Chapter 753: Meridian Toughening (1/2)

Many Guan Clan and Jian Clan members fixed Nie Tian with taunting or questioning gazes as he went farther and farther.

None of them knew anything about Nie Tian. Many hadn’t even noticed his presence back when they had met at those three floating meteors.

They had paid all of their attention to the three chosen ones from the Beast-controlling Sect, the Trisword Sect, and the Divine Flame Sect.

Why would they pay any attention to an early Worldly realm young man with an unknown background?

They only started to attach importance to him after Yin Yanan indicated that he might have a chance at charging through that layer of energies and landing on that floating continent.

But even so, deep down, they still didn’t believe he would succeed.

SHEW!

Nie Tian finally flew into the layer of various foreign energies, his expression flickering strongly as he did.

He suddenly came to a stop in the void, and his face started to twist.

Countless flesh auras that belonged to different races swarmed madly towards him like sharks that had found prey.

In a split second, fine cuts appeared on Nie Tian’s exposed neck and lower arms.

Nie Tian trembled at the outermost layer of energies that wreathed the floating continent like an atmosphere, beads of sweat starting to appear on his forehead.

Flesh power of different sources started to attack his body from within. Numerous flesh auras of different colors fought fiercely, as if they had been vested with their own spirits.

Soon, more cuts appeared on Nie Tian’s body, and his meridians started to show signs of rupturing.

A bone-piercing pain rapidly spread across his entire body, making him scream miserably.

Bearing the heart-wrenching pain, he attempted to activate Life Drain to absorb the flesh power within the various auras that had lasted tens of thousands of years after the battle had ended.

However, his bloodline talent, which had brought him many happy surprises before, didn’t do so this time.

He activated Life Drain, but the violent, bloodthirsty flesh auras didn’t seem affected in the slightest.

These flesh auras were a mixture of flesh power that had belonged to many different races. Even after such a long time, they still carried the powerful outsiders and ancient spirit beasts’ unbending will.

This made them completely different from the flesh power he had absorbed before.

The residual flesh power within the seventh grade outsiders had been very pure and rich as well. However, it hadn’t been branded with such high fighting spirit.

In his senses, that flesh power had become spiritless after the deaths of their hosts.

However, the flesh power in this place were as if it had been given life and inherited their hosts’ unbending will to fight.

For this reason, not only were the various auras immune to Life Drain, but they even fought among themselves within Nie Tian.

Within seconds, Nie Tian found himself covered in wounds, and his meridians were damaged in many places, causing him burning pain.

Therefore, he hastily activated Heavenly Wood Heal in an attempt to heal himself. However, immediately afterwards, he noticed that his vortex of wood power started to spin at an alarming rate.

Waves of pure wood power rapidly converged on him from all directions and infiltrated his body.

This pure wood power seemed to come from the huge vines that held the continent together, which seemed to be somehow influenced by Nie Tian’s Heavenly Wood Heal.

However, he also realized that he was sustaining more injuries with every passing second.

WHOOSH!

After a moment of hesitation, he flew out of there as fast as he could.

Once he left the atmosphere of energies, the flesh auras that madly rushed about and damaged him from within rapidly settled down, their strong fighting will fading.

His eyes lit up as a soft exclaimation escaped his mouth.

The auras then attempted to fly out of his body. However, they found themselves bound by Nie Tian’s bloodline power and locked inside of him.

Aside from the flesh auras, wisps of wood power that contained rich life force were also trapped within him.

After a few seconds of pondering, he once again activated Heavenly Wood Heal, hoping to use these powers to finish another round of Meridian Toughening.

He knew that he would achieve better results if he tried to refine and toughen his meridians when they were damaged.

The result of Heavenly Wood Heal, however, depended on the cooperation of wood power and flesh power. First, the flesh power would break his meridians on purpose. Then, the flesh power and wood power would work together to repair the damage.

After the repair, the damaged parts would become even more resilient, and would be able to resist heavier blows.