cultivation in the Lesser Heaven stage.

However, as soon as the pure spiritual energy in the palace entered his vortex of spiritual power, he knew he was wrong.

His spiritual sea, which had undergone countless rounds of refinement, once again started to develop and expand.

Furthermore, it expanded unprecedentedly fast this time!

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

Under his channeling, the spiritual energy in the air near Nie Tian madly converged onto the seven-colored light shield that he was in.

Like a sponge, he rapidly absorbed the spiritual energy and directed it into his spiritual sea in order for it to continue expanding.

“Yee!?” The black-robed young man seemed to have detected an anomaly and snapped his eyes open.

He stared closely at Nie Tian and observed his slightly strange way of absorbing spiritual energy, before he smiled and said, “Only a cultivator who just broke through and opened up a new piece of dry land in their spiritual sea would be able to absorb the spiritual energy in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace so rapidly. This means that this guy only entered the middle Lesser Heaven stage recently. Interesting!”

He managed to see through Nie Tian’s situation by no more than observing the strange energy flow that had been created by him while cultivating.