As soon as I walked in, they dropped a bombshell, trying to disrupt my train of thought.
Then pose a question to get yourself to follow along with him, and finally take control of the conversation, letting yourself chat at his pace.
Unfortunately, Li Chang'an wasn't buying it. Instead, he looked at him with amusement and said, "Lord Yang, there's no need for such useless talk. Just tell me what's on your mind."
"You know very well why I came to Jiangnan, there's no need to hide it or make it mysterious."
Yang Zhi sighed after hearing his words and asked, "Your Highness, have you ever seen a dragon?"
"I've met you."
Li Chang'an nodded: "I've not only seen it, I've also been a customer of the full-service package."
Yang Zhi was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, then took off his hair crown and let his hair down.
"Your Highness is indeed a prince, with a wealth of knowledge and experience. I thought I was the last dragon in this degenerate age."
Li Chang'an looked up and saw that Yang Zhi had two small horns sticking out from his head.
The horns didn't look very big; at first glance, they looked like two small bumps. If Yang Zhi hadn't parted his hair, no one would have noticed that he had these two things on his head.
Looking at this thing, Li Chang'an became interested: "This is interesting."
"Should I call you Lord Yang Zhi, or should I address you something else?"
“I don’t know either. Sometimes I can’t tell whether I am the dragon suppressed under Jingshan Mountain or Yang Zhi, a scholar born into a prominent family in Jiangnan.”
Yang Zhi plopped down on the ground. It was the first time he had ever revealed a secret he had kept hidden for so many years to someone else.
"Your Highness, call me whatever you like. A name is just a title."
"Alright, then I'll still call you Lord Yang Zhi. What did you mean by the 'Dharma-ending Age' you just mentioned?"
"Hmm? Doesn't Your Highness know?"
Yang Zhi was a little puzzled, so he explained, "In the past, this place was full of spiritual energy. Back then, there were also demons, monsters, and other things in the world."
"In order to deal with these things, humans have developed a method of cultivation. Some people have achieved a high level of cultivation and then occupied overseas lands to cultivate in seclusion, attempting to achieve immortality."
“You call these people immortals, and you call the place where they live blessed lands.”
"But as time went by, the spiritual energy gradually thinned out, and the demons and monsters that relied on it for survival slowly disappeared."
"Your human cultivation techniques have become less and less powerful, eventually turning into the martial arts manuals we see today."
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