Chapter 873: Additional Gains (1/2)

After Huang Jinnan left with the others, Nie Tian hesitated briefly before saying, “You don’t have to stay here. Why don’t you go wait outside with those people?”

Xie Wanting shook her head. “I feel safer with you.”

Mu Biqiong chimed in, “We’ll wait for you right here.”

“I’m actually asking you to leave.” Nie Tian insisted.

“What do you want to do?” Yin Yanan asked with a confused look on her face.

Mu Biqiong and Xie Wanting also fixed him with puzzled gazes.

Nie Tian pondered briefly before saying, “In fact, why don’t you stay here for a while, Yin Yanan, and you two wait outside with the others?”

Seeing that he only wanted Yin Yanan to stay, Mu Biqiong looked rather disgruntled, as she gave a cold harrumph and left.

Xie Wanting still looked at Nie Tian, but after seeing his determined expression, she sighed inwardly and also left.

“Hey, I didn’t know that you actually trust me this much,” Yin Yanan said with a teasing smile.

“Here’s another berry. I want you to stand guard for me. If that Han Sen comes back here, I want you to kill him.” With these words, Nie Tian tossed Yin Yanan another berry, and flew up towards the green shield.

Yin Yanan was indeed the one he trusted the most among the three girls.

He didn’t know Xie Wanting well enough. Mu Biqiong had disliked him from the day they had met. Now, he had to watch out for Han Sen while absorbing the power within the green shield, so he assumed that he would be safer with Yin Yanan here to protect him.

Once again, he flew through and stood on the green shield.

However, he didn’t act meticulously this time, but activated Life Drain instead.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

The wisps of residual life power that swam within the green shield were sucked into him like a whale taking water into its mouth.

The green aura within his heart was thrilled.

The originally thick shield grew thinner with lightning speed as it lost its power at an alarming rate.

Yin Yanan’s eyes suddenly lit up.

At this moment, she finally understood why Nie Tian wanted to stay here.

Wisps of power flew out of the shield into Nie Tian’s body, where they were greedily devoured by the green aura in his heart.

As this happened, numerous new cyan spots seemed to be born within the Bloodline Crystal Chains that formed the green aura.

“This power...” Delight appeared in Nie Tian’s eyes as he realized that the power within this shield was indeed far richer than the power within those berries.

Besides, this power seemed to be of great help to the future upgrade of his bloodline.

He knew perfectly well that with every bloodline upgrade, he would have to accumulate many times more flesh power to achieve his next upgrade. Now that his bloodline had entered the sixth grade, the amount of flesh power he needed to enter the seventh grade would most likely be astronomical.

However, the shield not only contained a titan’s residual flesh power, but also its life power, which agreed perfectly with his bloodline and would benefit him beyond measure.

As one wisp of green energy after another flew into him and were devoured by the green aura within his heart, he could sense its unconcealable joy.

An hour passed...

The green shield finally vanished completely under the effect of Nie Tian’s Life Drain.

Even the severed vines hanging from the cave ceiling shriveled, as they were also drained of their flesh power and life power.

Nie Tian examined himself, and realized that even though the green aura in his heart had absorbed a significant amount of flesh power and life power, it was far from ready to enter dormancy again.

Since he had expected this, he didn’t grow anxious. Instead, he summoned some of his flesh power to form two drops of Blood Essence within his heart.

With this done, he had ten drops of Blood Essence in his heart again. Each and every one of them was rich in flesh aura and as sparkling as diamonds.

Afterwards, one of the berries flew out of his ring of holding into his palm, where he examined the energy it contained.

“The medicinal strength of this berry is weaker than that of a Fruit of Life by over ten times. The Fruits of Life I got for my master and uncle Hua gave each of them a hundred more years of lifespan. But one of these berries can only extend a Qi warrior’s lifespan by no more than eight years. Even though they also contain life power, which is helpful to my special bloodline, it’s far fainter than the life power within the green shield.”

After weighing the situation in his mind, he eventually put the berry away, instead of refining it right away.

Yin Yanan had gazed at him in silence the entire time.