Assembly of the Drawing of Lots
The next day.
In the Nie Family, people's voices and noises boiled, sounding abnormally loud.
The Nie Family gathered around Lingyun Sect’s ancestor, Liu Yan, discussing many topics and asking about Liu Yan’s health in goodwill, as they strove to let Liu Yan have a good impression of them. In doing so they would be able to allow their children and grandchildren to garner even a few more shreds of opportunities for the future.
The robed Liu Yan, who was positioned in the center of the room, wore a slight smile on his face. However, he was indifferent to the Nie Family’s words and actually had a slight look of impatience in his eyes.
From the start till the end, Liu Yan had not stood up. To his side were the Nie Family’s clansmen, with their backs bowed in an extremely humble manner.
In the palace doorway, the Nie Family’s clansmen had brought one child after the other, who had just passed the age of one, inside.
Every person that came in would first take their child to see Liu Yan. After the child had faced Liu Yan, with smiles and after giving a brief introduction, the child would then turn and give the same greeting and respects to the three Elders of the Nie Family who stood next to Liu Yan.
The self-confident Nie Donghai, Second Brother Nie Beichuan, and Third Brother Nie Nanshan, did not go and fawn over Liu Yan, however, at every instance, Liu Yan had a splendid smile on his face.
Also, this day wasn’t like other days. Today, Nie Donghai’s face was covered in a red glow; so vigorous and energetic, one could not see the slightest bit of harm on his body.
“Nie Qian? Why did you bring Nie Tian over?” a voice suddenly rang out at the worst time. At that moment, Nie Qian, who had been smilingly greeting and introducing the child to Liu Yan, heard Nie Lan and knit her eyebrows as she looked unhappily in the direction of the palace’s doors.
Nie Lan was the Second Brother of Nie Beichuan’s son, the oldest of the Nie Family’s second generation. His cultivation talent wasn’t very high, as his Lianqi level had only reached the ninth level and it seemed like he wasn’t able to break through the bottleneck and enter the Houtian stage.
It was mainly because of this, that he had decided to give up on his cultivation long ago, thus placing all of his hopes and aspirations on his three sons.
Now, his eldest son was eleven years old and had already reached the seventh level of Lianqi. As long as he was able to reach the ninth level within the next 4 years, then he would be able to earn Lingyun Sect’s favor and become a disciple. In doing so, he would also be able to enter the Houtian stage with the aid of the Lingyun sect and thus become really successful and have a bright future.
His second son was six years old and had already reached the fourth level of Lianqi. His talent was also far from ordinary and his future potential was highly anticipated.
Today, Beichuan had brought his barely one year old son Nie Hong.
The birthdate of his three sons had all each gone through careful calculations so that at about one year, each would coincide with the Nie Family’s quinquennial General Assembly drawing of lots. And on both occasions, there were remarkable gains.
This time, it was Nie Hong’s turn.
As soon as Nie Lan gave a slight grunt, all the eyes of the Nie Family, young and old, turned to stare at Nie Qian and Nie Tian who had just entered.
“Eldest Brother, I brought Nie Tian to attend the drawing of lots for the General Assembly,” Nie Qian said.
Next to her, Nie Tian looked around confusedly. He was around the same age as the other seven children, who were participating in the drawing of the lots. Yet, in comparison, he was clearly taller and sturdier.
Under the gazes of the crowd, even though the sound of her voice was very loud, she still felt somewhat uneasy.
Nie Tian, on the contrary, had a face full of smiles and laughter and was completely unaware of the eyes that kept glaring at them.
“Nie Tian?” Nie Lan snorted disdainfully, as his face looked gloomy.
“Although his last name is indeed ‘Nie’, it is only ‘Nie’ because we do not know who his father is. According to the Nie Family rules, technically, he isn’t allowed to participate because he isn’t part of our family. He may be a Nie grandson, however that is, in itself, not a proper qualification to allow him to participate in this general drawing. You shouldn’t stir up trouble, quickly take Nie Tian and leave. Don’t waste Mr. Liu Yan and everybody else’s time.”
“Daddy!” Nie Qian quickly looked at Nie Donghai.
“It doesn’t matter who my son-in-law is, or that Jin-er (Nie Tian’s mother) is dead, once Nie Tian was adopted into my Nie family, Nie Tian became this Nie Family’s child.” Nie Donghai replied forcefully, yet calmly