Chapter 2: She Was Just a Poor Little Girl (2/2)

Ning Wuxie looked at Jiang Ningxuan’s pitiful and helpless appearance, and his heart softened a little.

“Xuan’er, listen to me.” He gently shook Jiang Ningxuan’s shoulder, and Xuan’er turned her little head from the fire pit to look at him.

“My name is Ning Wuxie.” He spoke in an extremely gentle tone.

“Like you, I was also an orphan. My parents died a long time ago while fleeing from disaster.”

“Just like Xuan’er’s grandfather, they died to protect me.”

“Since then, I experienced a lot and did many things just to survive. So I understand how difficult it is for a person to live in this world.”

Ning Wuxie’s words attracted Jiang Ningxuan’s attention. Her eyes were no longer numb and lifeless; instead, they had a glimmer of light as she looked at Ning Wuxie seriously.

“If you think I am a good person, I am willing to adopt you. I will be your brother and protect you like your grandfather did. In the future, if I have food, I will not let you go hungry.”

Ning Wuxie held Jiang Ningxuan’s small shoulder, looking into her watery big eyes.

In the dark night, the burning fire pit cast warm, yellow light on their faces.

Seeing the surprised expression on Jiang Ningxuan’s tender little face, Ning Wuxie felt uncertain inside.

He did not know if Jiang Ningxuan would agree.

But looking at her thin and weak little figure, the strength forged through suffering and wandering, along with the hidden fragility and helplessness beneath it, made Ning Wuxie truly feel heartbroken.

Moreover, the little girl in front of him would eventually become the unparalleled Empress who would shake the entire Spirit Martial Continent!

Two once-in-a-millennium cultivation prodigies, if they did not stand against each other this time but stood together… what would happen?

Jiang Ningxuan looked at Ning Wuxie’s handsome and charming face, which radiated warmth, thought for a moment, and nodded.

“Brother… is a good person.”

“Then are you willing to follow your brother?”

“… I am willing.”

Jiang Ningxuan’s eyes lit up with a long-lost glow, a bit shyly, she said softly.

Ning Wuxie smiled and opened his arms, and Xuan’er obediently was embraced. Soon after, Ning Wuxie carried Xuan’er home.

Ning Wuxie’s home had nothing but a bed; there were no decent pieces of furniture.

Jiang Ningxuan sat on the bed, curiously examining the drafty walls, with no hint of disdain on her face.

After all, she had not lived in a house for a long time!

Ning Wuxie washed her face and prepared some food to feed her.

Jiang Ningxuan’s little face turned rosy as she blinked her big eyes, watching Ning Wuxie feed her spoonful by spoonful.

There was no longer the previous coldness and vigilance in her eyes, and her little feet could not help but sway back and forth.

“Xuan’er, eat more. If you are full, you won’t feel cold at night.”

“In a few days, we will leave this place. I will get you a big house with a roof that doesn’t leak, okay?”

Jiang Ningxuan obediently nodded, which made Ning Wuxie even more delighted.

After eating, Xuan’er lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

She wanted to wait for Ning Wuxie to get into bed and sleep together, but the little girl was too tired today. Before long, her eyelids grew heavy, and she began to breathe evenly.

Ning Wuxie sat on the ground, starting to examine his own body.

With the cultivation experience from his previous life, Ning Wuxie was determined to work twice as hard in this life to achieve a higher realm!

“Once the Chaotic Defeat Body awakens, it will crazily absorb the spiritual power of heaven and earth.”

“This is also why it is called the Chaotic Defeat Body; not only does it awaken late, but it also carries the danger of cultivation going astray.”

Having lived again, Ning Wuxie was already well aware of his own physique, unlike the panic during the first awakening in his previous life.

At that time, he had just awakened and felt a trace of spiritual power in his body, excitedly jumping three feet high.

He immediately ran to the city and joined the local sect, the Zhenyuan Sect, and began his path of cultivation.

Perhaps this was also why he did not meet Jiang Ningxuan in his previous life.

Now, with the experience and memories of his previous life, he could grasp his own physique very well.

“In ten years, my Heavenly Fragrance Charm Body will also awaken, allowing me to achieve a faster cultivation speed than my peers.”

“At that time, I did not understand, but now, I can thoroughly master my own physique and will not waste a single moment, and I can even become stronger!”

“Li Luobing, let’s see who among us becomes the top of the Human Sect’s Talented List first in this life!”

In the previous life, Li Luobing began cultivating twenty years earlier than him and became the first genius of the Human Sect of that century!

Thus, it was only natural that he became a candidate for the Human Emperor of the Human Sect and successfully ascended to that position later.

In this life, although Ning Wuxie would not join the Human Sect, he would definitely Li Luobing to complete his revenge!

As for the cultivation techniques in this life, Ning Wuxie had long thought of them.

“‘Unbounded Sun Technique!”

Unbounded Sun Technique was a supreme inheritance he accidentally obtained from a relic in his previous life!

This set of techniques could perfectly utilize Ning Wuxie’s Chaotic Defeat Body, indiscriminately and violently absorbing the spiritual power of heaven and earth, refining it into cosmic stars with a more brutal force!

From three hundred and ten stars to two hundred and forty bright moons, cultivating to the extreme could even nurture ninety-nine blazing suns within the body, incredibly powerful!

However, when he obtained this technique in his previous life, he was already a cultivator at the Opening Profound Realm, so he cultivated a bit late.

In the end, he only managed to nurture twelve blazing suns.

The night grew deep, and listening to Xuan’er’s sleeping breaths behind him, Ning Wuxie cultivated the Unbounded Sun Technique.

“I remember that after awakening the Chaotic Defeat Body in my previous life, my body was automatically tempered to the Severing Meridians Realm within three days. That is the peak of the human path.”

Ning Wuxie clenched his fist, feeling the power within his body.

At that moment, the door was suddenly knocked on very violently, and there were also curses from outside.

Just as Ning Wuxie was about to get up, the wooden door was directly smashed open. Several ruffians with a swaggering demeanor barged into Ning Wuxie’s home.

“Damn, this kid is still alive.” One of the ruffians exclaimed in surprise.

“Damn it, he hasn’t eaten for three days and is still alive?!”

Ning Wuxie immediately understood that these people were here to collect his corpse.

Collecting a corpse actually meant tossing his body into a mass grave and later letting more people pay to move in.

But now, Ning Wuxie was awake.

The Black Tiger Gang was inhumane, ruthlessly exploiting and oppressing the already destitute poor.

Heaven knows how they would torment him.

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