XuanHuan 11
"Is the Bloody Bats that powerful?" Nie Tian had been thinking of the problem on the way back to the Nie's Mansion and finally, he laughed.
How powerful could an organization in the Three Thousand Small Worlds be?
Indeed, the Bloody Bats was a powerful existence, at least an organization at its prime time in the Blue Cloud Empire.
Moyang City was an underdeveloped city under the rule of the Blue Cloud Empire. And the Bloody Bats would appear to be an invincible monster.
But in the yes[手误] eyes of Nie Tian, it could mean a group of ants to him.
The Blue Cloud Empire was a country held in low esteem in the Three Thousand Small World which was a remote branch of the Sumeru World, a lower-class world following the heavenly world.
Therefore, the scariness of the monster could be somehow imagined.
After Nie Tian returned and had the lunch, he summoned Nie Wenyuan for some family arrangements, had the servants prepare him some stuff, packed them into the Storage Bag and left the Mansion for the Ripcloud Mountain.
He was planning to wait for his prey there in the Ripcloud Mountain.
According to his guess, the three men of the Bloody Bats killed yesterday should be the outposts of the organization. In the following days, the members would appear in the Ripcloud Mountain again.
And he was hoping to know the intent of the Bloody Bats's visit to the Ripcloud Mountain from those unlucky guys.
The Kung Fu Competition of Moyang City was around the corner. And Nie Tian did not believe it was a simple coincidence with the sudden appearance of the Bloody Bats.
There was also another reason why Nie Tian would enter the Ripcloud Mountain. He planned to awaken his vital spirit in the coming days.
He had the cultivation of the Vital Veins at the ninth level, which qualified him to awaken his vital spirit.
If he failed in doing so within the limited time, things would go very tricky in a confrontation with the opponent like Ba Ziliang.
And Ba Ziliang would do all that he could do to seek revenge on the Competition. So far be it from Nie Tian to tackle any unexpected circumstances.
Nie Tian went directly towards the Ripcloud Mountain immediately he got out of Moyang City.
A shadow sprang out and walked on the heels of Nie Tian when he past through the City Gate.
It was nobody else but Nie Santong, uncle of Nie Tian and former deacon of the Nies.
"Nie Tian, now that your cultivation has progressed out of my expectation, I have to kill you in case that I should have no standing in the Nies. You are asking for it when you dare to leave the Mansion alone and go to the Ripcloud Mountain. Don't blame me for that." Nie Santong went into wild raptures as he scurried.
For the past two days, the attempt to murder Nie Tian had got the best of Nie Santong.
Nobody spelled more hatred than Nie Tian did.
In his eyes, the Nies belonged to him. How came that the family master should be replaced when he showed up?
Nie Santong would have no chance to commit the evil deed if Nie Tian was at home or in Moyang City. He was so thrilled at the golden opportunity where Nie Tian left Moyang City for the Ripcloud Mountain alone.
Nie Tian rattled in full power like a horse without reins. And soon he arrived at the peripheral area of the Ripcloud Mountain.
His tenth vital vein had awakened the power of two stars, which made his vital power outweigh the ordinary Vital Veins at the ninth level by multiple times.
And Nie Tian also noticed that, the Star Power could not only increase his power but also his speed. Without any acquisition of the martial skills, Nie Tian could move faster than ordinary Kung Fu learners.
Still, he was trying to keep a steady pace, for he had found somebody tracking him since he walked out of the Nie's Mansion.
"Nie Santong, I would have got to you when the Kung Fu Competition of Moyang City was over. You just can't wait, can you? Then don't play your hatred on me." Nie Tian was now wearing a vicious smile.
He knew that Nie Santong was stalking him, but he was not worried, let alone scared.
Nie Santong was a Vital Spirit at the ninth level, a rank higher than Nie Tian. And Nie Tian could not be a winner in a confrontation. But the Ripcloud Mountain could be an amusement park for him and Nie Santong.
Nie Tian was inferior to Nie Santong in terms of the overall strength, but not the mentality.
Mentality was another vital indicator of the cultivation for a Kung Fu learner in addition to the overall strength.
Generally speaking, a Kung Fu learner's mentality would be classified into ten levels.
Alchemists, refiners and spiritual deployment manipulators far outreached the ordinary Kung Fu learners.
In general, the mentality of a level-one alchemist ranked between the tenth and the twentieth level. The mentality of a level-two alchemist ranked between the twentieth and the thirtieth level. And so on, the mentality of a level-nine alchemist could even reach the ninetieth level and the hundredth level.
As Nie Tian was the Monarch of Pills at the ninth level, his mentality almost reached the hundredth level, or the peak.
Owing to the rebirth, his mentality dropped to around the fortieth level.
Even so, he was way much better than ordinary Kung Fu learners and could match with an alchemist at the fourth level.
It was with such powerful mentality that Nie Tian was able to detect the existence of Nie Santong.
Upon entering the Ripcloud Mountain, Nie Tian checked the routes at first. There were three paths.
