Chapter 655: Nine Stars Flower (2/2)

His vortex of wood power was also spinning faster than usual, and the liquidized wood power at the bottom of it was also disappearing at a noticeable rate.

What shocked him was that the disappearing liquidized wood power that contained rich life force was somehow reappearing at the bottom of his vortex of star power through some profound method he couldn’t fathom.

Like translucent and sparkling dew, drops of green, liquidized wood power gradually appeared on the Nine Stars Flower’s stem, before its stem absorbed them like a sponge absorbing water.

As the Nine Stars Flower continued to receive nourishment from his star power and wood power, Nie Tian had a feeling that the plant had become fully alive again.

That was when Nie Tian came to the conclusion that, even though this Nine Stars Flower had been stored in this special utensil right after it had been picked, the container couldn’t completely stop it from withering.

It would eventually die at a certain point since it couldn’t receive the nourishment it needed.

However, there were two kinds of nourishment that could restore life to it within his spiritual sea: concentrated wood power and star power.

Now that the Nine Stars Flower had absorbed these powers from him, it gradually came back from the verge of death.

Nie Tian smiled bitterly. “This plant is so ironic. I got it to make me stronger with its power. Who would have thought that it would end up taking power from me...”

Since he was being quickly drained of his star power and wood power, he couldn’t expand his spiritual sea and make preparations for his next breakthrough.

From the look of it, it wouldn’t be very long before his vortexes of star power and wood power were completely drained.

With a reluctant expression, Nie Tian took out some Star Stones and started channeling star power from them to form more stardew, so that the Nine Stars Flower’s needs would be satisfied.

As he did that, he finally found a phenomenon that cheered him up.

He discovered that, with the Nine Stars Flower at the bottom of his vortex of star power, the efficiency of him channeling and refining star power had become considerably higher.

From what he had discovered so far, this was the only benefit the plant had brought him.

However, as he recovered wood power with some wood-attributed spiritual materials, the efficiency of him channeling and refining wood power didn’t seem to have changed at all.

Then, while the Bone Blood Demon continued to absorb outsider blood with the Blood Refining Incantation, he replenished his star power with one Star Stone after another.

The new stardew was absorbed by the Nine Stars Flower as soon as it was generated in his vortex of star power, which made Nie Tian increasingly tired.

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On this day, as soon as he returned, Zhao Shanling said, “Get ready. We’re leaving now.”

Nie Tian opened his eyes and discovered that the Bone Blood Demon had already drained the blood of the eight outsider corpses.

A death aura that was identical to the one in the depths of the Death Reign silently wreathed the Bone Blood Demon, as if it had formed a small, deadly realm around it. Any living being that dared to enter it would lose their lives.

Eyes narrowed, Zhao Shanling ran his gaze up and down the Bone Blood Demon, then said, “It seems to me that this Bonebrute puppet of yours possesses the strength of a late seventh grade outsider now. So I guess even those outsiders’ blood can’t help restore it to its peak strength within a short time.”

Nie Tian smiled bitterly. “I’m afraid it’s not that easy for it to recover its eighth grade bloodline power.”

Zhao Shanling nodded slightly. “Yeah, there’s only a limited amount of flesh power within the outsider blood, after all. After their death, those outsiders will continuously lose their flesh power as time passes. There’s actually more flesh power left in their bones and internal organs. But this is already very impressive.

“Now, come with me.”

With a casual flick of his sleeve, a glowing spatial rift was created in front of them.

Nie Tian returned the Bone Blood Demon and the outsider corpses to his ring of holding, and then followed Zhao Shanling into the spatial rift.

In the next moment, he and Zhao Shanling appeared at the heart of an extinct volcano in the Realm of Unbounded Desolation.

There should have been boiling lava where they were floating, but it had now become an enormous empty hole that stretched into the depths of the earth.

Meanwhile, strong, twisting spatial fluctuations continued to come from the bottomless hole.

Nie Tian looked down and saw that streaks of light would flash across the pitch-black hole from time to time.

A strange feeling that he was sinking towards it sent a cold chill down his spine.

“Space disruption!” he exclaimed. “Are you taking me to a space disruption zone?!”

With a nasty grin, Zhao Shanling shoved him into the bottomless pit. “Exactly!”