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A bridled Long Xingyun kept glaring at the two elders who pledged allegiance to White Ape Fiend King. The two could only pretend they were oblivious. Yes, they knew they affronted the prince. Howbeit, they would do the same thing ten out of ten times because, regardless of affiliation, all fiends saw Green Dragon Fiend King as the commander of the fiend race and swore to protect true dragons. The two elders would gladly have sacrificed themselves if it meant prioritising the fiend race’s wellbeing.
Unable to resolve his livid emotions, Long Xingyun stomped off with a middle-aged Body Synthesis Realm wyrm, Long Yeli, accompanying him. Long Yeli was only one third dragon and the descendant of Green Dragon Fiend King’s 132nd generation, hence the bodyguard status.
“Uncle Yeli, what should we do now that there is a true dragon?” asked Long Xingyun, addressing Long Yeli as his uncle despite the former being higher on the seniority hierarchy as Long Yeli had been protecting him since he was a child.
“I have spread news of it using a secret technique. Master has his own designs. As that human is travelling with us, he will take his dragon vine to Sacred Island. We just need to avoid those two stubborn old fiends and apprehend the dragon vine.”
“Capture? Why don’t we just kill him?”
Lowering his voice, Long Liye explained, “At present, it is tough for you to evolve into a pure dragon. The only true dragon besides His Majesty is… You follow?”
“You mean to say…” Long Xingyun smiled slyly.
“As long as we can capture the true dragon, the throne will be yours, Your Highness!”
Extracting the dragon vine’s blood and refining the dragon vine into blood and vital essence to consume was one way of graduating to full-fledged dragon. Once news of the evolved dragon vine’s emergence hit the ears of the other factions, a race for the dragon vine was inevitable.
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“From now on, call me Jian Long, meaning Sword Dragon, since I use Mu Yu’s sword qi to annihilate with the almighty ‘Dragon Vine’s Howl’!”
“’Jian’ is a homophone for ‘scumbag’. I don’t think you want people calling you ‘Scumbag Dragon’,” Mu Yu pointed out.
“How about Overlord Dragon, then?”
“That sounds lame, Big Earthworm.”
“Yeah? How about Dragon Howl, then?”
“Regardless of what you choose, you’re still just Big Earthworm to me,” replied Xiaoshuai, munching his grilled drumstick.
“Mu Yu, do you insist on travelling with us?” Qiao Xue asked, concerned.
Dangling a blade of grass in his mouth, Mu Yu responded, “I’d rather go with you.”
Bashfully, Qiao Xue inquired, “I meant, do you have a reason for insisting to go?”
“Besides sabotaging Ghost Gate, I need to repair Dad’s soul in as well as the holes in Wood Spirit.”
What Mu Yu left out was, “I’m going to kill Ghost Gate to repair Wood Spirit.”
Wood Spirit could prevent Third Heaven Palace from obtaining soul energy; however, Mu Yu needed to figure out how to kill Ghost Gate’s members and how many to kill in order to break the five elements’ balance in him.
“I have a hunch that Ghost Gate knows the route to Sacred Island, though I’ve always wondered how they know. As ironic as it sounds, we need them to locate our own territory.”
“I can enlighten you on that. They kidnapped a cultivator by the name of Elder Chi Long, who had been there before,” Mu Yu explained.
“They are resting not far from here for the journey. I think they are waiting for the right timing to set sail. Fiend King Yujiang has leveraged the ocean’s tides to hide his whereabouts, causing his location to change according to the flow of water. As such, there is a unique course one must follow in order to locate him. We can just tail them since they have to travel by sea.”
“Well, I don’t have a better plan, so I’ll take your advice. By the way, how did you know Ghost Gate set a trap for me?”
“You came to blows with them, didn’t you? They had one of their maidens wait for you by the shore to lure you in.” Starting to sound hesitant and quieter, Qiao Xue continued, “Her name is Gui Hongyu. Are you two in an ambiguous relationship?”
“What, you jealous?”
“No! Why would I be?!” exclaimed Qiao Xue, turning her face away.
“Your flush face has betrayed you,” voiced Xiaoshuai, raising his paw to speak.
“The rodent claims everyone likes girls with big chests. Since your chest is bigger than Gui Hongyu’s, we all like you and not her,” elucidated the dragon vine.
“Don’t make things up!” Mu Yu scolded.
“Are you saying you disagree?” questioned the dragon vine.
“What’s important is their personality!”
“In other words, you don’t like her.”
“I never said that… Why do you care, anyway?!”
Qiao Xue glared at the dragon vine and Mu Yu. “Have you two decided on a name yet?”
“Not yet. Rodent suggested ‘Green Eyes White Dragon’, but I’m not white. Dragonrider sounds nice if you ask me,” answered the dragon vine, then resuming the name discussion with Xiaoshuai.
Mu Yu left the two to their own devices and explained, “I planted a type of wood on Gui Hongyu to tail her. I suppose Ghost Gate’s guardian noticed it.”
“Travel together with us, then. Long Xingyun won’t harm you as long as you are with me, at least as long as we’re still not there. Elder Deer and Elder Tortoise will also protect Dragon Vine.”
“All right. If Long Xingyun tries anything funny, though, I’ll dump his corpse in the ocean,” Mu Yu prefaced, confident in his formation competence.
“If he does target Dragon Vine, he does deserve to be punished.”
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