Chapter 341: I’m Back! (2/2)

The sword intent and spiritual aura that belonged to Xue Long were gradually overtaken.

After the seven fragmentary stars returned to his soul, the images captured by his seven Heaven Eyes were once again reflected within Nie Tian’s mind.

With a thought, he commanded one of his Heaven Eyes that hadn’t flown back to his side after the connection was reestablished to fly towards the area where Xue Long and Ning Yang’s battle was taking place.

Via that Heaven Eye, he saw Ning Yang brandishing his spiritual sword, and with every swing, it sent out a beam of golden light.

At that moment, there were already dozens of arm-thick golden beams of light hovering around him and Xue Long, each of which was branded with his unlimited fighting spirit, as well as the profound truths of metal power.

Meanwhile, Xue Long contended against the joint attack of the numerous golden light beams with the swords of light he had created according to the profound spiritual incantation he practiced.

However, it was very clear that Xue Long was trapped.

Soon after he cast spells and created more swords of light, many of them were shattered by Ning Yang’s numerous golden light beams.

Xue Long was deeply caught up in a very unfavorable situation. The golden light beams had already left a crisscross network of wounds on his body.

Normally speaking, being at the late Greater Heaven stage and a guest elder of the Blood Skull, Xue Long should be stronger than most cultivators who had the same cultivation base as him.

When he had fought Shi Hui earlier, he seemed to have handled Shi Hui with skill and ease, and didn’t need to strain himself at all.

However, now that his opponent was Ning Yang from the Heaven Palace Sect, a well-known figure throughout the entire Domain of the Falling Stars, he seemed obviously dominated. From the look of it, he even began to have difficulty fighting back at all.

Nie Tian suddenly stopped his dashing momentum.

Only after running for a dozen more meters did Pei Qiqi, who had reserved her speed to keep pace with him, come to realize that he had stopped. Thus, she stopped as well.

She turned around and asked with her bright eyes filled with confusion, “What are you doing?!”

“You go ahead and leave, senior martial sister,” Nie Tian said with a solemn tone. “Uncle Xue is in danger. Ning Yang is too powerful for him. He won’t be able to escape from Ning Yang with just his own strength. I can't watch him die because of me and do nothing. I have to go back for him!”

“Are you crazy!?” Pei Qiqi exclaimed.

Nie Tian nodded, saying, “Yeah, I might just be… Thank you for your concern and good intentions, senior martial sister.However, Ning Yang is too powerful. The way I see it, even Li Langfeng didn’t have the ability to handle him single-handedly when he was at the peak of the Greater Heaven stage. So there’s no way Uncle Xue will be able to do that. If he gets mad and lays a murderous hand on Uncle Xue, I doubt that he’ll be able to get away.”

“You said it yourself that Ning Yang is way too powerful.” Pei Qiqi said anxiously. “What difference will it make if you do go back?”

With a determined expression on his face, Nie Tian said, “If I summon the Flame Dragon Armor, I might be able to help Uncle Xue escape! If worst comes to worst, I can use the escape magic from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace. I’ll be fine, senior martial sister. I’m grateful for what you’ve done for me, truly. I’ll see you in Shatter City!”

SHEW!

Without waiting for Pei Qiqi to say anything back, he cast a short-range Starshift and appeared in a location more than three hundred meters away.

SHEW! SHEW!

After two more short-range Starshifts, he disappeared from Pei Qiqi’s view like a flickering flame that had gone out.

“The bastard did it again!” Rage filled Pei Qiqi’s face.

Last time, when the Flame Dragon Armor had whizzed out of Nie Tian’s bracelet of holding to snatch Heaven Flame Crystals from Shi Hui, he had sensed the unfavorable situation. Therefore, in order to avoid dragging her into trouble, he left by casting a few short-range Starshifts in a row and disappeared before she had a chance to respond.

It hadn’t been long when he had promised Pei Qiqi that he wouldn’t act on his own and leave her before getting her permission again.

However, now that they were in danger again, he did the exact same thing.

“Why would I listen to you!?” Pei Qiqi stomped her feet and turned around after Nie Tian, regardless of the danger she would face, as if she was only doing it out of her anger towards him.

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Eyes filled with brutality and madness, Ning Yang brandished his spiritual sword that emanated brilliant golden light as he said, “Since you want to be a hero, I’ll kill you first! Nie Tian is only at the Heaven stage. He won’t be able to run away from me in this open desert. Even if I take a while to kill you, I’ll still be able to chase him down. You won’t be able to hold me for long.”

With his sword intent being gradually nibbled away by Ning Yang’s golden light beams, Xue Long looked especially grim.

He had always known that Ning Yang was very powerful, but only when they were engaged in battle did he understand how formidable this man, who the Heaven Palace Sect had placed high hopes on, really was.

Before their engagement, he had never expected that a man at the same cultivation stage as him could be so powerful that he wouldn’t be able to run away from him even though he wanted to.

Even when he had fought Li Langfeng before he had entered the Worldly realm, he hadn’t felt such a strong pressure.

Seeing that Ning Yang’s golden light beams had blocked every possible escape route, and that the room left for him was shrinking by the second, a sense of desperation rose in Xue Long’s heart for the first time.

“This deal I made with the Spirit Condor turned out to be such a losing one. I can’t believe it will cost me my life...” Xue Long thought to himself, full of regret.

At that moment, Nie Tian’s voice suddenly rang out from the distance, “Uncle Xue! I’m back!!”

Even before his voice died away, Nie Tian turned into a tiny spark of starlight and appeared in front of him.