mesbooks Chapter 321 Dragon Pond
Chapter 321 Dragon Pond
"Fellow Daoist Liu, could you please stay in the guest room for a night and we can talk in detail tomorrow. My daughter and I haven't seen each other for more than two hundred years and I have a lot to say. Please give me a favor." After a few simple greetings, the lady was about to see the guest off.
"Queen, please do as you please. We will talk again tomorrow." Liu Xing naturally had no objection. When mother and daughter met again after a long separation, it was natural for them to have a long talk to ease their longing for each other.
"Commander Lan, take Fellow Daoist Liu to the guest room to rest." The lady instructed Lan Jiao who came with her. Apart from her, Lan Jiao had the highest cultivation level among the others, so naturally he would be the one to receive the distinguished guest.
"As you command!" Lan Jiao immediately obeyed and returned to the barracks. Only then did he finally feel at ease, knowing that Liu Xing's threat was finally eliminated. However, judging by the Queen's attitude towards Liu Xing, she treated him as a peer. Although he relaxed, he didn't dare to act presumptuously. Instead, he became even more respectful to the mysterious Liu Xing.
"Senior Liu, please follow me." Lan Jiao was rude at first but respectful later, and now he even upgraded the way he addressed the person.
Liu Xing followed Lan Jiao to the guest room without saying a word.
The noble lady also took Jiao Jiao to the palace. She had thousands of words to say to her daughter.
"This is the guest room. Please sit for a moment, senior. I will immediately arrange for the beautiful maid to prepare delicious food and serve you." When they arrived at the guest room, Lan Jiao greeted them warmly.
"Wait a minute, Fellow Daoist Lan. I like quietness and don't want to be disturbed. Please do as you please. Just send someone to call me when the queen summons you tomorrow morning." Liu Xing immediately rejected Lan Jiao's hospitality.
"Well... I'm sorry for inconveniencing you, senior. Please have a good rest. I'll tell them to stay away. If you need anything, just call them. Without a call, they won't dare to come even a step closer." Lan Jiao changed the subject abruptly and immediately put aside the idea of getting close to Liu Xing by eating, drinking and having fun.
"Fellow Daoist Lan, you're so thoughtful. Go ahead and do your work." Liu Xing waved his hand to send him off. He knew Lan Jiao's thoughts like a mirror. However, with his current cultivation level and perspective, he didn't want to make friends with non-transformed demon cultivators at all. It was a waste of time.
"Rest in peace, senior. I'm taking my leave." Lan Jiao saw that there was nothing he could do, so he could only say goodbye and leave to avoid annoying others.
Liu Xing carefully observed the guest room. It was quite spacious and decorated magnificently. The tables, chairs, benches, bowls, plates and tea sets were all inlaid with gold, giving it a very luxurious look.
"Exaggerated!" Liu Xing sneered. It was rumored that Jiaolong lived a life of luxury and debauchery and loved gold, silver and jewelry. It seemed that the rumor was true.
He took out two sets of arrays he carried with him and set them up in the room to prevent prying eyes and to prevent himself from being disturbed while practicing. After completing all this, he took out the elixir, swallowed it, and began to meditate with his eyes closed, gradually entering a state of enlightenment.
The queen took Jiao Jiao back to her palace and dismissed her attendants. Only then did she have the heart to take a closer look at her beloved daughter.
"Let me take a closer look at how my daughter's cultivation has improved in the past few years." The lady smiled and grabbed her daughter's hand, examining it carefully.
"The peak of level four, with an extremely solid foundation. The dragon bloodline is so strong that no one in the palace can match it. My son is so amazing!" The queen kept praising him, with surprises one after another.
"Huh? A master-servant contract? Whoever dares to enslave my son, I will make sure he dies without a burial place!" The lady who had been smiling, now slammed the table and flew into a rage!
When the queen was exploring Jiao Jiao's sea of consciousness, she discovered the master-servant mark and thought that she was being coerced, which was why she was so angry.
"Mother, please calm down. Let me tell you the details." Jiao Jiao was shocked to see her mother so angry, and explained immediately to avoid any misunderstanding.
Jiao Jiao began by recounting her own dreams. Her mother knew about the dream about the Dixian, and had once been puzzled by it, but Jiao Jiao was still young at the time and didn't pay much attention. She then spoke of the secret Sunset Realm in the land of demons, where master and servant reunited, and how the master had helped her gather dragon scale fruit, which had invigorated her dragon bloodline to its fullest. She also spoke of how the master had saved her from danger many times, helped her slay demons and obtain elixirs, and helped her repeatedly break through realms.
"I signed the contract voluntarily. The master treats me like a brother and sister, loves me and never treats me like a slave. It is my honor to be favored by the master." Jiao Jiao concluded.
The queen grew increasingly angry as she listened. This woman had completely brainwashed her daughter. In her eyes, humans and demons signed a master-servant agreement, and demon cultivators were almost always forced into servitude. They were used as mounts or as thugs to charge into battle. In short, demon cultivators did all the hard, tiring, dirty, and dangerous work. Humans would help their pets advance, ultimately for their own benefit; no one truly ignored their pets.
"My son is so naive! He has never seen the treachery of mankind and the dangers of the world! Since you signed a master-servant contract, rather than an equal contract, there is no equality. He treats you like his first love now, but he may also abandon you in the future." The queen warned with regret.
"Could it be that the Taoist Liu who came with you is the master you are talking about?" the queen asked wisely.
At this point, Jiao Jiao naturally would not hide anything anymore and nodded in admission.
"According to what you said, he hadn't even established his foundation when you signed the contract. It took him over two hundred years to reach the middle stage of the Core Formation. His aptitude is average." He scoffed. At first, he thought Liu Xing was a hidden Yuanying cultivator. Now that he knew Liu Xing was only in the middle stage of the Core Formation, his regard for him dropped by 70%.
"I will talk to him tomorrow and ask him to give up the master-servant contract on his own initiative, otherwise I will not be polite." The queen completely ignored Jiao Jiao's explanation and announced the plan forcefully.
"But, mother..." Jiao Jiao wanted to make some excuses, but was interrupted by her mother.
"Okay, I've made up my mind, you don't need to say anything more. In addition, the reason I came out to find you this time is because the Dragon Transformation Pond, which opens once every three hundred years in our clan, is about to open. All descendants with dragon blood can go to the Dragon Transformation Pond to seek opportunities. This is a big event and will be of great benefit to your future cultivation." The lady didn't want to mention the master-servant matter anymore, but talked about the Dragon Transformation Pond.
"Really? The Hualong Pond is about to open? Then I really have to go there." Jiao Jiao was also attracted by the topic of the Hualong Pond and asked with surprise and joy.
Seeing that her daughter no longer mentioned the master-servant relationship and instead inquired about the Hualong Pond, displaying a diligent attitude towards cultivation, her anger subsided considerably. Her daughter had indeed changed significantly over the years of her adventures outside, becoming more mature, more rational, and more diligent and studious. Such a significant change was undoubtedly due to the guidance of her master, Liu Xing. However, she should never have signed a master-servant contract with Jiao Jiao; this was something the queen would never tolerate.
"That's right, the Dragon Transformation Pool will be opened in a year, so you should go back with me this time. Go to the Dragon Transformation Pool for baptism, purify your soul and blood, and retreat for a hundred years, then maybe you will be able to transform." The mother was very pleased to see her daughter who had made great progress in cultivation.