HLnovel Chapter 618: I'm no ordinary dragon cub! (23)
Chapter 618: I'm no ordinary dragon cub! (23)
Chapter 618 I'm No Ordinary Dragon Cubs! 23
For the next period of time, Zhao Zhao spent his time in the forest testing the future of spirit beasts. All the "guests" who had seen him praised his abilities.
His reputation spread, and even though Neri and the others didn't need to invite any "guests," long queues formed in front of Zhao Zhao's crystal ball.
"Young Master of the Dragon Clan, I... will I really be with him in the future?!"
Zhao Zhao looked up at the image on the crystal bead again, her eyes crinkling as she nodded, "Of course!"
Seeing the joy on the fox's face, Zhao Zhao was happy for him too.
Most spirit beasts have a promising future, but many others have a rather bleak future or cannot be tested at all, with no image appearing on the crystal bead.
It was only later that Zhao Zhao finally realized that the absence of any images meant the absence of any future.
Zhao Zhao stretched lazily, then looked at the rows of spirit beasts behind the crystal bead and felt like she was going to work again: "When will my spiritual power grow faster?!"
......
Another day of hard work and dedication, the forest is shrouded in the dim light of the setting sun.
After seeing off the last spirit beast, Zhao Zhao sat under a tree, holding two phoenix eggs, and stared blankly at the clouds in the sky.
Now he's been assigned to Frang's care, and he doesn't know if Big Dragon has forgotten about him or overslept, but he hasn't come to pick him up yet.
Because of his testing of future activities, the hostility of other spirit beasts towards the dragon race has weakened considerably, and the dragon race, in order to obey him, has not eaten any intelligent spirit beasts during this period.
With the sense of crisis in the forest reduced, some dragon parents felt much more at ease about Zhao Zhao's activities outside, with Frang being the most at ease.
"Hate!"
Zhao Zhao was so angry that she threw her little handkerchief on the ground. It was the one Erstoo used to wipe the mud off the phoenix eggs, but Zhao Zhao ended up using it herself.
"How could you throw my things away?" Yue demanded. He didn't have many things to begin with, and now they were being ruined. It was unbearable!
"pick it up!"
"I won't pick it up!"
Zhao Zhao's hair stood on end. She held the phoenix egg in one hand and poked it with the other.
Suddenly, the mental energy that had been involuntarily extending outward seemed to touch something, and what bounced back was a very strange mental energy fluctuation.
Mysterious and dangerous.
The intense gaze seemed to be glued to him. Zhao Zhao subconsciously fell silent and turned his head inch by inch, only to find that there was nothing at all deep in the jungle.
"come out!"
Zhao Zhao's mental power wouldn't be wrong. He roared sharply, his innocent eyes filled with vigilance: "If you don't come out, I won't be polite."
His sharp and assertive demeanor is a true inheritance from the Long family.
"Ha, you actually saw through my obstacle technique."
A soft laugh suddenly broke the silence. Zhao Zhao carefully tucked the phoenix egg into her bosom. The next second, the air in front of her rippled, and a tall, slender man appeared before her.
"Wow!"
Zhao Zhao was both startled by the sudden appearance of the figure and amazed by his appearance. He had never seen this person before, and the aura emanating from him was also strangely powerful.
The man not far away, dressed in a magnificent purple robe, had his long, narrow eyes fixed on the boy's chest: "Little boy, where did those two eggs in your arms come from?"
He approached him slowly, his powerful aura impossible to ignore even when suppressed, leaving him breathless.
"That scent is so familiar."
"...That voice sounds so familiar."
Suddenly, a restless voice started running through her head. Zhao Zhao gritted her teeth and patted her chest, saying, "Stop messing around, I'll deal with you later."
As he spoke, he secretly observed the man's actions while looking towards the distant horizon, hoping to catch a glimpse of a dragon.
This was the first time that Xi Yan, who held a high position and great power, had been ignored, and he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed. He narrowed his purple eyes slightly, revealing a dangerous aura: "Little Dragon, do you know that the egg in your arms belongs to the Phoenix Clan?"
“Tell me, where did you get it from?”
"I found him!" The man looked hostile. The goodwill that had arisen in her heart because of his good looks vanished instantly. Zhao Zhao had a bad feeling. She grinned at him and stopped caring about Franger. She turned and ran.
The cub transformed into a dragon and flew into the sky. Instantly, a massive, mountain-like phoenix pressed in, and the slight flapping of its huge wings caused violent air fluctuations on Zhao Zhao's side.
The purple phoenix's deep eyes were fixed on the two phoenix eggs in Zhao Zhao's hands, and its claws attacked him without any hesitation.
Yue cried out, "Don't hurt him!!!" Was Xi Yan this fierce a hundred years ago? Is this still the calm and gentle elder from my memories?
Unfortunately, Xi Yan couldn't hear his calls. His keen observation sensed the rare fluctuations of spiritual energy on the red phoenix egg, and his purple eyes rippled.
