Chapter 544: A Vague Awareness (1/2)

Chapter 544: A Vague Awareness

Nie Tian stood as straight as a spear on the coast, facing the boundless black sea.

Behind him stood Ye Qin, Chen Hao, and the others. Nie Tian didn’t say anything as they issued orders to their people.

He focused all his attention on his eight Heaven Eyes, which, under his control, chased after the Stonemen’s teleportation portal towards the distant island.

It wasn’t long before the Heaven Eyes reached the limit of their effective range. If they flew any farther, Nie Tian would lose contact with them, yet they were still a significant distance from the island.

Hence, he realized that it would be impossible for him to observe the situation on that island with the help of his Heaven Eyes.

The eight Heaven Eyes floated in the air over the black sea between the island where Nie Tian was standing and the distant island he could barely see.

Nie Tian didn’t say a word, his eyes clouded by a faint haze.

If the Stoneman leader had told the truth, and powerful outsider experts were gathered on that island, the human Qi warriors from the Domain of the Falling Stars were now in a very unfavorable situation.

After fighting among themselves for months, the Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors from all over the Domain of the Falling Stars had already lost about half of their people.

Due to the temptation of precious materials, similar fights might be taking place on the other island at this very moment.

He didn’t know how many people they could raise to contend against the powerful outsiders on that other island.

Furthermore, he had no idea what kind of power those outsiders possessed. If they were all outsiders that possessed fourth grade bloodline power, which was equal to that of Greater Heaven stage human Qi warriors, they might still be able to manage with some effort. However, if they consisted of outsiders that possessed fifth grade bloodline power, the Qi warriors from the Domain of the Falling Stars would be doomed.

At this moment, the Stonemen had already passed the black sea on their teleportation portal and arrived on the distant island.

According to Feng Ke, it seemed that, after coming to the coast of the island, air-transportation spiritual tools had somehow become functional again, which meant that those Stonemen might very well fly back with reinforcements.

After pondering for some time, Nie Tian once again focused his mind on his Heaven Eyes, hoping that he would be able to uncover some secrets about the black sea.

Under his control, the eight Heaven Eyes slowly descended to a place one meter above the sea’s surface, where they unleashed psychic awareness down into the unfathomable sea.

However, as soon as his psychic power made contact with the black seawater, it vanished like a snowflake against the sun’s rays.

Nie Tian could only sense that his psychic awareness seemed to be plunged into darkness, and instantly lost contact with him.

Vigilant, he pondered for a while before deciding to make another attempt.

This time, he sent his eight Heaven Eyes, which could only be detected by Worldly realm or Profound realm experts, piercing into the depths of the bottomless sea.

He wanted to learn more about the black sea so that they could be better prepared for the battles to come.

The moment his Heaven Eyes dove into the black sea, the psychic power within them was instantly washed away.

Each and every Heaven Eye had been formed with his psychic power and mystic soul power from the nine fragmentary stars in his soul, in a profound way he had learned from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

The hearts of the Heaven Eyes were the soul power in them, which was wrapped with wisps of psychic power.

At this moment, the psychic power that wrapped the soul power was instantly stripped away and scattered as the Heaven Eyes dove into the black sea.

Only the eight clusters of soul power that were the hearts of the Heaven Eyes remained intact, and continued diving down towards the deepest parts of the pitch-black sea.

As they did, Nie Tian scanned their surroundings through them.

Under the pitch-black sea, the eight clusters of soul power emanated faint starlight, lighting up limited areas around them.

It wasn’t very long before he discovered that numerous outsider corpses were floating in the depths of the strait between the two islands.

There were dead Bonebrutes, Phantasms, Fiends, Demons, and Stonemen that looked exactly like the ones that had escaped from them earlier.

To his surprise, all of their corpses seemed to be well-preserved. Even the noble battle armor they were wearing and the strangely-shaped spiritual tools in their hands were in good condition.

He couldn’t sense any corrupted aura from them, as if the ages hadn’t compromised them at all.

Normally, speaking, since the corpses hadn’t rotted, they should still contain copious amounts of power. Perhaps their bones and flesh could be harvested for equipment forging.

However, with the help of his soul power, Nie Tian couldn’t detect a single shred of power from them.

Even their exquisite spiritual tools and elegant armor seemed to have lost all of their power.

Gradually, the eight clusters of soul power started to grow dim, as if they were consuming their limited amount of power as they observed the situation under the sea.

With their last remaining soul power, Nie Tian controlled them to dive deeper.

That was when he discovered even more dead outsiders, along with the corpses of enormous spirit beasts.

From the look of it, they had been at the sixth or seventh grade before they had died.

Gasping with astonishment, Nie Tian decided to control his soul power to go further down to see what was there. However, his soul power finally wore out completely and was extinguished.

However, just before that, he detected very subtle, almost undetectable soul fluctuations in the deepest parts of the dark sea.