Chapter 545 – Ice and Snow Have Never Been Smart (1/2)
Chapter 545 - Ice and Snow Have Never Been Smart
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
This Daoist surnamed Wu was not the least bit famous. In his entire life, he had only written three books, one of which was this illustrated collection of arrays. At the very beginning, Chen Changsheng had only casually glanced through this book, not holding much hope, but the more he read, the more he felt that something was wrong—the arrays that this Daoist surnamed Wu had recorded in this illustrated collection were all very simple, even somewhat clumsy. To those who had succeeded in cultivating the Dao, they weren't even worth a sneer, but in a few of this book's pages, he faintly sensed traces of the Boiling Stone Forest Array.
As time slowly passed, Chen Changsheng continued to study the book. He wasn't apprehensive or jittery in the least, his eyes calm and firm.
He had promised the Black Dragon that he would save her, so he would definitely do so. This year he could not, next year he could not, but there would eventually come a year when he could. He firmly believed that the Black Dragon would definitely not be imprisoned underground for another several centuries. Of course, all this was predicated on the basis that he would live past the age of twenty.
”Several nights ago, I saw a burning sword…it was so formidable.”
A cold and clear voice resounded from behind him. At some point, the Black Dragon had noiselessly floated behind him. When the Black Dragon mentioned the burning sword, a hint of fear flickered through the depths of its dragon eyes. ”That was…Su Li's sword?”
Chen Changsheng had long since ascertained the Black Dragon's gender, but he was still somewhat unaccustomed to hearing this sort of voice.
On the ten-thousand-li journey back south, because the Black Dragon had helped him suppress his injuries, she had consumed too much of her divine soul and spent most of the time asleep, but she was forced to admit that there was one other important reason she did not wake up: because she did not want to be discovered by Su Li.
At the time, Su Li was severely wounded, even weaker than a normal human, but the Black Dragon still held an instinctual fear of him. In the very first meeting by the hot springs in the snowy mountains, she had sensed that Su Li's sword…had once killed many of her race, even members that were stronger than her.
”Senior Su Li and the Divine Empress fought a battle. The final result…should be a tie, I think?”
”And what of you? You haven't come to see me for so many days. You must be very busy, but busy with what?”
”I was studying books related to arrays.”
Chen Changsheng glanced up at the two massive images of the Divine Generals on the stone wall, then continued, ”…the rest of the time, I was preparing for a battle.”
”You're the next Pope—who dares to challenge you?”
”Many people.”
”You can not fight with them.”
”I can't with that person.”
”Who?”
”Xu Yourong.”
”…that fiancée of yours?”
For some inexplicable reason, the Black Dragon's voice became much more indifferent, its tone becoming much flatter.
Chen Changsheng did not notice this, saying, ”I also don't know if she is or is not my fiancée.”
Complex emotions flashed through the Black Dragon's eyes as it said, ”Tell me about it.”
After a moment's hesitation, he gave the Black Dragon a full account of what had happened in these past few days, whether it was the events before and after the Bridge of Helplessness or when he entered the palace in the snowy night. He didn't even conceal from it his subtlest and innermost emotions.
This was the first time he had narrated these matters between him and Xu Yourong. Although he had told Tang Thirty-Six, he had definitely left out a few details. But he hid absolutely nothing from the Black Dragon who had saved his life several times and who he deeply trusted—although he knew that with the almost endless life essence of the Dragon race, this Black Dragon had barely entered its youth, since it had already lived several centuries, he subconsciously treated the Black Dragon as a virtuous senior worthy of respect.
In brief, he deeply trusted the Black Dragon and also found it very convenient, so he said many things to it without excluding a single detail.
The underground space was peaceful, but then a sheet of frost suddenly appeared on the stone wall, covering the faces of those two legendary Divine Generals.
The Black Dragon floated down, Chen Changsheng reflected in its pitch-black eyes. Then, it slowly opened its mouth.
In his last few visits to New North Bridge, whenever Chen Changsheng researched the array and became mentally and physically exhausted from thinking of ways to help the Black Dragon break free of Wang Zhice's imprisonment, the Black Dragon would lower its noble head and breath out a faint and delightfully cold dragon breath. With its help, Chen Changsheng was able to drive away his exhaustion and refresh his mind, similar to the scene just a moment ago.
Chen Changsheng was already used to this, so when he saw the Black Dragon move, he very naturally closed his eyes, preparing to welcome the coolness speckled with frost.
With a howl, a low and somber dragon cry rose up.
Dragon breath fell upon Chen Changsheng's head and body.
This was not a cool breath speckled with frost, but the true dragon breath of the Black Frost Dragon.
In an instant, Chen Changsheng's body was frozen into a crystal-clear block of ice.
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Water lightly slapped against the block of ice, sloshing as it did.
This was not the Luo River, but the small pool in the Imperial Palace. Due to an array, the Imperial Palace experienced spring in every season of the year. Although the pool was small, it had not frozen.
To Chen Changsheng, this was both good and bad.
A massive transparent block of ice bobbed up and down in the pool, his frozen body within.
The liquid state of the pond was a good thing because the sloshing of the water would melt the ice as quickly as possible. But it was also bad because the water in the pool was constantly bobbing up and down and the block of ice could not settle down, rolling over on occasion. Within, he found all this very difficult to endure and also very embarrassing.
The emotion of embarrassment would normally occur when one was discovered in an embarrassing situation.
If no one saw, then no matter if one was like Tang Thirty-Six, hugging a tree in a snowy forest while endlessly hiccupping, or if one was like now, in a block of ice bobbing up and down with the waves, none of it mattered. The reason Chen Changsheng felt so embarrassed at this moment was that there had been a person watching him from the start.
To be precise, it was not a person.
The Black Goat stood by the pool, its head slightly tilted as it gazed at the frozen him in the pool.