Chapter 1376: The Cruelty of Wars (1/2)

In the starry river outside the Realm of Maelstrom.

After arriving through a spatial rift, Nie Tian looked around with rapt attention, and went blank.

“The battle is over?” Dong Li asked, looking baffled. “But it shouldn’t have.”

Ji Yuanquan and Mo Qianfan also had confusion written all over their faces.

They hadn’t spent very long at the Realm of Divine Seal. This battle had involved three powerful outsider races and many human forces. Normally speaking, it shouldn’t have ended so quickly.

However, upon arriving, they saw wrecked starships everywhere.

Some of them belonged to outsiders, while others belonged to humans.

Dead humans and bits of their shattered domains were scattered everywhere.

Enormous dead outsiders could also be seen floating around in the void.

Ye Wenhan from the Heaven Span Pavilion flew over with a whoosh. “We were wondering about that too. We were in the middle of a fierce battle against the outsiders when they suddenly received some sort of message, and evacuated in a hurry.”

“Nie Tian, you’re okay, right?” Yu Suying asked.

“Where’s Senior Fan Tianze?” Dong Li suddenly asked.

“He went after Luo Wanxiang after Grand Monarch Bloodlust of the Demons left,” Ye Wenhan said with a grim expression. “Now it’s settled. Luo Wanxiang is in collusion with the Phantasms. Not only has he betrayed the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, but he’s betrayed humanity. That’s why Big Brother Fan was so eager to capture him and make him answer for his crimes.”

“Even though they’re both at the middle God domain, Fan Tianze is much stronger than Luo Wanxiang,” Ji Yuanquan said. “However, if Luo Wanxiang is bent on fleeing and avoiding battle, it’ll be difficult to catch him.”

“What on earth happened to you? Where’s Gupi?” Yu Suying asked with increased urgency in her tone.

Ji Yuanquan let out a deep breath and said, “Gupi isn’t a problem now. However, we found that Jiang Yuanchi from the Shadow Society wasn’t possessed by it. He had his own awareness the whole time. So I suspect that Shangguan Zhi from the Shadow Society is still taking orders from him. The situation was very complicated, but thanks to Nie Tian’s master, Wu Ji...”

He and Mo Qianfan went on and explained the unexpected turns they had experienced at the Realm of Divine Seal.

Everyone, including Ye Wenhan, Yu Suying, Li Wanfa, and Zhang Qiling, as well as Nie Tian’s Saint domain subordinates such as Xie Qian and Jing Feiyang, were shocked after hearing their words.

A heated discussion instantly burst out among them.

“What? Wu Yi, that old eccentric of the Heavenly Corpse Sect, was there too?”

“Jiang Yuanchi still has his own will?! And.. he mastered light power with Gupi’s help?!”

“If Jiang Yuanchi practices both light and shadow power, perhaps he’s strong enough to fight Fan Tianze now.”

“But as strong as he is, Nie Tian’s master scattered his dharma idols with a branch of the river of time? Where is Wu Ji? And where did he take Gupi after capturing it?”

Nie Tian, however, stood off to the side, where he released Heaven Eyes to scan this area of the starry river.

A large number of Void and Saint domain experts that had come from great distances to join this battle had perished. Even their souls had been eliminated by Phantasms with their soul-slaying spells.

Close to a hundred ancient starships that belonged to various sects and clans had exploded.

The explosions of flesh aura seas, void and saint domains had filled the area with a vast variety of auras and energies.

Nie Tian remained motionless as he examined the area with his awareness.

“Sectmaster Ling,” he called out softly.

Ling Bingyun from the Ice Soul Divine Sect was flying past, dragging an ice coffin that contained the body of an old woman, Kong Shuangjing.

Grief filled Han Qiong’s face.

Upon hearing his call, Ling Bingyun stopped and said, “She had her ice domain shattered by a Demon grand patriarch, before a Phantasm grand patriarch annihilated her soul. She doesn’t even have a chance to reincarnate now.”

Han Qiong sighed with strong emotions. “Even if she did, she wouldn’t have made it. She was far too old to reincarnate. However, this is war. It’s hard to say when you’re going to be injured or killed.”

Nie Tian frowned slightly. “I...”