Chapter 975: The First Targe (1/2)

There were hundreds of poor humans like Su Lin on this island.

If an ancient starship was available, it could ship them all to the island where Nie Tian and the others had first arrived at once.

However, the teleportation portals that connected the Realm of Split Void to this dimension couldn’t allow something as large as an ancient starship through.

If they were to use air-transportation spiritual tools, one air-transportation spiritual tool could only carry about ten of them at a time. They would need dozens to ferry them all.

Since Void and Saint domain experts didn’t usually have air-transportation spiritual tools on them, they couldn’t put forward such a large number of air-transportation spiritual tools all of a sudden.

After a discussion, they realized that their only option was to leave them on the island for the time being.

After all, even if they figured out a way to bring them along, they would become a huge liability and might jeopardize Nie Tian’s mission, which had been given to him by the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

Therefore, they left them enough food and spirit stones for the previously enslaved to last ten years, before flying off again by themselves.

Along their way, they discovered a few more islands, where hundreds of human slaves were working under the close watch of a small number of outsiders.

Jing Feiyang, Quan Zixuan, and Qu Mingde launched thunderous attacks and killed all of the outsider overseers in the time it takes a spark to fly off of a piece of flint, making sure that none of them had time to react.

As for the humans they freed, they still left them enough food and spirit stones to last them ten years before moving out again.

Their plan was to come back and get them when they finished killing the outsider intruders and were ready to return.

Nine days passed.

Jing Feiyang suddenly came to a stop in midair. Eyes narrowed, he gazed at a distant island and said in a low voice, “That’s our first target. Even though we’re still rather far away, I can already sense unusual spatial fluctuations coming from there. That must be one of the portals through which the outsiders came to this floating continent.”

“What’s the grade of the most powerful outsider stationed there?” Nie Tian asked in a serious voice.

“The eighth grade,” Jing Feiyang answered, looking rather grim.

Nie Tian frowned. “The eighth grade is only equal to the Void domain... Will that be a problem?”

After pondering pondering briefly, Jing Feiyang said, “That’s a high-tier Demon. I can sense his profound flesh aura from here. I’m afraid we’ll be exposed if we get too close to him. I don’t doubt my ability to kill him. What I worry about is if we can’t annihilate him in an instant, he might send word of our arrival to the other outsiders.

“If the other outsider experts know that we’re here, they’ll be prepared.

“Then it’ll be much more difficult to finish our mission.”

After hearing this, everyone pondered the matter with furrowed brows.

“What if you seal that island first?” Dong Li asked.

“That eighth grade Demon will know what’s going on,” Quan Zixuan said. “He’s not like the other outsiders we’ve killed. The strongest outsiders we’ve encountered on our way here were only at the seventh grade. Since there was a great gap between their strength and ours, we were able to hide from their bloodline detection when we struck.

“But that’s not the case with eighth grade outsiders. That eighth grade demon will definitely be able to sense us before we complete the seal.”

Hearing these words, Nie Tian also had a headache over the tough situation.

Failing to snipe every outsider on this island including the eighth grade Demon would reveal them. Once the powerful outsiders that were scattered in other locations learned about their arrival, they would be prepared.

That meant they would have different options to deal with Nie Tian and his men.

If they were discrete, they could return to their domains through the other portals.

If they were ferocious, they could summon reinforcements from their clans.

If worst came to worst, the ninth grade grand patriarch would be able to gather their remaining forces and fight to the death.

If it came down to that, even though Nie Tian’s group would eventually win the battle, they would suffer much heavier losses.

Therefore, the ideal way to finish this mission was to secretly destroy the portals one by one and killed the outsider intruders separately.

That way, even if the outsiders discovered them after their portals had all been destroyed, they would have to fight with their remaining forces, and eventually be wiped out by Nie Tian and his men.

After pondering for a moment, Nie Tian summoned power from his star souls and true soul, forming a Star Eye. “Let me see if there’s a better way to do this.”

Carrying his soul awareness, the Star Eye then dove into the black sea.

He let out soul calls through it.

Soon, the Star Behemoth’s immense soul awareness rose from the depths of the unfathomable black sea.

Nie Tian explained the problem they were facing to it.

“Hmm... to seal the island...” The Star Behemoth’s soul awareness muttered in a low voice.

Moments later, an idea seemed to come to it. “You go ahead and do what you have to do. I’ll alter the natural power on this continent slightly to have the island submerged. That way, no living beings’ voices, soul fluctuations, or bloodline power will be able to leave that island.”

“Great!” The Star Eye then flew out of the black sea and dissolved into Nie Tian’s sea of awareness, returning power to his star souls and true soul.

“Let’s strike them in a quarter hour,” Nie Tian said.