Chapter 1167: A Learned Scholar (1/2)

FIZZ! FIZZ!

A spatial rift split open, and Ji Yuanquan walked out of it.

After him were Chu Rui, Wei Lai, Yan Zhan, Dou Tianchen, and a few other Sons of the Stars of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

Wu Ji was the last to come out of the spatial rift.

Floating quietly over the colorful shield, Mo Heng was attempting to perceive its wonders. Disturbed by the new arrivals, he lifted his head, and asked, “You?”

Earlier, his battle between Grand Monarch Primal Demon had filled the central area of the Shatter Battlefield with violent energies. Not a single Saint domain cultivator had dared to come too close.

After the battle had finally ended, Qu Yi, the heads of the fire element sect and the wood element sect, and all of the outsider grand monarchs had left to end the battles that were taking place in other areas. However, these important members of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace came here, instead of the other way around.

Eyes narrowed, Chu Rui, who was a bit chubby, said in a soft voice, “We heard that Nie Tian descended towards the depths of the earth, along with the Star Behemoth’s head. So we came to see how things are going.”

As one of the vice sectmasters of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, he was currently at the middle God domain. He had been one of the last generation’s Sons of the Stars. After losing the competition for the position of sectmaster to Ji Cang, he had become his right-hand man.

Mo Heng was only the grand elder. Neither his status nor position matched his.

However, his status within the sect seemed to have undergone subtle changes since he had defeated Grand Monarch Bloodlust right after breaking through to the middle God domain, and survived his duel against Grand Monarch Primal Demon.

Clues could be picked up in the way Dou Tianchen, Fang Yuan, Wang Meijia, and the elders were now treating him.

When the sect had been in a time of stress, he had stepped forward and challenged Grand Monarch Primal Demon to a duel, despite the gap in their strengths. By doing this, he had saved the sect’s plunging reputation.

After this duel, he had already become the second strongest expert from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, coming only after Ji Cang. This had become an opinion from both within and without the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

Chu Rui and Luo Wanxiang suddenly seemed to be overshadowed by him.

Pointing down at the glorious shield that was separating them from the unfathomable space underneath, Mo Heng said expressionlessly, “He’s still down there. I tried to send my soul awareness through it, but failed. However, I can sense with clarity that it’s gathering all sorts of energies from the entire Shatter Battlefield, and transferring them downwards after refining them in a mysterious way.

“The underground space seems to serve as a unique shelter that that Star Behemoth is using to nourish and stop itself from corroding. The fact that its flesh power didn’t scatter and disappear into heaven and earth after its death, and it secured the possibility to come back to life, had a great deal to do with the unique features of the Shatter Battlefield as a super-large-scale realm.”

Wu Ji, who looked the least impressive among the crowd of experts, said in a soft voice, “Star Behemoths can protect themselves with this unique method. Their flesh auras are similar to outsider grand monarchs’ flesh aura seas, but only more mysterious and wondrous. By spreading their flesh auras, they can gather all sorts of energies from heaven and earth, refine them, and turn them into nourishment.”

Somewhat confused, Mo Heng asked, “This is?”

Wu Ji had come to this area earlier to communicate with Qu Yi from the Void Spirit Society high in the sky.

However, Mo Heng had been consumed with his battle against Grand Monarch Primal Demon back then, and hadn’t noticed his arrival.

Wei Lai took it upon himself to introduce Wu Ji to him. “Grand Elder, this is, Wu Ji, Nie Tian’s master from the Domain of the Falling Stars. Mr. Wu is well-versed in time power, and channeled the river of time! It was because he peeked into the future and saw the devastating catastrophe that we were able to prepare ourselves...”

Hearing this, Chu Rui, Dou Tianchen, and the other Sons of the Stars had nothing but respect on their faces.

Even Qu Yi from the Void Spirit Society had referred to Wu Ji as ‘Mr. Wu, sage and prophet.’ Furthermore, Wu Ji’s prophecy had also proven to be accurate, as the calamity had almost fallen upon them all.

Therefore, even though his cultivation base wasn’t very impressive, he enjoyed an unusually lofty status in their eyes.

“We kind of owe him a favor for this because at first, all we asked him to see was whether you’d be able to survive your duel against Grand Monarch Primal Demon,” Wei Lai added.

Mo Heng was shocked to his very core. “He actually channeled the river of time and peeked into the past, as well as the future?!”

Newfound respect could been seen on his face as he looked at Wu Ji and asked, “If you saw into the past, you must know something about Star Behemoths. Do you think Nie Tian is in danger down there?”

With a faint smile, Wu Ji said, “All I can tell you is that he’s a very lucky kid.”