The golden light flashed, and the dragon youth with horns on his head and wearing brocade robes appeared again by the treasure pool, slightly dazed.

Brother Changshou…

No, Leader Brother, had become this dragon-frightening in making friends?

Thinking of how he had lost composure several times in Master’s cave dwelling due to shock, Ao Yi’s face reddened…

A slight sea breeze brought faint saltiness.

Ao Yi shook his head lightly, his mind involuntarily recalling the elegant beauty and refined bearing of that master aunt he had glimpsed from afar earlier.

Ao Yi had grown up seeing beautiful women—sea race women chosen for the dragon palace had to be excellent in transformed appearance, regardless of personality or inner qualities.

Yet even so, Ao Yi was quite shocked today just seeing that Master Aunt from afar…

Even more wondrous was!

‘Leader Brother could be remembered and cared for by this Master-Aunt!’

Indeed, this time Master Black Cloud Immortal called him over without other major matters, just to ask about their Sea God Sect Leader’s… preferences.

This naturally wasn’t Master asking—Master’s first true form was this great island, and second true form serving in Biyu Palace. If Leader hadn’t come to Golden Turtle Island, Master wouldn’t have contact with Leader Brother;

The one inquiring was that Master-Aunt, the most mysterious and least seen among the Sage Lord’s Eight Great Disciples of the Severing Sect…

The eldest of the Three Sisters, Immortal Lady Yunxiao!

‘How did they get hooked- *cough*, get connected?’

Ao Yi frowned thinking, watching the fine ripples on the pool surface disturbed by the sea wind, unable to regain his composure for a long time.

Ah, Leader was worthy of being Leader!

Not yet an immortal, but already valued by Human Sect’s Grand Law Master, and now receiving care from the most mysterious Yunxiao among the Three Sisters.

According to Master’s words, Master-Aunt Yunxiao owed Leader a favor, wanting to send Leader a gift to settle the karmic debt.

This…

Did they think the dragon race was simple-minded and easy to fool?

Ao Yi laughed inwardly.

Of course, if it were himself from decades ago, he might have been easy to fool.

Now, he Ao Yi had followed Leader for so long, he could already see through many surface meanings and dig out deeper implications!

If only owing Leader a favor, wouldn’t giving Leader a posterior heaven spiritual treasure settle it?

This Immortal Lady Yunxiao specially came to Golden Turtle Island to ask him, this ‘Dragon Palace Second Prince, Severing Sect nobody’, about the South Sea God Sect Leader’s preferences, temperament, and favorite treasures…

Such attention, how could it not make a dragon speculate?

However, the question Master-Aunt Yunxiao threw out truly stumped Ao Yi.

He didn’t know what Leader liked and had been troubled by this question for a long time.

Beauty?

Leader didn’t indulge; moreover, Leader had a beautiful and wise childhood sweetheart junior sister.

If Leader liked beauty, how could there be so few dragon maidens and sea maidens around Leader now?

Among the dragon races, there were so many wine-soaked rice bags living in dreams, incompetent at everything but first-rate in lust, having accumulated abundant ‘capital’ in this aspect.

Merit?

Leader didn’t lack that either, Leader was Human Sect Grand Law Master’s merit proxy, and the incense fire merit obtainable from South Sea God Sect would certainly be more than his as Second Sect Leader.

Treasures?

This was somewhat of a joke.

Did the Human Sect lack treasures?

Taking those spiritual treasures and posterior heaven spiritual treasures that even their dragon race wouldn’t look at, to give to Leader Brother who was already valued by Human Sect’s Grand Law Master, wouldn’t that be seeking humiliation?

Therefore, Ao Yi carefully considered them, answering what was in his heart.

Except for content bound by Great Dao oaths, unable to reveal Leader Brother was Degree Immortal Gate disciple Li Changshou, he concealed nothing else, all were his sincere words…

He said:

[Reporting to Master-Aunt, our Leader is scholarly and amiable, wise and resourceful, the disciple also doesn’t know our Leader’s specific preferences.

Our Leader is upright and righteous, eager for the public good. He is skilled in military strategy, good at planning and arranging, and has shown great kindness to the dragon race several times.

Actually, not only does Master-Aunt want to know our Leader’s preferences, disciple’s Royal Father has also asked, the disciple’s mother to gift various treasures, maids, and cave dwellings, but were all stopped by the disciple.

