Chapter 1549: Unknowing of Han, Regardless of Wei and Jin (Combined)

"Not explained clearly?"

Liang Qu scratched his temple, pinched the flood dragon's nape, and asked politely, "There are too many details; if I start from the beginning, I don't know where to begin or when to end. Is there anything you don't understand, Father-in-law? Shall I explain them one by one?"

Long You thought for a moment: "You are thirty-three this year."

"Yes."

"E Ying—"

"E Ying is fourteen years older than me, forty-seven, and both of you have been deceased for over forty years."

"You are E Ying's husband, my son-in-law?"

"Exactly."

"I understand that part; it's clear and not difficult." Long You nodded, then looked at the flood dragon: "You mentioned the Whale Emperor?"

The flood dragon opened its mouth, unable to speak.

The relationship between the Whale Emperor, the Great Li Founding Ancestor, and the Dragon Lord is something it cannot explain, even more vague and unclear.

"Let me say it." Liang Qu interrupted, "In this matter, it is merely a minor role, just as unclear, but I understand.

The Dragon Lord disappeared for a hundred years, not missing, but fallen; formerly a good friend of the Whale Emperor, he was deceived into the netherworld, where he encountered the Great Li Founding Ancestor."

"Deceived?"

Long Xi Ti stared wide-eyed in shock.

Long You shuddered as if his spine had been pulled out, his vital energy "slumped."

"Dragon Lord—Dragon Lord really died?"

"Yes."

Long You pondered: "Then who is the Great Li Founding Ancestor?"

Liang Qu spread his five fingers, then raised only his index finger: "Li, He, Huang, Qian, Shun—this is the succession order of human dynasties. Before Li, there was no concept of dynasties; mostly sects. The Great Li Founding Ancestor was the founder of the Great Li dynasty, the first postnatal crucible in the world.

To avoid the crucible's slumber every three thousand years, he received guidance and inspiration from the Great Bodhisattva Lotus, attempting to use the first primordial crucible, the authority of the Mirage Dragon's illusory transformation, as a foundation to create an eternal dream dynasty for himself and his dynasty, so that they would never perish. Afterwards, both sides suffered mutual damage, fell into slumber, and only recently, over the past few hundred years, have they begun to awaken."

Long Xi Ti covered her mouth, her pupils trembling.

She remembered—she remembered who the Great Li Founding Ancestor was!

"Is the legend true?"

"It is true." Liang Qu nodded, "The Dragon Lord's authority is likewise entirely part of the Great Li dynasty's own self, and at the same time, his claws hold what the Whale Emperor needs. Moreover, the Whale Emperor also requires a near-complete dream dynasty, so he deceived the Dragon Lord into a half-finished dream dynasty, where he was slain by the newly awakened Great Li Founding Ancestor. At that time, the Great Li Founding Ancestor digested the Mirage Dragon, and his strength surpassed that of ten thousand years ago."

Long You blinked dazedly: "Then who is the Great Bodhisattva Lotus—"

"The founder and creator of the Lotus Sect on the Great Snow Mountain, also a figure from over ten thousand years ago. His external incarnation method greatly aided the Great Li Founding Ancestor, who tried to use self-differentiation to master different positions of fruit, thereby opening the Rainbow Path."

Long You completely failed to understand, looking toward Long Xi Ti.

The first emperor of all ages, Great Snow Mountain—

Long Xi Ti was surrounded by dread, silent for a long time, then sorrowfully said: "So, does this mean the Dragon Lord trusted the Whale Emperor, and thus fell completely?"

"He fell, but not completely."

Long Xi Ti startled.

Long You surprised.

Liang Qu grabbed the flood dragon with both hands: "I have revived the old Dragon Lord, just separated it from the flood dragon, and came here to find the two elders."

"Can the Dragon Lord also be revived?" Long You glared.

"Yes, revived as the Yellow Sand River Long Wang."

