Chapter 68

**Pang!**

Nie Tian landed heavily, the fury in his eyes completely gone. He adjusted his breathing, his face cold as he stared at Yu Tong, who was ten meters away, secretly checking his own condition.

"Trouble..."

With a slight sense of perception, he bitterly smiled in his heart, secretly calling it a bad situation. As he had expected, one furious punch had drained all the spiritual energy from his spirit sea. At this moment, he had no spiritual energy left to use!

Not only that, but the full-force punch had also consumed a significant amount of his mental energy, leaving him in a terrible mental state. He moved his arms slightly and immediately found them unbearably heavy, as if the punch had drained all his physical strength.

This was completely different from his experience after using the furious punch last time! Last time, after one strike, he had only run out of spiritual energy, and his body had been slightly uncomfortable, but his spirit and energy had remained abundant. But this time, after that strike, he felt as if all his strength had been drained.

Now, even the most ordinary walking seemed incredibly tiring to him. He was very clear that in this state, he had almost no combat ability, and even an ordinary person who didn't know cultivation might be able to harm him.

What he should do now was to immediately sit down, take out the spirit stones from his bag, and quickly recover his strength. But he didn't do that.

Because Yu Tong, whom he had hit with a furious punch, was right in front of him. He knew that Yu Tong must have been injured, but he didn't know her true condition. If he showed any weakness, and Yu Tong still had strength left, she would certainly not miss the opportunity to kill him.

He absolutely couldn't let Yu Tong discover that he was now extremely weak!

"Scum! How does it feel?"

He laughed loudly, dragging his extremely tired body, and walked step by step toward Yu Tong. He knew that the stronger he appeared, the less likely Yu Tong would act rashly!

That short ten-meter distance felt incredibly long to him. When he finally reached Yu Tong, he wanted to sit down and not move again. But he didn't do that. Instead, he endured the discomfort in his body and looked down at the fallen Yu Tong from a higher position.

His eyes were full of coldness.

Yu Tong, lying limp in the sand, had the blood in her eyes fade away, her face slightly pale. There were traces of blood at the corners of her bright red lips. The tiny blood spots, like blooming flowers, adorned her lips and her white neck, making her look tragically helpless.

Yu Tong's lips were tightly closed, and she looked at Nie Tian calmly without saying a word. A faint blood light was released from her body, as if protecting her from harm.

Her condition was not much better than Nie Tian's. When Nie Tian's attack came, she was startled by the mysterious giant shadow that appeared in the void, and her soul was shaken. The blood shield she hastily formed could not completely block Nie Tian's attack. Nie Tian's fist, after piercing through the blood shield, hit her chest forcefully.

The power of that strike instantly injured her, and her mental awareness of the void shadow was also shattered. The formation of the blood shield had consumed her spiritual energy and blood energy, and the explosion of the blood shield caused her to suffer a backlash. In a desperate situation, she used a secret technique of the Blood Sect—the Blood Cocoon Technique.

The Blood Cocoon Technique could stabilize the chaotic blood energy in her body, allowing her to recover slowly and protect her to some extent. However, while using the Blood Cocoon Technique, she could not move or speak.

The only thing she could do was to look at Nie Tian while in the state of the Blood Cocoon Technique. She tried her best to appear calm, not showing any fear, and not letting Nie Tian see her urgency and worry.

"Why aren't you talking?"

Nie Tian, with cold eyes, looked down at her and laughed, "I heard you wanted to refine my blood? I'm here now, you can try it."

Yu Tong's eyes showed a fierce look, but she still didn't speak.

Nie Tian frowned slightly, secretly observing Yu Tong, his gaze gradually moving from her face to her entire body. The faint blood light covering Yu Tong's body, like a thin layer of blood cloud, completely enveloped her slender figure, seemingly ensuring she was not harmed.

However, in Nie Tian's current state, even without that layer of blood light, he would find it difficult to kill Yu Tong. The existence of that blood light made him realize that even if he had recovered a bit of spiritual energy, he would still find it hard to break through the blood light's defense and kill Yu Tong in the Qing Huan Realm.

"Do you not want to talk, or can't you talk?" After watching for a while, Nie Tian touched his chin thoughtfully, "You haven't moved a finger, does that mean... you're so injured that you can't move at all? Hey, in that case, can't I do whatever I want?"

At these words, he saw fear flash in Yu Tong's eyes.

"Ha ha!" He grinned, his mind at ease, and slowly squatted down beside Yu Tong. Reaching out, he looked into Yu Tong's eyes and used his right index finger to point at her beautiful chin.

He saw panic and humiliation in Yu Tong's eyes. His finger, carefully, landed on Yu Tong's chin, but first touched the thin layer of blood light.

The thin layer of blood light, under his touch, felt like a soft layer of skin. He, who was on guard, found that the blood light did not suddenly become strange or burn his fingertips.

He didn't know that the blood light formed by the Blood Cocoon Technique would only react when it sensed spiritual energy fluctuations. At this moment, his spiritual energy was exhausted, and the finger he placed on Yu Tong's chin carried no spiritual energy, so it did not trigger any reaction from the Blood Cocoon Technique.

"Hmm, very interesting."

Nie Tian smiled lightly, pressing his finger down, and found that the thin layer of blood light, under his pressure, tightly adhered to Yu Tong's chin. His finger, through the thin layer of blood light, actually touched Yu Tong's smooth chin.

When he realized that the blood light covering Yu Tong's body seemed harmless, his entire hand landed on Yu Tong's face. Squatting, he looked at Yu Tong with a mocking smile, not saying more, but gently caressing her cheeks.

Yu Tong's eyes showed deep hatred, and she was almost driven mad with anger. If she were not in the special state of the Blood Cocoon Technique, she would have torn Nie Tian to pieces without hesitation.

"Hmm, angry?" Nie Tian's smile faded, his face turning cold, "I heard from Yuan Feng that many of the trial participants from the Spirit Treasure Pavilion and the Lingyun Sect died at your hands. Among those you killed, there might be my good friends, or even... my Nie family brothers."

"You killed my friends, and I just touched your face. Why are you so angry?"

As he spoke, the hand on Yu Tong's cheek suddenly moved down her long neck and continued downward.

Yu Tong's wide-open eyes suddenly showed fear, and her body, lying in the sand, seemed to tremble with her fear.

Nie Tian still looked at her coldly, but his hand slowly moved to Yu Tong's high chest and ruthlessly kneaded it a few times.

Yu Tong, who had been keeping her eyes open, seemed unable to bear the humiliation and suddenly closed her eyes. A strange blood red color gradually appeared on her white skin.

Nie Tian, who was very close to her, suddenly felt uneasy, as if he sensed some change in Yu Tong that he couldn't understand.

His hand, which had been on Yu Tong's chest, suddenly moved down and pulled a leather bag from her waist.

Opening the bag, he saw only a few pounds of dried meat and a flask of water inside.

"Thanks."

He waved at Yu Tong, took out the dried meat, and started tearing it with his teeth while drinking water.

Knowing that he couldn't kill Yu Tong because of the blood light, he humiliated her and then left without hesitation.

Two hours after he left, the blood light that enveloped Yu Tong's body suddenly exploded.

"Nie Tian!"

In the vast desert, Yu Tong's hysterical scream echoed, filled with overwhelming hatred.

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