Chapter 1020: A Stunning War (1/2)

As Pei Qiqi pulled with great force, half of Nie Tian’s body entered the portal like water merging with the sea.

SHEW! SHEW! SHEW!

At the same time, wisps of flesh aura shot out of his extended hand and bound up Huang Jinnan like crimson ropes.

In the meantime, Zhao Heng canceled his power, and the watery sphere Huang Jinnan was in collapsed and vaporized.

Nie Tian’s flesh aura that carried the profound truths of life swooped in and formed a blood-colored sphere that enveloped Huang Jinnan.

WHOOSH!

Inside the portal, Pei Qiqi’s pulling force increased.

Just as Nie Tian quickly assumed a tight grip on Huang Jinnan, the two of them were dragged into the portal together, and started shifting between different spaces.

As they did, extremely fierce spatial blades kept flashing by like carving knives. Nie Tian felt as if they were inside a bizarre tunnel, where bits of multicolored light that were sharp enough to sever anything kept flying past.

BZZZ! BZZZ!

Nie Tian felt disoriented. All he could tell was that Huang Jinnan, who he was holding, and himself were constantly being scraped by the dashing light.

The flesh aura shield that enveloped Huang Jinnan burst over and over. However, every time it did, he would rapidly reform it with a new flesh aura.

Soon, Nie Tian started to feel bone-piercing pain in every inch of his body. A vigorous flesh aura then rushed out of his bones, flesh, meridians, and internal organs to intercept and neutralize the infiltrating spatial power.

Meanwhile, Pei Qiqi’s figure seemed illusory in this bizarre tunnel filled with dashing light, as if she was an ethereal immortal that wasn’t in a solid form.

For Nie Tian, this experience was completely different from any time he had used a teleportation portal before.

The dashing light was constantly hurting him and Huang Jinnan, who he struggled to protect.

Pei Qiqi, however, didn’t seem affected at all.

The traveling process lasted quite a while. It pained Nie Tian to the point where he wanted to die.

BZZZ!

All of a sudden, he felt like he had come out of the bizarre tunnel alive.

He opened his eyes and found himself standing on a huge meteor that was floating in the vast starry river.

Pei Qiqi was standing in front of him with her back facing him. Numerous strings of spatial power could be seen slithering all over her, as if they were branded with her profound bloodline power.

In his arms, Huang Jinnan was moaning weakly in pain, as if he were going to wake up soon.

The blood-colored sphere that had protected him was already gone. His robust body was now covered in crisscrossing cuts, which were fine and deep, but didn’t cut to his bones.

Nie Tian then looked down at himself, and discovered that he had even more cuts on himself than Huang Jinnan.

Clearly, he had sustained more injuries than Huang Jinnan had.

However, thanks to his exceptionally tough body and the wonders of his unique bloodline, not only was he not bleeding at all, but those gashes were even healing at a visible speed.

With a grim expression, Nie Tian muttered, “I’ve practically drained my flesh power protecting Huang Jinnan, but he’s still badly injured.”

Then, he turned to Pei Qiqi, who remained silent and had her back facing him. “Senior Martial Sister Pei, you...”

Pei Qiqi turned around. “You two are lucky to be alive.”

Nie Tian’s expression instantly flickered.

Pei Qiqi’s face was extremely pale. The vigorous glitter in her eyes was gone, and her flesh aura had become almost too faint to detect.

As she swung her arms slightly from time to time, tiny sparks could be seen flying off of her fingertips.

“I don’t think my condition will allow me to fight another battle for a while.” With these words, she sat down slowly. Stones that contain rich spatial power flew out of her sleeve one after another to float around her.

Then, wisp after wisp of spatial power rose out of the stones and swirled into her.

At this moment, she seemed to have become even thinner than usual. Her eyes were sunken and dispirited, as if someone had drained her of her Blood Essence.

However, as the wisps of spatial power fused into her, her shriveled body slowly expanded back.

“Sorry for putting you through so much trouble,” Nie Tian apologized.

Pei Qiqi looked down at Huang Jinnan, who was still groaning unconsciously, and said plainly, “It’s alright. At least he didn’t die.”

“Where are we?” Nie Tian asked.

“This is a piece of land from a shattered dead realm.” With these words, Pei Qiqi pointed at a hemispherical realm in the distance that was wreathed in a frosty aura. “That’s realm number nine, still sealed by the Heaven Freezing Spell.”

Nie Tian looked over with rapt attention, and discovered that the space outside realm number nine was filled with a large amount of dazzling light.

Nie Tian was taken aback by his discovery. “Are those...?!”