Chapter 31: Unswayed (2/2)

From the way he talked, it was obvious that Nie Donghai feared An Shiyi, and was worried that Nie Tian might unwittingly offend her.

Nie Tian was secretly shocked. “I’ll do as you say.”

He knew that An Shiyi was fierce, but he didn’t expect her to be so fierce that even his grandfather considered her to be the most terrifying character in Black Cloud City.

Nie Donghai tousled his hair and said, “Alright. No need to worry too much. In that woman’s eyes, you, and in fact the entire Nie clan, are nobodies. And after all, we have the Cloudsoaring sect to back us. As long as you stay in our clan, she will have to give face to the Cloudsoaring sect, and won’t dare to act recklessly. Li Fan is gone. You don’t need to be so cautious from now on. Why don’t you try and study the dagger An Shiyi gave you? Plus… whatever matters you were avoiding earlier, you may try and engage with them now.”

After making these comments, he seemed to have remembered something all of a sudden, so he added meaningfully, “However, it would be better if strange things like spatial rifts do not reappear in our clan ever again, so that we could avoid new troubles.”

“I understand.” Nie Tian clearly understood what his grandfather meant.

“You may take your leave now.” Nie Donghai waved his hand.

Nie Tian immediately went back to the third floor.

During the past three months, he had feared that Li Fan might notice something, hence he didn’t dare to touch the animal bone.

He even didn’t dare to take the liberty to touch the dagger An Shiyi had given him as a gift, which according to Nie Donghai was a Medium grade spiritual tool.

Spiritual tools were divided into five grades: Elementary, Medium, Premium, Spirit Channeling, and Immortal. There were seven levels in each grade.

Cultivation bases of Qi warriors were divided into ten stages: Qi Refining, Lesser Heaven, Heaven, Greater Heaven, Worldly Realm, Profound Realm, Soul Realm, Void Domain, Saint Domain, and God Domain. (I changed the Mortal Realm into Worldly Realm and Mystery Realm into Profound Realm to better fit the original meaning.)

Normally speaking, a Qi warrior of the Qi Refining stage or Lesser Heaven stage would be able to fully exhibit their power with a Elementary grade spiritual tool.

A Qi warrior should at least reach the Heaven stage to be able to fully display the power of a medium grade spiritual tool.

In the entire Nie clan, Medium grade spiritual tools were extremely rare.

That was the reason why Nie Beichuan didn’t care about losing face and demanded the dagger when he realized that what An Shiyi had gifted was a Medium grade spiritual tool.

“A Medium grade spiritual tool,” Nie Tian murmured. “That woman… was indeed generous with treasures.”

He took out the forearm-length crimson dagger, stroking his finger down the shiny, smooth surface and trying to use his spiritual power to trigger it to change.

BZZ!BZZ!

One after another, thin but dense threads of crimson flame instantly appeared from the dagger.

As the crimson dagger released flame energy, its tip started to emanate powerful flames!

By this point, the animal bone in his waist pocket seemed to have suddenly started to interact with the dagger, and became scorching hot.

Nie Tian couldn’t bear the heat and took the animal bone out from his waist pocket.

A strange attractive force was suddenly generated around the animal bone, as Nie Tian could clearly see the originally straight strings of light emanating from the tip of the dagger being bent into arches and trapped by the animal bone.

In the next moment, he saw the strings of red light emanating from the tip of the dagger being absorbed.

Dense strands of crimson flame were vanishing from the sides of the dagger at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye.

Soon the previously mysterious dagger was reduced to an ordinary item, dark and completely lifeless.

PUFF!

At last, a strange sound came from within the dagger, as if some restrictive spell were completely destroyed.

At the same time.

An Shiyi received the message that Nie Donghai explicitly rejected her invitation on behalf of Nie Tian.

PUFF!

A strange sound that was identical to that of the one emitted by the dagger rang out from something within her sleeves, and she couldn’t help but make a “Hum?!” sound.

“The Nie clan is so poor and weak now, so they definitely wouldn’t destroy a medium grade spiritual tool for no reason. The Crimson Sun Dagger was in that kid’s hands, and now it is completely destroyed. This is interesting.

“I am truly intrigued.”