Chapter 750: The Thriving Nine Stars Flower (1/2)

A hint of joy flashed across Yin Yanan’s eyes as she grabbed the soul crystal. She nodded at Nie Tian before turning back and dashing towards the meteor where the Frost Blood Python was.

Blood dripped from her body as she did, filling the air with a strangely sweet smell.

She had also been seriously wounded by Xing Beichen’s sword lights, and had yet to stop those wounds from bleeding.

Qiao Yunxi snorted disdainfully and said, “Why did you give her a soul crystal? Don’t tell me that you like her? Don’t forget that she asked to join Xing Beichen in killing you as soon as she saw the unfavorable situation we were in.”

“I only did that because we need her to recover as soon as possible,” said Nie Tian.

Now that Xing Beichen had turned on them, the three of them had to rely on each other. No one knew whether the people from the Bliss Mountain Sect would come back for them, or when Xing Beichen would recover from his injuries and come for them again.

Besides, it was also possible that outsiders would find the divine flame seals and track them to their location.

The Bone Blood Demon currently lacked strength. If a Soul realm expert came for them now, even with the help of the Bone Blood Demon and the Star Boat, Nie Tian would struggle to fight him or her.

If there was more than one Soul realm expert, escape would be Nie Tian’s only choice.

However, if Yin Yanan recovered quickly, she and her Frost Blood Python would provide him with significant help in battle.

She would need her true soul to be strong to smoothen her communication with the Frost Blood Python, and a soul crystal would help her recover the soul power she had lost within a short time.

Looking worried, Qiao Yunxi asked in a low voice, “How do you know that she won’t turn on us too? Were you telling the truth when you said that your puppet no longer has the same kind of battle prowess as when it killed Hong Xian and the other experts?”

“Yeah, I’m afraid it doesn’t,” Nie Tian said.

“If that’s the case, we’d better keep an eye on her too,” Qiao Yunxi said with a worried face. “What if she tries to kill you for the soul crystals and Metal-devouring Bugs in your possession after her Frost Blood Python finishes refining that spirit beast corpse? What will you do then?”

With a carefree smile, Nie Tian said, “She doesn’t have anything like Xing Beichen’s Seven Ultimate Soul-splitting Sword Formation, so she won’t be able to restrain my soul awareness like he did. I’ll be able to get away from her on my Star Boat if she tries anything. So don’t worry. Even if we can’t defeat her, she won’t be able to stop us from leaving. And if she really angers me, I’ll teach her a lesson even if that means I have to consume all of my Star Stones.”

Qiao Yunxi nodded somewhat reluctantly. “Alright.”

Afterwards, the two of them stopped talking and closed their eyes to recover with spirit stones, medicinal pills, and soul crystals.

At the same time, Nie Tian secretly sent a wisp of his unique flesh aura into his ring of holding to find the mother Metal-devouring Bug, and then activated Life Drain.

One wisp of golden flesh power after another, which shone with dazzling golden light, was drained from the mother bug.

The mother bug’s grade was unknown. Even though it was significantly larger than the other Metal-devouring Bugs, it was still only the size of a fist, which was much smaller than any spirit beast or outsider that carried powerful bloodlines.

Even so, its insignificant body contained a copious amount of flesh power. As it gradually lost its flesh power, the mysterious patterns on its exterior that seemed to carry the profound truths of metal power faded until they disappeared completely.

At the same time, numerous new cyan spots were born within the Bloodline Crystal Chains that formed the green aura in Nie Tian’s heart.

Each and every cyan spot shone as brightly as stars, as if the profound truths of life lay within them.

Nie Tian was well-aware that in order for him to awaken a new bloodline talent, he would have to let more cyan spots be born.

Those bright cyan spots were his bloodline seals.

The generation of new bloodline seals would accelerate the upgrade of his bloodline, as well as the awakening of new bloodline talents.

He grew excited as he saw more and more bloodline seals shining within the green aura.

Two hours passed...

The mother Metal-devouring Bug was completely drained of its flesh power.

After losing all of its residual power, it crumbled and became golden powder within his ring of holding, bereft of any wonder.

However, the green aura still hadn’t accumulated enough flesh power to enter dormancy again.

He cursed inwardly and went on to absorb the flesh power of the other Metal-devouring Bugs.

Soon, a Metal-devouring Bug that was the size of a thumb was rapidly drained of its flesh power and reduced to golden powder.

Nie Tian took a close look at the green aura, and discovered that the flesh power of the Metal-devouring Bug didn’t cause any changes in it. Not even a single bloodline seal appeared within it.

He pondered the matter briefly before realizing that a Metal-devouring Bug only contained a very limited amount of flesh power.

The fact that numerous bloodline seals had been created earlier was probably because the mother bug’s ancient bloodline had activated part of his bloodline.

Since that mother bug had given birth to all of the other Metal-devouring Bugs, none of their bloodlines were as complete as hers.

Now that he had already channeled the mother bug’s bloodline into his, the other Metal-devouring Bugs naturally proved almost useless to him.