Chapter 604: Outsiders Descend (1/2)
Chapter 604: Outsiders Descend
As the two of them moved closer to the heart of Graydusk Forest, it became easier for them to find mutant spirit beasts.
Through one of his Heaven Eyes, Nie Tian located another group of mutant spirit beasts and determined their grades.
“None of them are at the sixth grade or higher. Li Langfeng will be able to handle them himself.” With these thoughts, Nie Tian pointed out their direction to Li Langfeng, and Li Langfeng dashed off to kill them, while he stayed and formed another Wood Thriving Formation.
A hour passed...
Li Langfeng dragged the bodies of seven mutant spirit beasts back to Nie Tian’s location. Looking somewhat tired, he said, “Two of them are at the fifth grade, the rest are at the fourth grade.”
He had also cut off these mutant spirit beasts’ heads in the same manner as before.
Nie Tian nodded and signaled for him to leave the corpses in the spell formation, so he could absorb their flesh power with Life Drain.
However, as soon as he launched Life Drain, he discovered something different. “Hmm?!”
The speed at which he could absorb flesh power from these mutant spirit beasts had become twice as fast as before.
In just a couple of minutes, he completely drained a fifth grade mutant spirit beast of its flesh power.
Watching the fifth grade mutant spirit beast being drained dry within such a short time, Li Langfeng was also surprised.
“Does it have something to do with the recent refinement of my heart?” Nie Tian thought to himself. It seemed to be the only explanation for such a pleasant change.
His eyes lit up. “I’ve only finished one third of the refinement of my heart, and the efficiency of my Life Drain has doubled...”
However, he didn’t dwell on it, but continued to absorb flesh power from the other mutant spirit beasts, and conducted a second round of refinement of his heart with Heavenly Wood Heal and the Wood Thriving Formation.
Several days passed, and when he was finished, the refinement of his heart was two-thirds complete.
As he opened his eyes, he found, to his surprise, that about ten more dead mutant spirit beasts were piled up right outside his spell formation, three of which seemed to be at the fifth grade.
Smiling brightly, Li Langfeng said, “These mutant spirit beasts passed by during the past few days, so I killed them all for you.”
Nie Tian nodded with an impressed look in his eyes, and said, “We need to switch to another location. I’ve already absorbed all of the wood power in the vicinity.”
“Umm…” Li Langfeng seemed somewhat hesitant and shamefaced. “If we go any further, we might encounter sixth grade mutant spirit beasts. As you know, sixth grade mutant spirit beasts are as strong as Profound realm Qi warriors. I’m afraid that I won’t be able to kill them by myself.”
“That’s alright.” With these words, Nie Tian took his time to summon the Bone Blood Demon from within his ring of holding. Then, he cut his palm and dripped his blood on its exposed, smooth bones.
The Bone Blood Demon’s flame of life was instantly ignited. Uncanny, grayish-green light flickered in the depths of its beady eyes. In the next moment, it jerked its head towards the few mutant spirit beasts Li Langfeng had recently slaughtered.
Apparently, it had sensed the rich bloody aura, which it could use to strengthen itself, within them.
With a thought, Nie Tian stopped the Bone Blood Demon from acting on its thought. Instead, he commanded it to carry all the dead mutant spirit beasts as they marched deeper into Graydusk Forest.
After marching a few dozen kilometers, he stopped to establish a new Wood Thriving Formation, and commanded the Bone Blood Demon to place all of the dead mutant spirit beasts inside the spell formation.
He once again launched Life Drain.
This time, he was completely convinced that the refinement of his heart, which he had achieved with Heavenly Wood Heal, had a great enhancing effect on the efficiency of Life Drain.
That was because after his second round of heart refinement, the speed at which he could channel flesh power into himself had doubled again.
“I can’t believe that the refinement of my body can actually strengthen my bloodline talent! This is brilliant!”
After draining the mutant spirit beasts of their flesh power, he left the Bone Blood Demon and Li Langfeng outside his Wood Thriving Formation, and told them to kill any mutant spirit beasts that strolled into this area.
Afterwards, he focused on the last refinement of his heart.
This time, the refinement process lasted ten days, which was longer than the two times before.
As he consumed all of the newly-acquired flesh power, and the lush vegetation around him withered and died, he finally finished the last step of the refinement of his heart.
During the process, he saw every strand of tissue in his heart being severed and reattached, and as they did, his heart ballooned up and shrank down from time to time.
Now, as the refinement of his heart was finally complete, the last obstacle in his path to his next breakthrough had been shattered.
The vortexes of spiritual power in his spiritual sea suddenly started to become active.
Nie Tian was surprised to realize that he could try to break through into the late Greater Heaven stage right away!
Without the slightest hesitation, he summoned spirit jades and spiritual materials of different attributes from within his ring of holding, which rapidly piled up in front of him.
Only then did it occur to him to scan his surroundings. He discovered that the Wood Thriving Formation had already lost its effect, since it had drained all of the wood power in the vicinity.
The Bone Blood Demon had also fallen into a deep slumber.