Chapter 341: I’m Back! (1/2)

Chapter 341: Im Back!

In the vast, open desert, Nie Tian and Pei Qiqi followed Xue Long as the three of them ran at full speed.

Behind them, Ning Yang pursued closely.

After about 15 minutes, Ning Yang turned into a brilliant golden flash and rapidly closed in on them.

With disheveled hair, Ning Yang had the appearance of a mad person. “Nie Tian! Even if you run to the ends of the world, I’ll still catch you and take those three fragmentary star marks from you!”

He vigorously cast his spiritual sword forward, and it shot towards Nie Tian and the others so fast that it was as if it could break the barriers of space and reach them at any moment.

Xue Long suddenly stopped. With a grim expression, he said, “This won’t work! Since Li Langfeng is holding that Phantasm off for you, I’ll try my best to hold Ning Yang off for you!”

With these words, Xue Long was immediately wreathed in a fierce sword intent.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

One after another, dazzling swords of light shot out of him as if they had flown out of pores all over him. The countless swords of light rapidly formed a rain of swords between him and Ning Yang.

According to his observations, he could tell that Nie Tian wouldn’t be able to keep up with him if he didn’t use the secret magics he had acquired from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

Pei Qiqi, on the other hand, was skilled in spatial magics, so she was able to keep up with his pace.

However, even he wasn’t as fast as Ning Yang from the Heaven Palace Sect.

Considering Ning Yang’s speed advantage, it was only a matter of time before he would catch up to them.

That being the case, the only thing he could do was stay and fight Ning Yang. By keeping Ning Yang occupied, he would be able to buy time for Nie Tian and Pei Qiqi to escape.

What he planned to do was exactly the same thing Li Langfeng was doing with the Phantasm.

“Uncle Xue! You...” A worried expression spread across Nie Tian’s face.

Since he knew perfectly well how powerful Ning Yang was, he could tell that Xue Long wouldn’t be able to handle him.

Even if it were Li Langfeng before his breakthrough into the Worldly realm, and the two of them were still both at the same stage, Li Langfeng probably wouldn’t be able to overtake Ning Yang, much less Xue Long.

Therefore, he was afraid that Xue Long would get himself killed by Ning Yang if he insisted on staying and fighting him.

“You can rest assured! I won’t fight him to the death!” Xue Long knew what he was worrying about, and thus urged them in a loud voice, “Go! The sooner you leave Ning Yang’s sight, the safer I’ll become! When I’m certain that he won’t be able to locate you anymore, I’ll immediately end my battle against him and run to the Void Illusion Mountain Range, where I’ll use the Blood Skull’s teleportation portal to return to Shatter City!”

FIZZ! FIZZ!

As he spoke, a golden flash shot into his rain of swords of light.

One after another, the countless swords of light rapidly disappeared like a shoal of fish being chomped away by a shark.

Under his gaze, the barrier he had established with a rain of swords was rapidly falling apart.

“Take care!” Nie Tian didn’t insist. Instead, he exchanged a gaze with Pei Qiqi before dashing off again.

Soon after they left, Ning Yang’s angry roars echoed out from behind them, along with terrifyingly strong fluctuations of spiritual power.

Nie Tian couldn’t bear to look back. He forced himself to calm down and run at full speed side by side with Pei Qiqi.

In the meantime, he spared a wisp of his psychic awareness and used it to examine himself. He discovered that he had consumed substantial amounts of strength when his refined fragmentary star mark had attracted Ning Yang’s fragmentary star mark.

He had lost sixty percent of his star power and more than half of his psychic power.

WHOOSH!

The seven fragmentary stars suddenly flew out of his refined fragmentary star mark and reentered his mind.

Only then, when they once again hung high in his soul, was the connection between him and his seven Heaven Eyes reestablished.

Immediately afterwards, Nie Tian had a feeling that wisps of rich psychic power and star power had started to exude out of the refine fragmentary star mark, which had already merged with his flesh and blood, and slowly flow towards his mind and dantian region.

Nie Tian’s eyes gradually lit up.

Originally, he thought his psychic power, star power, and seven fragmentary stars had been consumed when they had been pulled away from him by that refined fragmentary star mark.

The return of these strengths made him feel greatly relieved.

RUUUUUMBLE!

A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering sound rang out from the region where Xue Long and Ning Yang were fighting. Numerous golden lights flashed across the air like lightning bolts.