Chapter 1696: Eternally Opposite Sides (1/2)

Life and death were eternally opposite.

After living beings died, their life power would gradually perish, but death power would be spawned from their bodies.

Death power happened to be what the Bonedrudes relied on to upgrade their bloodlines and make themselves stronger.

The Bonedrudes were probably the most special species throughout this starry river.

They were the outsiders of the outsiders.

They only cast countless corpses into their Forbidden Land of Myriad Bones so their life power would gradually dissipate, and death power would be born and grow.

The Bonebrutes’ burial grounds worked in the same way.

Only the deaths of living creatures could generate death power. The Bonedrudes and Bonebrutes were said to be the species that had been born from and lived on death power.

To them, Nie Tian was a natural enemy.

After all, his Life Drain bloodline talent allowed him to absorb life power from other living beings. He could also channel the residual flesh power in dead beings to himself.

If that residual flesh power wasn’t drained by him, the energies those beings had accumulated their whole lives would be returned to the starry river, following the profound truths of heaven and earth and the magical laws of reincarnation.

Grand Monarch Bone Piercer had only decided to make Nie Tian his primary target because he had discovered that not a single wisp of death power had been generated from those who had died around his Life-origin Form.

The corpse of the Floragrim high chieftain had also turned into ashes because it had been rapidly drained of its residual flesh power.

Perhaps Grand Monarch Bone Piercer had seen a potential future where Nie Tian became a paragon.

Wherever he went, the corpses of powerful creatures were refined into pure flesh power and absorbed by him.

Then, what would the Bonedrudes do?

Without death power, wouldn’t their entire race die out?

If he took a trip to their Forbidden Land of Myriad Bones in his Life-origin Form, wouldn’t the residual power in all of the corpses there be plundered by him?

It was upon this realization that Grand Monarch Bone Piercer started to take this battle seriously.

After leaving Mo Heng and Fan Tianze to Grand Monarch Sharp Bones and the powerful Devil experts, he himself shifted through the void and instantly arrived in front of Nie Tian, sitting on his bone throne.

“Watch out, Nie Tian!” Mo Heng and Fan Tianze exclaimed simultaneously.

All of a sudden, the entire area was enveloped in complete silence.

This area of the starry river where Nie Tian was seemed to be suddenly isolated from the rest of the Domain of Shadow Devil.

He could no longer see the fierce fights taking place around him, hear the sounds of spiritual power and flesh auras clashing, or sense the smell of blood spewing out.

His connections to the realms of the Domain of Shadow Devil were relentlessly severed.

Only clusters of death power condensed into crystals that floated around him like pale-white suns and moons.

Upon a closer look, he saw that those large crystals were filled with countless pale bones.

Who knew how many living beings had to die to make such a large number of pale bones?

Nie Tian suddenly couldn’t tell what was real and what wasn’t anymore.

The only thing he was certain of was that his life power was being plundered at an alarming rate. For some reason, drop after drop of the Blood Essence in his heart burned away despite himself...

He was confused. “What’s happening?”

Holding the Rampage Behemoth’s bone, he couldn’t find a target.

He didn’t know where Grand Monarch Bone Piercer was. His sea of awareness couldn’t detect the enormous bone giant or the bone throne he sat on.

However, he had a peculiar feeling that Death was getting closer and closer to him!

Grand Monarch Bone Piercer was among the top three peak experts in the Void World. Now that he had actually made a move to kill him, his terrifying power completely overwhelmed him. As much as he wanted to fight back, he couldn’t even find a vent for his power, even though he had become a grand monarch himself.