Chapter 654: Splitting the Spoils (1/2)
Chapter 654: Splitting the Spoils
In the Realm of Unbounded Desolation...
An inter-realm teleportation portal appeared out of thin air in the middle of a rocky field surrounded by extinct volcanoes.
PHEW! PHEW!
Zhao Shanling and Nie Tian walked out of the portal.
With a casual flick of his sleeve, numerous storage rings flew out of his sleeve and landed on the ground in three piles, each pile belonging to a rank. “You go ahead and take your pick. I’ll take the rest.”
With these words, Zhao Shanling turned around and walked off towards a location filled with large rocks in the distance.
“This man indeed doesn’t play by the rules...” Nie Tian sighed inwardly.
He had never thought that he would appear out of nowhere when the victory convention had just reached its high point, and sweep all of the valuable spoils away.
The Heaven Palace Sect, the Spirit Condor, the Ice Pavilion Sect, the Thunder Mountain Sect, and the other major sects had worked day and night to determine contribution points and price of the large amount of spoils.
The Spirit Condor, the Tool Sect, and the Dong Clan had gone to great lengths to persuade Nie Tian to help them secure the Heaven-shattering Crystal Cannon; Zhao Luofeng had even cooked up a plan to take the cannon themselves...
At this point, all of these looked like a joke.
Zhao Shanling’s appearance had upset all of their plans.
Nie Tian looked up into the heavens and saw a dome-shaped ward made of spatial fluctuations that was almost invisible to the naked eye.
He suddenly realized that Zhao Shanling must have established some restrictive spell over this region so that others wouldn’t be able to notice their presence.
Zhao Shanling should have been high-spirited after sweeping such a large amount of valuables away in front of everyone, but he wasn’t. Instead, he left them all on the ground for Nie Tian to pick from, as if he didn’t attach much importance to them.
At this moment, Zhao Shanling was standing in front of a bunch of strangely-shaped rocks, with his back facing Nie Tian.
Curious, Nie Tian looked over with rapt attention and discovered that there was a stone stele standing in the middle of the large rocks.
On the stone stele, engraved in plain writing, were the words: Beloved Master Xu Yingling’s tomb.
“Xu Yinglong...” It suddenly occurred to Nie Tian that he had heard that the Tool Sect’s previous sectmaster was named Xu Yinglong, who was Qi Bailu, Zhao Shanling, and Zhen Huilan’s master. The man had been well-versed in the art of equipment forging and the art of fighting with spatial power. Some even said that he had been the best fighter throughout the Domain of the Falling Stars.
Word had it that Xu Yinglong had banished Zhao Shanling to a remote space disruption zone after his unforgivable crime in the Realm of Unbounded Desolation.
However, Xu Yinglong had died soon afterwards.
The elders of the Tool Sect had claimed that he had died because of Zhao Shanling. This was also why Qi Bailu hadn’t forgiven Zhao Shanling after all these years.
This place must be Zhao Shanling’s secret stronghold in the Realm of Unbounded Desolation. Who would have thought that he had actually set up his master’s memorial stele here.
Standing before the stone stele, Zhao Shanling didn’t utter a word.
Nie Tian couldn’t know what this maniac was thinking, but it seemed that he felt rather guilty towards his master.
Soon, Nie Tian withdrew his gaze from Zhao Shanling and focused on the storage rings before him.
With his psychic awareness, he examined their contents one by one.
He picked the storage rings that held the broken Heaven-shattering Crystal Cannon, the seventh grade outsider corpses, and the Nine Stars Flower, and set them aside.
He didn’t touch the other ones.
After a long while, Zhao Shanling turned around and asked, “Are you finished? What did you pick?”
Nie Tian responded truthfully.