Chapter 419 - 384: Floating Heaven Continent

"Master, you're awake..."

After an unknown amount of time, Nie Yun slowly regained consciousness. The moment he opened his eyes, he heard the excited voices of Xiaofong and his other pets.

He had previously recalled them to his Beast Taming Dantian, and they had been automatically released once the time limit was up.

"This is... the Floating Heaven Continent? We've arrived?"

He took a deep breath. The Spiritual Qi in the air was at least ten times denser than on the Qi Sea Continent, and it was suffused with a special Creation Qi. Nie Yun knew then that he and his Four Great Demon Pets had successfully escaped the collapsing space and arrived on the Floating Heaven Continent!

"Yes, we've arrived! I can feel it clearly. Only here can we unleash the true combat power of our Secret Realm cultivation!"

Xiaofong clenched his fists in excitement.

The Heaven-Seizing Creation Secret Realm required Mana condensed from Creation Qi to unleash its true power. The Mana they had previously converted from Ordinary Spiritual Qi couldn't even bring out half of their strength.

"Heh!" Hearing Xiaofong's excited words, Nie Yun chuckled softly. But as he tried to move, an unbearable pain shot through his entire body.

'What happened to me...?'

He looked down and finally saw the state he was in. His injuries were too gruesome to look at.

His muscles were torn to shreds, several bones were fractured, and his Meridians were in complete disarray. True Qi rampaged through his body, and it seemed even his Qi Sea had sustained some damage.

'Even for a Healer, it would take at least three or four days to recover from these injuries...'

Nie Yun sighed after a quick assessment.

His True Qi was too chaotic. To heal himself with Healing Qi, he first had to sort out his Meridians. It seemed his injuries were even more severe than he had imagined. It would take at least three or four days to fully recover.

To survive a Teleportation Array malfunction and passage through a spatial rift, and then recover in just three or four days—if word of this got out, it would scare countless people to death.

The power of a Healer was perfectly demonstrated at a time like this.

"Where are we?"

Knowing his injuries wouldn't heal anytime soon, Nie Yun stopped dwelling on them and asked.

"We don't know either. But this place is wide open. It's a wilderness, with no one around!"

Xiaofong said, looking around.

"The wilderness?" Nie Yun's expression changed.

The Floating Heaven Continent was immense, and not all of it was inhabited. Vast wildernesses stretched between cities, teeming with powerful Demon Beasts and Demons. The slightest carelessness could lead to a death you'd never see coming!

Because of this, no one dared to travel the wilderness outside the cities unless they were powerful or in a large group. He never expected that jumping into a spatial rift would teleport him here.

On the Qi Sea Continent, his group could be considered experts, but on the Floating Heaven Continent, they were nothing. Demon Beasts at the first or second layer of the Secret Realm were everywhere, often in packs. If their luck was bad enough to run into one, they would be done for!

"Quick, get inside the Zihua Cave Mansion! I'll shrink it down to a speck. If we run into a powerful Demon Beast, we won't make it out alive!"

At this thought, Nie Yun hastily gave the order, and with a flick of his Spirit, he recalled Xiaofong and the others.

JINGLE! JINGLE!

Just as he was about to enter the Cave Mansion himself, he suddenly heard the distant sound of camel bells.

Camel Riders!

Camel Riders were merchants who traveled between cities for trade. They were named for the tall Camel Beasts they all rode.

'Camel Riders means there are people passing through. There's no need to enter the Zihua Cave Mansion just yet. Maybe I can take this chance to follow them to a city!'

An idea sparked in his mind.

Even at his full strength, he was only at the Ultimate Venerable Peak, which was still not enough to travel the wilderness with ease. Following the Camel Riders might be a quick way to get back to a city.

The Camel Riders might not be particularly strong, but they frequently traveled between cities and knew exactly where the dangers lay. To protect their goods, they all had some life-saving measures. Traveling with them would be safer than going alone.

"Miss, it looks like there's an injured person up ahead!"

Just as he was scheming how to approach them and convince them to take him along, a voice rang out.

'Miss? So it's a female Camel Rider...' Nie Yun thought to himself.

"Someone's injured? The nearest city is tens of thousands of kilometers from here. Anyone injured in a place like this is not someone we can afford to get involved with. Let's go!"

A cold and indifferent voice immediately followed.

'This woman...'

Hearing her voice, Nie Yun's breath caught in his throat from anger.

'She's too cold-hearted. To see an injured person on the road and not even think of helping... How ruthless...'

"But Miss, this person doesn't look dangerous, and his injuries are severe. Why don't we save him? I was saved just like this back in the day, which is why I pledged my complete loyalty to you!" the first voice pleaded.

"Hmph. Fine. Go take a look. First, find out his background. If he's a Demon or something similar, kill him on the spot!"

The Miss seemed to have been persuaded, speaking in a detached tone.

Judging by her tone, it made little difference to her Mental Realm whether they saved him or not. It was as if the woman had a heart of stone.

"Brother, how did you get injured out here?"

As he was thinking, he heard the sound of footsteps, and a middle-aged man with thick eyebrows walked over.

The man was about one-point-nine meters tall, with a burly frame and bulging muscles. One look was enough to tell he possessed immense physical strength.

