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.
He gathered all of his spirit qi and tried to discover the secret within.
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.
“Peng!”
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.
“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.
“Ok!” Nie Tian nodded his head.
After that, in front of Nie Donghai and Nie Qian, he once again directed the fire energy in the Fire Cloud stones toward the animal bone.
The animal bone quickly became entirely bright, as the interior shone with such fiery light that the naked eye could also see.
“Let me see!”
The animal bone had absorbed the fire energy of a few Fire Cloud stones. When the flames were still hot, Nie Donghai stretched out his hand and also started to try.
“Ouch!”
A streak of fiery light shot out from the animal bone. Nie Donghai shouted in pain and withdrew his hand with an ugly look on his face.
Even he couldn’t withstand the high temperature of the animal bone and had to give up.
“Just now, you said that Nie Tian could touch it?” He was shocked and couldn’t understand it.
Nie Qian nodded her head. “Yes.”
“Nie Tian, you be careful. Try it and show me.” Nie Donghai strictly said.
“Please wait.” Nie Tian softly shook his head and said, “It appears that we need to wait for some time, just until the fire specks within the animal bone start to congregate. I will then be able to touch the animal bone.”
“Continue to let it absorb the fire energy from the Fire Cloud stones!” Nie Donghai instructed.
“Ok!” Nie Tian took the Fire Cloud stones from the cloth bag, placed them on the animal bone, before he directed the fire energy within the Fire Cloud stones, one by one, into the animal bone.
“Ka Cha!”
One by one, the Fire Cloud stones continually cracked after their fire energy was absorbed and they transformed into normal, grayish-white stones.
Nie Donghai had a weird look on his face and observed the animal bone deeply, while appraising Nie Tian from time to time. His whole face was filled with anticipation.
“I understand,” Nie Tian said.
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Translator: Guo
Editor: Zach, Sietse