Chapter 538: Ao Tian
"Zhenyue Archipelago..., let’s call it that." Yu Nianzhen smiled and agreed.
After that, the two flew to their island at the centre of the archipelago.
Compared to other islands, their island was richer in qi and was more developed.
A forest of purple bamboo was planted along the edge of the island and their ancient palace was placed at the centre.
"After a while, the purple bamboo will be tall enough to obscure the ancient palace." Jiang Yue stated as he looked at the purple bamboo that were already more than five metres tall.
"Purple bamboo can grow up to one hundred metres. "Yu Nianzhen said with a satisfied look on his face.
"They are very beautiful." Jiang Yue said as he looked around.
"They will be more beautiful when then they mature."
"I can’t wait." Jiang Yue said and held his lover’s hand.
Together, the two walked into the ancient palace and directly rushed to the topmost floor.
Although they didn’t neglect their relationship while they were busy developing the Zhenyue archipelago, they hadn’t spent as much time together as they wanted.
Now that they were relatively free, they naturally wanted to spend some intimate time together.
In this way, two years passed.
On this day, Yu Nianzhen led Jiang Yue out of the ancient palace.
When they reached an empty space, the swordsman looked at his lover with a mysterious smile in his eyes.
"Are you ready?" The man asked.
"I have been ready for more than five hundred years." Jiang Yue said and angrily rolled his eyes.
"Are you blaming me?"
"What if I am?" Jiang Yue retorted and Yu Nianzhen chuckled.
"In fact, I wanted to show you a long time ago. However, it fell asleep as soon as the Cangxing world upgraded to a mid-grade world."
"Why didn’t you say that?" Jiang Yue questioned but didn’t wait for an answer.
"Is it awake?"
"It woke up four years ago." Yu Nianzhen said and soon after, a handsome teenage boy appeared in front of the two.
The teenage boy had black hair and was dressed in black from head to toe.
"Is he..." Jiang Yue started and then looked at his lover.
"Hmmm. He is my contracted demonic beast." Yu Nianzhen confirmed.
"What’s your true form?" Jiang Yue questioned while looking at the teenage boy.
Hearing the question, the young man smiled and winked at Jiang Yue.
"You are so beautiful." He said and a trace of wickedness flashed in his eyes.
"Well, thank you." Jiang Yue said but Yu Nianzhen was not in a good mood.
"How about..." The young man started but Yu Nianzhen didn’t let him finish.
"If you dare to harass my partner, I will dare to stew and serve you to my XiaoYue. It’s been a while since my XiaoYue ate something nutritious." Yu Nianzhen said while looking at his contracted beast.
Seeing the look, the teenage boy shuddered.
For some reason, he felt his master’s look was a little wrong.
’Why do I feel like I am a piece of meat on a chopping board?’ He wondered and subconsciously took one step away from his master.
When he was a few steps away, he glared at his master.
’Didn’t I just compliment the person? Does he have to threaten me?’ He wordlessly complained.
’What a loss! If I knew he would be like this, I wouldn’t secretly let him drink my blood.’
"Master, your joke is not funny." The teenager said and quickly continued before Yu Nianzhen could say anything.
"Didn’t master’s wife say he wants to see my true form? I will show it to you." The teenager said and Yu Nianzhen frowned.
"XiaoYue and I are both men, don’t call him master’s wife." Yu Nianzhen said.
"How should I call him? Should I follow Master and call him XiaoYue?" The teenager asked but Yu Nianzhen hurriedly shook his head.
"Don’t call him XiaoYue either." He said and the teenager rolled his eyes.
’Don’t do this or that..., so many rules.’ He secretly complained.
"Call him Jiang Yue or Ayue."
"I will call him Yue’er." The teenager decided and the other two didn’t argue.
"What about you, what’s your name?" Jiang Yue asked.
"My name is Ao Tian. I am a primordial chaos beast and also the first dragon." The teenager said with a proud look on his face.
At the same time, Ao Tian transformed and a majestic dragon appeared in front of Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue.
