Chapter 110: The Ancestor’s Belated Rebellious Phase (37)
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Ling Qiong spent lavishly on card draws to ensure that Mo Snake would not be assigned a new master.
Mo Snake had not been born a dragon of auspicious omen. Even after evolving, its temper remained foul and violent.
So it was nearly impossible for the City Lord and his people to gain any advantage over Mo Snake.
Mo Snake turned the City Lord’s Manor upside down. From time to time, the people of the city could hear all kinds of noises coming from within.
While no one understood what was happening, rumors began spreading through the streets like snowflakes.
“What’s going on at the City Lord’s Manor? Why is there so much commotion every day?”
“Good grief, you haven’t heard? The Young City Lord… No, that’s not right anymore. Didn’t the eldest son obtain the divine golden dragon?”
“Yes, everyone knows that.”
“You also know that the eldest son has never been favored. He was even accused of murdering the Second Madam, but lately people have been saying he was framed…”
“Get to the point.”
“The eldest son obtained the divine golden dragon, and the City Lord forced him to hand it over to the current Young City Lord. The commotion at the City Lord’s Manor is all caused by that golden dragon.”
Everyone sighed.
“Really?”
“Of course it’s true. I have a relative who works at the City Lord’s Manor.”
“So the eldest son really agreed to it?”
“What choice did he have? The City Lord favors his second son. Who in the city doesn’t know that?”
“…”
The story spread farther and farther.
Everyone in Brahma Sky City knew that the City Lord had forced Lou Xingluo to surrender the golden dragon.
For a time, Lou Xingluo won the sympathy of countless people.
…
The City Lord had confidently believed that he could control the golden dragon. His plans, however, had been beautiful while reality was painfully harsh.
To this day, he had not found a way to break the contract between the golden dragon and Lou Xingluo.
The golden dragon had not fled, but it was extremely difficult to serve. It behaved like an overbearing tyrant, stirring the entire manor into chaos.
Unfortunately, it was a divine beast.
The only divine beast on the continent.
Did the City Lord dare neglect it?
He did not!
It was under these circumstances that he heard the rumors spreading outside.
The City Lord’s face turned livid. “Where did this come from?”
“I don’t know… It spread all of a sudden.” The disciple reporting to him trembled violently.
Everyone outside was now saying that the City Lord had forced the eldest son to surrender the golden dragon.
And with such enormous commotion coming from the City Lord’s Manor…
“City Lord, this is bad!”
A disciple came running in from outside, having forgotten even the proper etiquette.
The City Lord angrily barked, “Why are you shouting? What’s happened?”
The disciple dropped to his knees with a thud. “City Lord, something has happened in the eastern district…”
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The eastern district suddenly collapsed, revealing a gigantic black hole from which demonic beasts came swarming out.
The beasts bit anyone they saw.
Those who were bitten soon fell unconscious.
The eastern district descended into chaos.
The disciples sent by the City Lord’s Manor to capture the beasts died one after another.
From the eastern district, the demonic beasts gradually spread throughout the entire city.
Ordinary citizens were so frightened that they dared not even leave their homes.
Two days later, ten miles beyond Brahma Sky City, a tremendous red radiance suddenly blazed into the sky—a most ominous sign.
It was as though Brahma Sky City had entered a countdown to the apocalypse.
More and more people were attacked by the demonic beasts, yet the City Lord’s Manor remained utterly helpless.
“It’s the golden dragon…”
The trouble in Brahma Sky City had begun the moment the City Lord forced the eldest son to surrender the divine beast.
“It’s because the City Lord seized the golden dragon! This is the wrath of a divine beast!”
“How could we possibly interfere with the choice of a divine beast?”
“Return the divine beast to the eldest son!”
At first, these words spread only among small groups, but they soon became common knowledge.
The citizens spontaneously gathered outside the City Lord’s Manor, demanding that the City Lord return the divine beast to Lou Xingluo.
