"Uh..."
With a single sentence, Jin Yanhua was left speechless, despite having weathered countless storms.
An Jing also realized his question might have been a little too pointed, so he coughed. "Ahem, I'm not trying to stir things up. I just think... you know, dragons have nine sons, and those nine sons have nine sons of their own, generation after generation without end. Everything under heaven has dragon blood..."
"And humans... aren't all that different."
"Maybe dragons had relations with those Ancestral Divine Beasts, and humans had relations with dragons, so all living things in the world are essentially one big mixed-blood family... Could that be possible?"
"Yes, that's right... But..." Jin Yanhua was already sweating a little. She instinctively glanced at Su Xinbai beside her, her eyes betraying a hint of awkwardness and a silent appeal for confirmation.
That glance made the innocent female knight frown. Feeling immediately offended, she lowered her voice and muttered quickly, "Why are you looking at me? I'm not a real Dragon-Man. I'm a new Dragon-Man, my bloodline elevated by Lord Jin Qixu. My ancestors were pure-blooded humans..."
"Ahem."
Jin Yanhua cleared her throat, withdrew her gaze, and shook her head awkwardly, abandoning any attempt to dig further into the matter. "...I don't know. All I can say is that the reproductive urges of humans and dragons are truly bizarre."
"Maybe that's some strange trait the 'Chief of All Spirits' and the 'King of True Spirits' have in common."
She waved her hand with an expression that said, "Don't ask me; I don't understand either." "I don't understand their... or Their... kinks! Anyway, I can only tell you what I know."
After muttering under her breath, Su Xinbai quickly collected herself. She sorted out her thoughts and picked up where Jin Yanhua had left