Chapter 104 Chapter 104

"I wonder what Brother Long's name is?" Feng Huang asked with a smile. He felt ashamed that he had beaten him so many times, but he had never thought of asking him his name.

"Just call me Brother Xuanlin." The dragon clan leader smiled, but in his heart he was about to evolve into a resentful old dragon - you burned my house so many times, beat me so many times, and you don't even know the name of the victim, where is justice!

Thinking of this, Xuan Lin glanced at Feng Huang dimly, and a strange light flashed in his dead fish-like eyes. Soon he set his gaze on You Lin again, and said in a sinister tone: "I don't know how our Dragon Lord was deceived by you to come to you, and he didn't even know how to go home."

Phoenix curled her eyes and said as if she was chatting with him, "No, no, we just hit it off at first sight. How can something that is consensual be called a lie? Besides, You Lin is already an independent adult dragon. It's up to him to decide where to go and what to do, isn't it?"

Although You Lin felt something was strange, he nodded repeatedly.

Xuan Lin's mouth twitched noticeably. He knew why Feng Huang came here, and he had quickly prepared a speech in his mind in those three hours, but when he saw You Lin's worthless look, he suddenly lost all desire to express himself.

Is this thing really their ruthless fighting machine? How come it has changed so much after just one trip? Where is your cold murderous aura and your sharp eyes? What kind of magic potion did the damn Phoenix feed him?

"Really? Then why did you bring him back? Why, do you want me to witness your touching friendship?" He sneered.

Seeing that the atmosphere was about to slide into the abyss of embarrassment, the young dragon on the side immediately said: "Master Phoenix, what our clan leader meant is that our dragon clan is not so rigid. It is the child's own business to make friends with whom he wants. It is not about arranging marriages. Why bother the clan leader to witness it..."

The voice of the latter sentence became quieter and quieter. The young demon didn't know what he was thinking about, and the smile on his face froze. He carefully glanced at the face of his family leader and said hesitantly, "You are not here to make an in-law, right?"

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Silence is today's living room.

The sound of a folding fan opening broke the silence. Phoenix smiled and said, "I heard that the dragon clan has a secret method that can be used to swear on one's soul, with the heavens as witness, to drive others away with a brand."

Time and the task were heavy, and he did not intend to argue with Xuan Lin for too long, so he got straight to the point: "I came here this time in the hope that the Dragon Clan can remove the mark on You Lin and set him free. After all, if you put yourself in his shoes, I'm sure the clan leader would not want to see his friend bound by a small mark for his entire life, right?"

Xuan Lin laughed twice and glanced at You Lin: "It's not impossible to remove the mark on him."

You Lin raised his head when he heard this, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, but Xuan Lin changed the subject again: "However, this 'brand' has been the result of hundreds of years of hard work by our dragon clan. It is really unreasonable to say that it can be solved just like that."

Phoenix narrowed her eyes and said, "Brother Xuan, just tell me what you want."

"I heard that the phoenix is ​​a divine beast, and is favored by heaven. Every inch of its flesh and blood is a treasure that countless monsters fight for." At this point, he deliberately paused and looked at the phoenix: "Especially, the heart blood."

"Master Patriarch, this is inappropriate." You Lin stood up with a "teng".

Heart blood is very important to a monster. It is related to the monster's cultivation and lifeblood. If it loses too much, even if it doesn't die, its cultivation will drop sharply. Xuan Lin did not hide his ill will towards the Phoenix.

You Lin suddenly recalled a rumor he had heard before. The high-ranking officials of the Dragon Clan had probably been eyeing the Phoenix for a long time, and the disputes between territories were just an excuse to cover up their actions against the Phoenix. In other words, the Phoenix was so powerful that it could fight back time and time again.

Phoenix did not notice You Lin's thoughts. His aura was still calm, and he still had a harmless smile on his face. He did not seem to care about the offense in Xuan Lin's words. "Oh? Are there many monsters who know about this?"

