IS Chapter 160

Chapter 160

In mid-air, a fierce sword light slashed through.

–Why are they fighting?

Jin Ming felt that just a glance at that sword light was enough to make him revert to his dragon form. This was a fight to the death!

Li Yuan blocked the blow with his scabbard. Ye Zhuo was truly angry, angry at him. Li Yuan headed towards the Plum Blossom Abode, only to be met with another sword strike.

Ye Zhuo coldly watched Li Yuan’s figure.

Blocking with a scabbard?

Behind him, countless sword shadows had already appeared. As Li Yuan approached, the sword shadows flew towards him like a sudden storm. Every sword strike was real. Hadn’t he been cultivating in the Abyss Sea? His skills must have improved significantly; he would let him see how much.

Li Yuan’s fingers pressed against the hilt of his sword. Seeing Ye Zhuo’s red eyes, how could he possibly want to draw his sword? But Ye Zhuo attacking him like this meant he was dissatisfied with him using the scabbard. In a sword duel, there was no reason for one party to draw their sword while the other didn’t. Ye Zhuo was right to be angry. He drew his sword, meeting Ye Zhuo’s sword momentum.

But what anger lay beyond the scabbard? Li Yuan felt a pang of pain in his heart. Shouldn’t he have returned to the Abyss Sea at all? Why did he feel that this person was so aggrieved now, just like the day he heard that this person wanted him to return to the Dragon Realm?

What was Dragon Li Yuan spacing out for? After returning to the Dragon Realm, he had forgotten how to duel? Ye Zhuo aimed a sword directly at his heart.

Jin Ming felt that he was already failing.

Having a good time?

Was this how people who were having a good time fought?

Unable to worry about what his brother was thinking, Li Yuan concentrated to receive Ye Zhuo’s sword. Ye Zhuo’s sword was faster and fiercer than before. Dueling with him required full concentration. But after a few moves, Li Yuan felt that Ye Zhuo might not want to duel with him at all.

–Ye Zhuo just wanted to hit him.

Ye Zhuo wanted to hit him, so what should he do? Of course, he would let Ye Zhuo hit him. But fighting with this person, if he did nothing, the ending would definitely be bleak. If he only defended, it would be more difficult than attacking. Li Yuan retreated while fighting, anticipating Ye Zhuo’s moves. He wanted to see more of Ye Zhuo’s appearance.

Ye Zhuo looked at Li Yuan and saw him staring at himself the whole time. Instantly, anger flared up in his heart. The long worm’s thoughts were written all over his face!

Didn’t want to fight? Enduring grievances for whom to see? Pretending to be pitiful? Letting the Golden Dragon see and think he was bullying his brother? Ye Zhuo was annoyed. He raised his sword and struck down mercilessly, hoping to get a second reverse scale to pluck.

Between the rising and falling of the sword, he saw the long worm staring at him again. Ye Zhuo sneered, raising his hand and using a newly comprehended sword technique, hoping Dragon Li Yuan’s signature skills had improved.

As this sword was unleashed, the aura in front of him suddenly changed. The light of the sky was blocked, and what appeared before Ye Zhuo was a black dragon with dark golden eyes.

The black dragon quietly looked at him, as if preparing to use its dragon body to receive his sword.

Ye Zhuo laughed in anger.

A long worm, had he seen it too little recently? The snow light shone, making its scales appear like translucent black jade, and its dragon horns had grown a bit. He didn’t know what secret deals it had made in the Abyss Sea. It would be even better to cut it if it was a dragon.

Jin Ming watched helplessly as his brother was beaten into revealing his true black dragon form. The sky was instantly filled with dark clouds, lightning, and thunder. Ye Zhuo’s sword became increasingly terrifying, and his brother was using all four elements of wind, thunder, water, and electricity. What was this? A life-and-death duel? If Li Yuan died, how would he explain it to the Dragon Ancestor? If Ye Zhuo died, how would he explain it to the Dragon Ancestor?

If he went up to break them apart, he would die, and the Golden Dragon clan–

The Golden Dragon clan would still be fine.