Our Sea God Sect Leader is a refined gentleman, how could such vulgar things sully him?]

Ao Yi saw…

Hearing his answer, Master Black Cloud Immortal stroked his beard smiling, nodding lightly;

That Master-Aunt Yunxiao also showed a smile, seemingly quite satisfied with his answer.

His Master then asked about Leader Brother’s proficient divine abilities and commonly used magical treasures.

Ao Yi considered carefully, answering:

[Leader’s cultivation years aren’t long, but at a young age, he’s already valued by Human Sect expert Grand Law Master, entrusted with important tasks.

He’s skilled in formations, once using formations to trap… experts many realms higher than his cultivation level, showing extreme talent in this path, very formidable.

Also skilled in escape techniques, even guiding disciples to improve water and void escape techniques, his insights are so marvelous that dragon race experts can’t compare!

Besides these, our Leader is skilled in zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting, especially his painting ability is shockingly powerful!]

At that time, hearing him say these things, Master immediately laughed lightly, saying he had praised Leader to the heavens.

How was this exaggeration?

These were things he had personally observed and witnessed!

Of course, Ao Yi couldn’t contradict Master, didn’t dare argue with Master, and could only add one sentence:

[In the disciple’s view, our Leader should be among humans, the most talented, most poetic… man.]

Then, he was thrown out of the cave-dwelling by Master, thrown to this place…

Was this an exaggeration?

He was just telling the truth!

Though the dragon race was proud and arrogant, they rarely boasted, especially since Leader Brother was of human origin.

Thinking carefully, these words of his shouldn’t have revealed any information, right?

After pondering for a moment, Ao Yi recalled something else, and couldn’t help muttering inwardly…

In half a month, he would bring Sisi to Degree Immortal Gate to visit Leader, if he could know Leader’s preferences and prepare a gift worthy of the dragon race, wouldn’t that be a beautiful thing?

What did the Leader like?

“But this can’t be asked directly.”

Ao Yi thought briefly, keeping this matter in mind, hurrying outside Golden Turtle Island to meet with several dragon race experts, and rushing back to East Sea Dragon Palace.

Wanting to give Leader Brother a gift was truly difficult.

…

‘Ah, swindled a hundred boxes of treasure materials from dragon race, yet still so poor.’

Half a month later, in Little Jade Peak’s underground secret chamber.

Watching several figures busy renovating the spirit beast enclosure with his immortal consciousness, calculating the treasure materials needed for the next “Wandering Little Jade Peak” plan, Li Changshou sighed lightly inside.

The gap was too large, too hard to fill.

Li Changshou didn’t want to lower the performance requirements for Little Jade Peak’s formations because of his poverty;

The formation foundations buried now were also the basis for future enhancement, couldn’t be careless.

This was like cultivation, couldn’t be short-sighted, and needed good planning, and calculating for the long term.

Being hasty for results in cultivation was like Youqin Xuanya crossing heavenly tribulation—without the bird cage, she would have perished early.

By the way…

Li Changshou had started requiring Ling’e to suppress her dao realm these past few days, slowing her breakthrough speed.

Originally Li Changshou urged Ling’e to break through quickly when the South Sea God Sect wasn’t stable, as Li Changshou worried he might be hunted by the Western Sect, forcing him to leave Degree Immortal Gate.

So at that time, Li Changshou wanted Ling’e to gain Degree Immortal Gate’s attention early, thus taking good care of herself and her Master.

Now, though there were still hidden dangers in this aspect, it was relatively much more stable, so there was no need to require Ling’e to break through too hastily.

Letting Ling’e advance steadily, consolidating her dao foundation, and developing her potential to the maximum, was the most important thing…

If Ling’e didn’t have the nine-petaled lotus phenomenon before crossing tribulation, Li Changshou would personally intervene to suppress her realm.

Junior Sister’s Great Dao was shaped by Li Changshou’s hand, he knew how to help her.

Besides this, Li Changshou had also perfected that [Tribulation Crossing Gift Package] prepared for Ling’e.

It had the essential tribulation survival triple set—bird cage, immortal fusion pill, spirit locking pill.

Had pre-tribulation behavioral standards—declaring oneself a Dao sect disciple, thanking Heaven’s Way Lord for taking time from your busy schedule to strike, thanking Heaven’s Way Lord for sending down heavenly punishment to maintain heaven and earth’s stability.

