Chapter 188: Raging Demon Qi (1/2)

Feng Luo from the Blood sect glanced around. Face filled with confusion, he said, “Why are we here? Shouldn’t we be somewhere outside of the Hell sect?”

He looked towards Hong Can.

Hong Can frowned, shook his head, and said, “I don’t know. After all, this is the first time one of the Heaven Gates had opened in the Realm of Flame Heaven in centuries, and as far as I know, there aren’t any records of the past Heaven Gates.”

With a sigh, Feng Luo looked off into the direction of the Blood sect, expression filled with anxiety. “And we don’t know what’s happening in the Realm of Flame Heaven.”

Normally speaking, since the Heaven Gate had showed up in this place, it was impossible that members of the Blood sect hadn’t noticed it.

According to Feng Luo’s speculation, the Heaven Gate probably had been here for some time. It probably had appeared when Nie Tian had returned and the seven-colored light merged with the teleportation portal, activating the light gate in the middle.

The Heaven Gate should have been here for however long they had spent recuperating beside the teleportation portal.

It didn’t make sense that no one from the Blood sect had come after such a long time.

As he and Hong Can talked, the others gradually calmed down from the frustration of losing their Heaven Gate patterns.

Li Fan took a glance of Nie Tian’s left hand and noticed that the Heaven Gate pattern on his hand had also disappeared.

He seemed to have expected it to be different for him, but said nothing.

After sensing that the two hexagrams had shifted to his chest, Nie Tian didn’t plan to reveal it to anyone.

After all, it contained the most precious legacies that he had obtained from his trial in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

He didn’t want others to raise questions, so he had joined them in mumbling something in frustration. After seeing that no one seemed to have seen through his little scheme, he finally felt relieved.

After all, the first and middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation were of great importance. If Hong Can, Feng Luo, and Zou Yi had learned that he had them, he didn’t know for sure what they would do.

He knew he had to kept it a secret for the time being.

“What do you think we should do?” Zou Yi from the Ghost sect had a grim expression on his face as he asked. “Should we split up and return to our own sects or go to the Blood sect and see what information we can get from there?”

“Let’s go to the Blood sect,” Hong Can said. “I have a feeling that something is not right.”

“Alright.” The others also expressed their assent.

None of them want to be separated from the group and return to their sects before getting an idea of what was going on in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

If they did strike out on their own, they couldn’t be sure what they would run into on their way back.

They could encounter either outsider demons or cultivators from the other realms. Whichever it was, they wouldn’t be in a favorable situation if they traveled alone.

At that moment, Zou Yi called out to the crowd, sounding a bit frightened. “Look! Up in the sky!”

Everyone instantly looked up and saw a line of blackish-purple smoke flowing high in the sky like a river.

They had seen smoke like that floating above the Hell sect right before they had entered the Heaven Gate.

Back then, blackish-purple smoke like this had surged out of the network of numerous spacial rifts that had appeared near the Heaven Gate. The outsiders that had been bound by the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation had experienced a sudden boost in their strength as soon as they had absorbed the smoke. As a result, they had broken free from the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation and flown into the spacial rifts.

“Demon Qi!” Hong Can’s expression flickered.

Then he explained to everyone, “Years and years ago, demon Qi once filled every corner of the Realm of Flame Heaven. Although the demon Qi shares the same origin as spiritual Qi, the biggest difference is that it’s tainted with filth. Human Qi warriors can’t cultivate with the demon Qi, and if they do, they will lose their minds and become the outsider demons’ puppets.

“By the time the powerful human Qi warriors killed the majority of the outsiders and drove the survivors out of the realm, they used profound measures to purge the demon Qi and turn it into spiritual Qi that human Qi warriors could use.

“The outsiders, on the other hand, couldn’t draw power from the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.

“That was why we could use the Demon Trapping Purgatory Formation to trap those outsiders for so many years. Without the demon Qi, they had no source of power; meanwhile the formation constantly drained their flesh power and used it to power our sect’s defensive system.