Li Yuan circled and retreated in the sky in his dragon form. There were more places to hit on a dragon body, and it was also more sturdy. Would he be happier then?

But turning into a dragon made him want to nuzzle Ye Zhuo.

Ye Zhuo wasn’t even using his full strength when hitting him. They used to fight much more fiercely. He really wanted to talk to Ye Zhuo. He kept looking at Ye Zhuo.

–Just hit him if you want to, why are you looking at him? Ye Zhuo didn’t want to see those dragon eyes at all. Did he think he was a dragon whelp?

Dragon whelp.

Had he been bewitched before? Treating this dragon like an immature dragon whelp.

This Dragon Li Yuan.

Li Yuan felt that the beating he was receiving was getting heavier. This was how it should be. Ye Zhuo’s sword made him feel like he must have done something unforgivable. He seemed to understand that he shouldn’t have left for even a day, and he would never leave this person’s side again.

In the midst of the flashing swords, wind, thunder, clouds, and lightning, many of the snow mountains in the Northern Territory seemed to have collapsed. It didn’t matter; this was an uninhabited area. Finally, Li Yuan used his dragon body to suddenly encircle Ye Zhuo, dragging him down.

“Ye Zhuo.” He abruptly transformed into his human form, pulling this person into his arms, his arms tightly embracing his waist, shoulders, and back. “Ye Zhuo.”

He felt that Ye Zhuo had reconciled with him.

Ye Zhuo didn’t speak; he was still angry, struggling a few times, refusing to be held. But he insisted on holding him, and after several exchanges, he still firmly held this person in his arms, landing on a snowy rock beach somewhere.

“Ye Zhuo.”

Ye Zhuo heard this dragon buried against his neck, calling his name again and again. After calling his name, he said, “I missed you so much, Ye Zhuo.”

He also said, “You’ve improved, haven’t you?”

Anyone with eyes could see that. Ye Zhuo pushed him away.

Li Yuan finally released him slightly to look into his eyes. His fingers went to wipe his eyes: “Don’t cry, Ye Zhuo.”

Was Dragon Li Yuan blind? Who was crying here? Ye Zhuo was annoyed, looking up at him.

A black dragon; even hitting it made his wrist hurt.

He wanted to pull his wrist out of Li Yuan’s hand, but Li Yuan wouldn’t let him. Not only would he not let him, but he also fed him a pill. Ye Zhuo swallowed the pill.

There was no movement in his spiritual sea. In the gap where the medicinal power was dissolving, Ye Zhuo diverted a strand of his consciousness to take a look.

–That little long worm was poking its head out of the surface of the spiritual sea, sniffing here and there, as if it really wanted to know what was happening outside.

Unfortunately, it wouldn’t know. Ye Zhuo had long discovered that the little long worm couldn’t sense things from the outside. He cruelly pressed it back into the water.

“Ye Zhuo, what are you playing at?” Li Yuan rubbed his wrist, a strand of spiritual power coming over to probe his meridians, checking if he had been injured these days. Ye Zhuo pushed his hand away.

Not letting him check his meridians? Li Yuan blinked, looking at Ye Zhuo.

Ye Zhuo raised his eyes and spoke the first words he had said to Li Yuan since their reunion.

“How did you break through?”

Li Yuan really wanted to give him a good thrashing. Was this the only kind of thing Ye Zhuo could say?

Li Yuan bit him in annoyance: “Looking at you, that’s how I broke through.”

Looking at him could make him break through? Ye Zhuo didn’t believe it.

He had at least released a little bird. If Dragon Li Yuan could break through just by looking at someone, he would really have to admire the Dragon Clan’s innate talent.

He probed Li Yuan’s meridians. They were more refined than when he was in the human realm, like the power of blood. He had also tempered himself a lot these days exploring secret realms, so it was still about the same. Was Dragon Li Yuan just copying people?

“Just by looking at you. Believe it or not.” After biting him, Li Yuan picked up a strand of his hair.

What if Ye Zhuo didn’t want him to come? What if he could never come? What if Ye Zhuo went to the Immortal Realm alone? What if there was no reverse scale to sense him, and he could never find Ye Zhuo in the vastness of the world?

