"What does this have to do with hunting the egg next to him?" Yan Liu asked, puzzled. "He's a charlatan, a charlatan who's lived for hundreds of years, a golden dragon, and the entire deep-sea mermaid race are his followers, his messengers. How could he possibly be wrong?"

"Even if he were God himself, let alone just a charlatan claiming to be a believer in God, would that guarantee he's never made a mistake?" Shu Xubai questioned. "Haven't you heard that man proposes, God disposes? Chance, accident, and coincidence can easily turn into a beautiful misunderstanding, or into a lifelong regret?"

"Stop being so literary," Yan Liu said. "The little dragon cub told his queen that his destined one was the hunter, and his queen then told her master."

"My master told me, and I thought that rather than letting the hunter find out and kill him, I might as well make the most of him and use him as a tool!"

Shu Xubai narrowed his eyes and glanced around, roughly guessing what was going on: "My dear little Yanliu, you have a high priest of the deep-sea mermaid clan following you around, using you as your tool. Are you sacrificing your beauty or your body?"

With a snap, Yan Liu crushed the level 30 zombie crystal core that Shu Xubai had given her, absorbed the energy inside, and threw the ash at Shu Xubai: "I told you you can't say anything nice, can't you be a little more sensible and show me? Why do you have to provoke me like this? Aren't you afraid I'll kill you?"

Shu Xubai casually brushed the dust off him, and the dust, as if it had eyes, fell into the trash can: "A family like ours has money and people, yet you sacrifice your looks and body. What kind of nonsense is this?"

"However, I am an enlightened parent. Whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy. But I still have to remind you that when you have time, tell your master that this little dragon cub has definitely miscalculated. His destined partner cannot be a hunter."

"Why not? Have you ever heard of cross-species romance?" Yan Liu firmly believed her master's words, so when Shu Xubai reminded her, she not only didn't believe him, but also tried to explain to him that it wasn't just people of the same species who were attracted to each other, but rather that the charm, looks, and physique of people from different species combined to attract each other: "Take you for example, you're a vampire with werewolf blood, and you can even transform into a wolf when you're angry. Aren't you also getting along very well with that little phoenix?"

Shu Xubai rolled her eyes: "Who's getting along so well with him? How dare you talk to me like that? He's my food, my food!"

"My relationship with him is like when you see a crystal core, your eyes light up as if you've seen your precious darling. He's my food, the only delicious food I've found all these years. I have to treat him well and let him live to be a thousand years old so he can be my blood donor."

Upon hearing his words, Yanliu made no attempt to hide her contempt and disgust: "Master is right, you are a hypocrite, a shameless scoundrel."

Shu Xubai seized the opportunity: "Your disdain and contempt are the greatest affirmation for me."

Yanliu: "!!!!"

That's shameless, utterly shameless.

The master is right. The reason this kind of ghost has lived for so long is because it is shameless, and the King of Hell will not accept it.

"Fine, fine, fine!" Yan Liu pointed at Shu Xubai: "Fine, you won't admit that you have improper thoughts about Little Phoenix, you treat him as food, I won't use you as an example, then we'll use hunting as an example."

"The knife that hunted this species for thousands of years has become human and is still getting along very well with that egg. You can't deny this kind of cross-species interaction, can you?"

"I don't deny it!" Shu Xubai pointed his thumb toward the door: "Little Yanliu, do you think it's possible that Jiang Dandan and Little Golden Dragon are a couple, and our Hunter stole their love, taking advantage of the fact that he met Jiang Dandan first, and then started raising Little Golden Dragon!"

Yanliu: "!!!!"

Damn, what does it mean that she has no rebuttal?

No, no, I still have to refute it. I can't let his distorted ideas lead me astray.

That devil is cunning; even his master could fall into his trap if he wasn't careful, let alone her!

"Your assumption is invalid," Yanliu retorted vehemently. "Think about it, he's the high priest of the merfolk, knowing 500 years into the past and 500 years into the future..."

Shu Xubai interrupted Yanliu and asked, "You really have feelings for him!"

Interrupted by him, Yanliu reflexively replied, "It's boring!"

