Chapter 176: Superb Observation Skills (1/2)
Su Lin was too fast.
Before Nie Tian had the time to react, she had already passed through the cluster of spiritual energy balls, and was closing in on him.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
One after another, numerous crescent moon-shaped blades that were created by Su Lin’s pure spiritual power slashed towards Nie Tian.
PUFF! PUFF! PUFF!
Each and every one of them cut into Nie Tian’s flesh as he subconsciously jumped backwards. Blood immediately soaked Nie Tian’s garments.
As soon as he got a steady foothold, he saw even more curved blades flying towards him like raindrops.
Su Lin, on the other hand, traveled towards Nie Tian like a ray of blue light as she constantly shifted her position in the space between those blades.
She was so fast that both Nie Tian’s sight and psychic power failed to lock onto her. He could only watch as the sky-filling, crescent moon-shaped blades flooded towards him.
Wracked by excruciating pain, Nie Tian ran backwards as fast as he could to put a safe distance between himself and Su Lin.
It wasn’t until then did he realize that Su Lin was a much stronger opponent than Wu Ling, and she probably didn’t go all out when she fought Xuan Ke earlier.
By merely using a superior moving technique, she had managed to travel through Nie Tian’s spiritual energy balls like a ghost and invalidate all the effort that he had spent.
According to Nie Tian’s original plan, he would first use the numerous spiritual energy balls to bombard Su Lin, the same way he had Wu Ling, so as to drain Su Lin’s strength.
Then, when Su Lin was exhausted, he would bring out the chaotic magnetic field and envelop her with it before he launched the fatal attack.
Unfortunately, his entire plan went down the drain the moment Su Lin made a move.
Su Lin stopped her ghostly moves when she was ten meters away from Nie Tian. With numerous shiny, silver blades that resembled crescent moons hovering around her, she said, “I’ll give you another chance.”
At the same time, the blades suddenly sped up and turned into a tempest, unleashing an aura so fierce that it seemed to be capable of annihilating all things.
From the look of it, as soon as it enveloped Nie Tian, he would be instantly reduced to nothing but chunks of flesh and bones.
“Do as Xuan Ke did and cut off the flesh on the back of your hand and I’ll allow you to leave the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace in one piece.” Robe fluctuating against the wind, Su Lin said with an indifferent face, “but, if you refuse to come to your senses, don’t blame me for what I’ll do to you.”
While she talked, a dazzling moonlight that carried strong energy shone out of the raging blade storm.
“This doesn’t make sense,” Nie Tian muttered to himself.
He didn’t believe that Su Lin was a merciful person. Furthermore, they didn’t know each other before the trial, and from what he knew, the Cloudsoaring sect never had any relationship with the Heaven Palace sect.
According to the power that Su Lin had displayed, she would very easily break Nie Tian’s defense as long as she kept going.
However, instead of continuing to rain blades on him, she stopped to threaten and urge him again.
Nie Tian didn’t think Su Lin did that out of respect. If she was indeed as powerful as she said, she wouldn’t need to waste her breath talking.
Nie Tian had a feeling that perhaps Su Lin was hiding something.
“Could it be that she actually sustained serious injuries from her fight with Xuan Ke? Or the power that she has consumed is actually more than what she expected?
“She hastily took three medicinal pills as soon as she finished her fight with Xuan Ke. She probably still needs time to refine and absorb those pills.
“Did she intentionally pose a threatening manner to cover her weakness?”
Eyes fixed on Su Lin, Nie Tian thoroughly thought for a moment and suddenly came to a realization.