Chapter 278: Misunderstanding (1/2)

Nie Tian didn’t turn around.

Instead, he faced the stone wall and gradually sank into his inner world, holding a handful of spirit stones.

He had consumed almost all of his spiritual power and sustained heavy injuries during his battle against Li Langfeng, so he needed to recuperate as soon as possible.

One spirit stone after another was rapidly drained of its power and reduced to a normal stone.

In the meantime, his spiritual power was gradually restored.

It wasn’t very long before his spiritual sea was restored to twenty percent full, and that was when he stopped cultivating and opened his eyes.

It had been quite a while since he had sensed any movement from Pei Qiqi.

As he turned around to put his back against the ice-cold stone wall, he shot a glance at the girl.

Wearing shot, blue battle garments that were exactly the same with the ones she wore before, Pei Qiqi was also sitting with her back against the stone wall, recovering her strength with spirit stones.

Bathed in the precious light from the numerous pearls in the wall, Pei Qiqi’s skin seemed translucent and sparkling, as if she was made of jade. Her exceptionally long eyelashes were covering her eyes like two fans.

Sitting there completely still, she looked like an unearthly, beautiful female immortal from a painting.

A layer of strange spatial energy was rippling around her. Because of its existence, even though Pei Qiqi was right in front of Nie Tian’s eyes, he had a feeling that they were separated by infinite space, which made her seem even more ethereal and unreal.

Then, Nie Tian closed his eyes and used his psychic awareness to examine her.

However, when his psychic awareness reached where Pei Qiqi was sitting, all it could see was empty ground where not even the slightest sign of life could be detected.

“Strange woman,” Nie Tian whispered to himself, sighing over the fact that Pei Qiqi was different from everyone else he had met.

A while passed…

Nie Tian took out a giant piece of Golden Stone Rhino meat from his bracelet of holding. Then, he built a fire with a Flame Crystal and cooked the meat with a thin sword.

The injuries to his fleshy body would heal faster if he nourished himself with the rich essence of flesh and blood.

The reason why he had awoken after restoring merely twenty percent of his spiritual power was because he intended to use the rich flesh power within the meat of the fourth grade spirit beast to boost his healing process.

Moments later, the considerable piece of meat was cooked yellow and dripping fat.

Although the Golden Stone Rhino meat was bitter and hard to chew, Nie Tian didn’t eat it for its taste.

Within a very short time, he tore up and wolfed down the meat that weighed several dozen kilograms.

Afterwards, he took out a large canteen of water and drank a few gulps.

“It’s about enough.” He mumbled as he prepared to put away the thin sword, sit back in his original place, and continue to recuperate with spirit stones.

That was when he noticed that Pei Qiqi had already awoken and was staring at him at this moment, her eyes filled with curiosity.

“Were you eating the Golden Stone Rhino’s meat?” Pei Qiqi asked.

It was Pei Qiqi who had slaughtered the Golden Stone Rhino, but she had only taken its horn and skin, and left what remained of its body to Nie Tian.

Back then, she had thought that it was meaningless for Nie Tian to ask for it.

After all, all the living spirit beasts in the Realm of Split Void had undergone mutations so that they could survive the poisonous spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.

Although those spirit beasts became stronger after their mutation, their flesh and blood were tainted and carried all sorts of impurities and toxins.

At the beginning, some Qi warriors in the Realm of Split Void had tried consuming and using those spirit beasts’ meat to temper and refine their physical bodies.

However, almost all of them had failed. Even though a handful of them had successfully absorbed power from the meat, they had to spend even more power to rid themselves of the toxins.

Since then, everyone had treated the meat of the spirit beasts in the Realm of Split Void as garbage.

However, the meat Nie Tian had just consumed was none other than the Golden Stone Rhino’s meat.

Furthermore, from the poised look on his face, it seemed that it wasn’t his first time eating it.

Pei Qiqi also knew that Li Langfeng had been cultivating with the tainted spiritual Qi in the Void Illusion Mountain Range. As he extracted the green toxins from the spiritual Qi, he also couldn’t avoid being corroded by the other foreign impurities.

The reason why Li Langfeng coughed all day long and looked like a man who was being tortured by a fatal disease was that those impurities and toxins were piling up inside of him.

While he was building up his battle prowess and improving his cultivation base, he was actually damaging his own health.

Pei Qiqi despised Li Langfeng’s way of cultivation, which was obtaining strength at the cost of his own longevity.