Besides these, there were also twelve types of pills specifically for crossing tribulation, defensive magical treasures for crossing tribulation, thunder-resisting methods that could be cultivated before tribulation, two recently obtained magical treasures for protecting primordial spirit and resisting heavenly tribulation, and if there were ascension insights after crossing tribulation, there were also miniature formations and insight-enhancing pills to be used…

And so on.

Ling’e was now starting to worry about the immortalization tribulation…

But she didn’t know her Senior Brother had already stabilized her tribulation success rate at ninety-five percent.

The remaining zero point three percent depended on whether she cultivated diligently.

Another zero point two percent, as usual, was for Heaven’s Way Lord’s random whims.

Unfortunately, his Master had injured his dao foundation, and no amount of preparation would help, only the immortal fusion pill could save Master’s life at that time.

The enemy had already been cremated, the enemy’s dao companion had remarried, the enemy’s several disciples had taken other masters, and under his immortal consciousness surveillance, Rain Forest Peak also hadn’t targeted their Little Jade Peak, so Master’s past matters needn’t be mentioned much…

Just waiting for Ancestral Master to find Master Uncle, fulfilling Master’s heart’s regret.

Later…

Li Changshou figured, that by the time Master’s lifespan was exhausted, he should have established himself firmly in Heaven Court, then established connections in the underworld, arranging Master’s reincarnation to cultivate again.

Indeed, not just Old Daoist Qi Yuan’s current life, but the next life had also been mostly arranged by Li Changshou…

Of course, mainly respecting Master’s opinions, he just gave Master more options.

Li Changshou sighed, continuing to worry about the huge treasure material shortage.

Being a bit poor was still livable;

When the safety coefficient went up, the happiness index would skyrocket!

After some effort, Li Changshou made a twenty-year wealth plan table, reasonably allocating time between his enlightenment, insight cultivation, and pill refining, treasure refining.

After finishing these, Li Changshou took out one of the two divine abilities given by the Grand Law Master—Sowing Beans to Create Soldiers.

Li Changshou carefully observed this jade slip, at the bottom of which was a vertical line of seal script with small characters:

Xiaoyao Immortal Sect Collection.

Probably because this divine ability was too low-level, the Grand Law Master hadn’t cultivated it himself and was too lazy to create a new one, directly finding an existing one to throw to him.

Smiling lightly, Li Changshou used immortal power to push the jade slip three zhang away;

Because it was gifted by the Grand Law Master and taken directly from dreams by Old Man Moon, Li Changshou didn’t push it ten zhang this time, only made three layers of minimum protection for himself, slowly opening the jade slip…

Stability was an attitude of immortal cultivation.

Soon, Li Changshou confirmed there were no mechanisms in the jade slip, only then bringing it before him, reading carefully.

This method of sowing beans to create soldiers had similar principles to paper-cutting avatars, seemingly grabbing a handful of beans and casually scattering them to transform into a squad of soldiers;

In reality, these beans themselves were already considered magical tools, requiring complex crafting to produce.

Even more complex than the ‘paper’ for paper-cutting avatars.

Li Changshou carefully considered this divine ability’s modification value and operational space, unconsciously falling into deep thought.

Outside the secret chamber, the sun set and the moon rose.

In the deep of night, just as Li Changshou had some slight modification inspiration, a figure secretly flew over from Breaking Heaven Peak, looking left and right—seeing no one, entered Little Jade Peak’s outer isolation formation.

Why did Poisonous Junior Sister come at this hour?

Li Changshou put down the jade slip, activated the paper avatar pretending to meditate in the pill room, rising to go to the front of the pill room, temporarily turning off the outer surface formation.

Youqin Xuanya quickly discovered Li Changshou, pursing her lips, and lowering her head as she landed.

Li Changshou was just about to exchange greetings when his heart suddenly stirred slightly, his brow furrowing as he calculated with his fingers, a strand of consciousness descending onto the main deity statue in the Sea God Sect’s great temple in Anshui City.

He immediately saw a woman shrouded in thin mist standing in the brightly lit, increasingly magnificent main hall of the temple, interestedly observing the surrounding murals…

This aura, this dao rhythm…

Uh, why did this powerful one suddenly come to the Sea God Sect?

Li Changshou’s spirit stirred, hurriedly transmitting to Youqin Xuanya to wait in the pill room, fully focusing on dealing with this suddenly arriving Severing Sect powerful one…