Qian Renxue's Thousand Days of Burying Dragons [Qian Renxue Version]

Day after day, year after year.

Through Qian Renxue's tireless efforts, the entire Dragon Clan Cemetery had long since become empty. The bones that had once covered the mountains and plains had all been buried beneath the earth.

Looking at the valley restored to its tranquil beauty, Qian Renxue wiped the sweat from her brow, feeling utterly fulfilled!

This was all the result of her hard work!

Letting out a long breath, she turned and looked at the final dragon corpse—a true dragon's skeleton as towering as a mountain and as weighty as the earth.

The last one!

Qian Renxue clenched her small fist tightly, then, with the already extremely faint power of the Icefire Dragon Kings lingering around her arms, walked forward step by step.

When she reached the final skeleton, she shakily extended her hands and touched the bones.

Whoosh!

A mountain-like pressure suddenly descended upon Qian Renxue, making her breathing grow heavy.

What kind of power was this? Heavy, solid—the dragon bones on the corpse seemed as though every piece contained mountains and rivers.

Over the years of burying dragons, Qian Renxue had seen this dragon corpse several times. This skeleton, so different from all the other dragon bones, had made its extraordinary nature obvious at a glance. That was why she had never touched it, leaving it until last.

She simply had not expected this dragon corpse to be far more extraordinary than she had imagined.

She was also immensely grateful that she had left this dragon corpse for last. Otherwise, the former her definitely would not have been able to move it in the slightest.

But that had been before!

Now, standing before this unknown dragon corpse, was Qian Renxue, who had buried an entire Dragon Clan Cemetery!

Her physical strength had already risen to an utterly terrifying realm!

A dead object—even if it had been incomparably powerful in life—was no longer something unshakable in Qian Renxue's eyes!

"Huff, huff!" Feeling the pressure bearing down on her body, Qian Renxue panted heavily.

"Get up! How could I, as I am now, possibly be stopped by this final corpse?!"

Gritting her teeth, she stared resolutely at the dragon corpse. Enduring the pressure it emitted, she pushed both the power of the Icefire Dragon Kings and her physical strength to their limits!

Finally, half an hour later, she managed to separate one of the dragon bones!

"Huff, huff! I got it!"

Excitement gleamed in Qian Renxue's eyes. Cradling the dragon bone in her hands, she walked step by step toward the prepared pit. Every step felt as though a mountain were pressing down upon her, making the journey exceptionally difficult.

By the time she placed that dragon bone into the grave pit, another twenty minutes had passed.

"Huff, huff!" Qian Renxue fiercely pumped her small fist. She had done it!

The beginning was always the hardest. Since she could bury this dragon bone, she could bury the entire corpse!

It was only a matter of time.

Afterward, she leaped out of the enormous grave pit, her eyes brimming with fighting spirit!

Qian Renxue! You did it! You can do this!

Much later, through Qian Renxue's efforts, two-thirds of the enormous unknown corpse had finally been buried underground.

When yet another dragon bone was removed, the dragon soul hidden deep within the corpse slowly opened its eyes.

The cloudiness in its dragon eyes completely faded at that moment.

"Why have I regained my senses again?"

"No, my skeleton?"

It looked outside and saw the little one continuously carrying its bones back and forth, its dragon eyes filled with confusion.

What was she doing?

Was she burying my bones underground? Letting me rest in peace?

Who was she?

She seemed... she seemed to be the little one brought back by the Icefire Dragon Kings?

Then it saw the scene outside. When it saw that the cemetery once piled high with dragon corpses had become an empty valley, the now-clearheaded dragon froze.

This... this was...

Its eye sockets instantly brimmed with emotion. If it still had a body, its eyes would surely have reddened long ago, and little pearls would already be falling.

It used the tiny trace of power within itself to inspect the ground beneath the valley inch by inch.

When it saw the corpses laid out and settled one by one, when it saw the enormous burial mounds, even the Mountain Dragon King—one of the Dragon Clan's Nine Great Dragon Kings, the most emotionally stable and most steady-tempered among them—could no longer hold back.

"Good... good! Good child! As expected of the good child chosen by the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King! My Dragon Clan has been extinguished for hundreds of thousands of years, and today, we have finally been laid to rest beneath the earth instead of leaving our corpses exposed in the wilderness!"

The Mountain Dragon King was so emotional that its entire dragon soul became unstable! It stared fixedly at Qian Renxue, who was diligently carrying dragon bones, while its heart, dead for countless years, began to beat without cease.

It had to reward her properly. It absolutely had to reward her properly!

The Mountain Dragon King darted around in excitement, its mind feverishly considering what it should give Qian Renxue.

But having been dead for too long and mentally muddled for too long, its mind was no longer what it had once been. It could only spin in circles in excitement, unable to think of anything suitable for this good child.

Only after Qian Renxue buried the final dragon bone did it finally think of something.

She was human!

Right! She was human!

I should give her a Soul Bone!

Soul Bones are the most useful things for humans!

Acting at once, the Mountain Dragon King found its most powerful torso bone, extracted it from its corpse, and rushed out excitedly.

"Huff! It's finally done."

After filling in the final handful of dirt, Qian Renxue let out a long breath. She had finally completed this great goal! She had successfully allowed every dragon to rest in peace beneath the earth!

A smile curled across Qian Renxue's lips, a smile of joy and satisfaction.

Resting in peace beneath the earth—no matter what these dragons had been like in life, in death, they finally had a quiet place to rest. They finally had this land as their home.

At that moment, she forgot her family's tangled grudges, forgot her mother, forgot her grandfather, and forgot why she had come here.

She simply quietly enjoyed this brief moment of accomplishment and peace.

Roar!

A soundless dragon roar echoed throughout the valley. Within that joyful cry, the dragons seemed to be offering thanks, as though they were worshipping her.

"I will remember this day. I will remember all of this."

Qian Renxue murmured to herself. Though she had done the same things every day during this period, she had not found them tedious. She only felt that every day had been incredibly fulfilling.

Especially whenever she buried those dragon corpses, she could sense their emotions, their joys, anger, sorrows, and delights from when they had been alive.

It made the once lonely and desolate her feel as though she had people keeping her company.

She had been very happy during this time.

"Hmm?"

For some reason, the moment the Mountain Dragon King flew out, its soul body was no longer under its control.

With a dazed expression, its soul body suddenly offered itself up, giving all its power to the dragon clan's "benefactor" before it.

Even the Soul Bone it had brought out transformed into a form it did not recognize.

"Thank you." Qian Renxue gave a sweet smile.

The Mountain Dragon King found it strange. Why had it taken the initiative to sacrifice itself?

But that no longer mattered. A sacrifice was a sacrifice. Sacrificing itself to the Dragon Clan's benefactor before it had been its original intention anyway.

After all, it had already been dead for a very long time...