Chapter 174: Bloody Fights (1/2)

After Wu Ling’s left hand exploded, leaving not even a single bone behind, the eighteen Heaven Sparks that originally belonged to him instantly flew out and entered the Heaven Gate pattern on Nie Tian’s hand.

Nie Tian examined the Heaven Sparks the moment they flew into his Heaven Gate pattern and found that there were numerous ancient symbols in them.

“Wu Ling…” Nie Tian glanced around and couldn’t find even a trace of Wu Ling, and his psychic awareness also failed to sense his existence.

“He’s gone?” Nie Tian thought to himself, confused.

After a thorough search, Nie Tian was convinced that Wu Ling had indeed disappeared from the palace.

From the look of it, Wu Ling knew the secrets of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace. When he was certain that he wouldn’t be able to survive Nie Tian’s rage punch, he decided to sever his own hand.

The moment his hand was separated from his arm, he seemed to be dragged out of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace by an unknown force.

After coming to an understanding about what had happened, Nie Tian felt a bit respectful toward Wu Ling. “He’s quite a character!”

After all, there weren’t many people who were willing to cut off their own hand with such decisiveness, even when they were facing death.

Most would rather leave things to chance than do such a brutal thing to themselves.

From such an act, Nie Tian could see the brutality and fierceness in Wu Ling’s character. He even grew convinced that Wu Ling would make outstanding achievements on his cultivation path if he could keep himself safe.

Even now that he had lost a hand, Nie Tian considered him to be a major enemy of his in the future. Meanwhile, Nie Tian reminded himself to go all out to kill him if he ran into him again. Leaving him alive could cost him greatly in the future.

PHOOH!

Nie Tian forced all the disturbing thoughts out of his mind and took a deep breath before sitting down where he was.

Throwing the rage punch had cost him too much power, so he had to recuperate as soon as possible.

He understood perfectly clearly that Wu Ling was extremely dangerous, and that was also true of the long saber in his hand and the spiritual armor that he wore. Therefore, the only technique that he had anticipated to be powerful enough to kill him was the rage punch, even though he knew that the technique would drain his psychic power, flesh power, and spiritual power.

If he had been in other places he probably wouldn’t have dared to use it. However, it was another story since he was in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

The spiritual energy here was far richer than anywhere he had ever been, so he would be able to rapidly recover his spiritual power via condensing more energy balls.

Furthermore, the special energy within would nourish his soul and help him restore psychic power.

That was why he had dared to use the rage punch.

After descending to the ground, the chaotic magnetic field around him still persisted.

He took out pieces of spirit beast meat from his bracelet of holding and started wolfing them down.

Within only a short period of time, he stuffed several dozen kilograms worth of meat down his throat. Without any hesitation, he started to condense energy balls and absorb the spiritual energy and faint special energy within them.

By the time the magnetic field surrounding him shrunk to a one-meter radius, he had already recovered most of his spiritual power.

He didn’t pay attention to the fight between Su Lin and the white-robed young man, but rather concentrated on condensing more energy balls and restoring his strength as soon as possible.

Time passed quickly without him noticing it.

Nie Tian found his spiritual sea filled to the brim with pure spiritual power that he had absorbed from the semi-liquidized spiritual energy balls.

Afterwards, he created nine more energy balls, and recovered most of his psychic power with the special energy inside of them.

Simultaneously, a warm current was born in his stomach, replenishing the flesh power that he had consumed.

All the different types of power that he had consumed by casting the rage punch were soon to be completely restored.

Only then did Nie Tian spare his attention to observe the fight between Su Lin and the white-robed young man.

The young man was a master of frost incantations, so wherever he was, snow fell, filling the area around him.

Upon closer observation, the things that fell from the sky were translucent and sparkling, and were more like tiny crystals than snowflakes.

Each and every one of them carried bone-piercing coldness. Even the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth in that area seemed to be frozen and cracking sounds could be heard.

Underneath the young man’s feet was impenetrable ice that was almost a meter thick. With every swing of the simple, unsophisticated-looking sword in his hand, which resembled a sharp blade made of ice, dozens of cold, piercing beams of light would shoot out of it.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

In the area between Su Lin and the young man, numerous crystal-like snowflakes constantly exploded, and the area seemed to be filled with strange and powerful energy fluctuations.

Quite confused, Nie Tian couldn’t see what caused the explosions. When he used his psychic power to examine that area, his expression immediately flickered.

First of all, as soon as a wisp of his psychic power entered the area between them, it was pierced by the extreme coldness. He even felt a freezing sensation, as if the coldness had traced his psychic power back and reached his soul.