Chapter 105: No Longer Called Ancestor?

The old ancestor was determined to die.

"Liantang" was still holding a needle and thread in her hand.

The cranes have been "embroidered" and will be finished tomorrow and hung on Duan Jiuyou's waist.

She paused briefly, put away her needle and thread, and said, "Grandmother, it's getting late. Let me make your bed, and you can rest now."

"Is he really that dramatic?" Duan Jiuyou hadn't expected Di Jiang to still be pretending to be stupid.

"Lotus Pond" got up and made the bed: "It's a bit chilly tonight, should we get a thicker blanket?"

Duan Jiuyou remained seated.

He crossed his legs, tucked his sleeves, and gazed upon the imperial territory.

Di Jiang sighed. He knew this day would come, and he knew he couldn't hide it from her for long, but he never expected it to happen so soon.

He turned to face Duan Jiuyou, and the image of Liantang on his body dissipated like mist, returning to his original appearance. He had changed his clothes; they were no longer wedding attire, but his usual black robe.

He smiled helplessly, his youthful face resembling a pine tree on a cold mountain, serene and exquisitely beautiful.

"9game..."

"You're not calling me 'Ancestor' anymore?"

When Duan Jiuyou saw him again, he still couldn't hide the resentment in his heart.

"You're really quite the opportunist! You've come all this way to stay on Mount Dixi, serving tea and water, tending to my medicine, and fulfilling your filial duty?"

Di Jiang didn't bother with the seniority issue, and smiled, saying, "Back in the Tenth Realm, when I was suffering from a cold illness, you took care of me in the same way. My mother said that one should repay kindness with kindness, and one should repay a woman who is so devoted to one with her whole heart.

Duan Jiuyou crossed his arms and scrutinized Dijiang with a critical eye.

"You're really amazing, you can do anything."

She recalled that when he played Liantang, his hair was often a mess, like a bird's nest. He wouldn't comb his hair after waking up, and Lianpeng wouldn't help him clean it up. He was no different from a madman.

The woman was wearing a long skirt, and she was prone to tripping if she walked too fast. He had fallen once, right outside the window. Duan Jiuyou saw him carrying a bowl of hot soup when he stepped on the hem of her skirt and fell flat on his face. He didn't come in for quite a while.

Lianpeng said he was sulking outside, but after a while he felt better. He went to the kitchen and asked someone to cook him a new bowl of soup. When he came back in, his skirt was too short and looked ugly, but he didn't fall again.

Duan Jiuyou thought he was just being considerate of her back then, but now that she thinks about it, she was incredibly foolish!

He's stupid, and she's not smart either, otherwise she would have figured out who he was long ago!

She said to Di Jiang, "I don't need you to repay me with your body. You have already paid back what you owed. You don't need to play the role of a filial son and grandson anymore. Ao Zong will not interfere in the affairs between the two clans. You can each rely on your own abilities and let whoever becomes the emperor be the emperor."

Di Jiang explained, "My coming to Dixi Mountain has nothing to do with seizing the heavens."

"So what?"

Duan Jiuyou asked in surprise, "Even if it's not for the battle to seize the heavens, consider this as you repaying a debt. I took care of you in the Ten Realms for a year, and you've served me here for twelve days. That's already a bargain for you. Are you trying to extort me?"

Di Jiang spoke sincerely: "I won't take advantage of you. It's a fair repayment. You take care of me for a year, and I'll serve you for a lifetime. The Hou tribe can live up to 30 million years. I can actually live quite a long time. I'll use elixirs to extend my lifespan and remove my immortal bones to reincarnate in the mortal world. I won't be a god anymore. I'll cultivate again with a mortal body and stay with you for a long, long time."

Duan Jiuyou raised an eyebrow. When did she say she wanted him to accompany her? Her meaning just now was clearly that they owed each other nothing and would go their separate ways!

He's a master of twisting concepts; he did the same thing back in the Ten Realms, using deceptive words and silver tongues to mislead people. She was tricked by him step by step until she almost married him.

Thinking of what had happened before, Duan Jiuyou became even more annoyed, gritting his teeth: "You sure know how to do business! Don't you even ask if I'm willing to buy your services?"

"This is a sure thing, you should really consider it." He became more sincere each time, approaching you subtly. "What happened last time was my fault. I shouldn't have hidden anything from you, and I shouldn't have pressed you so hard. If I had just told you the truth back then, how could I have hurt you so much?"

“I always worried that you didn’t understand love, but actually it was me who didn’t grasp its true meaning. Jiuyou, please give me another chance, okay? I promise I won’t hide anything from you anymore.”

Duan Jiuyou narrowed his eyes, showing no emotion.

She said, "Stand there and don't move. Our business is over. I don't want to get entangled with you anymore. Either you leave on your own, or I'll take you away. You choose one."

Dijiang didn't want to choose either option, so he took the initiative to compromise.

"Could you wait until you are fully recovered before sending me away? You are the bone that was removed from my body, and I want to stay and take care of you. Please give me a chance to forgive myself."

