Chapter 735: Soul Refining (2/2)

At the same time, the remaining discarnate souls seemed to sense the danger, and thus stayed as far away from it as they could.

“From the look of it, it still needs some time to clear the Spirit Pearl and become its soul.” With this thought in mind, Nie Tian’s awareness returned to his mind. He looked down and discovered that the second fragmentary star mark had already returned to his chest, and once again disappeared under his skin.

At this moment, a message came through from the Flame Dragon Armor’s soul, telling him that it had consumed too much of its power, and it was about time they left.

“The problems are finally dealt with.” Nie Tian let out a sigh of relief and told the Flame Dragon Armor to open a spatial portal, through which he returned.

In the next moment, he appeared at the bottom of a deep hole in the meteor he had come from, and put the Flame Dragon Armor back into his ring of holding.

“Nothing seems to have changed on the star map within the Spirit Pearl except that the meteor with that strange lake is now marked out.

“I’ve no idea where Yue Yanxi is now, or where the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace’s teleportation portals were.

“So instead of drifting around, I might as well stay in one place and recover my strength first.”

After pondering for a while, Nie Tian sealed the mouth of the hole with broken rocks, sat down, and started recovering with all sorts of spiritual materials and strengthening his true soul and star souls with the considerable amount of soul crystals he had gathered.

He had been in all kinds of dangerous situations since he had come to this forbidden region. He hadn’t had a chance to practice cultivation.

Now that he was finally free, he found that there were so many things he needed to do.

After awakening the Life Blend bloodline talent, the green aura in his heart had once again shown its endless desire for flesh power. Only by satisfying it would it enter dormancy again and prepare for the next talent awakening.

Fortunately, he still had some outsider corpses left in his ring of holding.

Even though all of them had been drained of their blood by the Bone Blood Demon, their bones, meridians, and internal organs still contained considerable flesh power.

Therefore, he took them out and started channeling flesh power from them to feed his bloodline aura.

Time passed without him noticing it.

On this day, he finally finished absorbing the flesh power of all of the outsider corpses in his possession, as well as the spirit beast corpses Dong Li had purchased for him.

His bloodline aura had devoured every last wisp of the flesh power he had absorbed, yet it still showed no signs of being satisfied at all.

“Dear god! How much flesh power do I have to gather in order for my bloodline to enter the sixth upgrade circle?”

To this day, his bloodline had upgraded five times and awakened five bloodline talents, which were Life Transfer, Life Stealth, Life Drain, Blood Essence Extraction, and Life Blend.

Every time it upgraded, the amount of flesh power it would need for the next upgrade would rise significantly.

Even though he still had a small amount of spirit beast meat left in his ring of holding, since he still needed it for food, he couldn’t refine it all.

Therefore, he had no choice but stop channeling flesh power to the green aura, and started recovering with all sorts of spiritual materials.

Fortunately, he still had large stocks of spirit stones, Star Stones, and spiritual materials of fire and wood attributes.

After his spiritual core recovered and the three vortexes brimmed with power again, he went on to strengthen his star souls with soul crystals.

His star souls had also consumed a significant amount of power to help him defend against the Phantasm soul’s attacks, and later brand the soul fire with his unique imprints. Nie Tian drained ten soul crystals to recover the power they had lost.

Afterwards, he continued to strengthen his star souls with soul crystals, while trying to derive enlightenment regarding star souls and Starchain, which were recorded in the second fragmentary star mark.

After an unknown period of time, while his soul awareness was swimming in the second fragmentary star mark, the sound of something speeding through the air caught his attention.

He summoned Heaven Eyes and flew them out of the deep hole. In the next moment, he exclaimed inwardly, “It’s them!”

BOOM!

The rocks that had sealed the mouth of the hole exploded, and Nie Tian flew out from the bottom of the deep hole.

Qiao Yunxi was taken aback, standing on her Flame Bird. “Nie Tian!”

A few other air-transportation spiritual tools stopped beside her. Yin Yanan, Chu Bowen, Xing Beichen, and some other members of the three parties all fixed Nie Tian with bewildered stares.

Every one of them looked rather bedraggled. Many were even covered in wounds. From the look of it, they had just been through a fierce battle.

All of the Profound realm and Soul realm experts were nowhere to be seen. It was unknown where they were now.