Chapter 522: Uncertainties (2/2)

Dong Baijie laughed heartily and said, “Well, perhaps that’s because he didn’t think any of you were worth being friends with.”

Dong Li’s smile froze.

Afterwards, Dong Baijie walked towards Dong Kang and the other Dong Clan members, where they discussed matters in low voices.

“I’ve got to recover my spiritual power first.” Without saying anything else, Nie Tian took out spiritual materials of different attributes from within his ring of holding, and started channeling power into his spiritual sea.

Upon seeing this, Dong Li felt that she had nothing better to do, and thus also started recuperating.

Gradually, all of the juniors from the Realm of a Hundred Battles quieted down and started recuperating in different locations within the colorful area at the end of the segment.

During this time, more floating landmasses, boulders, and remains of ancient starships drifted to this area and disappeared into the thick, colorful mist.

Even though everyone was quietly practicing cultivation, they also secretly paid attention to the objects that were slowly floating past them.

However, the floating objects passed them one after another. There didn’t seem to be anything about them that was worth noting.

Some time passed...

A few high-tier Demons’ corpses floated to this area. As the juniors from the Realm of a Hundred Battles caught sight of the Demons’ corpses, they all grew intrigued.

They each put their cultivation on hold and formed a variety of hand seals to wrap ribbons of spiritual power around the floating Demons’ corpses and drag them towards them.

Dong Li managed to drag one of the Demons’ corpses towards her, and started examining it with her unique dark spiritual power.

However, the moment her dark spiritual power entered the Demon’s corpse, it was instantly reduced to flying ashes, as if the ages had rendered it too fragile.

Deeply disappointed, Dong Li muttered, “All the years have washed away its residual power, and made it even more fragile than a human commoner’s body.” Afterwards, she lost interest in pulling over and examining more Demon corpses.

The people with the other four forces also seemed rather disappointed after pulling over and examining the floating Demon corpses from around them.

Nie Tian opened his eyes. Watching the Demon’s corpse turn into ashes before him, he said, “The reason why Yang Kan was the first to rush to this area is probably because he knew all of the floating objects would eventually pass this area and disappear into the colorful mist.”

“He probably came here to search those floating objects for valuable materials.

“We should keep looking. If there are any secrets or valuable materials within these floating objects, they’ll eventually show themselves.”

Dong Li nodded slightly, but still couldn’t mask her disappointment as she said, “No matter whether it’s spiritual tools or outsiders’ corpses, after thousands of years, it’s only natural that they’ve lost their power and become fragile. Unless they were outsiders with eighth or ninth grade bloodline power, or Spirit Channeling grade treasures. Only they can defy the ages and remain unchanged after thousands of years.

“However, outsiders with eighth or ninth grade bloodline power were probably strong enough to have evacuated from this place.

“Even if they died here, considering their status in their clans, their clansmen would have probably retrieved their bodies and left with them.

“I really doubt that we’re going to find anything useful here.”

Nie Tian smiled and said, “Sometimes we’ve got to have some faith. Maybe it’s in our fate.”

“Maybe it’s in your fate, but ours?” Dong Li rolled her eyes at him and suddenly lowered her voice. “Hey, tell me what you’ve discovered about those tree branches.”

“Not much yet,” Nie Tian said. “I just know that they’re very sharp and can be used as weapons.”

“So what do you know about this place?” Dong Li asked.

After a moment of hesitation, Nie Tian explained the series of images he had previously obtained from the tree branch formation to her in a very low voice.

After he was finished, Dong Li went blank for a moment before exclaiming softly, “There were two vast continents at first, one on top and one at the bottom, and many intelligent outsider races went to war with each other?”

She suddenly came to a realization and added, “Perhaps the bottom continent is at the bottom of this vortex under the boundless gray mist!”

Nie Tian nodded. “That’s exactly what I think.”

“But you said that humans never lived here,” Dong Li said glancing around at the slowly rotating band. “All the segments in this band that separate cultivators at different cultivation levels are definitely not the doing of outsiders. Only the most powerful human Qi warriors who know enough about our race would be able to establish such a majestic and sophisticated system.”

Nie Tian’s expression flickered slightly as he asked, “Are you saying that this endless band that spirals downwards was created by human experts?”

“I believe so!” Dong Li sounded very certain. “Perhaps powerful human experts have been here before us and established this thing!”

Frowning, Nie Tian pondered for a short while, and came to agree with Dong Li’s judgment.

No matter how powerful outsider races were, they couldn’t have been so clear about humans’ cultivation levels to have created something this elaborate. It must have been humans.

However, what could their intentions be by leaving this mysterious creation here?