Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

Yunping nodded noncommittally, "Yes, it was indeed me."

hiss--

Ye Yuchan gasped, as if she had seen a ghost, "You're too ruthless!"

"What else can I do? I'm forced to do it this way." Yunping gave a helpless bitter smile and shrugged.

Zhang Ruoxue and Lin Yuan, who were standing nearby, were stunned—what was going on? What were these two saying?

The teacher said that Emperor Wen was responsible for the Dragon Bone Wasteland, but then immediately added that he himself was responsible.

What, could it be that our teacher is Emperor Wen?

The two girls' expressions turned puzzled for a moment, and their eyes were filled with scrutiny as they looked at Yunping.

Upon seeing this scene, Ye Yuchan immediately understood the two people's doubts—how could she not understand? She had looked just as silly and full of doubts before.

"Ahem..." Ye Yuchan coughed lightly twice, drawing their attention back to herself. "In short, let's leave this place first. There are so many dragon bones here; it's a bit creepy."

“I agree with that,” Zhang Ruoxue chimed in. “I don’t know why, but I have a feeling there’s something around here. It would be best to leave quickly.”

"Hey? You all feel this way? Why doesn't Yuan'er feel it?"

—Lin Yuan is always the one who doesn't really fit in.

Perhaps it's because her double pupils are so unique.

Just as the two female disciples were about to leave side by side, they found Yunping standing motionless with a faint smile on his face.

"Before I leave, I have a question for you," Yunping suddenly said, turning to the two of them. "Do you think the dragon race is very powerful?"

"Wow! Aren't dragons born with bodies comparable to those of the Transcendent God stage...? Those over there are mostly Nascent Soul stage experts, and quite a few Void Realm experts too..." Ye Yuchan didn't understand why Yunping was asking this.

Having received an answer, Yunping then asked a question.

"Then let me ask you another question: such powerful dragons, aren't their bones particularly valuable?"

"Of course..."

Ye Yuchan was stunned.

Yes—why is that?

Even though dragons are dead, their bones still possess extraordinary value, making them a perfect choice for forging weapons or defensive artifacts.

But...why?

Compared to Ye Yuchan's obsession, Zhang Ruoxue was completely caught off guard and still looked utterly bewildered.

"Dragon bones are very valuable, everyone knows that, right? Why are you suddenly asking about this?"

Yunping glanced at Zhang Ruoxue and posed a crucial question.

"So, given that there are so many keels here, and the keels are so valuable—the problem is, excavator technology... Uh oh! Sorry, I got the words mixed up."

Under Zhang Ruoxue's bewildered gaze, Yunping straightened his posture again.

"So here's the question—why weren't the dragon bones here taken away?"

"Huh?" Zhang Ruoxue was stunned, just like the silver-haired girl beside her.

Yes, isn't that strange?

Despite the immense value of dragon bones and the abundance of them in the Dragon Bone Wasteland, even though it's on the border, thieves would absolutely risk their lives to seize them for the enormous profits.

But why are there still so many dragon bones here after more than 500 years?

What's even stranger is that there are so many dragon bone resources here, and this is the border of the Far Eastern Snowfield...

Why didn't the Arctic Palace send any troops to garrison this place?

This is the border! It's a crucial border area!

Ye Yuchan noticed the problem before Zhang Ruoxue, which is why she stopped and fell into deep thought.

In this respect, Ye Yuchan seems to be a bit smarter than Zhang Ruoxue.

Because she realized the problem before Zhang Ruoxue, she also knew the answer to the problem first.

Ye Yuchan raised her head, her black gem-like eyes reflecting a light of panic.

She opened her cherry lips and exhaled a faint fragrance of orchid.

"It's not that you can't take it, it's that you took it... but you can't take it away...?"

"Yes."

The young man in white slowly walked to Ye Yuchan's side, raised his right foot, and kicked the snow beside her.

boom!

In an instant, a wave of silvery-white snow surged into the sky.

