Chapter 718: Riding Out Difficulty Together (2/2)

He bright eyes suddenly lit up, an overjoyed look appearing on her face.

As soon as Nie Tian took the Spirit Pearl into his hand, she stopped losing her soul power.

The lake’s strange attractive force on her soul seemed to have suddenly disappeared.

Her soul no longer suffered any negative influence.

“What’s that?!” she asked curiously.

Instead of answering her, Nie Tian raised the Spirit Pearl, which was glowing with faint cyan light, towards the incoming vicious souls.

As the evil souls came close to the Spirit Pearl, their powerful soul attacks were instantly melted away like snow that was scorched by flames.

The evil souls roared ferociously, but didn’t dare to come any closer to Nie Tian or Yin Yanan. They only hovered around them from a certain distance, as if even though they had become much more powerful in this place, they were still rather afraid of the Spirit Pearl.

“This pearl can restrain them?!” Yin Yanan asked, looking deeply surprised. “Why didn’t you use it earlier?! If you did, my Frost Blood Python and your puppet probably wouldn’t have fled in fear!”

“This is only a desperate attempt,”Nie Tian explained. “I didn’t know whether it would work or not.”

Of course, he couldn’t tell her that these powerful souls hovering around them had escaped from within the Spirit Pearl in the first place.

They had slaughtered many members of the three parties. Who knew what Yin Yanan would think if she learned about this?

Yin Yanan sighed deeply and said, “Forget about it. I’ve got to thank you for this.We would have probably died already if you didn’t use that pearl. Also, it really wasn’t my intention that my Frost Blood Python attacked you earlier. I only said those words to provoke you because I wanted to know how powerful you really are.

“I’m sorry for what happened, and I promise that similar things won’t happen again.”

Nie Tian grinned and said, “Apology accepted. If you had adopted such an attitude back then, I would have allowed your people to take shelter in my spell formation.”

Yin Yanan smiled somewhat bitterly upon hearing these words.

Then, her bright eyes suddenly lit up as she proposed excitedly, “Since this pearl can protect us from those vicious souls, we might as well continue to go down. What do you think? Soul crystals are simply too precious. They are extremely helpful when it comes to the cultivation of true souls. Now that we’re already halfway to the lake bottom, there’s really no reason for us to give up now.”

She fixed Nie Tian with a measuring gaze as she realized that this man of unknown origin must have practiced some profound body refining incantation just like her. He was only able to float here because of his unusually vigorous flesh power, and his flesh, meridians, and bones that had been tempered hundreds of times over.

Otherwise, he would have been pushed to the lake’s surface by the terrifying buoyancy as soon as the Bone Blood Demon had left.

Nie Tian nodded slightly. “Even though I don’t know much about soul crystals, I can tell that they must be of great value from the way you all talk about them. Let’s go then.”

With these words, the two of them started sinking towards the bottom of the lake again.

The deeper they went, the stronger the buoyancy became, and the slower they could go.

Shortly afterwards, Yin Yanan finally couldn’t go down against the buoyant force anymore.

Nie Tian, however, didn’t seem to face much difficulty as he slowly continued downwards.

“Well... Give me a hand, will you?”

Yin Yanan put on a smile as she reached out to Nie Tian with one hand. “It’s hard to believe that your achievements in body refinement are even higher than mine. I suppose you’re capable of taking me down with you.”

In a natural and graceful manner, she held out her hand towards Nie Tian, which slightly improved Nie Tian’s opinion of her.

Without much thought, Nie Tian grabbed her hand and carried her downwards.

After a few more minutes...

The two of them were only meters away from the bottom of the lake, yet no matter how hard Nie Tian tried, he couldn’t make them go an inch deeper.

At this level, Yin Yanan was feeling a buoyant force that she couldn’t resist by herself.

It was Nie Tian who was pulling her down like a floating balloon. Therefore, it was only natural that Nie Tian had difficulty going downwards with her.

After watching Nie Tian make a few attempts and fail, Yin Yanan looked somewhat embarrassed as she said, “Why don’t you let go of me? Without me, you’ll be able to go a bit deeper.”

Nie Tian glanced around at the vicious souls that were swimming around and waiting for their prey. “You’ll be killed if I let go of you. If you dare to leave the influence of my Spirit Pearl, those fierce souls with immediately pounce on you and devour your true soul.”

“That seems about right...” Yin Yanan said bitterly. “So what do we do?”

“Let me try something else.” Eyebrows furrowed, Nie Tian hesitated briefly before summoning the Flame Dragon Armor.