“Lin’er, if one day I achieve immortality, I want you by my side on that eternal path.”

That year, tea blossoms covered the back mountain of Small Jade Peak, and two figures chased each other playfully…

“Come catch me! Hahaha, if you catch me, I’ll let you…”

“Hahaha.”

The scene shifts.

“Lin’er, I’ve been busy with secluded cultivation lately. The sect has placed such high hopes on me, that I can’t disappoint them. I know I’ve been neglecting you.”

“Go ahead with your seclusion then. Don’t bother seeing me anymore.”

That year, at the meditation cave of Breaking Heaven Peak, only an angry departing figure remained.

“Lin’er, please don’t…”

“Are you perhaps Fellow Daoist Jiang Lin’er, the Wandering Immortal of River Jiang?”

A whispered voice entered her ear, jolting Jiang Lin’er from her memories.

She was currently hidden in a rocky outcrop at the bottom of the ocean, concealing both her presence and form, with her immortal sense spread across hundreds of miles.

Yet until this voice reached her ears, Jiang Lin’er hadn’t detected any trace of the speaker.

A master of concealment!

A flat sea fish swam over, transforming before Jiang Lin’er into a kindly-looking elderly immortal with white hair, who voluntarily revealed his cultivation realm.

Early Heaven Immortal realm.

Jiang Lin’er silently raised her hand to grip the giant blade on her back. Though they were on the ocean floor under immense water pressure, both parties’ Heaven Immortal realm power protected them, making it no different from level ground.

“Who might Fellow Daoist be?”

Who?

It was naturally Li Changshou… or rather, his paper avatar.

When Li Changshou received Jiang Lin’er’s message about seeing ‘Ao Yi’ drinking and carousing with a group of powerful deep sea demons in Dafang Town at World’s End, he immediately determined that it couldn’t be his own Second Sect Master.

Using Ao Yi’s appearance to cause trouble outside must be one of Western Teaching’s small schemes…

More precisely, it should be one of several plans they were executing simultaneously.

At present, Li Changshou asked Jiang Lin’er to wait here, saying he would join her shortly to have her lead the way.

Then Li Changshou activated a paper avatar hidden outside the mountain gate of the Crossing Immortal Gate, assembled a battle formation, and had one paper avatar channel the Five Elements Escape technique at full power to rush here.

At the same time, Li Changshou used divine thought to notify Ao Yi, asking him to have the Dragon King send several trustworthy experts – the more powerful and even-tempered the better – to rendezvous with him here.

What Li Changshou hadn’t expected was that he would arrive first, while Ao Yi and the others were somewhat delayed.

Currently, Li Changshou smiled and said, “This humble Daoist received word from Changshou and came specially to meet with Fellow Daoists.”

Jiang Lin’er’s lips twitched as she muttered:

“I knew my little grand disciple wasn’t simple. Fellow Daoist, how can you prove your identity? The primordial world is treacherous, I must be cautious. Please don’t take offense.”

“Perfectly understandable,” Li Changshou said warmly. “I heard Young Friend Changshou mention that his Grand Senior Brother Wan Jiangyu is still a tree spirit at this time, with several years of lifespan remaining. His master still doesn’t know that Grand Senior Brother has met with calamity and reincarnated.”

Jiang Lin’er released the blade handle and smiled, “He does go around telling everyone about this. But how did Fellow Daoist recognize me?”

Li Changshou pondered, “Young Friend Changshou gave a specific description.”

“Oh? What description?”

Li Changshou smiled and said, “He said Fellow Daoist is as quiet as a maiden when still, but fierce as a demon when moving, carries a great blade, likes to wear armor – that must be you.”

Jiang Lin’er snorted and said flatly, “At least he knows how to talk. Are you the expert he mentioned? Let me say something unpleasant – with just our abilities, if we’re discovered while investigating, we can only die on the spot.”

Just as she finished speaking, several faint pressures appeared in the seawater. Li Changshou lowered his head to look at the sensing stone in his hand – several immortal senses had locked onto this location.

Shortly after, without any disturbance in the water, four elderly dragon-headed figures mysteriously appeared before them.

One of the elderly dragons raised his sleeve, and a small azure dragon emerged from within, transforming into Ao Yi.

