Chapter 863: Crisis Strikes (1/2)

As the last evil spirit was scattered to wisps of faint smoke and vanished, the four Qi warriors secretly let out a sigh of relief.

Almost at the same time, they fixed their eyes on Nie Tian and the girls.

Eyebrows furrowed, one of them who seemed older asked aloud, “Where are you from? You’ve been watching us for some time now, instead of coming to our aid. So... what’s your intent?”

After this battle, the young man with that fascinating folding fan seemed to have consumed a significant amount of his strength.

The other three had also consumed their spiritual power to different degrees.

Under such circumstances, their best choice was to avoid more battles, and recover their spiritual power as soon as possible.

Seeing that Nie Tian and the other two didn’t say anything, Xie Wanting took the initiative to say, “We were just passing by. Like you, we’re also here to explore the Bloody Grave Mountain Range. Evil spirits and ghouls are everywhere in this region, and we also face unknown dangers. So we didn’t intend to fight you.”

“Good,” The man said a careful expression. “In that case, you may leave now. We need to spend some time recovering.”

Xie Wanting then turned to fix Nie Tian with an inquiring gaze.

Nie Tian’s gaze swept across the four Qi warriors before he nodded and said, “Let’s go.”

Xie Wanting then activated the air-transportation spiritual tool and flew into the distance.

Watching Xie Wanting’s air-transportation spiritual tool fly farther and farther, the older man muttered in a low voice, “Strange… That man only seemed to be at the late Worldly realm, which is the lowest among the four of them. And the tainted energies gathered around him were also rather faint, which indicates that his battle prowess should also be the weakest, yet that woman and the other two seemed to treat him as their leader.”

Another man chimed in. “Those who dare to come to the Bloody Grave Mountain Range must have their own strengths. We’re lucky that they didn’t take the opportunity to attack us when our battle against the evil spirits had just ended.”

“No need to mind them. Judging from the intensity of the tainted energies around them, they aren’t very powerful anyways. If they had actually attacked us, they’d have earned themselves a great deal of suffering.”

“Come on. Let’s recover first.”

The four of them reached a mutual understanding and sat down in the lotus position. While contending against the tainted energies, they took out spiritual materials of different attributes and a variety of medicinal pills to recover.

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After flying for a while, Xie Wanting’s air-transportation spiritual tool gradually slowed down in the air filled with tainted energies.

Eyebrows furrowed, she said, “I didn’t expect that the tainted energies can even undermine the spirit stones that power air-transportation spiritual tools.”

Hearing this, Nie Tian looked down, and discovered that the spirit stones that paved the floor of the air-transportation spiritual tool were now rust-stained, and the spiritual power they gave had become impure.

Most air-transportation spiritual tools ran on spirit stones. The spirit stones being compromised would cause the air-transportation spiritual tool to become slower and slower.

Therefore, Xie Wanting had to constantly replace the compromised spirit stones with fresh spirit stones to maintain a high speed.

The four of them only flew on for another hour in the Bloody Grave Mountain Range before they started to feel tired.

After all, they had to summon their spiritual power to ward off the tainted energies at all times.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Three evil spirits suddenly came out of nowhere.

From the look of it, they were slightly tougher than the one Yin Yanan had killed.

Crying fiercely, they rapidly surrounded the air-transportation spiritual tool, showing their natural desire for flesh and souls.

Just as Yin Yanan was about to launch attacks, Mu Biqiong rose to her feet and said, “Let me see how powerful these evil spirits really are!”

With these words, the black demonic flower’s thick resilient root shot out of her left palm, along with a gruesome icy aura.

However, as the pitch-black root shot out, more tainted energies suddenly gathered towards her.

Like multicolored clouds, thick tainted energies kept converging on her from all directions, and rapidly built up around her.

Mu Biqiong’s expression flickered as she hastily jumped off the air-transportation spiritual tool, lest the gathering tainted energies swallow Nie Tian and the others as well.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The black flower’s root exuded a bleak soul aura as it rapidly wrapped around the three evil spirits.

Since the evil spirits were illusory, and not living creatures, the black root shouldn’t have been able to trap them.

However, after the black root unleashed a unique soul aura, it seemed to suddenly be vested with the ability to slaughter spirits and souls.