Chapter 253: Turn (1/2)

BOOM!

All of a sudden, the spiritual energy ball exploded on its way to the early Heaven stage bandit.

In the next moment, multicolored light spots almost filled the sky, and some of them found their way to the man’s protective light shield as they rained down from the heavens.

Almost at the same time, the man’s spiritual power shield shattered, and some of the purple and green sparks fell onto the man’s skin.

Like strong acid, they immediately ate their way deep into the man’s flesh; the contaminated parts rapidly festered and emitted smoke.

At that moment, a Blood Skull member found the perfect opportunity and hurled his pitch-black spear towards the man’s chest.

In the blink of an eye, the long spear pierced through the man like a black bolt of lightning, pinning him to a huge, pale stone.

Surprised, Nie Tian went blank for a brief moment before turning to Cai Yuan and asking, “Who takes credit for this kill?”

“Hahaha!” The Black Skull member let out a heartily laugh and said with a pleasant smile, “You! I’ll give you the eight hundred spirit stones!”

The name of the man with the black spear was Wang Zhuo. He and Zhao Feng had been struggling with defending against five attackers when Nie Tian had first appeared.

If Nie Tian hadn’t appeared and killed two of the raiders consecutively and injured one with his spiritual energy ball, Zhao Feng, who had already sustained injuries to his abdomen, probably would have already been killed.

However, since Nie Tian had showed up and caused the deaths of three early Heaven stage attackers, Zhao Feng and Wang Zhuo now only needed to focus on two middle Heaven stage cultivators, so the burden that had been weighing on them was greatly relieved.

Delighted to see their situation turned around by Nie Tian, Wang Zhuo was very glad to pay Nie Tian the eight hundred spirit stones, which was nothing to him.

“Straightforward! I like it!” Nie Tian laughed broadly after seeing that Wang Zhuo was willing to pay him out of his own pocket. Then, he suddenly asked, “Wait, what about that man’s valuables?”

“Help yourself to them!” Obviously, the man’s belongings were far from enough to intrigue Wang Zhuo, and Nie Tian’s enthusiasm for money didn’t disgust him at all. Therefore, he blurred into action and arrived by the corpse in a split second.

The moment he pulled his long spear out of the corpse, a black aura immediately wreathed the spear.

With a ferocious smile on his face and strong killing intent in his eyes, he turned around and once again charged toward one of their remaining enemies.

Off to the side, surrounded by a thunderous aura, Zhao Feng dashed toward the other enemy, holding his wide sword tightly with both hands.

Both Wang Zhuo and Zhao Feng were warriors who had gone through the tests of hundreds of battles in the Void Illusion Mountain Range. Both their battle prowess and resilience were far superior to their opponents.

Their two opponents, on the other hand, didn’t meet the standards to join the Blood Skull, and thus wandered outside Shatter City, awaiting opportunities to sneak out and kill those who left the city alone.

No matter their spiritual tools or fighting skills, they couldn’t be compared with Zhao Feng and Wang Zhuo.

Since there was a rather sizable gap between their strengths, Nie Tian only watched for a short while before becoming convinced that Zhao Feng and Wang Zhuo would prevail if there were no mishaps.

Hence, he didn’t feel the necessity to join the battle.

Thus, he grabbed the staff with a tiger head on top from the ground and put it away into his bracelet of holding. Afterwards, he paced to one of his victims, squatted down to take his bracelet of holding, and then checked his other pockets. After finding nothing worthy of note, he moved on to his second victim.

Just as he bent down to take the man’s bracelet of holding and search the corpse for valuables, a familiar voice echoed out.

“Hua Tian! Where are you, Hua Tian!” Hu Han’s voice rang out from within the Sound Stone in Nie Tian’s pocket. She sounded somewhat anxious after failing to find Nie Tian in the place where he had been cultivating.

Nie Tian took out the Sound Stone and held it close to his mouth before giving Hu Han a general idea of his location, “I’m here.”

“Just wait for me!” Hu Han called out. “I’ll be there in a second!”

The two late Heaven stage experts, who had been attacking Cai Yuan together, heard Nie Tian and Hu Han’s conversation.

“Someone has come!”

“It must be the Blood Skull’s backup!”

“Damn!”

They rapidly exchanged a glance and made up their minds. “Let’s go!”

The two of them immediately ended their battle against Cai Yuan and fled in opposite directions.

The other two who had been fighting Wang Zhuo and Zhao Feng shrewdly noticed their leaders’ retreat, and thus made a sensible decision by scattering and speeding off in different directions as well.

“Hey, where are you going?!” Wang Zhuo and Zhao Feng respectively followed each of them while blood continued flowing out of Zhao Feng’s wound on his abdomen.

“Leave them be!” Cai Yuan shouted. “Come back, you two! We’ll have plenty of opportunities to get them after we recover. Your wound needs to be tended to immediately, Zhao Feng. Otherwise, you might die from massive blood loss.”

Upon hearing Cai Yuan’s order, Wang Zhuo and Zhao Feng both instantly ceased their pursuit.

Zhao Feng descended to the ground, supporting himself with his wide sword. Then, he used his other hand to take out a handful of medicinal pills before stuffing them down his throat.

Cai Yuan scurried to his side and took out a bottle of external ointment from his ring of holding before carefully addressing the messy wound on his abdomen.

Zhao felt extremely flattered as he said, “This is too precious, Little Lord. You’re wasting it on me.”

Cai Yuan waved his hand, beckoning for him not to speak anymore, and then said, “You’ve got to absorb the ointment into your flesh and blood, and get better as quickly as possible. No matter how expensive it is, as long as it’s used on those who matter, it’s well worth it. The three of us have been fighting side by side for years. Although you two call me young lord all the time, deep down, I’ve always considered you my brothers.”

Upon hearing these words, Zhao Feng’s round, fierce-looking eyes welled up slightly as he nodded vigorously. Afterwards, he focused on refining the efficacy of the ointment.

Nie Tian noticed that not only did the originally dreadful wound in Zhao Feng’s abdomen immediately stop bleeding after the ointment was applied, but the flesh in the wound even seemed to become more alive as the wound rapidly healed.

Meanwhile, Zhao Feng’s ghastly face gradually regained its former healthy color.

Seeing the changes in Zhao Feng’s condition, Cai Yuan appeared much relieved as he beckoned for Nie Tian to come over to him.

As Nie Tian approached, Cai Yuan’s ring of holding shone with subtle light, and in the next moment, a pile of spirit stones appeared in front of him. “Here’s 1,600 spirit stones. You can count them yourself.”

“Little Lord,” said Wang Zhuo, “I promised those 800 spirit stones to the kid…”

Cai Yuan waved his hand as he stopped him. “Are you saying you have more wealth than me?”

Wang Zhuo grinned as he understood Cai Yuan’s intentions, and thus no longer insisted on paying those 800 spirit stones himself.