Chapter 448: The Promised Land (1/2)

Chapter 448: The Promised Land

BANG! BANG!

Nie Tian and Dong Li fell heavily onto the ground.

The black phoenix let out a screech before morphing into a wisp of black aura and disappearing into Dong Li’s head.

Hurting all over from the fall, Nie Tian rose to his feet and exclaimed, “This is it!”

Bearing the pain, Dong Li struggled to sit up. After glancing around, she grew dumbstruck.

She found that she and Nie Tian were in a dark-yellow wasteland. Not a single blade of grass could be seen around them.

However, merely about a thousand meters in front of them was a dense forest, where each and every tree was luxuriant and nearly a hundred meters tall.

Though separated by a thousand meters, she could sense the intense wood power coming from the forest.

With just a whiff of it, Dong Li felt refreshed, as if she was instantly brimming with energy and life force.

Nie Tian looked up and discovered that the sky was filled with light-green auras, like ribbons that were floating in the wind. Meanwhile, faint spatial energy fluctuations were coming from the depths of the aura-filled sky.

That was when he realized that he and Dong Li had probably entered this place through there.

Standing in the wasteland and looking at the forest of ancient, exuberant trees, the sensations Nie Tian was feeling were much more intense than what Dong Li was feeling.

Even though he wasn’t moving or doing anything, he could sense the wisps of light-green auras around him being naturally channeled into himself.

As he examined himself with rapt attention, he discovered that the wisps of light-green auras were rapidly flying into the vortex of wood power in his spiritual sea.

Without him making any effort, his vortex of wood power was already spinning at an alarming speed on its own, absorbing the incomparably pure wood power around him as quickly as possible.

As the vortex continued to refine the newly-acquired wood power, a drop of liquid gradually came to form at the bottom.

Normally, he would need a large number of wood-attributed spiritual materials in order to form a single drop of liquid that contained extremely concentrated wood power.

But now, his vortex of wood power had acted on its own to channel the ribbons of light-green aura and form a drop of concentrated wood power liquid within a very short time.

Dong Li glanced around. “I-is this...?!”

She was still so shocked that she found it difficult to get out a whole sentence.

“That’s right!” Nie Tian said excitedly. “This is the legendary place known by everyone in the Realm of Unbounded Desolation, the place where wood power is as thick as water!”

Upon hearing his words, Dong Li’s curvaceous body trembled slightly.

She was still seized by excitement as she asked, “H-how did you find this place, Nie Tian? And what happened just now? Are we still in the Realm of Unbounded Desolation?”

“Maybe not!” Nie Tian couldn’t mask his excitement. “The area in the sky I told you to take me to was probably a hidden entrance that led us to this place. That entrance seems to be constantly moving across the Realm of Unbounded Desolation, so it’s very hard to detect.

“It was mere luck that I was able to discover it.”

“Mere luck?” Dong Li asked with a cold snort. “Are you sure it was mere luck?”

Her eyes shone as brightly as lightning. With a guilty conscience, Nie Tian dropped his head and said, “Yeah.”

“I’m not buying that!” Dong Li shot a glare at him. “At first, you wandered around in the area where the Bonebrutes’ headquarters used to be. Apparently, you were searching for something. I thought you were trying to find some valuable items left behind by the Bonebrutes. I was so naive.

“You were actually searching for this place, am I right?

“Just now, you discovered some anomalies, and thus told me to summon my black phoenix and carry you into the secret entrance in the sky. Is that it?”

Nie Tian let out a dry laugh and nodded. “Sort of.”

Seeing that he had admitted it, Dong Li’s eyes shone increasingly brightly. “So tell me. How in the world did you find this place? For thousands of years, who knows how many people with little time left have come to roam the barren land in the Realm of Unbounded Desolation. They left no stone unturned, yet they failed to find this place.

“How did you manage to find it so soon after coming to the Realm of Unbounded Desolation?!”

Dong Li grew more worked up as she spoke. Her scented shoulders trembled, and her eyes became as bright as stars as she stared at Nie Tian.

Nie Tian adopted the same attitude he had always had when she asked questions he didn’t want to answer — silence.