The intense emotional fluctuations caused the previously restrained powerful spiritual energy to spread, and the dragons who sensed the phoenix's aura in the distance all raised their heads in their caves.
"I have no grudge against you, why are you chasing me like this!" Zhao Zhao was frustrated and confused, her face full of anger: "And these are my eggs, why are you trying to steal them!"
A sudden gust of wind swept against her back. Zhao Zhao was so focused on protecting the fragile phoenix egg that she had no chance to retaliate. The next second, her gaze shifted and she saw a beautiful, soft purple feather.
The enormous phoenix lifted him up in the air with one claw and shook him, then two phoenix eggs, one black and one red, fell into its claw.
Zhao Zhao instantly became agitated, biting and kicking at those large, rough claws: "You wicked robber, you big bad bird!" It's a shame that someone so beautiful behaves so rudely!
Although he often annoyed Yue to tears and disliked his occasional arrogance, he still developed feelings for her after spending a long time together, and was extremely worried about her in this situation.
Xi Yan's large eyes were focused on the two phoenix eggs in his claws. He felt both the joy of finding a phoenix among a foreign race and the worry about the different spiritual energy fluctuations of the two eggs. He couldn't help but tighten his grip on the object.
Yue panicked: "Hey! Xiyan, you're going to strangle Xiaolong! Songsong!" Her tone was tense without her even realizing it.
"Frang! Someone stole my pet!"
Zhao Zhao struggled to no avail. This was the first time he'd ever felt so wronged since birth. Tears welled in his eyes as he called out to his parents, "Neri, Erstoo, Irik!!!"
The dragon's roar echoed for miles. Upon hearing these names, the purple phoenix's eyes flickered slightly, and only then did it finally spare the energy to examine the species of the little dragon in its hand.
A slightly hoarse voice asked with doubt, "What exactly are you?" It looked neither like a Yinglong, a golden dragon, nor a red dragon, nor a green dragon.
"Roar!"
The dragons, who had already sensed something was wrong, arrived at this moment, and the sound of dragon roars grew closer in the distance.
Zhao Zhao was overjoyed, while Xi Yan looked into the distance with a slight frown: "I can let you go, but you must return these two eggs to us."
Yue longed to go home, but when she realized that Xiaolong didn't care about her safety and was determined to keep her here, she felt extremely conflicted.
"Xiao Long, please let me go."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Zhao felt as if the sky had fallen: "You traitor, who raised you like this!"
Yue:.......
The two phoenix eggs were a reward from the system, and Zhao Zhao had long considered them her own, so of course she didn't want to give them to anyone else.
Just as the two were locked in a stalemate, several dragon lords and the rest of the clansmen appeared as if facing a formidable enemy, surrounding Xi Yan in the middle.
For the first time, the usually cautious Xi Yan made such a major mistake—his mental energy disguise was leaked, attracting so many alien races.
“Xi Yan, why are you in the Dragon Clan?” Nari’s crimson eyes locked onto Zhao Zhao on the bird’s claws, and she spoke each word with overwhelming force: “And why did you bully my clan’s young master!”
"I advise you to behave yourself, or I'll make sure you never leave this forest!"
The berserk version of Franger was about to charge forward and fight the purple phoenix to the death when he was hit by Ersto's dragon tail: "What's the rush, you idiot!"
"What if the young master gets hurt?!"
With such a large formation, and the surrounding area densely packed with dragons, Xi Yan had no doubt that almost half of the dragon race were here.
The atmosphere was silent as the dragon and phoenix faced off, then suddenly...
"It's all a misunderstanding."
Xi Yan broke the tense atmosphere with a soft laugh.
The phoenix, now in human form, treads through the mist in mid-air, tenderly embracing Zhao Zhao in its arms, its previous coldness gone.
His deep eyes were filled with tenderness as he looked at the cub, and for a moment he couldn't tell if his tenderness was genuine or not: "Little one, Uncle was just teasing you."
"Your pet is so cute, here, take it back."
As he spoke, he pinched two phoenix eggs with his slender fingers and placed them into the bird's nest on Zhao Zhao's head, without showing the slightest reluctance.
Yue: ...So this is what the Elder is like.
Zhao Zhao: ......
While he was still in a daze, Xi Yan had already explained that it was a misunderstanding and handed him over to the Dragon Clan.
Ersto, who had just been looking dazed and indifferent, took the cub the moment Xi Yan handed it over: "Young Master, are you alright?"
"Speak up! I'm so anxious!"
He checked Zhao Zhao from head to toe to see if she was injured, while Xi Yan, who was still confronting Nali and the others, spread his hands, his handsome face full of innocence: "This is not my fault, it's all your fault."
He smiled, as if he didn't want to offend the Dragon Clan, but his tone contained a hint of provocation: "The Dragon Clan is keeping two Phoenix eggs from the Phoenix Clan as pets for your young master. It's hard for me not to come and investigate."
