Huff!
Nie Yun wiped the sweat from his brow, gripped the iron chain with his churning hands, and slowly climbed upward.
Under normal circumstances, someone at his level of cultivation would never sweat no matter how exhausted he was. Yet now he was drenched in perspiration—not because his body was weak, but because not a trace of immortal power remained within him.
Just as Green Leaf King had analyzed, he discovered the peculiarity of these secret runes: the stronger the attack, the stronger the backlash. Only when one's strength was weakened to a certain extent would one avoid the runes' attacks.
Yet if he dispersed his cultivation, all the power he had accumulated would go down the drain. The loss would outweigh the gain. After thinking it over, he came up with an idea and stored all his power within his Storage Dantian!
The Storage Dantian had now formed an entirely new Storage World. Let alone his own power, even ten times as much could be poured into it and contained perfectly without the slightest burden! Furthermore, the Storage World possessed unique laws of space and time. With his power hidden inside, even the runes on the iron chain, powerful as they were, could not sense it.
"What powerful rebounding force!"
As Nie Yun climbed upward, he could not help sighing.
Though he had concealed all his immortal power, his physical body was simply too strong, and he still felt an immense rebounding force. It constantly sought to fling him outward. Had he not gripped the chain so tightly, he would have been hurled away long ago.
The rebounding force alone would have been manageable, but the space where the iron chain hung was completely different from that atop Gui Yuan's shell. It possessed an immense attraction, as if a