Chapter 315: The Blood Fighting Pi (1/2)

Numerous people crowded together and pushed back and forth in front of the Blood Fighting Pit.

Many Qi warriors who had come to the Blood Skull’s headquarters to purchase spiritual materials and spiritual tools, as well as the other guest elders in the city, all came to this place upon hearing about the upcoming battle between Nie Tian and Shi Nan.

Recently, Nie Tian had become a sensation in Shatter City. Almost everyone was curious about him.

Shi Nan, on the other hand, was Shi Hui’s nephew and, as a guest elder of the Blood Skull, he also enjoyed a certain amount of popularity in Shatter City.

Therefore, the moment people heard about their upcoming battle in the Blood Fighting Pit, they put their business on hold and came to watch the fight.

The disguised Dong Baijie and Dong Li were among the crowd of people.

After assuming completely different appearances, the brother and sister pair looked no different from the other onlookers, and blended in perfectly.

Standing in the crowd, they observed Nie Tian, who was standing at the gate of the Blood Fighting Pit, from afar.

Smiling, Dong Baijie said to Dong Li, who was standing right next to him, “I didn’t expect that we would be able to catch such a good show so soon after arriving in Shatter City. Nie Tian is a newcomer who’s being regarded so highly by the Blood Skull. It’s only natural that the other guest elders are not happy about it. Nie Tian is at the early Heaven stage, and Shi Nan is at the late Heaven stage. Who do you think will win?”

“Although I hate Nie Tian’s guts, I would still give the odds to him. I think he’ll beat that Shi Nan person rather easily.” With a frown, Dong Li looked at the swaggering Shi Nan and said with a disdainful tone, “I’ve heard about Shi Nan before. He only became a guest elder of the Blood Skull because he’s Shi Hui’s nephew. His actual battle prowess is about the same as any other Blood Skull member who is at the late Heaven stage. Nie Tian has killed a number of men like him already.”

Face grim, Dong Baijie asked, “Did you see him kill them?”

Nie Tian being able to take his fragmentary star mark from him in the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had a great deal to do with the fact that he had been badly wounded at that time.

If he hadn’t gone through many fierce battles, he didn’t believe Nie Tian would have had the ability to snatch the fragmentary star mark from him.

Therefore, when he first came to the Realm of Split Void and heard of Nie Tian’s battle results from Dong Li and Han Mu, he had been rather skeptical, assuming that there might have been some exaggeration in Nie Tian’s accomplishment of killing several dozen Heaven stage opponents in a row, some of them even being at the late Heaven stage.

“Of course I did.” A bitter expression could be seen on Dong Li’s face. “Not only that, but I had a brief personal encounter with him in the Void Illusion Mountain Range. You know me. I wouldn’t even break a sweat if I needed to kill a man like Shi Nan, even though we are both at the late Heaven stage.

“The same goes for others who are at the same stage as me, with the only exceptions being the truly talented ones from the powerful Qi warrior sects.

“But Nie Tian…” Dong Li sighed. “Even though he’s only at the early Heaven stage, every time we engaged in battle, he had the upper hand.”

Dong Baijie’s expression flickered as he nodded and said, “If that’s the case, let’s place a bet on him. We both suffered major defeats from this kid. Let’s win some money through him to at least make up for our losses.”

Song Li’s eyes lit up. “Good point.”

In the midst of their quiet discussion, Shi Qing returned.

“Well…?” Shi Hui asked in a loud voice.

Shi Qing nodded and said, “The battle is authorized.”

Shi Hui grinned. “Good! Everyone, now you may go and place your bets!”

Immediately afterwards, the Blood Skull member who was in charge of the gambling center at the gate of the Blood Fighting Pit started crying out for gamblers.

“Let’s open the gate,” Shi Qing said.

After hearing his words, another Blood Skull member opened the gate to the Blood Fighting Pit and let Nie Tian and Shi Nan in.

One after another, the crowd of idlers gathered at the gate to place their bets with spirit stones.

The majority of the crowd placed their bets on Nie Tian, with only Shi Hui, the guest elders with him, and a handful of others placing their bets on Shi Nan.

After all, many of them knew that Shi Nan had only become the Blood Skull’s guest elder because of his relation with Shi Hui, and that his battle prowess was not very outstanding.

However, Nie Tian had created such a huge sensation lately.

Even if his accomplishments were exaggerated to some extent, the fact that he had successfully escaped the pursuit of the Fang and other Hunters and returned to Shatter City alive was proof enough of his toughness.

As a result, nearly eighty percent of the people bet in favor of Nie Tian.

After hearing the crowd of idlers who relished drama shouting by the gate while placing their bets on Nie Tian, Shi Nan looked very grim.

Shi Hui and the guest elders with him also had grim expressions on their faces, as if none of them had ever expected that Nie Tian would have such high popularity.

They didn’t know that many among the crowd of spectators had safely returned to Shatter City from their exploration trips precisely because Nie Tian had attracted the attention of practically all the Hunter organizations in the area.