Chapter 864: Evil Young Man (1/2)
Looking rather bedraggled, the young man approached Xie Wanting’s berthed air-transportation spiritual tool.
Face pale, covered in blood, and panting, he seemed to have consumed a great amount of his spiritual power.
After assuming a steady foothold on the air-transportation spiritual tool, he pleaded, “Can I please travel with you from now on, big brother and sisters? I practice lightning incantations, which work well on evil spirits. All you’ll need to do is to take care of the ghouls if we run into any. If we do this, our exploration of the Bloody Grave Mountain Range will be much easier for all of us.”
Eyebrows furrowed, Mu Biqiong asked, “What about the outsiders?”
“It’s alright. I lost them on my way here.” The young man said, looking in the direction he had come from. “I was very fast. They shouldn’t be able to find their way here anytime soon.”
Rising to his feet, Nie Tian made it to the young man after taking just one step. He looked down and examined the bloodstains on his chest. Then, with a smile, he said, “All of us will benefit if we travel together, so of course we can do that.”
The young man’s expression relaxed a bit, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
“You seem to have sustained some serious injuries,” Nie Tian said with a warm smile. “Let me help you heal yourself. I’ve got a unique method.”
With these words, he extended his arm to touch the bloodstains on the young man’s chest.
With a dry smile, the young man took a step backwards to put a certain distance between him and Nie Tian. “There’s no need for that. I’ll be fine. Thank you for your kind offer, big brother.”
“Come on,” Nie Tian said, full of smiles. “Now that we’ve decided to take you on, we need to take good care of you.”
All of a sudden, his extended hand formed a blade, dazzling spiritual light blossoming from his fingertips.
The young man hastily jumped backward, his expression flickering. “What are you doing, big brother?!”
Yin Yanan and the others stared at Nie Tian and the young man, surprise and confusion filling their faces, as neither had they expected that Nie Tian’s hand would explode with spiritual power right before reaching the young man’s chest.
Nie Tian’s smile grew increasingly broad. “Don’t worry. I’m only treating your injuries. Just stand still and you’ll be fine in a moment.”
Red, white, and green auras poured out of the tips of his five fingers like rivers of spiritual power.
FIZZ! FIZZ! FIZZ!
Fine lightning bolts appeared in front of the young man’s chest, rapidly interweaving into a shield of lightning.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Nie Tian’s spiritual auras went through the half-formed shield of lightning and bombarded the young man’s chest, causing him to shake strongly.
At the same time, Nie Tian clenched his blade-like hand into a hard fist.
Thrumming with vigorous flesh power, it slammed violently into the young man’s chest.
The shield of lightning on his chest exploded instantly, sending lightning sparks in all directions.
The young man let out a muffled groan, a wisp of blood coming down the corner of his mouth. Panicking, he flew backwards, fixing Nie Tian with a stare. “What the hell was that, big brother?!!”
“I was helping you,” Nie Tian answered, still smiling.
“Helping me?!” The young man shouted furiously. “You were trying to kill me!!”
“Oh, so you saw that, huh?” Nie Tian said, still full of smiles. “You’re right. That was indeed my intention.”
“Why?!” The young man asked with a confused expression.
“Why?” The smile gradually faded from Nie Tian’s face. “You wanna ask me why? Not a single drop of that blood is yours or outsiders’. You killed all your companions, didn’t you? You killed them and smeared their blood all over yourself, and then you asked to join us, hoping to do the same to us, right?”
The young man’s face dropped as soon as he heard these words.
The expressions of Yin Yanan and the others in the air-transportation spiritual tool also flickered after they heard Nie Tian’s words.
Then, they all flew out of the air-transportation spiritual tool. Staring at the young man, Xie Wanting said, “Such an evil brat!”
Even though she didn’t know how Nie Tian was able to tell that the blood on the young man belonged to his companions, she trusted his judgment.
She was even more convinced after she saw the grim look on the young man’s face after Nie Tian pointed it out to him.
Eyebrows furrowed, the young man asked, “How did you see through my disguise?”
With a casual smile, Nie Tian said, “Can’t tell you about that.”
His unique bloodline made him sensitive to flesh auras.
The greatest difference between human blood and outsider blood was that outsider blood contained a much larger amount of flesh power than that of humans.
Even a third grade outsiders’ blood contained dozens of times more flesh power than Profound realm human experts.
The blood on the young man’s chest clearly belonged to humans, yet he had claimed that they had encountered outsiders. He had definitely lied.
Furthermore, judging from the garments of the young man and his companions, they hadn’t been from the same sect. They had probably met and teamed up after coming here. Therefore, the reason he had lied was probably to cover up the fact that he had killed them and looted their valuables.
“Your cultivation base is the lowest among you lot, yet you’re the one who saw through my disguise. I’ve got to say that I’m impressed.” The young man said with an icy face, without showing any fear. “But it won’t change anything, since all of you are going to die soon.”
With these words, the young man suddenly let out a sharp cry.
His cry seemed to carry some kind of magical power. Nie Tian and the others instantly felt as if something were stirring their seas of awareness and inflicting a ripping pain in their minds.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!