Chapter 18: A Bottomless Pi (2/2)

After a few breaths worth of time, the flamecloud gem was drained of flame power and turned into gravel.

Perhaps the flame power in the flamecloud gems was too sparse, and thus the flames in the animal bone showed no sign of gathering.

Nie Tian and Nie Qian stared at the animal bone from beginning till end. Seeing the animal bone become dark and lifeless again, they were full of disappointment.

“Don’t be depressed, I’ll think of something else.” Nie Qian suppressed her disappointment with great effort, and said. “I’ll go to the mines tomorrow. There are plenty of flamecloud gems waiting to be mined. If I work harder and longer, I can surely bring you more flamecloud gems!”

Nie Tian bounced up and said. “I’ll go with you!”

“No!” Nie Qian replied forcefully. “Due to our excessive mining of flamecloud gems, collapses happen in the mines from time to time. It’s too dangerous. You absolutely can’t go!”

Nie Tian’s voice was full of certainty as he said, “I believe that even with several dozen more flamecloud gems, the animal bone won’t necessarily be filled. Only if I bring the animal bone with me and let it absorb from those unmined flamecloud gems, would we have the chance to fill it up, and therefore completely form the blood drop.”

“Let the animal bone absorb directly from the raw ore?” Nie Qian was surprised by his idea.

She also thought Nie Tian’s suggestion made sense. It wasn’t easy to mine the numerous flamecloud gems.

Even if she worked there, she wouldn’t be able to mine a large amount of flamecloud gems in a short period of time. Moreover, she would have to keep record of the mined flamecloud gems when she left the mines. A portion of them would go to the Cloudsoaring sect; a portion of them would go to the Nie clan’s storehouse; the portion she could actually leave with would be only about twenty percent.

She had already calculated that to get several dozen flamecloud gems, she probably would have to spend more than half a year in the mines.

On the other hand, Nie Tian was already eleven, so time was what he lacked the most.

“Let me go,” Nie Tian pleaded. “I can’t just sit around and wait. I need to fight for myself. Going to the mines would also be a type of training for me.”

Nie Qian considered carefully, before she finally nodded her head. “Remember. When we are out of Black Cloud City, you must follow my orders, and never act without my permission!

“Of course! Of course!” Nie Tian immediately promised.

Having been strictly confined to the Nie clan for months, he had been bored to death long ago. Now that the strangers who had lingered around the Nie clan had long since disappeared, he wanted to find an opportunity himself and go out.

Nie Qian said, “Tomorrow morning, I’ll take you out of town!”

“Thank you, aunt!” Nie Tian rejoiced.

The next morning before dawn, Nie Tian was already standing at the gate when Nie Qian came.

At dawn, the two of them quietly left Black Cloud City, and marched towards Cloudsoaring Mountain.

Inside the Yun clan.

Yuan Qiuying and Yun Song finished their breakfast. They were rinsing their mouths when a man entered the room and softly said, “Mistress, Nie Qian and the little punk Nie Tian left Black Cloud City this morning and headed towards Cloudsoaring Mountain.”

“The turtle has finally come out of its shell!” Yuan Qiuying’s expression flickered as she gritted her teeth and said viciously. “That bitch and that fatherless and motherless little bastard, I’ll see if they can break free from my grasp this time!”

She had never let go of her grudge against Nie Qian and Nie Tian.

Although she had recently called off the guest elders she sent to the Nie clan, she had still been secretly watching the gates of Black Cloud City.

She knew that Nie Qian and Nie Tian would eventually run out of patience and have to get out of the city.

Yuan Qiuying said ferociously, “They dared to leave Black Cloud City? The heavens must be helping me. I would have had to think twice before making a move inside the city. Now that they are out of the city, they shall never go back alive!

“That bitch must have gone to the Nie clan’s mines in Cloudsoaring Mountain! Don’t beat the grass and scare the snake (see note1), so don’t make a move on their way to the mines. She will undoubtedly pay extra attention on their way to the mines. You just wait for them to come out of the mines and kill them on their way back to the city!”

“Understood, Mistress. I promise they won’t make it back to Black Cloud City alive!”

“Alright. Make it clean and leave no traces. After it’s done, order those guys to leave Black Cloud City and never return, so as to avoid the Cloudsoaring sect from getting any information that can be used against us.”

“I understand.”

Note:

beat the grass and scare the snake — it’s a Chinese idiom which means to act rashly and alert the enemy