Zangfeng Temple.

In the hall, there were five figures sitting quietly.

Sitting in the first place was Nie Qingsong, the patriarch of the Nie family with long hair and chest. Nie Qingsong's left is a tall and thin old man with crane hair and a childish face, sitting upright with his eyes closed, his back straight, and his palms on his knees. His ten fingers were as delicate and white as a woman, and the nails of each finger were several inches long, and the ends of the nails were unusually sharp, like a short sword with a handle out of the scabbard, with a sharp edge, and a layer of cold light faintly flowing on the surface of the nails.

Nie Qingsong's right is a middle-aged woman, a pale cyan floor-length robe sets off the graceful bumps and embosses of her body, her facial skin is almost wrinkled, and she still maintains the beauty of her youth At the same time, she adds a mature charm, especially the beautiful Danfeng eyes, which are extremely smart, as if there is a clear spring flowing in the eye socket all the time.

Sitting below the tall and thin old man and the middle-aged woman were the fat Seventh Elder Nie Xinghai and the Eighth Elder Nie Longshan, respectively.

"I've seen the patriarch and the four elders. ”

After the salute, Nie Kong stood proudly. The people in this hall, except for the patriarch and Nie Xingdong who had just come in, he had seen Nie Xinghai and Nie Longshan, and he could also guess that the middle-aged woman should be the sixth elder Nie Xingqiu, only the tall and thin old man, Nie Kong couldn't identify it for a while.

Five Elders, Four Elders......

His gaze swept over the hands on the old man's knees, and the cold glow on the slender nails imprinted into his eyes, Nie Kong's heart moved, and three words suddenly jumped out-

Second Elder!

It turned out to be the only spirit pattern master of the Nie family now!

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From the moment Nie Kong entered the hall, the eyes of Nie Qingsong, Nie Xingqiu and the others fell on him in unison, only the second elder seemed to be in his arms, and there was no movement at all.

Nie Qingsong and the others were not surprised by this, they were not in a hurry to ask, they just looked at Nie Kong with a scrutinizing gaze, as if they wanted to see through his whole person. For a while, an invisible pressure enveloped Nie Kong, and the atmosphere in the hall became quite depressing.

If a few members of the Nie family had been replaced, under the forced gaze of so many big people, they might have cowered and weakened due to nervousness. But Nie Kong is a person who has experienced real death, and has just endured so many days of inhuman torture, and his heart is tenacious, so he will naturally not be frightened.

It's just that they have been observing Nie Kong for too long, and after bearing the gaze of everyone for a while, Nie Kong also began to look at these elders, and his eyes were calm and abnormal, without any nervousness. Nie Qingsong and several elders exchanged glances vaguely, and the gaze that looked at Nie Kong gradually revealed appreciation.

"Funny little guy, are you Nie Kong?"

After a while, Nie Xingqiu broke the silence in the hall with a nonsense sentence and a smile. When she smiled, her eyes became extremely special, like a small stone suddenly falling into the quiet lake, and a circle of subtle ripples rippled from those two dark and agile eyes.

"Exactly. Nie Kong only met her gaze for a moment, and felt as if his soul was about to be sucked into those two eyes, and quickly lowered his eyes.

"Very nice. ”

The fat on Nie Xinghai's face trembled, and he could vaguely tell that he was smiling, "Our Nie family has another genius who can be compared to Feng Lei's child." ”

"Haha, I'm right, this little guy will definitely survive, you still don't believe it. Now, do you know what kind of cultivation this little guy is? Nie Xingdong said with a smile.

"Psychic Sanpin!" Without waiting for others to interject, Nie Xingdong revealed the mystery, and a hint of smugness appeared on the ruddy doll's face.

"Psychic three products?"

Even with the minds of Nie Qingsong and the others, they couldn't help but be moved, and even the second elder who was sitting like a stone sculpture trembled his eyelids.

In less than a month, he has improved through the experience of the Illusion Realm, and his potential is no longer comparable to Nie Fenglei, but comparable to the Great Elder Nie Shengong, and even surpassed. For the Nie family, the results of the experience in the life and death illusion realm can very well see a person's potential, and after the heart surname is tempered, there is basically no need to worry that this potential will be short-lived and disappear in a few years.

In the eyes of the patriarchs and elders, Nie Fenglei has always been regarded as the junior who is most likely to achieve the Heavenly Spirit, and now that he suddenly kills a Nie Kong, doesn't it mean that among the Fengzi generation, another clansman is likely to become the peak powerhouse of the Heavenly Spirit Continent?

If one day, the family has two Heavenly Spirit powerhouses in charge, and the Nie family will overpower the royal family and other families without any suspense and become the first family of the Dacheng Empire.

At this moment, Nie Xinghai, Nie Longshan, and Nie Xingqiu couldn't help but become a little excited.

Originally, because Nie Kong couldn't come out in time, Bai Yuqing was ranked first in this life and death experience, and the little guy who gathered the spirit character of the seventh grade was also very lucky to squeeze into the top ten.

The Nie family's illusory realm experience allowed the vassal family to take the first place, which made the Nie family a little depressed. Of course, depressed is depressed, as a big family, the Nie family will not rely on the promised rewards.

Now Nie Kong has not only awakened, but also broken through to the third grade of psychic in one fell swoop, and the importance of this matter is far more important than the term of life and death experience. For the elders, not to mention a mere top name, even if the top ten are all taken away by the vassal family, as long as Nie Kong is there, everything is worth it.

"Okay! With such a descendant, why worry that my Nie family is not prosperous?"

An imperceptible purple light flashed on Nie Qingsong's cheeks, which was a manifestation of the abnormal agitation of the thunder spiritual power, but in the end, he was the patriarch of the Nie family who had experienced countless storms, and he calmed down, his face was solemn: "Elders, this matter is very important, the matter of Nie Kong's continuous breakthrough of the three grades in the illusory realm experience must not be leaked to the clansmen, if it is spread, it will probably be detrimental to the Nie family." ”

"Hmm. ”

Nie Xingqiu and the others all nodded in agreement.

The emergence of a clansman in the Nie family who may be among the powerhouses of the Heavenly Spirit can still accept it, but if another clansman with a larger surname emerges, the Nie family is estimated to face the joint suppression of other families soon. After all, one family and two spirits would upset the balance that had been formed between the clans of the Dacheng Empire for hundreds of years, and even Nie Kong might be nipped in the bud.

After all, the Nie family is very secretive in protecting the illusion of life and death, and over the past few hundred years, the other families of the Dacheng Empire have already learned a lot. In the Nie family's life and death experience, the more the cultivation level is raised, the stronger the cultivation potential of the clansmen, which is no secret.

Just like Nie Shengong, he improved two grades one after another in the life and death experience back then, and his cultivation has been steadily improving since then, although he has not appeared for decades, the outside world is saying that this great elder of the Nie family has already stepped into the realm of heavenly spirits and is the first heavenly spirit powerhouse of the Nie family.

Seeing their expressions, Nie Kong immediately thought of this, and was shocked in his heart, saying that it was good to enjoy the shade with his back against the big tree, but if it was possible to threaten other big trees, once the big tree behind him did not cover himself well, the other big trees quietly stretched over and a branch could pull himself to pieces.

If there is no big tree to shade it, this danger will be minimized, but if there is no big tree, the guy under the tree will not have such good growth conditions. These two are contradictory, but in fact they complement each other, and they are two tightly interlocking rings that are difficult to isolate.

Nie Qingsong looked at Nie Xingdong and said, "Ninth Elder, who else knows about this matter except us?"

Nie Xingdong said with a smile: "There are also two boys, Qingfeng and Fenghan, don't worry, I have told them not to leak this matter before I came here." ”

"That's good. ”

Nie Qingsong looked at Nie Kong and said in a harmonious voice, "Nie Kong, don't worry. If you meet a clansman who asks about it, you say that cultivation is still a psychic product. However, next, you have to go to the Ice Flame Cave to cultivate more, and after a few months, even if they know that you have broken through to the third grade of psychic, the other families will sigh at most, and they will not pay too much attention to you. ”

"Yes. ”

Nie Kong understood what Nie Qingsong meant. The Heavenly Spirit Continent is too big, and there are so many geniuses, but since ancient times, countless geniuses with brilliant qualifications have been stuck between the bottlenecks of a certain great realm, and it is difficult to break through until death. Using a few months to gradually "improve" his cultivation level to the third grade of psychic in the Ice Flame Cave, and covering up the results of his life and death experience, Nie Kong basically would not attract the attention of other families.

