The piece of animal bone was obtained by him from the Assembly of the Drawing of Lots, when he was only one year old.
Since he had picked up the animal bone, his grandfather and auntie had hoped that he would, one day, be able to develop a spiritual power connection with the animal bone.
Unfortunately, until today, he was unable to rouse any change at all in the animal bone and he had already given up hope long ago.
He had kept the animal bone on him and would occasionally take it out to play in the dark and silent night, while hoping that he would, one day, be able to feel the wonder of the animal bone.
Unfortunately, throughout the years, the animal bone had continued to remain ordinary.
However, it was obvious that today the animal bone appeared to be vastly different from the past.
He looked attentively and carefully and saw that the animal bone seemed to be radiating strands of red light.
A warmth which became stronger and stronger, which was accompanied by a reddish bright light, slowly radiated from the animal bone, causing him to press the animal bone tightly against his waist, even though he could hardly bear the heat.
“This is strange…”
Nie Tian had a doubtful expression, as he placed the animal bone on his forehead in an attempt to use his inner spirit qi to sense any changes.
Using his inner sense, he could see that there were many fragments of little red lights in the animal bone, which were emitting tangerine-red flames that seemed to be burning.
“Tangerine-red flames. When I was fighting with Yun Song previously, didn’t he condense fireballs of this colour?”
His expression slightly changed.
At that moment, he temporarily shifted his focus away from the animal bone and instead thought about the details of his fight with Yun Song.
He suddenly remembered, that when he had flung out those tangerine-red fireballs, most of the flames within the fireballs had flown out of the fireballs.
However, it seemed as if some of the flames had flown towards his animal bone instead of shooting out into the open.
It seemed like some of the flames were left behind.
“Could it be that the tangerine-red flames have been absorbed by the animal bone?” Nie Tian gradually stabilised his blood vessels.
Just as he was silently thinking, the animal bone grew hotter and hotter. The originally brown animal bone appeared to be like a brightly burning piece of steel that shone bright red.
The abnormally high temperature caused great pain to his palm, as he couldn’t help but stand up and place the animal bone on the stone table.
He opened his eyes widely and discovered that the animal bone appeared to be forged by the flames and that light would occasionally shine from it.
The unusual state of the animal bone didn’t persist for long, and after a while, the animal bone became dull again. It appeared as if the flame left behind by Yun Song had already finished burning.
Once the temperature lowered, Nie Tian tried to put his finger on the animal bone once again.
He closed his eyes and used his finger to sense. He could see that there was still a bright flame shining inside the animal bone .
After some time, the bright flame in the animal bone also slowly vanished and the animal bone regained its former colour, as nothing special could be seen about the animal bone.
Nie Tian continued to play with the animal bone for some time, as he tried discover the secret, but was unable to find anything.
After a long time, the animal bone had no new changes, and so he could only give up and put it away.
However, this unusual event had caused him to become extra conscious of the animal bone.
…...
In the following days, Nie Tian was strictly forbidden from leaving the household, because Nie Donghai had discovered that there were several Lianqi warriors, whose origins were unknown, patrolling the borders of the Nie Family household.
Nie Donghai made it very clear, that these Lianqi warriors of unknown origin were most likely from the Yun family or were acting on the orders of Yuan Qiuying of the Yuan family.
Even if it was the Yun family or the Yuan family, they didn’t dare to openly attack Nie Tian in Black Cloud City.
The only thing that they could do, was to find some unknown faces. Once the deed was done, they would break off all relations and communications with these unknown people, who would then forever leave Black Cloud City.
In order to prevent any harm to Nie Tian, Nie Qian kept a close watch on him everyday and forbade him from even taking one step out of the Nie Family household.
Due to that, Nie Tian didn’t leave the Nie family household in three months and continued to cultivate his spirit qi without any worries. He even hoped that he could quickly improve in this short time.
Three months later, the foreigners still didn’t have a chance to strike and gradually left the Nie Family household.
“I am so tired.” Nie Qian’s face was full of fatigue, as she walked into Nie Tian’s bedroom while simultaneously throwing a cloth bag onto the table. “I’ve been busy for three days in order to finish counting the Fire Cloud stones that we’ve picked up. We’ve already sent most of them to the Lingyun Sect. The remaining portion of the Fire Cloud stones has been stored in the warehouse of the family and I was only able to get a small bag full of them.”
In front of the door, a sunset-red glow seeped in and Nie Tian also woke up from his cultivation.
“Is that the Fire Cloud stone?” Nie Tian curiously looked at the few stones that had rolled out of the cloud bag and onto the table.
"En, this is the Fire Cloud Stone, a lower-level fourth grade spirit material." Ni Qian picked up a fist sized Fire Cloud Stone and threw it towards Nie Tian, "Spirit material is used to refine spirit equipment, which is used for constructing spirit arrays of special materials. Once a Lianqi warrior has cultivated to the third heaven realm, they can use these stones. Here, come and have a look.
Nie Tian lifted his hand and caught the piece of fire cloud stone, then he bent his head down to examine it carefully.
The Fire Cloud stone was about the size of a fist and emitted a dark red colour. Its interior appeared to have a red cloud cluster, and inside that red cloud cluster, it appeared to be hiding flame energy.
After looking at it for some time, Nie Tian’s expression changed slightly and he took out the animal bone.
In front of Nie Qian, he slowly moved the fire cloud stone towards the animal bone and tried to direct the flame energy inside the Fire Cloud stone towards the animal bone.
Last time, due to his fight with Yun Song, the fireball from Yun Song had left remnant flame energy inside the animal bone, which caused a change in the animal bone and led Nie Tian to pay extra attention.
He wanted to see if the animal bone would act like last time and absorb the flame energy.
“Chi Chi!”
Sparks of fire shot into the point of contact between the animal bone and Fire Cloud stone, and soon the dark animal bone became the same colour as the fire cloud stone.
Nie Tian opened his eyes widely. By pressing his finger on the animal bone and the Fire Cloud stone, he could clearly feel that there were strands of flame energy flowing quickly from the fire cloud stone into the animal bone.
Inside the animal bone, one by one, the red cloud clusters, were immediately vanishing at the speed of sight.
No Comments Yet
Post a new comment
Register or Login