Chapter 926: A Married Man?

Lu Changsheng focused all his attention on extracting the poison spirit from the Azure Dragon woman’s body.

Just as the [Myriad Calamities Poison Spirit Hand] clamped tight around the poison spirit to pull it out completely, he felt a soft sensation in his palm and froze.

He realized his hand seemed to have grabbed something he really shouldn’t have.

“Huh!?”

The Turtle Immortal Patriarch, who was fully suppressing the Azure Dragon woman’s raging power and venom, saw Lu’s movement and stalled for a beat.

The demon race might not be as strict about etiquette as the human race.

But no matter human or demon, a man burying his hand into a woman’s proud fullness was still an affront. A desecration.

“Human cultivator, how dare you!”

The Green Dragon King barked, pupils flashing with murderous light.

If he weren’t currently suppressing the woman’s rampage and poison, he’d have already struck.

After all, the Azure Dragon woman was his Master, bearer of the Azure Dragon bloodline—sacred and inviolable.

And this lowly human cultivator dared profane his Master’s body.

His fingers had sunk deep too, clearly using force.

If she weren’t an Azure Dragon with a dress of dragon scales, she might not have endured that grip.

Murderous intent surged from the Green Dragon King. His icy demon power blanketed Lu Changsheng.

Ao Long’s graceful body went rigid the moment Lu’s hand covered her chest.

Though she had fallen for him at first sight and wanted to take him back to the Eastern Sea as her husband.

As a noble Azure Dragon descendant, shame, anger, and killing intent rose instinctively.

But with the Turtle Immortal Patriarch and the Green Dragon King suppressing her rampage and poison, her demon power was restrained and disrupted.

She also realized Lu hadn’t done it on purpose.

He was removing the source of her poison.

If she acted, the extraction might fail and the poison spirit could erupt.

Ao Long forced down her anger, shame, and killing edge.

“Damn!”

Lu wanted to say it was a misunderstanding.

The poison spirit, though only low in intelligence, was extremely tenacious.

Even while suppressed and isolated, it kept attacking him.

So he had maintained total focus throughout and hadn’t considered propriety between men and women.

His hand reaching out and gripping that proud fullness had been a subconscious move while casting [Myriad Calamities Poison Spirit Hand].

But Lu didn’t rush to explain.

He held his breath, poured all his focus into [Myriad Calamities Poison Spirit Hand], and yanked the poison spirit free of her body.

“Whoo, whoo, whoo!!!”

The multicolored Poison Spirit Hand tore the poison spirit out as billows of toxic miasma spilled.

Only Lu, the Turtle Immortal Patriarch, the Green Dragon King, and the Azure Dragon woman had the cultivation and bodies to ignore the venom.

A Core Formation cultivator or a paper-thin Nascent Soul would have been poisoned on the spot.

“Freezing Talisman. Yin-Yang Qi Great Capture!”

Lu didn’t destroy the poison spirit.

He flicked out a fourth-rank Freezing Talisman, then used [Yin-Yang Qi Great Capture] to imprison it.

A top-tier toxin capable of birthing a poison spirit was a once-in-a-blue-moon treasure for any poison cultivator.

Even if he had no time to refine it or practice the Ten Thousand Calamities Toxic Spirit Codex.

He could still condense it and craft fourth-rank venom. It was priceless.

Besides, if he had no time to refine it himself, he could reward Ah Youduo with it.

If Ah Youduo obtained and refined this poison spirit, her combat strength would soar a whole tier.

This poison spirit was terrifying.

His fourth-rank Freezing Talisman couldn’t fully freeze it, and it began corroding his Yin-Yang hand.

“Profound Nether Qi!” The Turtle Immortal Patriarch surged with demon power, exhaling a blast of nether frost that froze the poison spirit.

With it suppressed, [Yin-Yang Qi Great Capture] flowed like mist, drawing tight into a small yin-yang orb that sealed it completely.

“Green Dragon King, this is a misunderstanding. I meant no disrespect to your lady. What just happened was an accident while pulling out the poison spirit.”

Under the Demon King’s oppressive aura, Lu’s robes snapped in the wind as he cupped his hands.

He glanced at the slumbering Azure Dragon woman and bowed slightly. “Miss, I truly meant no offense. Please forgive me.”

Though Ao Long had been pretending to sleep.