How many times in a lifetime could you leave and still be able to return? How many times could you look down and still see this person’s figure? He looked, and the thought in his heart became clearer and clearer.

“No wonder. Ye Zhuo.”

“What’s no wonder?”

“My breaking through has always been for you,” Li Yuan mumbled.

“?”

Why this unwarranted accusation, pulling him into everything?

“Before, I wanted to defeat you,” Li Yuan said.

“Later…” he thought, “Later is later.”

What was the long worm saying? He had been learning human language for more than a year and still hadn’t learned it well.

Li Yuan saw that Ye Zhuo didn’t seem to want to pay attention to him, so he directly picked him up again.

He placed Ye Zhuo on a slightly higher snow rock. This way, Ye Zhuo wouldn’t have to look up at him, but would instead look down.

As expected, he saw this person slowly surveying him from top to bottom with those beautiful eyes.

Li Yuan really felt that he and Ye Zhuo had reconciled.

Ye Zhuo’s gaze returned to Li Yuan’s eyes. He reached out and gently turned Li Yuan’s face, examining it in the snow light.

These past few days, he had always seen the Golden Dragon jumping around, making Li Yuan seem much more foolish in his memory. Now, looking at him, he was still a fairly calm face.

The uncalm part was that he kept smiling softly, looking up at him as if he was very happy even after being beaten.

“Ye Zhuo,” he heard Li Yuan say softly, “You’re not angry anymore, right?”

Angry? Who?

What exactly had Dragon Li Yuan done that he didn’t even want to say?

Li Yuan held his hand, clasping it in his palm.

“I won’t leave again, okay?” Li Yuan said, “If you miss me, I’ll be right next to you. Shouldn’t I have left at all? Did I make you sad again?”

Not sad. Ye Zhuo felt that he was doing very well, cultivating peacefully.

He also didn’t miss Li Yuan; he didn’t have time.

Ye Zhuo shook his head.

Dragon whelps were just as troublesome as this dragon.

He looked at the little whelp. After being pressed into the bottom of the spiritual sea, the little beast pretended to be oblivious to everything, concentrating on making lotus flowers at the bottom of the sea. Now there was already a mountain of lotus flowers piled up at the bottom of the sea. Because Ye Zhuo felt that those sesame-seed-sized green lotus flowers floating densely on the spiritual sea were an eyesore, he had directly sunk them all to the bottom.

Now, there was only one slightly larger lotus flower on the surface of the spiritual sea that the dragon whelp had lucked out in making, and it looked very beautiful and elegant. The little long worm arched it to the center of the spiritual sea and placed it there.

Were all dragons so good at adapting to circumstances? If Li Yuan had appeared one day earlier, even one moment earlier, if he hadn’t improved, if he hadn’t made the decision about the dragon whelp’s fate himself, he wouldn’t have met Li Yuan. Putting down what he had to, picking up what he had to, some things could only be decided by himself.

“You’re shaking your head; you’re not sad?” Li Yuan said, “Or you don’t want me by your side?”

Ye Zhuo slowly thought.

If Li Yuan had been by his side all along, would things have been different? Forget it, it was better for this dragon to go cultivate.

Although he still thought about him sometimes.

Seeing the Golden Dragon would remind him of the Black Dragon, but he didn’t want the Black Dragon here.

It seemed he could only be angry. He didn’t know who he was angry at.

So he had been angry.

Li Yuan knew, but he himself didn’t know.

“I’ve been cultivating in the Abyss Sea,” Li Yuan told him, “And I’ve read a lot of books. Buddhist scriptures, sword manuals, realm studies, everything. The Dragon Nest helped me temper my body. Now my scales have also changed a lot.”

It looked like he wanted to nuzzle him again.

“Do you want to touch them?” Li Yuan said.

Ye Zhuo remained noncommittal, slowly lowering his fingers and placing them on Li Yuan’s shoulder.

Li Yuan watched him.