"Yellow Sand River Long Wang?" Long You stared, mouth agape: "Wait, this, this can still change!?"

"Originally impossible, but with the aid of the Southern Border's Ascending Spirit Grand Formation and the Feng Yi authority, we successfully let the Yellow Sand River, bereft of its Long Wang, regain new life."

"What is the Ascending Spirit Grand Formation?"

"It is the old tribal chieftain of the Southern Border—"

Answer whatever is asked.

From the flood dragon's fall, the Great Li Founding Ancestor's plan, the Whale Emperor's intentions, to the Rainbow Path.

Liang Qu spoke intermittently for about half an incense stick's time.

Vast and unparalleled, even carrying a hint of horror, this information was infused in an astonishingly shocking manner into the seas of awareness of Long You and Long Xi Ti.

Not only Long Xi Ti, but even the flood dragon was shaken; for the first time, it learned the details.

The information became increasingly complete.

The bewildered and astonished Long You suddenly realized, understanding everything.

"So, the Whale Emperor, forced and helpless, could only pursue the Rainbow Path, with the Great Li Founding Ancestor closely following—finally, I was caught in the middle, likewise only able to first pursue the Rainbow Path to resist. Fortunately, I succeeded, defeating both of them. That is how it happened—I just woke up, handled some matters, and came to arrange things for my father-in-law and mother-in-law, roughly like this."

Liang Qu fell silent, glancing left and right.

Flood dragon:

Long Xi Ti: "Is the Rainbow Path the realm after the Chilong, after after that?" Long You continued asking.

"Yes."

Long You nodded, then asked again.

"You said you are thirty-three years old?"

"Yes, Father-in-law already asked me once before."

Long You nodded again.

The old man's state like this—he should have understood everything? Liang Qu thought.

Long Xi Ti fell completely silent, sinking into bewilderment.

In her hundreds of years of memory, the Dragon Lord disappeared for seventy years, the flood dragon took over the Long Gong for thirty years, and the Great Qian had just changed dynasties to become Great Shun not long ago.

Many clansmen were busy with cultivation and didn't even know; their impression remained of the battles between Great Qian and Great Shun, the Whale Emperor and the Dragon Lord still being close friends, helping to search for the missing Dragon Lord.

Long Eying was just four years old then, wearing two little braids, cute as could be.

How, in the blink of an eye, did the four-year-old Eying in my memory suddenly grow up, find herself a Huahong husband, and strangest of all, this Huahong husband is actually fourteen years younger than Eying————

When Eying was twenty, wasn't Liang Qu only six years old?

"Hahaha, hahaha!"

Heaven and earth suddenly rang with loud laughter.

Liang Qu turned his head to look.

"Father-in-law? Is there anything else you don't understand? Feel free to ask again, I know everything and will hold nothing back."

"No." Long You waved his hand. "I heard it clearly, I understand it all."

"Phew————" Liang Qu let out a breath. "That's good then————"

"Little brother." Long You reined in his smile, arms crossed over his chest. "Don't think I'm easy to fool just because I'm dead! This place is actually the Netherworld Underworld, you're just a wandering soul on duty inside it, everything you just said was made up by you, you can't fool me!

Yellow Sand Long Wang, simultaneous Huahong, I admit it's creative, but such a cultivator simply does not exist in this world! Alright, enough jokes, what do we seriously do next? Go see King Yama? Then reincarnate? Little brother, can you do us a favor, pull some strings, and reincarnate me and Xi Ti together?"

"Hahaha!"

The flood dragon joined in the loud laughter.

The laughter echoed, Long Xi Ti felt a moment of embarrassment, grabbed Long You by the arm, and pulled him to the back, looking at Liang Qu, not knowing for a moment how to address him.

Calling him "Little Mr." is too distant; however you put it, he's Eying's husband, but calling him by name, whatever way you slice it———— his realm is terrifyingly high.