“Sect Master!”

“Mm,” Li Changshou immediately nodded in acknowledgment, then used divine thought to remind Ao Yi not to reveal the relationship between the South Sea God and the Crossing Immortal Gate disciple Li Changshou.

Ao Yi nodded imperceptibly and looked toward Jiang Lin’er, giving her a slight smile.

Li Changshou cupped his hands toward Jiang Lin’er and said, “Fellow Daoist, please trouble yourself to guide us. We just need you to lead us there to find that person.”

Jiang Lin’er looked at the four solemn-faced, silent dragon-headed elders and frowned slightly while nodding. She couldn’t help but use divine thought to mutter to Li Changshou’s avatar:

“What realm are they? Could they be the legendary Golden Immortals of the Great Luo? I can’t see through them at all.”

Li Changshou smiled slightly. The Dragon Clan had finally brought out their true strength.

Because he had already severed his dao twice and consolidated his dao foundation, Li Changshou could now withstand their pressure and distinguish between Golden Immortals and Great Luo Golden Immortals.

These four Dragon Clan experts gave Li Changshou very strong pressure, but it wasn’t at the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

To reach Great Luo meant one’s dao was perfected, requiring one’s dao to be flawless, along with opportunity, fortune, and comprehension – none could be lacking. It wasn’t something one could achieve just by living long enough.

In the ancient war, the Dragon Clan had nearly exhausted their experts to suppress the Phoenix Clan. Afterward, they lacked fortune and blessings, bearing the boundless karmic burden of shattering the primordial world…

Thus, no matter how profound the Dragon Clan’s foundation was, they couldn’t have many Great Luo Golden Immortals at this time.

The dao charm of Great Luo Golden Immortals was notably different from Golden Immortals, giving people less of an oppressive feeling…

Like the Blessed Virtue Golden Immortal Yunzhongzi who carried a flower basket, and some of the Three Schools’ founding disciples who had appeared at the Three Schools’ Origin Assembly – they were all like this.

As for his own Grand Magus, Old Man Zhao next door, the beautiful Yunxiao Fairy, and several chief disciples of theSevering and 阐 Schools – those were different prices… no!

Different cultivation levels!

But among these four Dragon Clan experts, two were powerful figures in the Golden Immortal realm, giving Li Changshou very strong pressure.

Looking carefully, the four dragons’ appearances were somewhat similar, and their auras could merge. If these four dragons joined forces, they would be a formidable battle force that couldn’t be underestimated.

Ao Yi also introduced them:

“Uncles, this is my South Sea Divine Sect’s Sect Master. Sect Master, these four are my royal father’s guards who have followed by his side since ancient times for countless years – they can be trusted.”

The four dragon-headed elders bowed together: “Greetings, Fellow Daoist.”

Li Changshou hurriedly returned the courtesy and smiled, “Thank you all for making this trip.”

“Sea God may address us four brothers as you wish,” one dragon-headed elder said with a smile. “We four brothers have simple names – just One, Two, Three, and Four. We came to protect His Highness under His Majesty’s orders and are fully at Fellow Daoist’s command.”

Li Changshou repeatedly demurred, then introduced Jiang Lin’er’s identity and had her describe in detail what she had seen before.

Jiang Lin’er steadied herself and said:

“I was passing through Horizon City next to World’s End earlier and happened to glimpse a group of deep-sea demons in human form drinking and making merry with His Highness Prince Ao Yi. They weren’t concealing themselves, the scene was quite chaotic, and there were at least several Golden Immortal realm experts among them, with demon qi rolling about.”

Li Changshou asked, “What was this fake Ao Yi doing?”

Jiang Lin’er coughed twice and looked toward the sea surface, “Embracing two alluring women… behaving very improperly.”

“Outrageous!”

Ao Yi flew into a rage. “My wedding is imminent – they’re trying to ruin my reputation! How could I act inappropriately with women other than Sisi!”

But Li Changshou frowned slightly and said, “Brother Yi, don’t be angry. There’s something suspicious about this. What do you four elders think?”

Elder Dragon One said, “Someone wants to interfere with the wedding.”