Simple, plain, crimson robes, more vibrant than the color of red plums, with no other decorations except for a Ming Yue jade ornament. His long hair was simply tied up. He looked good like this, but would his older brother take care of him? Forget it; at least it showed his older brother was proper.

Did he want to hug him? Li Yuan reached out and pulled him into his arms again.

Ye Zhuo rested quietly on his shoulder. After a while, he turned and buried himself against his neck.

Li Yuan had Li Yuan’s scent, the clear moon over the vast sea. He had forgotten it; he had just remembered it now. For some reason, he was a little annoyed again. Ye Zhuo slowly searched along Li Yuan’s pulse.

Sensing the light, intimate movement against his neck, Li Yuan felt his heart skip a beat. It was as if some fluffy animal was rubbing its head against him. It was Ye Zhuo.

Like lotus petals gently brushing against his heart. How could it be like this? Was it Ye Zhuo?

Then, a slight pain came from his neck. Ye Zhuo bit his neck. The next moment, he used more force, biting in deeply.

Li Yuan: “.”

Now he didn’t doubt that it was Ye Zhuo.

He could bite if he wanted to bite.

His skin wasn’t that easy to bite through. What if his teeth hurt? He wanted to kiss Ye Zhuo later.

Ye Zhuo bit through the skin and even the blood vessels in his neck. Blood flowed out. The scent of blood was also faint and subtle, like it came from the same source as the faith fragrance. It was like he had also forgotten the scent of the faith fragrance.

Ye Zhuo swallowed a mouthful.

True dragon blood was like a top-quality pill. Swallowing it transformed it into dense, chaotic spiritual power, which fell into the spiritual sea and spread out.

The little long worm suddenly raised its head, sniffing everywhere, and quickly scurried to the surface of the spiritual sea.

–It used all four feet to drag the ball of spiritual power down.

Ye Zhuo swallowed another mouthful. Actually, it tasted pretty good.

Li Yuan’s chest was vibrating. He was laughing softly. He held him tightly, gently stroking his back, then stroking his hair, as if he wanted him to drink as much as he wanted.

The dragon’s body healed very quickly. After Ye Zhuo swallowed a few mouthfuls, the bleeding slowed down. After a while, it stopped.

He also rested on Li Yuan’s shoulder, not moving.

Li Yuan cupped his face and kissed him over and over. Ye Zhuo didn’t let him move around, so Li Yuan quieted down for a while.

–Jin Ming, carrying the heavy mood of collecting the corpses for one of them, followed the trajectory of the fall of the person and dragon to this snow beach, and what he saw was this scene.

He came from the side. His younger brother had one arm around Ye Zhuo’s waist, looking up at that person with a face full of smiles, saying something softly. While saying it, he stroked Ye Zhuo’s hair, and after saying a few words, he would kiss him once or twice.

That Ye Zhuo was looking down slightly at Li Yuan, his natal sword resting to the side. Li Yuan would say a few words, and he would nod or shake his head, replying with a word or two, and occasionally even laughing softly.

His brother’s neck also had a bloody mark.

Jin Ming: “.”

Pulling and tugging, what were they doing? He didn’t really recognize who these two were. Maybe they were monsters transformed from the mountains.

“Then I won’t leave again.” Li Yuan held Ye Zhuo’s hand. “You promised, right? Ye Zhuo.”

Ye Zhuo looked at him, frowning. After a long while, he still shook his head.

“The words I asked you to bring to my master,” Ye Zhuo said, “Did you bring them?”

Li Yuan: “.”

The place where Ye Zhuo had hit him on his shoulder suddenly felt a little bit sore. How had he become so incompetent?

“The passage to the Sumeru Buddha Realm hasn’t opened yet,” Li Yuan said worriedly, “I heard that my older brother had disappeared and thought he must have come to the human realm to cause you trouble, so I rushed over.”

Ye Zhuo: “When will the passage open?”

“It should be this month.”

“Then go back.” Ye Zhuo turned his face. “Go see my master.”

Such a tone made Jin Ming open his eyes wide.