The dragon was more than one hundred metres long, was black in colour, and had deep grey eyes that exuded a sense of unfathomable mystery.
"A dragon." Jiang Yue couldn’t help but be excited.
During their reincarnation tribulation, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen experienced their past life memories.
However, even in those memories, there were no dragons.
According to what they knew, dragons, phoenixes, and several other divine beasts had suddenly disappeared from the world.
Unexpectedly, Yu Nianzhen accidentally contracted a primordial dragon in an unremarkable place like the Thousand Herbs Garden.
"Are you in awe of me?" Ao Tian questioned while looking at Jiang Yue with a proud look on his face.
Hearing the question, Jiang Yue immediately nodded.
However, before the dragon could be prouder, Jiang Yue spoke and Ao Tian almost howled in anger.
"However, no matter how good you are, you are not as good as my Azhen." Jiang Yue said.
"My XiaoYue is so good." Yu Nianzhen praised and smiled in happiness.
"I won’t argue with you." Ao Tian rolled his dragon eyes and soon changed back to his human form.
"Tian’er, can you help us get to Earth?" Jiang Yue suddenly remembered the pressing issue.
"Who do you think I am?" Ao Tian sneered.
’This guy’s personality is a bit...’ Jiang Yue thought but didn’t say anything.
"Ao Tian has the innate ability to control time and space." Yu Nianzhen said as he looked at the dragon.
"So powerful?" Jiang Yue asked and his eyes widened in wonder.
"Of course, I am a primordial dragon." Ao Tian thumped his chest.
"Is your cultivation enough?" Jiang Yue asked with a worried look in his eyes.
Although he instinctively felt Ao Tian was more powerful than himself and Yu Nianzhen, the dragon’s current cultivation was the same as theirs.
"Yue’er doesn’t have to worry. I still have enough strength to travel a mere ten thousand years in the past." Ao Tian assured but soon frowned.
"What’s wrong?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"Master..." Ao Tian started but Yu Nianzhen interrupted him.
"Call me Nianzhen."
Hearing that, Ao Tian nodded but his face was a little solemn.
"It’s easy to travel to your Earth but coming back is another matter." Ao Tian said and the other two looked at each other in surprise.
"What do you mean? Yu Nianzhen questioned.
"Although Earth is a mortal world, it also has a will of the world."
"We expected that but what does that have to do with our inability to return to the Cangxing world?"
"Originally, you were cultivators from the Cangxing world but were later reincarnated on Earth." Ao Tian started and the other two listened carefully.
"If the will of our Cangxing world did not interfere, you would have led a mortal life on Earth. This time, if you return to Earth, the will of the world will ensure you fulfil your mortal destiny."
"Fulfil our mortal destiny?" Jiang Yue couldn’t help but be shocked.
"Your cultivation will be suppressed and you will be forced to live as mortals for several decades." Ao Tian clarified.
Hearing that, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen looked at each other with unconcealed shock in their eyes.
"We won’t be able to use any of our cultivation?" Yu Nianzhen asked and Ao Tian shook his head.
"You will be no different from mortals."
"If we are mortals, how can we take care of our families?" Jiang Yue asked and his eyebrows creased in a frown.
After all, the whole point of going back to Earth was to bring back their families.
If they had to wait several decades before they were able to do anything, wouldn’t some of their family members already be dead?
Most importantly, would the will of the world allow them to bring back their relatives?
"Ao Tian, do you have a solution?" Yu Nianzhen looked at the dragon and asked.
"There is indeed a solution." Ao Tian said and Jiang Yue heaved a sigh of relief.
"Tell us quickly." He urged.
"You can negotiate with the will of the world."
"Negotiate?" Jiang Yue asked but Yu Nianzhen already had an answer.
"Earth is a mortal world and lacks resources. If we bring back resources for the will of the world to use in its cultivation, we may be able to negotiate some favourable terms." Yu Nianzhen said and Ao Tian nodded.
"Nianzhen is right. If you bring back some suitable resources, the will of the world may give you some leeway." Ao Tian smiled but soon looked at the two with a serious look in his eyes.
