DLWAV CH47 [Arc 3]

But what made the Milk Dumpling even happier was yet to come.

“Congratulations to the host for successfully completing the mission, earning one hundred and fifty points.”

“Congratulations to the host for preventing the Fourth Prince from ascending the throne during the mission, averting the collapse of the Yang Dynasty, and saving the lives of countless civilians, earning an extra reward of one thousand two hundred points…”

Remember that according to the supplementary agreement they signed earlier, the Milk Dumpling would get half of Ao Ruize’s extra rewards.

Plus the points it secretly skimmed off—it made a fortune!

So it immediately couldn’t wait and said, “Quick, quick, quick, let’s start the next mission right now.”

Ao Ruize: “Okay.”

The next second, the Milk Dumpling exclaimed, “Huh, we actually snatched a mission in the Cultivation World.”

“Hurry, hurry, before other systems beat us to it.”

Before its voice faded, Ao Ruize’s figure disappeared into the void.

But the next second, the Milk Dumpling exclaimed again, “Why is the start Hell Mode?”

“No wonder I snatched this mission so easily. It’s over, it’s over…”

Almost at the same time, Ao Ruize opened his eyes.

And was met directly with an aggressive face.

In a large, ancient hall.

That aggressive face pointed at Ao Ruize and said to the others present:

“If he really is a member of our Dragon Clan, why does he fail every time he enters the Secret Realm to receive the baptism?”

“So, he absolutely cannot be a member of our Dragon Clan.”

“Nonsense—”

Hearing this, an old man beside him said anxiously:

“Ruize is my biological son. Don’t I know if he’s a member of our Dragon Clan?”

Hearing this, quite a few people around him nodded in agreement. “Besides, Long Ruize looks almost identical to Elder Chongzhen.”

As if thinking of something, the aggressive face—Long Tianlu—became even more excited: “What does that prove?”

“That only proves that you aren’t a member of our Dragon Clan either.”

“I remember now. Back then, your mother was just a lowly servant girl who got lucky and caught my grandfather’s eye, receiving one night of favor.”

“My grandfather had already thrown her to the back of his mind, but a few years later, she showed up at the door with you.”

“So who knows if you really are my grandfather’s son? After all, who knows whose bed she climbed into after leaving my grandfather’s bed, then got pregnant with his child and pinned it on my grandfather…”

“You… bastard—”

Hearing Long Tianlu humiliate his mother like this, the old man—Elder Chongzhen, as everyone called him—instantly reddened his eyes.

After all, the reason his mother had become a servant girl back then was simply poverty; her father had fallen gravely ill and needed a large sum of money for treatment, so she had no choice but to sell herself into servitude.

She had absolutely no intention of provoking the Nineteenth Elder back then. She only wanted to work honestly for the master’s family for a few years and use her savings to redeem herself.

If anyone was to blame, it was her master’s family—while hosting the Nineteenth Elder, they noticed he glanced at her a few times, so they forcibly drugged her and sent her to his bed.

Moreover, she only ever had his father from beginning to end, and later she used the so-called ‘reward money’ given by the master’s family to redeem herself.

Later, if not for the fact that she herself fell gravely ill and was about to die, and discovered that he also had talent for cultivation, she never would have sent him back to the Dragon Clan.

Thinking of this, Elder Chongzhen immediately gathered a water blade and charged toward Long Tianlu to kill him.

However, the next second, a middle-aged man nearby waved his hand first, sending a water blade attacking Elder Chongzhen.

Ao Ruize subconsciously followed up by throwing out a water blade to block it. Unfortunately, the water blade he threw couldn’t offset much of the power of the middle-aged man’s attack.

As a result, after Elder Chongzhen was hit by that water blade, he vomited blood and was sent flying backward.

Seeing this scene, however, the few elders in the very center of the crowd raised their eyebrows.

