Chapter 270: Mad Bombardmen (1/2)

Violent turbulence and waves were created in Nie Tian’s soul.

A cultivator’s soul is like a sea of countless wisps of psychic awareness, which is usually peaceful and quiet.

However, when the crisp sound of Li Langfeng’s bell rang out, all the psychic awareness in Nie Tian’s soul sea seemed to be disrupted and torn by an invisible hand, causing splitting pain in his head.

The unbearable pain was more than enough to make those who didn’t have an unwavering will break down.

Even though Nie Tian managed to pull through, gritting his teeth, it pained him to the point where he almost wanted to die.

Shortly afterward, the seven fragmentary stars floating above his sea of psychic awareness began to shine with bright light.

Dazzling, bright starlight poured down onto Nie Tian’s sea of awareness, calming his mind.

Soothed by the starlight, his originally-turbulent sea of psychic awareness gradually returned to calm.

The stabbing pain in his head also gradually grew bearable. Nie Tian took a deep breath and turned around to stare at Li Langfeng with a cold look in his eyes.

Li Langfeng’s reckless actions enraged Nie Tian so much that he no longer wanted to leave, even if he could.

Anger could also be seen in Pei Qiqi’s eyes as she let out a muffled groan, intoxicating redness appearing on her unearthly beautiful face.

She immediately turned around and pointed the Ethereal Swords floating in front of her at Li Langfeng.

Li Langfeng had his back facing the two of them the entire time, as if he didn’t think it was necessary to pay attention to them, who couldn’t possibly pose any threat to him.

His true target had always been Shi Qing, who was at the middle Greater Heaven stage.

Just like Pei Qiqi and Nie Tian, the waves of energy from the bell also dealt a strong blow to Shi Qing. He even had blood dripping out of the corner of his mouth.

“Hmm?” Li Langfeng finally turned around and began to look Nie Tian up and down with an examining gaze.

“He’s still alive?” Li Langfeng stroked his chin with his non-bell-bearing hand as he measured up Nie Tian.

“This is strange,” he thought to himself. He had just formed and launched three strands of psychic power, inflicting the strongest one on Shi Qing. As the result, Shi Qing had immediately puked blood.

He had used the other two strands of psychic power to attack Pei Qiqi and Nie Tian. The one he had inflicted on Pei Qiqi was weaker than the one he had used to attack Nie Tian.

After all, he didn’t want Pei Qiqi’s master to make him her sworn enemy. He just wanted to make her give up by letting her know that she didn’t have a chance fighting against him.

On the other hand, he had exerted more power to attack Nie Tian because he wanted to kill him with one quick strike.

Once Nie Tian was dead, Pei Qiqi would have one less reason to resist him. It would be very likely that she would choose to hand over the Dark Moon’s teleportation portal and leave.

He had long since seen through Nie Tian’s cultivation base. Thus, he was certain that the damage he had inflicted on this early Heaven stage young man would be fatal.

Seeing that Nie Tian was still standing and seemed unscathed, he was rather surprised, and began to secretly attach importance to him.

“It seems this kid is one of those people who possess superior psychic power. This is the only rational explanation for why he was able to bear my attack and remain standing.” Li Langfeng soon had an idea. “Those who are blessed with supreme psychic power usually focus on cultivating psychic power, and thus neglect other aspects.”

With these thoughts, he decided to adopt a different method.

PHEW! PHEW!

Wisps of dark-green smoke suddenly began to rise from the earth.

It seemed as if they were vaporized energy rising from the depths of the earth.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

As soon as the wisps of dark-green smoke made contact with the spiritual energy shields surrounding Pei Qiqi, Shi Qing, and Nie Tian, their shields began to show signs of dissolving.

Anxiety could be seen on Shi Qing and Pei Qiqi’s faces as they hastily summoned and infused their light shields with more spiritual power to contend with the toxic, dark-green smoke.

Both Shi Qing and Pei Qiqi knew that Li Langfeng had come from the Realm of Dark Underworld and had been closely connected with the Spirit God sect.

The Spirit God sect was located in a place where poisonous miasma filled the air. Therefore, many of their sect members were experts in wielding poisons.

It was said that the fact that Li Langfeng coughed all day long and always seemed sickly had a great deal to do with the grotesque poisonous techniques he practiced.

One time, he had allowed various types of toxins into his body, but something had gone wrong. He had almost died in that accident.

Somehow, he had survived, but he couldn’t fully refine and rid himself of the poisonous residuals. Therefore, he constantly suffered erosion from them.

Rumor had it that Li Langfeng would be killed by the toxins sooner or later.

Supposedly, he had chosen to live in the Land of the Abandoned and spent most of his time in the Void Illusion Mountain Range because he had been seeking a resolution to his problem.

As a man who practiced poisonous techniques and suffered a backlash from them, the might of the dark-green smoke he unleashed was by no means insignificant.

Nie Tian had been using the green jade bracelet Li Ye had gifted him to keep away the tainted spiritual Qi in the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

However, since the energy released by the bracelet didn’t match Nie Tian’s cultivation attributes, he couldn’t further power it with the different sorts of energy inside of him to fend off the toxic smoke.

Therefore, when the dark-green smoke gradually filled the entire mountain valley, the light shield surrounding him was the first to break down.

“Come here to me,” Pei Qiqi called out to him.

Nie Tian shook his head as he stepped back instead of approaching Pei Qiqi. “There’s no need.”