Chapter 932: Returning to the Original Intent, Parting Ways

The unrest in the deepest part of the palace on Green Dragon Island lasted for more than a month before it finally died down.

On the Sea-Marrow Jade bed, Lu Changsheng and Ao Long clung to each other, breathing hard.

“A man really needs to train his body. Otherwise one misstep and your manly vigor will falter.”

Watching Ao Long’s fair skin flush with lazy contentment, Lu Changsheng sighed inwardly.

The female cultivators he’d been with before, whether wives or Dao companions, did practice dual cultivation.

But aside from Qingluan True Lord, most had ordinary physiques.

None could compare to Ao Long.

Especially with her Azure Dragon bloodline.

Not only did her flesh surpass his, her stamina, endurance and recovery were far beyond the norm. It was downright monstrous.

Fortunately he had his Chaos Body, the Kidney Divine Treasure, the power of Dragon-Phoenix Nirvana and the Yin-Yang Origin. Like a perpetual engine, they churned without end, letting him battle Ao Long to a draw.

That month-long slugfest was the most intense and grueling fight of Lu Ancestor’s life.

He threw in everything he had, even bringing out dual cultivation secret techniques.

“When I get back, I have to push my body refinement, bring the True Saint Skill of Brahma and Demons to completion and condense the Brahma-Demon Sacred Body. Otherwise if I face a pure-blood True Spirit, I’ll have no face left.”

For the past century, relying on the Hundred Refinements Body Technique and dual cultivation of body and magic, Lu Ancestor had been invincible in the arts of men and women, one against many with no rival.

Now, facing a demoness like Ao Long, an Azure Dragon descendant with a terrifying body, he rediscovered his original intent for body refinement.

“The mark I placed in you is condensed from my lifebound Dragon Essence. When you come to the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace, the Azure Dragon Clan will recognize you and won’t make things difficult.”

Ao Long’s beautiful eyes were half-lidded. Her body curled slightly as she spoke in a voice so sultry it seeped into the bones.

This time, not only did Lu Changsheng bring out all his means, she had as well.

She had planned to suppress him completely.

She hadn’t expected his stamina to be that astonishing.

Even though his physique was inferior to hers, his endurance did not lose to her in the slightest.

If they continued, it would hurt their essence, or she would have fought three hundred more rounds with him until a victor emerged.

“If you ever face danger, you can refine that mark as a great tonic to mend yourself. I’ll also know you’re in peril then.”

Ao Long continued.

Lu Changsheng hadn’t agreed to marry her.

He said they would talk about ‘marrying’ and ‘being married’ later.

But she was proud and forceful by nature, already set on Lu Changsheng marrying into her house as her husband.

She carried a streak of iron-willed womanhood.

Lu Changsheng could clearly sense the mark condensed from pure domineering dragon essence.

It felt somewhat similar to the psychic energy Yun Wanshang once gave him.

If he refined it, it would be quite helpful to him.

It would likely temper his body and nudge his cultivation higher.

But he had no intention of refining it.

On one hand, the mark was Ao Long’s origin Dragon Essence.

If he refined it, their link would be severed.

On the other hand, that mark held the Azure Dragon origin and a hint of dragon might.

Through the Yin-Yang Creation Sutra and the Yin-Yang Myriad Laws Nascent Soul, he could simulate and amplify that aura, disguising dragon might and the Azure Dragon Clan’s qi.

It might seem useless, but against the demon race it would be quite effective.

“Rest easy, my lady. I’ll definitely visit the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace and discuss marriage properly.”

Lu Changsheng understood what she meant and smiled, assuring her he’d take responsibility.

“Also, I have a request,” Lu Changsheng said.

“What request?” Her voice was soft. Her eyes, like molten gold under a blazing sun, held a hazy allure.

Yet her brows, her features and the bright dragon horns on her brow all radiated a noble majesty.

“My request is that you keep the Spirit Roots I planted in you if you can. Don’t refine them out or force them out.”

