Chapter 1348: Plague (1/2)

After an unknown period of time.

Nie Tian and Agaz the flame dragon looked up into the void, floating in a desolate heaven and earth.

Agaz breathed out a breath of mixed flesh aura and flames, and sighed in frustration. “This is the ninth one. All of the heaven and earths we’ve explored have Ancientspirit corpses in them. They were either titans, Ancientbeasts, or dragons. But all of them had their heart pierced by a branch of the colossal tree and died.”

Frowning, Nie Tian said, “From the look of it, the close to a thousand realms here were originally populated by Ancientspirits. That unimaginably large tree must have arrived here secretly, and surprised them by piercing its branches into their realms to kill them.”

“There don’t seem to be any tenth grade experts here,” Agaz said.

Nie Tian nodded. “Indeed. Tenth grade Ancientspirits are extremely powerful beings. I suppose the ancient tree wasn’t able to kill Ancientspirits at such a grade.”

Agaz took a moment to ponder in silence before saying, “There’s another possibility. Perhaps they fought the ancient tree and lost, so they had to evacuate from this region.”

“There must have been lots of other ninth grade Ancientspirits here,” Nie Tian said. “What happened to them?”

“I suppose they evacuated as well,” Agaz said. “Otherwise, they might have all died here. If that’s actually what happened, it must have been considered a great humiliation to the whole Ancientspirit world. That would explain why it wasn’t recorded in ancient records or branded in our bloodlines.”

Nie Tian went blank briefly before saying, “That’s actually quite likely.”

Agaz then continued, “Each of these nine realms agree with cultivators of certain attributes and outsiders with certain bloodlines. But it’s a pity that all of the Ancientspirits we’ve found have lost every last wisp of their flesh aura. Time has rendered them completely worthless to you.”

“More importantly, all of their hearts were gone,” Nie Tian said, finding this pitiful as well.

While talking to each other, the two of them left this heaven and earth to explore others.

Time flew.

After exploring eight more realms and failing to gain anything valuable, Nie Tian finally decided to give up. “It’s time we left here. There’s nothing special with these heaven and earths we’ve explored. The only one that’s special is the one we first arrived in, the one with that altar surrounded by flame dragon skeletons.

“Over there, I was able to derive a number of exquisite incantations, and the sealing magic that turned out to be effective on Gupi.

“All we’ve found in the other heaven and earths were valueless corpses, and I couldn’t derive any secret magics or incantations from any of them.”

There were close to a thousand heaven and earths in this region that had been penetrated by the branches of the ancient colossal tree.

Even if Nie Tian had time to kill, it would take an unknowably long time to go through them one by one.

Not to mention that there was still plenty of urgent business that required his attention.

He needed to make new breakthroughs in his bloodline and cultivation base as soon as possible. And the Realm of Fire Spirit...

“Master, if I return to my clan one day and see my father, can I tell him about what we’ve found here?” Agaz suddenly asked.

“It’s up to you,” Nie Tian said.

“Thanks.”

“Alright, let’s get out of here and return to the Realm of Fire Spirit.”

“Okay.”

…

In the Realm of Fire Spirit.

Mo Qianfan and Yu Suying were waiting bitterly, not daring to leave that region.

They had been waiting there the whole time because Lou Hongyan and Peng Yan had told them that Nie Tian wouldn’t be gone for long, and that he would return to the very place where he had disappeared.

WHOOSH!

Ji Yuanquan and Ye Wenhan, two God domain experts, suddenly arrived, their faces grim.

“What’s wrong?” Mo Qianfan asked.

Ye Wenhan took a deep breath and said, “Gupi is secretly approaching the Domain of Heaven Python. And we received word that Grand Monarch Nether Channeler of the Fiends seems to be wandering in domains that border the Domain of Heaven Python. We’re worried that Gupi and Grand Monarch Nether Channeler have the same target: the Domain of Heaven Python.”

“I bet they’ve come for Nie Tian,” Yu Suying said.

Ji Yuanquan nodded. “I suppose you’re right.”

Yu Suying smiled bitterly. “But Nie Tian is still...”

“We can only wait for him to come back,” Ji Yuanquan said helplessly.

Another two weeks passed.

FZZZ!

Unusual spatial fluctuations emerged. Sensing them, Ji Yuanquan let out a soft exclamation.

In the next moment, a portal of raging flames manifested out of thin air. As soon as Nie Tian jumped out of it, it healed and vanished.

Astonishment was written across Ji Yuanquan’s face as he said, “Such a strange aura… Nie Tian, did you just come from the ‘magical land’ the Flame Dragon Armor took you to?”

Nie Tian nodded. “I did.”

Ji Yuanquan’s eyes lit up. “I had a feeling that the heaven and earth on the other side of that portal didn’t belong to the human world. Perhaps it’s somewhere in the outsiders and Ancientspirits’ territory, which happens to be where our people were born. If we can go through that portal, we won’t have to cross the Dead Star Sea anymore.”

“I don’t think it is,” Nie Tian said, dampening his enthusiasm. “If it were, Pang Bo would have taken advantage of this shortcut and marched forces into outsider and Ancientspirit realms long ago.”