A Drop of Blood
It would only make sense that since Nie Qian couldn’t bear the high temperature of the animal bone, Nie Tian shouldn’t be able to either.
Moreover, just as Nie Tian had said, he and the animal bone didn’t have a spirit qi connection. As the temperature of the animal bone had gradually increased, Nie Tian had been forced to let go, which showed that Nie Tian also could also not bear the high temperature.
Right now, the animal bone had absorbed a great deal of flame energy from the Fire Cloud stone and the temperature had reached its peak, such that even she was unable to bear it. However, Nie Tian had actually dared to stretch out his hand to try.
This was sufficient to shock and intrigue her.
What was even more astonishing was that, at this moment, Nie Tian’s finger was pressed against the animal bone and unmoving.
For the first time, Nie Qian felt that there was some part about her nephew and his intentions that she could not decipher.
“Chi Chi!”
Nie Qian looked closely and discovered that at the contact point between Nie Tian and the animal bone, a small fire was shining.
As for Nie Tian, he was spellbound and his eyes actually started to slowly emit an unusual sparkle.
“Could it be that he has discovered something?” Nie Qian softly mumbled to herself and quickly stopped speaking because she was afraid that she would disturb Nie Tian.
The tiny dot of fire was like an extremely small bright red star. Nie Tian could sense that it was clearly flowing from within the animal bone.
He saw that the flames within the animal bone appeared to be voluntarily moving and gathering at a point.
That bright red dot of light got bigger and bigger as the flames gathered, and the internal, interweaving, metameric colours were shining brightly, becoming more and more mysterious.
He gathered all of his spirit qi and tried to discover the secret within.
“Han!”
His mind violently shook and he suddenly discovered that he appeared to have entered a lustrous and dazzling mysterious land.
The shimmering, red, unknown space had countless fiery stars shining and intersecting strands of red light which moved and glided lightly as though they were wriggling snakes. They transformed into a different, jumbled picture every second.
Inside the fire stars and in the midst of the twisting and changing red rays of light, some form of the true essence of fire energy seemed to be hiding.
His one thread of consciousness appeared to floating in the mysterious of sea of flames. In this mysterious world of fire, he sensed and understood the meaning and essence of a type of fire energy.
He devoted all of his attention and focus to it.
He didn’t know how much time had passed, but he felt that it was as though he had transformed into a fire genie and was soaring in the unknown lands of fire.
That piece of animal bone, which was completely red like a piece of metal, slowly started to become dull and stopped emitting any light.
“Peng!”
The space of fire, which was shrouded in mystery, actually crumbled and cracked as countless light spots and red strands flew out.
He could see that a drop of bright, red, fresh blood emerged from the cracks, transformed into many fire spots, and spread out to the various corners of the animal bone.
Following that, the fiery lights also extinguished one by one and the animal bone regained its original state.
He regained his consciousness and once again felt the rough contact between his finger and the animal bone.
“Hu!”
He took a deep breath, removed his finger from the animal bone, and continued staring intently and unblinkingly at the animal bone, while saying, “One drop of fresh blood…”
“What?” Nie Qian, who had restrained herself for some time, quickly asked, “What exactly happened? Why did it happen? How come you can bear the high temperature of the animal bone?” She asked a series of questions as though she was shooting bullets.
“I am not too sure myself.” Nie Tian regained his wits and said, “ I also don’t know what happened, but just now I felt that I should touch the animal bone. I touched it and didn’t feel the scorching high temperature but rather… felt the mysterious secret within.”
“Tell me quickly!” Nie Qian was extremely excited.
“It could be that this piece of animal bone has absorbed enough fire energy. There were many fire points gathered inside and they appeared to have formed a very small drop of fresh blood. Inside of that drop of fresh blood appears to be a mysterious, secret land of fire, and in my confusion, I appeared to have entered into that mysterious land of fire and was touring inside.”
“However, that drop of fresh blood doesn’t appear to have totally formed yet.”
“After some time, when the animal bone regained its original state, the drop of fresh blood formed by fire sparks actually separated to become tiny specks of fire and vanished within the animal bone.”
“I have a feeling that the amount of fire energy absorbed by the animal bone is far from sufficient and is not enough to let that tiny drop of fresh blood successfully form.”
“A drop of fresh blood?” Nie Qian had a lot of doubts. “Why would the interior of the animal bone have a drop of fresh blood? That fresh blood, which has not even solidified, is just too weird.”
“I also don’t know what happened.” Nie Tian spread his hands and said.
After some thinking, Nie Qian said, “I don’t have any more Fire Cloud stones but your grandfather should still have some. You wait here, I will go look for grandfather right this moment!”
Upon finishing her words, Nie Qian left straightaway.
After a while, Nie Donghai and Nie Qian entered together. Nie Donghai passed an even bigger cloth bag full of Fire Cloud stones to Nie Tian and said, “All the Fire Cloud stones I have are in here.”
Fire Cloud stones were only a low grade material, and since the Nie family had been gathering them for years, they naturally had quite a few left over.
However, only those whose bodies had the fire attribute could use the Fire Cloud stones to help them cultivate. Nie Donghai and Nie Qian just happened not to possess the fire attributes, hence they kept a limited number of Fire Cloud stones.
“Try again,” Nie Qian brightly said.
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