When he grabbed her chest, Lu realized she had already awakened.

Or rather, she had been half-awake all along with her awareness intact.

“Since it was unintentional, I won’t blame you.”

Lying on the Deep Blue Sea Marrow Jade bed, Ao Long slowly opened her eyes. Wan and weak, she spoke softly.

Still, even if it was unintentional, taking advantage of her wasn’t that easy.

For the sake of his good looks and because he still needed to detoxify her, she would let it slide for now.

She would settle that debt later.

Since he took advantage, he’d make it up with himself.

“???” The Green Dragon King stared, spooked by her lack of anger and her gentle act.

Had his Master been possessed?

Lu and the Turtle Immortal Patriarch didn’t know, but he knew his Master’s temperament.

Dignified and cold, domineering, with life and death in her hands.

How could she be like this?

He immediately realized his Master still needed Lu to purify and restrain the poison.

This wasn’t the time to fall out with him.

Better to gloss over it now and settle accounts later.

Understanding that, a surge of bitterness and humiliation rose in his chest.

When the Master is humiliated, the vassal dies!

His Master had been defiled and could not lash out.

As her subordinate, he couldn’t defend her honor either, and humiliation welled up.

“Thank you for understanding, Miss.”

Seeing how reasonable the Azure Dragon woman was, Lu let out a breath of relief.

It was unintentional, but it was still an offense.

If she pressed the matter, he’d be in the wrong.

“Now that the poison spirit is out, I can continue purifying and restraining the toxins in your body.”

“But extracting it just now took a lot out of me. I’ve accumulated quite a bit of toxin and need to purge it and rest first.”

Lu continued.

The extraction hadn’t cost him much magical energy.

But the toxins that had seeped into him needed to be refined away.

If they accumulated too much, the effects would be bad.

“All right. Sorry to trouble you.”

Ao Long spoke softly, weak and pitiable.

Yet her moon-cold delicate face, the radiant dragon horns, and eyes like molten gold brimmed with an untouchable majesty.

It clashed starkly with her current frailty.

Swallowing his humiliation and anger, the Green Dragon King said, “My thanks to you both.”

He reactivated formation restrictions to help suppress her rampage and the remaining poison.

After Lu and the Turtle Immortal Patriarch left, the Green Dragon King knelt on one knee before Ao Long, head bowed in apology.

“Qing Zhi was incompetent and let Master be shamed!”

“Tell me everything about this man. In detail.”

The weakness vanished in an instant. Ao Long’s aura sharpened, her red lips tightening into a cold line. Her gaze brimmed with the regal, untouchable majesty of one who looked down upon the four seas.

Her dragon horns, symbols of the Azure Dragon bloodline, gleamed with chill light that set off her flawless face and bearing.

It lent her an inhuman divinity and distance, a breathtaking cold beauty.

“Master, I only know so much about him…”

Previously the Green Dragon King hadn’t paid Lu Changsheng much mind.

Only because of Dreamless and his wife’s methods and prophecy did he step in to earn a favor.

So he hadn’t dug deep into Lu Changsheng’s background.

He only knew the man called himself Wang Lin, had a wife named Li Muwan, broke through to Nascent Soul a few years ago, and that his other name might be Lu Changsheng.

“A wife?”

Hearing that Lu had a wife, Ao Long’s blue-violet willow brows knit.

She was delighted with Lu at first sight and had wanted to make him her husband.

She hadn’t expected him to already have a wife.

But she didn’t dwell on it.

A man that handsome having a Dao partner was normal. It meant he had charm.

Since she liked him, she’d just take him.

In the cultivation world, treasures and blessed lands belong to the strong.

Men are no different.

If she liked him, why care if he had a wife.

What truly surprised her was that a few years ago he had only been Core Formation and had only been Nascent Soul for a short time.

“Seizing and rebuilding!”

Ao Long instantly guessed he was a cultivator who had seized a body and started over.

Otherwise how could he have grown to this level in just a few years?

He also had multiple fourth-rank spirit pets.

The Turtle Immortal Patriarch was even mid–fourth-rank and of pure blood.

“Interesting.”

Her interest in Lu grew. She wanted to know his background.

“All right, go rest.”

She could tell the Green Dragon King had spent a lot suppressing her rampage and poison, and had accumulated toxins himself, so he needed to rest.

