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

By that time, she would no longer be able to predict the movements of the spatial rifts, much less skillfully shift their position among them.

If it came down to that, it would be even more dangerous for them to stay in the spatial rift-filled areas than it would be to face Ma Jiu and his men.

They would be forced to go out and fight Ma Jiu and his men, which wouldn’t be much different from jumping into a tiger’s den.

She was aware that moment was what Ma Jiu was waiting for.

“Aihh…” Pei Qiqi couldn’t help but let out a helpless sigh as she shot a glance at the opening of the valley, her eyes glittering with bright light.

Over these past days, she had made several attempts to approach the opening of the valley.

However, she understood that it must be heavily guarded by members of the Dark Moon.

Even if she and Cai Yuan somehow made it to the opening, they wouldn’t be able to kill them and break their blockade quickly enough that they would be gone before Ma Jiu caught up to them from behind.

Let alone that those people had all the time they needed to set up spell formations or make other arrangements to stop them from getting away.

The reason she had to escape through the opening of the valley was that immediately adjacent to it was a extremely vast area where hundreds of spatial rifts were violently active.

Considering her exceptional mastery of spatial magics, as long as she could enter the area, they would be able to lose the Dark Moon people in a short time.

After all, even though Ma Jiu and his men had superior cultivation bases, they weren’t familiar with spatial magics. It would be almost impossible to follow Pei Qiqi and Cai Yuan through such a dangerous area.

On the other hand, once Pei Qiqi and Cai Yuan made their way into that area, they would become like fish that had returned to the ocean, or birds that had been released from their cages.

“But…” At that moment, Pei Qiqi shook her head and snapped out of her wishful thinking. Once again, she refocused on dealing with Ma Jiu and his men.

Meanwhile…

Nie Tian realized what was going on after killing another middle Heaven stage Dark Moon expert at the opening of the mountain valley.

As of that point, Nie Tian had already assassinated nine early Heaven stage and three middle Heaven stage Dark Moon members. Even though his spiritual sea could hold far more spiritual power than others at his stage, he found himself with only twenty percent of his spiritual power left.

Since he had a rather accurate understanding of his own battle prowess, he was convinced that he wouldn’t be able to sneak up and kill another middle Heaven stage enemy.

Fortunately, his Heaven Eyes had allowed him to have a thorough grasp of the situation, so he had already taken out every enemy that had been deployed at the opening of the mountain valley.

Therefore, if Pei Qiqi found an opportunity to forcefully breakthrough the blockade line there while Ma Jiu was slowed down by spatial rifts, she would be able to get out before Ma Jiu caught up to them.

Unfortunately, since they were quite a distance away, they weren’t able to get a clear view of the situation over at the opening.

Therefore, they didn’t dare to make such rash attempt.

After all, it would mean their doom if they couldn’t break the blockade before Ma Jiu and the other two rounded them up from behind.

“I’ve got to inform them.” After pinpointing the problem, Nie Tian searched his mind for a solution while keeping an eye on Pei Qiqi and Cai Yuan’s situation.

Personally approaching them and showing them the way wouldn’t be an option.

After all, once he did that, he would expose himself to the truly powerful Dark Moon experts.

If Ma Jiu or either of his companions were to go after him, he would have a high chance of getting killed.

The only way to get Pei Qiqi and Cai Yuan out of the unfavorable situation without putting himself in danger would be to find a way to inform Pei Qiqi without attracting anyone else’s attention.

“How will I be able to do that?” After pondering for a few moments, Nie Tian suddenly thought of the Heaven Eye that had been floating high above and observing Pei Qiqi and Cai Yuan.

“Let’s hope this works!” He held his breath as he carefully manipulated the invisible Heaven Eye to fly through gaps between numerous spatial rifts before finally coming to a stop right above Pei Qiqi’s head.

He concentrated his psychic power and sent a thought to the Heaven Eye, hoping it could relay the message from his soul to Pei Qiqi.

“Pei Qiqi, Pei Qiqi, Pei Qiqi…” One after another, calls that originated from Nie Tian’s soul spread out from within the Heaven Eye. Nie Tian prayed in his heart that Pei Qiqi would receive them.

Nie Tian could only hope that the wisp of mysterious soul power in the Heaven Eye could make miracles happen.

In the area where numerous spatial rifts were slithering in midair…

Just as Pei Qiqi was growing anxious over the tough situation, a voice calling her name suddenly rang out from the depths of her heart.

However, when she calmed herself and focused on listening, she couldn’t hear anything.

That was when she realized that it wasn’t her ears that had received the call. It was her heart.

Puzzled, Pei Qiqi unleashed her psychic power to scan the vicinity, and soon discovered that a mysterious cluster of psychic power was floating over her.

Intrigued, she sent her psychic awareness to gradually infiltrate the psychic power cluster.

When her psychic awareness entered the Heaven Eye and made contact with the wisp of Nie Tian’s soul power that had originated from the fragmentary stars in his soul, a shudder ran through both her and Nie Tian.

It seemed that at that moment, a profound and mysterious connection had been established between their souls.