Because if they remembered correctly, the middle-aged man who attacked—the Nineteenth Elder—was already at the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm, while Long Ruize had just broken through to the Golden Core realm.

Yet Long Ruize was able to detect the Nineteenth Elder’s movement immediately and act to resist…

Before Ao Ruize could make another move, guards on both sides rushed up and instantly subdued both of them on the ground.

“Audacious! How dare you commit violence within the clan grounds—”

Elder Chongzhen, however, was already looking toward the Nineteenth Elder. He shouted in disbelief, “Father?”

The Nineteenth Elder’s face had already turned black.

Not because of Long Tianlu’s insults to Elder Chongzhen, but because Elder Chongzhen dared to attack Long Tianlu.

After all, Long Tianlu was his legitimate grandson, while Elder Chongzhen was just one of his many illegitimate sons.

He smashed another water blade onto Elder Chongzhen’s chest: “What gave you the gall to offend the main branch?”

Long Tianlu finally recovered from this series of events, so seeing Elder Chongzhen vomit blood again, he became even more smug.

Then he simply said, “Whether you and Long Ruize are members of our Dragon Clan or not, you don’t have the final say, and neither do I. Only Lord Dragon Soul has the final say.”

He immediately turned to the surrounding elders and the Nineteenth Elder: “Elders, Grandfather, since the identities of Long Ruize and his father are in doubt, why not take them to the Ancestral Hall and let Lord Dragon Soul discern whether they are truly of our Dragon Clan? If they are, that’s best. If they aren’t, then we must guard against the possibility that they are spies sent by those with ill intentions.”

“Elders, don’t forget, two thousand years ago, the Dragon Clan grounds were almost breached by demons working in concert with spies inside the clan.”

Hearing Long Tianlu say this, the elders’ brows instantly furrowed.

They also felt it was better to clarify this matter, only—

“Nineteenth Elder, what do you think?”

After all, Elder Chongzhen was his son.

The Nineteenth Elder’s brows also furrowed.

Although he didn’t know why Long Tianlu insisted on proving that Elder Chongzhen and Long Ruize were not his descendants, since Long Tianlu had already put it this way, it was hard for him to refute.

After all, there was no need to cause Long Tianlu, his legitimate grandson, to lose face in public for the sake of an illegitimate son and an illegitimate grandson with no foreseeable future.

Most importantly, he was now also somewhat suspicious that Elder Chongzhen and his son might not be his offspring.

Because it was a fact that Long Ruize had entered the Secret Realm three times for baptism and came back empty-handed each time.

“Then test it.”

Hearing this, Elder Chongzhen’s face turned pale.

Although he had long known that the Nineteenth Elder only valued the main branch and didn’t regard the side branches as descendants at all, experiencing this again still chilled his heart.

Most importantly—

He suddenly realized something. He could guarantee that their family was definitely of Dragon Clan descent, but since Long Tianlu dared to propose letting Lord Dragon Soul distinguish their bloodline, did that mean he was certain Lord Dragon Soul would judge that they were not of Dragon Clan blood?

Could he then guess that the entire thing was Long Tianlu’s conspiracy, including Long Ruize’s three fruitless entries into the Secret Realm for the Totem Baptism?

Long Tianlu must have done something to Long Ruize.

But it was too late to say anything now, because they had no evidence to prove this. And if he dared to refuse Lord Dragon Soul’s verification at this moment, Long Tianlu would definitely dare to confirm the charge that they were spies sent by the demons.

Thinking of this, Elder Chongzhen’s eyes nearly split with rage.

Ao Ruize, on the other hand, took advantage of the interval while they were being escorted to the Ancestral Hall to review the original host’s memories.

Just as the Milk Dumpling said, this was the Cultivation World, Mingxiao Continent.

Here, there were not only the powerful “One Sect, Three Schools, Four Gates,” but also the Four Great Families that inherited the bloodlines of the Four Divine Beasts.

The original host, Long Ruize, was from the Dragon Clan, one of the Four Great Families.