“Indeed,” Li Changshou nodded slowly and said, “Brother Yi’s marriage to the Mermaid Princess is a good move for stabilizing the Four Seas from the Dragon Clan’s perspective. But for those with ulterior motives who can’t bear to see the Dragon Clan at peace, it’s an obstacle to their continued actions. They deliberately took your appearance, engaged in unseemly behavior, intentionally didn’t conceal it, and did it in the mixed crowd at World’s End – it can only be to spread your reputation as frivolous and unrestrained, thereby causing resentment among the sea clans. Sea clans are mostly simple-natured – if someone fans the flames, saying you merely coveted the Mermaid Clan Princess’s beauty and used coercion, then this wedding would hurt the Four Seas’ stability instead.”

Ao Yi and the four dragon-headed elders each showed thoughtful expressions. Though they had considered that someone wanted to interfere with Ao Yi’s wedding, they hadn’t thought there could be so many machinations behind it…

What Li Changshou described was the logic of ‘public opinion warfare’ – in the primordial world where brick-throwing prevailed, such methods were quite rare.

Not only could they not think of it, but perhaps… the other side hadn’t thought that deeply either…

But if this matter developed, it could easily become as Li Changshou described. This increase and decrease would have an enormous impact on the Dragon Clan.

At present, several Dragon Clan elders said:

“This matter seems quite serious. Should we immediately dispatch troops to surround Horizon City?”

“Alerting them would be unwise,” Li Changshou pondered for a few moments, already having a plan in mind. “Let’s do this – one elder take Brother Yi and Fellow Daoist Jiang Lin’er back, while three elders disguise your appearances and auras and come with me to investigate Horizon City.”

Ao Yi hurriedly said, “Sect Master, I want to help too!”

“You…”

Li Changshou thought briefly, not wanting Ao Yi to risk danger.

Elder Dragon One added, “After what happened to the Mermaid Clan recently, our Second Prince now carries powerful treasures. If he encounters danger, His Highness can directly teleport back to the East Sea Dragon Palace.”

“That’s good then,” Li Changshou reluctantly agreed.

Currently, following Li Changshou’s requirements, the four dragon-headed elders changed their appearances, transforming into two middle-aged men and two young men.

They concealed their horns, changed their armor to Daoist robes, and disguised their auras as Heaven Immortal realm.

Ao Yi only changed his appearance, still maintaining his delicate youth.

Jiang Lin’er thought for a moment, took off her bamboo hat, wrapped a long robe over her armor, simply tied up her hair, and directly… transformed into a man.

And Li Changshou was even simpler…

He took out a paper person from his sleeve – the paper person transformed into a young man, while the original elderly immortal reverted to paper form and slipped into this youth’s sleeve.

Jiang Lin’er watched in surprise, while Ao Yi silently praised ‘the Human School Grand Magus’s wonderful technique’ in his heart.

The four Dragon King guards acted – their seven figures silently streaked through the seawater, swiftly heading toward the majestic heavenly pillar.

On the way, Jiang Lin’er used divine thought to ask Li Changshou’s paper avatar: “Who exactly is Fellow Daoist?”

“The South Sea God.”

Jiang Lin’er asked again: “And how did Fellow Daoist come to know my grand disciple?”

Li Changshou: The first time I looked in a mirror after becoming sensible in my previous life.

“By chance and fate. Fellow Daoists can ask Young Friend Changshou about these things. Let’s focus on handling this matter for Prince Ao Yi first.”

Jiang Lin’er seemed lost in thought but said nothing more.

The seven entered the great city together, pretending to be seven Heaven Immortal experts traveling as companions to the Three Thousand Worlds.

Jiang Lin’er pointed in a direction. They spread their immortal senses and saw where the ‘counterfeit Second Prince’ was located.

It was in the top floor private room of a tall building, very conspicuous with all its windows open. Debauched sounds came from within, and the scene inside was rather unseemly.

Over ten great demons with various strange heads were drinking and making merry. More than twenty beautiful women of demon, human, sea, and spirit races served them, wearing very revealing clothing.

However, these women were quite professional…

Even knowing the private room had no isolation arrays and anyone could watch, it didn’t affect their business performance at all.

From this, one could judge that the other side paid extra!

