Chapter 866: Ghouls (1/2)

Intense tainted energies seemed to be coming out of the mouth of the spacious, unfathomable cave, around which numerous corpses were piled up.

Nie Tian took a quick glance at them, and realized that they belonged to different races.

Xie Wanting’s air-transportation spiritual tool continued to approach. When they were about a few dozen meters from the mouth of the cave, she stopped and asked, “Do we go inside and explore?”

Yin Yanan seemed somewhat edgy as she said, “We’ve explored the Bloody Grave Mountain Range for some time now, but we haven’t found anything truly valuable. If what you said is true and the Bloody Grave Mountain Range does hold countless precious spiritual materials, where are they then? I say we go inside this cave and explore.”

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

Nie Tian nodded.

After flying to the mouth of the cave, Xie Wanting said, “As wide as the cave is, it’s not fit for air-transportation spiritual tools to fly in it. I suggest we travel on foot.”

“Alright.” Nie Tian took the initiative to jump off the air-transportation spiritual tool and walk into the cave.

As he did, he unleashed his unique bloodline power to scan his surroundings.

Faint ghostly flames could be seen on some of the corpses at the mouth of the cave. The flames contained toxins that were very harmful for any creatures with flesh and blood.

However, since they didn’t emanate any sort of energy, Nie Tian’s worries were eliminated.

Nie Tian waved his hand, beckoning for the girls to come. “From the look of it, these corpses aren’t ghouls, or haven’t turned into ghouls yet.”

After Xie Wanting put her air-transportation spiritual tool away, the four of them started marching slowly into cave.

The cave was so spacious that it would allow more than a dozen people to walk side by side.

However, the tainted energies in the cave seemed to be much more intense than the tainted energies outside. Traveling in it, they had to consume even more power to ward them off.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

After marching about a hundred meters into the cave, five evil spirits suddenly flew out of a small tunnel in the cave wall.

Yin Yanan and the girls’ expressions flickered slightly as they saw them pouncing on them, and hastily urged Nie Tian to take his Spirit Pearl out.

However, Nie Tian didn’t do so right away.

“What the hell are you doing, Nie Tian?!” Yin Yanan asked with an anxious expression.

When the evil spirits were only three meters from them, they experienced stabbing pain in their heads. Wisps of the evil spirits’ gruesome auras infiltrated their minds and started to bewitch their minds into leaving their seas of awareness.

Frightened looks spread across their faces.

Only at this moment did Nie Tian summon his Spirit Pearl from within his ring of holding.

As soon as the Spirit Pearl appeared, cyan light burst forth, engulfing the five evil spirits.

Like a powerful magnet, the Spirit Pearl bound the five evil spirits down completely. The evil spirits sensed the unfavorable situation, and thus screamed madly while doing their utmost to struggle free.

However, no matter what they did, the evil spirits couldn’t escape the Spirit Pearl’s magnetic field. Instead, they flew uncontrollably into the Spirit Pearl one after another.

Immediately afterwards, Nie Tian sent a wisp of his soul awareness into the Spirit Pearl, and discovered that the evil spirits were purged and split into more discarnate souls via some profound soul magic.

And thanks to them, more details of the Bloody Grave Mountain Range part of the star map were drawn.

At the same time, the Spirit Pearl seemed to have grown slightly more powerful after refining those fierce evil spirits.

With a smile, Nie Tian said, “From now on, do not panic if evil spirits pounce on us. This special tool I gained from the Phantasms will be able to absorb them after they come close enough.”

With one hand on her chest, Xie Wanting was still badly shaken as she said, “I was totally scared. I thought you were bewitched by those evil spirits.”

The four of them then moved out again.

They ran into a few more groups of evil spirits along their way.

Nie Tian took care of them with the same method by taking out the Spirit Pearl after they came close enough. Too late to escape, all of them were sucked into the Spirit Pearl.

After absorbing the evil spirits, the cyan light the Spirit Pearl emanated became even brighter as its soul grew stronger.

“Not only can it help me take care of the evil spirits in the Bloody Grave Mountain Range, but it also grows stronger during the process. This is not bad at all.” A faint smile appeared at the corner of Nie Tian’s mouth as he suddenly had a feeling that even if he didn’t get to collect any precious spiritual materials during this trip, he would benefit a great deal from it, since just the evil spirits alone would help his Spirit Pearl grow significantly stronger.

A quarter hour later...

The four of them came to a place in the spacious cave where more than a dozen corpses were scattered on the ground.