Chapter 339: Life Within the Meteor (1/2)
Chapter 339: Life Within the Meteor
A confused expression spread across Nie Tian’s face. “Unforeseen circumstance?”
Since he had refined a fragmentary star mark, he had developed the ability to sense Ning Yang’s location accurately.
He focused his attention and searched in his mind. He immediately learned that Ning Yang was still quite far from where they were standing.
This meant that Ning Yang had been in a location much farther from the crash site than they had been.
He could sense with great clarity that, as they spoke, Ning Yang was rapidly approaching.
According to their original plan, if they arrived at a meteor crash site before Ning Yang, they could just wait for Ning Yang to come.
Since Ning Yang hadn’t arrived, what did Li Langfeng mean by “unforeseen circumstance”?
As this question entered his mind, with a thought, Nie Tian commanded his seven Heaven Eyes, which had been hovering around him, to fly above the area where the meteor had crashed.
It was an enormous crater with a diameter of thousands of meters.
A gigantic, grayish-brown meteor was embedded into the earth at the bottom of the hundred-meter-deep crater. Sparks were still sputtering off of its surface from time to time.
Floating above the enormous crater, Nie Tian’s seven Heaven Eyes scanned the area and didn’t discover anything worth noting.
Face filled with confusion, he said, “Everything seems normal to me.”
Xue Long and Pei Qiqi were both at the Greater Heaven stage, so they hadn’t transcended their psychic power into soul power.
Since they were standing so far from the fallen meteor that it was beyond the reach of their psychic power’s perception, they couldn’t sense a thing.
Confusion filled their faces as well.
Li Langfeng’s expression was abnormally grim as he explained, “I can sense very subtle, flickering signs of life from within that meteor. I suspect that the reason why the life aura within the meteor is so weak is that the life within it is intentionally suppressing its own life aura. Even I only sensed it shortly after I got here.”
“What?!” Xue Long’s expression flickered drastically. “There’s a person inside that meteor?”
A shocked expression also appeared on Pei Qiqi’s face.
Li Langfeng shook his head. “It’s not necessarily a human. I think it might be an outsider from some unknown realm.”
Upon hearing these words, everyone was flabbergasted.
A gigantic meteor that had plummeted to the earth from an unknown universe actually had an outsider hiding inside of it!
After a moment of hesitation, Li Langfeng said, “Let’s not go over there so fast, and wait for Ning Yang and Tong Jianfeng to go over there first. If my speculations are correct, and there actually is an outsider in that meteor, we’ll be able to see how it interacts with them first.
“Since it’s intentionally suppressing its own life aura, even I can’t make an accurate judgment of its strength.
“So having Ning Yang and Tong Jianfeng explore the meteor for us and draw out whatever is inside of it is probably the safest choice.”
“Okay!” Xue Long agreed.
Nie Tian and Pei Qiqi also nodded.
Li Langfeng was the most powerful one among them, and he was known as a man with no scruples. No one in the Realm of Split Void would want to start a feud with him. Even though Nie Tian hadn’t known him for long, he knew very well how terrifying he could be.
Li Langfeng had never been one to act with discretion, but now that even he behaved so cautiously facing this meteor and the living creature within it, it was enough evidence that he had truly sensed danger.
Hence, the four of them did their utmost to hide their life auras as they waited in place. Nie Tian even used his newly-awakened bloodline talent, Life Stealth.
With the help of the green aura, which was the embodiment of his bloodline power, Life Stealth allowed Nie Tian to completely seal his life aura.
Not only that, but he could even make adjustments by changing his state of mind and the degree of involvement from the green aura.
At that moment, every bit of aura from his fleshy body and spiritual power had been concealed.
It would be almost impossible for people to sense the extremely weak signs of life on him from locations further than where Li Langfeng and the others on his team were.
At the same time, he concentrated his attention and strengthened the connection between him and his seven Heaven Eyes in order to keep a close watch on the gigantic meteor.
Even though he still couldn’t sense the slightest sign of life after having his seven Heaven Eyes hover around the meteor for some time, he had faith in Li Langfeng’s judgment.
“Once a cultivator enters the Worldly realm, their psychic power will undergo overwhelming complete changes. Even their soul will transcend and become different. I’m only at the Heaven stage, and the seven fragmentary stars within my soul were acquired by accident when I was in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.