What Linglong did not expect was that her mother this time did not ask her to stay outside the island, but instead took her hand and wanted to bring her in.
Linglong’s heart tightened, and she instinctively asked, “Mother, why are you suddenly taking me to see him?”
Long Ji, her mind full of her daughter’s impending tribulation, felt a mix of anxiety and relief churning in her heart. In her emotional turmoil, Long Ji smiled at Linglong and said,
“It was Young Master Chen who asked me to bring you along, Linglong. Don’t worry, a great good thing awaits you! Mother now believes in Young Master Chen immensely! He is definitely a great savior for us mother and daughter!”
“When you see Young Master Chen later, Linglong, you must be obedient!”
As for the impending tribulation, it was best not to tell her daughter. After all, even when Long Ji thought of this tribulation that had plagued her and her daughter for so many years, a tremor of fear would still flash through her heart.
Indeed, if it weren’t for an unparalleled genius like Chen Luo, she would likely have lost her daughter forever!
But when Linglong heard this, her heart skipped a beat: “What? Chen Luo wants Mother to bring me? A great savior for mother and daughter? And wants me to be obedient?! What does that mean?!”
Looking at her mother, who was clearly beaming but seemed to harbor some fear deep within her eyes, Linglong’s mind flashed with a wild thought:
“Could it be that he wants to catch them all in one go?!! How could Mother agree?!”
“Wait, Mother cares about me the most, and Chen Luo’s previous displayed talent was so powerful, perhaps he has a way to save me.”
“And Mother is not afraid of losing her life for me, he can completely use this to threaten Mother!”
“So everything before was Mother’s internal struggle? Now, to let me live, Mother has given up everything?!”
In a daze, Linglong seemed to see an illusion:
It was the handsome young man who made her heart flutter, but with an evil smile on his face.
His scarlet tongue licked Long Ji’s flawless skin, biting her crystal-clear earlobe. In Long Ji’s eyes, filled with unwillingness, anger, and fear, he whispered softly,
“Empress Long Ji… you wouldn’t want your daughter to have no one to save her, would you?”
“For her to live… the price, you understand…”
…
“Ah!!!” Linglong suddenly screamed, broke free from her mother’s hand, mounted her flying sword, and flew into the distance!
No! She couldn’t be a burden to her mother any longer.
Her mother’s strange emotional changes over the past few days must have been due to her constant internal struggle.
Long Ji watched her daughter suddenly fly away and sighed heavily, “Ling’er still doesn’t want to see Young Master Chen?”
Long Ji understood her daughter’s feelings. After all, as a noble daughter of the Dragon race, to be directly rejected when she wanted to marry was a great humiliation, making it unsurprising that she didn’t want to see Chen Luo.
The entire Vast Sea Sky Curtain was within Long Ji’s control. After a moment of thought, Long Ji decided to let her daughter take her time.
As for herself, she would have to explain Linglong’s feelings to Young Master Chen.
Otherwise, their meeting later would likely be awkward.
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Long Ji, dressed in a moon-white robe, walked gracefully to Chen Luo’s side. Chen Luo lay back on the bamboo chair with a relaxed expression and casually said,
“Long Ji, you’re here?”
Long Ji nodded and then sat down not far from Chen Luo. Ever since she had called him Master Chen last time, although she wanted to deny it, seeing Chen Luo now still made Long Ji feel a little intimidated.
It was like when she was young and hadn’t cultivated well, she would come before her father who was waiting for an assessment.
A moment later, Chen Luo finished his meditation and sorting.
All the cultivation knowledge of the Vast Sea Sect had been absorbed into Chen Luo’s mind, but his realm still remained at Grandmaster of Five Arts.
Of course, just as he could break through at any time before, Chen Luo felt that he seemed to be able to reach a new critical state whenever he wished.
But his intuition told him that his accumulation was not enough.
Just as Long Ji, who was a quasi-Supreme in Array Dao, was crushed by Chen Luo’s Grandmaster realm in Array Dao, the gap in accumulation determined the level within the same realm.
Thinking of this, Chen Luo turned his head and said to Long Ji, “Long Ji, I’ve decided to leave the Vast Sea Sect and travel the entire Primeval Continent.”
