Chapter 274: Burning Killing Inten (2/2)

Completely enveloped by Nie Tian’s chaotic magnetic field, his badly-mangled body and even the wiggling threads of green light in his split wounds began to twist.

It wasn’t long before his skin was ripped open and his body started to bloat, as if he could explode at any moment.

Even still, he bore the pain and rammed the skull in his hand into Nie Tian’s incoming fist.

BOOM!

The moment Nie Tian’s Rage Punch, which he had summoned with eighty percent of his strength, met Li Langfeng’s spirit beast skull, Li Langfeng was sent flying backwards, along with his skull.

The same went for Nie Tian, as he was also sent flying out of the area filled with stone protrusions and spatial light blades.

As he sailed through the air in a perfect arc, he found out that bones in his hand had been smashed, and a violent force had been infused into his flesh and blood through the contact.

He could keenly feel that wherever the force spread, his meridians were ruptured, and fissures were even created in his bones.

From the look of it, both he and Li Langfeng had sustained serious injuries after the violent clash.

BOOM!

Nie Tian crashed heavily onto the ground. Feeling powerless all over, he could tell that the force Li Langfeng had left in him was rampaging within him, damaging his meridians and bones.

Li Langfeng, on the other hand, wasn’t in a better situation than him.

Originally, Li Langfeng had been commanding strands of green light and smoke to attack Pei Qiqi and Shi Qing. Even though the two had spared no effort to defend themselves, they had sustained measurable injuries.

However, after suffering this most recent heavy blow, Li Langfeng couldn’t even maintain control over the power he had sent after them.

As the destructive light and smoke dissipated into thin air, Pei Qiqi and Shi Qing collapsed to the ground, completely worn out.

Nie Tian had landed fairly close to Pei Qiqi. He examined her with his Heaven Eye, and discovered that not only had she used up her spiritual power, but she was injured so badly that she could barely move.

Although Shi Qing was at the Greater Heaven stage, he was also in sore straits. However, he was able to move about at least.

Then, Nie Tian commanded his Heaven Eyes to examine Li Langfeng.

Bones fractured, flesh torn open, Li Langfeng was lying on his back with his belly facing the heavens, like a dying toad.

All of a sudden, a thin layer of green light enveloped his body.

Via the Heaven Eyes, Nie Tian discovered that a mysterious energy was surging inside of him.

Frenzied killing intent could be seen in Li Langfeng’s eyes, as if he was only lying there to heal and recover.

From the look of it, it wouldn’t be long before he was ready to fight again.

“This man is indeed terrifyingly strong!” Nie Tian was shocked to his core when he found that Li Langfeng was recovering at a high speed.

In contrast, Pei Qiqi and Shi Qing had already exhausted all their measures and strength. Nie Tian himself was still suffering from the corrosion of Li Langfeng’s attack. There hadn’t been a single second that passed without him feeling the stabbing pain.

Standing several hundred meters from each other, Nie Tian and Shi Qing exchanged a glance.

“He’s still alive!” With these words, Nie Tian deactivated his chaotic magnetic field and put on his jade bracelet instead to protect himself from the toxic spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth as he dashed towards Pei Qiqi, who hadn’t been able to stand up.

Under her astounded gaze, Nie Tian helped her up, hefted her onto his back, and ran out of the mountain valley.

Upon seeing Nie Tian’s actions and the green light shield attached to Li Langfeng’s body, Shi Qing immediately realized that Li Langfeng was merely in recovery, and would soon be able to fight again.

Therefore, without the slightest hesitation, he drew upon his only remaining strength and charged out of the valley after Nie Tian.

After all, neither he nor Nie Tian were confident that they would be able to break Li Langfeng’s protective light shield and kill him.

In this situation, running away was undoubtedly the wisest decision.

As soon as Nie Tian made it out of the valley, carrying Pei Qiqi on his back, Shi Qing caught up to him.

“Let’s split up and hope for the best.” With a grim expression on his face, Shi Qing took a deep breath and charged towards the direction that the Blood Skull members had left in, hoping to join forces with Gu Yu and the others.

Seeing that Shi Qing had sped off, Nie Tian could only go in the opposite direction.

At least by doing that, after having fully recovered, Li Langfeng would have to choose to chase after one of them, and thus the chances of the other’s survival would rise significantly.

Although it was unlikely that Shi Qing would encounter his own forces within a short time, it would happen eventually, given Li Langfeng was stalled long enough.

By that time, Shi Qing would probably survive this calamity.

On the other hand, the path Nie Tian had chosen would lead him to a secluded part of the mountain range where it would be unlikely for him to run into anyone, much less any Blood Skull members.

The reason he had chosen this path was because it was filled with active spatial rifts.

Once Pei Qiqi was able to restore her battle prowess, the substantial amount of spatial rifts in the area would greatly increase their chances of surviving.