Chapter 17: A Drop of Blood (1/2)

Chapter Seventeen: A Drop of Blood

Normally, if Nie Qian couldn’t bear the heat, Nie Tian shouldn’t be able to endure it either.

Moreover, as Nie Tian said himself, his spiritual power didn’t resonate with the animal bone. Earlier, when the temperature of the animal bone gradually rose, Nie Tian did let go of it, which meant Nie Tian didn’t have a way to endure such a high temperature.

But now, Nie Tian dared to touch it with his hand, even after the animal bone had absorbed so much flame power and its temperature had become so unbearably high that even Nie Qian couldn’t stand it.

That, in and of itself, was already a surprise to her.

But more surprisingly, by this point Nie Tian’s finger had already been pressed against the animal bone, not moving a bit.

For the first time, Nie Qian felt she that she didn’t understand her nephew at all.

PTSSS! PTSSS!

Nie Qian watched closely as the contact point between Nie Tian’s finger and the animal bone began giving off sparks of fire.

In the meantime, Nie Tian’s mind had drifted away, and his eyes glittered with a peculiar light.

“Has he found something?” Nie Qian murmured and then quickly shut up, fearing that she would disrupt Nie Tian.

Nie Tian sensed little drops of fire, like tiny red stars, floating about in the animal bone, voluntarily moving and gathering at a point inside the animal bone.

The red spot grew larger and larger. Inside of it, strands of peculiar light mingled and flashed, as it grew even more mysterious.

He concentrated all his spiritual sense and tried to discover its secret.

BOOM!

All of a sudden, his mind shook violently, and he found himself in a grotesque and variegated world.

The entire world was covered in a reddish color; innumerable sparks of flame twinkled and strands of red light interweaved. They wriggled like snakes and kept forming different incredible patterns by the second.

Inside those sparks of flame and ever changing formations of red light, there seemingly lay the true essence of the flame power.

His spiritual awareness seemed to be swimming in a mysterious sea of fire, exploring the profound truths and mysteries that lay within.

He completely immersed himself into it.

After an unknown period of time, he felt as if he himself had turned into a fire spirit and soared across an unknown fiery heaven and earth.

Gradually, the bright red animal bone turned dark and lifeless again.

BANG!

The mysterious world of fire suddenly collapsed and exploded, causing millions of fiery sparks and strands of red light to fly off in every direction.

Nie Tian’s spiritual awareness was then violently pulled away from the miraculous land and back into the animal bone.

He saw a drop of crimson blood inside the animal bone, which then split into numerous tiny flames that dispersed into every corner of the animal bone.

Moments later, those tiny flames died out, one after another, and before long, the animal bone returned normal.

Nie Tian gradually retracted his spiritual sense and refocused on the rough texture where his finger met the animal bone.

HUFF!

He exhaled deeply, and as he pulled his finger from the animal bone, he kept his eyes fixed on it and said, “A drop of blood…”

After restraining herself for so long, Nie Qian immediately asked, “What happened?! What was going on? What did you do? How could you have withstood the high temperature of the bone?” She popped out a series of questions.

“I’m not quite sure.” Nie Tian said as his mind became lucid and clear again. “I don’t know why, but I just felt that I should touch the animal bone. When I touched it, I wasn’t hurt by the scalding heat, instead… I found something strange inside of it.”

“What do you mean?!” Nie Qian was absolutely intrigued.

“The animal bone might have absorbed enough flame power, thus innumerable fragments of flame gathered inside of it, forming what seemed to be a small drop of blood. That drop of blood itself was like a mysterious universe of fire. Then my mind spun as I seemed to enter that bizarre world of fire, and even move about inside of it.

“However, it seemed to me that that drop of blood was not completely formed.

“After a while, when the animal bone returned to normal, the drop of blood unexpectedly split into numerous little flames again, which disappeared into the bone.

“I have a feeling that the animal bone… hasn’t consumed enough flame power to complete the condensation of that drop of blood. Far from it in fact.”

“A drop of blood?” Nie Qian was full of questions. “How could there be a drop of blood inside the animal bone? And what’s more, the drop hasn’t been completely formed? This is too odd.”

Nie Tian spread his hands and said, “I don’t know what happened exactly either.”

Nie Qian pondered for a moment before she said, “I’ve run out of flamecloud gems, but your grandfather should still have some. Wait here. I’ll go find your grandfather right now!”

With these words Nie Qian left the room.

A while later, Nie Donghai entered the room together with Nie Qian, carrying an even larger cloth bag full of flamecloud gems. He handed the bag over to Nie Tian, and said, “This is my entire collection of flamecloud gems.”