Chapter 544: A Vague Awareness (2/2)

Furthermore, they didn’t come from one spot, but instead, they seemed to be coming from all directions in the depths of the sea.

That gave Nie Tian a feeling that as if a boundless ancient soul awareness filled every inch of the deepest parts of this black sea.

That feeling flabbergasted Nie Tian. He stared blankly at the black sea before him, shock and confusion filling his face.

If there were indeed an ancient, unknown soul awareness in the depths of the sea, what or who could it be?

While he was absorbed in thought, Ye Qin’s voice echoed out. “Nie Tian??”

Subconsciously, Nie Tian jerked his head to look at her.

Ye Qin, who was wearing plain but clean garments, looked somewhat skinny. Her waist was very slender, yet her chest was by no means small. She gazed curiously at Nie Tian, as if she had been calling him for some time.

After clearing his mind, Nie Tian asked, “What is it?”

Only at this moment did he notice that Ye Qin, Chen Hao, and Feng Ke were now the only ones behind him; the other Yin Sect, Yang Sect, and Ice Pavilion Sect disciples were gone.

Chen Hao and Feng Ke were also looking at him with inquiring gazes.

Ye Qin’s slender eyebrows furrowed slightly as she said, “We’ve arranged for our people to search and gather every survivor we can find to this place. When everyone returns, do we fly across the strait to that other island? I’m afraid that if we keep waiting while those outsiders gather more forces and head back to us, we’ll be in a very passive position. Don’t you think?”

Only after hearing these words did Nie Tian realize what the others had been up to.

Nie Tian gazed off at the distant island and said, “To tell you the truth, I don’t have an answer either. I think we’d better wait for the other forces to come and then ask for their opinions.”

Ye Qin nodded and said, “Alright.” Afterwards, she blinked a few times and added, “I hope you won’t make any rash moves when the others come.”

At this moment, Chen Hao chimed in, “Brother Nie, I heard from Feng Ke that you killed quite a number of Heaven Palace Sect, Thunder Mountain Sect, Heaven Expanse Sect, and Poison Sect disciples. Su Lin from the Heaven Palace Sect seemed to have taken an Earthshatter Beast’s eye that belonged to you. We’ve seen what you’re capable of, but I still hope you can think about the bigger picture here and hold your temper.

“Besides, you’ve already killed Guan Ye from the Heaven Palace Sect and helped Dong Li take that eighth grade black phoenix’s corpse.”

While Nie Tian had scanned the depths of the black sea with his Heaven Eyes, Ye Qin and Chen Hao had learned of his doings from Feng Ke.

Now, as the two of them looked at Nie Tian, their eyes were filled with respect, but also worry.

Only after hearing these words did Nie Tian come to realize that they were worried that he would take back what had been his with force, therefore ruining the fragile peace among the different forces of the Domain of the Falling Stars.

With a casual laugh, Nie Tian said, “I won’t start a fight as long as they don’t do anything to provoke me.”

“That’s good.” Ye Qin sounded greatly relieved.

Chen Hao and Feng Ke also seemed relived after hearing his words.

Nie Tian took out his Sound Stone and tried to contact Dong Li, but failed to receive any response. Then, he realized that Dong Li probably hadn’t finished her breakthrough.

Now that disciples of the Yin Sect, the Yang Sect, and the Ice Pavilion Sect had left to spread word of the appearance of the outsiders, he assumed that none of the human survivors would try to make any moves against Dong Li anymore.

After feeling relieved himself, Nie Tian chatted briefly with Ye Qin and Chen Hao, learning that the Yin Sect and the Yang Sect had joined hands to take the last spatial rift that led to this dimension.

Then, the Thunder Mountain Sect and the Heaven Expanse Sect had compromised under the joint pressure from the Yin Sect and the Yang Sect, and eventually agreed to share the spatial rifts among the four sects.

Therefore, the four sects had entered this dimension through that last spatial rift.

After learning about why the Yin Sect and the Yang Sect had shown up here, Nie Tian claimed that he needed to recover his strength, and ended his conversation with Ye Qin and Chen Hao. Then, he sat down in the lotus position facing the black sea.

Ye Qin had heard about Nie Tian’s incredible deeds in the Realm of a Thousand Devastations, and thus had been very curious about him.

Originally, she had been rather eager to talk to him to deepen their understanding of each other, but after seeing that all Nie Tian wanted was to recover, she could only give up on the idea.

Soon afterwards, the four people that remained on the coast sat down in different locations and started recovering their strength with spirit stones, preparing for their upcoming battle against the outsiders.

Nie Tian held a spirit stone in his hand, yet he didn’t absorb its power. The most he had consumed during his battle against the Stonemen was actually his flesh power.

However, after he had killed the first Stoneman and drained his flesh power with Life Drain, he had not only recovered the flesh power he had consumed, but even had some surplus, which then dispersed to his every bone and muscle.

Since the green aura was now coiled dormantly in his heart, all of the flesh power he had absorbed had been used to recover and refine his body.

With these thoughts in mind, he cooked and consumed pieces of spirit beast meat from time to time, hoping to refine his body as much as he could, while the green aura lay dormant.

At the same time, he continued to explore the depths of the black sea with the help of the mysterious soul power from the fragmentary stars in his soul.

It was undetectable when wisps of soul power flew out of Nie Tian’s attentive eyes.

However, they flickered with starlight as soon as they fell into the black seawater, as if they had somehow materialized.

“What’s that?!” Ye Qin, who was in the middle of her cultivation, accidentally caught sight of the flickering spots, which rapidly sunk into the depths of the sea and disappeared.

As Chen Hao and Feng Ke heard her exclamation and looked over with rapt attention, they failed to see anything.

Nie Tian, however, didn’t move a muscle. He focused on controlling his wisps of soul power to dive towards the deepest parts of the sea at full speed.