Xue Qinghe: You're Robbing Again?!

"What?"

Hearing Duan Yu's words, Xue Qinghe's pupils contracted. "The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon is an inferior dragon? Mountain Dragons are far stronger than Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragons?"

How could that be? The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon was universally acknowledged as the continent's strongest beast spirit.

Yet Duan Yu was now telling him that Mountain Dragons were vastly more powerful than Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragons. It was undoubtedly a crushing blow to Xue Qinghe's understanding.

"That's right. There's no doubt about it."

Duan Yu nodded. "Qinghe, do you know about the legendary Nine Dragon Kings under the Dragon God?"

"The Nine Dragon Kings?"

Xue Qinghe froze. She had never heard of any Nine Dragon Kings before and shook her head. "No. What are they?"

"The Nine Dragon Kings are the Water Dragon King, who controls the seas; the Fire Dragon King, who controls flames; the Wind Dragon King, who controls the breeze; the Earth Dragon King, who controls ultimate earth; and the Black Dragon King, who controls the power of darkness and annihilation."

"The Holy Dragon King, who controls light and prayer; and the Time Dragon King and Spatial Dragon King, who control time and space."

"You only named eight Dragon Kings. What about the last one?" Xue Qinghe quickly noticed something was off.

Duan Yu smiled faintly. "As for the final Dragon King, it is the Mountain Dragon King beneath the land behind us."

"The Mountain Dragon King?"

Xue Qinghe's face filled with shock. "You're saying the Mountain Dragon King is one of the Nine Dragon Kings under the Dragon God?"

"That's right."

Duan Yu continued explaining, "It was said that while traveling the universe, the Dragon God accidentally discovered a planet that happened to be suitable as a habitat for the dragon race."

"But the planet the Dragon God found was entirely covered by ocean. Dragons weren't afraid of water, but they couldn't live within the sea. So, the Dragon God created the ninth Dragon King—the Mountain Dragon King."

"The Mountain Dragon King transformed its body into mountains and continents, giving the dragon race a place to multiply and live. Its lineage paid an enormous price for the dragon race. That lineage was the Mountain Dragon King's."

"Because the Mountain Dragon King clan had to become mountains and continents to support the dragon race's survival and reproduction, they faced tremendous difficulty reproducing themselves. Their numbers were exceedingly small, and once they reached adulthood, they had to transform into mountains and continents for the other dragons to survive and multiply upon."

Moved by their achievements, the Dragon God bestowed a saying upon the Mountain Dragon King lineage: Mountain Dragons shall forever be kings. In other words, every Mountain Dragon could bear a royal title after reaching adulthood. They lost their freedom, but gained exalted status.

Duan Yu's words left Xue Qinghe completely dumbfounded. Even her grandfather had never told her these secrets.

After recovering herself, Xue Qinghe took a deep breath and said, "So the secret treasure the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect has guarded all this time was this Mountain Dragon King's Crown."

"But now that you've taken their greatest treasure, I'm afraid they won't let this go." As she said this, Xue Qinghe looked at Duan Yu with concern.

"Ah, what's there to be afraid of?"

Duan Yu patted Xue Qinghe on the shoulder, utterly unconcerned. "They don't even know who I am. What can they do to me? Besides..."

"Just give me another five years. Even if I openly displayed this divine artifact, they still wouldn't have the ability to take it back."

Duan Yu spoke with absolute confidence. With the Time and Spatial True Dragon spirits fused together, his cultivation speed far surpassed that of ordinary people.

Not to mention that he had the Icefire Yin Yang Well, this heavenly treasure. By the time he broke through to Soul Saint, those Shrek so-called geniuses would probably still be struggling at Soul Venerable and Soul Ancestor.

Looking at Duan Yu's confident expression, Xue Qinghe smiled. "All right, you're feeling confident again."

"Of course."

Duan Yu raised his chin. "Qinghe, once I grow stronger, I'll make that Xue Ye abdicate early and let you take that position ahead of time."

"By then, even if you want to use Xue Ye's head as a ball to kick around, I'll get it for you."

Duan Yu spoke with complete abandon, showing no regard whatsoever for Xue Ye, the ruler of a nation. The distant Stingfish and Snake Spear could not help twitching their mouths.

It was as though the person before him was not the crown prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, but a rebellious son plotting to seize the throne.

Well, he really wasn't the crown prince of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Looking at the earnest Duan Yu before her, Xue Qinghe rolled her eyes. "Duan Yu, if you weren't my brother, I could have you thrown into the dungeon and executed for what you just said. Got it?"

"Pfft, as if that would happen."

Duan Yu said carelessly, "If you weren't my brother, I wouldn't tell you any of this. What crown prince doesn't want to become emperor?"

"If you ask me, that bastard Xue Ye has been emperor for far too long. It's long past time for my brother to take his seat."

Xue Qinghe: ...Although she had known him long enough to be used to it, this guy still spoke far too recklessly.

Forget it. She would wait a little longer, until her forces gradually infiltrated the Heaven Dou Empire and completed Spirit Hall's grand plan of unification.

When that time came, everything would naturally be resolved.

"Why aren't you saying anything?"

Duan Yu had been talking to himself for quite a while, yet not a sound came from beside him. When he turned around, he saw Xue Qinghe silently staring at him.

Even knowing that Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue in disguise, Duan Yu still felt somewhat uncomfortable under that gaze. He said:

"Qinghe, if you have something to say, say it properly. Don't look at me like that. You're scaring me."

Xue Qinghe had been wondering how she should face Duan Yu after the Spirit Empire unified the continent. Duan Yu's words interrupted her thoughts, and her face immediately flushed red.

Yet she still said righteously, "What's wrong with looking? We're both men. Is looking at you going to make a piece of flesh fall off?"

"Oh?"

Duan Yu drawled teasingly and leaned his face closer. "Qinghe has a point. Then go ahead and look a little more."

"Who wants to look at your face?"

Xue Qinghe's face turned bright red. She shoved Duan Yu away. "Who wants your face? I don't have a taste for men."

Duan Yu nodded in agreement. "Of course. Qinghe could be anything, but there's no way you'd have a taste for men."

If Xue Qinghe had a taste for men, he would eat the entire Heaven Dou Empire.

"Heh."

Xue Qinghe rolled her eyes at him and said irritably, "What if I really did have a taste for men? If I set my sights on you, you'd be finished."

Duan Yu smiled but said nothing.

He was not worried in the slightest about whether Qian Renxue might set her sights on him. In the original story, Qian Renxue had never truly loved anyone until her death. How could she possibly fall for him?

Duan Yu looked at Xue Qinghe, thought for a moment, and ultimately decided to give her a heads-up. "Qinghe, after this, once I finish refining the Immortal Herb for you, I'll probably have to leave again for a while."

"Oh, no. This time, I may be gone for a long time. But I'll still make time to come back and visit you."

"What?"

Xue Qinghe froze, then said in shock, "You're robbing again? Didn't you just finish robbing someone? Which unlucky sucker have you set your sights on now?"