Chapter 570: Opening Up (1/2)

Chapter 570: Opening Up

Nie Tian didn’t say a word as Qin Yan gazed at him, her eyes filled with admiration and a hint of desire. “What if I had met him first, not Dong Li?”

A shade of redness appeared on Qin Yan’s cheeks as she was carried away by her thoughts. Even her bright eyes glittered with mixed emotions. “I’m just not as lucky as Dong Li. If I had met this guy before Dong Li did, things might have been completely different...”

It wasn’t very long before the members of the Gu Clan, the Cao Clan, and the Pill Pavilion Sect returned one after another. They all frowned deeply, as it seemed that none of them had caught or killed any outsiders.

Soon afterwards, Xuan Ke returned with a bundle of spirit plants in his hand. He was the only one who returned in high spirits.

“I killed one of the Stonemen and got these spirit plants from him.” With these words, he took a deep look at Nie Tian and added, “Only after fighting those outsiders personally did I realize how powerful Brother Nie is.”

The other Ice Pavilion Sect disciples who had returned with him nodded slightly, respect filling their faces.

Among them, Wang Rong and Luo Xue inwardly admired their leader’s keen judgment of talent.

If Xuan Ke hadn’t made those farsighted decisions and repeatedly urged them not to provoke Nie Tian, they probably wouldn’t have become allies with him.

Only just now, when they had chased after the scattered Stonemen personally, did they finally realize how powerful those outsiders were.

Compared to Demons, Phantasms, and Fiends, Stonemen were only a minor and relatively weak race.

It was hard for them to imagine how powerful Nie Tian really was, considering he had not only scouted out this island, but also managed to slaughter so many outsiders single-handedly.

With these thoughts in mind, they inwardly marveled that Xuan Ke’s decisions couldn’t have been wiser.

If they had somehow become Nie Tian’s enemies, then considering their strength, Nie Tian probably would have no problem annihilating them all by himself.

Gu Haofeng and the others from the Gu Clan had remained completely silent since they had returned.

After a short while, the members of the Yin Sect, the Yang Sect, and the Dong Clan also returned successively.

Among them, Dong Li and Dong Baijie were the only ones who had killed a couple of Birdmen and Phantasms, and looted some valuables.

Still, everyone looked rather grim upon returning, as if they had all been shocked by the outsiders’ formidable strength.

Before this, even though they had learned that Nie Tian had single-handedly taken out more than a dozen outsiders, they had had no idea how powerful those outsiders were, and thus hadn’t been so shaken by Nie Tian’s battle results.

However, now that they had personally dealt with those outsiders, and learned how bizarre and powerful their bloodline magics were, they finally had a first-hand judgement regarding the outsiders’ formidableness.

They simply couldn’t understand how Nie Tian had not only managed to survive the joint attacks of so many outsiders, but also killed a large number of them without sustaining injuries himself.

Just like them, Nie Tian was also still at the Greater Heaven stage. Why did their battle prowess vary so greatly?!

“Where are those from the Heaven Palace Sect, the Flame God Sect, the Thunder Mountain Sect, the Heaven Expanse Sect, and the Poison Sect?” Nie Tian asked, frowning.

Ye Qin from the Yin Sect snorted a smile, and said with a disdainful look on her face, “They all believed that you’d die beyond the shadow of a doubt, and that abandoning the defenses they’d set up and rushing to your aid was none other than seeking death. So we parted ways. They chose to hold fast to their defenses, since they believed that was the safest thing to do.”

Nie Tian nodded. “I see...” Then, he smiled and added, “Since they decided not to come, they shouldn’t be welcome here anymore.”

“What do you mean?” Cao Qiushui asked.

With a casual tone, Nie Tian explained, “We’ve already spent months searching for valuables on that other island. There isn’t much left to find now. This island, however, hasn’t been over-explored by the outsiders. There’s probably still a good amount of spiritual materials for us to find. I suggest that we split up into groups and allocate regions to different groups. People will keep whatever they find in their allocated regions.”

Upon hearing his words, everyone’s eyes lit up.

Just as Nie Tian had said, none of them had come across anything valuable on that other island over the past weeks.

The last major discovery was the eighth grade black phoenix’s corpse, which Dong Li had eventually refined.

In their eyes, it was already not worth it to stick around on that other island.

Now that the outsiders had evacuated this island, this gave them a new land to explore for more spiritual materials and magical herbs.

Nie Tian pointed at Dong Li and said, “Why don’t you determine how we should allocate the regions?”

With a charming smile, Dong Li said, “Gladly. All we need to do is divide this island evenly, and make sure there are no overlaps.”

Then, with a wave of her hand, she beckoned for Xuan Ke, Ye Qin, Chen Hao, and the other leaders to come closer.