Who in the entire Dragon Realm dared to speak to Li Yuan in this tone? Not even the Dragon Ancestor. Speaking like this…speaking like this to the Dragon Lord of the Abyss Sea? Weren’t they afraid of a dragon turning hostile in the next moment?

He saw Li Yuan frown reluctantly, as if he was displeased. No wonder these two had broken up before. Was he going to have to break them up again?

“But I want to be with you,” Li Yuan said, “Ye Zhuo, how about you come with me?”

Jin Ming: “.”

Ye Zhuo shook his head.

“Then let my older brother go,” Li Yuan said.

Jin Ming: “?”

So this person was really his younger brother. He thought he was a monster.

“Before I came, I remembered that you had words to bring, so I entrusted a letter to a trusted member of my clan,” Li Yuan said, “If I don’t make it in time, the letter will still be delivered to the master.”

The two older sisters of the Red Dragon clan were a bit forgetful, so he had specifically gone to another sea area to entrust the letter to the Second Sister of the White Dragon clan before he felt relieved.

Ye Zhuo looked into Li Yuan’s eyes.

“Go yourself,” he said.

“Okay.” Li Yuan’s voice was low. “Then I have to set off soon, Ye Zhuo.”

“How long?”

The East Sea passage had been stable for many years, but after all, it was still a realm passage. There would definitely be a change in time and space from passing through it. Inside the passage, he might feel like it was only a day or two, but in the two realms, it might have already been ten days or half a month.

“Then, I have to go to the East Sea within three days at the latest,” Li Yuan said. “The round trip will take at least a month.”

More than a month.

Ye Zhuo thought for a while. He and Li Yuan had separated during the Lantern Festival. It had snowed for four months.

“Then you,” Ye Zhuo said, “Leave in three days.”

Only three days.

“After I deliver the message, I’ll come find you again, okay?” Ye Zhuo heard Li Yuan’s voice with a bit of a hoarse nasal sound. When had this dragon become so fragile? He wasn’t a dragon whelp who needed to stay in his spiritual sea.

Li Yuan: “Don’t wait until August 15th. What I said before doesn’t count, okay? Ye Zhuo, I don’t want to be alone in the Abyss Sea anymore.”

Ye Zhuo looked into Li Yuan’s eyes. Finally, he slowly nodded.

“I can wait for you until June,” he said.

Li Yuan suddenly smiled. He directly wrapped his arms around Ye Zhuo’s waist and lifted him up.

–Did he want to spin him around again? Did Dragon Li Yuan even know that his older brother was already sneering beside him?

His older brother was here, so it wasn’t good to spin around too much. Li Yuan picked up this snow-like person and spun him halfway around, placing him back on the ground, but still holding his finger.

“Older brother has come to find us,” Li Yuan said. “How about I take you to get something to eat? Then we’ll go back to where you live. I’ll stay with you for three days.”

Jin Ming chuckled. His younger brother had a problem with his brain. Had he suffered a qi deviation during cultivation and his temperament had changed greatly? He had to return to the Dragon Realm and find the White Dragon elders to perform a ritual to exorcise him.

As expected, as soon as they returned to the Plum Blossom Abode, his qi-deviated younger brother began to cause trouble. First, he frowned greatly at the four characters “Plum Blossom Abode” that he had personally inscribed, as if it was a dog’s crawling script. Poor taste!

He didn’t object to the red plums in the courtyard, but said that it was missing a cold pond and would dig one today.

When they arrived at Ye Zhuo’s living room, he wanted to change and rearrange all the furnishings up and down.

Was this really the Black Dragon?

Li Yuan was busy back and forth in the Plum Blossom Abode, while Jin Ming casually followed behind, helping out. If the Black Dragon thought the room he had arranged for this person was bad, it didn’t matter. Clutching several storage treasures that his brother had stuffed into his hands, Jin Ming’s steps were especially light.

Later, even the birds’ nest on the dead tree outside was replaced with a new one. Jin Ming watched helplessly as Li Yuan put a few Vermilion Bird feathers inside. It was obvious that he had plucked them from the head of that shameless kid from the Vermilion Bird clan. As soon as the Vermilion Bird feathers were put in, the whole nest was as warm as spring. Was he really not afraid of roasting the sparrows to death?