Ye Yuchan also saw what was buried beneath the large piles of snow.

Instantly, his pupils contracted.

"This, this is..."

"Yes, that's right, just like you said."

Yunping crouched down, squinting at the twisted bones in the snow pit.

"This Dragonbone Wasteland is not a place you can come and go as you please."

—That's bone.

But they are indeed human bones.

14. What are apprentices for?

Human bones are buried in the Dragon Bone Wasteland.

Ye Yuchan knew perfectly well what this inexplicable phenomenon meant.

Not just her, everyone understood the reason.

Those who come to the Dragon Bone Wasteland are definitely not ordinary people. Generally speaking, they should be cultivators. But what are cultivators doing in the Dragon Bone Wasteland?

It's definitely not to go to the Arctic Palace—there are many ways to get there, there's no need to come to Dragonbone Wasteland.

Their purpose is probably for these dragon bones.

But now, those who coveted the dragon bones have died on this snowy plain, their remains buried by the eternal ice and snow.

Did they starve to death? Or did they freeze to death?

Such a thing is impossible, unless those cultivators are mentally unstable idiots.

—Then there's only one possibility left.

(Something killed them)

The howling wind was like a person tearing open their own throat with sharp claws, screaming wildly with a terrifying voice.

Ye Yuchan stared intently at the human skeleton at her feet—

suddenly.

A chill ran down my spine.

"Ah, here it comes."

Yun Ping, with a nonchalant, deadpan expression, looked in the direction behind Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue.

coming?

what?

Thump—it sounded like something falling to the ground.

The next second, a loud explosion resounded through the sky.

Countless snowflakes were shaken from the ground and thrown into the air.

Ye Yuchan felt her heart suddenly race. She and Zhang Ruoxue exchanged a glance, and both of them stiffly turned their heads away.

Glug glug—two sounds of swallowing saliva.

"Hey, really?" Ye Yuchan's voice trembled slightly.

"This is the first time I've ever seen a dragon..." Zhang Ruoxue's mouth gaped open in astonishment, its size probably big enough to fit an egg. "Am I dreaming...?"

Yes, those are epic creatures called dragons.

It was tens of meters long, its entire body covered with purplish-black shimmering scales, and its metallic teeth were slightly open on its huge head. A pair of black wings that blotted out the sky suddenly unfolded, and a series of cold hurricanes swept through everything around it.

It resembled a black emperor, raising its proud and unruly head, with blazing flames surging back and forth between its sharp teeth, as if it might erupt like a volcano at any moment.

The only difference is that this dragon's eyes don't have the arrogant majesty of a dragon, but rather the unfocused, lifeless eyes of a zombie.

Dragon! Dragon! Dragon!

—I'll say it three times because it's important!

This creature, which has held a dominant position since ancient times, is now standing in front of Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue. If it weren't for the fact that the aura of this enormous creature wasn't too astonishing, they would probably have thought they had encountered a dragon of the Dragon King level.

"You shouldn't be here, humans!"

Unexpectedly, the giant dragon did not directly crush the two female disciples' delicate bodies with its teeth, but instead let out an angry roar.

"This is the resting place of dragons; you have no right to be here!"

"Leave now, immediately!!"

Accompanied by the dragon's roar, a violent wind whipped up a large pile of white snowflakes, which then fell on Ye Yuchan and her companion.

If you stuck a carrot in their faces, they could easily become snowmen.

On the other hand, a certain curious little girl showed no fear of the dragon at all, grabbing Yunping's clothes and swinging them around.

"Dragon! Dragon! Teacher, teacher, look! That's a dragon! This is the first time I've ever seen a dragon."

"Oh, really?" Yunping smiled and patted Lin Yuan's head. "It's okay, this is just the first one. There will be many more dragons coming out later."

"Really?!" Lin Yuan's eyes shone with a starlight-like brilliance, clearly extremely excited. "Can we catch one and take it home? Yuan'er wants to raise it!"