Any of which could be taken if one would go to Moyang City from the Ripcloud Mountain.
Nie Tian was not sure which one the Bloody Bats would take. So he set up an induction spiritual deployment at the necessary pass of each road.
An induction spiritual deployment was not complex. It worked just fine as it could last for ten days.
With the induction spiritual deployments, Nie Tian could know instantly which path the Bloody Bats were taking to enter Moyang City.
Nie Santong had been following Nie Tian. He was cautious about launching a surprise attack.
Although he did not know what Nie Tian was planning. But he knew the deployment.
It puzzled him greatly that Nie Tian was able to set up a spiritual deployment.
"Nie Tian, I don't care what happened to you. But you have to die today." Nie Santong was so frenzied with the standing as the family head of the Nies. He had to finish Nie Tian.
Nie Tian felt the killing attempt of Nie Santong but only responded with a faint smile, "You're not impatient, aren't you? Well, let's have fun then."
When the deployments were set up already, Nie Tian concentrated his mind on playing fool of Nie Santong.
It was getting dark now. And Nie Tian decided to trespass into the deeper reach of the Ripcloud Mountain.
He might not be able to confront with spirit monsters at the second or the third level with his current cultivation, but he could preserve himself well.
And Nie Tian was not much afraid, for the nocturnal spirit monsters were very scarce.
Nie Tian paced up into the deeper reach of the mountain.
"Little bastard, are you out of your mind to go that deeply into the Ripcloud Mountain." Nie Santong was closely following but not anxiously hoping to attack Nie Tian. He put everything at stakes and he sought one fatal strike.
Having witnessed the creepy cultivation of Nie Tian, Nie Santong would only hope everything went smoothly.
"Ah-ha. You fall for it." Nie Tian smiled as he strode to a valley.
"Did he know by any chance that I was stalking him?" Nie Santong felt a blast of cold air seizing him when he followed Nie Tian into the valley, terror starting to accumulate.
As Nie Tian went to the middle of the valley, he could felt the approaching Nie Santong. He did not panic but display his excitement.
"Four meters, thirty meters, twenty meters..." The closer Nie Santong was, the more obvious a pressure from the killing attempt. Nie Tian was more than thrilled and suddenly growled, "Ow-"
It was like a wolf cry, drifting afar in the air beneath the silent sky and to a thousand meters away.
"Whoosh...Whoosh...Whoosh." Closely following the growl of Nie Tian, numerous shadows appeared at the top of the valley.
Against the night sky, these figures had green eyes, hundreds of them, adding to the creepiness.
"Dark Wolf, a spirit monster at the first level, weak in power but quick in speed. There could be hundreds of the Dark Wolfs in the valley. And probably there might be King of Dark Wolfs. Nie Santong would be grateful by any measure." Nie Tian murmured and then a wry smile appeared.
The growl was to attract the Dark Wolves.
"What are you doing? Committing a suicide?" Nie Santong was paled by the green eyes that surrounded him.
Wasn't Nie Tian worried that he might get himself killed at first when he attracted the Dark Wolves here?
Well, certainly not. Nie Tian, of course, had a way out if he ran into trouble.
He took out a pill and murmured, "Fake-Death Pill. I guess the Dark Wolves would not be interested in a dead man."
Then, Nie Tian injected his vital power into the Fake-Death Pill, giving off a strong smell of putridity.
The odour wrapped up Nie Tian who now smelled like a carcass.
The pill came from the Bloody Bats to fake death. Never thought that it would be helpful for this occasion.
"Nie Santong, I'll leave you alone and let you enjoy it yourself." There was a bright smile in the face of Nie Tian who stomped the ground and leaped to the valley.
He moved past the numerous Dark Wolves like a walking dead. The Wolves held no interest for him.
Nie Santong stood in amazement and watched Nie Tian disappear, leaving himself in the narrowing circle of the Dark Wolves.
"Ow." Nie Tian growled again and spurred the wolves into the fight.
The next moment, the growls of the wolves were heard one after another. And the numerous wolves dashed to Nie Santong like arrows let fly.
"Nie Santong, have fun with these wolf cuds. I'll make myself scarce." Nie Tian laughed as he overlooked Nie Santong being besieged by the wolves and turned around.
It was not until this moment that Nie Santong knew that he was busted long before. And Nie Tian was making fool of him before he would expose it.
"Nie Tian, I swear to God that I'll kill you." There came jarring roars of Nie Santong from behind Nie Tian.
As he left the valley, Nie Tian did not bother to clear the smell that wrapped himself up. The smell could keep any spirit monster at bay.
Unless it was a spirit monster at the third level, for the mental capability of that was equal to a young boy or girl could help itself see through the disguise of Nie Tian.
"Nie Santong is a Vital Spirits at the ninth level. The hundreds of Dark Wolves are not enough to claim his life but to leave him wounds. I'll attend to my business first." Nie Tian did not want to make situation worse for Nie Tian, for he was not able to confront Nie Santong.
Nie Tian was planning to awaken his vital spirit.