He had also placed a healing treasure that the Mirage Clan had once presented as tribute in the corner of the room. Those who didn’t know would think it was a big seashell.

Finally, after arranging everything, he held the hand of his old enemy and didn’t know what he was doing in the room. He followed him step by step. Jin Ming was too lazy to pay attention. He took out a set of banners from the Netherworld treasure, arranged them in the backyard, and began to operate them, testing whether there was any soul-seizing or soul-swapping happening in this Plum Blossom Abode. The result was negative. It was a really strange thing.

“What is older brother doing?” For some reason, feeling a gust of yin wind surrounding him, Li Yuan put his arm around Ye Zhuo’s shoulder and looked outside.

Ye Zhuo knew what the Golden Dragon was doing; Ye Zhuo didn’t say anything.

Li Yuan insisted on having him lean on him, so he leaned. Ye Zhuo nestled in the dragon’s arms, reading a scroll of Buddhist scriptures. Dragon Li Yuan had brought several boxes of them, saying he thought he might be interested.

As he was reading, his consciousness fell into the spiritual sea. He hadn’t fed the little long worm spiritual power in the past two days, but the little long worm was very full. It had swallowed a few mouthfuls of the big long worm’s blood, and it seemed like the little long worm was about to grow horns.

But it hadn’t finished eating it all. It had mysteriously stored part of the spiritual power and didn’t know what it was going to do with it. Ye Zhuo looked over today and found that in the center of the spiritual sea, the little long worm had made a lotus leaf out of that ball of spiritual power. It had also tilted the lotus leaf towards the lotus flower. What was it doing? The spiritual sea wouldn’t be windy or rainy.

After making it, it seemed very satisfied, swimming around it several times and climbing onto the lotus leaf to sleep.

–It didn’t fall asleep.

Finally, it draped its tail on the lotus leaf and buried its head in the lotus petals, falling asleep.

Ye Zhuo moved the lotus leaf and lotus flower away.

The little long worm fell off with a splash.

“What are you laughing at?” Li Yuan leaned over to kiss his brow, looking at the contents of the scripture in his hand. Did something interesting happen in the Buddhist scriptures?

Ye Zhuo covered Li Yuan’s face with the Buddhist scripture.

Li Yuan laughed, and after laughing, he came to hold Ye Zhuo’s wrist again.

“What’s wrong with your meridians?” Li Yuan said, “Why won’t you let me look?”

“Nothing’s wrong; I’m practicing a cultivation method,” Ye Zhuo said. “You’ll know after I finish practicing.”

Hearing Ye Zhuo say this, Li Yuan believed him. He lowered his head and kissed Ye Zhuo’s forehead again, putting his arm around his waist and pulling him into his arms. Holding him like this felt so good. He felt that Ye Zhuo was quiet and a little different, as if he had let go of something. He thought of that line of new snow on the petals of the glass red lotus, like the first light of day.

“Are you not afraid of me delaying you?” Li Yuan kissed him again, asking him.

Now that he had reached the Human Immortal Realm, he couldn’t regress, could he? Ye Zhuo pushed Li Yuan away. This dragon was still trying to get closer: “Ye Zhuo, have you thought something through?”

Ye Zhuo suddenly asked: “How old are you?”

Li Yuan: “……?”

Ye Zhuo: “Age.”

“I don’t know,” Li Yuan said. “Are you asking about the dragon body or the human body?”

“Both.”

Li Yuan seriously thought about it.

Actually, he didn’t remember very clearly how long he had been a dragon. He just swam in the water. Sometimes, his older brothers and sisters would carry him around, and sometimes, other adult dragons would take care of him. He didn’t need to cultivate; no dragon urged him. He absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth himself, thinking about what to do, like fighting other dragons.

Formal cultivation was only taught by elders after he transformed into a human. All the realms knew that the human body was the best for comprehending the Dao. Since that was the case, before transforming into a human, the Dragon Realm only hoped that the dragon whelps could eat. Every so often, they would throw them into various places full of spiritual energy, and that was enough. Anyway, if they ate well, the dragon body would naturally grow strong. Dragons lived long lives, so they grew very slowly.

