Chapter 573: Turbulences Rise Again (1/2)

Chapter 573: Turbulences Rise Again

“The arrangements of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace again...” Staring at the silent lake surface and the colorful mist over it, Nie Tian drifted away in his thoughts.

Now that the immense awareness of unknown origin had revealed some secrets about this place, Nie Tian looked back, and started to connect the dots.

He still remembered that back when he had entered the Heaven Gate trial, he had ended up in a mysterious palace that had been divided into different sections by unique wards of light.

Participants at the Lesser Heaven, Heaven, and Greater Heaven stages had been brought to their respective sections.

Only by breaking through into the next stage had he been able to pass through the wards to a higher section.

Similar arrangements had been applied to the swirling band that had brought them to this place. Cultivators of different cultivation bases had been confined to their respective sections. No one had been able to cross the barriers to other sections.

Then, only Greater Heaven stage human Qi warriors and fourth grade outsiders had been allowed on these two islands.

It seemed that the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace liked to make such arrangements to separate people at different cultivation stages.

“Where in the world did that ancient and immense awareness come from? Who is he?

“Also, what’s his agreement with the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace? Why does he have to wait for another hundred years to deliver his half of the agreement?”

A series of questions flashed across Nie Tian’s mind, making him more and more puzzled.

The only thing he was certain of was that the awareness was going to create a spatial rift in the colorful mist over the black lake two weeks from now, so that he would be able to return to the Domain of the Falling Stars through it.

Then, he cleared these thoughts from his mind and tried to calm himself. That was when he realized that his vortex of star power was now fully refined and brimming with stardew.

Gazing into the black lake, he realized that it must have been that ancient awareness that had basically forced such copious amounts of star power on him to help him recover. However, that star power might be only the tip of an iceberg, compared to the tremendous star power the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had left in this place.

Now, his vortex of star power had gone through great changes, but his vortexes of flame power and wood power were still far from fully refined.

He pondered the matter, and thought that he might be able to finish the refinement of his vortex of wood power later, considering the exceptionally rich wood power in this place, and the Wood Thriving Formation, which would be of great use on that front.

However, as for the refinement of his vortex of flame power, since there didn’t seem to be a specific fiery environment in this dimension, he might have to put that on hold.

At that moment, sounds came from his Sound Stone, which was in his inner pocket.

He reached for it, and as soon as his hand touched it, Dong Li’s message came through. His face dropped and killing intent appeared in his eyes. “They want to swoop in and take our spoils? They must have a death wish!”

Within a split second, he summoned his soul power, forming nine Heaven Eyes, and then vanished into thin air.

…

In the marshland where the Fiends had explored earlier.

A thick miasma pervaded the marshland, where the Dong Clan members were searching for spirit plants while enveloped in their protective wards. They stayed their hands as the bedraggled Qin Yan and Feng Ying ran up to them.

The two of them were both covered in blood. Their garments were torn in places, and their faces were filled with anger and grief.

The other members of the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce had all died at the hands of Yang Kan and the other pursuers. The two of them were the only ones who had made it to the Dong Clan’s territory.

After informing Nie Tian of the situation, Dong Li stared coldly in the direction Qin Yan and Feng Ying had come from and spat, “Despicable bastards!”

Sparkling and crystal-clear tears rolled down Feng Ying’s cheeks as she cried, grief-stricken, “Sister Dong Li, those people killed all the others! Sister Qin Yan and I are the only survivors! They didn’t just want our Purpleblooms, they wanted to kill us all. They said that they’re going to get their valuables back from big brother Nie, and that they only gave those things to him so he could keep those things for them.”

With a grim expression, Dong Baijie took out his Sound Stone and whispered into it, “Come to the marshland now. The bastards from the Heaven Palace Sect and the other sects are here!”

Fuming with anger, Qin Yan blurted, “The cowards didn’t dare to come to this island when they knew the outsiders were here! Now that they’ve noticed that the outsiders have left, they’ve marched over here at the first possible moment to steal our battle gains! We should have dealt with them before we came here!”

Dong Li’s cold eyes were filled with intense killing intent. “It’s not too late to fix that.”

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