Free Web NovelChapter 1579: Chapter 1559: Jie and Plunder
"You two go grab the stuff, I’ll see if we can take him with us." Lady Xue’s expression turned rather cold.
To an injured old man, he might be a burden, but to them, this was a blow against the Snow Palace.
To Luo Qianqian, though, this was terrible news... after all, that Haan Bing’s younger brother had been killed by her own hands...
Big Black and Xiao Hei followed Luo Qianqian out of the room without the slightest concern, and they had no objections at all to the statement that Lady Xue was the number one powerhouse of the Northern Lands.
"What do we do now?" Luo Qianqian pulled a long face as she slowly shuffled toward the room ahead. The key was clamped in Big Black’s mouth; she hadn’t touched it herself. She just felt a bit grossed out, and kept having the feeling that this old fellow could chomp her fingers off at any moment...
Why?
She’d killed his kid—blood debts are paid in blood, that much she understood perfectly well, okay? And even though the old man looked a bit strange, she still had to admit this was a very intimidating look.
The defenses on this room were clearly different from the others; the door of this room was actually made of Mystic Iron Essence...
For a moment, Luo Qianqian really had the urge to just pack the door up and haul it away; this was prime Artifact Refining material.
It just wasn’t that important to her personally. She usually used whatever Weapons and talisman tools were already on hand, so her demand for Weapons wasn’t that high.
One girl and two beasts cleaned out everything in the room and packed it all away, not leaving so much as a single hair.
After leaving, they even made sure to shut the door properly and lock it, not caring in the least that the people left behind wouldn’t be able to open it again.
Big Black also casually took the key with him, with no intention of leaving it behind.
When they got back to the room, they saw Lady Xue still wrestling with the chains. A towering chill wrapped around the chains, making them hard as stone, a thick layer of frost crusted over their surface.
Except for the chain around the old man’s neck.
Next came a flurry of punches slamming down, her face written full of seriousness, her expression carrying a biting cold.
"Krak, krak."
The chains shattered link by link and clattered to the floor, the fractured ends flashing with metallic light and radiating waves of icy air.
Luo Qianqian couldn’t help being shocked as well.
What was this operation?
After being exposed to extremely low temperatures, even metal becomes extremely brittle, which was why it could be smashed so easily.
Only, if this weren’t the Far North, even Lady Xue’s heart would have been willing but her strength insufficient.
Next she simply drew out a longsword, and swung it at the wall where the chain around the old man’s neck was fixed.
Luo Qianqian only felt a cutting Sword Qi and icy wind rushing at her face, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into snowflakes drifting down in front of her and Big Black, Xiao Hei.
Lady Xue gave the chain a yank. "Let’s go. We’ll leave first. I imagine it won’t be long before they notice something’s wrong here."
"They won’t. Normally, no one can come in here. They just brought me water and food, so..." The old man’s expression held a faint forbearance. "But since I’m leaving, there’s no reason to leave the things in here to them! Take it all!"
As he spoke, anger flared across his face. He had no intention of hiding his true feelings in front of Lady Xue anymore.
After all, he had no combat ability whatsoever; his Dantian had been destroyed, and he had nowhere on him to hide any Weapon. Naturally, Lady Xue wasn’t worried.
And so, under Lady Xue’s lead, Luo Qianqian robbed the Snow Palace’s treasure vault.
From secret Storehouse Cultivation Techniques and Secret Manuals to precious Spiritual Herbs and Medicines, the only thing Luo Qianqian found a pity was that she didn’t see any actual money.
Isn’t the whole point that a Sect’s foundation is supposed to be like a mountain of gold and silver, saved up for making a comeback someday?
Lady Xue was speechless at Luo Qianqian’s line of thought. A Sect wasn’t a merchant house; having money didn’t mean you could just make a comeback. For a Sect, the most important thing was, of course, inheritance—the Cultivation Techniques, Secret Manuals, elixirs, and Weapons. freewebnovёl.ƈom
It was just that there weren’t any Weapons here at all, which she also found quite surprising.
But once the robbing was more or less done, she didn’t want to waste any more time. She took out a bolt of white silk and draped it over the old man, her face written full of ice-cold resolve.
They retraced their steps.
The old man turned his head to look at the treasure vault behind them, a hint of mockery in his eyes. "I’d like to see how this Snow Palace, with its inheritance severed, plans to ’flourish’."
With that, he pulled the white silk over his head, looking for all the world like a bride about to be married with her veil lowered. The difference was, a bride’s veil was a festive red, while the old man’s was a sheet of white.
Hearing the old man’s words, Luo Qianqian’s thoughts churned, but she couldn’t figure out what exactly was going on. She just planned to wait for Lady Xue’s explanation.
Once they left the secret passage, Lady Xue just grabbed the old man with one hand and flitted away, not leaving a single footprint behind.
Luo Qianqian and Big Black, Xiao Hei followed after her. Her eyes spun, and she casually picked up a Stone and carved a few words on it, then set it down with the carved side facing down before turning away in high spirits.
She only wrote six characters.
"Nine Heavens rise, Snow Palace dies."
The Nine Heavens Pavilion and the Snow Palace were already locked in a you-live-I-die standoff, so there wasn’t anything in particular that needed to be hidden to keep people from realizing she’d left that behind.
She just didn’t expect that, a long time later—so long that everything had already settled—this Stone would finally be discovered...
When they got back to the cave, though, they found that the others still hadn’t woken up. Luo Qianqian could only gnaw on bread in boredom while waiting for Lady Xue and the old man to tell their story.
Seeing the look on Luo Qianqian’s face, the old man inexplicably started laughing. "You’re waiting for me to explain, aren’t you?"
Luo Qianqian nodded as a matter of course, and even poured a pot of cold tea for the old man in passing.
"This has to start from a long time ago. Back then, the Haan Family and the Snow Palace were still living in harmony, and the whole Cultivation World was filled with peace. It’s all my fault, really. Oh, right. My name is Haan Jingsheng, though the people of the Snow Palace usually call me Venerable Jing."
"Venerable Jing? Haan Jingsheng? You’re the Master of the Snow Palace?!" Big Black froze, and his face instantly darkened.
Because this person and the one in his memories were practically two completely different people, it had never even occurred to him to suspect this.
"You know me? ..." Haan Jingsheng looked at Big Black and Xiao Hei, and only after staring for a long time did he hesitate and ask, "Are you perhaps the Holy Beast Black Tortoise?"
Oh? He even knows Big Black and Xiao Hei? And he dared claim Lady Xue was the number one powerhouse of the Northern Lands just now—he really wasn’t afraid Big Black and Xiao Hei would kill him on the spot.
"You’re the one who started that ’Survival of the Fittest by Combining Strengths’ Spiritual Beast Calamity!" Xiao Hei’s eyes gleamed with bloodlust. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
They’d originally thought this person was at most just a test subject; who’d have thought he was actually the initiator!
On second thought, it made sense. If he didn’t have that big a background, would the current Palace Master of the Snow Palace need to be so wary of him? Not only hiding him in a place no one else could go, but layering defenses on defenses. The door and the chains were all specially made; they only looked so vulnerable under Lady Xue’s innate talent.