Three demon and sea race women were currently surrounding the ‘fake Ao Yi’, acting coquettish and feeding him wine…

Ao Yi’s veins bulged in anger, while Li Changshou also frowned privately.

Jiang Lin’er couldn’t help cursing: “These women are something! Think they’re all that just because they’re big? Pah!”

The other five dragons all tilted their heads…

Li Changshou laughed softly. After careful consideration, he had already formulated a plan and used divine thought to say a few words to everyone.

Immediately, the four Dragon King guards nodded in agreement – this kind of thing wasn’t a big deal to them.

As for Ao Yi, he was quite troubled but didn’t want to go against Brother Sect Master’s wishes…

They entered a secluded ‘immortal inn’, directly rented out the entire place, found three hidden rooms, and each began their disguise.

Li Changshou gave everyone their [Script and Role] and made a few requests.

Shortly after, the four dragon guards transformed into four women wearing matching magical armor, each with a veil and carrying a sword, still maintaining Heaven Immortal realm auras.

They were all old dragons who had seen much – this kind of disguise didn’t trouble their hearts at all.

But in the next room, Ao Yi’s face was currently bright red as he looked at the… young lady… in the mirror.

To avoid being seen through, he truly hadn’t used any illusions.

Ao Yi just changed to a simple female hairstyle, put on an immortal dress prepared for his wife Jiang Si’er, adjusted his form slightly with immortal power, and applied some rouge…

And thus a graceful young lady was born.

As for Li Changshou today, he had already brought out his third paper avatar, which transformed into an elderly woman.

Currently, Li Changshou was instructing about what came next:

“Brother Yi, you must constantly remember that you are now your wife Jiang Si’er’s good friend Ke Le’er, who received an invitation and came from the Three Thousand Great Worlds to attend your cousin’s sister’s wedding. Here, you suddenly encountered the fake Ao Yi drinking and making merry, got angry, and went up to beat him. While fighting, try to attract as many onlookers as possible, expose this impostor’s identity, and don’t hesitate – drag him outside the city and kill him. The bigger commotion this causes, the better. Best if all sea clans knew that Ao Yi is devoted and faithful, treating Jiang Si’er with such tenderness and devotion. This will stabilize the hearts of the Four Seas’ clans.”

Ao Yi asked softly, “Brother Sect Master, why can’t I just appear directly?”

Li Changshou smiled and said, “If you appear directly, firstly you might encounter danger and draw targeting from Western experts, and secondly… Which has a better effect – self-promotion or evaluation from bystanders?”

Ao Yi thought carefully…

Brother Sect Master made perfect sense!

The Second Prince sighed and said quietly, “What Sisi and I had was… but now it’s increasingly becoming like a political marriage.”

“About speaking… can you imitate a woman’s voice?”

“About that, Brother can rest assured,” Ao Yi adjusted his voice with immortal power and called out coquettishly, “Is this alright?”

*snicker*…

Li Changshou’s true body was already laughing out loud in the underground secret chamber of Small Jade Peak.

But this elderly woman’s paper avatar just nodded slightly and said, “Try not to show any flaws.”

Suddenly they heard knocking from the walls on both sides. The formations and barriers of all three rooms fell simultaneously as seven people opened their doors and walked out.

On the left, the four dragon guards had transformed into four female guards.

On the right, Jiang Lin’er had changed to a more ordinary face, rarely wearing an immortal dress.

In the middle, Ao Yi… Ke Le’er’s face immediately turned red, but thinking repeatedly ‘This is for the Dragon Clan’s great cause’, she quickly regained composure.

Li Changshou’s elderly woman transformation was already in character, saying somewhat worriedly, “Young Miss, this old servant really did see that Prince Ao Yi just now!”

“Oh-oh?” Ao Yi was still somewhat uncomfortable, “Let’s go take a look.”

Li Changshou hurriedly transmitted, “Anger, anger.”

“Hmph! Follow me!” Ke Le’er’s phoenix eyes flashed. “I want to see how he’s wronging my sister!”

Meanwhile, Jiang Lin’er’s gaze swept over these six people, and she couldn’t help but look down at her chest…

This must be fake!

Defeated!

The Human School should watch its language!!