Chapter 516: Well-matched Adversary (1/2)

Chapter 516: Well-matched Adversary

After Gu Haofeng arrived beside him, Cao Qiushui asked with a frown, “Why did you provoke him, Haofeng?”

They were standing on a broken piece from an ancient starship, which was large enough for the two of them.

In fact, Cao Qiushui had noticed Gu Haofeng’s little trick of destroying Nie Tian’s supporting boulder.

“Dong Li made such a big deal of him,” Gu Haofeng said coldly, fierce light flickering in his eyes and the long sword in his hand exuding a frosty aura.

“This is because of Dong Li again?” With a wry smile, Cao Qiushui shook his head and advised him sincerely, “Dong Li has always bossed you around. She teases you when she’s bored and casts you aside when she’s got things to do. All of us can see it, that she actually has no special feelings for you. Why would you still throw yourself at her?”

Gu Haofeng snorted and said, “You’ve never loved someone. Of course you don’t understand.”

A hint of sadness flashed across Cao Qiushui’s eyes as he said, “How do you know I’ve never loved someone?”

Gu Haofeng grew intrigued. “Who is it?”

Cao Qiushui remained silent for a while before changing the topic by saying, “Anyways, Dong Baijie seems to also be quite warm towards that Mu Han person. I bet he’s very important to the Dong Clan, so you’d better quit your little games. If you don’t, Dong Li will only grow more resentful towards you.”

“No way! I can’t let him off this easily!” Gu Haofeng blurted as he swung the sword in his hand, his face ice-cold. “He actually dared to fight back. Who the hell does he think he is!? If the Dong Clan didn’t shelter him, if we didn’t take him into our group, he and Pei Qiqi both were going to die in here!”

With these words, Gu Haofeng’s gaze slowly fixed in the direction where Nie Tian had left. “Say no more. I’ll handle it appropriately.”

Afterwards, he jumped among floating boulders in the direction Nie Tian had disappeared.

Shaking his head, Cao Qiushui followed along.

…

After another leap, Nie Tian landed on a floating fragment from a dead tree. Just as he was about to jump towards his next foothold, he froze.

Floating in the middle of the vastly wide band, he saw a relatively large landmass floating not far ahead of him, along with numerous boulders and a few outsider corpses.

At that moment, he noticed that spiritual light was flashing about on it.

Clearly, people were fighting on it.

Under the influence of an unknown force, all tangible objects in the band, including human Qi warriors, were slowly drifting towards a common destination.

It seemed that it wouldn’t trigger catastrophic changes if people changed directions and moved in directions less than vertical to the natural flow.

The floating land wasn’t directly in front of Nie Tian. It wasn’t in the same direction where Dong Li and Dong Baijie were.

After a moment of hesitation, Nie Tian reckoned Dong Li and Dong Baijie were probably capable of stopping Yang Kan from killing more people from the Realm of a Hundred Battles. It wasn’t crucial that he rushed over right away.

Therefore, he bounced off a few floating boulders towards the floating landmass.

He staggered a few step backwards as he landed, breaking the laws of this place, yet he found to his surprise that nothing happened.

However, as he attempted to jump back to one of the floating boulders he had used to come to this land, he was instantly overwhelmed by a crushing force.

He felt as if a mountain thousands of meters high was weighing down on him. He even felt like his bones were going to succumb to the force and shatter.

Expression flickering drastically, he instantly called it off and trudged towards the center of the floating land.

As he did that, the overwhelming weight on him was instantly lifted.

That was when he realized that, as long as he was over an object, he would be able to move back and forth.

However, once he attempted to return to where he had come from, the laws of this place would instantly unleash great pressure on him.

If it were someone else who had just made the attempt, the person’s bones might have already been crushed, and their meridians might have burst.

Unlike others, all of the breakthroughs he had made were closely connected to the refinement of his fleshy body. It was only because of his exceptionally tough body that he had pulled through the short period of overwhelming pressure.

With his new discoveries in mind, Nie Tian cautiously moved forward on the floating land as he unleashed his spiritual power, forming a defensive ward around him. Only when he reached the edge of the land did he see Qian Xin from the Pill Pavilion Sect fighting a Qi warrior from the Spirit God Sect.

At this moment, six pills were floating in the area between Qian Xin and that man.

The six pills were round and the size of thumbs. Some were crimson, some were silver, and others were dark-cyan.

All of them were spinning, emanating spiritual light of different colors, trapping the man from the Spirit God Sect.