That smile looked strangely familiar. Long Xun couldn't help but glance at the portrait in his hand. The blue dragon, seeing his fellow beings from this small world, noticed his interest in the portrait and turned it to face him so he could see it clearly. He smiled and said, "Later, the Dragon God Temple's Envoy of Rewards and Punishments will come to tell you what happened... It's also good for you to see what the Phoenix God looks like!"
He said with great pride, "People from your small world probably don't know that the real world was actually created by three great ancestral gods! This is the great creator god Mu, the Phoenix God. Besides him, there is the guardian god Xun, the Dragon God, and the creator god Qi, the Human God. However, Qi is an incarnation of the universe, and the Dragon God is rarely seen, so there are no portraits of him..."
Long Xun didn't listen to him; he just stared silently at the portrait.
The portrait depicts a handsome man with blond hair, golden eyes, and wearing a golden brocade robe, his golden tail feathers trailing on the ground. He sits cross-legged, holding a small child in his arms who breathes fire and is draped in magnificent crimson feathers. He is gently coaxing the child with a smile on his face, and then suddenly looks up...
This is a scene that was magically sealed for a few seconds on the paper, just like the GIF images that dragons have found in modern society—they are animated.
So Long Xun watched with great dismay as his friend Mu Feng kept looking up at the portrait in a bizarre and ridiculous way, his expression becoming more and more ridiculous, and he couldn't bear to look at it anymore and looked away.
I had long heard that the Four Holy Guards, a firefighting team led by his son Qinglong Ye Tan and his son's friends Zhuque Muchunfeng, Baihu Huyan, and Xuanwu Donggu, would carry portraits of Mu Feng with them and learn from the gentle smile of the Phoenix God to soothe frightened creatures. But actually seeing it still left me feeling bewildered.
Distracted by the sudden arrival of the Four Holy Guards, Long Xun temporarily snapped out of his nightmarish grief and quietly looked up at the sky.
After the number of small creatures in the open space stopped increasing, a thunderclap suddenly rang out under the clear sky. Long Xun knew that it was the sound of the Heavenly Realm being forcibly uprooted from this world. After that, the Four Holy Guards who had calmed the small creatures turned back into their original forms, rose into the air, and disappeared without a trace.
Although the little ones were a little uneasy, the peaceful land of the human realm quickly calmed them down.
Long Xun lowered his eyes and glanced at the little creatures. His eyes were dark and deep, filled with an unknown amount of darkness, yet something seemed to be holding them back, preventing them from pouring out for the time being.
The next moment, he vanished without a trace.
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Qinchuan, the Ouyang family.
Master Ouyang and Madam Ouyang sat in the main seats, looking at their outstanding adopted son. Their wrinkled faces were adorned with kind and gentle smiles as they listened to Ouyang Shaogong recount the story of how he and the young hero fought wits and courage against Qingyutan. They were both surprised and heartbroken.
"...Up on Penglai Island, Tu Su and I were already exhausted and powerless to turn the tide. Just as Lei Yan was feeling triumphant, a thunderous roar erupted from the sea, and a divine dragon burst forth from the ocean. Lei Yan was no match for the dragon's claw and died instantly!"
Master Ouyang gripped his wife's hand tightly and asked nervously, "Then... what about the dragon?"
The boy sitting next to me looked to be about fourteen or fifteen years old. He had a round face and round eyes, and his body was a bit plump. He looked very cute and honest. The boy twisted his body uncomfortably and revealed a guilty smile.
Ouyang Shaogong remained expressionless, but said with a hint of melancholy, "After the divine dragon killed Lei Yan, it soared into the sky and disappeared without a trace... It must be that Heaven felt Lei Yan's sins were too grave and specially sent the divine dragon to eliminate this great evil!"
Ouyang Shaogong's righteous and indignant demeanor left Shu Nai, who was not yet familiar with him, dumbfounded. She stared at him blankly with an expression that said, "My friends and I are all stunned."
Baili Tusu was already used to Ouyang Shaogong's profound skill in deceiving people. He simply observed Shu Naicha discreetly, pondering something completely different from his previous life.
A day in heaven is equivalent to a year on earth.
Although Long Xun only went to kill the Heavenly Emperor and didn't stay in the heavens for long, half a year had already passed for Ouyang Shaogong and Baili Tusu.
After Long Xun left, Ouyang Shaogong and Baili Tusu traveled together, collecting fragments of the Jade Balance to thwart Lei Yan's conspiracy, and also falling in love along the way. However, with Ouyang Shaogong unable to become the final boss, the plot led Lei Yan down a path of attempting to use the Immortal Soul-Tracing Pill as an elixir of immortality.
On Penglai Island, which was destroyed by heavenly fire eight hundred years ago, Lei Yan and Ouyang Shaogong, who had finally embarked on the path of cultivation at the age of twenty-five and whose cultivation progressed like a rocket, had a fierce battle with Baili Tusu. After defeating the two, they were accidentally stepped on by Shu Naicha, who suddenly rushed out of the sea after the last ley line was finally cleared.
Then, after Ouyang Shaogong blurted out "Second Brother," Shu Naicha and he exchanged words and discovered that this seemingly familiar guy was actually his father's adopted son, and the other charcoal-black person—everyone he knew was fair-skinned like snow, and the young hero with his tanned skin and all-black clothes looked like charcoal to Shu Naicha—was actually his sister-in-law!
Upon discovering that his sworn brother and sister-in-law had been beaten badly by an old man with a full beard, Shunacha, in a fit of rage, stomped the man into a deflated eggplant.
As for Ouyang Shaogong's shout of "Second Brother" that changed his fate, was it a calculated move or just a moment of impulse...? You can judge for yourselves.
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