Nie Tian hadn’t expected that he woulde under so much pressure after bing the seventh Son of the Stars.
Before, he had been all alone. He hadn’t had so many worries or scruples.
Now all of a sudden, powerful sects like the Divine Seal Sect, the Divine me Sect, the Beast-controlling Sect, and the Bliss Mountain Sect had chosen to attach themselves to him, and the Domain of the Falling Stars, the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries, and the Domain of Heaven Python had been put under his name. He suddenly felt unprecedented pressure on his shoulders.
Not just that, but someone had been undermining him and trying to prevent him from growing as a Son of the Stars and building up his prestige.
“No matter what, you’ve got to make a trip to the Domain of Endless Snow,” Jing Feiyang said with a solemn tone. “No matter how impudent they are, since you’re a Son of the Stars, they wouldn’t dare to make any moves against you. You’d better go have a talk with Patriarch Snowy Peak of the Heavenly Ice Sect, and try your best to bring Fan Kai and the others back alive. If you don’t go, people will assume that you’re afraid of the Heavenly Ice Sect, and that you don’t care about the lives of your subordinates. If this happens, those ns and sects in the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries will distance themselves from you even more.”
Nie Tian pondered the matter, and soon made his decision. “I’ll go to the Domain of Endless Snow.”
After Xing Lifeng’s death, people from the Void Spirit Society had been focused on searching for Zhao Shanling and Pei Qiqi. Therefore, they hadn’t approached him yet.
In fact, it was good news that even the powerful experts from the Void Spirit Society couldn’t track the two of them down.
From the look of it, they would be safe for the time being.
“I’ll go to the Domain of Endless Snow with you,” Jing Feiyang said, looking as if he already had a n in mind. “But I’ll hide myself the whole trip. I believe I’ll be able to learn the truth by doing this.”
With a surprised expression, Nie Tian asked, “What truth?”
Jing Feiyang’s eyes shone with the light of wisdom as he said, “I suspect that someone will ambush you on your way to the Domain of Endless Snow. If someone is really bent on undermining you, he might arrange for rogue cultivators or Hunters with unknown origins to ambush you. Those who have established their names or have outstanding power will most likely be apprehensive about your status, and refuse to do such a reckless thing.
“However, Hunters drift about in the starry river without a set residence. They can be easily manipted to make such a move.
“It’s not a rare thing that they rob the ancient starships that travel among different domains.”
Nie Tian’s expression flickered slightly upon hearing this.
Afterwards, Jing Feiyang made secret arrangements for everything for this trip.
Duan Shihu said that he would escort Nie Tian to the Domain of Endless Snow, and Jing Rou after him.
Jing Feiyang then secretly arranged for his wife to take over the Divine Seal Sect while he was away. Without bringing a single Void domain expert, he left for the Domain of Endless Snow with Nie Tian, Duan Shihu, and Jing Rou, on their private ancient starship.
As they did, Jing Feiyang hid within the ancient starship, while spreading word that he was in secluded cultivation.
The ancient starship headed towards the Domain of Endless Snow at full speed.
As Jing Feiyang had instructed, the Divine Seal Sect spread word of this trip Nie Tian was making.
Jing Rou, who seemed to have inherited her father’s sharp mind, chimed in. “Normally speaking, even if the Golden Vast Sect and the Thousandsword Mountain Sect had opinions about you, they wouldn’t make any moves against you. They’re too big targets. If they do, they’ll easily get exposed. They’re not as stupid as to make you their enemy, no matter how discontent they are with you.
“However, some rogue cultivators may also hold you and your friends ountable for the recent outsider invasion.
“As you know, many of our realms fell. The outsiders ughtered countless people, perhaps including their friends and family. It’s already widespread news that Pei Qiqi and Zhao Shanling from the Domain of the Falling Stars were the direct cause of the cmity in our domain. If they can’t find Zhao Shanling or Pei Qiqi, they may very well seek ways to vent their anger on you.
“Aside from them, the people who have been undermining you might have made deals with Hunters who wander in the starry river to ambush you.
“I’m afraid this trip won’t be a safe one.”
Jing Rou and Duan Shihu went on and analyzed the situation for Nie Tian, while Jing Feiyang hid his aurapletely under the deck.
Even Nie Tian couldn’t capture a shred of his aura with the help of his bloodline power.
The ancient starship, which every major force from the Domain of Heaven Python knew belonged to Duan Shihu and Jing Rou, traveled through the silent starry river.
