Emperor of Nine Suns - Chapter 57

Chapter 57: My Spoils Of War Is A Dragon

What did it mean to have been an external disciple? An external disciple was only a disciple in name, but had not been different from regular servants. She had been the noble eldest miss of Secret Sky Sect. If someone were to have found out that she prostrated herself before a servant, how embarrassing would it have been?

Yet in order to coax Chu Chen’s agreement, she had acted like a coy little girl, like how she would have simpered to her father. If news of that spread, she would have never been able to live with the shame!

Right that moment, rage-filled her heart as she shouted. Having waved her sword, she manifested a vicious sword-light with a brilliant radiance. It had been the most terrifying style among the Six Flying Sword Styles of Secret Sky Sect—Sun Piercing Rainbow.

“You’re really unreasonable!”

Chu Chen’s face turned serious. No matter how well-tempered he had been, this crazy girl had somehow managed to have angered him. In a single move, he turned into a grey shadow and arrived before Leng Qianxue. His finger had been clad in a scorching light that slammed into the sword’s hilt forcefully with a single prod.

That strike had been filled with his anger. He poured all the force behind his fingers into the weak point of Leng Qianxue’s sword technique. To her, it felt like she had been struck by lightning. Her hand shuddered and she dropped her sword on the floor.

“You’re the one that lost to me and wanted to be my disciple. I disagreed and you’re being difficult. What logic is this? Why do I have to be your master just because you want to? No matter how overbearing you are, there should be a limit!”

“Y-y-you…” Leng Qianxue had been aggravated, but she had been too embarrassed to have admitted that she mistook him for a great expert. Having been reprimanded by him, the rage within her welled up but she had no words to have retorted him. She pointed her trembling finger at Chu Chen. “Y-y-you…” She stuttered for quite some time but could not find the words.

“Y-y-you’re too much!”

Unable to win against him and having been in the wrong, Leng Qianxue had been at the verge of crying. She stomped her foot and picked up her sword. In a flash, she took flight and left the snow pit.

“I never want to see you again!”

The shout came from outside with a slight whimpering in it. Chu Chen had been dumbfounded and patted his head subconsciously.

After having left the snow pit, the two of them headed off in different directions. Leng Qianxue steeled her face, having refused to communicate with Chu Chen.

Chu Chen had nothing to say. It appears that his pretty pet still required quite some training.

Boom!

With a sudden explosion, countless ice blocks dropped in from the roof of the ice cave. A hole with sunlight shining through appeared before him.

“Chu Chen!”

Qing Yue crawled in through the tunnel with a shovel in her hand. Her face had been covered in shaved ice but made a brilliant smile the moment she had seen Chu Chen.

“Senior Sister Qing Yue, thank you so much.”

Chu Chen knew that Qing Yue must have been digging with all her might all these while in order to have rescued him from the piled up snow from the avalanche.

“It’s nothing.” Qing Yue shook her head. “It’s good that you’re safe. Let’s leave this place.”

Chu Chen nodded, then turned around to have looked at Leng Qianxue who had been sitting in the lotus position on the other side of the snow cave. “Missy, let’s leave quickly. If the snow cave sinks again, you’ll never make it out.”

Leng Qianxue harrumphed, “Drop your nice guy act. I’ll never forgive you for toying with me by impersonating an expert. Nevertheless, I’ll eventually repay you for saving my life. May our paths never cross again.”

Chu Chen had been struck speechless once again and could have only left the snow cave.

Chu Chen followed Qing Yue out of the snow cave. The world opened up before him as he was met with broad, endless skies and the occasional icy breeze. For Chu Chen who had been stuck in the snow cave for a long time, it had been a great indescribable feeling of comfort.

Above the snow cave, everyone held onto a shovel, even Li Tian. His arrogance had completely subdued Chu Chen, having respected Chu Chen as a genius from the bottom of his heart. It would have been a shame if he died in the avalanche while having tried to save everyone.

That was why he had been digging day and night with everyone, all of them hoped to have rescued Chu Chen as soon as possible.

“Junior Brother Chu.”

The scrawny Liu Bo waved excitedly at him. He had always been bad at expressing himself, but at that moment, his excitement had been overflowing. He really idolized Chu Chen from the bottom of his heart.

Having killed the snow python that had transformed into a scale dragon in one hit. That had been a monstrous feat. To top it off, Chu Chen had not even condensed his spiritual droplet.

Fang Yong, who had been throwing all sorts of mockery at Chu Chen had fully been convinced ever since Chu Chen slaughtered the snow dire wolves. Now that he had seen Chu Chen killing the snow python all by himself in order to have saved everyone, his respect for him grew to the point of having recognized him as the god of war in his heart.

“Thank you everyone for your past few days of hard work.”

While Chu Chen greeted the group formally and offered his gratitude, the three remaining disciples from the Secret Sky Sect quickly clambered into the snow cave to have rescued Leng Qianxue.

“Junior Brother Chu, you’re the one that killed this snow python, therefore the spoils of war will belong to you alone. How would you like to settle it?” Qing Yue smiled while pointing at the colossal corpse that had been still half buried in the snow.

‘How is this a snow python? It’s obviously a dragon corpse.’ From a distance, the huge python’s body looked as though it had been casted from silver. It had a mysterious masculinity feel to it.

Due to the top half of its body having turned into a scale dragon, even its scales appeared to have been crystallized. Its body had been magnificent and terrifying!

“Junior Brother, you’ve struck the jackpot this time. A snow python that transformed into a scaled dragon is considered to be filled with treasures. Its bones, flesh, scales, sinews, and gallbladder are worth a fortune. This entire snow python is definitely worth upwards of a thousand spirit stones. Moreover, it also has many things that can’t be bought with money.” Qing Yue smiled radiantly.

Liu Bo and Fang Yong both looked at him enviously. Although Li Tian acted indifferently, his gaze had been scanning around the treasure trove that was the snow python all that while.

“The corpse of the snow python is huge, I can’t take them all with me. Let’s work on it together. I’ll pick the parts I need, and then we’ll have Senior Sister Qing Yue distribute it among us.”

Hearing those words from Chu Chen, their eyes lit up brightly. The snow python had been killed by Chu Chen, so they could not have said anything even if he took everything, much less if he had been only going to pick certain parts.

Moreover, he had generously passed the distribution rights to Qing Yue. She had always been a fair person.

Liu Bo could not have helped but lamented in his heart, ‘Junior Brother Chu is such a generous person.’

Liu Bo specialized in harvesting and knew better than all of them the worth of the transformed snow python.

Every part of the transformed snow python had been considered a treasure. Its scales could be refined into protective gears and magical weapons. Its skin could also have been used to create magical clothing. The scaled dragon meat had been rich in icy Qi with its quality higher than level-1 elixirs. They were considered precious treasures to cultivators that focused on ice elemental spells.

Scaled dragon blood contained an endless life force and could be used to refine some miraculous elixirs that granted life to those almost dying. Scaled dragon tendons had unrivaled flexibility that made it a highly sought after material in refining magical bows.

Furthermore, there had been scaled dragon marrow, gallbladder, heart, lungs, and so on. Every single part of it was a treasure. Putting all others aside, even if they were to have just roasted its meat and eaten it, it would have provided the cultivators a great boost for their physical body, even better than some level-1 elixirs that tempered the body.