Chapter 540: Island (1/2)

Chapter 540: Island

The seven Ice Pavilion Sect disciples seemed to be leading Nie Tian around the flat-topped mountain peak.

Soon, Nie Tian discovered that, due to the long distance, his connection with the Heaven Eye he had left with Dong Li started to grow weak and flickering.

At first, he was somewhat worried to leave Dong Li with Qian Xin and the others, and thus kept a close watch on her through that Heaven Eye as he went farther and farther.

Soon, he found that after he left, those from the Realm of a Hundred Battles stayed by Dong Li’s side and took on the responsibility of protecting her, just as they had promised.

Furthermore, as the Ice Pavilion Sect disciples had said, no one else came after the eighth grade black phoenix’s corpse again.

Meanwhile, he was able to vaguely sense Dong Li’s direction through his Sound Stone.

Thus, he supposed that, after Dong Li had finished her breakthrough into the late Greater Heaven stage, he would probably be able to stay in touch with her via his Sound Stone.

Gradually, he put his heart at ease.

As they marched at a fast pace, Zhao Le and the other Ice Pavilion Sect disciples constantly talked to him in a respectful and obsequious way.

The broken mountain peak took up a very vast area. It took them nearly four hours to circle around it.

After arriving behind the mountain peak, from within his ring of holding, Feng Ke summoned an fascinating air-transportation spiritual tool that seemed to be made of nothing but ice.

Sparkling and crystal-clear, the air-transportation spiritual tool was wreathed in a frosty aura. However, as Feng Ke jumped on board and cast spells to activate it, it seemed to be affected by some sort of magnetic field, and wouldn’t activate.

Eyebrows furrowed, Feng Ke said, “There’s something strange about this place. I still can’t seem to activate my air-transportation spiritual tool.”

From the look of it, this wasn’t the first time he had made an attempt to travel in his air-transportation spiritual tool, and all of his previous attempts seemed to have failed as well.

Since they couldn’t use their air-transportation spiritual tool, the speed at which they traveled would be rather limited. Feng Ke put his frosty air-transportation spiritual tool away, looked over his shoulder at Nie Tian, and said, “The veins I told you about are ahead of us, where those colossal rocks are. They belonged to the upper half of the severed mountain peak. Apparently, when the mountain peak was severed by some extremely powerful tool, the upper half exploded, revealing the part near the top where there were veins of spiritual materials.”

Then, he pointed at the barren land before them. “See all these large rocks? They probably all used to be part of the mountain peak. There’s a colossal and oddly-shaped rock ahead of us. I detected very intense spiritual energy fluctuations from with it.”

Nie Tian nodded slowly, but didn’t say anything. Instead, he secretly controlled his Heaven Eyes to fly towards the location Feng Ke had just pointed out.

With the help of his Heaven Eyes, he saw countless rocks of different sizes scattered on the dead, silent ground. Most of them were grayish-brown, and seemed ordinary.

This area was much colder and more barren than the area on the other side of the mountain peak, where Dong Li and the others were.

Then, as Nie Tian spread out his Heaven Eyes to cover a larger area, he failed to detect any signs of life or locate the special rock Feng Ke had referred to.

He realized that it might be in a location farther ahead of them.

They might still have to travel ahead for some time before that special rock would enter the detection range of his Heaven Eyes.

“How long has it been since you set foot on this continent, Nie Tian?” Feng Ke asked suddenly.

Caught by surprise, Nie Tian pondered a moment before answering, “Not very long.”

“We’ve been here for about two months already. Our people were scattered in different locations at first, so we know this continent... fairly well.” Feng Ke seemed cautious with the words he used, his expression serious. “According to what we’ve learned, this continent, where us Greater Heaven stage cultivators have been led to, is a vast continent that’s surrounded by a sea.”

Nie Tian was taken aback. “Surrounded by a sea?!”

Feng Ke nodded. “A few of our people have reached places where the land ends, and black sea water filled their view. It seems that we’re on a giant island. From one of the Thunder Mountain Sect disciples I killed, we learned that there another island that’s not very far from ours, since he said he was able to see it standing on the coast.

“If we go straight ahead, we’ll reach the coast. Perhaps from there, we’ll be able to see that vast island.

“It’s just that, since we can’t use our air-transportation spiritual tool, we won’t be able to cross the sea, no matter how narrow it might be. Plus, no one knows what lies beyond the sea, on those neighboring islands.

“Perhaps we’ll find Worldly realm or Profound realm experts there if we go there.

“If that’s the case, it may not be a bad thing that we can’t use our air-transportation spiritual tools.”

While leading the way, Feng Ke explained their discoveries of the continent they were on to Nie Tian. As he did, the other Ice Pavilion Sect disciples occasionally chimed in, gradually lifting the veil and giving Nie Tian a fairly comprehensive understanding of the continent.

He learned that they were on a vast island surrounded by a black sea, along with other Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors.