Chapter 10: Bored to Death

  Bingyan Cave, Lianyao Hall's secret room, home... In Nie Kong's constantly circulating three-point line, time passed day by day, and before he knew it, December had arrived. The weather in Jieyang City became increasingly cold, with several days of heavy snowfall covering the entire city in a silver coat.

  On the couch, Nie Kong's body trembled, his face flushed red, and beads of sweat almost visibly seeped out from the upper half of his body, wetting his pants. Two thick, fiery auras continuously spewed out of his nostrils, and the small stone room echoed with heavy panting sounds.

  "Hum!"

  A clear and crisp sound suddenly echoed in the stone room, and Nie Kong's hand suddenly held a golden needle, which flashed into the Heart Sea Point like lightning.

  In an instant, another golden needle appeared in Nie Kong's palm with a buzzing sound and pierced into the next hidden hole... The golden needles jumped out one by one, and Nie Kong's speed of piercing also became faster and faster. There was no pause between each movement, as if it were flowing clouds and water.

  When the last thin golden needle pierced the Jade Pool Hole, the nine golden needles quivered violently, and the stone room suddenly seemed to have tens of thousands of bees buzzing at the same time, bursting out a deafening sound, along with this sound, there were also clusters of emerald green light.

  Nie Kong quickly rubbed and kneaded, the golden needles' luster immediately flowing like a small dragon dancing in the air. In contrast to the intense vibrations of the golden needles, Nie Kong's body gradually calmed down, his breathing becoming steady, and the red flush on his face slowly fading away.

  Nie Kong's hands continued to move rapidly for a long time before they gradually slowed down, until finally, the golden needle came to a complete stop.

  "Ah!"

  Nie Kong let out a long sigh of relief, as if he had spewed out all the heat inside his body.

  "Four Treasures of the Spiritual World..."

  Feeling the surging spiritual energy within his body, Nie Kong's mouth curled up into an unexpected smile. To be honest, even he himself hadn't expected that after a month of cultivation in the Ice Fire Cave, his cultivation would actually increase by one grade today, although at the last moment he had slightly borrowed the power of the Golden Needle.

  In just one month, he went from Spiritual Three to Spiritual Four. If this news were to spread, it would probably shock another group of people. However, Nie Kong also knew that for the spiritual masters cultivating in the Ice and Flame Cave, the speed at which they first increased their grade was indeed very fast, but afterwards, the speed would slow down.

  If he can upgrade one rank every month in the Ice Flame Cave, wouldn't all the other spirit masters of the Nie family go crazy?

  After sitting for a moment, Nie Kong slowly pulled out the golden needles one by one.

  These nine needles were brought back by Nie Kong from the Second Elder's place yesterday evening. Golden needles, still golden needles, but their quality is many times stronger than those nine that Hua Mei brought back, especially since these nine golden needles were not only personally forged by the Second Elder, but also had spiritual patterns carved on them by him.

  Nie Kong was still feeling the power of the spiritual sword for the first time.

  Just now, when he was performing the "Nine Turns Golden Needle Technique", the nine golden needles suddenly became like living things, instantly connecting with the spiritual energy inside his body. Later, with the vibration of the golden needles, the spiritual energy in Nie Kong's meridians was stimulated, and its activity soared linearly, crazily rushing towards the acupoints.

  If the spiritual power before was a quietly burning fire, then the nine golden needles were nine buckets of gasoline. As soon as the "Nine Turns Golden Needle Technique" was applied, it was like pouring all the gasoline on the fire, and the originally slow-burning fire suddenly soared high, bursting out with an astonishing light.

  So, Nie Kong rubbed the Golden Needle, and in almost an instant, the already shaky and formless barrier suddenly turned into nothingness.

  "Humming..."

  Nie Kong activated his spiritual power, and the nine golden needles arranged in a row on his palm were enveloped by a faint green glow. The fine lines on the surface of the golden needles flowed rapidly, interacting with the surging spiritual power, which was like a spark. In an instant, Nie Kong's palm was filled with nine dragons entwining and dancing, dazzling and mesmerizing to behold.

  "The current Golden Needle, with its power increased several times, can be used not only for healing and cultivation but also as a weapon, which is quite convenient. In the future, when my cultivation reaches a higher level, I might even be able to use it to create my own spiritual technique!"

  Nie Kong pondered in his heart, then withdrew his spiritual power and put the nine golden needles back into his pet backpack. He dressed himself properly and walked out of the stone room.

  "Ah, Nie Kong, you're out so soon?"

  As soon as they crossed the red line between the second and first sections, several stone rooms on both sides opened their doors at the same time, and Nie Qing'an and a few others with cultivation close to fusion emerged, with faces full of resentment, speaking in a tone that was like saying grapes were sour because they couldn't eat them.

  Such a scene had occurred many times, and Nie Kong had always been too lazy to bother with them. This time, just as he was about to walk through their midst in big strides, Nie Kong suddenly felt a stir in his heart and chuckled: "You're all so free, huh? Nie Qing An, last month I heard you say that you were almost able to reach the Fusion Spirit Realm. Seeing how you've been idle every day recently, I suppose you must have already made a breakthrough, my Fusion Spirit Uncle!"

  "Cough! Cough!"

  Nie Qing'an was ready with a heap of cold ridicule, but suddenly Nie Kong's sentence made him choke and cough. Although he didn't know what "idle to the point of being bored out of his mind" meant, it definitely wasn't anything good. His face turned alternately pale and red as he forced a smile and said: "Still a bit short, still a bit short."

  Nie Kong nodded vaguely and said in a tone of teaching his juniors, "Then you still need to work harder, don't just occupy the toilet every day without taking a dump."

  When they heard those few words, the other people around them couldn't help but burst out laughing, and then thought of themselves also belonging to that category, suddenly feeling a bit annoyed.

  Nie Qing'an's face turned a deep purple with rage, and he sneered: "You... what right do you have to say I'm like that? You're not much better yourself! Every time you come out, you look like a drowned rat! Go cultivate in the second section? Ha! I think you'll be going there to roast instead. Be careful or your cultivation won't improve and you'll turn into a roasted pig!"

  In the end, a strong sour taste spread out, if Nie Qing'an could enter the second quarter, even if he became a fallen champion, he would be content.

  Nie Kong smiled mischievously and said, "I'm really sorry, I just broke through to the second rank of Tong Ling, so don't bother worrying about me." After speaking, Nie Kong laughed loudly and left, still faintly heard a sigh, "I thought it would take half a month to succeed, but it took a whole month, this speed is really slow!"

  "Two kinds of mediums?"

  Without taking any medicine, he relied solely on cultivation and advanced from Spiritual One to Spiritual Two in just one month? And yet, he still felt it was too slow?

  Nie Qing'an and several others had their faces frozen in shock, staring at each other in dismay. After a while, Nie Qing'an finally withdrew his gaze from where Nie Kong's figure had disappeared, forcing a cold smile that was even uglier than crying onto the corner of his mouth, and furiously shouted: "On purpose! This bastard must have done it on purpose to humiliate me!"

  Nie Kong was indeed doing it on purpose!

  If they didn't use their mouths to create a process of gradual improvement, wouldn't it be even more suspicious if the cultivation base of Tongling Fourth Grade was exposed later? Wait until the speed of "showing off" catches up with the speed of cultivation, Nie Kong won't need to do this on purpose.

  While Nie Qingyan and others were cursing, Nie Kong had already headed in the direction of the Medicine Refining Hall...

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