"I was on a Teleportation Array when there was an accident, and I was sent here..." Nie Yun shook his head.

Accidents with Teleportation Arrays were rare but not unheard of. His story perfectly explained why he was so severely injured and why he was alone in the wilderness.

"Heh, you're really unlucky then!"

Hearing the young man's explanation, the middle-aged man chuckled and lifted him up with one large hand.

"But meeting us is your good fortune. We Camel Riders might not be saints, but we'll usually help a person in distress. Doing a good deed brings us a bit more luck, keeps us safe!"

the middle-aged man said with a smile.

He was telling the truth. Camel Riders spent their days on the road, and they didn't save people out of the goodness of their hearts, but to create good karma and increase their own luck.

Luck was an ethereal, unpredictable thing. No one could say for sure what it was, but if you ran out of it, you might die without ever knowing how.

"Thank you, Uncle. I am Nie Yun. I'm sorry to be a bother," Nie Yun said.

The Floating Heaven Continent was enormous. People with the same name were as numerous as the sands in the Ganges, so it was unlikely he would be so unlucky as to run into Lord Hua right after arriving. Therefore, Nie Yun saw no need to hide his name.

"It's no trouble. We have plenty of Camel Beasts. Since you're injured, you can have one to yourself. That's as much as we can do. Whether you get better or not isn't something we can help with. As for healing medicine, we don't have much to spare, so we can't give you any."

the middle-aged man said.

"Yes, I'm already very grateful."

Seeing the man's sincere and unpretentious words, Nie Yun couldn't help but feel a sense of goodwill toward him and smiled faintly.

"Then get on up!" Seeing that the young man was polite, the middle-aged man said no more. With a flick of his wrist, he tossed Nie Yun onto the back of a Camel Beast.

The Camel Beast's back was as wide and flat as a carriage, and there was even a pavilion-like structure built on top, shielding it from the sun. It was indeed a good place to rest.

After settling down on the Camel Beast's back, Nie Yun quietly observed his surroundings.

Though his body was severely injured, his soul was completely unharmed. A Mid-Stage Spirit Level soul was something only an expert at the Secret Realm Third Layer could typically achieve. Even on the Floating Heaven Continent, it was not considered weak.

He quietly extended his Spirit to his surroundings and immediately discovered that this group's strength was likely not as simple as that of ordinary Camel Riders.

These people all had the strength of the Ultimate Venerable Celestial List. The strongest among them had even reached the first layer of Secret Realm Mana, though their souls were not as strong as his—they were only at Qi Sea Great Perfection.

Although the Floating Heaven Continent had Creation Qi, making its cultivators generally much stronger than those on the Qi Sea Continent, it was already quite impressive for an ordinary merchant to reach the Armor Realm or Qi Sect Realm. The Ultimate Venerable Level was definitely considered strong among Camel Riders. For this group to have someone who had reached the Secret Realm... Camel Riders at the Secret Realm level seemed strange no matter how you looked at it.

However, no matter how strange they were, it had nothing to do with him. He was just borrowing their Camel Beast to find a way out of here as quickly as possible.

As for the Miss, Nie Yun didn't try to observe her secretly. He just had a feeling she was even more extraordinary. It wasn't that he didn't want to observe her, but that his soul was blocked by a gentle force before it could even get close. Forcibly breaking through the barrier would have been easy, but it would have gotten him discovered and led to a lot of trouble.

In any case, he was just hitching a ride and didn't want to cause any trouble. Lying on the Camel Beast's back, he slowly absorbed the Creation Qi from the air. With every breath, his injuries recovered a little. After traveling for less than three hours, his external wounds had almost completely healed.

When traveling in the wilderness of the Floating Heaven Continent, those without sufficient strength generally didn't dare to fly. After all, if you were in the air and encountered a swarm of Flying Demon Beasts, there would be no escape!

Soon, the sun sank in the west, and the sky began to grow dim.

"There's a sheltered spot up ahead. We'll stay there tonight and set off again at dawn!"

After they had traveled a while longer, the Miss on the lead Camel Beast suddenly spoke.

"Yes!" Hearing that they were going to rest, everyone replied with excitement in their voices.

Nighttime was the most dangerous time in the wilderness. All sorts of Demon Beast packs came out to hunt, and there were also Demons and bandits lurking in the shadows. Traveling Camel Riders and other groups would usually stop for the night to avoid any mishaps.

If you ran into a pack of Demon Beasts, even a Mid-Stage Spirit Level soul would be useless!

Many of the Demon Beasts and Demons on the Floating Heaven Continent were not afraid of Soul Attacks. To truly defeat them, you could only rely on pure power!

Soon, the Camel Beasts came to a halt, and Nie Yun struggled to jump down from his.

"I'll be damned. When I found you earlier today, your injuries looked like you were on death's door. I didn't expect that after just a few hours, not only are your external wounds gone, but you can even move on your own. That recovery speed is terrifying!"

The middle-aged man who had saved Nie Yun couldn't help but be astonished when he saw him walking on his own.

"The injuries only looked bad. They didn't actually damage any vital points, so after regulating my breathing for a bit, I'm mostly recovered..."

Nie Yun had already prepared an excuse and said it casually.