In his previous life, Ling Xiao had heard that Long Shun was a man of strong character, loyal, and considerate of the overall situation, but he did not expect that Long Shun actually died in the catastrophe ten thousand years ago.
"The catastrophe that occurred ten thousand years ago swept across the heavens. My Crystal Palace was also the place that suffered the most severe attack from the extraterritorial demons. In that battle, countless strong men of my dragon clan died, and our clan was almost wiped out!"
Long Lie said slowly, with a hint of sigh in his eyes.
"Ten thousand years ago, I was only as old as Aotian, and you were still in your infancy. You suffered unimaginable injuries and were sealed in the Dragon Transformation Pond! At that time, if it weren't for the Great Sun Demon Lord of the Heavenly Demon Palace who took action and killed countless extraterritorial demons and saved the last incense of my dragon clan, I'm afraid my dragon clan would have been exterminated!"
"Great Sun Demon Lord? Ten thousand years ago, he was already the Supreme Lord? In that case, did he live a new life?"
There was a gleam of brilliance in Ling Xiao's eyes. What surprised him was that he had never heard of the name of the Great Sun Demon Lord ten thousand years ago.
"That's right! Ten thousand years ago, the Great Sun Demon Venerable was just like my father, and they were close friends. They both had already reached the level of the Supreme! He probably didn't live again, but got some quasi-divine medicines and is still lingering on. Divine medicines are hard to come by, so how can it be easy to live again?"
Long Lie shook his head.
Then he looked at Long Hanyan with some pity and said, "Your bloodline was not inferior to mine, but even stronger. It's just that when you were in your cradle, your bloodline power was infected by the evil spirit of the extraterritorial demons. In the end, you were saved by the Great Sun Demon Lord, so the Great Sun Demon Lord can be said to be our savior!"
"Savior? Is it because he is our savior that you insist on betrothing me to the Burning Sky Demon Emperor?"
Long Hanyan said calmly, with a slight ripple in her eyes.
Long Lie glanced at him and did not directly answer his question. Instead, he said calmly, "You have been sealed in the Dragon Transformation Pond for nearly ten thousand years. It was only several hundred years ago that I completely eliminated the evil spirit in your body and let you come out into the world! At that time, the Great Sun Demon Lord proposed to ask for a marriage for his disciple, the Burning Sky Demon Emperor. The Burning Sky Demon Emperor is a pure-blooded fire unicorn, and you and I can be said to be a perfect match made in heaven. How could I refuse?"
"But why didn't you ask for my opinion?"
Long Hanyan stared at Long Lie and said, "Just because he is our savior, can you force me to marry his disciple? He saved my life, I am very grateful, even if I give my life back to him, I won't frown. But you want me to marry someone I don't like, I don't want to!"
"I know you don't want to marry the Burning Sky Demon Emperor, but rather than letting you marry an ordinary human and pollute the bloodline of my dragon race, I would rather let you marry the Burning Sky Demon Emperor!"
Long Lie said slowly, with a look of unquestionable stubbornness in his eyes.
"But, Hanyan, what you don't know is that when I captured you from the Eight Desolate Territory, I saw how determined you were and wanted to cancel your engagement with the Burning Sky Demon Emperor, but an accident happened at this time!"
"What accident?" Long Hanyan asked.
"Because I discovered the real conspiracy of the Heavenly Demon Palace!"
Long Lie's eyes revealed a hint of sharpness, and he slowly said: "For more than 20 years, I and several great elders of the Crystal Palace have been exploring the remains of the ancient dragon clan in the outer space, but I discovered that the reason why the Great Sun Demon Lord wanted you to marry the Burning Sky Demon Emperor was to use you as a breakthrough point to completely subjugate my dragon clan!"
"Subdue the dragons? Since Great Sun Demon Lord is our savior, why would he do such a thing? Moreover, if he really wanted to subdue the dragons, ten thousand years ago would have been the best time. Why did he choose this time?"
Long Hanyan's eyes were full of doubt.
"Great Sun Demon Lord is indeed our savior, and I believe that he saved us ten thousand years ago out of friendship with our father! But ten thousand years have passed, and people will change. Moreover, Great Sun Demon Lord is now approaching the end of his life, so no matter what crazy things he does, it is understandable!"
There was a hint of sharpness in Long Lie's eyes.
"Since you said that the Great Sun Demon Lord is about to die, then what's the point of him subduing the dragon clan?" Long Hanyan asked.
“Of course it makes sense!”
A hint of coldness appeared in Long Lie's eyes, and he said: "This is also the result of my exploration of the outer space in recent years. The blood of our dragon race is the first blood of creation between heaven and earth. Not only does it make the dragon race's lifespan far exceed that of other races, it also makes the dragon race have heaven-defying talents and magical powers!
The most important thing is that the blood of the dragon clan contains a kind of longevity substance. As long as enough dragon blood is extracted to refine the legendary dragon blood pill, it can achieve an effect comparable to the supreme divine medicine and allow the Great Sun Demon Lord to live a lifetime!"
Long Hanyan was shocked, and her voice began to tremble: "Extracting dragon blood? How much is needed?"
"The more the better. The more dragon blood we extract, the stronger the effect of the Dragon Blood Pill will be! According to my guess, in order to refine the Dragon Blood Pill that can allow the Great Sun Demon Lord to live for a lifetime, we must obtain the blood of all the dragons in the Crystal Palace!"
There was a hint of coldness in Long Lie's eyes.
"Over the years, the Heavenly Demon Palace has always been behind all the powerful men who died in the Dragon Clan!"
"What?!"
Long Hanyan’s face turned pale, and his eyes were full of disbelief.
It was hard for her to believe that the savior mentioned by Long Lie, their father's best friend, the Great Sun Demon Lord, could actually be such a person.
"This approach is indeed possible!"
Ling Xiao sighed and said, "Generally, the Supreme Beings can only live for 10,000 years, and the longer they live, the more afraid they are of death. Especially for someone like the Great Sun Demon Lord, who is only one step away from the realm of the gods, how can he be willing to die like this? So in order to survive, he may do anything crazy!"
"That's right! No matter how extraordinary your talent is or how stunning your beauty is, if you can't become a god, you will end up as nothing more than a pile of dry bones! Who can see through life and death? In the face of life and death, gratitude and loyalty are nothing but floating clouds!"
Long Lie nodded.
He also felt some emotion in his heart. Long Lie believed that ten thousand years ago, the Great Sun Demon Lord saved Long Lie and Long Hanyan out of a moral obligation, but now he wanted to take the lives of the entire dragon clan to refine the Dragon Blood Pill, which was also the Great Sun Demon Lord's true intention.
The Great Sun Demon Lord is still the Great Sun Demon Lord, but ten thousand years have passed and everything has changed.
"Han Yan, my elder brother has imprisoned you in the East China Sea Eye for the past twenty years. In fact, he is using you to make a gesture to the Great Sun Demon Lord. At the same time, he is also stalling for time, because my original body, together with several elders, has been trapped in the outer world for the past twenty years!"
Long Lie glanced at Long Hanyan and said without hiding anything.
(End of this chapter)