Dragon's Origin

"Finding anyone is useless." The Old Ancestor shook his head with a light smile. "Five hundred years, and allowing us to continuously advance four realms, is equivalent to never stopping cultivation. How could there be no price to pay?"

In his words, the Old Ancestor seemed very open-minded, his tone was light. However, the girls like Meiling didn't think so. The Old Ancestor's body was getting worse, which was visible to the naked eye. How could it be just a small price?

In this round of expansion, Ligermaine had not intervened in the division of the territories of the Gan and Dai kingdoms, but it took over the special business houses of the two countries in the capital and several important cities. These business houses were responsible for exchanging gold notes of various countries, and were established by the two countries themselves, learning from Ligermaine. These businesses overlapped with Ligermaine's. With Ligermaine reaching out, no one dared to say a word of disapproval.

Not to mention that Ligermaine had an Old Ancestor in charge, even without the Old Ancestor, Wang Sheng's strength in killing Gan Qingquan, Dai Hao, and Dai Sheng was enough to make anyone retreat. They even worried that Ligermaine might ask for too little, causing Wang Sheng to be dissatisfied.

For this reason, Meiling negotiated with all parties and exchanged the territories that should have been allocated to the Changsheng Duke's Mansion for the similar ticket shops of all parties, turning them into Ligermaine's branches in various places. In a short period, Ligermaine quickly became a national chain.

Not long ago, just two months ago, all parties must have been thinking about how to kill Wang Sheng and Lin Xiu by all means, but now, no one had this thought.

The Old Ancestors of all parties had all shown signs of rapid aging to varying degrees. The female Old Ancestor of the Triumph Palace was still good, after all, her cultivation also included some face-preserving techniques, and she still looked youthful. The Old Ancestors of other families were now all senile old men. Song Yan also said last time that Song Lian was aging extremely fast, even if Song Lian used superb medical skills to slow down the process, it was still the same.

Even Song Lian was like this, think about those Old Ancestors who didn't have Song Lian's medical skills or the Triumph Palace's face-preserving techniques, it was simply unbearable to look at.

In fact, signs of this change had been appearing since half a year ago. At that time, Meiling had already seen a few white hairs on the Old Ancestor's head.

After annexing the Gan and Dai families, all parties tacitly stopped and began to digest these territories. A month ago, under circumstances that outsiders didn't know, the Old Ancestors of all parties secretly came to the capital, and gathered in the Royal Grand Theater at the beginning every day, either listening to grandmasters performing, or the Royal Symphony Orchestra performing. In their spare time, they would also discuss some future matters.

"Meiling, can you contact Changsheng Duke?" The Old Ancestor suddenly asked, without waiting for Meiling to consider how to answer, he directly stated his purpose: "Regardless of whether you can contact him or not, it's best to find a way to notify him and let him and Miss Lin return to the capital together."

"Let them return to the capital?" Meiling, Qiangwei, and Aqi all widened their eyes, unable to believe their ears.

"We are all like this now, I believe Miss Lin won't be any better than us." The Old Ancestor nodded and said calmly: "Since the grievances were formed by us five hundred years ago, then let us old guys five hundred years ago make a break, and don't involve you juniors!"

"Old Ancestor!" Meiling was shocked, these Old Ancestors actually thought this way, which was unexpected. Making a break meant that everyone would have a final battle. No matter which side won, I'm afraid there would be deaths.

"We have made up our minds, and just want to see Miss Lin's true methods." The Old Ancestor's face was filled with a kind of longing and excitement, as if he had already seen Lin Xiu's true strength.

The Old Ancestor turned to Meiling, his gaze was very gentle: "Actually, we want to see Changsheng Duke's methods even more. How did he allow you, a five-star Yuanhun, to cultivate to this point in such a short time? Meiling, you are already in the Epic realm, and are about to advance to the twelfth realm, right?"

Meiling was stunned, then nodded. She had hidden it well before, but she didn't expect to be seen through by the Old Ancestor.

"If I were a few hundred years younger, I would never leave such a man to you." The Old Ancestor made a rare joke, but didn't stay any longer, turned and left, seemingly going to listen to music with those Old Ancestors again.

Meiling, Qiangwei, and Aqi looked at each other. After a long while, Meiling took a deep breath and said: "Send a message to the Duke, let him decide!"

When Wang Sheng received Meiling's message from the messenger bird, he was lying comfortably on the beach with Lin Xiu, sunbathing. Of course, Wang Sheng looked very happy, but he also had a faint sadness in his heart.

Lin Xiu had always been very happy, and looked healthy on the surface, but Wang Sheng was now in the thirteenth realm, with the Nine-Character Mantra and Eight-Character Formula. Although Lin Xiu didn't allow him to explore the state of Lin Xiu's body anymore, Wang Sheng could still feel that Lin Xiu's body and cultivation were degenerating. Lin Xiu didn't notice, or she noticed but didn't say anything, Lin Xiu's hair was already graying.

"Is it because of forcibly improving my cultivation?" Wang Sheng had suspected this, so he asked once when Lin Xiu was in a good mood. Wang Sheng was very concerned about whether Lin Xiu had used some means to improve Wang Sheng's strength at the cost of her own after their first intercourse.

"It's not that serious." Lin Xiu shook her head, only answered one sentence, but didn't say in detail.

This situation made Wang Sheng very worried, especially when he found that Lin Xiu's hair had begun to turn white, he was even more shocked.

Meiling's letter made Wang Sheng understand a lot. This degeneration should be the sequelae of their collective seal for five hundred years. Although Lin Xiu also used the method of freezing, it was not achieved by the most scientific means, and some imperfections would lead to such consequences.

Under this condition, no matter how strong the cultivation, it is impossible to fight against time.

Lin Xiu must know, otherwise she wouldn't accompany Wang Sheng to play so crazy, she probably wanted to cherish every moment with Wang Sheng, and not leave any regrets in her life.

"They want to make a final break with you." Finally, Wang Sheng told Lin Xiu the meaning of the Old Ancestors in the capital. On this point, Wang Sheng absolutely respected Lin Xiu, and would never make a choice for Lin Xiu. No matter what choice Lin Xiu made, Wang Sheng would support it.

"Okay!" Lin Xiu answered without hesitation, the smile on her face was extremely bright: "I will fulfill them. Even if it's to thank them for their hard work in helping me verify the path of cultivation over the years, I will personally send them on their way."

Some words were not said later, but Wang Sheng could also add them himself. It was much more honorable to die in Lin Xiu's hands than to linger in bed and die of old age.

A week later, Wang Sheng and Lin Xiu, riding on the Great Snow, swaggered and landed in the Changsheng Duke's Mansion.

The return of Changsheng Duke made the whole capital boil.