Chapter 581: Stand Unwavering (1/2)

Chapter 581: Stand Unwavering

The titan’s furious roar resounded through heaven and earth, but it seemed as if Nie Tian and Armes were the only ones who were able to hear it.

As that happened, the discarnate souls swarming within the broad blade light instantly stopped letting out bloodcurdling screams.

Then, the young Qi warriors from different sects were finally relieved from their suffering.

They all jerked their heads towards Nie Tian.

What they saw was Nie Tian shooting up into the air like a flood dragon out of a bottomless lake. Wreathed in raging flames, he dragged a long, burning tail behind him as he slammed hard into the wide blade light of the Nethersoul Saber.

Upon contact, blindingly bright light blossomed, sending out countless shreds of bright aura that lit up the entire sky.

Even the space around where the contact took place seemed to start to fissure as the earth beneath it was quickly riddled with holes.

AHHH!!

Armes screamed, his face covered in blood. His sleeves exploded, revealing his mangled arms as numerous fine cuts appeared throughout his body, from which blood was spilling out.

At the same time, Nie Tian coughed up a mouthful of blood. Many of the meridians in the arm he used to wield the Flame Star had burst.

Armes, who was holding the saber with both hands, felt as if he had been hit by a rampant ancient beast, as he was knocked flying back a hundred steps before he could assume a firm foothold.

He discovered that he had used up all his soul power and bloodline essence after unleashing this single slash.

Without any more power to operate on, the Nethersoul Saber had lost its radiance, and now looked no different from an ordinary weapon.

Armes jerked his head in Nie Tian’s direction, and discovered that his hands were trembling nonstop as blood kept rolling down his arms.

Through the prismatic crystal between his eyebrows, Armes quickly learned that Nie Tian had also drained all his powers.

However, the originally weak aura of flesh and blood within Nie Tian was rapidly growing stronger.

Armes gasped with astonishment. He had never imagined that Nie Tian would be able to survive the full-force attack he had formed with the Nethersoul Saber, much less that Nie Tian was now in a better condition than him.

The other outsiders, who were observing from afar, all stared at Nie Tian as if they were looking at a mysterious monster.

They didn’t say a word, but each and every one of them was deeply shaken.

“A Son of the Stars! I-is this the true strength of a Son of the Stars?!”

“Even Armes’ full-force attack with Lord Basto’s Nethersoul Saber failed to kill him! And he’s only a newborn Son of the Stars!”

“Is it still necessary for this battle to go on?”

Questions flashed across their minds as they stood in place, not daring to make any rash moves.

At that moment, Basto’s voice echoed out from the Nethersoul Saber Armes was still gripping tightly. “Time to come back.”

After a brief moment of hesitation, he turned back to look at his brother and said, “Take me out of here.”

He was too weak to even leave this island himself.

Without thinking, Abreu dashed over, hoisted Armes onto his back, and sped off towards the edge of the island.

Upon seeing this, the other outsiders also quickly retreated like a ebbing tide.

By the vast, black lake, Dong Baijie and the other Qi warriors looked deeply at Nie Tian.

Xuan Ke broke the silence by asking, “Do we go after them, Nie Tian?”

“How are you doing?” Nie Tian asked softly.

Frowning slightly, Xuan Ke said, “I’ve basically drained my psychic power, but my spiritual power is still at a fairly high level.”

Nie Tian glanced over the others, and saw that they all nodded upon meeting his gaze, indicating that they were in similar state.

Nie Tian waved his hand and said, “It’s alright. Let them go. We don’t have much time to spare. The spatial rift that leads to the Domain of the Falling Stars will open soon. If we get into trouble by chasing after those outsiders, we may not be able to return in time, therefore missing our one chance to return to the Domain of the Falling Stars.”

Upon hearing these words, the crowd of youngsters, who were originally rather keen on chasing after their enemies, quickly settled down.

Then, Nie Tian turned to look at Pei Qiqi, who was lying on the ground, unconscious. Concerned, he crouched down and held his finger to her nose. After a few seconds, he discovered that her breaths were still regular. She just seemed to have passed out from overconsuming her strength.

With a wave of his hand, the seventy-two tree branches flew back into his ring of holding as he strode towards another location that was covered in lush plants and vegetation. “Come with me. We need to go to a different location.”

The others quickly followed along.

It wasn’t very long before they reached the other side of the black lake, where Nie Tian established another Wood Thriving Formation.

Since the mysterious tree patterns had returned to the seventy-two tree branches, the tree branches were now translucent and sparkling, as if their wooden nature had been altered.

With that devastating slash with the Nethersoul Saber, Armes had only managed to shatter the ward of the Wood Thriving Formation, but hadn’t destroyed any of the tree branches.

Now that the Wood Thriving Formation was once again surrounded by a copious amount of wood power, a green ward once again formed over Nie Tian. Standing in the spell formation, he said to the others on the outside, “Don’t interrupt me unless that spatial rift appears.”

With these words, he sat down in the lotus position.