The Dragon Clan and the Phoenix Clan live in the east and west respectively, and they keep to themselves. If he hadn't heard from other spirit beasts that they had seen phoenix eggs in the Dragon Clan, he wouldn't have traveled so far to come here.
His deep purple eyes held a smile that didn't reach his eyes, as he looked at the young dragon lord, who was surrounded by layers of dragons and whose clothes were completely hidden from view.
The Dragon Clan has not had a young master for thousands of years. Where did this young master come from?
How strange... just like... two phoenix eggs that suddenly hatched.
"Our young master found the phoenix egg. It's perfectly acceptable to give it to him as a pet or a treat!"
Xi Yan: ... His fist hardened.
Seeing that the dragons were being unreasonable, Xi Yan gritted his teeth and nodded: "Yes, yes, they belong to your young master."
These arrogant and unreasonable stupid dragons.
He coaxed him like a child: "Look, I didn't hurt your young master. I only glanced at the phoenix eggs. Just let me go."
Xi Yan was quite capable, even considered a top expert in the spirit world, but he couldn't withstand being surrounded by dozens of dragons.
Meanwhile, Yue, who had been keeping an eye on Xiyan, cried loudly when she heard that he really didn't care about her and was going to leave: "No, Elder, what will I do if you leave!"
"Go home, go home, I want to go home!"
"Woooooooo..."
Zhao Zhao was both annoyed and heartbroken. She had raised this ungrateful little wolf for so long, yet he showed no affection for the dragon race whatsoever.
"Don't cry! Otherwise..." When Zhao Zhao couldn't bring himself to say the heartless words, he asked the system to clear his mind and cry along with the bird.
Frustrated, he asked, "Yue was given the egg by you, so why does he have such strong feelings for the people from the Phoenix Clan?"
I can't say now, but you'll understand later.
Zhao Zhao hates riddles.
"Little one, little one."
Different people were calling his name. Zhao Zhao focused his gaze and saw Frang squeezed next to Erstoo, looking at him with a fawning expression: "Baby, have you been wronged? Do you need Daddy to avenge you?"
"roll!"
Irrick, his face darkening, pushed him away: "Kid, tell us how you want to deal with this stinky bird."
Anyone who dares to bully their little one will be skinned alive.
With his excellent hearing, Xi Yan, who was like a tiger fallen into the plains being bullied by dogs, looked up at them and said with a forced smile, "I am, after all, the Great Elder of the Phoenix Clan."
"This operation was only carried out with the permission of the Phoenix Lord." He gritted his teeth and said each word carefully. Shouldn't these stupid dragons have considered the consequences when they wanted to execute him so recklessly?
"So what!" Frang, truly disregarding all consequences, was about to rush out again when Neri smacked him on the head: "Get lost, I'll deal with you later." Her red eyes were full of warning.
The dragon and phoenix clans, which are gradually declining, are both victims of the curse. They once fought side by side to seal off the demonic dragon. Although their relationship is now strained, out of consideration for the past, the dragon clan really can't do anything to Xi Yan.
Moreover, in fact, Xi Yan did not harm the cubs.
This is the main reason why Neri was able to deal with Xiyan with peace of mind.
"However, Elder of the Phoenix Clan, how do you plan to settle the score for trespassing into the Dragon Clan and bullying our young master?"
Xi Yan, ever flexible and adaptable, said, "I'm sorry..."
The veins on his forehead bulged, clearly indicating that his patience with these impudent dragons had reached its limit.
"That's it?"
"Neri!"
The childish shout brought the group back to their senses. Zhao Zhao flew towards him, nestled into Neri's arms, and had a face-to-face observation of the handsome man in purple.
Compared to his previous expressionless and nasty demeanor, Zhao Zhao found his smiling face increasingly pleasing to the eye.
"Will you still steal my testicles in the future?" Zhao Zhao tilted her head slightly.
Facing the adorable and innocent cub, Xi Yan, under the watchful eyes of these parents, tilted his head and smiled, saying, "Of course not." Definitely not.
Phoenix eggs are incredibly precious to the Phoenix Clan, especially since he had just roughly examined the dragon cub and found that the egg on its head was that of a pure-blooded Fire Phoenix.
"Oh~" Zhao Zhao narrowed her eyes slightly, her dark eyes staring straight into the unfathomable dark eyes of the person in front of her.
It was a sense of familiarity welling up from within, and his intuition told him that the cunning man before him could not be trusted.
“Young Master, the Phoenix Clan’s Grand Elder has trespassed into the Dragon Clan without permission. We should detain him for a few days to teach him a lesson.”
Nari's inherent wickedness allowed her to whisper advice in Zhao Zhao's ear despite her gentle appearance.
Zhao Zhao wanted to take this opportunity to find out about Yue and the Phoenix Clan, so she nodded and said, "Okay."
Xi Yan: "..."
Never mind, it was his carelessness today.
The dragons can't really do anything to him; let's wait for the Phoenix Queen to come and save him.