Duan Jiuyou refused decisively: "I'm fully recovered, you don't need to bother with me."

Di Jiang insisted: "He said his chest hurt last night."

Duan Jiuyou was indeed in pain yesterday, which was during the final stage of recovery. Based on Ao Zong's own recovery ability, plus the bowl of "sweet soup" that Di Jiang fed him in the middle of the night, he recovered in the latter half of the night.

Today is the first day of her recovery. She feels refreshed and in a good mood. If she hadn't discovered that "Lotus Pond" was the capital, perhaps her mood would have been even better.

Duan Jiuyou patted his chest: "It doesn't hurt here anymore, and the rest of the body is completely fine."

Dijiang said, "Your hair has split ends."

He saw it when he was combing her hair today.

Are you sick in the head?

Duan Jiuyou was stunned for a moment, and after realizing what was happening, he started cursing.

"Are you sick? Hair splits when it grows long! You have split ends too! You—"

Duan Jiuyou felt increasingly confused as he spoke. He got up, intending to throw Dijiang out, but his body swayed as he stood up, and he almost fell.

Emperor Jiang reacted quickly and came over to support him. As soon as he got close, his heart started pounding.

He couldn't do anything with her and finally understood her distress when she was in the Ten Realms. He used to get angry with her all the time, and she had to coax and persuade him at different times. Now that it was his turn, he realized how difficult it was for him back then.

He half-supported, half-carried her, not daring to get too close, because Duan Jiuyou's eyes were narrowed, like a small beast that might explode at any moment.

They refused to let go, fearing that if they did, they would lose their current opportunity.

Duan Jiuyou didn't have Di Jiang's delicate mind. He grabbed Di Jiang's arm and swung it around with a loud "bang"!

Another window is destroyed.

Duan Jiuyou's feelings have always been straightforward: if you make me happy, I'll make you happy; if you make me unhappy, of course I'll take revenge!

Don't let me see you again!

...

The vassal watched as his lord flew out of Duan Jiuyou's palace.

At that time, the vassals still wandered around the outer perimeter of the barrier, disguised as "the skin of the imperial domain".

Based on the trajectory of the flight from the imperial territory, the vassal deduced that the ancestor of Ao Zong must have recovered greatly.

Because this time the force was much greater than last time! It should have directly thrown their Lord back to the Tenth Realm of Breaking Wind.

The vassal followed the emperor and indeed found him at the Tianhai Stone Gate.

Under the bright moon, Emperor Jiang sat before the stone gate, and was actually smiling.

The vassal didn't understand why he was laughing, and when he pressed for an explanation, the reply he received was: "Don't you think Duan Jiuyou is adorable?"

The vassal didn't find it endearing and was very worried about his lord's mental state. He said, "Why don't you try some medicine?"

Emperor Jiang ignored the vassals, thinking that even if he went back tonight, he would be thrown out by Jiuyou. He dusted himself off and walked towards the Ten Realms.

After Yuan Chi died, the miasma in the ten realms disappeared, the ferocious beasts no longer roamed freely, and the people also had corresponding land.

On the day Duan Jiuyou rushed to Dragon Breath Mountain, he smashed a hole in the stone gate, and people from the Ten Realms could freely enter and exit if they wanted to go to the Heavenly Realm for some fresh air.

However, no one has moved there yet.

Firstly, war is about to break out, and it's uncertain how it will turn out. Staying in the Tenth Realm would be safer.

Secondly, the currencies of the two sides are not interchangeable, so Tongbao cannot be used as spiritual treasures. They have houses and land in the Ten Realms and are protected by the Wilderness Clan, so they have no intention of leaving.

"The weather just isn't great."

The common people shook their heads, feeling both helpless and amused.

The ten realms were flooded, and many houses were submerged. When the emperor returned, his court officials were rolling up their trousers to help the people drain the water.

Xue Ciyi drew a diagram to guide rainwater into the river. Xiao Siji sat in the crowd, crying and saying, "I'm sorry."

She is now the "Weather Goddess" of the Ten Realms; when she cries, the heavens of the Ten Realms cry along with her.

The little girl complained to everyone she met: "My father angered my mother, and she went back to her parents' home in a fit of rage. My father said before he left that he would make her happy, but he hasn't come back for more than ten days. Will my mother kill my father?"

She cried, and a bunch of people around her tried to comfort her, saying that the Lord of the Wasteland wouldn't die, at most he'd get a beating.

She couldn't stop crying after hearing this, patting her chest and saying how heartbroken she was: "I can't rest easy until I see them come back happy and well!"

Di Jiang watched from the periphery of the crowd with amusement.

Siji has good eyesight. Her father is handsome and can be spotted even in a crowd. She raised her arm to wipe her tears. She was about to laugh, but when she looked around her father's side and didn't see her mother, she was about to cry again.

Di Jiang walked over and hugged the child, saying, "Don't cry. Tomorrow, Daddy will take you to find your mother, and we'll coax her back together."