Chapter 571: Hidden Intentions Being Revealed (1/2)
Chapter 571: Hidden Intentions Being Revealed
Su Lin from the Heaven Palace Sect had been paying close attention to even the most subtle changes on the other island.
Instead of cowering behind the major defensive spell formation they had set up, she stood on the seashore and gazed off into the distance.
The other island, which she knew was crawling with outsiders, seemed rather indistinct in her view. Her current cultivation base didn’t allow her to have a clear view of everything happening on that island.
However, as the outsiders fled the island, due to their sense of urgency, they left the island in different directions.
Some of them happened to evacuate the island from the area Su Lin was observing. Only after flying a short while in Su Lin’s direction did they get ahold of their bearings and change directions.
That was why Su Lin was able to see the fleeing outsiders.
After a moment of pondering, she realized that, considering that the outsiders seemed to be rushing away from that island with great urgency, it must be because that island was no longer safe for them.
Since she didn’t see a single human Qi warrior leaving the island, the only explanation would be that the human Qi warriors had prevailed.
Upon hearing her exclamation, all the chosen ones who had chosen to stay there rushed over to her. Their expressions flickered drastically as they stared off into the distance.
Yang Kan, Lu Jian, Yu Yang, Liao Yan, and the others followed Su Lin’s pointing hand, and saw a few Stonemen flying towards the depths of the black sea on their dilapidated teleportation portal.
Lu Jian, who had mocked Dong Li and the others for going earlier, was too shocked to finish his sentence, his face completely frozen. “What’s...”
Eyebrows furrowed, Yang Kan and the other chosen ones wracked their minds for an explanation. However, there only seemed to be one rational explanation, which was that Dong Li and the others had driven those outsiders off of that island.
“They won?! How is that possible!?” Zhang Jiu exclaimed. Then, with a grim look in his eyes, he pondered in silence for some time before saying, “Ah… I got it.”
Everyone laid their eyes on him.
He took a while to sort through his thoughts, and then said, “Even though Nie Tian is exceptionally powerful, he’s only at the middle Greater Heaven stage. He was able to take out outsiders one by one before more outsiders came to surround him. Doesn’t this suggest that those outsiders aren’t as hard to deal with as we expected?
“This is the only explanation as to why he was able to kill them without effort.
“And the outsiders would only join up to kill him if they weren’t strong enough on their own. Thus, when those from the Yin Sect, the Yang Sect, the Ice Pavilion Sect, and the Realm of a Hundred Battles rushed to Nie Tian’s aid, they easily gained the upper hand.
“Perhaps any of us can single-handedly deal with two to three outsiders.
“I think this is the only reasonable explanation.”
The reason why he reached such a conclusion was that he had never battled outsiders personally. In fact, none of them had.
The disciples of the Yin Sect and the Yang Sect had been the first to discover and fight the Stonemen. Later, the people from the Ice Pavilion Sect had joined the fight.
None of the people who had stayed on this island had ever faced a single outsider, so their understanding of the outsiders’ strength was very limited and inaccurate.
Lu Jian from the Spirit God Sect looked enlightened by his words, and thus chimed in, “That’s very possible! It seems that we overestimated the outsiders’ strength. Numbers alone can’t determine the result of a battle. Only that can explain why Nie Tian managed to kill so many of them by himself, and why those outsiders fled the island as soon as the others arrived.”
Then, after a moment of silence, Yang Kan joined the conversation. “We’ve explored this island for a long time now. There aren’t any secret fortunes to find here anymore. If we continue to hold fast here, we won’t be getting any more valuables. However, we still don’t know much about that island. For all we know, there still might be all sorts of precious materials waiting to be gathered there.”
Upon hearing these words, everyone’s eyes instantly lit up.
With a vicious expression, Yu Yang chimed in, “Those guys just had a battle with the outsiders. They must have suffered losses as well. It might be a good chance for us to go there now. Also, as long as our collective strength is stronger than that of whatever’s left of them, we’ll be able to force Nie Tian to return what he took from us!”
Yang Kan was the first to second his proposal. With a cold tone, he said, “Those six crimson stone columns were my most precious spiritual tools. I’ve got to get them back!”
“That Fiend’s heart was also of great value,” Liao Yan said. “My heart bled when I had to give it to that guy.”
That was when everyone’s gazes landed on Su Lin, as if they were waiting for her to make the decision for everyone.
Su Lin also felt heartache as she thought of the Golden Chariot she had given to Nie Tian. After a moment of pondering, she felt that the others had made good points, and thus nodded slightly and said, “I agree that we should go and check out the situation on that other island, and then act accordingly.”