12dz Chapter 979 The Feast at the Water Mansion
Chapter 979 The Feast at the Water Mansion
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"Come, my dear nephew Bai, let's drink this cup together!"
A dragon descendant, sitting in the main seat and exuding an imposing aura, raised his wine cup and offered a toast to Jing Yu, who was sitting below him.
This dragon is none other than Qiu Kuohai, the current master of the Azure Dragon Mansion, who possesses the highest cultivation level in this reception hall.
It manifests as a dragon's head and a human body, with a pair of forked dragon horns on its forehead, which are strong and vigorous, with a hidden dark golden light swirling around them, making it extremely majestic.
He was dressed in a wide, black brocade robe embroidered with gold dragon patterns. Although he was in a seated human form, his imposing, mountain-like body still exuded a strong sense of oppression, as if a slight movement could cause the surrounding water elements to surge.
"Thank you for your hospitality, Lord."
Jing Yu dared not delay and quickly stood up, raising his wine cup in response.
He thought to himself, "Pure-blooded dragon descendants really have a lot of face, to the point that they have to go to the trouble of Lord Qingqiu, a dragon descendant at the Heavenly Immortal realm, to personally entertain them!"
He had originally thought that it would be a great honor for a Mahayana dragon to come, but he never expected that it would be Qiu Kuohai, the Lord of Qingqiu Prefecture, who would come in person.
This demonstrates the importance that the Azure Dragon Water Palace places on pure-blooded dragon descendants.
As for that [Azure Dragon]? Jing Yu hadn't even considered it.
A true immortal being of such power would absolutely not have time to summon me.
After all, for true immortals, immortality is already within reach. As long as they can condense a trace of immortal golden nature before their consciousness is extinguished, they can enjoy at least one era of carefree life!
Therefore, the true immortals in the celestial realm spend most of their time cultivating, occasionally venturing into some hidden realms to seek opportunities.
Only those immortals who are too young might not be so devoted to cultivation and instead wander around aimlessly.
However, it is clear that the Azure Dragon is quite old and therefore not included in this category.
At this banquet, apart from Qiu Kuohai, who sat in the host's seat, the next seat was occupied by Jing Yu on his left and Qiu Xu on his right.
The rest were some shrimp soldiers and crab generals standing outside the hall, and clam maidens serving the group their meal.
Jing Yu quietly activated the [Hearing Heart Technique], and countless thoughts came rushing in. As long as the cultivation level was below his or similar to his, the thoughts of those beings could not escape his capture.
He had naturally tried to eavesdrop on the thoughts of the celestial being [Qiu Kuohai], but unsurprisingly failed.
It's not that the [Hearing Heart Technique] can't detect beings above its own level, but for Jing Yu in the present moment, Qiu Kuohai, who is at the Celestial Immortal level, has an astonishingly fast rate of thought arising and ceasing!
With his keen senses, he couldn't clearly grasp what Qiu Kuohai was thinking at all.
It's like suddenly increasing someone's speaking speed by ten thousand times; ordinary people simply can't understand what that person was originally saying.
Jing Yu drank the spirit wine from the wine cup, sat back down, picked up a crayfish from the jade plate in front of him, and began to eat it with gusto, which attracted frequent sidelong glances from Qiu Xu opposite him.
Upon seeing this, Qiu Xu merely smiled slightly and tentatively asked, "It seems that today's seafood is to Fellow Daoist Bai Yuan's liking."
Jing Yu wiped his mouth and chuckled, "Fellow Daoist Qiu, please forgive me. I come from a small place and have never tasted such delicacies before..."
"Nephew Bai is joking..." Qiu Kuohai laughed heartily: "Nephew's bloodline is so pure that it is rare in the world. Even in the Dragon Palace of the Third Heaven, there are few pure-blooded true dragons like this. Nephew must be of noble birth. How could he possibly look down on our meager meal here?"
