Black Cloud City. The Nie clan.
As night fell, the plainly dressed Nie Qian leaned against the windowsill and stared at an artificial hill outside her window as her mind wandered.
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Inside the room, Nie Tian, who just turned one, impatiently pushed away his wet nurse. Mouth stained with milk, but eyes fixed on Nie Qian, he mumbled, “Meat, must eat meat...”
His wet nurse, Zhou Ma, became embarrassed and chuckled, “Miss, look...”
Nie Qian snapped back to reality and gave the adorable yet strong Nie Tian an intense glare before she jokingly taunted, “This little bastard has already had two bowls of ground meat today but shows no interest in his milk. Now he wants more meat. I don’t even know if he can properly digest it.”
“Meat, need meat...” Nie Tian was still jabbering with a smile on his face.
Nie Tian’s charming smile reminded Nie Qian of her late younger sister. Feeling a bit soft-hearted, she nodded to Zhou Ma.
Zhou Ma then brought out a bowl of finely ground meat and laid it on the table. Nie Tian’s ink-black pupils immediately flashed. Then he grabbed a spoon and started deftly digging in, his chubby little face filled with satisfaction.
Hearing Nie Tian eating caused Nie Qian to feel bothered for no apparent reason. “Little Yue, how many kids are going to attend the drawing of lots tomorrow?”
Nie Qian popped the question abruptly.
The servant girl, Han Yue, who was standing by the door, hesitated and softly replied, “Miss, all the one-year-old babies in the Nie clan surnamed Nie will attend. Once every five years, immortals from Cloudsoaring Mountain will bring spiritual tools to reward the Nie clan for their hard work over the years. No parent of a one-year-old child would want to pass up that opportunity.”
The Nie clan was notable in Black Cloud City. However, this world respected the powerful Qi warriors above all else. Almost every mortal clan offered service to them. The Nie clan was no exception.
The Qi warrior sect that the Nie clan clung to was the Cloudsoaring sect, which was located on Cloudsoaring Mountain not far from Black Cloud City. At the heart of Cloudsoaring Mountain, there was an abundance of Fire Stones, which were a low-ranked type of spiritual material that Qi practitioners used to improve their cultivation. The Qi warriors of the Cloudsoaring sect were busy with cultivation all year long, and thus, unwilling to waste time on extracting the low-ranked Fire Stones themselves, they had members of the Nie clan do it for them.
Generation after generation, the Nie clan had offered the extracted Fire Stones as tribute to the Cloudsoaring sect in exchange for their protection.
Additionally, other than protecting the Nie clan from oppression from other families in Black Cloud City, Qi warriors of the Cloudsoaring sect would also bring low-ranked spiritual tools to the Nie clan every five years in order to test the cultivation potential of the Nie children through the drawing of lots.
Upon birth, every child would possess a somewhat special attribute, like metal, wood, water, fire, or earth. Some children would carry rare attributes, like lightning, electricity, wind, cloud, or frost. Qi warriors of the Cloudsoaring sect would bring a number of low-ranked spiritual tools that possessed the different attributes.
The children and spiritual tools that shared the same attributes would be drawn to each other. In this way, a child’s attribute could be determined, and then his parents could provide well-directed assistance and help the youngster achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Qi warriors of the Cloudsoaring sect would trade those low-ranked spiritual tools for the Nie clan’s loyalty, so all the spiritual tools brought to lot drawing would be gifted to the children with matching attributes.
Though useless to the Qi warriors of the Cloudsoaring sect, those low-ranked spiritual tools would be of great help to the Nie children’s cultivation and become a suitable spiritual tool for a long time.
That was why the whole Nie clan would seethe with excitement at the lot drawings that would only happen once every five years. Every parent with a one-year-old child would consider it to be the most significant moment of that child’s life, and would be drawn to the event like a vulture to flesh.
This time was no different.
Nie Qian frowned. “Answer me, how many kids are going to attend this time?”
“Seven,” Han Yue replied softly, bowing her head deeply.
“Little Tian is exactly one year old and is surnamed Nie,” Nie Qian said coldly. “Why didn’t anyone inform me to bring Nie Tian to this lot-drawing convention?”
“Miss...” Han Yue forced a smile as she looked up at Nie Qian and said in a low voice, “Nie Tian is the child of your younger sister, but she is... just like you, a girl, and she didn’t mention who Nie Tian’s father was before she passed away.”
“According to the rules of the Nie clan, only the children of legitimate sons have the right to attend the lot-drawing conventions every five years. Children of the daughters of the clan have no such right.”
