Chapter 1003: Chapter 60: In the Dragon Court, the Speedrun Begins! (15,000)
"It should be the first Guardian within the Dream Palace."
The Heavenly Destiny Mysterious Bird is the second Guardian, and the one that can suppress it is the first Guardian.
"The Dream Palace, it’s not the time to go there yet." Zhao Xing shook his head and thought to himself, "Foolish bird, I will still carry out the Dream God Contract to set you free. But in my previous life, I never heard of a Mechanical Divine Beast like you. Whether you can truly survive in the future is up to you."
...
It was already the fourth day of June when Zhao Xing came out of the Dream Palace.
The plan was to set off on the fifth and reach the entrance of the Dragon Court Ancient Land by the fifteenth of June.
At this time, King Heavenly Destiny was no longer accompanying Zhao Xing.
Because he was clearly still at the Fourth Rank strength and remained among middle-grade officials, occupying a spot he had originally competed for.
He wasn’t with those high-grade court officials whose spots were pre-assigned.
On the fifth of June, Zhao Xing first took an official boat from Chongming Prefecture, and through the Tower Ship Department, arrived at Purple Cloud Island.
Then from the Tower Ship Department on Purple Cloud Island, he flew to the Eastern Sea Water Clan area.
The leading figures from the East Sea were Bai Yunwu, Ao Tian, and Tang Yinglong, three Sealing King powerhouses.
The five hundred people from the East Sea were all on the ship, but due to Prince Liang’s turmoil,
many of the original five hundred eligibles had died.
They had to make additional replacements.
Zhao Xing met with Long Xiao on Bai Family’s territory.
"Why are you so late? I expected you two days ago; now the ship’s leaving in just two hours." Long Xiao was curious as he saw Zhao Xing disembark.
"Got held up," Zhao Xing replied. "Where’s Ao Tian and the others?"
"Staying in the ship’s cabin," Long Xiao chuckled, "Don’t worry, Master Sheep, Master Dog, Master Cat, they’re all being well taken care of."
Zhao Xing also laughed; the Mountain Cat, the Gray Lion Dog, the Inverted Sheep, all had honorary positions back then due to the blessings of his battle pets, he had gained a few years more of life.
Actually, Zhao Xing had already reached the Third Rank, and didn’t need to bring pets to get in anymore.
Because the way the Dragon Court identifies outsiders is through Dragon Clan bloodlines, Upper Dragon Language, and specific tokens.
High-grade people generally possess one of these three, only middle-grade need to bring divine beast bloodline battle pets in.
But since the Mountain Cat, Gray Lion Dog, and Inverted Sheep were already registered, for a complete disguise, if Zhao Xing was pretending, they had to come along too.
"What, with this posture, you’re going too?" Zhao Xing eyed Long Xiao.
"I remember you don’t know Dragon Language or have battle pets, did the Bai Family give you a Dragon Court token? That thing is precious."
Zhao Xing looked at Long Xiao fully armed, with a team of guards following; it didn’t seem like he was just there to escort, but to personally enter.
Long Xiao waved his hand, "No, how could I know Upper Dragon Language? Didn’t get any token either."
Then that must mean he has a battle pet.
What would Long Xiao be raising? Zhao Xing was quite curious.
"Where is it?"
Long Xiao couldn’t help but laugh, stepping aside to reveal Bai Yang behind him.
Zhao Xing was taken aback: "You’re using your brother-in-law as a battle pet?"
Commander Bai Yang was a bit helpless, "Duke Divine Might, that’s not the way to put it, how can you call it a battle pet? I am merely, just..."
Bai Yang couldn’t come up with a reasonable term for an explanation.
It’s too ridiculous!
Zhao Xing couldn’t help but feel a bit uncomfortable recalling the sight of Long Xiao and Bai Yang’s fusion.
"Hey, don’t misunderstand," Bai Yang quickly interjected as he saw Zhao Xing’s odd expression, "I won’t fuse with my brother-in-law, I’m just going to release energy to help him get through."
"Mmhm, I won’t think of it like that."
Bai Yang: "..."
Scoundrel! You’re clearly thinking that way!
"Brother-in-law, you’re still laughing?!" Bai Yang protested.
"I’m not laughing at you," Long Xiao suppressed a laugh.
"Then why are you?"
"I remembered something happy," Long Xiao paused, then said, "Your sister had a baby."
Bai Yang: "..."
Zhao Xing: "..."
Indeed, this was no lie; Long Xiao’s wife, Bai Ling’er, was half-dragon, half-human.
Her gestation period was much slower than normal Human Clan members.
How slow?
She became pregnant at the end of the twenty-ninth year of the Jingxin Calendar, and didn’t give birth until the third year of Da Zhi.
The Human Clan carries a child for ten months; she carried for ten years.
"Cough, cough, let’s talk on the ship," Long Xiao noted that many people were looking their way, fearing having the conversation outside.
The brother-in-law still had some pride, he was nearly turning red with embarrassment; they couldn’t joke anymore.
...
Inside the cabin of the battle ship.
"Meow~" The Mountain Cat rubbed its head against Zhao Xing.
The Aotian Cat had already grown to over two meters tall, completely a big cat now.
As for the Gray Lion Dog and Inverted Sheep, they had both doubled in size.
Except for the Mountain Cat, the Gray Lion and Inverted Sheep had fully entered their Peak Period, while the Mountain Cat was still in the adulthood stage, far from its peak.
The three battle pets were all at the Fourth Grade Perfect realm.
As soon as Zhao Xing came in, he was almost knocked over by the three.
They had not seen him in a long time!
"Haha, alright, alright, stop licking."
"I know, I know, isn’t that why I came?"
"Hey, Huan Tian, why are you still biting my pants?"
...
The excited atmosphere only began to calm as the battle ship set sail.
The three Sealing Kings led five hundred middle-grade officials, boarding the court-bestowed ’Sea God Battle Ship’, setting out from Canghai Cave Heaven on Baiyun Island, speeding eastward.
As they completely left the East Sea region, Zhao Xing noticed several officials on the ship with noticeable fluctuations in their Qi Fortune.
More or less, they all experienced a decline.
"Moving far from Great Zhou, the protection of the Fortune Dynasty has somewhat weakened." Zhao Xing observed the people moving back and forth.
"Even my own Qi Fortune began to fluctuate, jumping between Inference Five and Inference Six."
Qi Fortune naturally has peaks and troughs, it’s not a straight line.
Especially on the thirteenth of June, the fluctuation range of Qi Fortune became Inference Four to Inference Six.