Chapter 562: Section 349: The Dream of Youthful Spring
“Cough cough, the process was just like this,” the Dragon-man youth breathed out a turbid breath.
Repeating the previous conversation with Bu Quan to Zi Di was too difficult!
In the end, the Dragon-man youth still omitted some information.
A sense of inexplicable crisis lingered in his heart, which after much hesitation, led him to choose to conceal.
“Bu Quan also said that she was just talking nonsense,”
“She was just too grateful to me, maybe had a bit too much to drink; it was all just a joke,”
“Such jokes don’t need to be shared. They are not the focus,”
The Dragon-man youth convinced himself of this in his heart.
Zi Di, on the other hand, bowed her head in thought, pondering the version that the Dragon-man youth had covertly trimmed.
“It sounds like Miss Bu Quan has a strong fondness for you, for our Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps,”
“From this, it’s apparent how deep her feelings are for the nanny who took care of her,”
“Sigh, perhaps at the time, squad leader, you should have struck while the iron was hot and immediately confirmed a contract with her,”
“Now that you’ve given her plenty of time to think, the more she thinks, the less opportunity we have,”
Upon hearing this, the Dragon-man youth’s expression turned serious and he immediately shook his head, “That’s not advisable,”
“To take advantage of her when she’s not thinking straight, for our own benefit, that would be taking advantage of someone in a vulnerable state!”
“Bu Quan is not our enemy, nor has she done anything wrong; on the contrary, she has brought me a great deal of help. It’s safe to say that without the Golden Level items she volunteered to give, I couldn’t have defeated Teng Donglang,”
“We cannot treat a friend like this!”
Zi Di was chided and rolled her eyes, grumbling, “Joining us would be very beneficial for Bu Quan, too,”
“In the future, once her loyalty is proven, we can use the Bloodline Purification Array,”
“Our help to her will be far more valuable than those three Gold Level items!”
“That’s for later,” the Dragon-man youth replied, “If we take advantage of her vulnerability and let her join,”
“Once she calms down, regret and loathing in her heart will become our hidden problems, greatly endangering the unity between us,”
Zi Di still held a contrary view, “I don’t think so!”
“Even if she does feel regret, that’s just a normal emotion,”
“Given enough time, she will certainly integrate with us,”
“Because I believe that affection grows as we interact and deepens into strong ties,”
“First there must be interaction in order to heat up the feelings, right?”
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional.
The Dragon-man youth’s heart skipped a beat—was Zi Di hinting at something?
But immediately afterward, Zi Di said again, “Think about us,”
“Before entering Mysterious Monster Island, how deep was the divide between us? We were all strangers to each other,”
“However, after a series of life and death crises, when we left Mysterious Monster Island, we had all become the closest of comrades!”
“Bu Quan is definitely worth fighting to bring in,”
“I believe she will get along well with us. Mostly because of you, my lord,”
With that, Zi Di began to laugh, looking into the Dragon-man youth’s eyes with full affection.
“Me?” The Dragon-man youth’s heart skipped again.
What was this inexplicable guilt?
Zi Di said, “Think about what kind of people we are,”
“Undead, goblins, Half-Beasts, half-giants… Mages, mercenaries, soldiers, housekeepers, hunters, woodcrafters…”
“It’s you who united us together; under your leadership, we act as one,”
“Now adding a Snow Elf Alchemy Mage into the mix, what’s the big deal?”
The Dragon-man youth smiled, returning the girl’s gaze with affectionate eyes, “Thank you for having so much faith in me.”
The two looked at each other for a while.
Zi Di let out a chuckle, “Anyway, let me negotiate with Bu Quan next time. I have many negotiation tactics; as for you, my squad leader, you just need to finalize the contract.”
The Dragon-man youth frowned, “But your identity…”
Zi Di’s former identity was Red Vine.
But this identity had already perished in the assassination by the mysterious assassin.
Zi Di laughed, “That’s very simple. Starting from tomorrow, we’ll need to start recruiting some members publicly,”
“With the current reputation of our Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, there will definitely be many people who want to join us,”
“We need some locals to run our shop here,”
“There might be spies from other forces among them, but that’s not important; they will only be peripheral members,”
“I’ll just take the opportunity to join,”
“Let’s do that,” the Dragon-man youth nodded.
The two exchanged a few more words and then parted ways.
Zi Di sneaked back into the Deep Sea Monster Fish to brew a large batch of potions.
For the shop opening, she needed at least a hundred doses of Dragon Strength Riding potions just to barely maintain appearances.
The Dragon-man youth went to his own cabin to sleep.
Everything that happened this evening was quite a test for him. His body was not tired, but his spirit was exhausted.
In a drowsy sleep, the Dragon-man youth saw Bu Quan again.
He danced with Bu Quan.
The bodies of the two were pressed tightly together, becoming tighter and tighter, so tight it was as if they were trying to merge into each other’s bodies.