"Not much now, but I don't know what will happen in the future. After all, rumors are the most uncontrollable things." Xuan Lin also had a warm smile on his face.

The two big demons looked at each other, and they seemed to be having a pleasant conversation, but the next second, the two energies collided with each other without any warning. In just a few breaths, the fragile room finally couldn't bear the weight and was crushed into powder by the huge energy.

You Lin held a spear in front of Feng Huang, blocking some of his attacks. After all, he was a warrior who had experienced many battles. Although his mind was still confused, his body had already reacted quickly.

Are you taking action now? So sudden?

"I can't give you my blood, it seems I can only take it by force." Feng Huang wiped the fan carelessly.

"Really? Then come and try out this newly refined magic weapon of mine."

Xuanlin transformed into his original form, and the pitch-black dragon sighed in the air. The dust dispersed, revealing the steel bones hidden in the wall - it was a closed cage. Fenghuang and Youlin were imprisoned inside, and the giant dragon that Xuanlin transformed into appeared outside at some point, looking at them triumphantly.

It was unknown what had happened to the cage, and You Lin could even feel his energy draining away. At the same time, a group of well-trained dragon soldiers rushed out from the corner and surrounded the two people in the cage.

"You Lin, my good boy, you did a good job. Catching the phoenix this time is a great achievement for you. As long as you are willing to come back, I will treat it as if you have never betrayed me, and the previous things will be written off. You are still the Dragon Lord and the most trusted assistant of the next clan leader."

"A good sword passed down for three generations?" Feng Huang couldn't help but complain. He patted You Lin's shoulder and suddenly found that the other's expression was not right.

"I was also part of the plan. Did you deliberately let me come into contact with the Phoenix?"

"Yes, you are a crucial part of this chess game."

You Lin's face suddenly lost all color. He thought he had gotten out of control after meeting the phoenix, but he didn't expect...

That's right, the clan leader knew his intentions long ago, how could he be so confident to send him to contact the mortal enemy of the dragon clan? And his alliance with the phoenix must have been within their expectations, or in other words, this was exactly what they wanted to see. Because only in this way, the phoenix, who likes to fight for the weak, would be willing to come here to find a way to remove the mark.

The Phoenix had come to the tribe so many times and had escaped unscathed, so it would subconsciously relax its vigilance. All it needed to do was set a trap and add a chess piece that could be controlled at any time...

"I was wondering why you didn't take precautions all the way. It turns out you were waiting here." Feng Huang knocked on the cage casually, and the dull sound interrupted You Lin's thoughts. "But You Lin can't go back. He has already signed a 'sale contract' with me. God is my witness. He can't leave."

"And are you so confident that you can keep me?"

Xuan Lin laughed angrily: "Really? I can't really move you, but You Lin may not be able to do that." A golden light suddenly lit up between its claws, and it looked like a circular pattern. I guess that was the thing used to control You Lin. "You Lin, do it!"

But the backstab scene he imagined did not appear. You Lin held the spear tightly in his hand, and from an angle that Xuan Lin could not see, a flash of fiery red passed by his ear.

Xuan Lin was shocked and angry: "How dare you disobey my order? Do you care about him so much that you would rather endure the pain of the backlash of the brand than disobey my order? Don't forget, if I want you to, you will turn into a corpse in the next moment. Now, immediately, kill Phoenix for me!"

As long as he could obtain the phoenix's original energy, he would be able to advance further to that legendary realm, and even break through the constraints of this world and cultivate into a true dragon. By then, the dragon clan would leapfrog to become the largest clan, and everything they wanted would be within their reach.

The light in You Lin's eyes dimmed: "He is my companion. Father, I don't want to be stained with blood anymore."

"Don't forget your own identity, You Lin. You are not only yourself, you are also my son, the sharpest knife of the dragon clan. You should dedicate everything you have to the dragon clan instead of disobeying me for a stranger." Xuan Lin's voice suddenly turned cold.

