Chapter 1096: One Step Too Late (1/2)

The news of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace suffering a sound defeat from the Demons in the Dead Star Sea got around fast.

Many sects and clans in the subordinate domains of the Sons of the Stars and elders felt so insecure that they would be startled by the moan of the wind, or the cry of the cranes.

It was the same case in Nie Tian’s subordinate domains.

Word of Nie Tian leading his subordinates into the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Demon Realms, slaying countless Demons and plundering abundant resources had also spread far and wide.

Now, many knew that the Demons’ wrath and all four of their grand monarchs joining the battle in the Dead Star Sea had a great deal to do with Nie Tian’s deed.

It was only natural that his domains would become the focus of the Demons’ retaliation.

As soon as Nie Tian arrived at the Divine Flame Sect in the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries, he summoned Jing Feiyang and the other experts.

Jing Feiyang, Quan Zixuan, and Qu Mingde had received Nie Tian’s instruction to stand by, so none of them had dared to enter secluded cultivation.

Now, they came as soon as they received his summons.

“To the Realm of Pure Origin.” Nie Tian cut to the chase.

Zhongli Jian from the Divine Flame Sect hesitated briefly before saying, “Even though the Realm of Pure Origin isn’t the Pure Heaven Sect’s main realm, it's one of the large ones. Since the Pure Heaven Sect still hasn’t declared their allegiance to you, we pretty much haven’t had any contact with them these years.”

Nie Tian frowned. “Are you saying that we’ll have trouble going to the Realm of Pure Origin?”

“Well, the large-scale teleportation portal in the Realm of Pure Origin isn’t connected to ours,” Zhongli Jian explained. “We only have a connection to the large-scale teleportation portal in the Realm of Pure Heaven. However, since we haven’t been exactly friendly to the Pure Heaven Sect and haven’t visited them for many years, I don’t know if the connection still stands.”

Pei Qiqi jumped in and asked, “But you do have a map of the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries, right?”

Zhongli Jian nodded. “We do.”

Pei Qiqi reached out with one hand and demanded, “Let me take a look.”

Zhongli Jian handed her the map without hesitation.

The map was carved on a large piece of spirit beast skin, with all of the major realms of the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries marked out with great clarity.

Light flashed across Pei Qiqi’s eyes as she looked at the map attentively.

Only after a while did she nod and say, “Alright, I got it.”

With these words, she started weaving her hands in the air. Numerous spatial blades then flew out of her fingertips to interweave in midair.

Soon, a slender spatial rift appeared.

“Let’s go.” Pei Qiqi signaled for everyone to get in.

“No wonder the sectmaster of the Void Spirit Society went back on his word to take her as his fourth legacy disciple...” Jing Feiyang muttered to himself.

Normally, only Saint domain spatial power experts could master such a wondrous ability to travel between domains without relying on teleportation portals.

Pei Qiqi was merely at the late Soul realm, yet she was able to use Void Travel freely within the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries.

One figure after another flew into the spatial rift and vanished.

Before long, all of the Saint domain experts gathered in the Divine Flame Sect arrived at the starry river outside the Realm of Pure Origin.

Everyone except Nie Tian and Pei Qiqi activated their respective domains upon flying out of the spatial rift in order to ward off the impurities in the starry river.

Jing Feiyang, Quan Zixuan, and Qu Mingde were currently at the middle Saint domain. Zhongli Jian and Dong Qisong were at the early Saint domain.

The five of them were Nie Tian’s most powerful subordinates.

Clearly, Nie Tian had brought out his best cards in order to find this outsider teleportation portal that the mysterious person from the Heavenly Corpse Sect had told him about.

Floating in the vast starry river, Nie Tian looked around, and immediately saw that the Realm of Pure Origin was not far away.

Pei Qiqi was the last to fly out of the spatial rift. As soon as she did, she summoned that irregularly shaped crystal of hers, which spun in her palm. Its many facets reflected everything in its surroundings, capturing any unusual spatial fluctuations.

Moments later, Pei Qiqi shook her head. “There’s nothing here.”

With the help of the crystal’s power, she suddenly vanished into thin air, leaving Nie Tian and the others.

However, Nie Tian understood that even her wondrous spatial treasure must have its detection range.

Pei Qiqi must have left to conduct a thorough scan of the area the mysterious powerful expert from the Heavenly Corpse Sect had referred to.

Therefore, Nie Tian just waited with the others.

Dong Qisong from the Beast-controlling Sect let out a cold harrumph and said, “Till this day, Patriarch Pure Heaven still thinks so highly of himself that he refuses to join us. However, many of their elders have long since envied us, and wanted to join your cause.”

Nie Tian, however, seemed to have an open mind on the issue as he said, “They’re just one sect. It doesn’t matter whether they join me anymore. As long as they continue to live by the rules and cause no trouble in the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries, they can do whatever they want. Besides, didn’t Patriarch Pure Heaven say himself that he’ll acknowledge allegiance to me if I can defeat him with no help from anyone else?