Chapter 572: Unexpected Fortune (1/2)

Chapter 572: Unexpected Fortune

It was human nature to fight among themselves.

Throughout history, humans had only united as one when they had faced great threats from foreign forces. Other than that, wars had broken out among themselves year-round.

This was true of the humans in the Domain of the Falling Stars, as well as other human realms and domains throughout the starry river.

The moment Yang Kan and his lot had seen the outsiders leave, they had been convinced that the outsiders were weak, and no longer a threat. Therefore, they instantly had other ideas.

Su Lin wanted to stop everyone from chasing after the members of the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce, yet Yang Kan and the others had already sped off into the distance, screaming madly.

Even the other Heaven Palace Sect disciples thought Yang Kan was making the right move. They had endured Nie Tian for a long time now. Knowing that he had turned down their sect’s offer and killed their sectmates, every one of them hated Nie Tian’s guts.

Su Lin was the only one who had a clear understanding of Nie Tian’s formidable strength.

She wanted to figure out Nie Tian’s situation before making her decision, yet everything happened too fast. Things got out of hand before she could do anything.

A bloodcurdling shriek echoed out from the distance as a member of the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce that had lagged behind was killed by the ferocious Yang Kan and those who had gone with him.

Knowing that there was no going back now, Su Lin sighed and reluctantly gave the order, “The damage has been done. We can only go down this road now.”

Standing beside her, the few Heaven Palace Sect disciples smiled coldly upon hearing her words, and then hurried off into the distance as well.

All of these men believed that Nie Tian must have sustained heavy injuries, even if the outsiders hadn’t killed him. In such a state, there would be very little he could do when facing them.

Just like that, all of the young Qi warriors joined the operation of chasing down and killing members of the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce.

A battle broke out again.

…

By the vast, black lake, Nie Tian was sitting in his Wood Thriving Formation and cultivating wholeheartedly.

A stream of rich wood power was pouring down through the top of his head all the way to the vortex of wood power in his spiritual sea, where it rapidly condensed and liquidized.

Since this required almost no effort on his part, he took out some Star Stones, and started recovering star power with them.

At this moment, he had already put the Flame Dragon Armor back in his ring of holding, and with the outsiders gone, he didn’t consume his precious star power to form Heaven Eyes to keep watch over his surroundings.

Furthermore, since all the chasing was taking place in the coastal areas, he knew nothing of it.

All he did was focus on his cultivation.

He couldn’t refine his body with Heavenly Wood Heal while replenishing his spiritual power. The copious amount of flesh power he had absorbed from the ball of outsider corpses was still roaming his every bone and muscle, making him feel full of vigor.

As he continued to absorb star power from the Star Stones in his hand with the Fragmentary Star Incantation, a strange phenomenon caught his attention.

He sensed that the speed at which he channeled star power by this mysterious black lake was at least sixty percent faster than in other places.

He was certain of this because he had recovered his star power when the outsiders had forced him to retreat to his Wood Thriving Formation.

Surprised, he examined himself with rapt attention, and then confirmed his feeling.

“Could it be caused by this black lake?” With this thought, he stopped channeling power from his Star Stones and gazed into the vast, black lake before him.

Nothing was happening on the lake’s surface. Not a single ripple could be seen. As to what was going on under the surface, since the water was pitch black, he couldn’t see anything with only his eyes.

Even after channeling a bit of his soul power from the fragmentary stars in his mind to his eyes, he still couldn’t see any anomalies.

He realized that only by sending a cluster of soul power to the bottom of the lake would he be able to get a full understanding of what was going on.

However, the last time he did that, he had found nothing but pitch-black water under there.

He only suspected that this mysterious black lake was somehow linked to the black sea through its bottom, since he had sensed an ancient and immense awareness during his previous exploration of this lake.

However, it seemed to him that what he had sensed was merely a shred of the unfathomable awareness there.

“It seems that I’ll have to do another scan of this lake later when I’ve recovered my strength,” he muttered.

Afterwards, he refocused on recovering his star power with the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

One Star Stone after another was reduced to ordinary stone and cracked after losing its star power.