Li Yuan also felt that his head was a little unclear when he was a dragon. It was only after he learned to transform into a human that he suddenly became clear. He transformed into a human very early in the entire Dragon Realm.

“For the dragon body, maybe several hundred years,” Li Yuan nuzzled Ye Zhuo. Ye Zhuo was in his twenties, so small. Like a small fish with a newly grown, beautiful tail fin. But he was also very powerful.

Ye Zhuo: “What about the human body?”

This time, Li Yuan looked at him and seriously thought about it again.

“About the same as you,” he said.

Ye Zhuo: “.”

So he really was a little dragon.

No wonder the first time he saw this dragon, he looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, about the same as himself.

When they met again ten years later, he was still about the same as himself.

“Then you…” Ye Zhuo said, “Do you remember? Things from before.”

“Before?”

“Before hatching.”

Li Yuan didn’t know why Ye Zhuo would ask this, but he thought seriously.

Those vague, ambiguous memories. Quietly curled up in the shell, like a long dream that would never wake up. Further away, some faint warmth, like scattered rays of light. He didn’t know what had happened, but sometimes, when he was alone in the Abyss Sea, where everything was very quiet, that feeling would inexplicably surface in his heart.

So Li Yuan nodded earnestly to Ye Zhuo: “I remember.”

“…Oh.” Ye Zhuo said.

Why did he seem dissatisfied with this answer? Would this person be satisfied if he said he didn’t remember? Li Yuan: “Why are you asking this?”

Ye Zhuo: “I feel you’re a little smarter than other dragons.”

“Are you praising me or scolding them?” Li Yuan said.

Ye Zhuo blinked, as if there was a slight smile.

“Ye Zhuo.” Li Yuan buried himself on his shoulder. “Only three days, I’m about to leave.”

“Go,” Ye Zhuo said. “I might not be here in June.”

“?”

Ye Zhuo added: “But I’ll wait for you.”

Li Yuan kissed him at last.

Ye Zhuo quietly watched as this dragon picked up his natal sword, dripped a drop of blood from his fingertip, and drew a few strange symbols, as if establishing some kind of connection again.

Just doing this kind of thing. Ye Zhuo was too lazy to pay attention to him at all.

Li Yuan: “When I leave, you’ll see me off.”

Ye Zhuo nodded casually.

On the day of his departure, Dragon Li Yuan was restless.

Ye Zhuo dragged him into the courtyard: “If you don’t deliver the message, I’ll kill you.”

“I already said I’ll definitely deliver it,” Li Yuan said.

“Then you can leave.”

“How about letting my older brother stay?” Li Yuan said, thinking that no one would believe him if he said he wanted his older brother to protect Ye Zhuo. He said: “Let older brother take care of you. If you’re alone, I’ll be very worried and won’t be able to leave in peace.”

Ye Zhuo: “Do I need that?”

“Just let older brother watch over you,” Li Yuan said. “If anyone causes you trouble, let older brother show himself and let them see clearly. Let them know that both the Black Dragon and the Golden Dragon are protecting you, and the entire Dragon Realm is backing you up, okay?”

Ye Zhuo frowned, looking at Li Yuan.

Jin Ming watched them argue with his arms crossed. Ye Zhuo was really amazing. He could suppress such a big matter as a dragon whelp, so his brother couldn’t see even a hint of it. He wondered what would happen in another two months.

“That’s it,” Li Yuan said. “I’ll definitely come back to find you in June.”

Ye Zhuo nodded reluctantly.

“Ye Zhuo.” Li Yuan suddenly called him again.

Ye Zhuo looked at his left hand being held. He always felt that Dragon Li Yuan was after his beads again. Would he feel uncomfortable if he didn’t give them to him?

As expected, Li Yuan said again: “Give me this, okay?”

Jin Ming was at a loss for words. He really didn’t want to admit that this was his younger brother.

Ye Zhuo looked at the beads, then looked at Li Yuan. His beads all had meaning, and he had never given away anything he carried with him.

