Chapter 964: Examining the Bone (1/2)

Outside the first Lizardman realm.

Eleven enormous Lizardman corpses were floating in the dark, cold void. All of them had been dragged to this place by Yang Fan and Lou Hongyan.

Because of this, they had taken twice as long to return to this realm as they had when they left.

All eleven of them had been at the eighth grade. Five had been killed by Nie Tian with that mysterious bone.

Nie Tian had completely drained four of them of their flesh power using Life Drain, which was why they were dried up and shriveled.

There was another one that had been at the peak of the eighth grade. He had only drained half of its profound flesh power, so even though it had also shrunk noticeably, there was still a considerable amount of flesh power left within it.

Lou Hongyan’s plan was to bring all these corpses back to the Lizardman capital to awe the remaining Lizardmen, so that they would obey.

“Let’s wait here for the others,” Lou Hongyan said. “They’ll come here to meet us after they’re finished with the fleeing Lizardmen.”

Neither Nie Tian nor Huang Jinnan had a different opinion.

Lightning flashed from time to time in the depths of Yang Fan’s lightning domain, accompanied by loud rolls of thunder.

Every once in a while, blood-colored light would also flash across his domain, but would rapidly vanish.

Yang Fan was still trying his best to find out what species that mysterious bone belonged to, and what secrets it held.

Nie Tian, however, didn’t seem worried at all.

Since he was the seventh Son of the Stars of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, and he had branded it with his own Blood Essence, he had already taken the Lizardman patriarch’s place and become its new master. He didn’t believe Yang Fan would dare to take away something that was his.

In fact, he wanted to see if Yang Fan was able to figure out the origin of that mysterious bone.

To this day, he didn’t know anything about the origin of his own bloodline. If Yang Fan could see something from the bone, perhaps he would be able to figure out who his father was as well.

The few of them waited as time passed.

Soon, Lou Hongyan told Nie Tian that she would need to refine her flame domain with rare materials from within her ring of holding.

After suffering that devastating blow from the mysterious bone, many of the illusory volcanoes, seas of flames, and rivers of flames had vanished.

Right now, she needed to fix her badly damaged domain.

“Come here to me.” Huang Jinnan beckoned him, summoning his golden chariot from within his ring of holding.

A golden shield rose to envelop the chariot, protecting it and those on it from the impurities in the starry river.

After Nie Tian flew on board, Huang Jinnan said with a smile, “Even though this chariot of mine isn’t as fast your Star Boat, its defensive function is outstanding. It allows me to remain in the starry river for a fairly long time. As far as grade is concerned, its grade might be lower than your Star Boat, but it’s not like there’s a big gap.”

“It’s already impressive enough,” Nie Tian said.

At this moment, the five evil spirits had already returned to the Spirit Pearl. After devouring the eighth grade Lizardmen’s souls, they also needed time to digest them and grow.

Meanwhile, Nie Tian had recovered his ten drops of Blood Essence.

The puncture wound in his abdomen had also healed completely. There was no sign of such a serious wound ever occurring.

Floating around him were the enormous corpses of the eighth grade Lizardmen, all of which were treasures in his eyes, since he could either use them to start the Flesh Tempering step of Heavenly Wood Heal, or stockpile them and use them to replenish his flesh power in the future.

“It’s a pity that we didn’t kill any ninth grade Lizardmen,” Huang Jinnan said, looking somewhat frustrated. “But come to think of it, other than that patriarch, none of the other ninth grade Lizardmen had mastered profound bloodline magics or techniques to temper their bones and flesh like the Demons, Phantasms, and other higher races do.

“For this reason, their flesh power isn’t refined enough, and would soon scatter and vanish into heaven and earth.

“If they were eighth grade Ancientbeasts, Demons, or Bonebrutes, since they spend tens of thousands of years refining their bodies, they would lose their flesh power at a much slower rate after death, which makes their remains perfect materials for certain tools.

“But as for the remains of these Lizardmen, I doubt that they can be used to forge Spirit Channeling grade tools.”

As Huang Jinnan spoke, one river of flames after another flew out of Lou Hongyan’s ring of holding and sewed up the damaged parts of her flame domain like needles and thread.