XuanHuan 2
The aberrant ripple of heart got it across to Nie Tian immediately that the power of the second star was about to wake up.
All of a sudden, Nie Tian's tenth vital vein trembled, as if induced, somehow.
And meanwhile, within the Boundary of Galaxy and above the first layer of Galaxy, a bright star flashed and projected a streak of light that touched the giant Star Stone.
There was this one star that took in the light and then glistened.
The next moment saw the overwhelming Star Power swelling out of the tenth vital vein and tumbling in Nie Tian's belly.
However, not a trace of irritation did the Star Power arouse. It was rapidly integrated with the Nie Tian, fortifying his nine vital veins and adding to the shimmer of the tenth vital vein.
Everything just happened in a blink of an eye, which found him trying hard to digest it all.
"Warrior God Punch!" Nie Tian was more than thrilled. The power of two stars would suffice it to confront the man in charge.
"Bang." With another strike, the punch made a hole in the giant wood claw over Nie Tian's head.
"Ah. My hand!" As the vision of the wood claws faded, the man in charge gave a scream of pain.
A Kung Fu learner was closely related with his vital spirits. The injury of vital spirits would mean the same for his own body.
There appeared a hole in the palm of the man in charge, with blood running steadily.
"Brother!" The skinny man in black was astounded upon hearing the scream.
"Strike." At this moment of distraction, Mo Ruxi released her punch, only hitting the skinny in his shoulder who was sent into the air and fell down hard.
"How..."Mo Ruxi still could not believe her stunt, for she was measuring her fist with amazement.
How could he, a Vital Spirits at the second level, be defeated by her fist?
So thought Mo Ruxi, her gorgeous face smiling sweetly.
She did not know that the skinny was weak only because he got struck by Nie Tian's Warrior God Nonuple Kill, rendering him unable to use his vital spirits.
"Mo Ruxi, what are you waiting for? Finish him." Nie Tian looked at Mo Ruxi and urged in a dead voice.
"Goddamn it. Run!"The man in charge followed his stone heart, turned and ran away, at the very sight of the skinny falling down to the ground.
"Brother..." The skinny stared at the eldest one, as if words were stuck in the throat.
Nie Tian fixated the man in charge coldly, and threatened, "It's too late."
Words finished, Nie Tian exercised his East Emperor Death Touch. A blast of Qi found its course right towards the man in charge like an arrow off the string.
"Whoosh!"The flesh got pierced. The man in charge was seized by the pain in the leg and reduced to the ground.
Nie Tian took a few steps nearer, his eyes rife with a strong intent to kill.
"Don't kill me. Don't kill me. What do ya want from me? Money? Spirit Cores? Pills? Anything I can offer." The man was looking desperately at Nie Tian. At this point, he felt nothing more than a death threat.
"Anything?" Nie Tian responded with a cold smile, "What's the difference if I kill ya and get everything?"
"No you can't do this. You can't. Listen, I am..."The man in charge continued as the terror in his eyes grew intense.
"You are what?"Nie Tian urged him coldly who appeared to be hesitant.
"No I can't tell. I really can't. I'd have no decent death if I do." The man in charge shook his head for multiple times, as if going insane.
Then, he suddenly bit his tongue hard as if he was afraid that he might compromise, only to break it into two halves.
The blood streamed down from his mouth. Moments later, the guy lost his last breath after he twitched on the ground.
Nie Tian frowned and was bewildered by the carcass.
Who was this guy that would rather commit a suicide than disclose his identity.
Nie Tian looked back at Mo Rux who was still staring blankly at the skinny man in black over there.
Nie Tian caught a glimpse of him and noticed that he was only faint out but not dead yet.
"Mo Ruxi, what holds you back? Finish him." Nie Tian ordered, almost imperatively.
"Nie Tian, I..I'm scared."Mo Ruxi turned her eyes to Nie Tian. She was such a poor thing.
Mo Ruxi was a sixteen-year-old maid, who went all the way to become an unprecedented Kung Fu master. But killing was never a thing she would resort to.
Her reactions had already been foreseen by Nie Tian and he did not display any tender affection for Mo Ruxi's merciful deed.
He made one step forward, stared at Mo Ruxi with his brooding eyes and said in a poker face, "Mo Ruxi, it's a jungle society favoring bellicosity and brutality. Sooner or later, you will walk out of Moyang City and into the bloody side of the world. If you want to be powerful and survive in this very world, then you must learn to be heartless. "
"Heartless?" The word seized Mo Ruxi entirely in its power.
She grew up a little princess, doted on and cared about by the people surrounding her and the guardians of the Magistrate's Mansion.