After agreeing on this matter, the atmosphere in the hall became a little lighter, and Nie Longshan asked with a smile: "Nie Kong, I heard that little girl from the Bai family say that you committed suicide in front of an arch-shaped white jade wall, and then how did you enter the second floor of the illusion world, tell a few of us old guys." ”

As for the medicinal herbs dug up in the second layer of the Illusory World, Nie Kong concealed it, only saying that after arriving at the second layer of the Illusory World, he saw a very powerful spirit beast, and when it was in danger, he quickly committed suicide again.

"The red and white jade that you see is indeed connected together, it is the passage between the first and second layers of the Life and Death Illusion Realm. Since this illusion realm was discovered by my Nie family, no one has ever been able to pass through the passage between these two layers, but I didn't expect you to make an exception. ”

Nie Qingsong said in surprise, "It's just that, according to the calculation of time, it took your soul a full seven days to pass through that passage?" In fact, after Bai Yuqing came out fifteen days ago, the Illusory Realm had changed, could it be that as soon as Nie Kong's soul entered the Jade Bi, it had already reached the second layer of the Illusory Realm?

Nie Xingqiu frowned, his eyes flashed, and he said suspiciously: "This is quite strange." There have been clansmen who have killed themselves in front of the passage before, but there has been no such situation, so how could the passage suck in Nie Kong's soul and send him directly to the second layer?"

Not to mention that Nie Qingsong and these elders looked at each other and were confused, even Nie Kong, the initiator, was a little confused.

According to his guess, it was most likely that the passage was contaminated with the breath of the herb, and he also absorbed a large amount of medicinal fragrance through Yubi, and his soul also had the breath of that herb, so Yubi not only did not reject his soul, but sucked his soul to the side of the herb.

It's just that there is no basis for this speculation.

Nie Qingsong waved his hand and said with a smile: "That's it, since you can't figure it out, then don't talk about it." Nie Kong, the reward for this life and death experience has already been distributed, only you came out the latest, and you didn't wake up until just now. Your reward will be given to you by myself. ”

As he spoke, Nie Qingsong picked up the thin booklet on the table next to him, and with a slight lift, it was supported by a layer of dark purple luminescence and flew into Nie Kong's palm.

"Mu Yang True Spiritual Technique!"

The purple light dissipated, and Nie Kong could see the name on the book clearly.

Nie Qingsong said with a smile: "Nie Kong, you are lucky, this 'Muyang True Spirit Recipe' was received from a neighboring country with a lot of money, and it was just sent back to the family this morning." I heard that this spirit recipe was created by a wood-based soul melting master, I took a look, and the spirit recipe is acceptable, enough for you to cultivate to the point of soul melting, or even soul transformation. Originally, I and a few elders were also discussing rewarding you with a second-grade elixir to improve your cultivation, but since you have been promoted to the third-grade psychic, the elixir is dispensable. ”

"Alas, it's a pity, if you are a spirit master with another surname, you can enter the ink building to choose the most suitable spirit recipe for yourself at will, even if it is the spirit recipe of the dark spirit master, there are several kinds of collection in the ink building, but you are a wood spirit master. In the end, Nie Qingsong couldn't help but sigh lightly.

Regarding Nie Kong's body surname, Nie Xingdong and the others also shook their heads helplessly.

At this moment, the second elder, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke: "Little guy, what spirit pattern weapon do you need, the old man can make it for you." ”

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of Nie Qingsong and the other five people shifted to the past, and they were all a little surprised. The Second Elder specially made Spirit Pattern Weapons for the Fengzi Clan, this was the first time, even Nie Fenglei had never enjoyed such treatment back then. However, a few people were quickly relieved, and with the potential that Nie Kong had shown in this life and death experience, it was enough for the Second Elder to take action personally.

"Spirit Pattern Weapon?"

Looking at the second elder who was still sitting upright with his eyes closed, Nie Kong was a little dazed, so far, his weapons were his hands and golden needles. Thinking of these two words, Nie Kong's light flashed, his right hand reached into his arms and groped a few times, and when he came out, the golden needle placed in the pet backpack had appeared in his palm. Among the nine golden needles, the longest Heavenly Needle and Earth Needle had been damaged a lot when fighting the one-horned blood lion.

