Chapter 704: The Girl Who Comes in Flames (1/2)

Lei Tianqi didn’t go with Nie Tian.

He only briefly explained the situation to him before sending him on his way. He told him that the Lei Clan and the Divine Flame Sect had together established a total of seven inter-realm teleportation portals between the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries and the Domain of the Falling Stars.

Yue Yanxi was currently in the region where the fourth teleportation portal was located.

Following Lei Tianqi’s instructions, Nie Tian teleported three times, and finally arrived in the region where Yue Yanxi was waiting for him.

It was the region that was both marked out on the star map in the Spirit Pearl and designated as the fourth set of spatial coordinates in the teleportation portal in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

SHEW!

Nie Tian suddenly appeared in a teleportation portal.

He looked around and found himself inside a spacious sealed cave surrounded by dark brown rocky walls, with a faint lightning ward over them.

Lei Tianqi had long since told him what to do. He looked up at the dome of the cave, located a fine rift in the lightning ward, and made a vigorous leap.

FZZZ!

The lightning ward instantly split up, as did the rocks behind it.

He went through without meeting any obstructions.

In the next moment, he found himself standing on a meteor that seemed to be floating in the depths of the starry river.

There wasn’t even a shred of spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth around him. There were only distant shining stars and countless meteors that floated wherever he looked at.

Very close to one another, they filled up this entire region.

If an enormous ancient starship were to sail into this region, it would definitely hit these floating meteors.

All of the meteors seemed extremely solid; even ancient starships might not be able to survive collisions with them.

Nie Tian finally realized why Qi warriors from the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries hadn’t been able to sail through this region to the Domain of the Falling Stars over the past thousands of years.

“Hmm?” As he looked back, Nie Tian realized that the rift he had just flown through was completely healed again.

Then, he was surprised to notice that about a dozen ice-cold human corpses were floating in places not far from him, all of whom were dressed in Divine Flame Sect garments.

He also noticed several air-transportation spiritual tools, which appeared to have been pierced by sharp weapons. Some had crashed into floating meteors, while others were floating in the dark ice-cold space with the dead Divine Flame Sect disciples.

“What the hell?!” His expression flickered as he unleashed his soul awareness to examine his surroundings, but failed to sense any flesh auras or soul fluctuations.

“Who killed these people from the Divine Flame Sect?! What happened here?!” With these questions, he blurred into action and flashed back and forth among the floating corpses to examine their cultivation bases.

Soon, he came to a conclusion.

All of these Worldly realm and Profound realm Divine Flame Sect disciples must have been waiting for him in this place. Now, they were all dead, their air-transportation spiritual tools destroyed and their rings of holding taken away.

They must have encountered powerful enemies while they had been waiting for him. Then, they had been killed while they had split up to flee.

“As one of the eight major powers in the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries, the Divine Flame Sect actually had their disciples ambushed by others. Those who did this must be from a sect that is equally powerful.

“Can it be that the fact that the Divine Flame Sect discovered something in this region has somehow leaked?

“It’ll be very troublesome if that’s the case!”

He frowned as he realized that his trip to this region might not be a pleasant one.

At this moment, Yue Yanxi and the other powerful experts from the Divine Flame Sect might be exploring this mysterious region in further locations.

Those dead disciples must have been charged with the mission of waiting for him and bringing him to them.

However, even Yue Yanxi probably didn’t know that these disciples had already been attacked and wiped out.

Without people from the Divine Flame Sect to show him the way, he had absolutely no idea where to go.

Furthermore, since someone had killed the Divine Flame Sect disciples in this region, they might still be in the vicinity. If he were to move around randomly, he might very well be discovered...

Eyebrows knitted, Nie Tian hastily unleashed his Heaven Eyes to conduct an extensive scan of his surroundings, fearing that someone might still be nearby.

He decided to terminate this trip and return to Domain of the Falling Stars through the teleportation portal he had come from if he were to discover anyone who wasn’t from the Divine Flame Sect.

Standing on the meteor where the teleportation portal was hidden, he continued to scan his surroundings with his Heaven Eyes. Soon, he discovered more dead Divine Flame Sect disciples and their air-transportation spiritual tools in further locations.

It seemed that everyone that had been waiting for him in this place had been killed.

However, the killers didn’t seem to have discovered the secret teleportation portal, which was somewhat surprising.

If they had discovered this teleportation portal, they would have been able to follow the vine to get the melon (idiom: track someone down by following clues), and descend upon the Thunder Mountain Sect after three transits.