Chapter 231: I Can’t Believe That You Trusted A Woman (1/2)

“Let’s do this.” Upon seeing that Pei Qiqi had headed out, the fat Li Ye took out a bracelet from his ring of holding. He handed it to Nie Tian and said, “Put it on.”

Flickering light could be seen inside the light-green jade bracelet. The moment Nie Tian grabbed it, a green light shield that looked like a layer of lake water spread out and enveloped him.

Li Ye took out another bracelet that looked exactly the same and wore it on his wrist. He was surrounded by a green light shield in the next moment.

At that time, Li Ye said with a serious tone, “I’ll take the jade bracelet back when we return to Shatter City.”

Nie Tian smiled. “I understand.”

He used a wisp of his psychic awareness to examine the jade bracelet, and discovered that a mysterious spell formation was branded within it, which was constantly drawing power from the bracelet to maintain the misty, green light shield.

From what Nie Tian could tell, it must serve the purpose of keeping the polluted spiritual Qi in the Void Illusion Mountain Range away from him.

“Alright, we’re good to go.” Li Ye walked out of the stone cave and stood within a crevice that was halfway up the mountain.

Nie Tian followed him out of the cave.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The moment Nie Tian left the cave, he noticed that wisps of green aura rose from the outer surface of the green light shield, whereupon they made contact with the polluted spiritual Qi.

Without putting too much thought into it, Nie Tian followed Li Ye as they rapidly went down a craggy stone path to the foot of the mountain.

Pei Qiqi was already waiting there.

After coming to a stop, Nie Tian released his psychic awareness to scan the vicinity.

He didn’t discover any signs of life within five hundred meters around him, which was the limit of his psychic power.

He stretched his sight as far as he could, but pale-white rubble and oddly-shaped rocks were all he could see.

When he looked up, he saw nothing but a few spatial rifts slithering in the sky.

From the look of it, they were moving without following any pattern. When they swam close enough to make contact with the mountain, they gashed the mountain like it was a piece of tofu.

That was when Nie Tian realized that the numerous crevices on the mountain had formed in this way.

Nie Tian’s expression flickered. “Something is wrong!”

He hadn’t been able to get a clear view at the waist of the mountain, but now that he was standing at the mountain’s base, he looked up and realized that the mountain peak must have been more than a thousand meters high.

He took note that the peak of the mountain was as smooth as a mirror.

As he thought about what the slithering spatial rifts could do, he realized that it must have been cut short by one of the rifts.

The mountain he saw now was probably only half the height of what it used to be, or maybe even less.

Just as he was pondering the matter, Li Ye’s warning woke him from his daze. “Hua Tian, stay close! Don’t get separated from us! Also, don’t try to use your psychic awareness to examine those spatial rifts. Stay as far away from them as you can. You never know what’s going to shoot out of them in the next second, but you should know that whatever comes out of them will kill you the moment it makes contact with you, considering your cultivation base!”

Li Ye’s words made Nie Tian feel as if he were going to face deadly enemies on the battlefield. He nodded nervously and said, “Don’t worry. I’m not looking forward to dying so young. From now on, wherever you go, I go.”

“That’s the smart thing to do.” Li Ye appraised.

Then, under Pei Qiqi’s leadership, the three of them began marching tightly together through the field of rubble.

As they traveled forward, Pei Qiqi could always skillfully steer clear of the spatial rifts floating low above them. On several occasions, she even seemed to march straight toward a spatial rift, making Nie Tian’s heart pound with nervousness, but when they drew near, the spatial rift would swim away for some unknown reason.

It appeared that she could anticipate the patterns that the spatial rifts moved in and act accordingly.

This ability of hers alone gave her great advantages while traveling in the Void Illusion Mountain Range. If they were to be involved in a battle, such an ability would undoubtedly give her the upper hand.

After marching for a long while, Nie Tian started to see numerous pale-gray skeletons in the cracks between the rocks along their path.

The majority of them seemed to belong to humans, with a small proportion seeming to belong to sizable spirit beasts.

Nie Tian turned to Li Ye and asked, “Didn’t you say that there were no longer spirit beasts in the Realm of Split Void?”

Li Ye, who seemed bored by the journey, answered, “Most of the spirit beasts died because they couldn’t adapt to the terrible living conditions in the Realm of Split Void. However, very few of them somehow managed to survive the hostile environment. Not only that, they even developed the ability to draw power from the tainted spiritual Qi in the air and use it to practice cultivation.

“Those mutant spirit beasts turned out to be much more powerful than they were before.

“Remember, you have to be extra careful if you ever run into a spirit beast in the Void Illusion Mountain Range. Most of the poor guys who died here were either killed by spatial rifts or torn to shreds by those formidable spirit beasts.

“Many of them never even got the chance to explore any of the spatial rifts.”

“The strong prey on the weak, and the fittest survive.” Nie Tian muttered to himself. “It seems that those laws are especially true here.”

The two of them talked while marching forward.

Li Ye took his time to answer every question that Nie Tian asked.