"Dao... Even you think of me this way?" You Lin suddenly laughed, as if he was mocking himself.

He has always known how other members of his tribe view him. An alien who should have been killed when he broke into the shell, but was kept alive because of his strong talent for cultivation, and has been trained to be the sword that protects the dragon clan. Serving the dragon clan is his only value, and he should not have his own ideas or self.

He had heard similar words many times and had long been accustomed to them. But when such words came from the mouth of his most admired father, he still inevitably felt sad.

Xuan Lin frowned, but seemed to remember something, and said in a gentle tone: "That's not what I meant. My good son, come back to me. Only when you are with your family can you show your value."

You Lin was in a trance for a moment, but then he woke up immediately: "I'm sorry, father." He took a step back and expressed his refusal with his actions: "I won't go back anymore. Now I have found my true value. I know what I really want, and I know what I should and shouldn't do. I will not betray the Phoenix, and from now on I will not attack any of my own people. Please remove the mark, father, and set my child free."

Seeing that You Lin had made up his mind, Xuan Lin's eyes suddenly turned cold, and his gentleness just now seemed to be just an illusion: "Freedom is the most ridiculous thing in the world. How could you be where you are today without the dragon clan? You have to obey this order whether you want to or not. Kill him for me!" After saying that, he immediately activated the brand, but for some reason, even if he used all his strength, the brand did not respond.

The last glimmer of hope in You Lin's eyes also disappeared. He pursed his lips and looked at Feng Huang silently.

"Let's end this farce." Phoenix sighed.

As the words fell, the energy within the cage suddenly surged. Ultimately, it could no longer bear this huge amount of energy and exploded in front of Xuan Lin's incredulous gaze.

"How is that possible? It can obviously accommodate tens of thousands of years of cultivation. Even if the four great beasts were inside, they wouldn't be able to escape. How is that possible?"

"Look at what you said, what can't the beast do?"

The next development was the same as before. The soldiers fled in all directions after being beaten, and Phoenix did not deliberately embarrass them. As for Xuanlin, he was in a worse situation. He was beaten back to human form without mercy before he had time to show off his arrogance for long. His face was so bruised that he could not even recognize his own son.

But even so, he still had a defiant look on his face, he refused to accept.

Xuan Lin spit out a mouthful of blood with a vicious look, along with a few teeth: "If I was the one favored by the heaven, you should be the one being beaten to a pulp! Feng Huang, don't you call yourself a friend of You Lin? If you dare to attack me again today, do you believe that I will directly detonate the mark and kill him on the spot?"

The folding fan knocked heavily on Xuan Lin's head: "Don't you realize that it's wrong? You can try it, but if you really do it, everything will be completely irreversible."

"Are you trying to provoke me?" Xuan Lin seemed to want to fight again. He laughed and said to You Lin, "Look, You Lin, you would rather betray your own tribe to follow him, but in fact he doesn't care about your life or death at all. He is just using you--"

"I know." You Lin interrupted him: "The purpose of forming an alliance is to use the power of the other party to achieve one's own goals. He is using me, and I am using him, the same. Besides, I have never been recognized as a member of the Dragon Clan, so how can I say betrayal?"

After so many years together, he knew what this nominal father wanted to say just by looking at his eyes, which was nothing more than "It's better to be used by your own people than by outsiders."

But since he was born, the only recognition he got was from the Phoenix. It had nothing to do with strength or status, but only as a living individual called "You Lin".

His own kind excluded him as an alien simply because of the different color of his scales. Even though he later took on the title of Dragon Lord, their gazes were still filled with fear and rejection.

In fact, You Lin didn't know what words touched him that day and made him choose to follow Feng Huang without hesitation. Now that I think about it, maybe it was the words - become my kind.

"Finding someone like me" was You Lin's only obsession when he was young.

"Father, have you ever heard of this saying - a man will die for his friend? Even if Phoenix wants to kill me one day, I will be willing to do so."

"You!" Xuan Lin was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. He couldn't catch his breath and died on the spot.