Emperor of Nine Suns

Chapter 55: Boy And Girl Within The Snow Pit

Around an hour later, accompanied by a long wheezing sound, Leng Qianxue moaned as she opened her eyes. In her vision, everything in the snowpit had been covered by a layer of white mist. It was as though she had been on a cloud in heaven, beautiful and dreamy.

“Phew…” Chu Chen let out a breath of relief, just to see the girl before him had stiffened up in an instant. She then swiftly turned to look him straight in the eyes. Her beautiful black eyes were locked onto him.

“Calm down. I’m the one that saved you.” Having seen Leng Qianxue being on alert, Chu Chen shook his head and smiled helplessly.

“Who are you?” Having been stuck with a man in such a cramped space together made Leng Qianxue nervous. She subconsciously took a look at her own clothes. Fortunately, although her clothes had been stained with some blood, it was still intact and showed no signs of being tampered with. With that, she let out a sigh of relief.

“I’m Chu Chen, a disciple of the Crystal Spring Sect.” Chu Chen frowned. Finally, he still could not have resisted complaining, “Did you know that you’d be long dead if not for me. Why are you so stubborn? That snow python was not something you can handle.”

“You’re the one that killed the snow python?” Leng Qianxue was shocked. She checked Chu Chen out carefully. Given his incredibly young appearance and the shallow vibration of his spiritual energy, it had been obvious that he had yet to have reached the stage of condensing his spiritual droplets.

‘Is this really the expert that killed the snow python?’ Leng Qianxue could have clearly remembered her Flying Meteors, although powerful, it had only been able to cause some minor damage to the snow python. After that, she could have only vaguely remembered being saved by someone.

Back then, she only remembered that person killing the snow python at a very critical moment. Otherwise, the spell that carried a hint of draconic oppression would have turned her to dust if it had been set off successfully.

“Who else could it be?” The corner of Chu Chen’s mouth twitched. To be honest, he was not a big fan of arrogant girls that acted as though the entire world were in their debt. He still preferred cute and innocent girls like his little junior sister.

“You?” Leng Qianxue gave him a sideward glance and laughed out loudly. She had not even bothered to have hid the condescension in her eyes.

“Yes, me!”

Seeing Leng Qianxue’s expression stirred up the anger within Chu Chen’s heart. ‘As my pet, how dare you doubt your master?’ His brows immediately tightened into a frown. “As the eldest miss of the Secret Sky Sect, don’t you know how to say a simple thank you after being saved? How uncivilized!”

“What did you say!?” Leng Qianxue’s brows shot up and her seductive eyes emanated a cold aura. “It’s not that I’m looking down on you, but with your level of cultivation, how did you kill the snow python?”

Chu Chen rubbed his nose and sighed helplessly. The next moment, he charged suddenly while he shouted, “Left shoulder!”

In an instant, his body turned into a blurry grey shadow that appeared beside Leng Qianxue in a flash. He pointed his finger and lightly prodded her alluring shoulder.

“Like this!”

His speed had just been too fast, so fast that by the time Leng Qianxue reacted, Chu Chen had already been back where he started. The sight of that had Leng Qianxue look at him wide eyed. The next moment, a cold glow flashed in those alluring eyes of hers.

“What’s the use of an ambush? I’d like to try and see just how strong you are!”

With that said, Leng Qianxue waved her arm. The Divine Snow Prison Sword blossomed into six afterimages and had Chu Chen surrounded from all directions.

The so-called sword blossom had been the manifestation of the sword strike’s afterimages when attacked quickly in an instant. It had been the sign of someone having trained their sword technique to an incredibly high level. If a regular cultivator had been able to have produced one complete sword afterimage, that person’s sword technique had been considered to have been a major achievement. Leng Qianxue had been able to have produced six sword afterimages with just one strike. That put to show the level of her sword techniques.

With that level of skill, she would have been able to have fought against experts of the early stages of Spiritual Droplets Stage with a sword even without using any spiritual power!

“Flashy and redundant!”

Chu Chen’s gaze focused. As he watched the six dazzling sword afterimages flashed coldly as it came at him, he grunted softly and made a flicking motion. His finger managed to accurately locate the sword’s true body within the afterimages and flicked on its flat side at an incredible angle. In an instant, a crisp and clear sound rang out, having caused the swords’ afterimages around him to have dispersed immediately.

“Y-y-you!”

This time, Leng Qianxue had truly been shocked. Even within the entire Secret Sky Sect, the number of people that could have nullified her sword technique with just a simple flick could have been counted with one hand, and all of them had been big shots that made a name for themselves.

She had absolute confidence in the speed of her sword strikes. In order to have found the flaw in her own sword afterimages, one would have needed to have the foresight and reaction at the level of a grandmaster or above to have done so!

‘A person like that would at least be an elder in whatever sect that person joined! How could such a person look so young?

‘Right! Rumor has it that some seniors with a high cultivation level would live in hiding and had ways to hide their age. Even when over a hundred years old, their appearance would still be that of a teenager.

‘Could it be that this teenager is one such hidden expert? No wonder I had mistaken his cultivation level to be at a low level. How could I see through the cultivation level of such a cultivator in hiding?!

‘However…this teenager before me has such a pure look in his eyes. He doesn’t seem to be lying, nor does he look like a senior in hiding. What’s going on?’

Leng Qianxue’s gaze seemed to have been filled with doubt. After some consideration, she made up her mind and waved her sword, once again having struck at Chu Chen. No matter the case, one’s ability could not have been faked!

The Divine Snow Prison Sword burst forth in a flash. With a slight vibration, it produced a dazzling sword-light in the air.

That was one of Secret Sky Sect’s mid-tier sword styles named Flying Rainbow Style. It was ranked among the Six Flying Swords Styles. Once the sword Qi is drawn, it would have been like a rainbow that cut through the skies with intense coldness. It would have been able to have decapitated an opponent hundreds of kilometers away. Upon having reached higher levels, its power would have been comparable to the Flying Meteors technique.

The powerful technique of Sun Piercing Rainbow had greatly increased when executed with the spiritual weapon Divine Snow Prison Sword. In the blink of an eye, a brightly-colored rainbow formed from sword-light had been manifested in midair and flew towards Chu Chen with an overwhelming force.

“This technique is quite something. However, the sword-light is overly condensed. Its power is overwhelming but it lacks agility. It’s very easily evaded! No matter how strong the sword technique, it’s a waste of effort if you can’t hit!”

Chu Chen scoffed. As the sword Qi approached him, his body curled and found an opening in the sky filled with sword-lights. He then extended his finger to have made another flick, accurately having located the opening in the sword’s Qi within the multitude of sword-lights and hit the sword’s body in an instant, having nullified the technique.