Chapter 460: Giving Nie Tian Face (1/2)
Chapter 460: Giving Nie Tian Face
Meng Qing’s scream made even Li Jing’s hair stand on end.
Since she knew the black-robed man’s identity, she knew that Meng Qing must have suffered great injuries, even if he survived.
Therefore, she turned to Zhu Bin and Zhen Huilan and said, “We are from the Blood Sect in the Realm of Flame Heaven. Meng Qing tricked us into coming to this place. He said he had a Bonebrute’s corpse to sell to us, but who would have thought that he had other plans.”
Zhen Huilan’s expression flickered as she asked instantly, “The Blood sect in the Realm of Flame Heaven? I heard that earlier, when Nie Tian returned to the Realm of Flame Heaven, he went straight to your sect, instead of the Cloudsoaring Sect. Is that right?”
A puzzled expression spread across Li Jing’s face. Even though she didn’t know why Zhen Huilan would ask such a question, she answered with the truth, “Yeah. Nie Tian has saved our sect more than once, and it was him who somehow managed to awaken the Bone Blood Demon in our sect.”
“I see.” Zhen Huilan nodded gently, as if she grasped Nie Tian’s relationship with the Blood Sect. Immediately afterwards, she waved her hand and said, “You may leave now.”
Both Li Jing and Shen Xiu went blank upon hearing these words.
Zhu Bin even kindly pointed out the direction for them, saying, “Two members of your sect are not far in that direction. It was them who referred me to this place.”
“Feng Luo and Little Tong are still alive!” Shen Xiu exclaimed, overjoyed.
“You may go find them now. I believe what we’re doing here doesn’t concern you anymore.” Zhen Huilan smiled heartily and added, “If Nie Tian ever goes back to the Blood Sect, please tell him that Mr. Hua is worried about him, and that he should try to get in contact with him. He’ll probably know how to find Mr. Hua.”
“Okay, I will,” Li Jing promised, though she didn’t understand the reason behind it.
She had thought she was doomed during this trip to the Realm of Unbounded Desolation. Never had she imagined that not only did she and Shen Xiu survive this tribulation, but Feng Luo and Yu Tong also turned out to be fine.
Just as she and Shen Xiu jumped onto her Blood Lotus and were about to leave, Zhen Huilan’s eyebrows rose, looking at the hundreds-of-meters-tall Bone Giant which was standing witlessly to the side.
Meng Qing had fled so urgently that he had even forgotten about his Bone Giant.
Without its master’s soul commands, the Bone Giant had long since stopped attacking the Blood Lotus, but rather stood in place, holding its huge bone saber.
“Wait!” Zhen Huilan called out.
Puzzled, Li Jing turned to look at her from atop the Blood Lotus. “What’s up?”
“You said that Nie Tian awakened your sect’s Bone Blood Demon, right?” Zhen Huilan asked.
Li Jing smiled bitterly and said, “Yes, he did. He awakened that Bone Blood Demon. But immediately after he left, it fell dormant again. I promised him that that Bone Blood Demon belongs to him now. He’ll be free to take him whenever he wants.”
Zhen Huilan dragged her words as she said, nodding, “So that’s how it is. Take this Bone Giant with you. Consider it compensation for your sect’s loss.”
As she uttered these words, one streak of flames after another flew out from her fingertips, formed some sort of magical fiery pattern in the air, and finally infused into the enormous Bone Giant.
The imprints Meng Qing had left in each and every bone that formed the Bone Giant were rapidly erased.
Dozens of seconds later, Li Jing was no longer able to detect the slightest bit of Meng Qing’s aura from the Bone Giant.
That was when she realized that the connection between Meng Qing and the Bone Giant had been completely eradicated.
As the third disciple of the Tool Sect’s former sectmaster, Zhen Huilan was one of the best equipment forgers throughout the entire Domain of the Falling Stars.
Therefore, the fact that she was able to erase the soul imprints Meng Qing had left in the Bone Giant effortlessly didn’t surprise her at all.
What surprised her was that she wasn’t friends with or related to Zhen Huilan. She had never even seen her in person before. However, not only did she allow her and Shen Xiu to leave without questioning them, but she even erased Meng Qing’s imprints in the Bone Giant and let her take it with her.
It was such a big surprise that it bewildered her, not knowing why Zhen Huilan would do this.
“Nie Tian is also a junior of mine,” Zhen Huilan explained smiling. “He’s good friends with my two disciples.”
A smile appeared on Shen Xiu’s puzzled face. “So this is all because of Nie Tian!”
As an elder of the Blood Sect, she had once had a poor opinion of Nie Tian because of his personal feud with Yu Tong.
Even later, after he had awakened the Bone Blood Demon and saved the Blood Sect from the outsiders, she had still harbored ill feelings about him.
Originally, she had been responsible for that Bone Blood Demon, so she had been rather upset when Nie Tian had awakened it and brought it under his command.