Chapter 680: sI Had To!” (1/2)

Chapter 680: I Had To!

Numerous figures flew out of the surrounding stone pavilions and landed by the teleportation portal one after another.

Many shook their head and sighed with sorry faces.

“Nie Tian!”

“Why did you come?”

“You must know what you’ll face by coming to Desolate City. Why did you still come?”

Nie Tian, however, stepped out of the teleportation portal and glanced around, noticing that almost everyone he knew was here.

Dong Wangling, Li Muyang, Qin Yan, Dong Baijie, Zhen Huilan, Pei Qiqi, Li Ye...

Each and every one of them gazed at him, their eyes filled with sadness and pity.

Nie Tian forced a smile and said, “I had to.”

Days had dragged by since he had learned that his grandfather, aunt, and Dong Li had been kidnapped by the Lei Clan. Every day he waited felt like torture.

By the time he had learned that Zhao Shanling’s efforts to help him had failed, he had realized that he was out of options.

Even if he could break through into the Worldly realm within a short time and secure the legacies the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had left in the forbidden region in the Realm of Split Void, what would he be able to do with them?

His grandfather, aunt, and Dong Li were being held hostage by the Lei Clan. Even if he could obtain those legacies, he wouldn’t possibly gain the ability to contend against a Void domain expert within such a short time.

Even his Bone Blood Demon, which had absorbed a copious amount of seventh grade outsider blood, was still only at the late Soul realm. It still had a long way to go before it could wield the battle prowess of a Void domain expert.

Not only did the Lei Clan have an early Void domain expert and multiple late Soul realm experts, but they also had a powerful sect like the Divine Flame Sect at their back.

He had wracked his mind, but still failed to come up with a way to force the Lei Clan to release his family and Dong Li.

The only thing he could do was to do as the Lei Clan had demanded of him by coming to the Realm of Unbounded Desolation and seeing what they wanted from him.

Wu Ji came through the crowd. “I knew that you’d come.”

With a complicated look in his eyes, he took a deep look at him and added, “Do you know what awaits you?”

Nie Tian nodded. “Yes, I do, master.”

Wu Ji had a thousand words that he wanted to say to him, but in the end, they were replaced by a deep sigh.

With Lei Ze and Yu Wei standing beside him, Ji Qingyun from the Heaven Expanse Sect said with a taunting smile, “I thought you’d hole up somewhere like a scared turtle. I guess you’re a bit more responsible than I thought. However, the days of you showing off your talent in the Domain of the Falling Stars will soon come to an end.”

With a cold face, Yu Wei blurted, “You deserve this!”

Lei Ze, who was Lei Zhenyu’s grandson, held his head high and said arrogantly, “I told you that his happy days were coming to an end. In the end, he’s still only a guy who was lucky enough to obtain the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace’s legacies. Without them, he’s only a brat from a low family in the Realm of Flame Heaven.”

“I still can’t believe that those Profound realm losers actually failed to kill you outside Shatter City,” Hou Qingsen from the Poison Sect said with an icy smile. “You’re a lucky brat indeed, but you still don’t deserve to have those fragmentary star marks. How can someone like you imagine to hold on to the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace’s legacies?”

Nie Tian fixed him with a furious stare and said, “So are you admitting that it was you who arranged for those rogue cultivators to ambush me back then?”

Hou Qingsen laughed out loud. “What if I am? Nie Tian, I might as well tell you something else. We also singled out the spatial rift that led to the Realm of Flame Heaven for the outsiders.”

Ji Qingyun let out a cold harrumph and chimed in, “The Realm of Flame Heaven should have been sacked long ago!”

Upon hearing these words, all of the Qi warriors from the Realm of Flame Heaven all eyed Hou Qingsen and Ji Qingyun angrily.

Of the numerous spatial rifts in the Void Illusion Mountain Range, the spatial rift that led to the Realm of Flame Heaven had been the first to be discovered by the outsiders.

According to Zhao Shanling, someone must have singled that spatial rift out for the outsiders on purpose.

If the outsiders hadn’t underestimated the resistance they would meet in the Realm of Flame Heaven, and Wu Ji hadn’t unleashed his mighty time power and turned the situation around, the Realm of Flame Heaven would have been the first to fall into the outsiders’ hands.

Nie Tian had long suspected that it was the doing of the Poison Sect, the Spirit God Sect, and the Heaven Expanse Sect. However, he hadn’t had any proof.

Now, Hou Qingsen and Ji Qingyun admitted to it openly.