bookpower Chapter 9
Chapter 9
C9 – Trapped
Ni Huibo watched Ni Ruiyuan stride out of the courtyard, biting back the words he wanted to say.
Usually, Ni Ruiyuan was very attentive to him. Just moments ago, he nearly divulged the events of the previous day to her. But recalling her firm rejection of his request to pursue cultivation, he let out a resigned sigh.
What, though, did his aunt mean by her parting words? She had given him silver coins before without any special instructions. Why the sudden change this time? Ni Huibo walked to where his aunt had been standing and surveyed the nearby items. His eyes settled on the chopping block, and he paused.
He stepped forward quickly, running his fingers over the marks. These were the marks he had made while chopping wood.
Did his aunt know everything?
Was she hinting that he should be careful with the Spiritual Bead, to keep it hidden from others?
Ni Huibo’s brow furrowed slightly.
After carrying the firewood to the stove and finishing his meal, Ni Huibo grabbed a book and settled under the shade of a tree to read.
Before long, he drifted off to sleep. Yet, within him, the Spiritual Bead in his dantian tirelessly spun, drawing in Spiritual Qi which flowed through the bead, purifying the air’s impurities before circulating through Ni Huibo’s twenty-four main meridians.
Time passed swiftly, and the tranquil moon bathed the land in silver. Ni Situo had no leisure to enjoy the night’s beauty, sitting quietly on a stone bench, seething with anger.
That morning, on his way to the Immortal Cultivation Hall, he noticed that the Ni mansion was still under watch. He was certain Ji Fanwei had arranged for the guards. Ji Fanwei was deliberately trying to provoke him!
Ni Situo’s fists tightened.
Ni Situo wasted no more words. With a signal to his guards, they tightened their circle around the man in black. Channeling his spiritual energy, Ni Situo delivered a powerful palm strike. The man in black, already gravely wounded, engaged in a desperate counterattack. But the impact to his abdomen, where Ni Huibo had struck, caused his spiritual energy to falter, and he uncontrollably coughed up blood.
The man in black faced Ni Situo with a mocking laugh. “The word around Mightcairn City is that Ni Situo is a standout among the Ni mansion’s younger generation. I find the rumors to be greatly exaggerated!”
“Yet you were still bested by me, weren’t you?” Ni Situo retorted with a cold snort. To him, the man in black was nothing more than a vanquished foe.
“Had I not been seriously injured, you wouldn’t have stood a chance at capturing me with your level of cultivation. You don’t hold a candle to that young man under eighteen in the rundown courtyard. His cultivation method is bizarrely effective; you’re not fit to even be compared to him. The treasures I’ve stolen are far more suited to someone like him!” The man in black shot back with biting sarcasm, while inwardly relishing the thought of the Ni family’s infighting playing to his advantage.
A rundown courtyard?
Not even eighteen?
Ni Huibo?
That’s impossible! There’s no way his father and aunt would have imparted the cultivation method to Ni Huibo. Even if his second uncle was a once-in-a-century prodigy within the Ni family, what of it? His son was still nothing but a mere mortal. Who in the Ni family could match his own talent for cultivation? Ni Huibo, that good-for-nothing, was only fit to be a cook in that decrepit courtyard.
“Do you not realize you’ve just told a joke?” Ni Situo certainly didn’t believe a word of it.
How could someone who had never practiced cultivation manage to injure someone with a higher cultivation level than his own? It had to be a ruse; the man in black was surely trying to divert his attention.
Once he apprehended the man in black, the truth would come to light.
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