“Thank you, Master.” The Green Dragon King took his leave.

After he left, Ao Long rubbed her still faintly aching right chest.

From that fierce grab earlier, she knew Lu cultivated the body as well and had the physique of a fourth-rank Demon King.

A newly advanced Nascent Soul who not only had deep magical power but also such a physique?

A rebirth by seizing could use treasures and Nascent Soul essence to quickly restore cultivation and return to the peak.

But that didn’t work for flesh and physique.

“Interesting.” Her interest in and approval of Lu only grew.

If he were just a pretty face to bring home as a husband, it would feel lacking.

Not to mention, her bloodline and body alone would overwhelm him.

Now, with his suspected rebirth by seizing and a fourth-rank Demon King’s physique, at least he could bear her Azure Dragon bloodline.

“Hmph.”

Feeling the lingering imprint of that grip on her right chest, the blue-gold flecks at the corners of her eyes and her gaze flickered as she snorted.

Once she recovered, she’d make sure to squeeze him back—hard.

“Master, this woman is an Azure Dragon descendant. Her nature is definitely not as gentle as it looks.”

The Turtle Immortal Patriarch knew Lu didn’t know much about the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm.

After they returned to the cave residence to rest, he sent a voice transmission to remind him.

He explained that demon bloodlines heavily influence temperament and habits.

Just like cultivators who train fire arts tend to be hot-tempered and impatient.

While wood and water arts make one much calmer.

The Azure Dragon Clan are the overlords of the Eastern Sea, arrogant and overbearing to the bone.

As a pure-blooded direct descendant, a woman’s temperament would lean domineering. There was no way she’d truly be soft and weak.

With so many spirit pets, Lu naturally understood.

The Nine Nether Hound, the Golden-Winged Roc, the Abyssal Sea Dragon Whale—each was fiercer than the last.

They only looked obedient when by his side.

“Does your bloodline affect your temperament?”

Lu asked curiously, wondering if a turtle-type demon beast like the Turtle Immortal Patriarch had a turtle-ish temperament.

The Turtle Immortal Patriarch said his bloodline made him still, steady and reserved, with a kind of “worldly yet not worldly” dullness.

Lu nodded lightly, returned to the cave residence, sat cross-legged, and began refining the accumulated toxins to condense fourth-rank venom.

Three days later, Lu resumed the plan to purge Ao Long’s poison.

Without the poison spirit, the toxins no longer surged endlessly, but they still clung like bone-deep gangrene, stubborn and hard to shake.

It could only be purified bit by bit, like water wearing down stone.

Thankfully Lu had the Chaos Body and a powerful physique, and could emulate the Ten Thousand Calamities Toxic Spirit Codex.

Otherwise even a fourth-rank poison master would be helpless before the poison and rampage in an Azure Dragon woman’s body.

“Miss Ao, that’s all for today. Rest well.”

Lu released Ao Long’s wrist, pale blue translucent dragon scales faint beneath his fingers, and spoke softly.

As he spoke, his gaze instinctively dipped to her delicate collarbone, skin pale as frost, and the proud curves under the blue-violet dress.

He wasn’t being lecherous.

Faced with such grand scenery, anyone would glance.

Even someone as battle-hardened as Lu.

He’d handled, mastered, even tasted many, and still couldn’t help himself.

Or rather, every woman had her own unique allure.

Like the Ao Long before him.

From that accidental grab, he knew she was soft yet held an indescribable silky springiness.

Somewhat like the Holy Maiden of Beast God Mountain, yet completely different, making one want to toy with it.

“Much obliged, Fellow Daoist Wang.” Ao Long continued to act gentle and pitiable in front of Lu.

Not far away, the Green Dragon King’s face stayed taut, unable to adapt to his Master’s current act.

Just like that, a month passed. Lu completely purified the toxins in Ao Long’s body.

But bodily poison is easy, soul poison is hard.

To cleanse it, she’d have to loosen her spirit-soul.

Gazing at Lu’s peerlessly handsome face, Ao Long said shyly, “I trust you, Fellow Daoist Wang.”

As an Azure Dragon descendant she had many methods and safeguards, so she didn’t fear Lu placing restrictions on her spirit.

Even so, she remained vigilant.

She had been acting gentle and weak these days to appear harmless.

If Lu harbored ill intent, she would unleash the might of the Azure Dragon at once!