Lu Changsheng’s palm caressed the powerful curves of Ao Long’s taut belly.

At the Nascent Soul level, conception was already difficult.

With a True Spirit bloodline like Ao Long’s, it was practically impossible.

But what if?

Over this month, he’d poured in countless essence while dueling with Ao Long.

What if it took?

As long as she didn’t refine or force them out, there was hope.

If a child with the Azure Dragon bloodline was born, it would be a great help to him.

“Spirit Roots?”

Ao Long blinked.

Then she understood what he meant.

But as a proud Azure Dragon descendant, she felt no shyness. Her lips tilted in a provocative smile as she said, “My Azure Dragon Clan is a pure-blood True Spirit line, favored by heaven and blessed by nature.”

“Our only problem is being too strong, which makes the bloodline hard to continue. If husband wants me pregnant, it won’t be easy.”

“Why not have husband plant a few more?”

Her eyes sparkled with charm, crimson lips curving into an arc.

As she spoke, a palm veiled in light dragon scales slid down from Lu Changsheng’s smooth, muscled abdomen.

“Damn.”

Any other woman faced with those words from Lu Changsheng might blush scarlet.

But Ao Long didn’t dodge at all.

She even challenged him.

Faced with her provocation, how could Lu Ancestor back down?

He flipped over at once.

“Boom, boom, boom—”

Another violent tremor rose from the depths of the palace.

Dual cultivation benefits both parties when done right.

Overdoing it harms the essence.

After a month of fierce battle, both had reached their limit and shouldn’t continue.

So after one more round, the clouds and rain subsided.

“Don’t worry. I won’t refine those Spirit Roots.”

Ao Long’s violet-blue hair spilled like waves, her cheeks still flushed as she teased.

She wasn’t opposed to pregnancy.

The Azure Dragon Clan’s Dragon Lord always encouraged direct-line descendants like her to propagate the bloodline.

If one could bear a pure-blood Azure Dragon offspring, there would even be rewards.

In the clan, many mixed-blood azure dragons with no future mated widely, hoping to birth a pure-blood or atavistic child and rise by the child.

Ao Long was so carefree mainly because she thought she couldn’t get pregnant.

After all, for the Azure Dragon Clan, conception was far too difficult.

Let alone with a human cultivator like Lu Changsheng.

“Thank you, my lady,” Lu Changsheng said with a smile, not taking it too seriously.

He hadn’t pinned hopes on pregnancy and didn’t dwell on it.

He was mostly teasing Ao Long.

After a tender moment, the two of them rose from the Sea-Marrow Jade bed.

In the past, his wives and concubines would be limp all over after his urging and need a long rest.

Ao Long, though it was her first time, looked as if nothing had happened.

That kind of physique and recovery made Lu Changsheng silently shake his head.

He felt that to conquer Ao Long completely, he’d need at least a late fourth-rank physique.

And pushing body refinement to late fourth-rank alone wouldn’t be enough.

He’d have to raise his Chaos Body, the Kidney Divine Treasure, the power of Dragon-Phoenix Nirvana and his cultivation realm together.

“Little Mei.”

“Master.”

Seeing Lu Changsheng and Ao Long step out of the hall, the Green Dragon King and the Turtle Immortal Patriarch called out at once.

“Qing Zhi, Fellow Daoist Lu and I are husband and wife now. No need to hide it anymore.”

Clad in a blue-violet dragon-scale dress, tall and willowy with a proud air, Ao Long spoke to the Green Dragon King.

Over the past month of battle, she had already told Lu Changsheng that the Green Dragon King was a subordinate she had subdued in the Forbidden Sea.

“Yes, Master.”

Though the Green Dragon King had guessed from the sounds in the hall that she and Lu Changsheng had grown close,

he still felt conflicted when he heard it from his master herself, unconvinced.

He thought, why did this pretty boy Lu Changsheng deserve it?

But faced with Ao Long’s awe-inspiring majesty and bloodline suppression, he didn’t dare show the slightest disrespect.

