With a grim expression, Nie Tian asked, “Are you serious?” He looked coldly at Dong Li, who had already put some distance between them, but he wasn’t in a hurry tounch attacks.


    After all, he wasn’t sure what Dong Li was up to.


    In his eyes, Dong Li was extremely cunning and vicious. She would never do something without a n, and she was never fond of solving problems through battles.


    Since Han Mu already controlled the team from the Cloudsoaring Sect, all she had to do was issuemands via that bracelet of hers and force Nie Tian to do as she said. Why would she do such a thing?


    He suspected that she had ulterior motives.


    Dong Li let out a cold snort, raging hatred appearing on her gorgeous face. “Of course I’m serious! I wanted to have a fair battle with you when we were in the Realm of Split Void. However, all you did was escape and kill my subordinates. You didn’t have the courage to fight me fair and square. I was very disappointed.”


    Nie Tian smiled coldly. “Back when we were in the dense forest, we could have had a sound battle if your men hadn’t rushed to your aid. The whole Void Illusion Mountain Range was filled with members of the Fang. How could I not leave?”


    “Very well.” The look in Dong Li’s eye grew increasingly frigid. “Now we’re alone. You can attack me freely. But you’ve got to hurry though. If you fail to capture me by the time Han Mu arrives with your grandfather and the others, don’t me me for not being polite to them.”


    Dong Li, who had suffered repeated losses from Nie Tian, wouldn’t be satisfied with breaking Nie Tian in effortless ways.


    If it were someone else, she probably wouldn’t even want to make an effort. Considering she had the leverage now, with a singlemand, she would be able to watch the man suffer.


    However, Nie Tian was different to her.


    She had long since taken Nie Tian as a challenge, one she didn’t n to deal with using her usual means.


    Only by inflicting serious pain on Nie Tian with her own strength could she let Nie Tian taste the vor of a absolute defeat, and she would get to vent her rage.


    “As you wish!” With a long roar, Nie Tian expanded his shrunken chaotic maic field to cover a ten meter radius around him.


    The tall bushes enveloped by the maic field started to rattle and explode into shreds.


    Fine rain was still drizzling down as a two-meter-long de light suddenly extended out from the me Star in Nie Tian’s hand.


    FIZZ! FIZZ!


    Like a spirit snake, the de light wiggled at the tip of the me Star, thrumming with various types of fierce spiritual power.


    SHEW!


    The de light split the falling rain and shed towards Dong Li’s face.


    Meanwhile, Dong Li was enveloped by Nie Tian’s chaotic maic field. Every nt and bit of vegetation around her was reduced to flying shreds.


    CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!


    Every time the de light swished down , Dong Li managed to ward it off precisely with her bone shield.


    The area around Dong Li was quickly filled with sparks created by the contacts, and her internal spiritual power began to rush around inside of her.


    However, she didn’t move a bit, and not the slightest panic appeared in her eyes.


    Even though her cultivation base was only at the early Greater Heaven stage, slightly higher than Nie Tian’s, she managed to ward off Nie Tian’s raging attacks and hold her ground in his chaotic maic field at the same time, which Guan Yue, a Qi warrior at the middle Greater Heaven stage, had failed to do!


    Sneering, Dong Li took a deep breath. “Is this all you’ve got, the man who received legacies from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Pce?!


    “Let me show you how powerful our n’s Beast Spirit Incantation is!”


    She pursed her sexy lips and let out a animal-like shriek.


    A thick pir of pitch-ck spiritual light suddenly beamed into the heavens from behind her back. As it did, the aura Dong Li released into her surroundings went through a overwhelming change.


    Under Nie Tian’s amazed gaze, the pir of spiritual light started to morph.


    In a few seconds, an enormous, ck phoenix came to shape and spread its huge wings.


    The ck phoenix seemed as if it were forged out of a ck metal. With a few flutters of its wings, the heaven and earth around it were filled with a boundless and ancient energy.


    As that happened, Nie Tian started to lose control of the chaotic maic field he had summoned all sorts of spiritual power to form.


    “Beast Spirit Incantation!” Nie Tian eximed.


    He suddenly remembered the battle between him and Dong Baijie when they had encountered each other for the first time in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Pce during the Heaven Gate trial.


    Back then, Dong Baijie had gone through a series of tough battles, and he only had about ten or twenty percent of his spiritual power left in him.


    Even so, a pir of gray smoke had shot up from the top of his head, which had then morphed into a gigantic gray wolf and started inflicting pain on him.


    The reason why he had managed to beat Dong Baijie was that Dong Baijie had suffered too many injuries and consumed too much of his strength.


    When Dong Baijie had given up the Heaven Gate pattern on the back of his hand, he had said to Nie Tian that if he had been in a better condition, Nie Tian wouldn’t stand a chance fighting him one on one.


