Chapter 258: Call of the Soul (1/2)

The assassinations went smoothly. Nie Tian managed to kill every Qi warrior at the same cultivation stage as him with one strike.

Normally speaking, since he had just entered the Heaven stage, he should have encountered strong resistance when he attempted to kill them.

However, he had advantages most of his peers didn’t.

Thanks to his Heaven Eyes, he was able to observe his target’s every move, and could thus calculate a perfect route so that he wouldn’t be discovered as he approached.

Every time he attacked, he struck like a shadow. His victim couldn’t even understand how he had showed up out of nowhere.

His chaotic magnetic field could even make Greater Heaven stage experts lose control once it enveloped them, let alone early Heaven stage cultivators.

Then, while they were panic-stricken and about to scream, Nie Tian killed them in the time it takes a spark to fly off of a piece of flint.

That was why none of his nine victims had been able to scream before they were killed, and Ma Jiu and the other Dark Moon experts were still unaware of the situation.

Due to the fact that their blockade was sparsely manned and everyone’s attention was focused on Pei Qiqi and Cai Yuan, none of them were aware that their blockade had already been torn open.

“Middle Heaven stage.” Nie Tian locked down another member of the Dark Moon as he flashed behind the huge rocks that could be seen everywhere in the valley.

SHEW!

Nie Tian charged out from behind a rock that was fairly close to the man, with two gray spiritual energy balls that were already on the verge of bursting in his palms.

“Who’s there?” The man asked the moment he saw a human figure coming towards him.

BANG! BANG!

Before he could shout out loud, the gray spiritual energy balls left Nie Tian’s palms and exploded in front of the man.

Concentrated outer-domain impurities that looked like tiny raindrops of various colors filled the area where the man stood.

Immediately afterward, Nie Tian arrived and shot numerous fiery snakes out of his fingers.

PUFF! PUFF! PUFF!

One after another, they penetrated the man’s chest, stopping his screams from escaping his mouth.

Then, Nie Tian’s chaotic magnetic field enveloped the man, causing the already severely injured man to let out a muffled groan and cough up blood.

At that very moment, Nie Tian took another step forward and clenched his hand around the man’s neck.

CRUNCH!

After snapping the man’s neck, Nie Tian skillfully put away the man’s bracelet of holding, along with the spirit stones he had used to set up his spell formation, and soundlessly snuck to his next target.

In the belly of the valley…

Pei Qiqi was leading Cai Yuan as they rapidly flashed through the small gaps between spatial rifts. One wrong move, and they would be cut to pieces by them.

Ma Jiu and two other Greater Heaven stage Dark Moon experts were chasing after them while maintaining a safe distance between them and the spatial rifts.

Whenever there was an opportunity, they would cast powerful attacking magics or sing-use spiritual weapons to bombard Pei Qiqi and Cai Yuan.

Pei Qiqi and Cai Yuan could only avoid them by swiftly shifting their positions among the numerous spatial rifts.

After closely avoiding a ball of thunder Ma Jiu had cast towards them, the two of them hid behind three large spatial rifts. Then, Cai Yuan said, “Qiqi, we just need to hang on for a bit longer. Zhao Feng and Wang Zhuo are coming with more of our men. According to my assessment, it’ll take them no more than two days to get here.”

“Okay,” Pei Qiqi replied without much thought.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

A large pack of silver needles flew through the spaces between the spatial rifts and appeared in front of Pei Qiqi.

Not even the slightest panic could be seen on Pei Qiqi’s unearthly beautiful face as a strong wave of spatial fluctuations spread out from within her curvaceous body.

All of a sudden, a thin shield of water appeared and stopped the silver needles from piercing into her.

Without any delay, she led Cai Yuan to another location where a few spatial rifts were slithering in midair, and once again escaped death.

Although no fear or panic could be seen on Pei Qiqi’s face, she actually was quite tired.

For ten days, Ma Jiu and his men had been tailing her in the mountain valley and exhausted their skill set to attack her.

She had been consuming her psychic and spiritual power with every minute that had passed, since she hadn’t stopped to rest at all.

Whenever she wanted to stop and recover her strength, Ma Jiu and his men would cast spells or valuable consumptive spiritual weapons to interrupt her.

At that moment, she already knew that she wouldn’t be able to last two more days. Her body wouldn’t be able to pull through, even though her heart desired it.

If nothing happened in her favor, she would run out of strength within a day.