“This old slave congratulates Master. Greetings, my lady.”

The Turtle Immortal Patriarch, however, smiled happily and bowed to Lu Changsheng and Ao Long.

He, like Ao Long, was a pure-blood descendant.

Yet before her he showed no pride at all, like a loyal servant.

“Green Dragon King, I have something to ask. How did you first make contact with Dreamless and his wife? Did they leave any words or information?”

Lu Changsheng questioned the Green Dragon King.

This had been a doubt buried in his heart for a long time.

Back then, when Yun Wanshang crossed her tribulation at Crackling Island, the Green Dragon King appeared.

He said that forty years earlier a couple just like Lu Changsheng and Yun Wanshang had brought several fourth-rank sea kings to cross tribulation in the Forbidden Sea.

He also told Lu that a couple might cross tribulation in the Starry Sea in the future and if he helped them he’d earn a favor and solve his current problem.

Such a prophecy was shocking.

Even with late-stage Nascent Soul Spirit-Soul Perception, Lu couldn’t do that.

Especially since he was a fourth-rank diviner, with the Heavenly Yuan Lotus and the Lu Family Record shielding his fate.

“They were crossing tribulation in the Forbidden Sea.”

The Green Dragon King spoke in a cold voice, saying Dreamless and his wife were breaking through to Nascent Soul back then.

Despite their complete preparations and a Heavenly Secrets Grand Array, he still detected them.

When he arrived, Dreamless immediately laid out the situation and said if the Green Dragon King would protect them, the couple would owe him a favor.

Hearing they were heading for the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm, the Green Dragon King agreed.

He had been trying to get word of Ao Long back to the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace.

Now that Dreamless and his wife were going to the Eastern Sea, he didn’t mind helping and letting them pass the message while owing him a favor.

Of course, the main reason was that Dreamless and his wife were anything but ordinary.

Two Core Formation cultivators somehow enslaved three fourth-rank sea beasts and six top-tier third-rank sea beasts.

They also carried an aura that made him feel a vague danger and a tremor in his heart.

“After they finished the tribulation, they told me a couple might cross in the Forbidden Sea in the future and could solve my problem. They left nothing else.”

The Green Dragon King was amazed by Dreamless’s methods as well.

When he arrived at their tribulation site, the couple immediately saw through his problem and said they could help.

Afterward they even foresaw the future. It was unbelievable.

“Where did they cross?”

The Turtle Immortal Patriarch asked, also impressed by the couple.

“Near the White Glaze Sea,” the Green Dragon King said after a moment of thought.

“Master, with methods like that, they might have left information at the tribulation site or where they stayed. You can go check it out.”

The Turtle Immortal Patriarch reminded Lu Changsheng.

Since they could foresee Lu Changsheng’s tribulation, they likely left a message.

If not given to the Green Dragon King, then most likely at the place they stayed.

“Where is the White Glaze Sea?” Lu Changsheng felt it made sense.

“Qing Zhi, lead the way.”

Ao Long spoke directly, her expression proud and regal like a dragon queen.

“Yes, Master,” the Green Dragon King answered respectfully.

Watching the Green Dragon King’s deference to Ao Long, Lu Changsheng was surprised.

The Green Dragon King was, after all, a mid-fourth-rank demon king.

Even if he served Ao Long, he shouldn’t be this respectful.

Besides, in both looks and their interactions, he was an unruly sort with a fierce aura.

Without thinking too much, Lu, Ao Long and the Turtle Immortal Patriarch set out with the Green Dragon King for the White Glaze Sea.

The White Glaze Sea, like the Green Dragon King’s Green Dragon Island, was a regional sea power.

It had once been ruled by a White Glaze Demon King, hence the name White Glaze Sea.

That White Glaze Demon King had long vanished.

Because of that, Dreamless and his wife took the leyline here, laid a Heavenly Secrets Grand Array and used it as their breakthrough site.

With a powerhouse lineup of a man, a turtle, a dragon and a flood dragon, they had no trouble on the way.

