Chapter 602: Exploring New Heaven and Earth (1/2)

Chapter 602: Exploring New Heaven and Earth

After stepping into Shatter City, Cai Lan insisted that Nie Tian live in the Blood Skull’s headquarters, while Dong Li and Dong Baijie hoped that Nie Tian would stay with them in the Dong Clan’s residence.

However, Nie Tian refused them both.

Instead, he said that he would stay in Zhen Huilan’s residence, where he had lived before with Pei Qiqi and Li Ye.

As agreed by the alliance, all sects would have to send their Worldly realm and Profound realm experts to set up defenses by the spatial rifts in the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

Since Dong Li and the other chosen ones were all at the Greater Heaven stage, they could either stay in Shatter City, Ash City, or the Land of the Abandoned, or they could leave the Realm of Split Void.

Dong Li wanted to go with Nie Tian, but since she was afraid that others would frown upon it, and that Nie Tian would think that she was too needy, she could only return to the Dong Clan’s residence with Dong Baijie.

Later, when Nie Tian arrived at Zhen Huilan’s residence, he discovered that neither Zhen Huilan, Pei Qiqi, or Li Ye were there.

A man who worked for Li Ye told him that Zhen Huilan and Pei Qiqi had gone to the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

Before she had left, Zhen Huilan had told him that if Nie Tian were to come over, they should treat him as the owner of the residence.

Nie Tian stored the Bone Blood Demon in his ring of holding and told the man to find a room for Li Langfeng.

Afterwards, he went to his room, where he rested and waited for news from the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

Night fell...

Nie Tian was sitting in the lotus position, examining his overall condition.

At this point, all of his vortexes of spiritual power had already been refined to their limit.

Meanwhile, he had refined his fleshly body and crystallized his bones with Heavenly Wood Heal, which meant that his body was also ready for his breakthrough into the late Greater Heaven stage.

The reason why he hadn’t chosen to use one of the Blood Skull’s cultivation rooms was that he knew that he had already finished laying the foundation for his next breakthrough.

All he needed was an opportunity.

This opportunity might be enlightenment from an uncommon experience, or a desperate situation in the middle of a fierce battle, or when he pondered a profound incantation.

After midnight, Nie Tian was suddenly awoken from his extended contemplation.

He sent a wisp of psychic awareness into the ring of holding forged by Zhao Shanling, and found to his surprise that spirit beast blood was streaming out of a few barrels in a remote corner into the Bone Blood Demon.

Meanwhile, the Bone Blood Demon was sitting in the lotus position in the spacious room within the ring of holding, its eyes flickering with ghostly green light. It was refining the barrels of spirit beast blood with the Blood Sect’s Blood Refining Incantation!

It would still be hours before the Bone Blood Demon would run out of its life force and fall into a deep slumber again.

It seemed to have noticed the barrels of spirit beast blood, and thus taken it upon itself to refine them.

The Blood Sect’s Blood Refining Incantation only allowed its caster to absorb flesh power from spirit beast blood, and the efficiency was rather limited.

However, the Life Drain bloodline talent Nie Tian had awakened allowed him to absorb every last shred of the flesh power that lay in a powerful being’s blood, flesh, and even bones.

His efficiency of absorbing and refining flesh power had risen to a whole new level since he had added Life Drain to his skill set.

And since then, he had never used the Blood Refining Incantation again.

“Interesting!” He noticed that, as the Bone Blood Demon continued to channel spirit beast blood to stream towards itself, the mysterious light in its unfathomable eyes became more and more frightening.

Furthermore, from the increasingly strong aura of life it released, he realize that the Bone Blood Demon’s strength was growing by the second.

However, it seemed that the Bone Blood Demon couldn’t absorb flesh power from the spirit beast meat Dong Li had traded for him. The few barrels of spirit beast blood seemed to belong to third and fourth grade spirit beasts.

From the look of it, given enough blood from high-grade spirit beasts, the Bone Blood Demon could become even stronger.

That was when it suddenly occurred to him that there were a large number of mutant spirit beasts in the Realm of Split Void. After their mutation, they had become adjusted to the tainted spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, and more powerful. However, at the same time, the mutation had made their flesh and blood uneatable, but that didn’t concern the Bone Blood Demon, since all it needed was the copious flesh power within their blood.

With these thoughts, Nie Tian rose to his feet and went to Li Langfeng’s room.

“Do you know a place in the Realm of Split Void where I can find a large number of high-grade spirit beasts?” Nie Tian asked.

“There are several places like that,” Li Langfeng said, looking somewhat surprised. “But those mutant spirit beasts’ flesh and blood have been polluted. They’re of no use to us cultivators.”

Nie Tian grinned and said, “I can’t agree. Take me to one of those places. We’re doing some mutant spirit beast hunting!”

“What grade do you want?” Li Langfeng asked.

“The higher the better, as long as they’re under the eighth grade,” Nie Tian said.

Increasingly confused, Li Langfeng nodded and said, “Alright, let teleport to Ash City first through the teleportation portal in Shatter City. We’ll go to that place from there.”

“Okay, let’s go!” With these words, Nie Tian, who had barely spent one night after returning to Shatter City, left quietly with Li Langfeng in the middle of the night.