Marriage Alliance

Upon seeing Xia Linyuan arrive, the Silver Dragon King's massive form suddenly flickered with seven-colored light. Under the radiance of this light, her enormous body slowly shrank, eventually transforming into a young girl without a single stitch of clothing.

The girl had a tall, curvaceous figure, and her long silver hair, draped casually behind her, possessed a strange texture like silver crystal, barely covering the sensitive parts of her body.

Her purple eyes were clear and translucent, like purple glaze, yet they held a hint of bewilderment that couldn't help but stir feelings of affection in others.

Looking at the scene before him, which was enough to tempt anyone into sin, Xia Linyuan's golden eyes remained cold, devoid of any emotional fluctuation.

His emotions had long since been worn away during the many years he spent executing the function of world-destruction in other realms for R'lyeh. It wasn't that he had none, but rather that they were extremely difficult to stir.

Just like with the Duke and Duchess of Molong, he had felt no affection for these convenient parents of his at the very beginning. However, through their day-to-day life over the past few years, the sincere feelings of the Duke and Duchess had finally awakened the deep-seated longing for familial love within him half a year ago.

Xia Linyuan did not speak. After taking off his coat and draping it over the Silver Dragon King, he reached out to clear away the special energy within her that was hindering the recovery of her injuries.

The moment Xia Linyuan's hand touched her shoulder, the Silver Dragon King immediately felt an irresistible, cold, and desperate aura of destruction surge into her body.

Although this power felt incredibly cold and desperate to her, the Silver Dragon King was surprisingly devoid of any resistance toward it.

Just as Xia Linyuan had said, her internal injuries were recovering so slowly because a special force was interfering with them.

As the Abyssal Power gradually spread to the site of the Silver Dragon King's injuries, a force that did not belong to her suddenly erupted, attempting to resist the onslaught of the Abyssal Power.

But the moment it collided with the most primitive, purest power of destruction and nothingness, these special forces instantly collapsed, completely annihilated by the Abyssal Power.

It took less than half a minute for Xia Linyuan to clean out all the special energy hidden within the Silver Dragon King's body.

"How do you feel?" Xia Linyuan asked calmly.

The Silver Dragon King closed her eyes and circulated her soul power to recover from her injuries, only to find that her healing process no longer had the same sense of obstruction and stagnation as before.

"My injuries will be fully healed in six years at most." The Silver Dragon King could not hide the excitement on her peerless face.

She could no longer remember how many tens of thousands of years she had been tortured by these internal injuries. Originally, it would have taken another ten thousand years to recover, but now it would take at most six years. How could she not be excited?

"Since that is the case, I won't disturb your healing any further." Xia Linyuan stood up.

"Thank you, Lord Nyarlathotep."

"Call me Xia Linyuan. This is my name on the Douluo Continent, and it is also my original name." Xia Linyuan did not say the last sentence out loud.

"Understood, Lord Xia Linyuan," the Silver Dragon King said solemnly.

"Additionally, I have left a bit of my power inside you to shield your aura and existence from the perception of the Douluo God Realm. You don't need to worry about being detected by the gods of the Douluo God Realm."

Returning to the Molong Duke Mansion.

Just as he put away his Inverted Clone, the butler came to tell him that the Duke of Molong wanted to see him.

Upon arriving at the reception hall, besides the Duke and Duchess of Molong, there was a middle-aged man whom Xia Linyuan had never seen at the mansion before.

"That is how things stand, honorable Duke of Molong," the middle-aged man said respectfully.

The Duke of Molong raised an eyebrow. "You say the Duchess of the White Tiger Duke Mansion wants to arrange a marriage with my son? But I recall that her daughter was long ago betrothed to the heir of the Zhu Family, was she not?"

Marriage?

Having just arrived, Xia Linyuan heard their conversation and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

The middle-aged man gave a sheepish smile and said, "Duke, as you know, the White Tiger Duke has more than one daughter."

The Duke of Molong sneered, "In terms of status, the Dai Family is indeed a match for my Xia Family. However, my son Linyuan is a dignified son of a Duke and the future Duke of Molong. Yet you want him to marry one of your concubine-born daughters? You might as well go back and ask your mistress: where does she place my Xia Family and my Xia Yanqing?"

"No, no, no." The middle-aged man waved his hands hurriedly. "Duke, you have misunderstood. The Duchess does not mean for Young Master Linyuan to take my lady as his wife. She knows that a concubine-born daughter is not worthy of Young Master Linyuan's status. Therefore, the Duchess's intention is for one of the young ladies to marry Young Master Linyuan as... a concubine!"

Hearing this, the cold expression on Xia Yanqing's face finally softened slightly.

The Duchess of Molong, however, could not hold back, saying coldly, "Zhu Yu is certainly calculating. Does she think that by marrying off a concubine-born daughter she dislikes to our Linyuan as a concubine, she can tie the Xia Family to her ship? Regarding this matter, I, Zou Yihan, am the first to disagree!"

Faced with the Duchess of Molong's blunt words, the man could only suffer in silence, though he still had to keep a smile on his face.

When the gods fight, it is the mortals who suffer.

Xia Yanqing signaled for his wife to calm down, then looked at Xia Linyuan and beckoned, "Linyuan, come here."

Xia Linyuan walked over as instructed, taking a moment to nod at the man.

Seeing Xia Linyuan, the man's eyes lit up. "Is this Young Master Linyuan? So young, yet so talented and handsome. He is even better than our Young Master Dai Huabin."

The man meant this sincerely.

He had worked at the White Tiger Duke Mansion for many years and had watched Dai Huabin grow up; how could he not know what kind of person Dai Huabin was?

It was a pity that the White Tiger Duke was wise his whole life, yet he had produced a son like Dai Huabin, who was deep and calculating, and held grudges for the smallest things.

Just the fact that Xia Linyuan had nodded at him just now put him leagues ahead of Dai Huabin.

Xia Yanqing ignored the man's words and asked Xia Linyuan, "Linyuan, what do you think?"

Xia Linyuan smiled slightly. "If it is beneficial, why not do it?"

Hearing this, the man who had just been praising Xia Linyuan in his heart suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. His hair stood on end, cold sweat broke out all over his body, and a shiver shot from his tailbone straight to his forehead.

If it is beneficial, why not do it?

Look at that—is that something a normal six-year-old child should be able to say?

Even Xia Yanqing and his wife, who knew that Xia Linyuan was much more mature than his peers, felt that he was a bit too precocious, and they couldn't help but frown.

"Nonsense!" Zou Yihan couldn't help but scold.