Chapter 4
(This might not be very interesting. Consider this a filler.)
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It was dusk when when Nie Li sent them.
Nie Li is walking through the training ground at night, searching for a good place.
Asura says to Nie Li "I still think you shouldn't have brought out that much money. You should know that money makes people greedy. They might go after your family."
"I know that. It is also part of the plan. I got to know that Nie Li has very little power in his family. Only after something like this, will the family rise in power and my father will have a decent position." Nie Li says.
"You also planned to take over this city, right? What is your plan?" Asura asks.
"I don't have a perfect plan. I only remember very little details from the novel." Nie Li replies.
"You wrote down all the fictional stories you remember in your diary. Didn't you write this?" Asura asks.
"No. When I got to know that I can't enter cultivation worlds, I omitted all the Wuxia novels from the diary.
I only remember some incidents like how he went to some weird city and found a demon spirit, going to some other realm and such. This is not enough.
The memories of Nie LI's past life are not very useful. The butterfly effect is really a pain in the ass" Nie Li says.
"Then do you want to use the first ticket?" Asura asks.
Nie Li nods and lifts his hand. Nie Li moves his hand, making an action like he is cutting something with his palm.
The place Nie Li slashed, a cut appeared in space. It was like a wormhole but, from a cut.
Nie Li puts his hand in the cut and removes a golden ticket. He rips it and says "A Lazy Cultivator".
The golden ticket disappears and turned into fog which entered his body.
Asura shouts in his head "Why would you waste your golden ticket on this novel? You could have asked for the 'TDG' novel itself, right?"
"This is what even that stupid god would be thinking. I can somehow manage with Nie Li's memories but, this thing is the real deal here." Nie Li says.
"You are just saying that because your best friend Yan Feng wrote this novel on Earth." Asura says in an angry tone.
"Since he is my best friend, I know what he wrote. I will explain later." Nie Li says while searching around.
He then saw some blue light from one place and made his way there. When he arrived there, he saw the source of the light was the soul force from a orange haired girl.
Nie Li stepped on a twig, which made enough sound to alert the orange haired girl.
She immediately pulled out a dagger and pointed it at Nie Li while shouting "Who is it?"
Nie Li raises his hands and says "I am not here to fight, Xiao Ning'er."
Xiao Ning'er puts back the dagger and says "It's not like you can fight with me. You are Nie Li from my class, right? Why are you here?"
'Why are everyone looking down at me? Is it due to this kid face and body? Or is it due to my soul force?' he thought while saying "If you are that confident in your strength, let's spar."
"I don't bully the weak. Leave.' Xiao Ning'er says while turning back and walking.
"Are you afraid of loosing?" Nie Li asks.
Xiao Ning'er gets angry and rushes towards Nie Li while shouting "Remember, you asked for this."
She throws a punch, aiming at Nie Li's face. He just tilts his head and avoids it.
Xiao Ning'er immediately tries to kick his legs, which he jumps and avoids.
Xiao Ning'er does a headstand and tries to kick Nie Li's chest. Nie Li jumps back to avoid it.
'I can use my energy from my soul to attack but, it will break my body. I will have to time it perfectly and immediately release it instead of gathering it.
My body is already damaged due to my soul energy and after the fight with Shen Yue. I gotta scare her. That's the only way.' he thought.
Xiao Ning'er again rushed at Nie Li but suddenly, she felt danger from Nie Li. She looked at him and saw a huge shadow behind him.
She was experiencing this for the first time. 'What is this fear? What am I looking at?' she thought.
Her legs felt weak and she fell down shivering. "Death" was the word she uttered while shivering.
Seeing her state, Nie LI retracted his killing intent. 'I think I went a little overboard there. She is still a kid.' he thought.
Nie Li walked up to her and said "Sorry. I just wanted to scare you a little as didn't want to hurt you when you were already suffering from an illness."
Xiao Ning'er stopped shaking and asks "How do you know?"
"If I am not wrong, there should be bruises at different places of your body and your whole body should be cold while your feet burn at midnight." Nie Li says.
She had a shocked face when she heard him describe her illness.
Nie Li continues "You might have to stop cultivating or else, you will die when you reach bronze rank."
"Why did this happen?" she asks.
"It is due to your cultivation method and also the moonlight. The cold yin energy from the moon has entered your body and is affecting your meridians." Nie Li says.
Xiao Ning'er then starts murmuring about her situation and how she wants to grow stronger to break the engagement between her and Shen Fei, who was known to be a playboy.
She then burst into tears. Nie Li felt this situation quite awkward. She then suddenly stops crying and looks at Nie Li.
She says "If you know what my illness is, you should also know the cure, right?"
