Chapter 154
“Jiang Chen,” Li Xue’er called him. What she meant was obvious: she wanted him to help.
“Fine.”
It didn’t make sense that he wouldn’t save them just because they had insulted him. Jiang Chen was only teasing them, teaching them a lesson, but when he looked over to Yi Ning, he said resolutely, “These two, I’m not going to help.”
“Two?”
Li Xue’er didn’t understand why he didn’t want to save Meng Qian either.
“Yi Ning was so obedient to her. Would she have had the nerve to claw my eyes out without her permission? She didn’t come forward until you helped me, apprentice sister. Heh,” Jiang Chen laughed grimly instead of continuing his accusation.
Yi Ning and Meng Qian couldn’t speak, as they were still struggling by themselves.
“I don’t need your pity!” Yi Ning took a look at the sunlit stone.
“I’m leaving then.”
Jiang Chen turned around decisively.
Yi Ning was struck dumb. She knew this guy was unpredictable. She hurried to say, “Wait…”
“Remember, it’s not pity. I’m just curious to see what’s going to happen between you and Meng Qian after you leave here.”
Jiang Chen turned around and freed her.
Yi Ning gnashed her teeth and ran out of that place full of magical vines as soon as she was liberated.
By then, ninety percent of the vines had turned scarlet, but Jiang Chen stayed there. He had the patience to bargain with others because he was waiting for this very moment.
He could only get the dragon blood wood guarded by the bloody magical vines when they had totally turned scarlet.
There were special ways to collect spiritual herbs. Any carelessness would destroy them.
He walked to the deepest tangles of the vines. There, a tree trunk was wrapped tightly by some vines.
The trunk wasn’t only scarlet; there was blood-like liquid flowing down it.
Jiang Chen hurried to take some tools out of the mustardseed ring and walked up to it.
At the same time, the sunlit stone had lost some power over the scarlet magical vines. The vines were extending towards the light, approaching Jiang Chen, but he didn’t care, squatting before the trunk, busy with something.
On his back and over his head, dozens of vines were going to devour him.
“Done!” Jiang Chen shouted joyfully. He put a segment of dragon blood wood into a special wooden box. He had successfully collected one of the five spiritual herbs.
Whoosh!
The magical vines that had been waiting for a long time jumped onto Jiang Chen like waves, as if they’d heard some order.
“Get off!”
Jiang Chen took out another sunlit stone and clapped his palms.
The crystal was broken by the hit, but the light became stronger and rose into the air. The vines that were touched by it started to burn and turn into ash.
Jiang Chen took the chance to fly into the air and escape.
When he looked down, he saw those vines withering rapidly, deteriorating until they receded into the ground once again, leaving no traces behind, and that trunk looked so normal that it wouldn’t draw any attention.
This one isn’t a high class.
Jiang Chen frowned. The dragon blood wood required lots of blood to grow. Before this day, the magical vines must have absorbed numerous monsters’ blood.
He looked over to those who he had saved. Human blood was a hundred times stronger than the monsters’ blood. If he hadn’t saved them and let the vines absorb their blood…
Then he would have had super-class dragon blood wood.
It was just a thought. He would never let something like that happen on purpose.