Chapter 400: Standoff (1/2)

Chapter 400: Standoff

With a delighted expression on her face, Dong Li circled around the area where the three groups of explorers were battling the people from the Realm of Black Marsh, and slowly approached Nie Tian’s location.

As she did, she would hold her jade-like wrist to her red lips and whisper orders into her bracelet every now and then.

After joining up, the three groups of explorers had the advantage in both numbers and strength.

Since they recognized Dong Li and knew she was the daughter of the Dong Clan’s clanmaster, when they had been asked to deal with the Qi warriors from the Realm of Black Marsh, they could only do as they were bid.

After all, they all understood very well what would happen to them if they dared to disobey her in the Dong Clan’s territory.

Furthermore, they had recently heard about the intolerable deeds of those Qi warriors from the Realm of Black Marsh.

Even though Dong Li had played a trick and gotten seven of the people from the Realm of Black Marsh killed, none of the three groups of explorers would have the strength to contend against the rest of them alone.

If Dong Li hadn’t called upon them, it wouldn’t have occurred to them to unite against those murderers.

But now that they had come together upon hearing Dong Li’s call, and their collective strength exceeded that of the people from the Realm of Black Marsh, they weren’t afraid of them anymore.

Not to mention that they also had the Dong Clan backing them.

Dong Li sneered. “A bunch of fools.”

The reason why she hadn’t been so eager to summon members of the Dong Clan to this place was that she knew she could use these outsiders to wear down or annihilate those from the Realm of Black Marsh.

In her eyes, no matter whether it was the people from the Realm of Black Marsh or the explorers that had come upon her summons, they were all chess pieces, subject to her manipulation.

She didn’t care about their lives, not in the least.

What she really wanted was to see Nie Tian suffer and sustain injuries, so that she could find a vent for her anger towards him.

BANG! BANG!

As countless claw-shaped shadows continued to rain on Nie Tian, blood flowed out of the corner of his mouth, and his face turned pale.

Upon seeing Nie Tian’s condition, Guan Yue, who had infused every one of those claw-shaped shadows with his own spiritual power, smiled brutally.

“You killed my little brother. No matter who you are, you will have to die here today!” With these words, he wove his metal claws in the air and once again channeled the power within the floating, claw-shaped shadows.

In the next moment, torrential spiritual power fluctuations burst forth from within each and every claw-shaped shadow and spread towards Nie Tian.

Experiencing soreness all over, Nie Tian took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

Wood power suddenly rushed out of the vortex of wood power in his spiritual sea, and with a strong nourishing aura, it poured into his meridians, muscles, and internal organs.

Wherever his wood power flowed, the intense soreness disappeared, making him so comfortable that he felt as if he was having a bath in a hot spring.

Instantly, his meridians and muscles recovered their vigor.

As a thought appeared in Nie Tian’s mind, the green aura that was coiled in his heart also unleashed a surge of life energy, which morphed into a streak of green light that rushed into his internal organs.

The streak of green light seemed to suddenly stimulate the flesh power within Nie Tian’s internal organs and tap into his potential.

In the next moment, Nie Tian discovered that his badly-injured body had suddenly recovered to its peak state.

He threw his head back and let loose a long roar.

As he did, spiritual power of various attributes, flesh power, and psychic power, as well as soul power from the seven fragmentary star in his soul, rapidly rushed out and formed a chaotic magnetic field around him.

Distorting and chaotic fluctuations spread out into the space around Nie Tian, causing the claw-shaped shadows that fell into it to shake violently.

Not only that, but the spiritual power that Guan Yue had vested them with was instantly distorted.

Many of the invisible strings that connected the floating claw-shaped shadows with Guan Yue suddenly snapped.

Immediately afterwards, the claw-shaped shadows that had fallen into Nie Tian’s chaotic magnetic field started to explode one after another.

The suffocating spiritual power fluctuations that weighed down on Nie Tian like mountains vanished along with them.

At that moment, eyes narrowed, Nie Tian began to swing the Flame Star in his hand.

Blade blasts sent out by the Flame Star snapped the remaining intact strings with great precision.

Guan Yue’s face turned pale with fright. Dark-green smoke rose from the bottom of his feet as he swiftly jumped backwards.

Nie Tian let out a cold harrumph as he fixed his frigid gaze on him.

Guan Yue met Nie Tian’s gaze and felt very uneasy, as if he knew something bad was about to happen.

In the next moment, he found that Nie Tian, who was staring at him holding his Flame Star, suddenly became blurry.

WHOOSH!

Sensing a booming life aura in the tall bush behind his back, he turned around as quickly as he could.