Chapter 20

In the midst of Nie Qian's clamor, Nie Tian quickly took out the piece of beast bone and placed it on a piece of fire cloud stone protruding from the stone wall at the first moment.

A spark of fire flickered from the beast bone.

Nie Tian focused his attention, a look of joy appearing on his face as he said, "The beast bone has started to absorb the power of fire!"

"That's great!" Nie Qian was also excited.

Both of them noticed that when the beast bone landed on the unmined fire cloud stone, the light within the stone quickly dimmed.

This meant that, as they had expected, the beast bone was already absorbing the power of fire.

In an extremely short time, the fire cloud stone, which was mostly embedded in the stone wall, cracked and turned into a grayish-white ordinary stone due to the power of fire being completely drained.

"Over there!" Nie Qian pointed to a larger piece of fire cloud stone and urged, "Quickly!"

Without any hesitation, Nie Tian immediately followed her guidance, took the beast bone off, and placed it against another larger piece of fire cloud stone.

"Over there! Over there! There's an even larger piece over there!"

Nie Qian was agitated, and as soon as she saw the beast bone drain the power of fire from the fire cloud stone, she chose a new target for him.

"Crack!"

Inside the mine, one piece of fire cloud stone after another cracked.

The beast bone, continuously absorbing the power of fire, soon turned bright red and emitted an unusual fiery glow.

Sparks began to appear from within the beast bone, shining like stars in the dim mine.

"Sizzle!"

As numerous sparks appeared, Nie Tian gradually noticed that the sparks began to gather and converge.

"Here!" Nie Qian pointed to another piece of fire cloud stone protruding from the wall.

"It's starting to coalesce!"

Nie Tian also became increasingly excited, holding the beast bone and placing it on the piece of fire cloud stone.

"Boom!"

A cluster of bright red flames suddenly ignited within the beast bone.

Nie Tian, using his spiritual sense, perceived that the burning flame was the drop of blood that was coalescing.

When he realized this, he suddenly felt a strange suction force emanating from the drop of blood.

"Crack! Crack!"

In the No. 73 mine, each piece of fire cloud stone emitted a terrifying cracking sound.

At the same time, sparks suddenly shot out from the fire cloud stones, like millions of fireflies, rushing toward the beast bone.

"Rumble!"

More terrifyingly, the other mines within the mountain also gradually emitted rumbling sounds.

With the rumbling, sparks flew out from many fire cloud stones, as if attracted by some strange force, all heading toward the No. 73 mine where Nie Tian was.

"What's happening?"

"What's going on?"

"The mine is about to collapse, everyone, evacuate quickly!"

"Everyone, immediately evacuate the mine!"

"A great disaster is coming!"

"..."

In each mine, the collateral relatives of the Nie family and the laborers still mining the fire cloud stones shouted in fear.

One by one, they quickly ran out of their respective mines, fleeing in terror.

"Xiao Tian! It's bad, this beast bone is too powerful, it's absorbing the power of fire too quickly! The mine is about to collapse!" Nie Qian was also panicked.

However, at this moment, Nie Tian, holding the beast bone, seemed to have not heard her cries at all.

Nie Tian's entire spiritual sense and consciousness seemed to be drawn into the beast bone, with sparks flickering in his eyes, giving a mysterious and profound look.

"Boom!"

At the entrance of the No. 73 mine, pieces of rubble fell, and in a blink, the entire entrance was blocked.

Nie Qian, who had intended to stop Nie Tian from absorbing the power of fire with the beast bone and take him out of the mine, suddenly realized that they could no longer leave.

Through the gaps in the blocked mine entrance, numerous sparks still seeped in, continuing to converge on the beast bone in Nie Tian's hand.

The beast bone was still greedily absorbing the power of fire from the entire mountain, showing no signs of stopping!

Nie Tian's consciousness and spirit had already entered the burning drop of blood, once again entering the mysterious place filled with raging flames.

In that unknown space, he saw the sky filled with twisting flames, giving rise to infinite changes, and saw fiery masses gathering, forming a giant flame dragon.

"Whoosh!"

Outside, the dense spiritual energy surrounding Lingyun Mountain, for some unknown reason, also quietly converged toward the unremarkable peak.

The white spiritual energy seeped into the No. 73 mine through the mine entrance.

The extremely anxious Nie Qian suddenly felt that every breath of air she took was filled with abundant spiritual energy.

She carefully perceived and found that the spiritual energy in the place where Nie Tian was was even more astonishing, as if the most abundant spiritual energy in the mine was flowing into Nie Tian's body through his pores.

She opened her eyes wide, staring at Nie Tian without moving, both ecstatic and puzzled and shocked.

The strange changes happening in the mine far exceeded her understanding, leaving her unsure of what to do to benefit Nie Tian.

At this moment, the entrance was already blocked by fallen rocks, and through the gaps between the rocks, a large number of sparks still flew in, converging on the beast bone.

She knew she could not leave for the time being and could only passively accept what was happening.

At the same time.

On the backside of Lingyun Mountain, inside another peak that was smaller than Lingyun Mountain but higher than other peaks, a lean old man in a coarse linen robe, who was refining a spiritual artifact in a stone room, suddenly put down the artifact in his hand.

"Strange, why did the spiritual energy of heaven and earth suddenly change?" he muttered, then suddenly sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.

A blurry shadow slowly floated out from his crown, like a ghostly apparition, and suddenly flew out of the stone room.

The indistinct, water-like shadow appeared and disappeared in the air, extremely unreal, but seemed to be following the flow of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, drifting to the small mountain where the Nie family mined the fire cloud stones.

The shadow entered the mine, following the stone path, and continued deeper.

Soon, the shadow arrived at the entrance of the No. 73 mine where Nie Tian was, and slipped through the narrow gaps between the rocks, quietly entering the mine.

Once inside the mine, the shadow became even more indistinct, making it hard to see with the naked eye.

"Huh!"

The shadow, in the corner of the mine, focused its attention entirely on Nie Tian and the beast bone in his hand.

Nie Qian, standing beside Nie Tian, was completely unaware.

"Rumble!"

The entire mountain seemed to be gently shaking, and the large rocks hanging from the ceiling of the mine where Nie Tian and Nie Qian were gradually cracked and fell.

The shadow in the dark looked up at the falling rocks, seemingly moving them with a casual flick.

Nie Qian, who had already sensed something, watched the falling rocks in horror, feeling a sense of despair.

Surprisingly, the rocks that were about to crush her and Nie Tian were deflected by some force, falling around the mine instead.

She, who should have been crushed to a pulp, stood unharmed beside Nie Tian, as if always protected by a deity.

After a long time.

No more sparks converged from all directions, as if all the power of fire from the fire cloud stones in the entire mountain had been completely drained by the beast bone.

Nie Tian still had his finger on the beast bone, seemingly lost in a dream, unaware of the tremendous changes happening in the mine.

The continuous vibrations in the mine gradually subsided, and the large rocks that had fallen around the mine were piled high.

The place where she and Nie Tian were standing, however, was completely free of even small pieces of rubble, which left her feeling incredibly perplexed and silently grateful for the protection of the ancestors of the Nie family.

After a long, long time, the beast bone in Nie Tian's hand turned dark brown again.

Nie Tian, who had been immersed in the experience, gradually regained consciousness. He opened his eyes and said, "The drop of blood inside the beast bone has finally successfully coalesced!"

The shadow in the dark, upon hearing these words, rippled like water, seemingly shocked.

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