In terms of relationship they're very close, but in memory and emotion they're complete strangers.

Liang Qu saw the awkwardness: "Madam, call me Ashui. Elders and fellow villagers all call me that, and I'm used to it."

Long Xi Ti opened her mouth, silently rehearsed it a few times in her heart, overcame the unfamiliarity, and called out: "Ashui, you revived us, is there any price?"

"None. Although in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths I'm restricted by this realm and not truly omnipotent like in the world I opened myself, it's still virtually no different, Madam needn't worry."

"No, Xi Ti, you actually believe him?" Long You exclaimed in surprise.

Long Xi Ti grabbed Long You again, nervous and hopeful: "Then———— what do we do next? Do we go out or————

"

Little Eying is about to ascend the throne and become Empress, does she still remember me?

Human memory seems to gradually clarify from ages two to four; did I leave a clear enough impression in that little tail-end?

Will she resent me, will she————

"As for that, Father-in-law and Mother-in-law needn't be anxious. I know you must want to go out right now and see Eying face to face, but I planned to give her a surprise later, revealing it early wouldn't be good, we have to wait two more days."

"Fine, fine, that's right." Long Xi Ti took a deep breath. "We've been gone for decades, these two days don't matter."

"In the meantime I also need the two elders to help with something."

"What help?" Long Xi Ti asked urgently.

Liang Qu raised a hand and grabbed; mist and fog swirled wildly: "I know the impact of these matters is not small. With too many people, seven mouths eight tongues, it might be harder to explain, a chaotic mess. So at first I only revived Father-in-law and Mother-in-law. Next, trouble Father-in-law and Mother-in-law to take the lead and explain things for me. Once that's done, take everyone out and seclude yourselves for a few days."

Thin white mist curled and spread, one human-figure outline after another unfurled and materialized within.

Like drawing champagne from an ice bucket wreathed in cold mist.

Long Ren and Long Xun emerged one after another, their features gradually becoming clear.

Long You stared with bulging eyes, flustered, running from one to the next, dashing up to the white mist.

"Xing! Chen! Jingyuan! Wen! Hao! This———— Elder Shuo!? You all————"

Long You stared with bulging eyes.

A tall, burly old man emerged from the white mist.

The man stood nearly nine chi tall, beard and hair all white, a chi long, muscles knotted, dragon horns growing on his head — not from a Shocking Dragon Transformation, but inborn! Half a head taller than all the Long Ren, and before the shorter Long Ren, the difference is like that between an ordinary person and a Long Ren.

Elder Shuo!

He never in a million years expected to see Elder Shuo again.

Old Father Long Chen was originally only the Second Elder of the Long Ren clan, not the most senior after the Dragon Lord disappeared; at that time the true First Elder was precisely the man before him, Long Shuo!

After the Dragon Lord disappeared, Elder Long Shuo resigned as First Elder and went alone to the Boundless Sea to search. When the flood dragons invaded ten years later, he returned to lead the counterattack, wearing the Xuan Dragon Armor, with a Entering Entering Zhen Xiang body, and only fell after plucking three scales from the flood dragon. He was the strongest Entering Entering Zhen Xiang of his generation; Great Qian had tried to recruit him more than once!

Long You trembled all over, at a complete loss.

The white mist slowly dispersed, drifting away and vanishing.

Pairs of eyes slowly opened, accompanied here and there by roars and miserable screams, rising and falling in succession.

Entering Entering Zhen Xiang within sixty years could be fished up, and this overlapped with the time of the Dragon Lord's "disappearance" and the flood dragon invasion. Among the Long Ren who died in that period, almost none died of old age; most died in battle, their final emotions completely frozen in unwillingness and anger.

However, under the quiet safety, the pent-up emotions quickly drained away completely.

"Where is this?"

"Long You?"

"I, I'm not dead?"

One murmur after another at his ears, one bewildered expression after another before his eyes, and thinking of her own husband's reaction, Long Xi Ti felt her scalp tighten slightly.

