Chapter 545: Corpses In the Depths of the Sea (1/2)
Chapter 545: Corpses In the Depths of the Sea
Chen Hao followed Ye Qin’s gaze and looked at the empty, black sea before him. Confused, he said, “I don’t see anything.”
Xuan Ke from the Ice Pavilion Sect also shot a glance at the sea. After seeing no anomalies, he closed his eyes again and resumed his cultivation, not showing the least interest in talking.
Ye Qin pointed at the location where she had seen the flickering spots earlier and said, “Over there. I saw something flicker at the sea’s surface and then quickly sink into the sea.”
“The reflecting light might have dazzled your eyes,” Chen Hao muttered, turning his eyes away.
After hearing his words, even Ye Qin started to question herself. She snuck a glance at Nie Tian, and discovered that he hadn’t moved at all this time, so she calmed herself and resumed her cultivation.
However, as she did, she secretly kept an eye on the sea’s surface.
At this moment, Nie Tian was focused on exploring the world under the black sea, relying on his profound connection with his soul power.
Soon, Nie Tian started to have a feeling that nothing but his soul power could light up the pitch darkness in the depths of the black sea.
His psychic power would dissipate immediately after falling into the black seawater, not allowing him to see anything.
Even his soul power, which carried profound mysteries from the nine fragmentary stars in his soul, wouldn’t last very long in the mysterious, black seawater.
Even floating still in one place, his clusters of soul power lost their power rather rapidly.
However, as he controlled them to sink deeper into the sea, they would start losing their power at a much faster speed.
This reminded him of the time when he had tried to observe and learn the profound contents of the three fragmentary star marks with wisps of his soul power, which had also worn out very quickly.
He also noticed that, as he continued to draw upon his soul power, the nine sparkling fragmentary stars in his soul shrunk noticeably.
Two fragmentary stars had been added to his seven original ones, and they had expanded significantly after he had revisited the fiery heaven and earth, where he had purged the Spirit Pearl and absorbed its soul power with the help of his Flame Dragon Armor.
Even so, every time he consumed some soul power, the fragmentary stars in his soul would shrink slightly.
Since he hadn’t advanced to the Worldly realm, and hadn’t transformed his psychic power into soul power, he wasn’t able to replenish his soul power through cultivation.
This made him realize that the soul power from the nine fragmentary stars in his soul was very precious and nonrenewable.
However, he was so fascinated by what he had seen in the depths of the black sea, and was so curious to continue to explore it, that he eventually decided to conduct a deeper exploration with his precious soul power.
As the sparkling clusters of soul power sunk deeper into the pitch darkness, they kept sending images back to Nie Tian’s mind.
Soon, he came across a corpse that looked very familiar.
It was the corpse of a Profound realm human Qi warrior. With a closer look, he discovered that it was Lu Bai from the Poison Sect!
Lu Bai was the leader of the Poison Sect’s team in this dimension. Nie Tian wondered what had happened that had killed such a powerful expert and left his body in the depths of the black sea.
Just like the outsider experts’ corpses floating around it, Lu Bai’s corpse was also bereft of any residual power or aura of corruption.
Afterwards, Nie Tian summoned all of his clusters of soul power to the area where he had discovered Lu Bai’s body.
After searching for a while, he found the corpses of a few more powerful human Qi warriors, Lu Jianfan from the Spirit God Sect being one of them. The others were mostly at the Worldly realm.
Lu Bai and Lu Jianfan were both Profound realm experts, yet they had both been killed and left in the depths of the black sea, which made Nie Tian wonder.
Just as he was about to conduct a thorough examination of them, the clusters of soul power flickered a few times and went out.
Then, as his awareness returned, he opened his eyes. Face grim, he gazed at the dead, silent, and black sea, where not even a leaf could be seen.
His heart was still shaken by the corpses of powerful human experts he had discovered. He started to wonder whether some mishap had occurred when the swirling band had carried them to this place.
Otherwise, why would their bodies have appeared in the depths of the black sea?
He was aware that the black sea covered a extremely vast area, and the area he had explored with the help of his soul power was only a drop in the bucket.
Could there be more dead human experts in other parts of the unfathomable sea?
Had they died fighting each other, from accidents, or at the hands of outsiders?
Questions exploded in Nie Tian’s head. As hard as he tried, he couldn’t come up with answers. He only felt that the black sea before him was now filled with unpredictable danger. Thus, he inwardly reminded himself that he shouldn’t fall into the black sea in the future, no matter what.
Since his soul power was far too precious, he decided to put the exploration of the black sea on hold now that he had come to a fairly good understanding of what was under there. Instead, he spent his time consuming spirit beast meat and cultivating with spirit stones.
Days passed before the Yin Sect, Yang Sect, and Ice Pavilion Sect disciples returned one after another with the Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors they had found.
There were members of the Thunder Mountain Sect, the Heaven Expanse Sect, the Poison Sect, and the Flame God Sect.
Meanwhile, Nie Tian finally got in touch with Dong Li through his Sound Stone, learning that she had successfully entered the late Greater Heaven stage. After he informed her of the appearance of the outsiders, she and the others started rushing towards his location.
On this day, Dong Baijie, who had been gone for a long time, came to the location where Nie Tian and the others were gathered.