Chapter 554: A Chatterbox (1/2)

Chapter 554: A Chatterbox

“The Domain of the Falling Stars? Hahaha!” Armes laughed wildly, a disdainful expression stretching across his face, as if, in his eyes, the Domain of the Falling Stars wasn’t even worth mentioning.

After the wild laugh, he continued in perfect human language, “The Domain of the Falling Stars was originally one of our rangelands. If the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace hadn’t come along, there wouldn’t be a single human living there now.

“I heard that experts from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace have long since left the Domain of the Falling Stars. Is that right? Now that it’s been abandoned by the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, it’s destined to fall back into our hands.”

“I wouldn’t say that the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace has abandoned the Domain of the Falling Stars,” Nie Tian said.

If they had, why would the Heaven Gates have still appeared in the Domain of the Falling Stars?

How would he have been able to obtain those three fragmentary star marks and become their only acknowledged successor?

Ever since those three fragmentary star marks had been branded into his chest, he had felt that he shouldered great responsibilities, even though he wasn’t yet sure what they were.

With the fragmentary star marks, he had managed to seal the spatial rifts in three realms and crush the Demon’s invasion plan. During that time, he had discovered an air-transportation spiritual tool that the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had left in one of the lofty mountain peaks in the Realm of a Thousand Devastations.

Later, he had discovered that the the forbidden region in the Realm of Split Void seemed to be constantly channeling meteors from the depths of the starry river.

Not just that, he had also discovered a mysterious ward underneath that forbidden region, which also seemed to be have been left there by experts from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace. However, even as the successor chosen by the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, he hadn’t been able to figure out what secrets were hidden under there.

As far as he knew, even though the powerful experts of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had left, they had left legacies and secret arrangements behind.

He even had a feeling that powerful experts from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had been observing the Domain of the Falling Stars through some very profound methods.

“Hahaha!” Armes shook his head and looked at him with a pitiful gaze. “It seems that you’ve never been out of the Domain of the Falling Stars, and you have no idea what the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace really is. The Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace controls countless domains like the Domain of the Falling Stars. They don’t care about it as much as you think.”

Nie Tian’s expression flickered slightly upon hearing these words.

Armes seemed to be from some Phantasm realm, yet he seemed to be rather familiar with the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

Nie Tian had even discovered that a hint of a scruple appeared in his eyes when he talked about the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

This indicated that the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace must be a very powerful human force somewhere in the boundless starry river.

Nie Tian knew that the Qi warrior sects in the Domain of the Falling Stars had gradually lost contact with powerful experts from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace after they had left the Domain of the Falling Stars.

If what Armes had just said was the truth, that the Domain of the Falling Stars was just a remote place neglected by the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, then why would they still try to choose successors from there from time to time? And why would the Demons and Phantasms still exert all means to come back?

He suspected that there were still secrets of the Domain of the Falling Stars that he didn’t know about. Perhaps only after he had refined the second and third fragmentary star marks and risen to a higher cultivation stage would he be able to derive some enlightenment regarding that.

Seeing that Nie Tian had fallen silent and seemed absorbed in thought, Armes chuckled and asked, “Do you know why you and the other humans from the Domain of the Falling Stars have come to this dimension?”

“Why?” Nie Tian asked with an intense look in his eyes.

Armes laughed wildly. “It was thanks to our efforts that those six spatial rifts reappeared in the Void Illusion Mountain Range.”

Upon hearing these words, Nie Tian instantly recalled the few Phantasms that had descended upon the forbidden region in meteors.

They had mysteriously disappeared soon after their arrival. Only a few members of the Blood Skull, Wild Fire, and Dark Moon had seen them briefly in the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

Later, the same Phantasms had appeared in the Realm of Dark Underworld, where they had summoned their ancient starship from the bottom of a lake and charged out of the realm.

Even though he had seized and refined the Spirit Pearl by chance, the ancient starship had still managed to sail into the starry river.

The few Phantasms had gone with it.

Upon hearing Armes’ words, Nie Tian’s heart was slightly shaken, fearing that those six spatial rifts were indeed part of the Phantasms’ plan.

What did they want by luring people from the Domain of the Falling Stars through those spatial rifts into this strange dimension?