Chapter 801: Sand of Time (1/2)

A figure suddenly appeared on the top floor balcony where Nie Tian stood. With a shocked expression, he exclaimed, “That’s an eighth grade ice phoenix!”

It was a tall old man with silver hair, his face covered in the furrows of time.

“Grandpa Meng,” Jing Rou said softly.

With a warm smile, the old man nodded and introduced himself to Nie Tian, “Meng Li is my name. I’m an elder of the Divine Seal Sect. Welcome.”

Clearly, he knew who Nie Tian was, because only if he did would he speak to him with such politeness and respect.

Nie Tian hastily returned a bow.

The tall old man, who referred to himself as Meng Li, was dressed in a long robe decorated with numerous magical symbols, and had an impressive bearing.

Gazing into the depths of the clouds at the transformed ice phoenix that was wreathed in bits of sparkling ice, Meng Li said with a grim expression, “As a branch of Ancientspirits, Ancientbeasts rarely come to the Realm of Maelstrom, but the few times they showed up here, they plunged the Realm of Maelstrom into great turbulences. We have to raise our vigilance.”

His lofty cultivation base allowed him to tell that the ice phoenix was at the peak of the eighth grade, only one step away from entering the ninth grade.

Most of the time, Saint domain experts wouldn’t come to oversee things in the Realm of Maelstrom. Void domain experts already represented their highest battle prowess here.

As the Divine Seal Sect’s representative in the Realm of Maelstrom, Meng Li was responsible for keeping things in order in the Realm of Maelstrom.

However, the ice phoenix with an unknown origin was at the peak of the eighth grade, while he was only at the middle Void domain. He weighed their strength against hers inwardly, and wondered whether he would be able to overtake her in battle with the help of the other two overseers from the Thousandsword Mountain Sect and the Golden Vast Sect.

Soon, his eyebrows furrowed.

Without paying any attention to the changes on his face, Duan Shihu went on to talk to Nie Tian, “Junior martial brother, the sand of time is a legendary item that contains the most mysterious time power. It can be refined into spiritual tools, vesting spiritual tools with the ability to reverse time.

“Such mighty spiritual tools will allow their owners to reverse time in battle over a short period of time.

“Imagine this: two men with the same cultivation bases and battle prowess get into a fight. If one of them possesses a spiritual tool that allows him to reverse time, he’ll be able to minimize his opponent’s full-force strikes by turning time back just a few seconds.

“Such mighty spiritual tools will give their owners a great advantage in battle.”

Nie Tian’s expression flickered after he spent a moment pondering these words. “If that sand of time can indeed turn back time, then such a change in spiritual tools will achieve significant results.”

Duan Shihu grew increasingly excited as he added, “And this is only for normal people. If our master gets ahold of some sand of time, he’ll be able to fully display its terrifying might. I’ll try my best to get it for master! I happen to have a few Soul Convergence Pills in my possession. Hopefully, I’ll be able to trade them for that bottle of sand of time!”

Jing Rou smiled bitterly. “I’m afraid that’s not very likely.”

Meng Li also shook his head slightly. “Soul Convergence Pills don’t rank very high among human medicinal pills. The Thousandsword Mountain Sect and the Golden Vast Sect must have lots of them too. Such medicinal pills can help human cultivators transform their psychic power into soul power, and form their true souls after entering the Worldly realm.

“But I’m afraid they won’t be very helpful to that high grade ice phoenix.

“I can feel that the ice phoenix’s soul has suffered serious injuries. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have come to the Realm of Maelstrom to trade in her sand of time.

“She would only have her eyes on and trade her sand of time for precious medicinal pills that can help her soul recover within a short time.”

While Meng Li spoke, Jing Rou took out her curious prism with four facets.

Images appeared in it, allowing Nie Tian to gain a clear view of what was happening in the sky.

Duan Shihu and Meng Li also stepped over and looked into the prism with rapt attention, through which the four of them saw the ice phoenix, who had come a long way to the Realm of Maelstrom, floating still in the air.

A large amount of sparkling, icy light wreathed her perfectly-shaped body, blocking her face from view.

One of her soft, jade-like arms stuck out of the sparkling light, holding a transparent crystal bottle, which held grains of silver-white sand.

The crystal bottle exuded a frigid aura, as if to mask the wonders of the grains of silver-white sand inside.

Even so, everyone knew those grains of silver-white sand were sand of time.

At this moment, many powerful experts had gathered to the ice phoenix’s location, including humans, Phantasms, and people of other races.

Clearly, all of them had a strong interest in the sand of time.

Xing Bo from the Thousandsword Mountain Sect was among them. He and Gao Han came on an air-transportation spiritual tool.

“Hmm?!” Nie Tian’s pupils shrank as he saw a familiar figure: Yuna, the Phantasm expert.

Back when he had defeated the Demons and Phantasms’ joint fleet, which had wandered around the continent the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had left for him, with the help of that incredibly powerful palace, his soul awareness had been magnified hundreds of times over.