Chapter 552: Hunting (1/2)

Chapter 552: Hunting

As the chosen ones from the Domain of the Falling Stars were shocked by how Nie Tian was striking at and killing the outsiders, another person benefited from his actions.

That person was Pei Qiqi.

At this moment, Pei Qiqi was hiding inside an ancient, hollow tree that would take three people with arms outstretched to encompass its trunk.

Multiple spatial wards wrapped around her, completely masking her fluctuations of flesh and soul.

Even Nie Tian’s Heaven Eyes failed to detect anything as they scanned past this region.

At this moment, Pei Qiqi had already entered the late Greater Heaven stage, thanks to the enlightenment she had derived from the tiny spatial energy blades inside of her.

However, after a series of fierce battles and killing numerous powerful outsiders, she had sustained serious injuries herself.

After parting with Nie Tian, she had continued to study the profound bloodline mysteries within that unknown outsider expert’s spatial power, which had filled her flesh and bones with minor damage.

Without Nie Tian to help her recover using his Heavenly Wood Heal, she had recovered at a very slow rate.

Soon after coming to this island, she had run into the high-tier Demons and Phantasms. After a few intense battles with them, she had killed many of them, but had also suffered more injuries, which rendered her unsuitable for more battles.

Therefore, she could only hole up inside this huge tree. With her remaining power, she had formed multiple spatial wards to protect her from the outsiders’ life detection.

To keep the wards up, she had been consuming power, and thus couldn’t focus on healing herself.

While hiding there, she had sensed Demons coming to search in her surroundings from time to time. Hence, she had no choice but keep burning her power to keep the spatial wards up.

However, over the past few days, as she slowly healed herself, she discovered that the Demons and the Phantasms seemed to have stopped their inch-by-inch search and left the area.

She was rather curious as to what had happened.

After some time, realizing that the Demons and the Phantasms weren’t coming back, she carefully canceled her spatial wards to stop her power loss.

Finally, she could focus her attention and power on healing herself.

What she didn’t know was that the reason why the Demons and the Phantasms had left was actually because they had learned about Nie Tian’s killing spree in another area, and thus rushed over there.

Since they didn’t know who was behind it, they thought that Pei Qiqi had secretly healed herself, snuck to that area, and started killing those of minor outsider races.

...

In the dense forest.

A Demon dragged out two corpses from under a pile of large tree leaves.

Standing beside him were a few other high-tier Demons and Phantasms.

“Dead Blackscales,” a handsome high-tier Demon named Tago said, looking down at the two outsiders that had died at Nie Tian’s hands. “According to the information the Blackscales gave us, they already have more than a dozen members missing. From the look of it, someone has killed them all.”

“But it doesn’t look like the doing of that woman.” A Phantasm named Abreu said, the image of the two dead Blackscales reflecting in the prismatic crystal between his eyebrows. “That woman uses spatial magics. Those who died at her hands were all badly mangled. Some even lost their limbs. Plus, these two seem to have died recently, but there isn’t a shred of flesh power left in them.”

“That woman seemed to be getting stronger and stronger every time we met her in battle,” Tago said. “Perhaps she has come to new understandings and developed some new magics during this time.”

Abreu nodded. “I guess that’s possible... Well, the Stonemen said that humans are gathered on a nearby island. Apparently, their strength is rather limited, so we need to find and finish off that woman as quickly as possible, and then we can march off to that island without scruples.”

“The other forces are gathering precious materials while waiting for us,” Tago said with a frown.“The Fiends offered to help us capture and kill that thorny woman, if we need them to.”

Abreu, the Phantasm leader, pondered briefly, then said, “It’s alright. Just tell the minor races to stay together so that they don’t get more of their members snuck up on and killed.”

“Alright, let’s search this area and see if we can find traces of that woman,” Tago said.

...

Nie Tian saw the arrival of the Demons and Phantasms through one of his Heaven Eyes.

He even heard their conversation, and was happy to learn that they actually thought it was Pei Qiqi who had done this.