Chapter 531: An Old Acquaintance (1/2)

Chapter 531: An Old Acquaintance

All his life, Nie Tian hadn’t truly acknowledged many people.

Even though Ning Yang had been his enemy, his heart would be filled with respect whenever he recalled his formidable strength.

Ning Yang’s death had been the result of the joint efforts of Li Langfeng, Xue Long, and even a Phantasm.

As a madman who pursued ultimate power at the cost of his own life, Li Langfeng was also an outstanding fighter. Even still, he had been dwarfed by Ning Yang’s power.

In fact, right up until Ning Yang’s death, he had been considered the brightest star and potential future sectmaster of the Heaven Palace Sect.

He had outshone all the other Heaven Palace Sect disciples at his cultivation stage.

In Nie Tian’s eyes, only those with strength like him deserved to be called chosen ones.

Compared to Ning Yang, Hong He and Huang Hu were nothing but a couple of clowns, completely unpresentable.

SHEW!

Dong Li landed beside Nie Tian like a feather, her gaze switching back and forth between Nie Tian, who was covered in blood, and Huang Hu’s mangled corpse.

“Ahh!” She exclaimed, deeply shocked. “You killed him within such a short time?!”

Even though she had believed that Nie Tian would eventually prevail, she hadn’t expected that he would have killed him so quickly.

Nie Tian casually dabbed at the blood on his neck with the corner of his garment. “Compared to Ning Yang, he’s far too weak. You go ahead and take his ring of holding. I’ll go look around and see if I can catch that Su Lin as well.”

Since Su Lin had already gone beyond the detection range of his Heaven Eyes, Nie Tian couldn’t determine her current location.

Su Lin still had the Earthshatter Beast’s eye, the most precious part of the beast, and she had also taken part in threatening Dong Li to give it up. He naturally wouldn’t just let this go.

After a moment of hesitation, Dong Li said, “Be careful. There must be other Heaven Palace Sect disciples that have come to this continent. Since Su Lin and these two have appeared in this area, it’s hard to say if there are other Heaven Palace Sect disciples in the vicinity. If you find out that Su Lin has already joined the others, you need to come back as quickly as possible.

“It’s true that the Earthshatter Beast’s eye is very important, but you... you’re more important to me. I don’t want anything to happen to you.”

With these words, Dong Li bowed her head slightly, a rare bashful look appearing on her face.

Nie Tian smiled as he felt warmth in his heart, then he nodded and said, “Don’t worry. Nothing will happen to me as long as I don’t encounter a true chosen one as powerful as Ning Yang. Even if I run into Yang Kan from the Flame God Sect, I have confidence in beating him in a battle now.”

“But no one is as powerful as Ning Yang,” Dong Li said.

Nie Tian laughed wildly. “My point exactly.”

Without even cleaning the blood on him, Nie Tian disappeared with a short-range Starshift.

As soon as he disappeared, his nine Heaven Eyes fanned out and flew towards the direction Su Lin had left in at full speed.

One scene after another was reflected in Nie Tian’s heart, yet Su Lin wasn’t in any of them.

He forgot all about the precious materials that might be lying around, but focused on finding Su Lin, getting the Earthshatter Beast’s eye back, and slaying her.

He had fought her during the Heaven Gate trial. Back then, he had beaten her and obtained the first fragmentary star mark.

Now, a few years later, even though she had achieved rapid growth in her cultivation with the help of the Heaven Palace Sect, she was still currently at the early Greater Heaven stage.

He had defeated her when they had been at the same stage, not to mention his confidence in defeating her now.

However, what surprised him was that none of his Heaven Eyes were able to identity any trace of her.

It had only been about a quarter hour since Su Lin and her men had left from the location where the Earthshatter Beast’s corpse was. It was very unlikely that she had gone this far within such a short time. The only explanation would be that, instead of searching in the vicinity, she had marched toward some place at full speed right after splitting up with Hong He and Huang Hu.

It wasn’t long before Nie Tian walked out of the dense forest and approached the foot of the mountain peak with unmatched height.

It was the flat-topped mountain peak which he and Dong Li had seen right after setting foot on this vast continent.