Chapter 876: A Well Filled with Grimy Blood (1/2)

The Stone Golem capital was built with pale-gray rocks. The tainted energies within the city were much thicker than without.

Numerous evil spirits and ghouls roamed the city.

Stone pavilions that were several dozen meters high stood on either side of the wide streets.

As soon as Nie Tian and the others’ air-transportation spiritual tools crossed the city wall into the city, their flesh and soul auras instantly attracted evil spirits and ghouls to them.

Evil spirits fed on souls, so they came after their true souls.

Ghouls, however, came to feast on their flesh and blood.

Not all of the evil spirits were equally strong. Those who had been powerful when they had been alive would be powerful after turning into evil spirits.

The same went for the ghouls.

Nie Tian examined the ghouls pouring towards them with rapt attention, and discovered that almost none of them had been transformed from humans.

However, after pondering the matter briefly, he realized that since humans had feeble flesh bodies and weak flesh power, the chance of them turning into ghouls must be smaller to start with.

Then, even if they became ghouls, they would be the weakest among the ghouls.

They might have long since been eliminated by former explorers who had entered this city.

Therefore, most of the ghouls that had survived had been transformed from outsiders or Ancientbeasts.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

About a dozen evil spirits flew towards them like clusters of gray clouds, screeching as they did.

As they approached, a cloudy soul aura that was mixed with raging killing intent blew directly in their faces.

Without making a sound, the peculiar soul aura pervaded a large area around them in the blink of an eye.

Waves were instantly created in Nie Tian’s quiet sea of awareness. Even his true soul, which he had refined many times, seemed to be shaken, and became somewhat blurry.

As soon as this happened, Nie Tian felt very dizzy, as if he was being bewitched.

He instantly realized that the cloudy aura had already infiltrated into his sea of awareness without him knowing it.

“Star Soul Shine!” As a thought entered his mind, the nine star souls that floated over his sea of awareness instantly emanated chilly starlight that had the effect of soothing his nerves and cleansing his mind.

He soon rid him of the soul aura’s negative influence and recovered a clear mind.

Immediately afterwards, he turned to look at the three girls in the Star Boat with him.

Mu Biqiong and Yin Yanan didn’t summon their coexisting flowers or Frost Blood Python, but they were able to communicate with them on a soul level to draw some of their soul power.

Thanks to this, the two of them also rapidly recovered clear minds after a short period of bewilderment.

However, as he laid eyes on Xie Wanting from the Water Moon Sect, he discovered that a fierce look had been added to the depths of her pupils, which were usually as quiet as lake water.

A strange aura that was filled with violence and a thirst for blood rapidly built up within her, completely unlike her normal vibe.

Killing intent flashed across her eyes.

“Wake up!” Nie Tian shouted, while lifting his hand to place his finger on the spot between her eyebrows.

A wisp of chilling star power instantly spread out from his fingertip, cleansing her bewildered mind.

The fierce look in her eyes rapidly faded, along with the strange aura that had wreathed her.

Immediately afterwards, she came back to her senses. With a confused expression, she asked, “What just happened?”

“Strange,” Mu Biqiong said in a soft voice. “Not only are the evil spirits in this Stone Golem capital in great numbers, but they can even bewitch people.”

“Be careful now,” Nie Tian said, withdrawing his finger from between Xie Wanting’s eyebrows. “You’d better guard your sea of awareness at all times, lest you get influenced again.”

“Thank you,” Xie Wanting said, her heart still fluttering with fear. “Sorry I was too careless. None of the evil spirits we met before were able to bewitch people, so I wasn’t prepared for this.”

“Yeah,” Nie Tian said plainly.

At this moment, Huang Jinnan’s chariot and all of the other air-transportation spiritual tools started gathering towards Nie Tian.

That was because the incoming evil spirits had attacked their seas of awareness as well.

However, none of them seemed very much affected, as they all looked rather calm and composed.

As a few evil spirits flew closer and closer to Nie Tian, numerous fine soul strands interwove into a large net that hoped to net the souls of Nie Tian and the others.

Having dealt with evil spirits on many occasions, Nie Tian had long since been prepared for this. He summoned the Spirit Pearl as soon as the soul strands appeared.

In the next moment, the fine soul strands released by the evil spirits were sucked into the cyan pearl like wisps of cyan mist.

Seeing this, the evil spirits became instinctively scared, and fled in panic.

However, an irresistible attractive force was born within the Spirit Pearl, and the evil spirits were grabbed, as if by invisible hands, and dragged right into the cyan pearl.

The other evil spirits, which were attacking Huang Jinnan and the others, instantly sensed danger, and flew away as quickly as they could.