"Reporting to the Grand Commander," Qu Daoping, Junior Commander of Taixuandu Province, reported to Fang Jian, "All the celestial soldiers of the four sea dragon tribes have been recruited. A total of two million true dragon celestial soldiers have been assembled and stationed at the Four Heavenly Gates Demon-Slaying Command. Please issue an edict to train them."
Fang Jian nodded, then issued an imperial edict, stating, "Each of the four great Heavenly Gates' Demon-Slaying Captains will be assigned 500,000 True Dragon Heavenly Soldiers. The four captains will be fully responsible for the training. This training must be completed within three months of the Earth Calendar, without fail."
Upon hearing this, Qu Daoping immediately bowed and said, "I will obey your orders."
In the barracks of the Heavenly Soldiers under the command of the Demon-Slaying Captain of Beitianmen, Ao Xuan, the daughter of the Captain of the North Sea Dragon Palace, sat on a bamboo couch, her eyes involuntarily looking at the other three people in the barracks, all of them men.
Ao Xuan watched for a long while, and finally, unable to bear it any longer, he stood up and bowed to the three male immortals, saying, "Ao Xuan of the North Sea, greetings to the four Taoist friends."
The three men were startled when they heard this. They stood up from the bamboo couches they had been sitting cross-legged on and returned the greeting to Ao Xuan, saying, "Ao Xu from the West Sea, nice to meet you, fellow Daoist."
"Ao Rong of the South Sea, nice to meet you, fellow Daoist."
"Ao Jing of the East Sea, nice to meet you, fellow Taoist."
After hearing the three people's self-introductions, Ao Xuan couldn't help but say in surprise, "So, in this small barracks of ours, all the True Dragons of the Four Seas have gathered together?"
Ao Xu was also surprised and asked, "So, our divisions aren't based on the four seas? Instead, they're mixed?"
"That should be it." Ao Jing said, "It must be mixed up, otherwise how could Fellow Daoist Ao Xuan be assigned to the same barracks with the three of us men?"
Ao Xuan felt a little embarrassed when he heard this and said, "I've never been in the same room with a man before."
"Hahaha." Ao Rong laughed loudly upon hearing this and said, "Fellow Daoist Ao Xuan, there's no need to be like this. We are all True Dragons of the Four Seas, not ordinary mortals. The conventional etiquette of the human world is of no use to us."
Ao Xu also nodded and said, "Fellow Daoist Ao Rong is right. We are all immortals, so why should we care about those mundane etiquettes?"
Once the conversation started, the awkwardness and silence that had just been there disappeared, and soon the four of them became familiar with each other and had a general understanding of each other's backgrounds.
What surprised Ao Xu, Ao Rong and Ao Jing was that the dragon girl Ao Xuan, who looked nothing special, was actually the daughter of the captain of the North Sea Dragon Palace.
"I can't believe that even the captain's daughter has been recruited." When Ao Xu said this, there was a hint of complicated emotions in his tone.
But this complex emotion was a positive one, because he felt something was "fair". It turned out that the Heavenly Court recruited not only ordinary dragons like them, but also the children of high-ranking officials like the Dragon Palace Commander.
The same was true for the other two. At this moment, the three of them, who had originally been somewhat resistant to being recruited as heavenly soldiers, had unknowingly loosened their resistance.
As for Ao Xuan, he didn't think too much about it. After hearing what Ao Xu said, he said, "What's the point of being a captain's daughter? The four sea dragon kings have also recruited all the princes and princesses of the true fairyland. I just saw the seventeenth princess of our North Sea Dragon Palace."
"Huh?" Ao Xu and the other two exclaimed, then looked at each other in surprise, "Even Prince Long and the Princess have been recruited? This..."
For Ao Xu and others, the Dragon Prince and princesses are people they need to look up to, but they can't even see them on weekdays, let alone work with them.
But now, those princes and princesses were in the same camp with them, and had become the same "heavenly soldiers".
"Isn't it incredible?" Ao Xuan looked at the three of them and said, "But that's how it is. True Man Hongqing has issued a decree that no matter whose children they are, they must enlist as celestial soldiers."
Hearing this, Ao Rong couldn't help but say with admiration, "Master Hongqing is amazing. I've heard many legendary stories about him. He is one of the Celestial Officials I admire most."
Ao Xuan said, "I grew up listening to the stories of Master Hongqing."
Upon hearing this, Ao Xu and the other two couldn't help but look towards Ao Xuan. Then Ao Rong asked, "Fellow Daoist Ao Xuan, may I ask how old you are this year?"
Ao Xuan said: "One hundred and ninety-six years old."
Ao Rong nodded and said, "That's about right. Master Hongqing has been practicing Taoism for almost two hundred years."
As the four of them were talking, there was suddenly a harsh noise and uproar outside.
They looked at each other, then immediately got off the bamboo couch and walked out of the barracks.
But as soon as the four of them left the barracks, they discovered that the spacious camp outside the barracks was packed with people. The area around the camp and even the roofs were full of people, and they were all the True Dragons of the Four Seas who had been recruited this time.
"What happened?" Ao Xu and the other three couldn't squeeze to the front, so they had to ask.
At this time, a man standing on the barracks roof said, "It's the 23rd Prince of the East China Sea Dragon King and his 24th and 25th Princesses. They're dissatisfied with the barracks' simplicity and can't stand living in the same barracks with the ordinary True Dragon Heavenly Soldiers, so they've become estranged. Now, the princes and princesses of the four sea dragon kings have seized the opportunity and are gathering together to cause a disturbance at the barracks, demanding that the Lieutenant Command allocate them separate palaces to live in."
After hearing the man explain what happened earlier, Ao Xu and the other two couldn't help but feel angry, but the anger was quickly extinguished by reason.
As the prince and princess of the Dragon King, it is normal for them to look down on ordinary dragons.
"Ouch!" At this time, those people on the roof cried out in surprise, and then said, "The captain is here with the heavenly soldiers, get down quickly."
All of a sudden, people on the roof of the barracks jumped down like raindrops. The area below was already packed with people, and their jumping down made the situation even more crowded.
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