"That is, Immortal Master Shuide, Ao Shuying."
A young girl standing next to the Right Shilang of the Ministry of Personnel, Liu Zongquan, looked at the black dragon in the sky, wondering if this dragon king has also co for Li Xuan?
Liu Zongquan carefully summoned a small cloud to cover them both.
However, Ao Shuying didn’t care about them at all. She stuck her dragon head out of the cloud layer and watched Li Xuan attentively. She seed to be hesitant and shy. After a while, her huge dragon body fell to the ground and transford into a human form.
"Li Xuan," Ao Shuying, fully armored, landed in front of Li Xuan, "I need to speak with you urgently."
Seeing her, Li Xuan felt both speechless and surprised, "Shuying, why do you always appear after midnight?"
Ao Shuying broke the seal on the 20th of the first leap month. Li Xuan had already t her several tis. Each ti was late at night, even in the early hours of the morning.
Ao Shuying looked at the sky and gave an awkward smile, "I never noticed. Next ti, I’ll try to find you during the day."
Most of the ti, dragons live underwater, so they don’t have much concept of day and night.
"Never mind, it’s okay, there’s no need to change. But Shuying, it would be better if you gave a heads-up beforehand." Li Xuan thought it’s quite alright since his cultivation does not require daily sleep now.
As an emotionally rich person, he must make use of all his ti.
During the day, he has to handle countless responsibilities, manage office romance, and when he returns to Marquis Guanjun’s residence at night, he faces a besieging situation with hardly any spare ti left.
Having careful considered, Li Xuan decided to practice his technique of dividing consciousness into separate bodies.
Using this technique in dating girls is insincere and dood to fail, but it should be okay to use it to handle official duties in the yan, right?
In the future, he can place one in the Duanshiguan Yan of the Central Army, one in the Yan of the Liudao Division, perfect!
He’s just not sure if the secret technique provided by Lv Qiluo will work.
"It’s my fault," Ao Shuying blushed even deeper, "I saw that you seed to be free, so I ca to find you. Li Xuan, are you free now?"
Seeing that Li Xuan did not refuse, she took him up into the clouds and flew into the sky. Then they rode on her Red Thunder Chariot, heading towards the south.
"What’s the matter this ti? Another place invaded by floodwater? Or is it ti to summon clouds and rain?"
Over the past few months, every ti Ao Shuying ca to him, it was for the sa reason.
In the past six months, the number of followers who believe in Immortal Master Shuide and his wife has grown significantly, reaching between five to seven million. Even after the battle of Juyong Pass four months ago, the belief spread to the northern regions.
Just within these four months, over a hundred temples of Immortal Master Shuide were built — this ti, it was entirely the initiative of the believers rather than a state-sponsored initiative.
This has brought a significant amount of divine power to Ao Shuying, but also caused new troubles.
In the eyes of many believers, Immortal Master Shuide and her ’kingly husband’, when together, the deity could exercise power to the maximum extent.
This issue can be easily resolved by giving Li Xuan an official consecration by the Court. The two Gods could be co-chaired.
The Ministry of Rites had such a plan when they found out, but nothing ca of it when they found out that Immortal Master Shuide’s ’kingly husband’ was Marquis Guanjun, Li Xuan.
Enthroning a living person as a God, the Court has to be extrely cautious about it.
"No," Ao Shuying’s face turned even more crimson for so reason, "You’ll know when we get there. Anyway, Li Xuan, you have to do this favor."
She has already activated the Red Thunder Chariot, speeding towards the south like a bolt of lightning.
At this point, Right Shilang of the Ministry of Personnel, Liu Zongquan, had a solemn expression and dispersed the surrounding clouds.
"Shouldn’t we follow them?" The girl standing next to him calmly asked, "They have used the Red Thunder Chariot. They might not be back anyti soon."
Liu Zongquan coldly responded, "Wait!"
Right now, he was awaiting punishnt at ho after having pleaded guilty, so he had plenty of ti.
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Two hours later, Li Xuan and Ao Shuying appeared together in the Dragon Palace of Yangzhou.
Since Ao Shuying’s consecration, she has not established her own Dragon Palace.
She is a person who is attached to the old, initially planning to build her palace at Poyang Lake. But due to Li Xuan, Ao Shuying hasn’t yet decided where to settle down, thus, she’s living everywhere like a nomad.
Lucky for her, she got a lot of siblings, so she could borrow places to stay anywhere.
To Li Xuan’s surprise, when he stepped into the Dragon Palace, he saw many dragon lords gathered there, with many others on their way here.
They ca from all over, including many with whom Li Xuan was acquainted. One after another, they ca up to greet Li Xuan.
"Brother-in-law, it’s been a long ti since we last t! I, Ao Wubing, pay my respects to you!"
"Brother-in-law, thank you for your help with the Wuqing River embanknt issue. Fortunately, you and my second sister intervened, otherwise, I would have been in big trouble."
"You must be my brother-in-law, right? Finally, we et face to face. As expected, you’re handso and talented. No wonder you managed to win my second sister. Please accept a bow from , the little dragon!"
"Brother-in-law, have you been well lately? Have you used the ’Iron Spear Oil’ I sent you? Don’t know how to use it? Let teach you. As its na suggests, this item is applied to the spear, ensuring the spear body turns into steel, tough and indestructible. This is a secret technique of our dragon clan."
