Chapter 257: Assassination (1/2)
Nie Tian overheard the two men’s conversation via one of his Heaven Eyes.
The two of them were constantly glancing around as they marched carefully, two thousand meters away, as if they were afraid that they would run into Ma Jiu and his subordinates.
“What a coincidence! It’s them.” Nie Tian found out that they were the men he had met outside his cultivation room at the Blood Skull’s headquarters a few days ago.
Back then, they had entered the establishment and paid for a cultivation room while Nie Tian was being confronted by Cai Yue and Shi Qing after stepping out of his cultivation room.
The two early Heaven stage cultivators had examined Nie Tian with strange looks in their eyes, as if they had cooked up some evil plans.
Although Nie Tian was surprised by their appearance in this area, he didn’t put much thought into it.
What he truly paid attention to was their conversation.
“The Dark Moon has surrounded Pei Qiqi?! Cai Yuan exposed himself and also became a target?” Nie Tian frowned and picked up his pace as he moved towards the two.
Moments later, he showed up in front of them, blocking their path.
“How do you know that Ma Jiu from the Dark Moon is attacking Pei Qiqi? Where were they last seen? Also, how did Cai Yuan get exposed and become a target?” The moment they met, Nie Tian shot a series of questions that he was rather eager to ask.
“It’s you?!” Both men’s eyes lit up as they discovered that the young man who had showed up out of nowhere was actually the rich kid they had seen at the Blood Skull’s headquarters.
The two of them exchanged a glance as they ignored Nie Tian’s questions and started laughing broadly.
From the way they reacted to seeing Nie Tian, it was as if a warm pie had just fallen out of the heavens and landed in their hands.
Nie Tian was no stranger to the looks in their eyes.
The brothers Qiu Shan and Qiu Shi had the same looks in their eyes when they had met early on, and now their corpses were rotting somewhere in the mountain range after Nie Tian had killed them without breaking a sweat.
“There are always people who seek death!” Nie Tian shook his head and smiled as he reached out with one hand to channel the tainted spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.
HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!
The rich spiritual Qi in the vicinity gathered madly towards his hand as he cast the secret spell.
Only seconds later, a gray, misty spiritual energy ball formed within his palm.
He discovered that the time he just spent to form the spiritual energy ball was much shorter than the time he had spent during his previous battle to help Cai Yuan.
Breaking through into the Heaven stage had indeed enhanced his battle prowess to a great extent. The transcendence of his spiritual sea had greatly sped up the process of channeling spiritual Qi.
Originally, he had always needed to spend a substantial amount of time to form spiritual energy balls, which he had considered to be a major disadvantage of this technique.
However, since the process had now been significantly accelerated, he deemed that that disadvantage had been made up for to a great extent.
Within the gray spiritual energy ball, numerous impurities that were originally from the outer domains immediately began to conflict with each other after being constrained in such a small space.
Even Nie Tian, the spell-caster, couldn’t use his psychic awareness to calm the violent movement within the spiritual energy ball.
He had a feeling that if he didn’t release the energy ball in a few moments, it would explode within his palm.
“Go!” With a thought, Nie Tian commanded the gray spiritual energy ball to shoot towards one of the men.
The man was still smiling as he said, “We’re quite lucky to run into such a fat lamb in the Void Illusion Mountain Range.
“I wonder where this kid got the courage to come here alone.”
BANG!
The gray spiritual energy ball exploded by itself when it was five meters away from the man.
As it did, countless tiny light dots of gray, green, purple, and black colors rained down from midair, filling a large area.
The moment the condensed impurities made contact with the man’s protective light shield, it shattered.
In the next moment, the multicolored lights covered his entire body, and as a result, he shrunk and collapsed from his standing position like a deflated balloon.
Blood flowed out of his withered corpse and painted the stone ground red.
The man’s sudden death greatly shocked the other one. At a loss for words, the man stared at Nie Tian for a while before snapping back to reality and saying, “Have you broken into the Heaven stage?
Instead of answering his question, Nie Tian asked, “Can you answer my earlier questions now?”
The man said, with a tough expression on his face, “Do you think you can get away with this even if you’ve entered the Heaven stage? No individuals who aren’t members of the Blood Skull, the Dark Moon, or the Wild Fire can beat us in the Void Illusion Mountain Range! Don’t you imagine that you can get out of the Void Illusion Mountain Range alive after killing one of us!” With those words, the man turned around and sped off.
From the look of it, he had friends in the vicinity.
“This is so tiring… Why can’t people listen?” Nie Tian’s eyebrows knitted together.
SHEW!
Although they were both at the early Heaven stage, thanks to his superior physique and spiritual sea, Nie Tian’s speed was much faster than his opponent’s.