"Impudence!"
Seeing his grandson lying injured on the ground, Nie Beichuan, unable to control himself, quickly rushed forward.
There was a flash of lightning, before Nie Beichuan suddenly arrived besides Nie Hong. He crouched down, and while supporting Nie Hong with one hand, he pressed his hand on the sternum area above Nie Hong’s waist.
Nie Hong felt a warm current of spiritual power entering his body, which was quickly decreasing his pain. He could not help but aggrievedly murmur, "Grandfather..."
Nie Beichuan raised his head and with a ghastly look in his eyes, stared at the dazed looking Nie Tian, who, despite everything, was still ruminating over that unknown power. He then shouted, "Scoundrel! Fighting isn’t prohibited within the family, but who allowed you to be this vicious?"
Not waiting for Nie Tian's reaction, he once again swept over the abashed Wu Tao with a malicious gaze and shouted, "And you! As our honourable guest, whose job it is to oversee this training field, what have you done?! You could obviously see that Nie Tian, who was trying to resist the pain, acted murderously! Why didn’t you stop him? Did we, the Nie family, recruit you to eat rice for free?"
"This..." Wu Tao forced a smile.
"Second Grandfather, Nie Hong is injured... we should worry about treating him, instead of worrying about Mister Wu’s negligence." Nie Xian said. She couldn’t stand Beichuan any longer and tried to help Wu Tao.
She had seen the whole story clearly, especially when Nie Hong was about to strike at Nie Tian's heart. She knew that Wu Tao had questioned Nie Beichuan intentions, and at that time Nie Beichuan didn't even speak a single word, meaning that he obviously didn't intend to stop the match.
Later, when Nie Tian had bursted forward in the blink of an eye, as if he had obtained a divine power, everything had happened too fast for Wu Tao. He simply didn’t have enough time to stop it.
Nie Xian still had the mentality of a youth. Although she clearly knew that speaking up for Wu Tao was bad, she was still unable to prevent herself from revealing her innermost feelings.
"When did it become your turn to speak?" Nie Beichuan coldly asked. He gave a sidelong glance towards Nie Xian and said, "Who do you think you are? You’re only a branch child of our Nie Family. If you wish to have the right to speak in the family, wait until you break into the ninth Lianqi level and enter the Lingyun Sect. Only then do you have permission to speak to me!"
Nie Xian’s young and tender face showed obvious signs of anger at his remark.
But then she carefully thought about it and rigidly restrained herself, knowing that it was just as Wu Tao had said. Before she became a disciple of the Lingyun Sect, she really didn’t have much influence in the Nie Family.
Especially since it was likely that Nie Beichuan, in a year or two, would replace Nie Donghai as head of the Nie Family.
Many of the Nie Family members weren’t totally heartless, they still believed in juvenile justice. They had originally intended to do the same as Nie Xian, to tell Nie Beichuan the truth of what had happened. But seeing that in front of them, the one highest in strength and carrying the most prospects, Nie Xian, was still subjected to Nie Beichuan’s influence, they didn’t dare to say another word, even though they felt wrongfully silenced.
“Second Grandfather, it… it was Nie Hong that challenged me. What just happened was due to his own initiative, breaking the rules as he treacherously aimed at my vital point.” Nie Tian had finally awoken from his confusion. Seeming to know the current dire situation, he straightened his chest and with a righteous air shouted this.
“Grandfather, I just wanted to scare him! I wasn’t really going to injure him!” Nie Hong gritted his teeth, as he furiously glared at Nie Tian, and criticized, “From the start, when I blasted my strength before his stomach, I already intended to reserve my power and retract my hand. I absolutely did not expect for him to take advantage of this moment. Suddenly, I wasn’t prepared to take the attack from the greedy ambitions of this killer!”
“Shameless!”
The majority of the onlookers encircling the fight, despite being the Nie Family’s children, were presently internally shouting and despising Nie Hong for distorting the facts.
They had all clearly seen, that right before Nie Hong’s last attack, his eyes contained only excitement and ecstasy. Where, in the least bit, was there any intention of stopping?
Nie Hong had originally wanted to inflict serious damage on Nie Tian. To wash away the shame of years of constantly being defeated by Nie Tian, he clearly was going to go all out. How could he possibly give up midway?
“Inside, you know what you actually wanted to do!” Nie Tian shouted.
“Silence!” Nie Beichuan shouted deeply, preventing Nie Tian from continuing to speak. He coldly looked at Wu Tao, before saying, “How the event occurred is not the most important issue here. The current result is that Nie Tian didn’t comply with the family rules and maliciously injured Nie Hong. Mr. Wu, you are the Nie Family’s guest elder. According to the family’s rules, how should we punish Nie Tian?”
“He should be banished to Lingyun Mountain’s mine for three years,” Wu Tao softly replied, while helplessness and bitterness filled his heart and his eyes were full of apologies.
“Ah! Nie Tian is only ten years old!”
“Only ten years old and already exiled to Lingyun Sect’s mine. He originally practiced very slowly, and with the delay of another three years, I’m afraid that there is no glimmer of hope for him to get the favor of the Lingyun Sect.”
“Ten years old and banished to the mines - and three years at that, Nie Tian is really finished.”
“In this lifetime, he has no hope of reaching the ninth Lianqi level or joining the Lingyun Sect before he becomes fifteen...”
“It’s not that simple. People have died inside the mine. Nie Tian is only ten years old and he’s already going to the mine for three full years. I don’t think he will even be able to come out of there alive!”
“Isn’t this too harsh?”
“...”
No Comments Yet
Post a new comment
Register or Login