"Rest assured, Brother-in-law, I have lately been devising a plan that will get The Court to recognize your divine position. In the next few days, I will rally the dragon clan brothers of the Two Rivers and Five Lakes to jointly submit a request to The Court to grant you a title."
Li Xuan thought to himself, is this guy trying to help or harm ? While placating him, he turned to the oddly pale and blushing Ao Shuying at his side and asked in confusion.
"Shuying, why aren’t you doing anything? And tell , why have you summoned here?"
From his past experience, if these dragons dared to speak this way, Ao Shuying would have already whipped them.
Ao Shuying, blushing bright red, said, "My elder brother and mother are here, they said they want to see you."
"The Prince of the East Sea and the Queen of the East Sea?" Li Xuan stiffened in surprise, looking at Ao Shuying and wondering how it had turned into a eting with the parents.
He wasn’t prepared for this at all!
Ao Shuying nodded slightly, and stuttered, "I invited you here to prove to them that everything between the two of us is all aboveboard. The rumors about you being my Wangfu are spread by these guys, we really didn’t have a choice."
There is a reason why she does not whip the dragons.
If it were just her elder brother, the Prince of the East Sea Dragon Palace, it would be fine. She never hides anything from her elder brother. But her mother, Ao Shuying, feels helpless.
Her mother, influenced by human Confucianism, respects the Confucian doctrine of ’everyone has their place’, as well as the idea that ’the ruler’s path is the minister’s path, the father’s path is the son’s path, and the husband’s path is the wife’s path’.
Ao Shuying can understand; the dragons of the dragon clan are inherently lawless and unruly. Hence, her father enforced Confucianism to stabilize the position of the East Sea Dragon Palace and increase control over the aquatic clans over the past two thousand years.
But her mother seems to be taking it seriously, presenting herself as a good wife and mother in daily life, and is very dissatisfied with her behavior of ’disrespecting her brother and bullying her younger brother’, which is deed against the Confucian order.
Moreover, if her mother really takes the ’marriage’ of the two seriously, she might stir up so trouble afterward.
Maybe she will fulfill the wishes of her brothers and persuade her father to revoke her authority to supervise the dragons of the Two Rivers and Five Lakes.
Ao Shuying is not particularly attached to this authority, but she worries that if she ignores it, the dignified Four Seas Dragon Clan will really deteriorate.
Also, her mother is a True Dragon at the ’middle heaven level’. She can’t beat her.
"So that’s the case!" Li Xuan understood and then asked, "So, Shuying, do you know what the Prince and the Queen like? Do they have any particular preferences?"
He extended his hand: "Just give it to directly, sothing of high-end quality. I can’t show up empty-handed for the first eting, and embarrass you before your brother and mother."
Ao Shuying thought he was right, this was her fault; she should have inford earlier. Causing Li Xuan not to bring any gifts; this was surely not following the proper etiquette for eting elders.
But she did not know that it would be useless even if she told him, Li Xuan didn’t have any money left.
Behind them, Lv Qiluo once again looked at Li Xuan with contempt.
She thought his shalessness had reached a new height, continually lowering the bar.
What the two of them did not know was that at this mont, deep in the Yangzhou Dragon Palace, the Queen of the East Sea, ’Ao Zhujun’, and the Prince of the East Sea, ’Ao ngsheng’, were discussing Li Xuan.
"Prince, what kind of person do you think this Li Xuan is?"
Ao Zhujun sat solemnly at the top place, she looked sowhat similar to Ao Shuying, only older, about thirty, and extrely dignified.
At this mont, she wrinkled her brows: "According to Ao Zhihui and the others, This man appears to be as handso as Pan An, with outstanding brilliance, and exceptionally intelligent and courageous, highly talented, and impressive deanor. Whether it’s his talents or virtues, he’s like a living saint; but does such a perfect person really exist in the world?"
The Prince of the East Sea, Ao ngsheng, knew what was going on; his many brothers had been singing praises of Li Xuan to convince their mother of this marriage.
The problem was they praised him too much, inevitably arousing their mother’s suspicion.
Also, the Queen of the East Sea is a person who places great emphasis on order, so she is very dissatisfied with Li Xuan becoming the Wangfu of Ao Shuying without an official marriage ceremony.
Ao ngsheng obviously did not want to offend his brothers and was unsure of how his mother would react after eting Li Xuan, so he answered carefully: "Mother, this question is a difficult one. I have not t the Marquis of Guanjun yet, so how would I know what kind of person he is?
However, looking at his deeds, he is indeed deserving of being called highly intelligent and extraordinarily brave, possessing both talent and virtue. Although he had a bad reputation before, he has made several major contributions over the past year, saving countless people and being a great help to our dragon clan. Moreover, he is recognized by the Saint of Confucianism’s Heart Asking Bell as a protector, his pure Hao Qi has reached the level of ’Purple Air’. With such achievents and virtues, he actually does not discredit our family’s Shuying."
"Oh?"
Ao Zhujun narrowed her eyes, deep in contemplation.
She knew about the ’Purple Air’, which was close to the level of a saint.
It was said that before Lao Tzu passed through Kanguan Pass, Bassist Yin Xi had seen purple air coming from the east and knew that a saint would pass through soon. Sure enough, not long after, Lao Tzu ca through riding a green bull.
The aura of the Qi cultivator’s ancestor, the saint in ancient tis, could diffuse up to a thousand miles away.
"What kind of person he really is - you will know when you see him with your own eyes, mother." As Ao ngsheng spoke, his expression changed slightly: "They are here——"
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