    Thinking about Dong Baijie’s vicious gray wolf and looking at the ck phoenix fluttering its wings above Dong Li’s head, Nie Tian instantly realized that this was a formidable incantation that people from the Dong n practiced.


    His spection was correct.


    The number of spirit beasts in the Realm of a Hundred Battles roughly equaled the total number of spirit beasts in the other eight realms. The Dong n had been the among the first pioneers toe to the Realm of a Hundred Battles and explore.


    Generations of the Dong n had gone through countless battles against spirit beasts in the Realm of a Hundred Battles, from which they had gradually developed and mastered a unique incantation: the Beast Spirit Incantation!


    The Beast Spirit Incantation allowed members of the Dong n to refine spirit beasts’ blood and spirits, and use them to condense a beast spirit inside their bodies.


    Dong Baijie’s gray wolf and Dong Li’s ck phoenix were both beast spirits formed with the refined blood and spirit of formidable spirit beasts.


    The stronger the spirit beast was, the stronger the beast spirit would be.


    Dong Li had formed her beast spirit from the blood and spirit of a sixth grade ck phoenix, whose strength equaled that of a Profound realm human Qi warrior. After powerful experts from the Dong n had helped her kill the ck phoenix, Dong Li had refined it into a beast spirit using the Beast Spirit Incantation, and sealed it inside of her.


    As her cultivation base advanced, she was able to refine new beast spirits and seal them inside of her as well.


    As her strength grew, she would be able to disy the strength of her beast spirits better. By the time she was able to fully disy the strength of her beast spirits, or her own strength exceeded her beast spirits’ original bloodline strength, she would be able to discard them and hunt for more powerful ones.


    The reason why she had gone to the Realm of Split Void had been to umte her own strength and temper her subordinates’ battle prowess, since she understood that only when she entered the Greater Heaven stage would she be able to fully disy the might of her ck phoenix beast spirit without suffering a bacsh.


    It was her ck phoenix beast spirit’s fully explored strength that had given her the courage to cast her bracelet aside and fight Nie Tian head-on.


    WHOOSH! WHOOSH!


    As the ck phoenix behind Dong Li continued to flutter its wings, it created ck gales that ttened the one-man-tall bushes in the vicinity.


    Even Nie Tian’s chaotic maic field flickered due to the ck gales and hardly had any influence on Dong Li.


    Smiling, Dong Li fixed her ck pupils on Nie Tian.


    Holding the bone shield in one hand and the cyan awl in the other, her attractive body slowly rose into the air.


    She came to a stop when she was one meter above the ground and floated there.


    Nie Tian’s pupils contracted as his expression grew increasingly grim.


    Normally speaking, only Qi warriors who had entered the Profound realm would have the ability to soar through the air without assistance.


    He had heard that some people were able to float in the air with the help of their special spiritual tools before they had reached the Profound realm.


    However, he had never met such a person.


    Dong Li was the first person he had ever met who was able to float in the air before reaching the Profound realm.


    She relied on her ck phoenix beast spirit to aplish that.


    SHEW!


    With a low sneer, Dong Li’s curvaceous body suddenly flew towards Nie Tian with the ck phoenix’s support, her face filled with arrogance and mockery.


    As the violent gales beat her to Nie Tian, Nie Tian found it difficult to even maintain his footing.


    He had already canceled the chaotic maic field around him. With cold snort, he channeled the various types of spiritual power from his spiritual sea into the me Star, with which he split the strong wind and shed towards Dong Li.


    CLANK! CLANK!


    Sparks sputtered everywhere as Nie Tian and Dong Li exchanged attacks in close quarters.


    Even though the bone shield in Dong Li’s left hand flickered violently every time the me Star mmed into it, her cyan awl could always slide through the narrowest space in Nie Tian’s defense and pierce towards his vital parts like a spirit snake.


    Nie Tian, on the other hand, moved about rapidly to avoid the cyan awl and attack Dong Li with the me Star from different angles.


    Time after time, Nie Tian sprung into the air andnded on the ground.


    Within a few dozen seconds, his me Star made hundreds of exchanges with Dong Li’s bone shield and cyan awl.


    Soon, he started to experience numbness in the web between his thumb and forefinger. Every time the me Star made contact with Dong Li’s spiritual tools, Nie Tian felt as if he were hacking into a mountain made of iron. Not once had he felt an advantage in physical strength.


    While fighting, Dong Li constantly flexed and straightened her seemingly soft body, unleashing terrifyingly pure strength.


    As tough as Nie Tian’s body was, he would shake violently when his fist strike made contact with Dong Li’s elbow.


    Gradually, Nie Tian had a feeling as if he weren’t fighting a humandy, but rather an ancient, female beast!