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

However, to his surprise, Li Muyang and Xing Huanyue had meddled with his plan and sheltered Nie Tian from their claws.

With an ice-cold expression, Nie Tian said without showing him the slightest respect, “What right do you have to demand that I give my Flame Dragon Armor to someone else, old man? Why didn’t you have your late Soul realm patriarch give up his breakthrough into the Void domain and come help us deal with the outsiders?”

Ling Dong flew into a flaming rage. “How do you dare to talk to me like that?!”

“I just did, so what?” Not a shred of fear could be seen on Nie Tian’s face. “You wanna see who’s stronger, you or my puppet? I’m not belittling you or the Heaven Palace Sect, but I really doubt that any of you here will be able to defeat my puppet in battle! Perhaps only your patriarch will be a worthy opponent to it!”

Zhao Luofeng seemed to be angered by these words. He gave a cold harrumph and jerked his head towards Zhao Shanling, “Shanling, the kid is hiding in your void realm. Give me face and get his Flame Dragon Armor for me. If Basto and his outsider forces can somehow finish Hua Mu off, they’ll pay a serious price killing him.

“By that time, Xia Yi will be able to take the opportunity to kill Basto with the help of the Flame Dragon Armor. Then, the problems will all be solved!”

Everyone’s gaze instantly converged on Zhao Shanling.

Lu Yuanxi, Zong Zheng, Dong Wangling, and Li Muyang subconsciously fixed Zhao Shanling with nervous gazes.

They all knew the relationship between Zhao Luofeng and Zhao Shanling. They were afraid that Zhao Shanling would side with his older brother at such a crucial moment.

Nie Tian was side by side with him in his void realm. If he wanted to kill Nie Tian, Nie Tian would die beyond the shadow of a doubt.

With a faint smile, Zhao Shanling glanced over at Lu Yuanxi and the others, who looked very nervous, and said casually, “Relax, people. If I wanted to deal with Nie Tian, I would have done it long ago. Why would I wait till now?”

Then, with a soft chuckle, he turned to look at Zhao Luofeng and said, “Big brother, I’ve long since forgotten what familial love is. Now, I care about nothing but my own gains. I’ll side with whoever is useful to me. It’s true that, as the sectmaster of the Heaven Palace Sect, you can bring all sects to heel. However, you don’t have the thing I want.”

“What can that kid give you that we can’t?” Zhao Luofeng asked with a stern face.

Zhao Shanling laughed. “That’s none of your business. To tell you the truth, the things you lot struggle to protect will be all gone before long. Since the entire Domain of the Falling Stars will soon fall into the outsiders’ hands, I need Nie Tian now more than ever.”

“Don’t you try to scare us, Zhao Shanling!” Lu Minhuang shouted with fear in his eyes. “The Realm of Mystic Heaven still stands. How will the entire Domain of the Falling Stars fall into the outsiders’ hands soon?”

“Don’t you see that we’re at an advantage now?!” Ling Dong argued.

“Advantage?” Zhao Shanling gazed up into the gray sky, where rain was still falling heavily. With a sarcastic smile, he blurted, “You know nothing!”

“It’s here!” Nie Tian exclaimed with a grim face.

At that moment, Basto, who was standing on the ground, threw his head back and cried out into the heavens.

The lightning bolts that were slithering in the depths of the misty gray heavens seemed to be startled by his long cry and started to converge on one point.

RUUUUMBLE!

A deep, muffled roll of thunder drummed on everyone’s hearts, making them feel insecure and uneasy.

Even the heavy rain seemed to be affected and started to grow lighter.

That was when an ancient starship that seemed as if it were as old as the universe itself split the bright point and appeared in everyone’s view.

Every Soul realm expert looked up at the ancient starship as if they were looking at Death himself.

“An ancient starship!”

“That’s one of the Phantasms’ ancient starships!”

“This must be what Basto has been waiting for! No wonder he didn’t do anything.”

“Basto must have summoned it here! Unlike normal air-transportation spiritual tools, ancient starships can travel through space. None of the dashing meteors or spatial energy flashes will be able to harm them!”

“Damn it! It’s an ancient starship. We’re truly doomed this time. It won’t matter where we escape to. Even if we seal the spatial rifts and blow up all of our teleportation portals, the ancient starship will still find us!”

“Even strengthened by the Heavenly Demonsbane, Hua Mu won’t be able to survive a single blow from the ancient starship!”

It seemed that the appearance of the ancient starship had eliminated all of their hope.

Panic rapidly brooded in everyone’s hearts and spread to the deepest parts of their souls.

Seeing the desperate look on everyone’s face, Zhao Shanling said with a plain tone, “You’d better take the time you have to organize your people to evacuate the Realm of Mystic Heaven. And then hole up in your arcane realms as soon as you each return to your realms. Perhaps those arcane realms aren’t safe either, but at least it’ll take some time for the ancient starship to locate them, and you’ll get to live a bit longer.

“The Domain of the Falling Stars is a lost cause. This is it, everyone. I don’t think we’ll see each other again.”

With these words, Zhao Shanling shot Nie Tian a glance and said, “Put your puppet away. We’re leaving now.”

Nie Tian’s expression suddenly became very strange. “No, wait! Something seems to be different!”

He looked down his robe and saw that the three fragmentary star marks, which had long since fused with his flesh, had lit up, and he started to feel an increasingly strong burning sensation from them.

“What is it?” Zhao Shanling asked with an intense expression.