Their faces drew closer as well, and eventually their lips met.
The dance floor transformed into a fountain.
He and Bu Quan fell into it, tearing at each other’s clothes in the warm spring water.
“Love me, love me!” Bu Quan spoke in the water, her face flushed and seductive.
“Let us unite and in the future, if we have a son, we’ll name him Long Tai, and if it’s a daughter, we’ll call her Quanzi…”
Bu Quan’s voice was silky, entwining around the heart of the Dragon-man youth.
The Dragon-man youth panted heavily, ripping…
The next moment, he abruptly opened his eyes.
In the darkness, the amber dragon eyes shone a glint of spirit, then it dissipated.
Pant, pant, pant.
The Dragon-man youth took a few deep breaths and blinked, “It was just a dream.”
“Why would I have such a dream?”
“No, this is normal, isn’t it?”
“I am a perfectly normal male, after all.”
“Perhaps it is also because the Saber Gang was annihilated, there were significant breakthroughs with the Bloodline Purification Array, and after the stimulation of the ball, I relaxed, and my subconscious produced many desires.”
He subconsciously glanced downward and noticed the bulge in his pants.
“Just, why did I dream of Bu Quan and not Zi Di…”
At this thought, a tinge of guilt arose in the heart of the Dragon-man youth.
He tried to go back to sleep but found himself wide awake.
He simply got up without trying to sleep again.
After a cold shower, all his distracting desires vanished.
He went to the combat pod to train.
In the combat pod now stood a weapons rack, filled with an array of weapons.
The Dragon-man youth, having trained under Zong Ge in intensive assault training, had developed a skill in the Short Spear.
After his battle with Teng Donglang, he had gained considerable experience with flexible weapons.
First, the Dragon-man youth took out the Short Spear for some practice.
Of course, the Short Spears were of the Golden Level.
While training, the Dragon-man youth used them to improve his bond with the weapons as much as possible.
After practicing with the Short Spear for a while, he picked up a whip and practiced snapping it for a time.
Thanks to Teng Donglang, after that duel, he had also reached the threshold of mastery with the whip.
As he recalled the battle against Teng Donglang, especially the moment when he launched the decisive spear, the Dragon-man youth frowned slightly.
Teng Donglang had shown a vulnerability at the crucial moment.
He failed his Combat Skill, suffered backlash, and couldn’t dodge the torrent of Sword Qi from the Dragon-man youth.
This was strange.
Particularly since, when the Dragon-man youth thought of the time when the City Lord of Snowbird Port and the Sea Bird Bishop had joined forces to kill the mysterious assassin, it had been a similar situation.
The mysterious assassin had failed to execute his Combat Skill for a swift move at a crucial moment and was hit squarely by the Decomposition Light, disintegrating on the spot, leaving not even ashes behind.
“Both instances are very similar… Coincidence?”
“Teng Donglang had never shown any vulnerabilities in battle before, why did one appear at the very last moment?”
“Unfortunately, my probe of the City Lord of Snowbird Port before the ball didn’t yield any results.”
The Dragon-man youth shook his head slightly, pushing the doubts aside for the moment.
He didn’t bask in his glorious achievements.
Quite the opposite, although the Dragon-man youth had defeated and killed Teng Donglang, he was very aware of the gap between them.
The Dragon-man youth’s victory was extremely precarious, with a great deal of luck involved.
Outsiders believed it was a case of the Dragon-man youth overcoming a stronger opponent through a bloody struggle and persistence, earning favor from fate.
But with every praise the Dragon-man youth heard, he grew a bit more somber.
“Teng Donglang didn’t have Flying Combat Techniques, yet I was still no match for him.”
“I was decked out in luxurious gear, and yet, all it did was give me the basic qualifications to fight him.”
“The Golden Level gear is indeed strong, but with my Silver Level fighting energy, I couldn’t bring out its full effect.”
“It was I who held back the equipment.”
This battle left the Dragon-man youth dissatisfied with his own fighter Cultivation.
The fight against Xiong Ju had yielded many gains.
But after the battle with Teng Donglang, his biggest takeaway was—experiencing the disparity of levels was truly terrible!
Alas, cultivating fighting energy was always a process where quantity leads to a qualitative change.
It was a long-term accumulation that couldn’t be achieved overnight.
After practicing with the whip for a while, the Dragon-man youth started punching continuously, training his fighting energy.
Once he replenished his energy to its peak state, he began to practice a new spear technique.
This Combat Skill was called Meteor Spear, a technique involving throwing the Short Spear in hand, more powerful than the Throwing Spear Skill, with high difficulty and a necessary preparatory motion before the throw.
Nevertheless, it was far better than the blazing Dragon Breath.
At least, after some time of practice, even against an opponent like Teng Donglang, it would have some practical value in battle.