“I don’t care about those rules,” spat Nie Qian. “My father is still the head of this clan. I’m gonna go reason with him right now!” Then she stormed out of the room.
As Nie Qian left, Han Yue murmured to herself, “Your father is currently the head of the clan, but his position...isn’t stable!”
A moment later.
Nie Qian barged into Nie Donghai’s pavilion and yelled indignantly, “Father, Nie Tian is ...”
She suddenly stopped.
Inside the dimly lit room, Nie Donghai, the current head of the clan, had nothing but exhaustion written across his pale, yellow face. His originally mighty body had turned into a bag of bones. He was currently stooped against the wall, his eyes focused on a red medicinal pill in his left hand. He seemed to be wavering back and forth regarding something important.
Nie Qian’s outraged heart was suddenly filled with sadness.
“Father, don’t,” she said gently.
She recognized the medicinal pill in Nie Donghai’s hand with a single glance. It was a Soul Restoration Pill. With its help, a Qi warrior would appear to be full of spiritual energy and vigor for a short period of time, but it was merely temporary.
Soul Restoration Pills would drain a Qi practitioner's potential and longevity, and the user would be greatly damaged physically and mentally afterwards.
Generally, a Qi warrior would only resort to taking it when it was a matter of life and death. No one dared to use it under normal circumstances.
Nie Donghai, who had been staring at the Soul Restoration Pill in his hand, saw Nie Qian come in. He forced a smile and said bitterly, “Ever since I was seriously wounded by the Yun clan and the Yuan clan, my sea of Qi was damaged and my spiritual energy has started leaking faster than I can replace it. There is no chance of my cultivation base reaching Anterior Heaven level. Even my current cultivation level… well, I’m not sure how much longer I can maintain it.
“Second Brother and Third Brother have been after my position as head of the clan for a long time. I’ve thought this through. The Cloudsoaring sect is going to send people over tomorrow. If they saw such a drop in my cultivation, then with Second Brother and Third Brother stirring up the situation, I’m afraid I would have no choice but to hand over my position.”
“Father, I’d rather you retire than drain your longevity to keep your position as head of the clan.” Nie Qian’s eyes welled up with tears.
“What do you know?!” Nie Donghai gave her a hard look, with seriousness and anger written all over his face. “We’ll only have a chance to seek justice for the ill treatment you’ve received from the Yun clan if I’m the head of the Nie clan! Also, regarding the person who tricked your sister, it is only possible to find out his identity when I have the Nie clan’s power under my command!
“If I step down, there is absolutely no way that Second Brother and Third Brother will avenge you and your sister! I have to keep this position till the day I die, for you and Jin’er!
“What does it matter if I live a few years less? Once I step down, I will no longer be able to fight for you. How is that different from dying?”
“Father!” Nie Qian choked on her own tears.
“Alright. Don’t behave like an immature child. Tell me. Why were you in a hurry to find me?” Nie Donghai took a deep breath and restored his firm look.
“Father,” Nie Qian pleaded. “Tomorrow’s lot-drawing convention is of great importance. Since you gave Little Tian the family name ‘Nie’, I hope that Little Tian can participate. If he could find a suitable spiritual tool on the lot-drawing convention, it would greatly benefit his future cultivation. With its help, he might be able to reach the ninth level of the Qi Refining stage by the age of fifteen and be admitted to the Cloudsoaring sect.”
“About this matter...” Nie Donghai seemed to be in a dilemma. “How could I not be aware of the situation? I talked to Second Brother and Third Brother about this long ago, but they were fixed on the fact that Little Tian wasn’t a legitimate son of the Nie clan and insisted on refusing to allow him to participate, which is in accordance with clan rules.”
“Father, you are reaching the end of your cultivation path. Little sister is no longer with us. And as for me... my life has no hope of changing for the better.” Our branch of the clan is not well populated, and with Little Tian being the only male, I hope you can fight for him.” Nie Qian’s eyes were filled with tears.
Nie Donghai remained silent for a while before he nodded. “I understand. Go. Take Nie Tian to attend the lot drawing tomorrow.”
Although Nie Qian’s eyes glistened with tears, they also showed a hint of happiness before she bowed and left.
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As she stepped out of the room, Nie Qian heard Nie Donghai swallowing the Soul Restoration Pill and letting out a long sigh.
Nie Qian felt a heart-wrenching pain, knowing her arrival helped Nie Donghai make up his mind. She couldn’t bear to look back and rushed away as quickly as possible.
SHEW! SHEW! SHEW!
People that were originally paying close attention to Zu Guangyao suddenly flew over to Nie Tian one after another, along with numerous ancient starships.
