Chapter 534: I’ll Guard You This Time (1/2)

Chapter 534: Ill Guard You This Time

Before the four Ice Pavilion Sect disciples could carry out their plan, Nie Tian suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

While he hid in the dark, it didn’t occur to him to change his bloodstained garments or clean himself up. Even now, dried blood could still be seen on his neck.

The intense bloody smell he gave off and his terrifying look temporarily bewildered the four Ice Pavilion Sect disciples.

Zhao Le snapped back to reality. A bleak, gruesome, white mist instantly wreathed him, along within a strong killing intent. “It’s you?!” he said with a cold smile. “You want this black phoenix as well?” A hint of disdain appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Lying beside him was the Thunder Mountain Sect disciple who had stayed behind to pillage the black phoenix.

Wang Rong’s face grew cold as she let out a snort and chimed in, “You are just one person. What makes you think that you can take this black phoenix’s corpse? Do we still need to avoid conflict with this guy, senior martial brother?”

Xuan Ke remained silent, his expression grim.

Nie Tian took a glance at the few rings of holding in Xuan Ke’s hand and said, “I know you lot followed me here, and I know that you’ve been watching me from the dark for a long time. Without me, none of you would have found this place or looted those rings of holding from these Heaven Palace Sect and Thunder Mountain Sect disciples.”

“What are you saying?” Xuan Ke asked.

Intense killing intent brimmed Nie Tian’s eyes. “The black phoenix’s corpse is of great significance to me. I’ll take it at all costs. My suggestion for you is that you take those rings of holding and leave now.”

“What if we don’t?” Zhao Le smiled sinisterly.

“Then every one of you will die here,” Nie Tian said with a plain tone.

“Who the hell do you think you are!?” Before Xuan Ke could state his attitude, Zhao Le launched an attack. As his fingertip blossomed with frosty light, a sparkling and crystal-clear spear of ice shot out of his cuff.

The ice spear was a Premium grade spiritual tool that had been obtained from a glacier that was at least ten thousand years old. Afterwards, it had been refined with the essence of frosty iron over and over.

The target of the ice spear was none other than Nie Tian’s throat.

As the ice spear approached, Nie Tian, who had been standing unwavering like a blood-soaked rock, started to have a feeling like he had been thrown into a world of ice and snow, where nothing could escape the frigid coldness.

Frosty wind whistled across the land, ringing in Nie Tian’s ears. The land the ice spear passed over froze instantly, and started making crackling sounds.

In Nie Tian’s eyes, everything before him was rapidly being devoured by deadly coldness.

He felt as if he were standing before sky-reaching glaciers that were hundreds of thousands of years old, and they were going to crush him in the next moment.

“Ice Heaven Imprisonment!!” As Zhao Le let out an explosive roar, the slender ice spear instantly unleashed a mist of frigid coldness, which instantly enveloped Nie Tian, filling his vision with illusions of glaciers.

Nie Tian snorted coldly as his Flame Star flew up into the sky like a dragon, dragging a tail of three colors behind it.

Afterwards, the Flame Star emanated blinding light, eliminating all of the illusions that floated in the air.

SHEW!

Nie Tian suddenly vanished from Zhao Le’s view and psychic detection.

“Starstrike!” With these words, a mysterious formation formed by bright starsparks, that looked like stars that had been shining in the depths of the universe for millions of years, suddenly shot towards Zhao Le’s chest.

At the same time, Nie Tian’s blurry figure appeared behind Zhao Le.

Xuan Ke’s expression flickered the moment he saw the formation of starsparks, which seemed to carry the profound will of eternal stars.

Without the time to think, he swung his frosty sword to stop the mysterious star formation.

BANG!

Upon contact, sparks of starlight and frosty light filled the air. The profound and mighty star power in the star formation instantly overwhelmed the frigid coldness Xuan Ke had vested his sword with.

Bulging veins appeared on his sword-bearing arm, as if bone-piercing rivers were now running through those veins towards his hand.

His hand shook slightly, as if the bone-piercing power in his veins was rapidly neutralizing the residual star power in his hand.

“Senior martial brother!” Wang Rong and Luo Xue exclaimed at the same time, brandishing their spiritual tools as they attempted to attack Nie Tian.

Zhao Le also manipulated his ice spear to circle around to attack Nie Tian from behind.

At that very moment, Xuan Ke caught sight of a black phoenix soaring in the distant sky and the unearthly Dong Li spreading her arms in front of its chest.

“Stay your hands!” Xuan Ke shouted.

His frigid voice seemed to have frozen time, since Zhao Le and the other two froze upon hearing him.