Crack—
Crack—
Two figures trudged through the snow, one foot sinking deep and the next barely touching down. Two crooked, lopsided trails of footprints stretched across the ground.
"Where do you think Li Mu Yang went? The Kunlun Ruins are where a thousand mountains converge. There's the Bright Thousand Mountains and the Hidden Thousand Mountains, too. Searching like this isn't going to get us anywhere," the tall man in beast hide said.
"You were the one who wanted to come looking."
"You agreed to it too, didn't you?" The man's face was wreathed in smiles. "Besides, it's good to get some fresh air. There are seven students in the Dragon Slaying Department, which was already the smallest department in all of Shenzhou. And now look at us—Li Mu Yang turned out to be a dragon and was almost slain by the united forces of the Nine Nations. Chu Xun became the West Wind Prince and went back to inherit the throne, only to have his eyes gouged out by Lu Xingkong, or so I heard. I'm afraid that throne has nothing to do with him anymore. Who would let a blind man become emperor?"
"Qian Du went looking for Li Mu Yang, and Lin Cang Hai went looking for Qian Du—and the most incredible of all is Lu Qiji. Who would have thought she possessed a phoenix body? No wonder her temper was so explosive back then. How did I fail to notice it at all? Now the entire Dragon Slaying Department has only the two of us left. Everyone else is gone. Master Yang was implicated by Li Mu Yang and punished by being sent to work as a servant in the Starry Sky Library. Even our Dean Starry Sky is under tremendous pressure in the academy for bringing