Chapter 645: Bamboo Fores (1/2)

Chapter 645: Bamboo Forest

There was a small bamboo forest between the Cloudsoaring Mountain and the short mountain peak where Wu Ji lived.

Two clear creeks ran past a few nicely-designed bamboo buildings in the bamboo forest. Secluded and silent, it was an ideal place to live.

Before, this place had belonged to an elder of the Cloudsoaring Sect. Now, it had been reassigned to the Nie Clan.

Jiang Zhisu, the sectmaster of the Cloudsoaring Sect, had even personally established a secret spell formation with bamboo to channel the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth toward it from its surroundings.

In fact, the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the bamboo forest had been rather rich to begin with. After the spell formation was established, more spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth gathered to this place, making it even more suitable for Qi warriors to practice cultivation.

Nie Donghai had settled down in this bamboo forest with Nie Qian and a few Nie Clan members with exceptional cultivation talent since they had returned from the arcane realm.

Over the past two weeks, this secluded bamboo forest had become the most popular place in the Cloudsoaring Sect, or perhaps even the entire Realm of Flame Heaven.

Worldly realm and Profound realm experts from the other realms had come to visit Nie Donghai all day long.

None of them had come empty-handed. Some had brought spiritual tools and materials that suited Nie Donghai and Nie Qian’s needs, while others had brought medicinal pills and armor, many of which were at the Premium grade.

No matter how Nie Donghai had declined, they had insisted on leaving the gifts, saying that they were tokens of their regard.

Some of them had even expressed that they were willing to take some of the young talented members of the Nie Clan to cultivate in their sects.

That included Profound realm experts from the Ice Pavilion Sect, the Dong Clan, the Yin Sect, the Yang Sect, and the Tool Sect.

However, Nie Donghai had declined them all, saying that he needed some time to consider their offers.

Even so, those experts had left agreeable cultivation materials and authentication objects for the Nie Clan teenagers they had set their minds on.

As long as Nie Donghai agreed, those Nie Clan teenagers would be able to join those powerful sects from different parts of the Domain of the Falling Stars, holding the authentication objects they were given.

After seeing another group of visitors off, Nie Donghai stood at the opening of the bamboo forest. His face was filled with gratification as he looked down at the rings of holding they had left in his hand

Only years ago, the Nie Clan had been an insignificant subordinate clan of the Cloudsoaring Sect.

Back then, any Nie Clan youngster who had wished to become an outer disciple of the Cloudsoaring Sect would have to enter the ninth level of Qi Refining by the age of fifteen.

If they failed to do so, they wouldn’t be allowed to join the Cloudsoaring Sect, even though the Nie Clan had managed spirit stone mines for the Cloudsoaring Sect for centuries.

Who would have thought that, in just a few years, experts from sects that were much more powerful than the Cloudsoaring Sect would come a long way to visit him in the bamboo forest, and offer to take in gifted Nie Clan youngsters as their disciples?

Nie Donghai had never imagined that the Nie Clan would enjoy such treatment one day.

While he and Nie Qian trained the Nie Clan youngsters in the bamboo forest, his two brothers and the other Nie Clan elders remained in Black Cloud City.

His brothers, who had fought him for the position of the clanmaster before, now begged him to return and preside over their clan.

The elders also behaved meticulously whenever they escorted clan youngsters, who they deemed talented, to the bamboo forest, as if they were very afraid that they would anger him.

Even though he almost never returned to Black Cloud City, all of the Nie Clan members in Black Cloud City tried everything within their power to smoothen their relationships with him.

After all, every Nie Clan youngster who was sent to the bamboo forest would receive agreeable spiritual tools, incantation scrolls, and medicinal pills from him, which would lay solid foundations for their future cultivation.

Almost all of these valuables had been given to him by Nie Tian.

Then, provided with exceptionally rich spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, all of the Nie Clan youngsters progressed rather quickly in this blessed place.

Even many disciples of the Cloudsoaring Sect felt jealous of them since even the Cloudsoaring Sect couldn’t give many of the precious materials and incantations that were generously given to the Nie Clan youngsters.

That still didn’t include the lavish gifts the Worldly realm and Profound realm experts from the other realms had presented to him.

Nie Donghai made some rough calculations and reached the conclusion that just the gifts he had recently received alone were more valuable than what the Cloudsoaring Sect had accumulated over the past thousand years.

“The Nie Clan is finally rising to prominence!” Nie Donghai thought to himself, his eyes welling up with emotions.

At that moment, he overheard some girls chatting and laughing in the depths of the bamboo forest where Nie Qian lived. A gratified smile appeared on his face as he muttered to himself, “I won’t have to worry about Nie Tian’s marital problems!”