Chapter 334: Repeated Success! (1/2)

“Life Stealth! It’s such an awesome magic!” Nie Tian grinned as he climbed out of the hole he had dug in the sand and walked to Shang Zhi’s corpse.

He had looted that incomparably sharp broadsword from one of the late Heaven stage Hunters he had killed before. He had kept it because it was fire- attributed and he was able to infuse it with his own flame power.

At that moment, the broadsword was still stuck in Shang Zhi’s chest.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

Even though Shang Zhi had already stopped breathing, flames were still burning on his chest and abdomen.

Nie Tian stepped forward and pulled the broadsword out. Then, he looted Shang Zhi’s ring of holding with an increasingly pleasant smile on his face.

He hadn’t expected that he could have snuck up on and killed a Greater Heaven stage expert so easily by using his newly-awakened bloodline talent, Life Stealth.

If it weren’t for Life Stealth, and if he had attacked him with regular means, he never would have been able to kill him.

Considering his current cultivation base and battle prowess, if he had contended against Shang Zhi face-to-face, not only would he have not been able to kill Shang Zhi, but on the contrary, it would have been very likely that he would have been killed by Shang Zhi.

Anyhow, Nie Tian’s unpredictable sneak attack had achieved a very ideal result. He drove a sword through Shang Zhi’s heart when he was completely unprepared and killed him with a single strike.

“On the one hand, Life Stealth can allow me to seal up my life aura completely, along with even the most subtle fluctuations of my spiritual power, and thus allow me to escape from powerful enemies’ pursuit.As long as it’s not Qi warriors who have entered the three Realms and transcended their psychic power into soul power, their perception will be clouded and they won’t be able to sense anything.

“On the other hand, it can be used as a perfect sneak attack magic!

“It’s such an awesome magic with multiple uses!”

Face full of smiles, Nie Tian continued to search Shang Zhi’s body for valuables. Soon, he found a Sound Stone in his waist pouch.

He held it in his palm and listened using his psychic power. Every now and then, he could hear Qiu Yang and the other two exchanging information.

Since they wanted to keep searching for him in separate locations in order to cover a larger area, they constantly communicated their locations with each other.

Nie Tian snorted disdainfully, a fierce look filling his eyes. “Three to go!”

After getting ahold of his bearings, he cast a number of short-range Starshifts as he flashed off into the distance.

Qiu Yang and the other two didn’t travel in straight lines as they searched for Nie Tian.

Considering they didn’t know exactly which direction Nie Tian had escaped in, they moved in serpentine patterns or even traveled in circles in the directions they chose. They scanned their surroundings for signs of life as they moved bit by bit.

By doing this, they had significantly compromised their searching speed.

Via the Sound Stone, Nie Tian located the one who was the closest to him. In order to rush to that man’s location as quickly as possible, he cast a few more short-range Starshifts.

Four hours passed…

Nie Tian came close to the area where the man was searching with the help of his Heaven Eyes and the Sound Stone.

After locking down the man’s exact location, he make similar arrangements as he had done hours ago.

…

Night lifted, and the sun hung high in the sky.

It was midday on the following day, and Nie Tian had successfully snuck up on and killed two of the remaining three pursuers using the same method he had used to kill Shang Zhi.

The sun was burning fiercely as Nie Tian buried himself in a pile of sand.

Similarly, a piece of bloodstained, tattered garment could be seen on the pile of sand, and a line of tiny words was written on the piece of cloth.

Via his Heaven Eye, Nie Tian kept a close watch on everything happening in the vicinity. He wasn’t in a hurry to stimulate his bloodline talent and cast Life Stealth, but rather waited silently for Qiu Yang to approach.

An hour passed…

One of his Heaven Eyes captured signs of Qiu Yang, and learned that he was gradually coming toward him by following the bloodstains he had left on the sandy ground.

Only then did he stimulate his newly-acquired bloodline talent and hide his life aura and spiritual power fluctuations completely.

He lay under the sand, not releasing the slightest sign of life, as if he had become a part of it.

Since Qiu Yang was also at the middle Greater Heaven stage, just like the other three, he hadn’t acquired soul power and developed the ability to capture the subtle fluctuations of people’s souls, and thus he came straight towards Nie Tian’s location.

“Strange. How come those three aren’t responding? Can it be that they have gone so far that their Sound Stones are out of my reach?” Qiu Yang whispered to himself while his incomparably sharp eyes suddenly caught sight of the bloodstained cloth.

Over the past few hours, he had failed to communicate with Shang Zhi and the other two via his Sound Stone.

He wasn’t aware that his friends had already been ambushed and slaughtered by Nie Tian, and at that moment, the three of them were already on their way to the Yellow Springs.

He only thought the three of them had left the range of his Sound Stone and gone searching in further locations.

As he came along, he saw the blood drops on the sandy ground. Even though he was somewhat thrilled, he couldn’t be sure that those blood drops were from Nie Tian.