Nie Li says "Yes. It is not an incurable disease. You will have to massage the bruises with a redirection method and take this medicine daily." while writing down something on a paper and handing it to her.
"Redirection method?" she asked.
"It is a method used to massage. You will also have to stop cultivating at night." Nie Li says.
"I have never heard of that method." Xiao Ning'er says.
"I know the method. I can treat you if you want." Nie Li says and raises his index and middle finger while releasing little soul force.
"Show the bruised areas." Nie Li says.
Xiao Ning'er starts blushing. Seeing her red face, he says "I am only treating your illness. You blushing will make it even more harder for me to treat you. I am still a man."
She first shows her feet. Nie Li bends down and starts treating it. Xiao Ning'er makes weird sounds.
Ignoring her moans, Nie Li finished treating her foot. "Anywhere else?" Nie Li asks.
Seeing her hesitate, Nie Li says "I don't have other intentions. So, show me the bruised area only if you trust me and are willing to get it treated."
After some time, she removes her dress to shows him the bruise on her ribs.
Nie Li is a person who controlled his hormones for 99,700 years. He kept his face serious. Seeing his serious face, Xiao Ning'er thought 'He is a nice person. He doesn't look like he is doing this for any other reason.'
Nie Li treated her wounds and while thinking 'Youngsters these days. Oh no wait! Isn't this the age when they marry. Then it makes sense to feel shy. She actually looked cute while blushing.'
After treating her, Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er kept talking about different things. Nie Li enquired about the city while she asked him questions about inscriptions.
Suddenly they heard some sounds from the bushes. Both turned to see the cause of the sound and found two kids with torn clothes and messy hair.
They were breathing heavily. Nie Li asks them while approaching them "What took you guys so long?"
Lu Piao looks at Nie Li and shouts "Don't give me that attitude. You came into the training ground without even telling us where you would be. We had to search around. Do you know how many beast tried to kill us. Do you know how close we were to death."
"I will let you rant about it later. Now, did you get me the things I asked?" Nie Li asks.
Du Ze answers "Yes. We didn't know how many and which soul crystals you needed. So we brought 5 beginner crystals."
"What did you guys get for yourself?" Nie Li asks.
Both answered "Nothing"
When Nie Li asked why, they answered "We wouldn't spend our brother's money for free."
They felt that they didn't do anything to call themselves close to Nie Li. That's why they hesitated to spend his money.
Nie Li had seen many people in his life and he can easily figure out if a person is lying or not. He smiles at them and says "Then this brother is going to give his brothers a special gift. Follow me."
When they came out of the bushes, they saw Xiao Ning'er and Lu Piao asks Nie Li "Why is she here?"
"Oh, I forgot to introduce her. She is my friend Ning'er." Nie Li says and the others all think 'Did he just say 'Ning'er'?'
Noticing their awkward silence, Nie Li asks Ning'er "I can call you Ning'er, right?"
Her face becomes red and she just nods.
Du Ze and Lu Piao notice this. Lu Piao goes closer to Du Ze and says "We underestimated Nie Li too much. He managed to make goddess Xiao Ning'er blush."
After they introduced themselves, Nie Li asked Du Ze to take out 4 soul crystals. Lu Piao asks "What do you need them for?"
"We are going to test our soul realm." Nie Li answers.
"Didn't we do that in school?" Du Ze asked.
"We will be checking for the soul form and attribute. The soul crystals perform the best when only one person uses it." Nie Li says, "Take this and keep it with you. For now, pour your soul force into it."
They hesitated but then, they took it when Nie Li said "You called me brother. Why all this modesty?"
Nie Li gave one to Xiao Ning'er and said "Remember when I told you that your cultivation technique is also the cause of your illness. Take this, pour your soul force into it."
Xiao Ning'er, Lu Piao and Du Ze do as instructed. Seeing them Nie Li thought 'They are releasing their energy like it's nothing. In One Piece world, it takes a lot of effort just to feel their energy.'
Nie Li observed the pattern formed in the soul crystal. Xiao Ning'er had a blue bird, Du Ze had an orange cloud and Lu Piao had seven red dots with a big one in the center and the other six surrounding it.
"Now I will give you guys cultivation techniques fitting your attributes." Nie Li said and handed them each a cultivation techniques.
Xiao Ning'er got the Lightning dragon technique, Du Ze got a modified version of the Tian Lan technique ad Lu Piao got the Chaos spirit technique.
"Now you guys can go cultivate while I do my work." Nie Li says and they immediately start cultivating, sitting in the lotus position.
Nie Li checks his attribute. He didn't have an attribute. 'The first hurdle is cleared. If I had any other attribute, my plan would have failed and would have to think of another plan.'