Chapter 638: Standing Up To the Heaven Palace Sec (1/2)

Chapter 638: Standing Up To the Heaven Palace Sect

“You may tell your puppet to come back now,” Zhao Shanling said.

Nie Tian nodded, as he didn’t seem to have any other options.

As soon as his thought got through to the Bone Blood Demon, it exploded towards the heavens before coming to a stop beside Zhao Shanling’s void realm.

At this point, Nie Tian realized that neither the outsiders nor the humans were going to engage in fierce battles again before the berserk Hua Mu was taken care of.

Possessed by the demonic plant, Hua Mu preyed on all living beings, humans and outsiders alike.

Even Basto didn’t seem to have an effective way to end Hua Mu’s ranpage.

He could only order his forces to fall back and keep a safe distance from him so that the vines that had grown out of him wouldn’t be able to detect their flesh aura.

Hua Mu, however, continued to roam the area, which was now covered in corpses, looking numbly for more flesh power to absorb. The vine pattern between his eyebrows continued to shine with terrifying demonic light.

It seemed that he could only detect flesh auras within a certain range around him. As long as the others stayed far enough from him, they wouldn’t attract his attention.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Lu Yuanxi, Zong Zheng, Dong Wangling, Li Muyang, and a few other Soul realm experts gathered around the Bone Blood Demon from different areas.

As they did, Zhao Luofeng and some other Soul realm experts gathered around Xia Yi.

Just like that, the Soul realm experts were divided into two groups, floating in the sky a thousand meters apart from each other.

Meanwhile, the outsiders were naturally gathered around Basto.

Instead of floating in the sky, they were gathered in a location far from Hua Mu on the ground.

Basto seemed to have long since cooked up a plan in his heart. Watching the Worldly realm and Profound realm Qi warriors dash back to the Five Elements Fortune Formation, he didn’t order his people to go after them.

The way he saw it, once what he had been waiting for arrived, none of the humans would be able to escape their doom.

Separated by a thousand meters, Zhao Luofeng shot a disgruntled look at Lu Yuanxi and said loudly, “Mr. Lu! You really don’t know how to handle Hua Mu in such a state? If he can recover his senses and only target the outsiders, we’ll probably be able to end the outsiders’ invasion in the Realm of Mystic Heaven!”

He had noticed that even Basto, the commander of outsider forces, was rather apprehensive towards Hua Mu.

The fact that he had ordered all of the fifth and sixth grade outsiders to retreat from Hua Mu’s location as quickly as they could proved that.

Under such circumstances, if Hua Mu could sober up and unleash those mad vines on only the outsiders, the battle would soon come to an end.

Lu Yuanxi sighed. “There’s really nothing I can do now. If the Flame God had joined the battle from the beginning, Mr. Hua wouldn’t have become like this. No one can communicate with him or talk sense into him now that he’s in such a state. Perhaps only by damaging the Heavenly Demonsbane heavily will we be be able to get him to sober up.

“However, once he sobers up, the Heavenly Demonsbane will be suppressed and lose its terrifying battle prowess.”

“Damaging the Heavenly Demonsbane heavily?” Lu Minhuang muttered with a grim face. “It’s much easier said than done. I almost died...”

At that moment, Zhoa Luofeng’s expression suddenly flickered drastically as he exclaimed, “That’s a Heavenly Demonsbane?!”

As the sectmaster of the most powerful sect in the Domain of the Falling Stars, he seemed to have heard about Heavenly Demonsbanes before. Now that he had learned that the plant inside Hua Mu was a Heavenly Demonsbane, he was flabbergasted.

The grand elder of the Heaven Palace Sect, Ling Dong, frowned deeply as he said, “If we can damage the Heavenly Demonsbane heavily, Hua Mu would come back to his senses, but then he’ll lose such powerful battle prowess. If that’s the case, we might as well just leave him alone. After all, if we join up to attack the Heavenly Demonsbane, we’ll probably sustain losses ourselves. Even if we get Hua Mu to sober up, he won’t be of any use to us when he’s bereft of his battle prowess.

“We might as well have Hua Mu wear the outsiders down while we gather strength.

“It’s pretty clear that he prefers to kill the outsiders for their rich flesh power.”

Fury brimmed Nie Tian’s eyes as he heard these words.

Ling Dong had long since noticed the look in his eyes. He let out a cold harrumph and asked, “Do you have a problem with that, kid? If you didn’t refuse to contribute your Flame Dragon Armor to our cause, how would the situation have ended up like this? What good will the Flame Dragon Armor be in your hands? If the Flame God had it, he would have been able to contend against Basto single-handedly!

“If he could do that, then we’d have a much better chance of winning this battle!”

“Also, what contribution did you make? If Hua Mu wasn’t so eager to save you, he wouldn’t have fought Basto’s ghostly claw head-on and injured his soul. The Heavenly Demonsbane wouldn’t have gained control of him!”

He had always disliked Nie Tian.

As far as he saw it, the legacy of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace should have belonged to Ning Yang, who had been considered the Heaven Palace Sect’s future star.

Nie Tian was only a kid who had gotten lucky and taken what should have belonged to Ning Yang and the Heaven Palace Sect.

Because of this, back when Nie Tian had come to help them seal the spatial rift in the Realm of Mystic Heaven, he had ignored him and hadn’t thanked him at all afterwards.

According to him, they should have tricked Nie Tian into joining the Heaven Palace Sect after the three major spatial rifts had been sealed. Then, after they had found a way to strip the legacy of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace from him, they would have been free to banish him or kill him as they liked.