Chapter 736: Forced to Help (1/2)

Together, there were more than twenty Greater Heaven stage and Worldly realm cultivators from the three parties. Many of their air-transportation spiritual tools were damaged.

All of them were injured to different extents. Some seemed to be in critical condition, as they lay in their air-transportation spiritual tools like dying men.

Conspicuous wounds could also be seen in Yin Yanan’s exposed tanned skin.

Xing Beichen from the Trisword Sect was the only one at the early Profound realm. His face grew icy as soon as he saw Nie Tian. “It’s him!”

Chu Bowen and the others also had unpleasant expressions, as if none of them wanted to see Nie Tian.

Ignoring them, Nie Tian turned to Qiao Yunxi and asked, “What happened?”

Qiao Yunxi’s aura was rather weak, and the light in her eyes was also dimmer than before.

Nie Tian could sense significant spiritual power consumption from her, and thus knew they must have gone through a fierce battle.

“What happened to the crystal between your eyebrows?!” Qiao Yunxi exclaimed.

At this moment, Yin Yanan also noticed the change, her gem-like eyes fixed on the spot between Nie Tian’s eyebrows.

The two of them had cursed Nie Tian when they had parted ways, saying that he would definitely be possessed by the Phantasm soul and become its puppet.

Who would have thought now that they met again, not only was he not possessed by the Phantasm soul, but the prismatic crystal between his eyebrows was also somehow gone.

Nie Tian smiled and said with an easy tone, “Oh, you’re talking about that Phantasm soul, right? I took care of it. It won’t be a problem anymore.”

Qiao Yunxi was shocked. “How did you do that?!”

“Hahaha.” Nie Tian laughed, but didn’t say anything.

“Let’s get out of here and not waste anymore time on this man,” Chu Bowen from the Chu Clan said with a grim face. “Those Stonemen are still pursuing us. They’ll catch up to us if we stay here for too long.”

Nie Tian was taken aback. “Stonemen?”

“We got in contact with the others soon after parting ways with you, but...” Qiao Yunxi said with a bitter expression. “They turned out to be in a worse state than us. They ran into outsiders. Senior Wei Yu from the Trisword Sect was killed by Demons. Senior Chu Xuanji was also badly wounded. Their Profound realm and Soul realm members fought the outsiders with their lives to cover us while we escaped.”

Qiao Yunxi went on and briefly explained what had happened after their separation with Nie Tian.

From her, Nie Tian learned that it had been more than a month since their parting.

During this time, the girls had reestablished contact with the others from the three parties.

However, by the time they had met up with Xing Beichen, Chu Bowen, and the others, they had been on the run from the outsiders.

As it turned out, the members of three parties had been resting on a floating meteor when Demons and Stonemen had suddenly showed up and started killing them.

Before that, Wei Yu had been seriously injured by Nie Tian and lost much of his vital energy.

Therefore, he had lacked battle prowess during his battle against the outsiders, and ended up being bombarded to death.

Chu Xuanji, on the other hand, had led the other Soul realm and Profound realm experts into battle against the Demons and Stonemen, so that Xing Beichen, Chu Bowen, and their weaker members could evacuate safely.

Xing Beichen and Chu Bowen had managed to leave the battlefield with their weaker members, but the Stonemen had pursued them unyieldingly.

Even after joining up with Qiao Yunxi and Yin Yanan, the Stonemen had caught up to them a few times, and they had lost some people in battle.

At the beginning, the Stonemen pursuers had been as strong as them, and they had been able to put up a fight.

But later, sixth grade Stonemen had joined the pursuit, as they seemed to have withdrawn from their battle against Chu Xuanji and the other human experts, which had put them under tremendous pressure.

Fortunately, they had been able to escape with the help of their air-transportation spiritual tools. Otherwise, they would have been wiped out by the Stonemen already.

After learning about what had happened, Nie Tian looked shocked. “I heard that people from your domain have connections with those outsiders. Why were they so eager to kill you upon encountering you?”

Qiao Yunxi snorted coldly. “Our so-called connections are limited to spiritual material trade, which is very fragile and can be thrown away at any moment.”

“Why are you still wasting your breath with him?!” Chu Bowen asked with an unpleasant expression. “If it weren’t for him, we wouldn’t have been so easily defeated by the outsiders!”

The disciples of the Trisword Sect and the Beast-controlling Sect also fixed Nie Tian with angry glares as they chimed in one after another.

“If he hadn’t badly injured Senior Wei Yu and killed Senior Hong Xian and most of our Soul realm experts, we wouldn’t have had to fear those Demons and Stonemen at all!”

“That’s right! It’s all because of him that we’re in such a difficult situation!”

“He’s the one who caused this!”

Face icy, Nie Tian didn’t feel the need to explain. Instead, he said to Qiao Yunxi, “You can stay with me. And the others can fuck off.”

Qiao Yunxi was the person from the Divine Flame Sect who had been charged with the task of bringing him to Yue Yanxi.

Yue Yanxi had treated him well. Plus, Qiao Yunxi hadn’t truly offended him. Therefore, he wanted to keep her safe.

“Didn’t you say that we should go on our separate ways?” Qiao Yunxi sounded still disgruntled.

Nie Tian smiled faintly. “I only parted ways with you because I needed to focus on taking care of the Phantasm soul. I don’t have a problem with you. You didn’t try to harm me or anything. Now that I’ve gotten rid of the Phantasm soul, I can keep you safe again.”

“What about them?” Qiao Yunxi asked.