XuanHuan 4
"Well, here you come," As he walked out of the cave, Nie Tian was somewhat surprised and then laughed, having felt the pressure of Nie Santong.
"Nie Santong, that's good timing," Nie Tian smiled calmly. He had determined the location of Nie Santong, just three hundred meters away from him.
There appeared Nie Santong in the thornbush three hundred meters away.
He looked terrible.
He was now in rags and bloods. There were even several wounds in his body.
"Nie Tian!" Nie Santong covered his scary scars, recollected what Nie Tian had done to him and craved to eat him alive.
It was Nie Tian who put him in such an embarrassing situation.
There were hundreds of Dark Wolves and even three Kings of Dark Wolves, with a cultivation equal to a Vital Spirits. Even Nie Santong paid a heavy price as a Vital Spirits at the ninth level under such a circumstance.
It took almost the entire day for Nie Santong to slay all the Dark Wolves.
And in the following two days, he was looking for Nie Tian while healing himself.
Now that blood had been drawn, Nie Santong would not return to the Nies unless he killed Nie Tian.
"Nie Tian, pray to God that I won't find you. Otherwise I'd skin and scalp you." Nie Santong swore to himself, with a twitched look.
But he did not know that Nie Tian had kept two eyes on him.
"Nie Santong, Where there is God in heaven, you turn to Satan in hell. Don't blame me for that." Nie Tian located Nie Santong from the distance, putting on a cold smile.
Nie Santong was a Vital Spirits at the ninth level, which meant that Nie Tian could testify the power of Star Soul of the Red Flame with little to worry about.
Nie Tian worked up his mental power and the Chaos Coffin responded to turn the Red Flame into a streak of light which perfectly integrated with the vital veins in vivo.
"Let me see how powerful the Red Flame Star Soul is," A violent blast of power was welling up insanely, making Nie Tian feel thrilled.
The waves the vital power aroused grew intense and was somehow squeezed into an arrow, flashing with the flames.
Anyone who saw this would naturally believe that Nie Tian had awakened an Arrow Spirit.
The Arrow was a Weapon Spirit among three major kinds of vital spirits.
Compared with other vital spirits, the biggest advantage of Arrow Spirit lied in the long-distance attack.
Nie Tian had been in a leadership of a troop called Guardians of Arrows. Every single member was an Arrow Spirit, enhance more powerful than any other general troops. They were able to annihilate the enemies hundreds of lis away, which was simply incredible.
The moment the Red Flame integrated with the vital veins, Nie Tian found it barely possible to bear the swelling power. He doubted that his vital veins would have burst but for the tenth vital vein.
"Bang."Next instant, the Red Flame popped out and growled.
The Red Flame whistled against the wind, which in return contributed to the blaze and gave shape to a crescent-shaped outer wave of hot air.
The Red Flame flied like a Fiery Dragon that crossed the night sky. It was swift and approached the target in a blink of an eye.
"What?" The instant the Red Flame was about to befall, Nie Santong perceived the danger. He looked up and became numb and paled. Terrors had filled in his eyes.
The Red Flame was too swift for Nie Santong to find time to react.
Then, the Fed Flame gave full play to its overwhelming power, blowing away the pressure of Nie Santong.
Against the blazing fires, the shock in Nie Santong's face was replaced by the scare.
At this point, he felt deep regret other than fear.
He regretted having come to the Ripcloud Mountain.
The clothes on Nie Santong was burned into ashes. Every inch of his skin cracked up, leaving bloody marks all over his body.
"Boom." The Red Flame hit Nie Santong, only sending himself into the air. He was a pile of black bones when he landed.
The deacon of the Nies and the Vital Spirits at the ninth level, demised.
"Dead?" Nie Tian was taken by surprise, for he could not feel any trace of Nie Santong's pressure.
Admittedly, Nie Santong was a Vital Spirits at the ninth level; while Nie Tian was only a Vital Spirits at the first level. They were almost one rank away from each other.
Nie Tian got himself together and scurried to Nie Santong. He was relieved upon the confirmation of his death.
"It is intimidating of the Red Flame to kill the Vital Spirits at the ninth level with one strike," Nie Tian was left breathless. He could not have imagined the power himself.
Nie Tian calmed himself down and began to measure the power of the Red Flame.
"Nie Santong has been wounded by the Dark Wolves, hence the weakened defence. Besides, the Red Flame is a surprise attack. It absolutely makes sense that Nie Santong got killed when he was caught off guard. Given a chance to defend himself, he would not have been killed or even injured by the Red Flame before he could react," After a comprehensive analysis, Nie Tian reached a conservative estimate on the power of the Red Flame.
Even so, Nie Tian would agree that the moves with the same killing effect of the Red Flames would suffice to kill any Vital Spirits below the fifth level within a second.
"Given the horribleness of the Red Flame as the first-level Star Soul, the ninth-levels on the Index to Star Souls would be 100% ass-kicking," So thought Nie Tian, whose amazement was now replaced by excitement.
If he could depict a second-level Star Soul or even a higher level, his fighting power would be substantially boosted.
