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In the following year, Bailong paid a visit to Sky Palace.
This was normal. He drank and played music with Tianlong and Fei Yun, the three went on a hunt together, and even spent a few days in the Mortal Realm.
But upon their return, Bailong finally met Feng Yuexia, who was officially moving in to be with Tianlong.
And this was the first crack in the Feng family's over twelve thousand year lie...
Because Bailong was the first unrelated dragon Feng Yuexia was meeting.
It could be said that the Sky Emperor and Tianlong were sentimental, so they never noticed anything...
But Bailong was a complete stranger, and he instantly knew something was off.
First of all, Feng Yuexia was said to be the so-called Golden Phoenix.
Dragons were innately drawn to Phoenix aura regardless of whether they were mates or not.
So why didn't Bailong feel the slightest tug towards Feng Yuexia's aura...?
Tianlong was in love with Feng Yuexia, which was enough to convince everyone else that it was a fated dragon-phoenix match.
But Bailong was convinced that Tianlong's attraction had nothing to do with Feng Yuexia being a phoenix.
Tianlong and Feng Yuexia had met and played several times as children. Then Feng Yuexia had remained his fiance even after it became apparent that he might remain a weakling for life. Feng Yuexia was beautiful, highly praised, and talented, where Tianlong was not, so he had been grateful for her loyalty.
When considering all these, Tianlong was reasonably in love.
Bailong admired that! In his opinion, no nonsensical match between species should determine one's feelings!
But that didn't mean there was nothing wrong......
As a second point, Phoenixes were also said to be startlingly beautiful and held immense power.
Bailong could certainly admit that Feng Yuexia was indeed beautiful and quite powerful for her age, but Zhurong Fen could easily match her in appearance, not to talk of Yan Liwei whose face might make the stars jealous of her brilliance!
When it came to power, Zhurong Fen also outmatched Feng Yuexia, and in addition, Bailong found Feng Yuexia's core strengths did not feel like her own... A bit like some of the mortals who endlessly swallowed power pills to grow their strengths, instead of striving for it, and he remembered the hordes of cultivation resources the Feng family had embezzled through the years...
...and he could even sense traces of the missing millennia-old peach within her!
Still, Bailong could have concluded that phoenixes were nothing special, and left it there.
But then he recalled the stories surrounding the birth of Yan Liwei and Feng Yuexia...
And of course he recalled the first time he met Yan Liwei and felt her own aura.
Now if one mentioned the term 'drawn to', then Bailong would certainly think of Liwei's aura first, and even his brother, another dragon, had felt that oddly compelling aura around her.
To confirm his suspicion, Bailong dared to invite his father and brother to Sky Palace, using the Sky Emperor's birthday as a premise, and as expected, both found nothing spectacular about Feng Yuexia...
But when Bailong took Yan Liwei with him to the East Sea Palace, his father and brother instantly called out her immense beauty and compelling aura!
In fact, Yin Shuilong privately told Bailong, "You're lucky I can read you like a book... If not I might have been tempted to go after your little entertainer for myself!"
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The Endless Promise
FantasyYin Xiaolong, the fearsome black dragon, is finally dead. But as the world rejoices, he awakens - reborn as Zhang Luoyin, a powerless human poisoned by his own family, and who is identical to his former self. Even worse, he must marry Xu Weiyan, the...