His father, Elder Chongzhen, was the twenty-first son of the current Nineteenth Elder of the Dragon Clan.

Elder Chongzhen’s talent was decent, with dual Water and Wood spiritual roots. In an ordinary family, he would have been someone the family poured all their resources into cultivating.

However, the Dragon Clan did not lack talented juniors. Although the Nineteenth Elder was an elder of the Dragon Clan, looking at his ranking alone showed he didn’t have much say in the clan, not to mention there were a bunch of Grand Elders and Consecrators above the regular elders.

Plus, the Nineteenth Elder didn’t lack children and only valued the main branch, even condoning the main branch snatching cultivation resources from the side branches. So, until the age of thirty, Elder Chongzhen hadn’t been able to break through to the Golden Core realm.

According to Dragon Clan rules, clan members who failed to break through to the Golden Core realm before age thirty had to leave the clan grounds and go to various branches to serve as managers or elders.

Thus, Elder Chongzhen was assigned to be an elder in a remote small town called Chongzhen.

Thirty years later, he finally broke through to the Golden Core realm.

Another thirty years later, he had the original host.

After the original host was born, he also tested for dual Water and Wood spiritual roots. Most importantly, he had a resolute nature and could endure hardship. With Elder Chongzhen’s full support, he broke through to the Golden Core realm at just twenty-five.

According to his original destiny, he would have shone brilliantly when coming to the Dragon Clan grounds for baptism, breaking through to the late Golden Core stage in one go, successfully staying in the clan grounds as a side branch member, and eventually securing a position as a Dragon Clan Elder.

But unfortunately, an illegitimate son of a small family clan leader named Yan Chong in Chongzhen was reborn. He also picked up a living map detailing all the heavenly treasures above Earth-rank and secret realms in Mingxiao Continent.

Relying on that living map, he harvested heavenly treasures all the way, befriended children of aristocratic families, and captured the hearts of one beauty after another, including the hot-tempered Little Princess of the Phoenix Clan, the gentle and kind Sect Master of Lingyun Gate, the aloof and solitary Sword Peak Master of the Spirit Medicine Sect, the mother-daughter pair of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan… and the original host’s fiancée.

Even more coincidentally, during a secret realm expedition, the original host happened to stumble upon Yan Chong and his fiancée being intimate.

The original host naturally couldn’t swallow this insult and immediately launched a frantic pursuit against them.

At that time, Yan Chong was not yet the original host’s match. Although he luckily escaped the pursuit thanks to a top-grade magical artifact, he was severely injured.

He naturally harbored hatred towards the original host. Upon learning that the original host was preparing to go to the Dragon Clan for baptism, he deliberately staged a show to become Long Tianlu’s savior. He then used a top-grade magical artifact to make a deal with Long Tianlu, having Long Tianlu tamper with the original host’s baptism ceremony.

Dragon Clan members all carried the Azure Dragon bloodline in their bodies, so what determined their aptitude was not just the number of spiritual roots, but also the purity of the Azure Dragon bloodline.

According to Dragon Clan rules, clan members who advanced to the Golden Core realm before age thirty, whether direct line or side branch, could go to the Dragon Clan Secret Realm to undergo the baptism ceremony.

The baptism ceremony could wash away impurities in the Dragon Clan member’s bloodline, increasing the concentration of their Azure Dragon bloodline and thereby improving their aptitude.

What Yan Chong had Long Tianlu do was to secretly administer a Meridian-Severing Pill to the original host beforehand, destroying the power of the bloodline in his body.

Unable to mobilize his own bloodline power, the original host naturally couldn’t attract the power of the baptism.

Afterward, because he couldn’t prove his identity as a Dragon Clan member, the original host was slandered by Long Tianlu as a spy for the demons and thrown into the Dragon Clan dungeon.

In the end, he and his father, Elder Chongzhen, were personally executed by the Nineteenth Elder to protect his own reputation.