Among them were Ji Yuanquan, Hou Chulan, Huang Jinnan, Ye Wenhan, and He Lianxiong.
However, the majority of them were Void and Saint domain experts from across the human domains.
All of them had noticed the disappearance of the terrifying magnetic field surrounding Nie Tian.
Standing on an ancient starship, Ye Wenhan from the Heaven Span Pavilion gazed off at Nie Tian and asked with a frown, “Why did that chaotic magnetic field filled with raging, twisting, and ripping power vanish all of a sudden? According to reliable information, Nie Tian relied on that violent magnetic field to inflict heavy injuries on Duan Hongwen in the Domain of Heaven Python, and smash through the Domain of Spirit Sea and the Domain of Dark Marsh.”
He Lianxiong chimed in. “It was also the reason why the Realm of Jade Billows was destroyed, and Song Chequan had to retreat in defeat.”
“Nie Tian’s three domains vanished simultaneously...” Ye Wenhan pondered for a brief moment before his expression flickered, and he asked, “That means he’s successfully broken through into the Void domain, right?”
A hint of disdain could be seen in He Lianxiong’s tilted eyebrows as he said, “That’s no big deal. It’s only the Void domain after all. I’ll only be impressed if he breaks through into the Saint domain.”
“Nie Tian!” Hou Chulan and Huang Jinnan rushed over to him, elation filling their faces.
FIZZ!
A streak of light flashed past them and arrived in front of Nie Tian before everyone else.
Ji Yuanquan seemed extremely curious as he asked, “Has your cultivation base fully stabilized? And your domain too? How do you feel, having just entered the Void domain? I’m not seeing your domain, but you don’t seem to have a problem being in the starry river without its protection.”
Human Qi warriors greatly relied on their domains to travel through the starry river.
Only after they had forged their domains would they be able to stop the hazardous energies in the starry river from infiltrating their bodies.
Most of the energies in the starry river were corrosive and destructive, and were usually mixed with Phantasm Qi, Demon Qi and a wide array of toxins.
Without the protection of their domains, those energies would easily invade Qi warriors’ bodies and kill them.
Even many outsiders with tough bodies had to rely on their flesh aura seas to fend off those corrosive energies.
Only a few of them could expose themselves in the starry river and be free of negative influences.
Nie Tian happened to be one of them.
His domain wasn’t active at this moment, yet he was able to remain in the starry river, looking unharmed and composed. This came as a great surprise to Ji Yuanquan.
“Domain!”
Nie Tian grinned and summoned power to activate his domain with the unique method he had derived.
Firstly, glorious starlight formed the outermost parts of a huge sphere. Then, crimson flames formed in the middle like morning glow.
Eventually, a land full of life force appeared at the core, with the Godspirit Tree and emerald tree branches on it. In his domain, those tree branches seemed to be magnified like everything else, and looked like towering ancient trees.
As soon as his domain formed, Nie Tian sensed with great clarity that faint star, wood, and flame power in the starry river started to gather towards his domain, as if they were attracted by it.
The curtain of stars on the outside, the flaming barrier in the middle, and the vegetated land at the core all started to absorb power to make up for their consumption.
“Hmm?!”
Yu Suying from the Profound Purity Palace was the first to notice the anomaly. She sensed in silence for a few seconds before suddenly asking, “Nie Tian, is your newly-formed domain channeling star, wood, and flame power from the starry river on its own?”
Puzzled, Nie Tian asked, “Yeah, don’t yours?”
As soon as he said these words, he noticed that every Void, Saint, and even God domain expert present shook their heads with bitter smiles.
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“No?” Nie Tian found this surprising.
Ji Yuanquan sighed softly and explained, “Nie Tian, our domains can only ward off the impurities in the starry river, preventing them from infiltrating and poisoning our bodies and souls. It’s extremely hard to extract the power we need from the mixed energies in the starry river and fuse it into our domains.
“Only if we apply certain secret spells and unique precious materials to our domains do we have a slim chance to achieve that.
“Normally, to restore power to our domains, we either use spiritual materials of various attributes, or go to realms where we can channel and gather spiritual power.”
Yu Suying, Mo Qianfan, and Yin Xingtian also chimed in to supplement Ji Yuanquan’s explanation.
Soon, Nie Tian learned that to restore lightning power to their domains, experts like Mo Qianfan had to consume spiritual materials that contained lightning power, or find realms that were rich in thunder pools and raging lightning, where they could channel lightning power.
Even for experts like Mo Qianfan, it was almost impossible to extract lightning power from the numerous different types of power in the starry river.
