Chapter 184: Survivor (1/2)

Back in the location Nie Tian had departed from…

The floating, dilapidated city had long since landed on the meteor surface, and there was no longer seven-colored light or mysterious energy fluctuations emanating out of it.

However, a number of bizarre-looking buildings had appeared within it; some of them were the shape of awls and others were the shape of columns.

There were also a few buildings that people could immediately tell were outsiders’ residences, each of which looked like enormous trees that stretched up into the sky.

In the center of the city, numerous powerful experts from the Realm of Flame Heaven were gathered by the side of a dilapidated, ancient teleportation portal.

After Miao Chen and Tang Yang had left the city, all the other foreign cultivators, who had entered the Heaven Gate trial via the Realm of Flame Heaven and failed to make their escapes, had been killed.

All the young disciples of the seven sects, who had been in hiding, had answered their seniors summons and gathered to this place.

Among the people present were Jiang Lingzhu and Li Fan from the Cloudsoaring sect, Feng Luo and Yu Tong from the Blood sect, An Shiyi from the Spiritual Treasure sect, Zheng Bin from the Mystic Mist sect, Hong Can from the Hell sect, Zou Yi from the Ghost sect, and Guan Qiu from the Grayvale sect.

Originally, no less than eighty people from the seven sects of the Realm of Flame Heaven had participated in the trial. However, only about ten of them had managed to survive up to this point.

All the other survivors had learned about what had happened through Feng Luo and Li Fan after their arrival.

According to Feng Luo’s description, they learned that Nie Tian was the first to enter the city and be transported away.

He had seen it perfectly clearly when Nie Tian was enveloped in a bubble and had shot up from the center of the city into the vast starry river.

Soon after him, Miao Chen and Tang Yang also flew up into the depths of the starry river.

Since Li Fan had a special timing device, he told Jiang Lingzhu and An Shiyi, who seemed quite concerned about Nie Tian, that Nie Tian had been gone for three months.

In the past three months, they hadn’t been able to find any trace of him.

According to Li Fan’s estimation, Nie Tian was probably already dead.

After all, no matter where Nie Tian had gone to, Tang Yang and Miao Chen had gone there too.

Both of them were in the Greater Heaven stage, and Tang Yang was even more formidable and deadly.

As a matter of fact, if Tang Yang and Miao Chen hadn’t left the city, the trial takers from the seven sects probably wouldn’t have had the chance to finish off the other foreign cultivators.

As far as they were concerned, Nie Tian couldn’t possibly handle either Tang Yang or Miao Chen.

The chances were that as soon as the three of them had arrived at their destination, Tang Yang and Miao Chen had immediately made their move and slaughtered Nie Tian.

It had been almost six months since the Heaven Gate trial had started. Some of the weak disciples from the seven sects had been buried in the numerous scattered meteors, while others had been hiding in distant corners and only came out to this place after receiving their seniors’ summons. Some of them actually ran into some mysterious things on those distant meteors.

Now, they were all gathered around the teleportation portal in the dilapidated city, as they all assumed that it was their way out of the Heaven Gate dimension.

For the past month, after they had eliminated all the remaining foreign cultivators in the region, they had spread out to search for interesting things.

However, they found nothing after searching through the nearly one thousand meteors in the vicinity.

Standing on a meteor that was as far as they could go, they saw another vast expanse of void filled with countless meteors.

However, that meteor region was separated from theirs by a boundless, starry river, and there were no stone bridges between the two.

After a moment of thinking, they came to realize that that meteor region was probably one of the two other “arenas” for the Qi warriors who had entered through the other two Heaven Gates.

They were aware that the other two Heaven Gates had opened in the Realm of Mystic Heaven and the Realm of a Thousand Devastations, and both of those realms were far stronger than theirs, especially the Realm of Mystic Heaven, which was ranked first among the nine realms of the Domain of the Falling Stars.

Powerful experts who had managed to obtain keys and eventually enter the Heaven Gate trial from there must be very strong and deadly.

It was lucky for cultivators from the Realm of Flame Heaven that there was an unbridgeable, starry river between the two meteor regions.

If there had been a long bridge connecting the two regions, they would never have had the audacity to cross that bridge and provoke those people from the Realm of Mystic Heaven and the Realm of a Thousand Devastations, in which case they might draw fire upon themselves.

“That Nie Tian kid is probably dead. I know that you have certain feelings for him, but try not to be too sad about it.”

Qiu Heng, a middle Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior from the Spiritual Treasure sect, frowned and said softly to An Shiyi, “You’ve made significant progress in your cultivation in this Heaven Gate trial. You should consider yourself lucky. From what I can tell, with the enlightenment you’ve received here, you’ll be able to step into the Greater Heaven stage before long.