Chapter 994: Farewell (2/2)

As the flame spark whizzed back into Nie Tian, a great part of the frosty mist that enveloped her vaporized, almost revealing her appearance.

Both the dragon and the ice phoenix knew that the flame spark was the reason why the two Demon grand patriarchs had been forced to leave.

After all, it had driven Hazlitt’s bloodline aura out of the desert, stopping him from using the desert’s blazing power to negate Stella’s frosty magics.

Then, Hazlitt’s leaving had put Feimos the Controller in a panic, and eventually resulted in his retreat.

If it weren’t for that flame spark, the battle would have still been going on, and it would be hard to say who would have prevailed.

After the flame spark flew back into his flame power core, Nie Tian was surprised to discover that the flame power the desert exuded had dropped significantly. He no longer felt scorched and bothered.

“This desert...” He muttered, looking baffled.

“This desert goes all the way down to the core of this continent, and connects to an enormous lava lake,” McEleney explained without holding anything back. “Back in the day, my people used to refine their bloodline power and temper their fleshly bodies in it. But as our war against the outsiders went on, we practically drained it of its boiling lava.

“Now that so many years have passed, it seems to have regathered some flame power.

“But I suppose Hazlitt and that flame spark of yours sucked it dry again. I wonder how many years it’ll take for it to recover its seething lava again.”

After a short pause, McEleney fixed Nie Tian with a deep look and asked, “Where did you get that flame spark?”

“Sorry, it’s a secret,” Nie Tian answered.

“Alright then.” McEleney nodded, showing that he understood. Then, he shot Stella a meaningful glance, signaling her that it was time to leave.

After rising into the sky, they each resumed their original forms and flew off in two different directions.

Nie Tian knew that one of them was heading back to the domain they had come from, while the other was going to unearth the corpses of their deceased members.

“Even though it wasn’t my intention to absorb flame power from the underground lava lake, it could be viewed as me breaking the deal,” Nie Tian thought to himself, worrying that the Star Behemoth would find out about this and hold him accountable.

Shortly after the ninth grade dragon and ice phoenix left, Jing Feiyang and the others returned.

“They left?” Jing Feiyang asked curiously.

“Yes, they did. They have their own missions.” Nie Tian said, gazing off into the distant sky. “Alright, we’ve finally finished our mission. It’s about time we left this floating continent.”

As soon as Nie Tian gave the order, all of the Saint and Void domain experts sped off.

The three Saint domain experts had summoned a few air-transportation spiritual tools to carry the numerous dead eighth grade outsiders they had collected. Quan Zixuan turned to Nie Tian and said, “There’s a total of twenty-seven eighth grade outsiders and a dozen seventh grade ones. What should we do with them and their storage rings?”

“Split the storage rings among yourselves evenly. I won’t take any.” With these words, Nie Tian paused briefly to think. “As for the corpses... give them to me. I’ll put them to good use.”

Everyone nodded, looking delighted.

They had already examined the contents of those storage rings. They held a large number of rare spiritual materials and medicinal herbs, many of which couldn’t be found in the Domain of Heaven Python. Some even couldn’t be found in most human domains.

All of them were of great value. Some could be forged into cultivators’ domains to boost their cultivations.

As for the items that weren’t useful to them, they could take them back to the Domain of Heaven Python and trade them for spirit jades and spirit crystals, or other materials that were helpful to them.

Nie Tian carried Dong Li on his Star Boat on their way back.

She kept complaining about the fact that Meng Li had taken her away, depriving her of a chance at witnessing the battle between the ninth grade dragon, the ice phoenix, and the two Demon grand patriarchs.

Meanwhile, the black tortoise seemed to be stirred awake by the flesh auras of the dead demonic bugs on the other air-transportation spiritual tools.

Without any hesitation, it pounced on them and started munching exclusively on the demonic bugs that had come out of Feimos’ split lumps.

Soon, it finished every last demonic bug.

“Those demonic bugs’ shells seem to be helpful to it.” With these words, Dong Li initiated a soul communication with the black tortoise. Afterwards, she informed Nie Tian with great excitement that it was about to advance to the eighth grade.

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