What a daunting task!

Liang Qu bowed: "Then from here on, I'll have to trouble Mother-in-law."

Long Xi Ti forced a smile: "No trouble."

"I'll go out first, contact the Grand Elder, and come back to fetch everyone out in two hours."

"Mm."

Liang Qu seized the flood dragon and vanished in a flash.

"Th-this, where is this————"

White-haired Long Shuo looked around, gazing at the surrounding Long Ren and Long Xun, full of confusion. He raised his hand and clenched his fist.

"It's the Netherworld Underworld, Old Elder!" Long You walked out.

"Underworld?" Long Shuo froze, "You are — "

"It's me, Elder, Long Chen's son."

"Chen's son — You? Oh, I remember, in the Long Gong you were the most troublesome."

"Cough." Long You embarrassed, "That was so many years ago, people always change, right?"

Memory gradually cleared, Long Shuo turned his wrist, stretched his limbs: "You seem to know a lot, tell me, what exactly is going on?"

"Great Elder, we're all dead now, there are yin officials leading the way ahead, probably preparing to send us for reincarnation, the person is not bad, just likes to joke, haha, he says he is Huahong, and also my son-in-law, taking a jiao dragon as betrothal gift, you say is it funny or not, sigh, I don't know if after reincarnation we can still meet everyone, by the way, I also don't know where that jiao dragon came from."

Long Xi, who had fallen half a step behind, warned: "Elder, don't listen to his nonsense!"

Stepping forward, he grabbed Long You in one hand, Long Xi quickly tried to rescue.

"Xi?" Long Shuo understood, compared to the unreliable Long You in memory, Long Xi was much more reliable, intelligent and obedient since childhood, steady and down-to-earth, "Alright, you speak, what exactly is going on?"

"The story is long — you might not know, after your death, I and Long You had a daughter."

Daughter?

Long Shuo wondered why he had to start from here, but still patiently listened on.

"We have been dead for a long time, now we can revive together because my and Long You's daughter has grown up

and she has a husband — " Long Xi briefly summarized, quickly concluding the reason for Long Jun's disappearance, and Huahong Liang Qu.

Long Shuo stunned for a long time, asked: "Your daughter's son-in-law — how old is he?"

Long Xi embarrassed.

She deliberately concealed this information, thinking it would be easier to accept — but didn't expect, still couldn't avoid it.

"Thirty-three."

Long Shuo fell silent for a moment, turned his head to look at Long You: "You continue talking about the Underworld affairs."

"Great Elder, Great Elder!"

"Your Majesty?"

For preparing the coronation ceremony, Long Chen, who was writing notes and regulations, hurried forward, hadn't spoken two sentences when Liang Qu grabbed the brush in his hand and directly took him away.

"Your Majesty, why the hurry to come see?"

"Hehe, there's something, needs the old grandpa to make psychological preparations, and for now no one can tell."

Long Chen solemnly: "Your Majesty rest assured, I guarantee with my life, there will definitely be no third person knowing."

"Hey, no need to be so serious, just a surprise, surprise you understand, if said in advance the effect would be worse, this is the meaning.

Great Elder, meanwhile calm your emotions, later don't get too excited."

Surprise?

Long Chen smiled, he didn't understand, anyway whatever Liang Qu said, he would do.

Having lived so long, now there is no regret left, at present it is already perfect.

Dragon people live in peace and prosperity, Jianghuai thriving day by day, the most beloved granddaughter ascended the throne as emperor, what could be better than now?

As for excitement.

In this life, what great winds and waves haven't I seen, even the thirty-three-year-old Huahong has already experienced, what else could disturb this old man —

Swish!

The scene changed, vision blurred for a moment then cleared again.

At first a startle.

"Pa-ta!"

The brush fell.

Long You, who was explaining to Long Shuo, unintentionally turned his head, the rotating neck froze.