If powerful experts wanted to travel through the starry river without starships, they would have to prepare a large number of spiritual materials before their journey and stop in realms to restock their supplies midway.
That was because as long as their domains were active to shield off the impurities in the starry river, there would be consumption.
While God domain experts’ domains might be able to sustain prolonged journeys, and Saint domain experts’ domains as well, Void domain cultivators could easily drain the power in their domains after traveling in the starry river for a short period of time.
The power within cultivators’ domains could be viewed as the spiritual cores in their spiritual seas. Once they were drained of their power, they would scatter and vanish.
Nie Tian, however, could extract star, wood, and flame power from the starry river and fuse them into his domain, which meant he could travel long distances in the starry river without relying on any spiritual materials.
This was unfathomable for most Void, Saint, and even God domain experts.
After hearing their explanation, Nie Tian closed his eyes to examine himself. Moments later, he said, “I guess it’s my Heaven Nourished grade treasures that are making this happen. I fused three unique Heaven Nourished grade treasures into my domain. Their existence allows me to channel star, wood, and flame power from the starry river into my domain.”
Even Ji Yuanquan looked rather envious. “Heaven Nourished treasures?!”
WHOOSH!
As Nie Tian lifted his hand and made grabbing motions, the Star Behemoth bone, the Flame Dragon Armor, and the Spirit Pearl flew into his hand and disappeared into his ring of holding one by one.
As the Star Behemoth bone and the Flame Dragon Armor flew into his hand, he could tell that they were much heavier than before.
He felt an especially strong sense of change with the Star Behemoth bone. The crimson Bloodline Crystal Chains within it seemed to be constantly changing while emanating misty light.
The Spirit Pearl, however, felt lighter than before. He almost didn’t feel any weight as it touched his hand.
Lou Hongyan curled her lips in a bitter way. “The Flame Dragon Armor…”
This treasure had originally been forged and given to her by her master, Shao Tianyang. Later, it had been seized by Pang Chicheng, and ended up in Nie Tian’s possession after several changes of hands.
Watching this treasure grow stronger and stronger gave her mixed feelings.
“My domain has been forged. The treasures have also experienced changes. I need time to get familiar with them. Besides, I haven’t had a chance to condense all the Blood Essence I can after my bloodline entered the eighth grade. The amount of flesh power I need for my next bloodline upgrade will be astronomical. Time... All of these need time to finish...”
As the Flame Dragon Armor, the bone, and the Spirit Pearl vanished from his palm, he thought to himself,
He had yet to learn to fight with his domain and familiarize himself with the changes to the Flame Dragon Armor, the bone, and the Spirit Pearl. Plus, he needed time to accumulate flesh power.
However, the sect was in peril. There didn’t seem to be time for him to do any of those things.
“Nie Tian, the Realm of Fragmentary Star is in a critical situation,” Ji Yuanquan said. “What’s your plan?”
“The Realm of Fragmentary Star!” Nie Tian was instantly awoken from his thought. “Senior Ji, could you send me to the Realm of Fragmentary Star?”
“Umm... all of the teleportation portals in the Realm of Fragmentary Star that connect to ours seem to have been shut down,” Ji Yuanquan said, looking embarrassed. “If you want to go to the Realm of Fragmentary Star, I’m afraid you’ll have to use the teleportation portals in your realms.”
“If that’s the case, would you take me to my realms?” Nie Tian asked.
Ji Yuanquan nodded. “Sure. However, are you sure you want to go? All of the powerful experts from the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect and the Shadow Society are now gathered outside the Realm of Fragmentary Star. But that peculiar magnetic field of yours that deterred even God domain experts has vanished.”
“Whatever. I’ve got to go to the Realm of Fragmentary Star.” Nie Tian said.
“Alright.” Ji Yuanquan understood. Then, he turned to Yu Suying, Mo Qianfan, Yin Xingtian, and the others, and asked, “What about you? Are you going to join Nie Tian in the upcoming war against the Shadow Society and the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect, or do you have other plans?”
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“Whatever Nie Tian decides to do.” Mo Qianfan was the first to answer.
Yin Xingtian nodded slightly.
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Yu Suying hesitated for a brief moment before letting out a deep sigh and saying, “Given all that has happened, it doesn’t seem we have a choice anymore. We’ve already offended all three of the Jade Heaven Sect, the Shadow Society, and the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect. We can only stick with this path now, whether it’s the right one or not.”
“Now that you’ve made up your minds,” Ji Yuanquan said, “I’ll help you get out of the Domain of Jade Heaven and to the Realm of Fragmentary Star as quickly as possible. I hope victory will be yours.”