Path Of The Dragon (A Dark Fantasy Cultivation Wuxia Xianxia Progression Series)

Chapter 84 Chen Jingren

"Well... I have an idea," Pan Tian said. She took out a fireblood pill and placed it in the mouth of one of the male students. He was muscular and his face was twisted with anger with his mouth partly open as though hurling some vicious insult and his finger accusing someone.

The fireblood pill melted in his frozen mouth and the ice covering him grew wet and started to drip and melt off his body. The ice covering him melted away, but he remained unmoving.

"Well... I guess that's that. It was worth a try," Pan Tian said, "not that I'm that upset... he's from the Chen family."

"I thought you said he was the nicest of them?" Jie said.

"Well... yeah... but he's still part of the Chen family," Pan Tian said.

The boy suddenly thrust out his finger. "--ought you could trick her? Are you an idiot? Wait... what the... where am I?" he asked.

Pan Tian looked disappointed. "You got yourself frozen and we saved you. Even though you're from the Chen family, Chen Jingren," she said.

Chen Jingren stood up and dusted himself off. "Wait... I know you... you're Pan Tian... but you're... oh no... how long was I frozen?" he asked. He shivered and his teeth chattered as he spoke.

"Your group went missing two years ago," Pan Tian said.

"Oh... well... things could be worse, I guess," Chen Jingren said. He gave a respectful bow to them, even though he was shivering badly. "Thank you. All of you," he said.

"Are you sure he's from the Chen family? Maybe he was adopted?" Jie suggested.

The boy looked at her with a confused expression. "I don't know you," he said.

"I'm Liu Jie," Jie said.

"Nice to meet you," Chen Jingren said, "thank you again for freeing me. Could you please help my friends?"

"Why couldn't you be like the rest of your family so I could leave you for dead," Pan Tian muttered as she placed a fireblood pill into the mouths of the other three.

"Come now, I know our families have had disagreements in the past, but that doesn't mean we have to be enemies," Chen Jingren said.

"Your family tried to kill us," Pan Tian said.

"It seems that... things have worsened while I've been gone. I'm sorry. I obviously had no part in any of that," Chen Jingren said.

"Whatever. Just stop talking, okay?" Pan Tian snapped.

Chen Jingren looked equally confused and offended, but he nodded and kept his lips sealed as he watched his friends thaw with nervousness in his eyes.

The two other boys were the first to defrost and they both came to life almost at the same time. Each of them yelling about how anyone could be so selfish and stupid before realizing they were somewhere completely different. Chen Jingren took them aside and explained what he knew to them and they embraced one another. Jie shared a look with Pan Tian and Ithilix at how different Chen Jingren was from everyone else she'd ever met from the Chen family.

"We should leave her for dead," said one of the boys as he glared at the girl in their group.

"Or kill her ourselves," said the other.

"Nobody is killing anyone," Chen Jingren said, "but we won't take her with us."

The girl thawed and dusted flakes of ice off herself. She looked at everyone around her and smiled innocently. "See? It wasn't a big deal anyway," she said.

"You got us frozen for two years," said one of the boys, "we could've been stuck like that forever if they hadn't helped us." He then took a step forward as qi gathered into a sword in his hand, only for Chen Jingren to hold his shoulder.