"Why are you praising him if he's not interesting?" Shu Xubai asked, puzzled. "Look at how you talk to me, always calling him 'little dragon cub,' isn't he just a tool for you?"

"Why are you so concerned about a mere tool? You're even discussing interspecies romance with me. Let me tell you, even humans make mistakes, and horses stumble. He's definitely miscalculated. His destined partner is definitely not the hunter."

"Of course, regardless of whether his destined partner is Hunter or Jiang Dandan, both of them are people he cannot have. It is impossible for Yidao and Dandan to be a threesome with him."

"So in this complicated love triangle, the little dragon cub didn't fit in at all. Since he didn't fit in, he had no right to compete for a match."

"To put it simply, he was kicked out of this love triangle from the very beginning, and he's the only one who's suffering in his own way."

Yanliu paused for a moment after being spoken to, and coughed before finding her words: "Fine, even if you're right, I still don't believe it."

"Whether he's a pitiful little thing or not is none of my business. Anyway, I only have a ten-year agreement with him. In a little over a month, we'll be going back to Earth. Then I can enslave him. Nothing else matters!"

Shu Xubai gave a light "oh," his eyes fixed on Yanliu with a scrutinizing gaze: "My dear little Yanliu, your brother has watched you grow up. Tell your brother, if you don't care about anything anymore and feel that nothing is important, then why did you bring him to a hotel?"

"Please don't tell me that you're beautiful, kind-hearted, and doing a good deed because you felt he was too tired and got him a room to rest?"

Yanliu: "..."

Is he a tapeworm in his stomach?

How could you guess so accurately?

Sure enough, running into him never ends well.

"What's it to you? Just do your own thing and take care of your little phoenix." Yan Liu angrily pointed at Shu Xubai: "Look at your little phoenix, look at your little phoenix, her hand is on the little dragon cub's wrist, and you're not doing anything about it!"

"Really?" Shu Xubai turned his head and looked at the doorway. Sure enough, he saw Little Phoenix holding Little Dragon's hand in one hand and placing the other hand on his pulse. "I really didn't expect that Little Dragon, who seems so proud, could get along so well with our Little Phoenix."

Yan Liu's eyes lit up with mischief, and she quickly sat back down next to Shu Xubai, nudging him with her elbow: "Hey, hey, little Bai Bai, do you think your little phoenix might mistake the little dragon cub for his lost mate!"

"I think you're all bark and no bite, you're just a tree that grows branches and no head!" Shu Xubai retorted sarcastically. "My little phoenix has let go of himself and his partner. His past is all in the past. You're just stirring up trouble here. Don't you want to be taught a lesson?"

Yan Liu snorted twice, her laughter sinister: "Little Bai Bai, you're getting impatient, you're getting impatient. Tell your sister you're scared, and I won't laugh at you!"

"Get lost!" Shu Xubai suddenly found the little wolf cub an eyesore. It was wearing a short-sleeved Hanfu-style black robe with a red belt and waistband. Its hair was longer and whiter than his own, like a peacock dancing in a ball, swaying flamboyantly. No matter how he looked at it, he felt uncomfortable and displeased.

"I won't leave, I just won't leave!" Yan Liu had finally managed to turn the tables, and she felt she couldn't swallow her anger without getting back at this old codger. So she sowed discord, kicked him when he was down, and stabbed him right in the heart: "You say you're an old codger who's lived for thousands of years, how can you be so naive? Little Phoenix said he'd let go of himself, let go of his partner and not look for another one, and you really didn't look for another one?"

"Come on, that only fools someone like you who's caught up in the moment. It doesn't fool someone like me who sees things clearly from the sidelines. Think about it, someone has been searching for their partner for decades. Why should you, as a latecomer, surpass them and push them out of the spotlight?"

"Although I am a tree that has transformed into a human, before I had any consciousness, I never received any pollen from any male tree, nor did I receive any love from any male tree. But I know clearly that what comes later can never compare to the white moonlight that I can never forget in my heart!"

"In other words, my dear little Bai Bai, you are just a substitute now, someone's plaything in a lonely world. When someone finds their own white moonlight, their own destined partner, you can get as far away as possible!"

