Chapter 745: Refusing to Leave (1/2)

Xing Beichen fixed the shining bug with a blazing gaze as he lowered his voice as much as he could and said, “Metal-devouring Bugs are good stuff. They feast on all kinds of metal. Even though they’re small, they’re harder than any kind of metal.

“Also, Metal-devouring Bugs can merge with almost any spiritual tool. They can, to a great extent, improve the spiritual tool’s hardness and sharpness. The higher grade the Metal-devouring Bugs are, the better the strengthening effect they will have on spiritual tools.

“They are very ancient and extremely hard to find. I can’t believe you actually found some here in the heart of this meteor.”

While Xing Beichen talked, he constantly looked up at the mouth of the hole, fearing that Guan He would notice something.

An unpleasant look appeared on Nie Tian’s face as he put the Metal-devouring Bug that was only the size of his thumb into his ring of holding, and said, “You’re quite a wordy guy.”

If Metal-devouring Bugs were like Bone-devouring Leeches and were also an ancient species from the Desolate Antiquity Era, they should be exceptionally helpful for the upgrade of his bloodline as well.

However, since Xing Beichuan was there, Nie Tian didn’t choose to drain it of its flesh power with Life Drain and refine it into his heart right away.

Nor did he dig deeper to search for more Metal-devouring Bugs, even though he sensed with the help of his unique bloodline aura that there were more Metal-devouring Bugs buried in this meteor.

Not just that, but he even sensed the presence of a shockingly strong aura, which he believed belonged to a high grade Metal-devouring Bug.

The reason why the Qi warriors from the Jian Clan and the Guan Clan had failed to discover the Metal-devouring Bugs was because most human Qi warriors didn’t develop a keen perception of flesh aura.

The Metal-devouring Bugs were small and buried in the depths of the meteor. Plus, their flesh aura was rather weak. Therefore, it was understandable that they didn’t discover them.

“Are there more Metal-devouring Bugs here?” Xing Beichen asked in a low voice.

“I guess not,” Nie Tian answered with an indifferent tone.

“How did you know that there was a Metal-devouring Bug down here?”

“Sorry, I can’t tell you.”

Looking somewhat frustrated, Xing Beichen gave a weak sigh, but still refused to leave.

Since he refused to leave, Nie Tian couldn’t do anything. After pondering for a moment, he shot out of the hole without saying anything to Xing Beichen.

At that moment, Nie Tian started to feel that there was something strange with Xing Beichen. He had seriously wounded Wei Yu, and before that, killed Qi Jiuchuan and many other Trisword Sect disciples, but Xing Beichen didn’t seem very angry about any of that.

Nie Tian even had a feeling that Xing Beichen had faked the anger he had shown earlier when he had discovered that people from the Bliss Mountain Sect had assaulted and wiped out the Golden Stone Sect team.

The Trisword Sect had poured their cultivation resources into this man and viewed him as the future of their sect. However, unlike Yin Yanan and Qiao Yunxi, he didn’t seem to care very much about the deaths of their powerful experts.

Just as Xing Beichen couldn’t see through him, he also couldn’t see through Xing Beichen. He knew in his heart that this harmless-looking man must have many secrets.

WHOOSH!

With these thoughts, he landed on the meteor’s surface.

Seeing him, the plump Guan He asked indifferently from afar, “Found anything?”

Nie Tian shook his head. “Nothing.”

“I told you that you were wasting your time. We’ve already done a thorough scan of the area. We didn’t find anything, but you thought you could?” With these words, Guan He jumped onto her air-transportation spiritual tool and left for the meteor where Yin Yanan and Qiao Yunxi were, along with all of the other members of the Jian Clan and the Guan Clan who had come to search this meteor.

SHEW!

After she left, Xing Beichen took his time to surface from the hole. Stopping beside Nie Tian, he said, “How about you sell me that Metal-devouring Bug? Just name your price.”

“Are you really so interested in it?” Nie Tian asked, smiling.

With a warm smile, Xing Beichen said, “As you know, I’m from the Trisword Sect. My most suited spiritual tools are swords. I’m hoping to take that Metal-devouring Bug back to my sect and have our best equipment forger refine it into my spiritual sword.”

“Well,” Nie Tian said, “it’s not for sale. Sorry.”

Since the Metal-devouring Bug could help him accelerate the upgrade of his bloodline, he surely wouldn’t sell it for any amount of spirit stones.

“Umm, okay...” Xing Beichen said with a dry smile.

At that moment, Qiao Yunxi flew over on her Flame Bird, muttering something as she did, looking disgruntled.

Nie Tian gazed off at the meteor which she had just left, and saw Yin Yanan from the Beast-controlling Sect in ecstasy, as if she had reached some mutual understanding with the Jian Clan and the Guan Clan.