Chapter 789: Death Depo (1/2)

Li Muyang pondered briefly, then asked with a confused expression, “But why would they toss Master Zhen’s body into that spatial rift after killing her?

“If our speculation is correct and it’s really them who put all these human corpses here, they should do everything they can to keep this place a secret, right?”

Xing Huanyue calmed down and chimed in, “That’s right. Their doing will provoke the wrath of Heaven and the anger of men. (idiom: provoke widespread indignation and discontent) Once it’s exposed, the Thousandsword Mountain Sect’s name would be dragged through the mud. I believe many human powers would condemn them after learning about their unspeakable collusion with the Bonebrutes.

“That’s right,” Nie Tian chimed in. “They should have done everything within their power to keep this secret.”

“Junior martial sister was not necessarily thrown into that spatial rift by people from the Thousandsword Mountain Sect,” Zhao Shanling said with a grim face.

Nie Tian’s gaze naturally landed on him.

With an icy look in his eyes, Zhao Shanling explained, “Junior martial sister was well-versed in all kinds of spatial magics. There’s a short-distance escape magic among the magics our master taught us. It’s just that it’ll inflict great damage on the caster who uses that escape magic, so even I wouldn’t use it unless I was in a desperate situation.”

After spending a moment to comb through his thoughts, he continued, “Perhaps junior martial sister had already sustained heavy injuries by the time she resorted to that escape magic. By the time she got to the spatial rift, she was in critical condition.

“That spatial rift is very special too. It appears and vanishes from time to time. Perhaps junior martial sister flew into the spatial rift and jammed it with her last remaining strength.

“By the time she had done all that, the flame of her life force went out, and she died.

“I think this is one of the possibilities.”

These words enlightened Hua Mu, and he asked, “Do you mean Huilan actually escaped the Thousandsword Mountain Sect’s blockade and flew into the spatial rift right before she died? And she used up her last bit of strength to do that so that she could warn us? Or she hoped that even if she died, her body would lead us to this place?”

“Yeah, I think that’s possible,” Zhao Shanling answered. “But we’ll have to find someone from the Thousandsword Mountain Sect to confirm our speculations.”

With these words, he exploded skywards.

In Nie Tian’s senses, Zhao Shanling’s immense soul awareness spread in all directions like an enormous net.

Immediately afterwards, Hua Mu and the others also flew off in different directions to search this heaven and earth for Bonebrutes or Thousandsword Mountain Sect disciples.

Now that they were already on it, Nie Tian didn’t feel the need to do it himself.

He assumed that the five Soul realm experts would be able to finish scanning every inch of this place within a short time.

Therefore, he just stayed there and watched the Bone Blood Demon.

The Bone Blood Demon was still standing in the middle of the altar of bones and madly channeling pale-gray death power from the surrounding skeletons with the help of the altar.

Originally, the Bone Blood Demon’s backbone had been ruptured in multiple places. Now, after it had absorbed a copious amount of death power, the ruptured parts gradually healed, as if they were being reforged.

“The Bonebrutes’ indestructible form!” Nie Tian let out a soft exclamation.

He realized that this powerful Bonebrute must have gained its indestructible form when it had been alive.

Now that it had absorbed a significant amount of death power, its indestructible form was once again activated, allowing it to heal its damaged bones with the death power in this place.

As the sea of bones was gradually drained of its death power, the very uncomfortable feeling was relieved to a great deal.

He took a step forward.

BOOM!

The skeleton he stepped on instantly shattered.

As he continued to step forward, more bones shattered under his feet, as they were bereft of any death power.

Zhao Shanling’s exclamation echoed out in a distant location. “Over here!”

Nie Tian shot another glance at the Bone Blood Demon, and realized that it was still recovering with the help of the altar of bones. Therefore, he left it alone.

He summoned the Star Boat and sped off towards the source of Zhao Shanling’s exclamation.

Standing on the Star Boat, he glanced down at the earth, and saw numerous mountains and seas of skeletons.

An altar of bones could be seen at the center of every sea of skeletons.

By the time he reached Zhao Shanling’s location, he discovered that Hua Mu and the other experts were already gathered there.

Zhao Shanling was standing in front of a huge arch, which seemed to be made of the bones of some gigantic spirit beast.

Pale white light burned like flames in the arch, giving rise to intense spatial fluctuations.