Chapter 494: Life Drain (1/2)

Chapter 494: Life Drain

Zhang Jiu, the leader of the Poison Sect search team, was only at the middle Greater Heaven stage.

The other three were one male and two females. The man, who looked older than the others, was at the late Greater Heaven stage.

Both of the two females were at the middle Greater Heaven stage and had curvaceous bodies and young, pretty faces.

As soon as their bugs detected the aura of Nie Tian’s flesh and blood, the four of them almost simultaneously locked down on Nie Tian’s hiding place and dashed over after their spirit vermin.

The gentle-looking Zhang Jiu was the leader of this searching team because of his extraordinary talent and strong backers in the Poison Sect.

He flashed past ancient trees and stopped before Nie Tian, who was now surrounded by countless bugs.

His eyes ran up and down Nie Tian. Surprised to find no sigil on his garments, he asked, “Who are you?”

Before entering this dimension, the major sects from all over the Domain of the Falling Stars had already cleared the entire mountain range together.

All of the local powers and independent Qi warriors had been driven out of the mountain range or annihilated.

It was very unlikely that someone could have escaped their joint operation and entered this dimension through one of the six spatial rifts.

However, the garments Nie Tian was wearing didn’t belong to any of the major foreign sects, which somewhat surprised him.

Enveloped by his chaotic magnetic field, Nie Tian’s expression remained as calm as ever as he watched tens of thousands of bugs swarming around him.

He repeatedly swung the Flame Star in the air, unleashing numerous, dazzling blade lights.

Many spirit vermin gave out sharp shrieks and dropped to the ground.

The spirit vermin Zhang Jiu and the others had refined seemed to be greatly affected and started to fly very slowly when they entered the chaotic magnetic field.

Nie Tian’s blade lights tangled up and formed dense grids that filled his entire chaotic magnetic field.

Even the smallest bug couldn’t fly past them to attack Nie Tian .

Watching their spirit vermin fall to the ground, Zhang Jiu shook his head slightly and said, “Since you refuse to state your identity, don’t blame us for what we’re going to do to you!

“Crimson Chain Snake!” With these words, a small, red snake that was half a meter long and the girth of a finger suddenly flew out of Zhang Jiu’s palm.

Unlike normal snakes, this small snake was semi-translucent, like a red gem. Its beady eyes shone with suffocating light as it flew towards Nie Tian.

As Nie Tian watched the incoming snake, the nine fragmentary stars suddenly started shining brightly over Nie Tian’s soul sea.

One wisp of bloodthirsty aura after another burst forth from within the Crimson Chain Snake’s eyes and stealthily invaded Nie Tian’s soul.

With an exclamation, Nie Tian suddenly realized that the soul shadow of the Crimson Chain Snake had appeared out of nowhere within his soul.

“This spirit vermin can actually attack my soul!”

Shocked, Nie Tian no longer dared to treat it lightly, and hastily morphed his psychic awareness into a large saber that resembled the Flame Star.

With a crushing force, the saber slashed down on the Crimson Chain Snake’s soul shadow.

However, the Crimson Chain Snake’s soul shadow instantly split into a large number of slender spiritual snakes.

Simultaneously, the Crimson Chain Snake in the real world entered Nie Tian’s chaotic magnetic field.

As soon as it did, the bugs Zhang Jiu had previously sent into the chaotic magnetic field seemed to be inspired by their leader, and instantly became fiercer and more active.

Some of the smallest bugs squeezed their way through the very tiny spaces between Nie Tian’s tightly-woven blade lights and began to attack him.

After passing through Nie Tian’s defenses, the small bugs all seemed extremely excited. Each of their devilish eyes shone with an unending desire for flesh and blood.

Zhang Jiu’s expression flickered. Eyes brimming with ecstasy, he said, “This guy carries very rich and refined flesh power! All of my spirit vermin that passed through his defenses turned from active to mad!”

Overjoyed, Wu Cui, the girl in a long emerald dress, exclaimed, “Is he a freak who focuses on the refinement of flesh and blood?”

Eyes lit up, Luo Ting, the girl in red dress, said with a bright smile, “It seems so. We’re so in luck. My little scorpion loves nothing better than the flesh and blood of humans who refine their bodies.”

With these words, a green string shot out from her palm, which rapidly morphed into a green scorpion that was the size of a fist.

At first glance, it seemed as if it had been carved out of a piece of emerald, almost too exquisite to be real.

However, its beady eyes were blood-red, and brimmed with a strong thirst for flesh and blood.

It shot into Nie Tian’s chaotic magnetic field and sprayed a cloud of toxic mist out of its mouth, as if it weren’t affected by the distorting force within the chaotic magnetic field.

In the blink of an eye, the green mist pervaded a ten meter radius around Nie Tian.

A numbing toxin seemed to be quietly invading Nie Tian’s flesh and blood.

Engulfed by the toxic mist, Nie Tian felt a burning sensation from his exposed skin, as if it were being burned by fierce sunlight.

Meanwhile, as his blood and aura circulated, he started to experience mild pain inside of him.

That was when he realized that the toxic mist unleashed by the scorpion was causing slow damage to his flesh and blood.

With a cold snort, he instantly shifted away from his original place.