Chapter 254: Shattering Shackles (2/2)
Noticeable fissures appeared on the surface of the bronze mirror, and it could no longer reflect anything or anyone.
“Go!” At that moment, Hu Han unleashed the ball from her palm. Like a burning lightning bolt, it charged towards Nie Tian.
The area it covered was turned into a sea of flames.
It rapidly reached Nie Tian from behind, and its burning tail gathered into a huge cloud of fire high above Nie Tian’s head.
HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!
One after another, numerous flames fell out of the blazing cloud and rained on Nie Tian and his chaotic magnetic field.
When they entered Nie Tian’s magnetic field, the field served as a meat grinder, grinding the shooting flames into tiny fire dots.
However, as more and more flames plummeted from the heavens, the ten meter-radius area Nie Tian was in was turned into sea of fire.
FIZZ! FIZZ!
Within the magnetic field, numerous types of power were struggling to fight against the enormous amount of flames.
At that moment, the dark-red pearl began to descend from straight above Nie Tian’s head.
BOOM!
Nie Tian felt like a huge mountain had been dropped on his shoulders. It crushed him with so much force that blood began flowing out of the corner of his mouth.
Meanwhile, the raging flames were still trying their best to overcome the resistance of the magnetic field to burn Nie Tian up.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
At that very moment, Nie Tian’s heart began to race, and the green aura coiled up at the bottom of his heart grew active, along with the numerous crystal-like chains within it and the countless life marks within them.
An unearthly power that originated from his bloodline suddenly broke out with momentum that could shatter mountains and split the earth.
Without thinking for a second, Nie Tian summoned the various types of power within him, and focused to strike the pearl floating right above him with his Rage Punch.
BANG!!!
Upon impact, the dark-red pearl cracked and was sent flying into the heavens.
At the same time, Hu Han gave a muffled groan and came to a stop on her way towards Nie Tian, as if she had taken a heavy blow.
A disbelieving look appeared in Hu Han’s wide eyes as she stared closely at Nie Tian from behind.
As for Nie Tian, after he bombarded the dark-red pearl with full force, not only did he hear a cracking sound from the pearl, but also a cracking sound from within himself.
He didn’t seem to sustain any injuries from it, but rather had a mysterious sense of relief afterwards, as if a heavy burden on his mind had been lifted.
He briefly examined himself with his psychic awareness, and immediately threw his head back and laughed, his face filled with ecstasy.
He was certain that his Rage Punch had just pushed him through the bottleneck and into the next stage!
At that moment, he was overwhelmed by a miraculous feeling of breaking through an intangible barrier, which was the unique feeling that a cultivator could only experience after making a breakthrough.
Perhaps the fact that he had drained himself with the mighty punch had contributed to his successful breakthrough. Although he felt depleted, he didn’t feel completely powerless like when he had used the technique before.
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
Nie Tian’s heart was still pounding rapidly, and the green aura was still slithering untiringly within his heart.
Apparently, after the recent tempering using the Golden Stone Rhino’s blood, his body had become stronger and better at handling such a consuming technique.
While Hu Han was shocked, Nie Tian turned around and charged towards her, enveloped by his gradually shrinking magnetic field.
“Is this guy really at the Lesser Heaven stage?” Hu Han couldn’t remove her shocked gaze from Nie Tian as she suddenly began to hesitate.
The bronze mirror and dark-red pearl were her best and favorite spiritual tools. As a matter of fact, she had never suffered a single defeat using them to fight Qi warriors at the Heaven stage or lower.
However, not only did she fail to defeat Nie Tian with them, but both spiritual tools had sustained serious damage when she used them on Nie Tian. This made Hu Han feel extremely frustrated.
She couldn’t help but wonder: Nie Tian already possessed such formidable battle prowess at the Lesser Heaven stage; what kind of existence he would become after entering the Heaven stage and Greater Heaven stage?
She somewhat regretted using force on Nie Tian. After all, if she couldn’t capture him today and let him escape, he would become a sword hanging over her head for the rest of her life.
However, the thought of her brother, who might be suffering at this very moment, strengthened her determination. “I cannot let him escape!”
She walked forward and picked up her bronze mirror and pearl.
She had always had strong spiritual connections with those two spiritual tools. However, when she picked them up from the ground this time, she could sense that the connections were weak and flickering.
A distressed look appeared in her eyes as she realized that both the spiritual tools had been greatly damaged, and it was beyond her skills to repair them.
Li Ye might be able to fix them, but after today, she doubted that she would ever speak to Li Ye again.
Both Li Ye and his senior martial sister, Pei Qiqi, would undoubtedly consider her to be their enemy from now on.
The mere thought of Pei Qiqi made Hu Han shudder.
That was when she realized that, deep down, Pei Qiqi was actually the one who she really feared.
“I can never return to Shatter City again, not after this. I can only join and seek refuge with the Dark Moon now. Hua Tian and that small teleportation portal will be my first gift to them.”
Hu Han took a deep breath and, with a determined look in her eyes, wreathed herself with a raging flame aura. Like a ball of flames, she chased after Nie Tian.
However, since she had hesitated for a short while, Nie Tian was already quite a distance ahead of her.At that moment, Nie Tian shouted at the top of his lungs, “Hey, brothers of the Blood Skull! I want to do some more business with you!”