“I’m not being modest.” Jing Yu shook his head: “I was born in the shallow sea area of a star in the Second Heaven. Before I became a Nascent Soul cultivator, I hardly ever moved. I only had four or five elders in my family, and they often went out. I have hardly ever met any of my fellow clansmen.”
"If it weren't for this trip, I probably wouldn't have met you elders."
Qiu Kuohai's eyes flashed, and with a slight thought, he activated some kind of lie detection technique. After a moment, his brows relaxed, and he thought to himself:
"What Bai Yuan said is all true... He's actually a pure-blooded dragon descendant who has been living abroad?"
The vast majority of pure-blooded dragon descendants in the world reside in a secret dragon realm somewhere in the Third Heaven, which is the holy land of all dragon descendants.
However, a small number of pure-blooded true dragon descendants are scattered throughout the celestial realm, and even in the mortal world...
This situation is rare, but it does happen—usually it's when a dragon descendant who has committed a crime implicates their descendants, resulting in the entire family being exiled; or it's when a dragon pregnant encounters an accident while traveling.
In a very small number of cases, the offspring are deliberately sent out to the outside world to temper their character, and then brought back to the holy land once they have achieved success in their cultivation.
But no matter what kind of person [Bai Yuan] is, even if he is a descendant of a criminal exiled abroad, he is not someone that Qingqiu Water Mansion can afford to offend. After all, even criminals have enemies as well as friends, and there are examples of people who have been lying low for many years and then made a comeback.
Therefore, after confirming Bai Yuan's identity as a pure-blooded dragon descendant using secret techniques, Qiu Kuohai's attitude became noticeably more lenient.
Qiu Xu glanced at Qiu Kuohai, who was sitting in the main seat, and understood the situation. He thought to himself, "It seems that Bai Yuan is indeed a genuine pure-blooded dragon!"
This thought was naturally captured by Jing Yu, who had fully activated the [Heart-Listening Technique]. He breathed a sigh of relief and thought:
"You're just going to brush it off like that? I thought you were going to show off some dragon supernatural powers."
In fact, even if Qiu Kuohai really asked Jing Yu to demonstrate his supernatural powers, he would not be intimidated at all.
Not to mention that his [Bitter Crossing Sutra] can perfectly simulate the bloodline of a true dragon—in fact, Jing Yu doesn't need to simulate it at all. Previously, the [Dragon Ancestor] had modified his bloodline, although it ended in failure. However, the true dragon bloodline remaining in Jing Yu's body might actually be thicker than the two iron-backed dragons in front of him!
As for supernatural powers—the [Nine Transformations Blood True Dragon Curse] obtained in the Hidden Dragon Abyss of the Immortal Continent goes without saying; it is undoubtedly a supernatural power of the dragon race.
During the refining of the [Dragon Bone Relic], the relic also possessed a complete set of dragon clan heritage, which Jing Yu had already thoroughly mastered.
At this moment, Jing Yu was truly a pure-blooded dragon descendant, so much so that even a Golden Immortal of the Dragon Clan from the Third Heaven wouldn't be able to tell anything was wrong!
"Hehe, Nephew Bai, pure-blooded dragon descendants are rare in the Second Heaven. Nephew, you have been living away from home, so your elders must have made other arrangements. We naturally shouldn't overstep our bounds. However, there is now an immense opportunity here. As the saying goes, 'If you don't seize what Heaven offers, you will suffer the consequences...'"
The dragon immortal stroked his beard and smiled, "I wonder if my nephew Bai would be interested?"
Jing Yu thought to herself, "The real show is about to begin."
He immediately showed just the right amount of interest and asked, "I wonder what kind of opportunity the Lord of the Manor is referring to?"
Qiu Xu then interjected, "I wonder if Fellow Daoist Bai Yuan is aware of the [Demon Refining Realm]?"
Jing Yu said, "I have lived in the mountains and marshes for a long time and do not have much knowledge. The Demon Refining World? I only know of a treasure called the Demon Refining Pot. I wonder if there is any connection between the two?"