Chapter 33: Friend (1/2)

Chapter 33: Friend

After a day of rest, Cloud Leopard felt much better.

This was all thanks to Su Chen’s medicine. Otherwise, there would have been no way for him to have recovered so quickly.

Cloud Leopard felt that he once again owed something to Su Chen!

Naturally, the first time was when Su Chen had given him the Thunder Blade skill.

Although it was for this reason that Bai Ou and the others had tried to kill him, Cloud Leopard never blamed Su Chen for it, and neither did he think that Su Chen owed him something because of it.

He had grown up on the streets. He had only chanced upon an absorption technique unintentionally in a trash pile, embarking on his journey of cultivation.

Because he had no money nor background, he had to use all of his available resources to procure just a single Origin Skill.

Even if they were just low-tier Origin Skills, people would sell them for sky-high prices. Cloud Leopard was forced to fight and kill over and over for them. He used his bloody victories to amuse those with great status in order to give himself an opportunity.

No one had ever given him an Origin Skill for free before.

Su Chen was the first and only one to do so.

How could being chased after for this reason be considered anything? One time, in order to win an Origin Skill, he had won five times in a row in an arena of death. Which person in that arena was not a vicious character? And which one of them hadn’t also crawled out from a pile of corpses before?

In addition, Su Chen never harbored any negative intentions.

Thus, when Cloud Leopard had first been injured and ran to find Su Chen, it wasn’t so that he could be treated – he didn’t even know that Su Chen was an alchemist in the first place. He just wanted to let Su Chen know that he was in danger.

Unexpectedly, Su Chen had helped him once again.

In Cloud Leopard’s mind, he owed Su Chen twice already.

Cloud Leopard wasn’t someone who was good at expressing his gratitude. Although he really was thankful for what Su Chen had done for him, he didn’t know how to express it.

Thankfully, even if he didn’t know what to say, he knew what to do.

After mulling it over for a day, he finally made his decision.

At that moment, he heard some noise outside his door.

It was Su Chen.

Cloud Leopard opened the door to find Su Chen currently engaged in conversation with Shi Kaihuang.

Upon hearing the door open, Su Chen glanced at Cloud Leopard and chuckled. “You look much better already.”

Cloud Leopard strode forwards. “I’m already recovered, so I’ll be taking my leave.”

Su Chen was caught off-guard. “You’ve mostly recovered, but your wounds may have hidden damage. It’d be better if you stay here a bit longer so that I can take a look.”

“I can’t. There’s something urgent I need to take care of.” Cloud Leopard shook his head.

“What is it?”

“I am going to go kill Bai Ou so that he can’t bother you anymore,” Cloud Leopard replied sincerely.

“Bai Ou?” Su Chen was stunned.

Cloud Leopard nodded vigorously. “You helped me twice already. I’ll pay you back by taking care of him for you.”

It took some time for Su Chen to understand what Cloud Leopard meant. He reached out helplessly and pointed to the side. “There’s a small door there. Open it and take a look.”

Cloud Leopard didn’t understand what Su Chen was trying to say, but he still obediently walked over and opened the door. He found five people lying on the ground in disarray.

One of the people there was Bai Ou.

Cloud Leopard’s jaw dropped to the floor.

Hu turned around and stared at Su Chen in disbelief. “How did you get them all here?”

Su Chen replied, “I carried them all on my back with a burlap sack. It was kind of hard, but there was nothing I could do. After all, there’s no way I could have just openly escorted them back into the Institute.”

“……”

Cloud Leopard felt quite embarrassed.

Su Chen laughed. “Okay, okay, I was just messing with you. I found a few helpers to set a trap for them in the Falling Eagle Mountain, and they jumped right in. If you wanted to use them to repay me, I’m sorry about that. But don’t worry, I don’t care too much about that. I’ll be happy if you just agree to be my friend.”

He reached his hand out towards Cloud Leopard.

Friends?

Cloud Leopard stared at Su Chen in shock.