Chapter 987: A Dragon Howl in the Deser (1/2)

It was as hot as a steamer in the boundless desert.

Nie Tian finally appeared on his Star Boat, along with all of the Saint and Void domain experts.

As soon as they did, everyone’s soul awareness spread out in all directions like sea waves in attempts to capture even the most subtle soul fluctuations in this heaven and earth. However, none of them sensed anything noteworthy.

This continent was rather strange. They hadn’t come across any forms of life on their way to this scorching desert, not even a bug.

It was as if the war that had taken place hundreds of thousands of years ago had eliminated every single living being on this continent.

“There’s only one spatial tunnel left. Destroy it, and our mission will come to a perfect end.” Nie Tian said as he adjusted directions from time to time according to the map that had been engraved in his mind. “I hope nothing goes wrong.”

“Did anyone from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace ever tell you the exact grade of that outsider grand patriarch?” Jing Feiyang asked.

Outsiders had to be at the ninth grade to be referred to as grand patriarchs.

However, there were significant differences between the strengths of individual grand patriarchs.

As humans did, outsiders and Ancientbeasts also subdivided their grades into early, middle, late, and peak sub-grades.

Given Jing Feiyang and the other two Saint domain experts’ strength, it would be easy for them to kill an early ninth grade grand patriarch. If it was at the middle ninth grade, they might be able to win as well.

However, if the grand patriarch was at the late ninth grade, they would be facing a lot of trouble.

After a moment of pondering, Nie Tian answered, “That grand patriarch must be at the early or middle ninth grade. It can’t be at the late ninth grade. The seniors from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace have a good understanding of my overall strength. The three of you must have been taken into their calculation. Since they sent me on this mission, they must be certain that that grand patriarch wasn’t something I can’t handle.”

Jing Feiyang nodded slightly. “Good.”

Then, he smiled and said with a light tone, “I’ll go into secluded cultivation after this trip, and try to break through into the middle Saint domain. At that time, I might need some special materials that we don’t have in the Domain of Heaven Python. So I’m hoping...”

Quan Zixuan and Qu Mingde’s eyes suddenly lit up upon hearing these words.

“Brother Jing, are you...?” Qu Mingde said, his eyes wide.

Jing Feiyang smiled again. “Nie Tian gave me some very valuable information before we returned from our trip to the Domain of Endless Snow. I learned a lot from it, and came to brand new understandings of the development of stars and life. Now, after being stuck for many years, I can finally feel my cultivation barrier. I want to break it as soon as possible.”

“Congratulations!” Quan Zixuan said.

“Make a list of the special materials you need after we finish this mission,” Nie Tian said. “I’ll purchase them for you from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace with my contribution points.”

Jing Feiyang clapped his hands. “Sorry for the trouble.”

“That’s something I should do,” Nie Tian said, smiling. “I don’t even know how I’m supposed to spend the contribution points I’ve earned anyways. If they can help you get the spiritual materials you need and help you break through into the middle Saint domain, then they’re put to proper use.”

Every Son of the Stars should do their best to improve their subordinates’ cultivation bases.

The stronger their subordinates were, the higher status and prestige they would have in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace. To compete for the position of the Lord of the Stars, both their own strength and the strength of their subordinates would be considered evaluation indicators.

People congratulated Jing Feiyang as they continued to fly through the desert at a high speed.

Two weeks later, they were deep into the desert. However, there were still no signs of any outsiders. All they could see were sand dunes.

With furrowed brows, Qu Mingde said, “This is strange. We should be close to the eighth spatial tunnel now. And since the outsiders came here, they must be after something, but why aren’t there low-grade outsiders looking around?”

“That’s strange indeed,” Quan Zixuan chimed in.

They had come across outsiders on their way to each of the other seven spatial tunnels, and sometimes human slaves as well.

Even though the truly powerful outsiders would remain by the spatial tunnel, the weaker ones would be arranged to explore and gather materials such as phoenix corpses.

But now, they were already very close to the eighth spatial tunnel, yet they hadn’t discovered a single outsider.

Furthermore, they hadn’t seen any signs of exploration on their way over.

All of a sudden, Nie Tian received a soul message from the Flame Dragon Armor, which came from within his ring of holding.

His expression flickered as he immediately released it.

The crimson suit of armor floated in midair after flying out of his ring of holding.