Both overtly and covertly, many forces and rogue cultivators paid close attention to it.
The trip turned out to be rather smooth.
After all, their ancient starship had the Divine Seal Sect’s sigil on it. Those who harbored evil ideas had to take the Divine Seal Sect’s strength and Nie Tian’s status as a Son of the Stars into consideration, and thus didn’t dare to make any rash moves.
During this time, Nie Tian took the opportunity to practice the True me Incantation with the Heavenme Crystal he had obtained from the Divine Seal Sect.
The first me incantation his me power sub-soul had learned on its own was the True me Incantation.
The True me Incantation allowed its users to channel Heavenme Essence into their me power cores, where it would be refined and used to temper them.
The True me Incantation seemed rather straightforward, and he didn’t encounter much trouble practicing it. As he consumed an increasinglyrge amount of Heavenme Crystals, his me power core became more refined, and came to hold more Heavenme Essence.
While he practiced the True me Incantation, his me power sub-soul in his sea of awareness derived new enlightenment of ming Finger Swords.
In a secret room inside the ancient starship, Nie Tian eximed inwardly, “ming Finger Swords!”
WHOOSH!
His me power sub-soul immediately summoned me power by relying on its seamless connection to his me power core in his spiritual sea. zing me power poured out of his me power core and rushed through his arm meridians like rivers of mes.
FZZZ!
Tiny crimson sparks suddenly flew from Nie Tian’s fingertips.
Immediately afterwards, a small sword of mes came to form at the tip of every finger. Each ming sword looked as if it had been forged from Heavenme Crystals.
Since they were only the size of his fingers, they didn’t seem very intimidating.
However, as soon as they came to form, Nie Tian shrewdly discovered that his me power core had suddenly been drained of half its me power!
ording to the descriptions of ming Finger Swords, which was an Earth grade incantation, casters with profound cultivation bases would be able to form ming swords that were several meters long at the tips of their fingers, with which they would be able to pierce through flesh and bone, and burn living beings to ashes.
PUFF!
The small ming sword at the tip of his left index finger suddenly shot out and pierced into the solid wall.
A small hole instantly appeared in the wall, with sparks flickering inside.
Nie Tian pondered briefly before taking the bone of a sixth grade spirit beast from within his ring of holding.
PUFF!
Another ming sword left his middle finger and shot into the thick bone.
The bone instantly caught fire and turned ck. Heavenme Essence could be seen burning fiercely in the mes as the bone was soon reduced to ashes, along with every bit of residual flesh power within it.
“Its destructive force is quite impressive.” Nie Tian muttered as he withdrew from his cultivation state. However, as soon as he did, his brow furrowed.
For some reason, he had a feeling that a set of eyes was lurking somewhere in the starry river and looking closely at him.
SHEW!
Jing Feiyang suddenly rushed into his secret room and fixed him with an astonished gaze. “Do you feel like you’re being examined by something, Nie Tian?”
Nie Tian nodded slightly. “Yes, I do, but I thought it was my misconception.”
“It’s not!” Jing Feiyang said with a nervous look on his face. “This is strange. The incantations you were practicing aren’t that special. Don’t tell me that that thing has sensed something special? It shouldn’t be. Things like this haven’t happened in hundreds of years.”
Nie Tian was dumbfounded. “What in the world are you talking about, Senior Jing?”
Brow furrowed, Jing Feiyang said, “Now, we’re out of the Domain of Heaven Python, and heading towards the Domain of Endless Snow. However, there used to be another domain between the Domain of Heaven Python and the Domain of Endless Snow. It was called the Domain of me’s End, and the Qi warriors who founded the Divine me Sect were originally from there.
“Do you know how the Divine me Sect got its name?”
“How?” Nie Tian asked, looking confused.
“Well... about seven thousand years ago, a burning meteor flew into the Domain of me’s End. It brought a sea of mes that quickly engulfed the entire domain, plunging its people into a world of suffering and misery.” Jing Feiyang had deep fear in his eyes as he described that cmity. “Many Qi warriors, including Saint domain experts, were burned to death.
“However, some Qi warriors survived, and reestablished their sect in the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries.
“This sect waster known as the Divine me Sect. They came up with this name because the meteor that had crashed into the Domain of me’s End turned out to have a cluster of mes inside of it, which was a Heaven Nourished grade spiritual material called the Divine me.
“Now, thousands of years have passed, and that burning meteor is still wandering the remains of the Domain of me’s End. It has attacked quite a few passersby who practice special me power incantations and burned them to ashes.”