Nie Kong held the golden needle in both hands and said, "Nie Kong wants nine of these spiritual pattern golden needles. ”

"Golden needles?"

Nie Qingsong and the others were stunned.

The second elder stretched out his hand, and the golden needle broke away from Nie Kong's palm, was caught by his delicate index finger and middle finger, and then covered it in his palm for a moment, and a word popped out of his mouth neatly:

"Good!"

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The cold wind is bitter, whistling from time to time, and Jiyang City in November is already cold. Nie Kong gently pushed open the hidden wooden door and walked into the familiar courtyard. Looking at the candlelight coming out of the room, Nie Kong's chest was suddenly filled with warmth, and he couldn't help but speed up his pace.

In the bedroom, Hua Mei sat on a bench, her eyes red and swollen, like two ripe peaches. Mu Hongyan kept comforting beside her, but she was obviously not suitable for such a thing, no matter how she persuaded her, the tears in the corners of her eyebrows and eyes were like pearls with broken threads, and they kept falling down.

"Sister-in-law!"

A voice suddenly rang out in the doorway.

Hua Mei and Mu Hongya looked up in amazement, and when they saw Nie Kong's figure, they opened their small mouths into a 〇 shape almost at the same time.

Ah, Mu Hongya shouted and clapped her hands and jumped, and said with her eyebrows fluttering: "I'll just say, a little illusion experience, how could Nie Kong have an accident? Don't look at whose apprentice he is? Hmph, I've always told you not to worry, don't worry, but you're good, crying every day, crying every day, I don't know where you got so many tears, look, now let me be sure, your water has been flowing in vain these days." ”

Mu Hongyan spoke very quickly, crackling like fried popcorn, and finished all the words in one bite.

"Uncle!"

Hua Mei looked at Nie Kong pitifully, and tears overflowed from her eyes like the flood that opened the floodgates. Mu Hongyan was a little dumbfounded, and couldn't help but say: "Huamei, Nie Kong doesn't have any, you should be happy, why are you crying more and more?"

Huamei whimpered: "I...... I'm glad I can...... I can't help it......"

Mu Hongyan hugged her head and groaned in pain: "I can't stand it!" apprentice, anyway, if you come back, she will let your uncle take care of it, and I'll go home and sleep." After speaking, Mu Hongyan slipped out of her legs, as if Huamei's bedroom was a prison.

"Little master, thank you very much. ”

Nie Kong said gratefully. In the past, Nie Kong called her "little master", which was somewhat ridiculous, but this time, Nie Kong called out these three words from the heart. Because when he went home and passed through an alley, Nie Kong heard a news that shocked him, that is, more than half a month ago, Nie Fengxing wanted to force a woman to do Huamei, and was caught and beaten by Mu Hongya, and then, Nie Qingsong, who learned about it, personally ordered Nie Fengxing to be imprisoned in the Bingyan Cave for half a year.

"Who made me your master!"

Mu Hongyan waved her hand helplessly and disappeared outside the door. As soon as she left, the room fell silent, except for the cry of Hua Mei.

Sobbing for a while, seeing that Nie Kong had been staring at him, Hua Mei was a little embarrassed, and moved to the side, avoiding Nie Kong's gaze, but the cry was unconsciously smaller. After a while, Nie Kong was still looking at her, and Hua Mei subconsciously moved to the side a little more.

So, the eyes of the two played hide and seek, one chased, the other flashed, and it didn't take long for the tears of Huamei to disappear completely, and they were replaced by a red face. Nie Kong suddenly laughed out loud: "Sister-in-law, don't move, if you move again, you will move to the ground." ”

"Ah...... Oh, uncle, you haven't eaten yet, I'll prepare a meal for you......" Hua blushed, and ran out of the room with a puff of smoke.

“......”

Huamei was still as shy as before, but after this experience, when Nie Kong looked at her back again, her heart was full of warmth and a trace of unspeakable throbbing.

Smiling slightly, Nie Kong sat on the bench where there was still a residual body temperature of Hua Mei, thinking about this experience, his heart moved, and a trace of emerald green spiritual power emerged from his right finger, like a small flame. Nie Kong faintly felt that his biggest gain was not to be promoted to the third grade of psychics, nor to the "Muyang True Spirit Technique", but to this mutated wood spiritual power that fused a large number of fire spiritual power elements......

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