Chapter 260: Surviving (1/2)

Pei Qiqi led Nie Tian and Cai Yuan as the three of them marched forward into a vast area filled with numerous spatial rifts.

Unlike the central area of the mountain valley, it was a plain that stretched as far as the eye could see, and was filled with hundreds of spatial rifts.

Even Pei Qiqi, who was a master of spatial magics, moved among the densely-packed spatial rifts with extreme caution.

Meanwhile, hundreds of meters behind them, Ma Jiu and the other Dark Moon experts were following them relentlessly. Even though every one of them had strong killing intent in their eyes, they marched at a very slow speed.

Not only that, as they marched further and further into the plain, their speed became slower and slower.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

Several spatial rifts whizzed past Nie Tian. One of them came only several inches from touching Nie Tian’s skin.

Pei Qiqi looked over her shoulder from time to time to make sure Nie Tian and Cai Yuan stayed close enough to her.

CLANK! CLANK!

With every step Nie Tian took, crisp sounds echoed out from within a leather pouch that hung at his waist.

After a while, Cai Yuan finally couldn’t resist his curiosity and asked, “What’s in there? Why do you keep it in that pouch instead of your bracelet of holding?”

Nie Tian chuckled and said, “I can’t store other storage spiritual tools in my bracelet of holding, can I?”

Cai Yuan’s expression flickered as he asked, “Storage spiritual tools? All of them?”

Nie Tian didn’t utter a word, but rather grabbed the rather sizable leather pouch and opened it under Cai Yuan’s gaze.

With a quick glance, Cai Yuan found, to his surprise, that there were more than a dozen bracelets of holding inside the pouch, which meant Nie Tian had killed that many Qi warriors.

Cai Yuan thought for a moment and asked, “All of them belonged to Dark Moon members?”

When he and Pei Qiqi had rushed to the opening of the mountain valley earlier, they hadn’t seen a single Dark Moon member, no one but Nie Tian.

That had confused him.

Back when he and Pei Qiqi had been discovered by Ma Jiu and the other Dark Moon members, he had heard Ma Jiu ordering his men to spread out and seal the entire mountain valley.

It was because both he and Pei Qiqi had been aware that the opening of the valley would be heavily guarded that they hadn’t dared to break through the blockade there.

However, due to Pei Qiqi’s insistence, he had agreed to make a run for it, even though he had prepared himself for strong resistance.

He had never expected that he would see Nie Tian standing alone at the opening of the valley.

The bracelets of holding made Cai Yuan understand why Nie Tian was there by himself, and why Pei Qiqi had suddenly decided to take such a huge risk by abandoning their natural protection.

“Most of them, yeah.” Nie Tian answered with a plain tone.

At that moment, even Pei Qiqi, who was navigating by the movement of the spatial rifts, couldn’t help but turn to look at Nie Tian.

Both Pei Qiqi and Cai Yuan had shock and confusion in their eyes.

They were well-aware that other than the three Dark Moon members who had been chasing after them, all the others were at the Heaven stage.

They couldn’t figure out how Nie Tian had managed to kill more than a dozen Heaven stage experts.

“Maybe I should tell you that I’ve entered the Heaven stage,” Nie Tian explained.

“But you’re still at the early Heaven stage…” Apparently, Nie Tian’s answer didn’t resolve Cai Yuan’s confusion. “Even though you’re now at the early Heaven stage, I’ve never heard of a man that could kill that many cultivators at his level or at a higher level, no matter what method he used.”

Cai Yuan was aware that only a handful of those Dark Moon members were at the early Heaven stage.