Before long, they arrived at the couple’s former breakthrough site.

“There really is something.”

Lu Changsheng’s cultivation was only second-layer Nascent Soul and his physique mid-fourth-rank, not on par with Ao Long.

But his Spirit-Soul Perception was at the eighth layer.

When he sent out his senses to survey the area, he immediately spotted several broken formation restrictions in a corner.

As a fourth-rank formation grandmaster, he saw faint connections between those restrictions.

He stepped forward to examine them and tried to nudge and link them.

A hum.

Moments later the restrictions buzzed and a message surfaced.

“If you’ve come, it means the glimpse my wife and I took of a corner of the future from the Long River of Heavenly Secrets during our breakthrough has come to pass. Congratulations on reaching Nascent Soul.”

“The one behind the Green Dragon King is tied to the Eastern Sea’s Azure Dragon Clan. If you befriend them, there will be great benefits.”

“In the spray of the Long River of Heavenly Secrets, we saw a massive upheaval in the Southern Desolation. Our daughter may face danger. We hope you can help where you can.”

The message was very brief and didn’t say much more.

It only told Lu Changsheng that they had glimpsed the future by peering into the Long River of Heavenly Secrets during their breakthrough.

Lu Changsheng understood.

If he were willing to burn his lifespan, he too could see a few future fragments from that river.

But the Long River of Heavenly Secrets had countless waves, each representing a possibility and a path, all very blurry.

“They not only have top-tier divination inheritance, they also carry a divination supreme treasure.”

Lu Changsheng pondered.

His own fourth-rank divination leaned broad and foundational, not as specialized as a faction like Starrymoon Hall.

Divination mastery depended on inheritance, cultivation, spirit-soul and the divination tool.

It was like the difference between wielding the Nine Calamity Sword and the Sun-Moon Yin-Yang Mirror and going bare-handed.

For that couple to have such means, they must have a divination supreme treasure.

“Who are they really?”

Lu Changsheng wondered. The two were endlessly mysterious with astonishing methods.

He moved a thought and tried to divine them, but their fate was hazy and impossible to grasp.

Forcing it would only be futile, a waste of blood and lifespan.

“Let’s go.”

He didn’t continue divining. After checking the surroundings again and finding no other messages or tokens, he left with Ao Long and the Green Dragon King.

“Husband, if you have other matters, head back first. I’ll tidy up with Qing Zhi and return to the Eastern Sea.”

Ao Long wasn’t like most women. Even at parting there was little sentimental sorrow.

Or rather, she was a bit dull in matters of the heart, slow to feel.

Their intimacy was a moment of heat.

“I’ll see you off.”

Though Lu Changsheng wanted to return soon to the Divine Maiden Palace, who knew when they would meet again, so there was no rush.

He also knew Ao Long’s feelings for him were driven by his looks, his charm and their peach blossom luck. There wasn’t much foundation.

Since they were parting, he wanted to leave a good impression if he could.

“Alright~”

Looking at Lu Changsheng’s handsome face, Ao Long hooked her lips into a smile, wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him before heading back to Green Dragon Island.

Lu Changsheng: “…”

If not for the Turtle Immortal Patriarch and the Green Dragon King nearby, he would have reclaimed the initiative after that provocation.

Ao Long had little to pack, mainly some spirit materials on Green Dragon Island and two fourth-rank shapeshifting demon kings under the Green Dragon King.

As for the rest of the subordinates, Ao Long couldn’t be bothered and even found them a hassle.

From Green Dragon Island to the Eastern Sea boundary wall was tens of millions of miles, so Lu Changsheng didn’t see them off too far.

After an embrace and a kiss goodbye, he watched Ao Long and the Green Dragon King each mount a fourth-rank demon king and ride the waves toward the depths of the Forbidden Sea and the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm.

“Whew.”

Watching Ao Long fade from sight, Lu Changsheng drew a long breath and slowly let it out.

These days on Green Dragon Island felt like a dream.