A prophecy had once declared that the eldest son’s acquisition of the golden dragon was ordained by Heaven, and that it would protect Brahma Sky City and ensure its prosperity for generations.
Yet the City Lord had done such a thing.
Now he had brought the entire city to this state…
“Return the divine beast to the eldest son!”
“Return the divine beast to the eldest son!”
…
Even inside the manor, the City Lord could hear the deafening cries outside.
The crowd gathered beyond the gates grew larger and larger.
Could this really be because of the golden dragon…?
Could that prophecy actually have been true?
“Father, I think that fiend and Lou Xingluo are behind all this.” Lou Lingyu stormed in from outside, his face filled with fury. “What ‘ordained by Heaven’ nonsense!”
The City Lord had the same suspicion.
But suspicion was all it could be. There was no proof.
“Father, I’ll go capture him right now.” Lou Lingyu turned to leave, his expression dark. “I’ll make him pay with his life for my mother!”
The City Lord gave a low shout. “Stop!”
“Father?!”
The City Lord turned to the disciple beside him. “What has Lou Xingluo been doing these past two days?”
“Answering the City Lord: the eldest son has remained in his courtyard the entire time. He has not left once.”
“And Yue Luo Candle?”
“She has not gone out either.”
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The reason the City Lord had not arrested Lou Xingluo from the beginning was that he was wary of the prophecy.
As long as a prophecy was not fabricated out of thin air, it would almost certainly come true.
Brahma Sky City represented the blood, sweat, and toil of countless generations of the Lou family. He did not dare let it be destroyed by his own hands.
“Father, if we kill Lou Xingluo, won’t the contract with the golden dragon be broken?” Lou Lingyu suddenly asked.
The City Lord replied, “If it were that simple, would I need to struggle this much?”
Once Lou Xingluo died, the golden dragon would be freed from its restraints and leave immediately.
As long as Lou Xingluo remained here, the golden dragon might cause endless trouble, but it had not fled.
He could only find a way to transfer the contract. Under no circumstances could he kill Lou Xingluo.
…
The City Lord was still devising a countermeasure.
But the demonic beasts rampaging outside gave him no time to think.
As the beasts grew more violent, the citizens outside were no longer merely shouting slogans. They had begun trying to force their way inside.
Apart from the disaster caused by the demonic beasts, problems were appearing in other places as well.
Every occurrence pointed plainly toward Lou Xingluo and the divine beast.
The people at the center of it all, however, were leisurely drinking tea and reading. From time to time, Lou Xingluo even helped Ling Qiong embroider formations into her clothes.
Against the backdrop of chaos, Lou Xingluo’s courtyard was especially tranquil and peaceful.
Ling Qiong reclined grandly in a rocking chair, swaying back and forth with a creak.
Lou Xingluo waved a fan for her. “Are you certain you can bring this to an end?”
Things had already become so serious. How were they supposed to resolve them?
“Of course I can. You’re the one ordained by Heaven, after all.” Ling Qiong winked at him, her smile brilliant. “Trust me. You can’t go wrong.”
Lou Xingluo fell silent.
If he did not trust her, he would not be here acting as her little page and waving her fan.
But how exactly had she managed all this?
The rumors spreading outside certainly had something to do with her.
Yet she was under his watch every day, and he had never seen her give Jiang He any instructions.
“That prophecy was something you had Yan Weishan spread, wasn’t it?” Lou Xingluo looked at her. “It’s fake.”
There was no such thing as being ordained by Heaven.
The young girl tilted her head. Her dark eyes reflected his figure.
“I am your destiny.”
Her sweet, soft voice flowed into his ears like spring water, washing into the depths of his heart and stirring wave after wave of ripples.
The fan in Lou Xingluo’s hand paused. His gaze met hers.
The young girl curved her lips into a light, gentle smile.
Even the breeze in the courtyard seemed to grow tender.
———The Great Spending for Nothing Divider———
Little Fairy: Once you cast your vote, the whole world becomes gentle, doesn’t it?~
Little Angel: Vote!
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