Chapter 184: Survivor (2/2)

“When you do that, your status in the sect will rise again, and the mistakes you made in the Green Illusion dimension trial will also be written off. I doubt that the sectmaster will mention it again.

“The An clan and your sister An Ying will be proud of you, and more importantly, benefit from your achievement.

“Burdening yourself with Nie Tian’s death won’t do you any good, will it?”

Qiu Heng knew a thing or two about space traveling magics, and he had visited Black Cloud City because of the appearance of the spacial rifts.

According to seniority, he was An Shiyi’s martial uncle, and he had been treating her well over the years.

However, he had vanished when he learned that Gan Kang, whose status was even higher in the sect, had set his mind on An Shiyi and had been doing everything he could to force her to marry him.

He was aware that he couldn’t afford to upset Gan Kang and make him an enemy just for An Shiyi.

However, when he learned later that Gan Kang had attempted to abandon the Spiritual Treasure sect, he surfaced again and started showing his concern for An Shiyi.

Then, when he realized that An Shiyi had also obtained a Heaven Gate key in the wasteland outside of Black Cloud City, he grew increasingly warm towards her.

“He’s not dead. I have faith in him,” An Shiyi said with a cold tone, looking askance at him with loathing flickering in her eyes.

She knew perfectly clearly that he and Gan Kang were the same, as they were both after her beauty.

Even though Qiu Heng had never said anything, she was smart enough to see what he was thinking.

After all, when the Green Illusion dimension trial mishap had happened, she was degraded by the sectmaster and harassed by Gan Kang and the other old, licentious elders while he was nowhere to be found.

The reason was none other than that he was afraid of retaliation from Gan Kang and the others.

On the other hand, ever since Nie Tian had gone to the Spiritual Treasure sect, he had always been there for her every time she had run into a crisis.

In order to protect her, not only did Nie Tian make enemies with Gan Kang, but he even turned his back on the Spiritfount Pill, which was of great importance to him.

Furthermore, Nie Tian had gone out of his way several times to help her, and he even ended up putting himself and his companions in danger because of that.

Compared to Nie Tian, Qiu Heng and his words meant nothing to her.

She tried to ignore him when he said those things about Nie Tian and expressed his pretentious concerns. She actually had to hold herself back, because otherwise, she would have lashed out at him already.

Qiu Heng put on a false smile as he said, “Well… please don’t think being Wu Ji’s disciple makes him invincible. Wu Ji might be a good mentor, but he made a huge mistake sending Nie Tian to the Heaven Gate trial. Letting him participate in the trial with his Lesser Heaven cultivation base… either Wu Ji is already a dotard, or Nie Tian is blindly brave.”

“Qiu Heng! Who are you talking about?!” Li Fan’s cold snort rang out not very far away.

Even Feng Luo shot a cold look at Qiu Heng and said, “Will you shut up?”

Zheng Bin glared at him and muttered in a disdainful tone, “What a clown.”

Hong Can from the Hell sect, Zou Yi from the Ghost sect, and Guan Qiu from the Grayvale sect also let out cold harrumphs as they cast their unpleasant gazes towards Qiu Heng.

Qiu Heng sensed the burning gazes and soon realized that everyone was looking at him with disgusted looks on their faces, so he instantly stopped talking.

He had no idea why they all seemed unpleasant upon hearing his comments.

Of course, he didn’t know that Feng Luo, Hong Can, Zou Yi, and Guan Qiu had all fought side by side with Nie Tian once, and they had all come to admire Nie Tian, even though he was only in the Lesser Heaven stage.

Hong Can from the Hell sect said with an unpleasant tone, “Although Nie Tian’s cultivation base isn’t impressive, he helped us kill three foreign Greater Heaven stage experts! Who are you to say those things? How many foreign Greater Heaven stage experts did you kill? What makes you think you’re better than him?”

“I bet if that kid had the same cultivation base as you, he’d be able to finish you with one strike,” Feng Luo said coldly.

“Umm…” Targeted by all those people, Qiu Heng’s face was filled with embarrassment.

He immediately grew timid and didn’t dare to say another word, and the way An Shiyi looked at him grew increasingly disdainful.

At that very moment, a cluster of seven-colored light appeared in the sky above the dilapidated city, and a figure gradually grew clearer within the bright light.

“It’s Nie Tian!”