Chapter 853 - The Hidden Dragon (1/2)

When Yang Shuxin saw the crowd’s reaction, he had imagined how Yuan Zhou’s Nine Dragon Sculpture would look like. He wondered if it would be a version that stuck closely to tradition like his or would if he would be innovative and sculpt the Nine Dragon Fish, a rather famous modern sculpture or even the Nine Lizard that was more popular among the youths. Any of these would not surprise Yang Shuxin as he was confident he could beat any of them.

He saw himself as an open-minded elder. Even the kids of his own family were only expected to fail less, instead of getting good grades like how other families would. Yang Shuxin was confident that not many parents could be as open as him.

Yang Shuxin was already mentally prepared to see anything, but the instant he laid eyes on Yuan Zhou’s work, his pupils shrunk as he was stunned right where he stood.

He was truly stunned as he blurted, “Cloud Dragon? You sculpted Cloud Dragon?”

Yuan Zhou nodded and did not say anything as his work spoke louder than words.

In China, many things were separated between the north and south. The same applied to the ice sculpting field. Cloud Dragon was a representative of the south’s ice sculpting, like what the Horned Dragon was to the north. Although Yang Shuxin was from the north, he still had long admired the reputable Cloud Dragon.

The south had a saying that “The Cloud Dragon resents being paired.” The origin of this saying was the fact that it was extremely hard to sculpt two Cloud Dragons at once. Even sculpting one was extremely hard. But now, there were nine of these Cloud Dragons here.

“Nine Cloud Dragon Lines, one of the two grand ice sculptures of the south. I have finally gotten to see one with my own eyes today,” Yang Shuxin sighed repeatedly. Each of the dragons was amid the clouds. The dragons and clouds had clearly converged perfectly as well. When Yang Shuxin saw this, his confidence of victory vanished.

“Eleven points.”

Yang Shuxin gave Yuan Zhou 11 out of 10 points. In a sense, Yang Shuxin was victorious as well as he had managed to break through the self-imposed fetters on him. But in this competition, he felt like he had still been defeated by Yuan Zhou.

Strictly speaking, Yuan Zhou had performed far better than usual today. If he was told to sculpt the same thing again, the possibility of him failing would be extremely high.

The score Yuan Zhou had given Yang Shuxin’s sculpture was 10 points.

With complicated emotions, Yang Shuxin slowly kept his things away. He planned to carefully transport his ice sculpture away as well. To the side, Old Yan started to surreptitiously make a phone call.

As for Yuan Zhou, he had his head drooped down. For one, he was very exhausted. At the same time, he was inwardly pleased with himself as he had successfully tricked them all with his ice sculpture. There was one aspect of his ice sculpture that Yang Shuxin and the others had not noticed.

From the front, one could see three cloud dragons. From the left, there were two cloud dragons, and from the back, there were two cloud dragons as well. Finally, from the right, there was one cloud dragon. In total, there were only eight dragons. Yang Shuxin, the crowd, and even Old Yan and Old Gu had not noticed this.

Yang Shuxin had missed that because he was in a state of shock after witnessing a Nine Cloud Dragon Lines before him. As for the crowd, there were too many people for them to have a good look from all angles. Some of them were also too far away to even get a proper look.

As for Old Gu and Old Yan, both were too busy plotting their own schemes. And thus, the dragon consisting of a single line hidden amid the sculpture went unnoticed. In truth, apart from being known as Nine Cloud Dragon Lines, this sculpture could also be named The Nine Transformations of One Dragon Amid The Clouds.

Yang Shuxin had only found out about that in the future after an accidental exposure. At that time, he had an extremely complicated feeling.

In any case, that was in the future and was of no importance now. Yang Shuxin had gained a lot from this competition. For example, he realized that he should change his attitude towards his son.

And what would this new attitude be? Yuan Zhou would know more.

With the Queuing Committee keeping order, the large crowd started leaving. After everything settled down, Old Yan approached Yuan Zhou to discuss about something.

In a way, competing against a master was very satisfying. Yuan Zhou personally felt comfortable in both body and mind after the competition. At that night, it drizzled with light rain.

Night arrived.

Although Yuan Zhou was tired, he still needed to open the restaurant for dinner time.

It was extremely troublesome to preserve ice sculptures and Yuan Zhou’s restaurant did not have the facilities to do so.