Long Ji was startled by this. Her daughter’s matter was not yet resolved!
Chen Luo seemed to see through Long Ji’s concerns and smiled gently, “Don’t worry, before I leave, I will help Linglong overcome the True Dragon Tribulation. However, I have a condition: you will both need to adapt to a new identity.”
Looking at the young man’s face, as warm as the spring sun, Long Ji’s anxiety quietly dissipated. But upon hearing Chen Luo’s words, Long Ji was stunned:
“New identity?”
“And I, along with Linglong, need to adapt to it?”
“Wait! Could it be that his previous rejection of Linglong was with this in mind?!”
Long Ji’s heart burned with anger! I considered you my son-in-law, and what are you thinking?!
Unaware of Long Ji’s anger, Chen Luo looked at the sky before him and casually drew a line in the air.
A dazzling spiritual light shot out from the spirit crystal, circulating from his dantian. Under Chen Luo’s will, it manipulated countless external, unowned spiritual energies, transforming them into profound spiritual patterns!
Whoosh!
Silver Qiankun power formed a gate of light in the air. Chen Luo casually pulled, and the sorrowful Linglong was pulled out from it.
Linglong, who had been weeping in a hidden corner of the Vast Sea Sect, now looked at the suddenly changed world, as well as the people closest to her and the one she liked most. Her brain was somewhat frozen.
Long Ji, who had been angry, was even more astonished. Chen Luo’s ability to create an array out of thin air was a mark of a Grandmaster-level Array Daoist.
But Chen Luo had not just created a Qiankun Teleportation Array out of thin air; he had formed the control array for the Vast Sea Sky Curtain! At this moment, he had directly snatched the control of the Vast Sea Sky Curtain from Long Ji’s hands!
While her heart was filled with horror, Long Ji instinctively moved closer to her bewildered daughter, wanting to protect her.
Chen Luo smiled as he looked at the two disciples he was about to take under his wing. These two were also his benefactors. If this were a major human sect instead of such a special demonic race force, and he wanted to read books?
He feared that a host of Supreme Elders and other assorted figures would come out to obstruct him, talking about rules and contributions.
But this Dragon race-dominated Vast Sea Sect was essentially a demon country, and all resources could be allocated solely by Long Ji’s will.
Moreover, the problem Linglong faced was so severe that it made Long Ji willing to give up everything, just for her daughter’s safety.
She was even willing to personally step in as a Grandmaster of Array Dao to guide a newcomer in their cultivation path, all to gain more favor for her daughter.
Chen Luo was also a person who repaid kindness. He casually solidified the Sky Curtain control array he had just created and then said with a smile to the mother and daughter, whose expressions were somewhat strange,
“Long Ji, your Sky Curtain Great Array still has some flaws, but with the improved method in my control disk, it should be able to more than double the power of the entire great array!”
“Linglong is also here, so I’ll continue what I was saying earlier. I am willing to help Linglong through her great tribulation and can also help you improve the great array, Long Ji. However, we need a title, and this title might be a bit of a compromise for you, Long Ji. Please consider it.”
Long Ji and Linglong’s hearts simultaneously skipped a beat. They looked at each other and saw the shock in each other’s eyes.
However, their thoughts at this moment were completely different!
As Long Ji calmed down slightly, the fear of her daughter perishing in the tribulation suppressed her shame.
As for Linglong, she thought of the almost fatal sword mark on her mother’s chest and her mother’s constant care for her, and her heart was filled with determination.
Seeing the two women exchange glances as if they had made a decision, Chen Luo smiled and said,
“Young Master Chen! I am willing! I only beg you to save Linglong!”
“Mother! Let me die! I cannot bring you shame!!”
“That, both of you will become my disciples from now on. Long Ji, you might have to compromise a bit…”
Chen Luo’s words were cut short. Seeing the two women speak simultaneously with excited expressions, he couldn’t help but close his mouth.
In a strange silence, the three fell into an extremely awkward mutual gaze.
Until Chen Luo subconsciously blurted out the rest of his sentence:
“From now on, you’ll call her Junior Sister…”
After hearing Chen Luo’s words, the two women looked at each other, and their pretty faces turned red at a visible speed:
“Ah?!”