Chapter 300: Short-range Shif (1/2)

Nie Tian, who had been playing with the Fang and other Hunter organizations for quite some time, didn’t march into the wasteland immediately after breaking free from their blockade.

He lingered in the border area.

After roaming for a few days, he gradually discovered that the search teams he could detect in the area had become fewer and fewer in number, until one day they were completely gone.

Only at that time did Nie Tian slightly let his guard down.

During this period of time, he had been playing hide and seek with those Hunters, relying on his Heaven Eyes while bearing strong bodily pain.

After being tricked by Xiao Lin, he had become much more cautious. He had stood down even when he encountered weak Hunter teams.

Whenever he had the chance, he would consume large amounts of spirit beast meat so that he could absorb the rich flesh power to fix his fleshy injuries.

After a few days, the injuries he had sustained by casting Starshift gradually recovered.

Meanwhile, the green aura in his heart, which had shown its endless need for flesh power, seemed to be sensible of Nie Tian’s poor condition, and thus stopped devouring the newly-generated flesh power.

All the flesh power Nie Tian had acquired from the spirit beast meat went straight towards his wounded parts, where the ruptured meridians and bones were rapidly healed.

Soon, night fell…

Chilly moonlight poured down from the heavens. Numerous brilliant stars were shining in the night sky.

Nie Tian was sitting in the shadow of a hill, absorbing the copious amount of star power from a strangely-shaped stone in his hand.

The star power he had consumed to cast Starshift had long since been restored.

Therefore, the star power he channeled from the stone into his vortex of star power was refined round after round before turning into stardew and falling into the lake of stardew.

After some time, the lake of stardew was filled to the brim. As he continued to fill it with more star power, it began to slowly expand.

After a while, the stone in his hand cracked, and he took out another one from his bracelet of holding, his eyes glittering with the light of excitement. “These stones have indeed greatly improved my efficiency.”

He had a feeling that it wouldn’t take long for him to expand his lake of stardew to the limit with the help of these miraculous stones.

By that time, his vortex of star power would be ready for his breakthrough from the early Heaven stage to the middle Heaven stage.

When he returned to Shatter City, he would be able to concentrate solely on refining his vortexes of flame, wood, and spiritual power.

Spiritual materials of the fire and wood attributes could be found in Shatter City fairly easily. He wouldn’t need to worry that he would run out of them.

In Shatter City, he could also rent the Blood Skull’s cultivation rooms. By doing that, he would be able to cultivate his spiritual sea more efficiently, and ready himself for his next breakthrough.

“Wait, Starshift!” With a thought, Nie Tian sent a wisp of psychic awareness into the fragmentary star mark in his chest, where he began to review the other method to cast Starshift.

He had read and learned the method of casting the short-range Starshift as well, but he hadn’t had a chance to practice it.

His recent experience with the long-range Starshift made him realize that not only could he use it to lose his pursuer, but he could also use it to escape the blockade his enemy had set for him.

Only then did he realize that Starshift could be used as a powerful life-saving magic.

Therefore, he was determined to thoroughly learn and master both casting methods before returning to Shatter City.

During the following days, he remained in the hilly area and cultivated day and night. With no more threats from searching Hunters, he focused on condensing stardew while contemplating the other method to cast Starshift.

Time flew, and several days passed…

Nie Tian had long since healed his physical wounds through consuming large amounts of spirit beast meat.

Afterwards, he consumed some more spirit beast meat and used the essence of flesh and blood to nurture the green aura in his heart.

After using a number of stones that contained rich star power, the expansion of his lake of stardew had reached its limit.

That was when he realized that he could put his cultivation of the Fragmentary Star Incantation on hold for a while.

Hence, he used all of his time and energy to practice Starshift.

Standing atop a hill, bathed in silky moonlight, Nie Tian took a deep breath as he began to summon star power.

In the next moment, countless shiny sparks of starlight flew out from within the vortex of star power in his spiritual sea.

He suddenly had a feeling that he had become as light as a feather, as if he had escaped the leash of gravity.