The two stared at each other, lips simultaneously murmuring.

The beating heart buzzed and exploded, blood flow throughout the body surged and collided, like an uncontrollable wild donkey.

Pupils dilated, contracted.

Feet rubbing against gravel, crackling sound, Long You stumbled and staggered turning around, too many words blocked in the chest, choked out half a sentence.

"Father, you also died?"

Long Chen tears streaming down his face, turbid tears crisscrossing, big hand firmly pressing Long You's back of head, forehead against forehead, vigorously patting Long You's head.

"Silly child, it's you who lived, you lived!"

Half an hour later.

Long Chen mouth dry, face ruddy, gesturing emphatically, vivid and colorful, speaking fluently.

Long Xi supported forehead.

Long You sat aside, eyes glazed, dazed and stupid, he grabbed the arm of a dragon person beside him.

"I really have a thirty-three-year-old Huahong son-in-law?"

Dragon person: " — "

No answer, Long You grabbed the left fish fin again.

"I really have a thirty-three-year-old Huahong son-in-law?"

Dragon sturgeon: " — "

"Father-in-law, it's real."

Liang Qu repeated once.

"Eh! Huahong son-in-law!"

The remaining three hundred dragon people, dragon sturgeons: " — "

"By the way, Eying died in dragon form! You know?" Long Chen suddenly said.

"Dragon people can slay dragons?!" Long You came to his senses and stared wide-eyed.

Long Xi Ti also followed in shock.

"Originally it was not possible, but with the king's subordinates it can be done; times have changed, our days are different." Long Chen added, "Actually, it's not really slaying dragons."

The three hundred dragon people and the dragon sturgeon breathed a sigh of relief.

It should be as strong as Elder Long Shuo, no, certainly stronger, not slaying dragons, but surpassing.

For several thousand years, there has been no news that dragon people can slay dragons, which is indeed too exaggerated —

"Not slaying dragons, but directly becoming true dragons, like the dragon kings of Ehe and Huang Shahe, who bring prosperity, with treasure fish output greatly increased, far surpassing slaying dragons!"

The three hundred dragon people and the dragon sturgeon: "————"

Long Shuo suddenly understood.

It turned out that the underworld was fake; I had thought it was due to old age, confusing the personalities of Long You and Long Xi Ti.

Finally.

Liang Qu breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that besides transforming into a rainbow, making everyone believe he had transformed into a rainbow was also quite difficult.

"Cough, cough, then — " Liang Qu stood up, "Speaking all night, dawn is approaching, and in seven more days will be the enthronement ceremony; during this time, everyone can organize a tour of Jianghuai, prepare well, and await the enthronement day to appear again!"

The next day.

Imperial Capital.

Xu Rongguang stood in the main hall, gazing at the respectful officials, feeling dazed.

Long Gong.

Da He Li swam back and forth, measuring dimensions, chasing the schedule; "cannot move" assisted greening; fists dug new ground. The fat fish head wore a white safety helmet, the small otter carried a red carpet on its shoulder, puffing and panting as it ran past.

The third prince spat white mist, rehearsing the performance.

The Cloud Xiandao shifted from illusion to reality, once again suspended above Jianghuai.

Long You and Long Xi Ti entered the Grand View Garden, dazzled, the world spinning.

"Worthy son-in-law, that is — "

"Oh, the Cloud Xiandao, the previous generation's dragon lord, the Mirage Dragon, also rescued by me, originally kept hidden, now it's fine."

"Worthy son-in-law, this is — "

"Cloth shadow, made of dragon spirit gauze as base, can play continuous motion."

"Worthy son-in-law, that — "

"Dream-entry game, father-in-law, want to play two rounds?"

Long You, dazzled, after a while, grabbed Liang Qu and walked to the corner: "Worthy son-in-law, tell me the truth, how long have we actually been dead?"

"Forty years."

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