Chapter 1581: Humans (1/2)

Nie Tian’s true form was still transforming his wood domain with the power bestowed upon him by the Tree of Life.

His true soul, on the other hand, continued to shuttle through the starry river between nearby realms, wielding the Spirit Scepter.

Blackscale, Demon, Bonebrute, Fiend, and Birdman grand patriarchs died at his hands one after another.

Without his true form, bloodline power, or power from his spiritual sea, he was able to cast Grand Monarch Heavenly Spirit’s various wondrous soul magics by relying solely on the profound connection between his true soul and the Spirit Scepter.

Not only had he mastered all of the Phantasms’ soul magics within a short time, but his power had been magnified by the Spirit Scepter.

In the Fiends’ domain, Nie Tian’s true soul sat quietly on the scepter like a mysterious soul shadow and muttered, “No wonder Grand Monarch Heavenly Spirit was considered a remarkable talent of many generations.”

Most living beings wouldn’t dare to have their souls leave their fleshly bodies and travel the starry river alone.

He, however, didn’t seem concerned at all.

Unburdened by his fleshly form, his true soul and the Spirit Scepter traveled faster than he had ever imagined.

He could cover millions of kilometers within a breath’s time.

In the boundless Spirit World, he could shuttle among realms that belonged to the Demons, Blackscales, Bonebrutes, and Fiends in a very short time.

Even though he couldn’t travel among realms as fast as spatial power experts could, he was far faster than any known starship.

Though his true soul and true form were separated from each other by boundless space, the connection between them remained incomparably strong and clear. There was no sign of it breaking.

He knew that that was thanks to the Spirit Scepter.

“Hmm?”

All of a sudden, he sensed a vast amount of living beings as he approached a domain.

According to his soul perception, the souls of all those beings appeared to be rather weak.

BOOM!

The Spirit Scepter suddenly burst forth with cyan light, and soul power as immense as the sea immediately spread out.

Soon, what seemed to be billions of glowing spots manifested in Nie Tian’s senses.

After being dumbstruck for a moment, he snapped to a realization. “Humans!”

Not a single outsider race could reproduce as humans could. Even the entire populations of the Ancientspirits, Demons, and Phantasms put together wouldn’t match the number of the beings he was sensing now.

Such a vast population of intelligent beings with weak souls.

There was only one possibility: these were humans.

It was said that humans had also originated in the Spirit World.

The Mortal World hadn’t been discovered until later. After the discovery of the Mortal World, humans had been shipped to these new realms to mine resources as the slaves of the outsiders and Ancientspirits. Only after they had developed a set of methods to practice cultivation by absorbing the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth had they turned the tide, taking those realms for their own and expelling the Ancientspirits and outsiders that had enslaved them for millennia.

After the humans’ rise in the Mortal World, the four great sects had organized human powers to march into the Dead Star Sea over and over, their goal being to find their ancestral lands and liberate their kind in the Spirit World.

However, so much time had passed, and the four great sects hadn’t succeeded once.

Every time they had been close to success, the outsiders and Ancientspirits would join hands and defeat them together.

Now, the Spirit World was running out of its energy, every realm withering. The outsiders and Ancientspirits were all seeking another place to live. What was the situation with the humans in the Spirit World?

Nie Tian was thrilled upon figuring out to whom those souls belonged. “I can’t believe it’s my own kind!

“For countless years, the four great sects have attempted to enter the Spirit World, find the origin of humanity, and take their suffering fellow humans back to the Mortal World. Who would have thought that I’d be so lucky as to find the origin of humanity?”