Her father gifted the best pills and imparted the most powerful martial skills, with a hope that she would one day be a dazzling presence.
But nobody had ever told her that to be powerful means to be brutal.
Two lives had engraved the necessity of brutality in Nie Tian, another distinction from ordinary humans.
Nie Tian looked at Mo Ruxi and continued, "I know it clearly that people lavished their love on you. And your father would do anything for you. But there is one thing he can't do and you have to do it yourself. Be brutal, which would be a deep regret if you realize it."
Charming as the flowers of a greenhouse were, they could not weather an intense winter and summer.
Should Mo Ruxi fail to become brute, she would never be an unprecedented Kung Fu master even if her unparalleled vital spirits at the ninth level was awakened..
The night fell, little by little.
Against the dark sky, Mo Ruxi was experiencing a mental struggle.
"Mo Ruxi, we've got no time. The thick bloody taste in the canyon will soon attract massive Spirit Killer Bees. We'd be trapped here if you let time elapse."Nie Tian was talking to Mo Ruxi, in a cold voice.
There emerged tremendous agony in the face of the stunning beauty. Surely was it a difficult lesson to learn.
Nie Tian release a long sigh at her dilemma, "Mo Ruxi, you really got me. How could I push harder on a tender beauty like you. Just forget it. Leave the dirty work to me."
Nie Tian shook his head slightly and took one step forward, preparing himself to finish the skinny man in black.
"Hold your hand. I'll do it." Mo Ruxi shouted. The thrilling coldness prevailed in her face.
She came up to the guy and trod on him.
Moments later, the skinny guy was a dead corpse.
"Oh." Mo Ruxi burst out crying as she sensed no breathing of him.
Nie Tian approached, put his arms around her and whispered a few soothing words, "It's alright. There is always a "first time" for anyone.Just get used to it."
"You bastard. You bastard." Mo Ruxi cried even harder, beating Nie Tian's chest with her fists.
Nie Tian hugged Mo Ruxi even harder and there was a strange feeling within himself.
It was like a young boy and a young girl having tasted the forbidden fruit.
The shame was he did do nothing, which was such a grief, too.
Nie Tian thought so and suddenly lowered his head, placing a kiss on her pink cheek.
"What you doing?" Mo Ruxi exclaimed and struggled off from Nie Tian. She scolded with her blushing face, "Nie Tian, you shameless. You're taking advantage of me."
Before Nie Tian could savor the beauty of the ikss, he had to respond with an awkward smile, "I just can't help myself. I lost my control. My apology."
Mo Ruxi blushed even more, in lieu of the uneasiness of murdering.
Nie Tian got himself together and wasted no time in searching three dead bodies.
His war trophies included dozens of spirit cores and many more pills at the first level.
To his greatest joy, he got one storage bag from the man in charge.
A storage bag was absolutely an asset. Although it was not a rare treasure in the world, the priced value was tens of thousands of gold coins.
Nie Tian, at his current financial power, could not afford one with all his savings combined.
Nie Tian did not stand on ceremony but collected all the stuff with the storage bag.
"Mo Ruxi, given your decency for a princess of the city, you won't care much about these penny things, do you?"Nie Tian was now wearing his smile.
"Of course not." Mo Ruxi titled her snowy white cheek, as if a cocky princess, and was still mad at being taken advantage of.
"Let's roll. We'd better leave here as soon as possible." At the sight of the fallen night, Nie Tian intended to return to Moyang City right away.
"Sure. It's been dark already. Daddy must be worried not seeing me at home." Mo Ruxi said worriedly as she nodded.
"What a girl." Nie Tian smiled.
"Wait a sec." Something dawned on Nie Tian as the two approached the exit of the canyon. He turned around with a start and walked towards a carcass, putting on a bizarre face.
"Nie Tian, what's on your mind?" Nie Tian's sudden return was beyond her comprehension.
Nie Tian came up to a corpse, as if hearing nothing from Mo Ruxi, squatted and rolled up the sleeve of it.
On the wrist of the man in black appeared a tattoo of a bloody bat.
"Damn it. It's you." Nie Tian released a roar after quite a while of staring at the tattoo on that wrist.
"Nie Tian, what's wrong with you?" Mo Ruxi was frightened and paled by the sudden change of Nie Tian and his face, twisted and ferocious.
Nie Tian did not answer. He quickened the pace towards the other two dead bodies, checked the wrists and found the same tattoo of a bloody bat.
"Doggone it. I swear to God that I will track you, find you and kill you. I'll seek my revenge for my father and my clan." Nie Tian stood up and made a deep hole on the stone wall with his fist.
He was quite certain that the three men in black were from the team that ambushed him and his families.