Over the following ten days, Nie Tian’s fame rose higher and higher in Shatter City.

His deed of defeating Shi Nan in the Blood Fighting Pit was soon spread to every corner of the city, and became known to every citizen.

Not only that, but even people in Ash City and the Land of the Abandoned heard about him, the newest guest elder of the Blood Skull.

However, during this period of time, Nie Tian never stepped out of the cultivation room he had rented in the Blood Skull’s headquarters once.

Since his battle with Shi Nan, he had realized that he wouldn’t be able to conceal his true identity for long, and thus felt an increasingly strong sense of urgency.

In the cultivation room, he used the rich spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth to gradually expand his spiritual sea and refine his spiritual power round after round. In the meantime, he consumed large amounts of spirit beast meat and learned the last profound magic recorded in the first fragmentary star mark, Starfall.

During this time,...