Li Yuan had already hooked his beads: “Then how about I exchange three with you?”

Ye Zhuo thought about it, and finally nodded.

Li Yuan looked very happy and came to kiss him again. After kissing him, this dragon took off his beads and disassembled them, as if he was afraid he would regret it if he disassembled them too late. Ye Zhuo quietly watched to see what tricks he was playing.

He saw Li Yuan take out a box, without the aura of a storage treasure, but from his small personal world.

The box opened, and three beads of different colors lay quietly inside, all the same size as the ones on his hand. Were they originally this big? Were they born with holes? Ye Zhuo immediately put his hand on his sword. Was this what it looked like to cultivate properly in the Dragon Realm?

Jin Ming, however, widened his eyes and looked at each bead one by one. Why didn’t he just give away the Abyss Sea Palace?

Li Yuan earnestly strung the beads onto the table under the plum blossom tree. Ye Zhuo stood next to him.

“What are they?” Ye Zhuo said.

“The white one is a Bright Moon Bead,” Li Yuan said. “It’s pretty and there aren’t many of them, so I’m giving it to you.”

Ye Zhuo looked. The snow-white bead was crystal clear, with countless moonlights scattered inside, reflecting layers of various colors. It looked pretty, like something the Dragon Clan would like.

The second one was blue-purple, like a pearl, but more transparent than a pearl.

“This is a Mermaid’s Tear,” Li Yuan said. “It’s also pretty. Wearing it can purify your mind and prevent you from being affected by illusions.”

Li Yuan didn’t say anything else. Huai Xiu had always been with him. He always thought that he should also exchange it for Ye Zhuo.

The third one was a magnificent ink-purple gold, sparkling, like something from the mortal realm. The gold was faint, like a faint layer of meritorious light.

“This one I saw next to a Dragon God Temple when I left for the East Sea. The temple keeper would burn these incense ash glass beads, consecrate them, and distribute them to the pilgrims. I went to the Dragon God and asked for one,” Li Yuan said, earnestly stringing this one on as well. “I asked for peace, and I’m giving it to you too.”

Ye Zhuo lowered his eyes, quietly looking at the three beads.

And Li Yuan had inadvertently taken off the three blood beads and put them into his small personal world.

First, he removed the Dead Fearless and Scattered Fearless beads, which he couldn’t stand the most. He chose the former out of the Hate and Regret beads. If he chose the latter, he was afraid Ye Zhuo would hit him. In short, they had now safely landed in the lower realm.

Li Yuan pulled Ye Zhuo’s hand over and solemnly put the beads back on for him. It looked so good. Ye Zhuo liked this string of beads and would definitely wear it for a long time.

Ye Zhuo’s finger touched the third glass bead.

“Then I,” Li Yuan’s voice suddenly lowered, “I’m leaving.”

“Not even one point,” Ye Zhuo said.

Li Yuan looked up blankly. After a while, he seemed to remember what Ye Zhuo was talking about. He looked at Ye Zhuo for a long time, squeezing his wrist, frowning sadly: “Not even one point?”

Jin Ming really wanted to laugh. He now thought these two were really fun.

In the Dragon Realm, you wouldn’t see this kind of excitement in ten thousand years.

His wrist was being squeezed a little painfully. Ye Zhuo pulled back, but couldn’t move at all.

“Two points,” he said in a bad mood.

Li Yuan suddenly smiled, his eyes shining brightly: “Then how about three points?”

Ye Zhuo lowered his eyes, looking at him as if he was being overcharged, thinking about how to pick and choose again.

Li Yuan really wanted to kiss him.

So he kissed him.

Actually, Li Yuan didn’t think it was two points either.

Maybe not even three points.

But he just liked Ye Zhuo’s slow, careful, reluctant appearance.

“You wait for me, Ye Zhuo,” Li Yuan said. “Just wait for me.”

Ye Zhuo nodded.

Li Yuan stood up, pressing Ye Zhuo down to sit in his original position, covering his eyes from behind with both hands: “Then close your eyes.”

“What are you doing