Chapter 529: Killing After a Breakthrough (1/2)

Chapter 529: Killing After a Breakthrough

All of a sudden, one emerald green tree branch after another flew out of Nie Tian’s ring of holding and pierced into the ground around him.

As soon as they formed a certain formation, emerald green light rose from them, forming a hemispherical ward around Nie Tian.

In the meantime, the mysterious tree patterns that carried the profound truths of wood power flew out of the tree branches.

They joined the semi-transparent green ward and roamed about in it, vesting it with a resilient and tough force.

As Hong He’s hand slammed down towards the the mysterious green ward, numerous roaming tree patterns quickly gathered towards the top of the ward.

BANG!

A vigorous force burst forth from the contact point as golden light splashed in all directions.

Hong He was instantly sent staggering a few step backwards by the intense counter-force.

Shock and confusion filled his face.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

Tiny green sparks fell from between his trembling fingers as the formidable force from the green ward gradually wore off.

“You think your spiritual tool can save you?!” With intense killing intent in his eyes, Hong He summoned a streak of fierce psychic power and shot it at the green ward.

BOOM!

In the next moment, his mind was shaken violently as the streak of psychic power he had wished to kill Nie Tian with dissipated into thin air.

WHOOSH!

After neutralizing the golden lightning bolts, Dong Li dashed over, summoning the cyan awl back to her hand as she did. Then, with a swift slash with it, she formed multiple beams of cyan light.

Hong He, who was going to launch another attack, hastily prepared for engagement.

He and Dong Li constantly shifted about in midair as they exchanged attacks, filling the sky with cyan and golden sparks.

Sitting among the seventy-two tree branches, Nie Tian’s eyes were still closed as he focused on the transcendence and upgrade of his spiritual sea.

Meanwhile, he was actually keeping a close watch on everything that was happening around him through his Heaven Eyes, including the Heaven Palace Sect’s imposition, Dong Li’s compromise, Hong He’s return, and their current fight.

However, since he was in the middle of his breakthrough, he couldn’t mete out justice for Dong Li at such a critical moment.

The only thing he could do was spare sliver of his mind to form a protective ward around him with the seventy-two tree branches so that Hong He wouldn’t be able to threaten Dong Li with his life.

In fact, he hadn’t been sure how the tree branch magic would work out.

However, the result had proved that the tree branches, which had absorbed all of the mysterious tree patterns from that Floragrims’ ancestral land, had incredible power and uses.

With the help of the floating tree patterns, the green ward successfully fended off Hong He’s attempt to kill him.

After seeing that Dong Li had dashed over and gotten into a fierce fight with Hong He, he felt slightly relieved.

He was well-aware that, even though Dong Li was at the middle Greater Heaven stage, which was lower than Hong He’s cultivation base, her actual battle prowess would probably be higher than Hong He’s, since the Dong Clan had put in an almost limitless amount of resources to help her grow.

As long as Hong He could no longer use him to threaten Dong Li, she would be fine.

While the two of them were engaged in a heated battle in midair, Nie Tian forced himself to calm down and focus completely on his spiritual sea.

At this moment, the eighth vortex of spiritual power had already fully formed in his spiritual sea.

What he needed to do now was finish the expansion and refinement of his vortexes of flame power, wood power, and star power.

Only after expanding and refining all of the vortexes in his spiritual sea to their limits would he be able to finish the breakthrough, given that he had already found the right enlightenment and entered the right state of mind.

Considering he had recently finished the expansion and refinement of his vortexes of flame power and wood power, he only needed to concentrate on upgrading his vortex of star power now.

One Star Stone after another lost their splendor and turned into ordinary stones in his palm.

Countless wisps of star power flew into his vortex of star power. As the vortex spun at an increasingly high speed, the star power condensed into glittering drops of stardew which then joined the lake at the bottom of the vortex.

Time passed slowly...

As the lake of stardew slowly rose and expanded, it gradually reached its limit.

He was finally able to spare some of his attention to observe the battle between Dong Li and Hong He.

Dong Li seem to have become one with her black phoenix as she attacked Hong He. In one moment, she charged into the sky. In the next, she spread her arms and swooped down from the sky, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

The late Greater Heaven stage Hong He was well-versed in wielding metal power. At this moment, he was countering Dong Li’s attacks with the Heaven Palace Sect’s secret incantations, holding a shiny, golden sword in his hand.

“Cross Slash!” Every time Hong He swung his golden sword in the air, a shining, golden cross would appear before him and shoot towards Dong Li at lightning speed.