Black Cloud City, Nie family.
As night fell, Nie Qian, dressed in plain clothes, leaned against the window sill and looked at the rockery outside the window, lost in thought.
In the room, Nie Tian, who had just turned one year old, pushed the wet nurse away impatiently. The corners of his mouth were stained with milk, but he looked at Nie Qian longingly and shouted: "Meat, eat meat..."
The wet nurse, Zhou Ma, looked embarrassed and said with a sneer: "Miss, look..."
Nie Qian came back to her senses, glared at Nie Tian, who looked like a tiger, and scolded: "This little bastard has already eaten two bowls of minced meat today. He doesn't drink milk properly. Now he wants to eat meat again. I don't know what he can do." Can’t digest well.”
"Meat, you want to eat meat..." Nie Tian still shouted with a smile.
Looking at Nie Tian with a flattering smile on his face, Nie Qian thought of her deceased sister, her heart softened, and she nodded lightly towards the nanny Zhou Ma.
Zhou Ma immediately took out a bowl of minced meat and placed it gently on the table. Nie Tian's dark eyes suddenly lit up. He picked up the silver spoon and dug it up skillfully. The chubby little His face was full of satisfaction.
Listening to Nie Tian's eating sounds, Nie Qian felt a little irritated for no reason. "Xiaoyue, how many children will participate in tomorrow's lot drawing?" Nie Qian suddenly asked.
At the door, the maid Han Yue hesitated for a moment and said softly: "Miss, as long as they are from the Nie family, the children with the surname Nie and who are around one year old will participate. After all, only every five years, the old gods from Lingyun Mountain will take part. Spiritual Weapon, coming here once is a reward for the Nie family’s years of hard work, and no one with a one-year-old child is willing to miss the opportunity.”
The Nie family is also a famous family in Black Cloud City, but in this world, Qi refiners are the most respected. Almost all the family forces in Fanchen serve those powerful Qi refiners, and the Nie family is no exception.
The sect of Qi Refiners that the Nie family relies on is Lingyun Sect, which is located in Lingyun Mountain near Black Cloud City. The mountainside of Lingyun Mountain is rich in Fire Cloud Stone, which is a common low-level spiritual material needed for Qi Refiner cultivation. , the Lingyun Sect's Qi refiners were busy practicing all year round and did not want to waste time mining such low-grade fire cloud stones in the mountains, so they arranged for the Nie family to go there.
Generations of Nie family members mined fire cloud stones and paid tribute to the Lingyun Sect in exchange for the Lingyun Sect's protection.
In addition to protecting the Nie family from the oppression of other families in Black Cloud City, the Lingyun Sect's Qi Refiners would also visit the Nie family every five years and use some low-level spiritual weapons to draw lots. Test the Nie family's children's cultivation talents.
Every child, after birth, has more or less special attributes in his body. In addition to the attributes of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, some children also contain rarer attributes such as lightning, wind, cloud, and ice. Lingyun Sect’s Every time a Qi Refiner comes here, he will bring with him several low-level spiritual weapons that also have various attributes.
Children and spiritual weapons with the same attributes can attract each other, and thus the attributes in the child's body can be determined. This allows parents to prescribe the right medicine and know the child's future cultivation direction, making the cultivation process more effective with half the effort.
The Qi Refiners of Lingyun Sect will use those low-level spiritual weapons to win over the Nie family's loyalty. The low-level spiritual weapons taken out at the lottery meeting will be given to Nie family children with similar attributes.
For the Lingyun Sect's Qi Practitioners, those low-level and useless spiritual weapons were helpful in the cultivation of the Nie family's children. For a long time, they were the most popular spiritual weapons for the Nie family's children.
Likewise, the lot drawing meeting held every five years will make the Nie family excited. Any Nie parent with a child around one year old will regard it as a major event in the child's life and rush to it.
This time, it is no exception.
"I'm asking you, how many children are participating this time?" Nie Qian frowned.
"Seven." Han Yue lowered her head and whispered.
"Xiaotian happens to be one year old, and his surname is Nie. Why didn't anyone inform me that Nie Tian should also participate in this lottery meeting?" Nie Qian snorted coldly.
"Miss..." Han Yue smiled bitterly, looked up at Nie Qian, and said weakly: "Although Nie Tian is the child of the second lady, the second lady... is just a girl like you, and the second lady passed away. Before, I never explained who Nie Tian’s biological father was.”
"The rules of the Nie family are there. Only real grandchildren and granddaughters are eligible to participate in the lottery meeting that happens every five years. Grandchildren... are not included in this."
