Chapter 201: I’ll Go First! (1/2)

After marching on for a few kilometers, the density of the demon Qi rose by approximately five times.

Enveloped by their respective light shields, Hong Can and the others could only see things that were within a five-meter radius.

All they saw along the road were scattered bones and blood stains that had once been human Qi warriors.

The low-tier outsiders must have torn away and devoured the flesh and then tossed the bones away at will.

The scattered bones made Hong Can and the others realize what kind of bloodbath had occurred in this place.

Gradually, even Li Fan from the Cloudsoaring sect began to experience discomfort.

With a stern expression on his face, he turned to Nie Tian and said, “Seriously, are you alright, Nie Tian? This isn’t the time to be a hero. Don’t push yourself to the limit.”

The others also frowned as they looked at Nie Tian with grim expressions.

Normally speaking, considering Nie Tian’s Lesser Heaven stage cultivation base, he should have collapsed by now.

Even for the late Heaven stage An Shiyi, if she had marched for so long in the increasingly dense demon Qi, she would have had to stop and recover with spirit stones.

The fact that they had to form light shields to protect themselves from the demon Qi had caused them to drain their spiritual power at a surprisingly high speed.

On one hand, they were shocked that Nie Tian could hang on for so long; on the other, they worried about his condition.

They were afraid that Nie Tian was barely holding on and would pass out as soon as they arrived at the sect gate of the Blood sect.

If that happened, they wouldn’t be able to command the Bone Blood Demon to join the Blood sect disciples in the battlefield.

“Alright, let me see.” Knowing that everyone was concerned with his condition, Nie Tian hesitated for a moment before he decided to use his psychic awareness to examine his spiritual sea.

At that moment, the light shield around him had already taken on a grass-green color, as it was now powered by the vortex of wood power in his spiritual sea.

As they marched on in the demon Qi, the power he used to form the light shields had quietly changed. Even he hadn’t noticed.

However, since they were surrounded by raging, dense demon Qi and their attention was concentrated on scanning the vicinity and keeping the demon Qi away, no one actually noticed that the color of his light shield had changed, along with his aura.

But when they stopped marching and Nie Tian examined his spiritual sea, the Greater Heaven stage experts immediately came to notice the changes.

They realized that the color of his light shield was constantly changing.

Furthermore, using their psychic awareness, they detected that the aura’s attribute that Nie Tian emanated was also shifting nonstop.

“Wood power!”

“Flame power!”

“Starlight! It’s star power!”

“Pure spiritual power!”

As they realized that Nie Tian possessed three types of power other than spiritual power, every one of them was taken aback.

Their eyes brimmed with disbelief, as they looked at Nie Tian, but only seconds later, they seemed to have figured out the reason behind it.

With a complicated expression on his face, Li Fan said, “Nie Tian doesn’t have a specific cultivation attribute. Cultivators like him, who have no innate cultivation attribute, can cultivate incantations of any attribute. Switching between different types of incantations could have made his attempt to hold off the demon Qi less consuming and painstaking.

“However, cultivating different-attributed incantations simultaneously usually requires a lot of time and energy.

“Meanwhile, we as human cultivators have very limited lifespans. Only by breaking through to the next stage will we obtain more of it.

“If someone cultivates a variety of different-attributed incantations at the same time, their cultivation path would be much more intricate than others’.

“If he’s really determined to go down this road, I fear that he won’t be able to go very far.”

Li Fan let out a sigh as he saw through the problem and grew worried about Nie Tian’s future.

“I think you are worrying too much.” Feng Luo said consolingly, “Didn’t Nie Tian get a Fruit of Life during the Heaven Gate trial? He’ll gain another several hundred years of life with it! With all these extra years, it’s very likely that he’ll make great achievements even if he’s determined to go down this path.”

Upon hearing about the Fruit of Life, Li Fan’s eyes lit up. He nodded and said, “I hope you’re right. Hopefully, he can avoid the problem my martial granduncle is facing.”

It was also at that moment, Nie Tian finished examining his spiritual sea and opened his eyes.

Sounding a bit hesitant, he said, “I have to ask you to get further away from me.”