Nevertheless, he was not powerful enough yet to open the next page of the Index to Star Souls. It would be daydreaming to depict a second-level Star Soul.
Most importantly, his physical strength and the mental power were far from sufficient. It would not make a difference whether the next page could be opened.
"Luckily, my mental power is at the fortieth level, way higher than that of an ordinary person. Otherwise, the patterns of Star Souls would have been meaningless paintings, " rejoiced Nie Tian.
It worn out Nie Tian to depict the first-level Star Soul. If his mental power was at the tenth level, he could not have depicted the Red Flame Star Soul.
The horrible power of the Star Soul had been testified by Nie Santong. Nie Tian planed to depict some more Star Souls in case of need.
"Oh, right. I almost forgot the little guy. I wonder when it will be hatched," The egg of the Icy Snake dawned upon Nie Tian, who took it out for a look. But there was no sign of hatch.
Generally, a baby Icy Snake would hatch three days after it was laid. It had been five days, but there was still no sign of hatch, which made Nie Tian doubt whether the egg died unhatched.
Nie Tian did not think too much of the egg. Having disposed the body of Nie Santong, he prepared to return to the cave, cultivating his power and waiting for the arrival of the Bloody Bats.
At this point, Nie Tian felt a cold breeze blowing from behind.
He turned around, only to confront with a gigantic black bear, as high as five meters, that popped out from nowhere.
"Second-level Spirit Monster, Earthly Black Bear, a powerful one among the second-levels. Its power equaled to that of a Vital Spirits at the fourth level, and its physical strength could lift something that weighted ten thousand kilograms. Its paws could break a giant stone weighing five thousand kilograms easily," A quick judgement was made by Nie Tian on the Earthly Black Bear.
The Earthly Black Bear was violent in nature. It must have sniffed the blood of Nie Santong, so it would appear.
"Roar." The Earthly Black Bear glared at Nie Tian with bloodshot eyes, gave an intimidating growl and got on its feet.
The next moment, the thing launched an attack all of a sudden, wielding its giant paws maliciously.
Nie Tian frowned a little bit, exercised the Leaf and Swan Step, and avoided the offense of the Earthly Black Bear with little effort.
Although Nie Tian had awakened his vital spirit, his vital spirit was very unique, as it could produce no killing effect. In the absence of the Star Souls, it would be useless.
Besides, the physical strength of the beast was too formidable for Nie Tian to confront it.
One strike missing, the bear became even more frenzied. With a growl, it marched forward with its gigantic body, only shaking the ground heavily.
"Nothing more than an animal. You just don't know how to use your blessed power," Nie Tian snickered, stomped on the ground, and sprang up. He was like a leaf floating in the air.
"Die you." Nie Tian landed on the back of the Earthly Black Bear, bombing the head of the beast with a powerful punch, simple but effective.
"Bang." The beast took a bad hit in the head, only to tilt over. The cracks could be seen in its skull, with blood streaming down. It struggled for several times on the ground, and soon caught its last breath.
"Even if the Chaos Coffin cannot be used as a weapon, it does enhance my vital veins by multiple times. With the power of the four stars, I do feel that my punch equals to seven thousand and five hundred kilograms, or maybe ten thousand kilograms with all my strength and the combination of East Emperor Death Touch or Warrior God Punch."
Nie Tian put on a pleasant smile as he was very satisfied to see the great progress after the vital spirit had been awakened.
Now he could cope with a Vital Spirits at the fourth level easily without the Star Souls or the fatal moves like Three Mundras of Warrior God.
He took out the spirit core of the Earthly Black Bear. Nie Tian wasted no more time and hurried back to the cave. Having sealed the cave with a spiritual deployment, he continued his cultivation.
In the following days, Nie Tian confined himself to the cave. He had been fully absorbed in the cultivation except that he went out of the cave once to make a new induction spiritual deployment.
During the span of ten days, Nie Tian had consumed all the pills and medicines. His power saw another major progress.
The tenth vital vein helped him awaken the power of six stars, and his capability now ranked the second level of the Vital Spirits.
To his greatest excitement, he was able to depict two more Star Souls on the Chaos Coffin: Sirius Star Soul and Seven-Layer Waves Star Soul.
The two Star Souls were similar to the Red Flame in terms of the complexity and horribleness. The difference lied in that the Sirius and the Seven-Layer Waves featured close-distance engagement, which guaranteed a qualitative enhancement.
The support of another two Star Souls gave Nie Tian confidence to combat a Vital Spirits at the seventh level.
No one would believe that a second level dared confront a seventh level.
Nie Tian came out of the cave, slighting scowling. He wondered, "It is only two days away from the opening of the Kung Fu Competition of Moyang City and the Bloody Bats have not showed up yet. Have I guessed it wrong? The three guys just happened to be there in the Ripcloud Mountains, is that so?"
It puzzled Nie Tian much that the Bloody Bats did not appear during his stay in the Ripcloud Mountain which amounted to a dozen of days.
"Wait," There was a change in Nie Tian's look. He was pleasantly surprised.
The Induction Spiritual Deployment responded, which indicated the presence of the Bloody Bats.