Shu Xubai initially found it somewhat displeasing that the little phoenix was holding the little golden dragon's hand, but after Yan Liu's chaotic actions, he no longer felt anything amiss.

He felt it was no big deal, so he spread his arms and draped them over the sofa, leaning back and saying leisurely, "He's just my food, not my partner. Let him go find whoever he wants, as long as he provides me with blood on time and in the right amount."

Yanliu: "!!!!"

Why doesn't this impure vampire play by the rules?

Is this what she wants to hear from him?

No, she wanted to sow discord, to make him rush out and get his little phoenix away as fast as he could!

Goodness, no wonder it's a hybrid vampire; being of mixed breed makes all the difference.

Shu Xubai took in Yan Liu's expression and snorted in his heart. Little brat, he had never suffered a loss in front of her master when it came to fighting him. How could she, a little thing who had only been human for less than a year, be his match!

"Lord Cangying, your mind is too heavy, which is not conducive to the recovery of your old injuries." After taking Cangying's pulse, Jiufeng released his hand and said, "Your hair is already mostly white, and there's still a small portion left. If you can't let go of your worries and don't treat yourself, your hair will turn completely white!"

Cangying watched as Jiufeng pulled down her sleeve to cover her wrist and let her hand fall down. "My old injury won't endanger my life. As for my white hair, it's not because I'm depressed or unwilling to let go of myself. It's just that there are some things I haven't figured out."

"As for you, Lord Jiufeng, your spiritual body has left you and disappeared. Your physical body should be in ruins by now, with all your internal organs damaged, but..."

His hesitation prompted Jiu Feng to speak, and she truthfully replied, "The young prince of the Troya Empire noticed my discomfort and temporarily suppressed it for me. I will not die anytime soon."

Cangying frowned slightly: "You said you wouldn't die anytime soon, whether it's a year or two, does Lord Shu Xubai, who's with you, know that?"

“He doesn’t know, and I don’t intend to tell him!” Jiu Feng turned her head to look at Shu Xubai in the hotel lobby: “In a little over a month, after he sends the young prince of the Troya Empire back to Earth in the Milky Way, he says he’ll take me out to play.”

"Look at the mountains, look at the water, look at the starry sky, look at the universe. I look forward to everything he said. I hope that in my lifetime, I can wholeheartedly go and see these beautiful sights."

“If you want to live, he can let you live!” Cangying followed Jiufeng’s gaze to Shu Xubai: “He is like Lady Jiang Si, his life is endless, and he does not belong to any species that we know.”

“No, he doesn’t have that ability anymore.” Jiu Feng’s lips twitched. “If my spiritual form, the Fire Phoenix, were still inside my body, I would be dying. He has the ability to keep me alive.”

"But my phoenix left me and abandoned me, which means a part of my body is gone, which means I am no longer whole. Even if a person with extraordinary abilities has superhuman abilities, he cannot survive."

"He knows this, and so do I, but we just keep it to ourselves, which I think is fine. There's no need to break that."

Seeing his magnanimity, Cangying noticed the lingering affection in his eyes. His fingers, hidden beneath his wide sleeves, twitched slightly. "You and I cannot calculate ourselves, but we can calculate for each other. I can help you calculate the Gate of Life in your destiny!"

“No need!” Jiufeng looked away and turned to Cangying: “I once joined forces with my people to hurt your people, which was the most heinous crime. We have only met twice, but you treat me as a friend. I am extremely grateful.”

"So, there's no need to calculate whether I have a chance to live or not, no need to find any way for me to survive. I am the most wicked, I should die in the mud. Now that I have met another person, even if I am just food for this person, it would be my honor to die cleanly in his mouth. It is already the mercy and love of the gods!"

"I've figured it out!" Cangying clenched his fist beneath his wide sleeves and looked at Jiufeng: "Your Excellency Jiufeng, I've figured it out. You have a lifeline, and your lifeline is in the Troya Empire, in the Troya royal family!"

Jiufeng showed no joy, but instead frowned: "My lifeline is in the royal family of the Troya Empire. Are you referring to Princess Jiang Si?"

Cangying looked at him and slowly shook her head. "No, your life gate is not Lady Jiang Si, your life gate is the Empress of the Troya Empire!"