Chapter 333: You’re A Dead Man Already! (1/2)
“Where did he go?”
Qiu Yang was still shaking his left hand as he tried to neutralize the aftermath of Nie Tian’s Rage Punch. His eyebrows furrowed as he stared at the location where Nie Tian had been a moment ago.
“Escape magic!” One of the middle Greater Heaven stage experts exclaimed with a grim expression. “This Hua Tian kid is indeed beyond ordinary. He must have relied on this escape magic to escape from the Hunters’ blockade repeatedly. Only a profound escape magic can allow its caster to advance his potential and escape to a distant location at the price of suffering serious physical injuries.”
Qiu Yang gave a cold harrumph and said, “Even still, he’s only at the middle Heaven stage. Using that escape magic would mean immediate and serious damage to his body! Escape magics are not flawless. I believe that he is in a terrible condition at this moment. Let’s spread out, and each of us go in a separate direction. If we do this, we’ll definitely find him in no time!
“As long as we can find him, considering his current condition, I believe his battle prowess won’t even allow him to fight back!
“Furthermore, since he’s only at the middle Heaven stage, I doubt he’ll be able to cast that bizarre escape magic again. We find him, and then he’ll be a dead man!”
The three middle Greater Heaven stage experts also had a certain knowledge of escape magics, and they shared the same view with Qiu Yang. Therefore, they rapidly spread out and sped off in four different directions according to Qiu Yang’s proposal.
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In a corner of the desert, Nie Tian appeared and collapsed by a sand dune.
Not only did it require a substantial amount of star power to cast a long-range Starshift, but it also caused a serious backlash to his physical body.
Every time he had used a long-range Starshift to escape from his enemies, he had sustained heavy injuries.
However, compared to the few times he had cast a long-range Starshift before, the backlash he had suffered this time seemed to be much milder and lighter.
After a brief pondering, he realized that since he had recently spent plenty of time refining his body under the joint action of his flesh power and wood power, his physical body had become increasingly tough and resilient.
This was why the trauma on his body wasn’t so terrible after he cast the long-range Starshift this time.
He slowly sat up straight as he began to summon his wood power from his spiritual sea and use it to heal his fleshy injuries.
By doing this, he was also waiting for his seven Heaven Eyes to fly to his side.
“Xue Long…” Eyes narrowed, he thought to himself, as he seemed to be a bit worried about him.
However, he understood that if he hadn’t escaped, Xue Long would have wanted to protect him, and thus been distracted and trapped deeper in that place.
Only when he left would Xue Long stop worrying about him and get to make the best decision between fighting and leaving.
By escaping using a long-range Starshift, Nie Tian actually gave Xue Long an opportunity to make choices. Considering Xue Long’s battle prowess, perhaps he wouldn’t be able to fight Shi Hui and those four experts single-handedly. However, if he was bent on escaping from them, Nie Tian believed that Shi Hui and the others wouldn’t have any effective way to stop him.
“Damn it!” Nie Tian cursed. “Talk about bad luck!”
Shi Hui and his men had come along so soon after Li Langfeng had left.
If Li Langfeng had been there, he would have single-handedly put Shi Hui in a lot of trouble.
Xue Long, who was also at the late Greater Heaven stage probably wouldn’t be under as much pressure if he were to handle the other four, including Qiu Yang.
Nie Tian himself would have been able to launch sneak attacks when opportunities presented themselves, and given Shui Hui and his men a lesson that they would have remembered for the rest of their lives.
As he pondered the matter, he took out pieces of spirit beast meat and started eating, hoping to heal his trauma as soon as possible with the help of the spirit beast meat and his wood power.
At that moment, he was struck by a feeling that the green aura that had been lying dormant within his heart suddenly began to emanate glorious light.
He was shocked into a daze before soon snapping back to reality and examining himself carefully.
He saw with great clarity that countless detailed lines and patterns had appeared within the numerous crystal-like bloodline chains inside the green aura.
By magnifying the finger-sized green aura, Nie Tian could see a large amount of sparkling bloodline chains that were as fine as hairs within it, which were slithering around like puny spirit snakes made of green crystals.
At that moment, new bloodline chains kept appearing within the green aura, as it seemed to be growing.
The newborn bloodline chains contained countless rays of bright light, as if they carried the profound truths of life.
All of a sudden, a vague message was born within those newborn bloodline chains, and almost simultaneously, the message was branded in the depths of Nie Tian’s soul.
“Bloodline talent: Life Stealth!” After being branded onto Nie Tian’s soul, the originally vague message suddenly became clear in an inexplicable way.
He didn’t even need to learn it with focused attention and he was able to comprehend the profound truths of Life Stealth. Not only did he master its casting method, but he also understood when and how to use it.
Subconsciously, he cast his newly awakened bloodline talent, Life Stealth, according to its method.
FIZZ! FIZZ!
Misty, bright green spots flew out of the green aura in his heart and almost instantly filled every single one of his internal organs.
In the next moment, the vigorous life energy was silenced, and all signs of life on him disappeared completely.
Even though he was still a living person, sitting by the sand dune, he didn’t release the slightest aura of a living being.
He examined himself with rapt attention, and discovered that at this moment, his aura was no different from that of a rock, a handful of dirt, or a pile of sand, which could be seen everywhere.
Not a single fluctuation of flesh and blood, or even a single movement of spiritual energy, could be found on him.