Chapter 800: A Special Realm (1/2)

Nie Tian followed Duan Shihu back to the city. Just as he was about to summon Li Muyang and the other experts, Jing Rou shook her head and said with a smile, “We won’t need their help this time.”

Nie Tian was taken aback.

Zhao Shanling and the others were all at the Soul realm; they represented the peak battle prowess of the Domain of the Falling Stars.

They would certainly need the help of powerful experts if they wanted to rescue Pei Qiqi. Therefore, the fact that Jing Rou didn’t want them to go confused Nie Tian.

“They’re too eye-catching,” Jing Rou explained. “Xing Bo and the people from the Golden Vast Sect probably remember their cultivation bases and auras. They’ll probably be exposed and attract the Golden Vast Sect and the Thousandsword Mountain Sect’s attention as soon as they arrive in the Realm of Maelstrom. If Xing Bo finds out who they are and that they’re traveling with us, then he’ll be alerted.

“But you’re different. Your cultivation base is fairly low. As long as you keep your Bonebrute puppet well-hidden and assume a different appearance, you’ll easily blend in with the crowd and avoid catching unnecessary attention.

“Besides, a middle Void domain senior from my sect has agreed to go with us. He’ll help us if needed.”

After a moment of hesitation, Nie Tian nodded somewhat reluctantly. “Alright, since you’ve made arrangements already... All I want is to get Senior Martial Sister Pei to safety. As long as we can do that, nothing else is important.”

“Rest assured,” Jing Rou said, looking rather confident. “There won’t be a problem.”

Then, the couple led Nie Tian to a spacious room, where stood a large-scale teleportation portal.

They activated the spell formation, and the three of them vanished from the Realm of Withering Flame.

In the next moment, Nie Tian and the couple walked out of a teleportation portal that was on the ground floor of a splendid stone pavilion in the Realm of Maelstrom.

Jing Rou tossed a thin, light mask to Nie Tian. “Here, put this mask on.”

Nie Tian put it on and fetched a bronze mirror. He looked into the mirror and discovered that the person in the mirror looked as pale as wax and very unimpressive, completely unlike him.

Afterwards, Duan Shihu and Jing Rou took him to the top floor of the stone pavilion, where there was a large, round balcony.

Standing by the railing, Nie Tian gazed into the sky, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

The sky was dotted with dazzlingly bright stars.

However, the starry sky only took up a small part of his view, and was wreathed in rings of watery curtains, which were in the form of an enormous vortex, wide towards the top and narrow towards the bottom.

Duan Shihu explained, “This Realm of Maelstrom is actually a very special realm. You can view this realm as a huge water-attributed spiritual power vortex. The continent we’re standing on is floating in the huge vortex.

“The starry sky you can see from here is only limited to the mouth of the vortex, which makes you feel like you’re gazing skywards from inside a well.

“The huge vortex stretches downwards and ends below the continent we’re on. There are a large number of spatial rifts in the vortex. They’re all of different sizes, and constantly on the move.

“The smallest of the spatial rifts can only allow bugs to go through, while the largest ones can allow ancient starships to go through.”

While Duan Shihu spoke, Nie Tian saw that a gigantic ancient starship had suddenly appeared in the misty, watery sky, as if it had gone through a curtain of water and appeared from behind a waterfall.

Judging from its appearance, it was clearly a ancient starship of the Phantasms.

A shocked expression spread across Nie Tian’s face. “Phantasms!”

Duan Shihu, however, seemed to find nothing abnormal about it. His expression didn’t change in the slightest as he said, “You’re right. That’s an ancient starship that belongs to the Phantasms. Not just Phantasms, but Demons, Fiends, and Floragrims will also come to the Realm of Maelstrom through the spatial rifts in the enormous vortex.

“But they don’t come for war, but for trade.

“There are many precious materials in outsider realms that can help us human Qi warriors build up our strength, forge powerful spiritual tools, or build our inner domains.

“Similarly, we have certain spiritual materials in our realms that can help the outsiders upgrade their bloodlines at a higher rate.

“Even though battles break out among humans, outsiders, and Ancientspirits all the time in many realms, as there are always exceptions in things, in certain places, all races can get along and do business with each other.

“The Realm of Maelstrom is one of these places.”

SHEW! SHEW! SHEW!

Figures wreathed in poisonous mist suddenly shot up from a distant location, and soon disappeared into the enormous vortex.

Nie Tian examined them with rapt attention, and was convinced that they were Fiends.

“Fiends!” he called out.