"I don't care about those broken rules. Dad is still the head of the family now. I'm going to ask him for an explanation!" Nie Qian said bitterly. After saying this, she left angrily.
"Although the old man is still the head of the family, this position... is not secure!" After Nie Qian left angrily, Han Yue muttered to herself with a bitter look on her face.
After a while.
Nie Qian broke into Nie Donghai's pavilion, opened her mouth and shouted angrily: "Dad, Nie Tian is also..."
She ended abruptly with a cry.
In the dim room, the current head of the Nie family, Nie Donghai, had a sallow face full of exhaustion. His originally majestic body was now as skinny as a stick. He was leaning against the wall and looking at a dark red pill in the palm of his left hand. Undecided.
Han Qian was furious, her heart ached, her voice suddenly softened, and she persuaded in a gentle voice: "Dad, don't."
She recognized at a glance that the elixir in Nie Donghai's palm was the Rejuvenation Pill. Taking the Rejuvenation Pill can make a Qi Refiner full of spiritual energy and energy in a short period of time, and have the effect of returning to the light.
But the God-Reviving Pill is overdrawing the Qi Refiner's potential and longevity, which will cause serious physical and mental damage to the Qi Refiner afterwards.
Generally speaking, only Qi Masters who fight with others and when life and death are at stake will use the Rejuvenation Pill to seek a chance of survival. Normally, they would never dare to take it.
Nie Donghai, who had been looking down at the Rejuvenation Pill for a long time, saw Nie Qian arriving, forced a smile, and said with difficulty: "Since being severely injured by the Yun family and the Yuan family, my Qi sea has been shattered, and the gathering of spiritual energy can no longer keep up with the speed of disintegration. , my cultivation level has no hope of ever entering the innate realm, and even this Zhongtian realm... may soon be unsustainable."
"The second and third children have been thinking about my position as the head of the family for a long time. People from Lingyun Sect will come tomorrow. If they see that my realm is deteriorating, they will fan the flames for the second and third children. My position , I’m afraid I really have to give it up.”
"Dad, if you want to overdraw your longevity in exchange for the position of head of the family, I would rather you retire early." Nie Qian said with wet eyes.
"What do you know?" Nie Donghai glared suddenly, his face full of solemnity and anger, "Only if I am still the head of the Nie family, can you get justice for the humiliation you suffered in the Yun family! Also! The person who deceived your sister, I can only hope to find out who he is by using the power of the Nie family!"
"If I retire, the second and third sons will never pay attention to the grudges between you and your sister! For you and Jin'er, I will sit in this position for one more day, just one more day!"
"What does losing a few years of life mean? Once I retire, I will no longer be able to fight for anything for you. What's the difference between that and death?"
"Daddy!" Nie Qian burst into tears.
"Okay, okay, don't act like a child who hasn't grown up. Tell me, why are you so anxious to find me?" Nie Donghai took a deep breath and regained his determination.
"Dad, tomorrow's lottery meeting is of great importance. Since you gave Xiaotian the surname Nie, I hope Xiaotian can also participate. If Xiaotian can find a spiritual weapon suitable for him in the lottery meeting, it will be a great influence on him in the future. His cultivation has been of great help. Perhaps, with the help of that spiritual weapon, he can step into the ninth level of Qi Refining at the age of fifteen and enter the Lingyun Sect." Nie Qian begged.
"This matter..." Nie Donghai looked embarrassed, "How could I not know? For this matter, my second and third sons and I have already talked about it, but they insisted that Xiaotian was not the real son of my Nie family, and he had to follow the clan rules. Keep Xiao Tian out.”
"Dad, your cultivation path has come to an end, and your sister is no longer here, and I... this will be the case in this life. Our tribe is not prosperous, and there is only one boy, Xiaotian. I hope you can do your best for Xiaotian. Fight for a chance." Nie Qian said with tears in her eyes.
Nie Donghai was silent for a long time and nodded lightly, "I understand. You can go back. You can bring Nie Tian to the lottery meeting on time tomorrow."
Nie Qian's tearful eyes showed a hint of joy, and she immediately bowed and stepped back.
Just as she stepped out of the room and was about to leave, she heard the sound of Nie Donghai swallowing the resurrection pill, and a long sigh from Nie Donghai.
Nie Qian's heart felt like a knife. Knowing that she was coming, she helped Nie Donghai make up his mind. She couldn't bear to look back and left in a hurry.