Chapter 2: She Was Just a Pitiful Little Girl (Part 2)

Ning Wuxie looked at Jiang Ningxuan’s pitiful and helpless appearance, and his heart couldn’t help but soften a bit.

“Xuan’er, listen to me.” He gently shook Jiang Ningxuan’s slender shoulders, and she turned her head from staring at the bonfire.

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

“I am an orphan just like you. My parents died a long time ago during a famine.”

“Just like your grandfather, they died protecting me.”

“After that, I went through a lot and did many things just to survive. So I know how difficult it is for someone to survive in this world.”

Ning Wuxie’s words caught Jiang Ningxuan’s attention. Her eyes were no longer dull and lifeless but had a glimmer of light as she earnestly looked at Ning Wuxie.

“If you think I’m trustworthy, I’m willing to adopt you as my sister. I’ll protect you like your grandfather did. From now on, you won’t go hungry because I’ll take care of you.”

Ning Wuxie held onto Jiang Ningxuan’s small shoulders and looked into her watery eyes.

In the dark night, the burning bonfire cast warm and dim light on their faces.

Looking at Jiang Ningxuan’s surprised expression on her tender little face, Ning Wuxie was actually unsure.

He didn’t know if Jiang Ningxuan would agree.

But looking at her thin and weak figure, the strength forged through hardships and wandering hidden beneath her vulnerability made Ning Wuxie truly feel sorry for her.

Moreover, this young girl in front of him would eventually become the unrivaled Empress who would shake the entire Lingwu Continent!

Two rare geniuses who only appear once every ten thousand years, what would happen if they didn’t oppose each other but stood together…?

Jiang Ningxuan looked at the handsome and affable face of Ning Wuxie. After thinking for a while, she nodded.

“Brother… you’re trustworthy.”

“Then, are you willing to follow me as your brother?”

“…I’m willing.”

Jiang Ningxuan’s eyes lit up with a long-lost radiance. She blushed slightly and shyly spoke.

Ning Wuxie smiled and opened his arms, and Ningxuan obediently nestled into his embrace. Before long, he carried her to bed.

In Ning Wuxie’s home, besides a bed, there were no decent furnishings.

Jiang Ningxuan sat on the bed, curiously looking around at the drafty walls without any hint of disgust on her face.

After all, it had been a long time since she had lived in a house!

Ning Wuxie washed her face and fed her some food.

With a blush on her small face, Jiang Ningxuan blinked her big eyes as she watched Ning Wuxie feed her spoonful by spoonful.

There was no longer any coldness or guardedness in her eyes. Her little feet couldn’t help but sway back and forth.

“Eat more, so you won’t be cold at night.”

“In a few days, we’ll leave this place. Brother will find you a house with a roof that doesn’t leak. How about that?”

Jiang Ningxuan obediently nodded, making Ning Wuxie like her even more.

After eating, Jiang Ningxuan lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

She wanted to wait for Ning Wuxie to come to bed together, but the little girl was too tired today. In just a moment, her eyelids drooped, and she began breathing evenly in sleep.

Ning Wuxie sat on the floor and began examining his own body.

With the experience of cultivation from his previous life, Ning Wuxie was determined to work twice as hard in this life and achieve even higher realms!

“Once the Primal Chaos Body awakens, it will crazily absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth without refining it for oneself.”

“That’s why it’s called a defeated body. It awakens late and is dangerous to cultivate without refining.”

In this life, Ning Wuxie knew his physique inside out, unlike when he first awakened in his previous life.

At that time, he had just awakened and felt a trace of spiritual energy in his body. He jumped with excitement and ran to the city to join the local sect’s Daoist temple, starting on the path of cultivation.

Perhaps that was why he didn’t meet Jiang Ningxuan in his previous life.

But now, with the experience and memories of cultivation techniques from his previous life, he could fully grasp his own physique.

“In ten years, my Celestial Charm Body will also awaken. Through dual cultivation, I can achieve a faster cultivation speed than my peers.”

“At that time, I didn’t understand. Now I can completely control my own physique without wasting even a bit of time. I can even become stronger!”

“Luobing, let’s see who becomes the number one genius on the Human Race Genius List first this time!”

In his previous life, Luo Bing started cultivating twenty years earlier than him and became the number one genius of their generation after a hundred years!

Consequently, Luobing naturally became a candidate for becoming Emperor later on.

In this life, although Ning Wuxie wouldn’t join any sects or factions like Luobing did, he still had to find Luobing and seek revenge!

As for cultivating techniques in this life… Ning Wuxie had long thought about it.

“The Unbounded Sun Technique!”

The Unbounded Sun Technique was a emperor-grade inheritance he accidentally obtained in some ruins in his previous life!

This technique could perfectly utilize Ning Wuxie’s Primal Chaos Body physique, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth without discrimination and refining it into the power of the universe with a more domineering force within his body.

From three hundred and ten stars to two hundred and forty bright moons, reaching the pinnacle, even nurturing ninety-nine blazing suns within his body. It was incredibly powerful!

However, when he obtained this technique in his previous life, he was already at the Opening Profound Realm, so he started cultivating late.

In the end, he only nurtured twelve blazing suns of power.

It was late at night. Listening to Jiang Ningxuan’s steady breathing behind her, Ning Wuxie cultivated the Unbounded Sun Technique.

“I remember that after awakening my Primal Chaos Body in my previous life, my body automatically refined itself to the Severing Meridians Realm within three days. That is the peak realm of human cultivation.”

Ning Wuxie clenched his fist and felt the power inside his body.

Just then, there was a loud crash at the door followed by cursing voices.

Ning Wuxie was about to get up when the wooden door was directly smashed open. Several thugs barged into Ning Wuxie’s home with an arrogant demeanor.

“Damn! This kid is still alive.” One of them exclaimed in surprise.

“Fuck! He fainted for three days without eating. How can he still be alive?!”

Ning Wuxie immediately understood that these people had come to collect his corpse.

To say they were collecting corpses meant they would throw him onto a mass grave and then rent out this place for silver coins from others to live in.

But now, Ning Wuxie had awakened.

They had no humanity left and ruthlessly exploited and oppressed the poor people living in slums.

Who knows how they would treat him?

Only time will tell.

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