Dragon Tamer

Chapter 714: Chapter 716: The Origin of the Sword Spirit Dragon

Flying back to Zhu Gate, Zhu Gate looked the same as before, with somewhat lax guards and a calm atmosphere. Were it not for the astonishing scene where every person in the market was a Zhu Clan powerhouse, Zhu Minglang might still think his Family Door exuded the same idle vibe as Mister Jinli.

All that was merely superficial.

Even he, a Young Master of Zhu Clan, had not seen through it.

Arriving at the Lakeside Study, Qin Yang was standing guard outside as usual. She looked at Zhu Minglang with confusion and surprise as he approached, travel-worn.

“Has he finished eating?” Zhu Minglang asked.

“Yes, yes,” Qin Yang nodded, puzzled about how the young master knew that Zhu Heavenly Officer was having a late-night snack.

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Pushing the door open, Zhu Heavenly Officer was sipping tea, with the residual smell of leftover food in the room, which quickly dispersed thanks to the breeze from the lake, only to be replaced by the fragrance of green tea.

He looked up at Zhu Minglang, unsurprised, and sipped the freshly brewed fine tea as if unwilling to waste it.

“What, you seem to know I was going to come?” Zhu Minglang asked, puzzled.

Could it be that Zhu Heavenly Officer also knew he had been reborn to yesterday?

“Here, you dropped this outside King An’s courtyard.” Zhu Heavenly Officer tossed the waist token to Zhu Minglang, “You saved that fat man, so you didn’t want him to die so easily, did you? Although in these years, he indeed persecuted many of our Zhu Clan, including your brother Zhu Tong, whom he manipulated from behind…”

“I asked him some questions, then killed him and buried him on the side of Mountain of the Nine Armies,” Zhu Minglang stated.

“Did you get the answers you wanted?” Zhu Heavenly Officer inquired.

“Yes, pretty much,” Zhu Minglang nodded.

“Are you here because you are worried about me, so you made a special trip from so far away?” Zhu Heavenly Officer asked again.

“Yes.”

“You’re acting a bit strange today, usually, you wouldn’t be so straightforward in saying you’re worried about your old man. Did something happen?” Zhu Heavenly Officer appeared a bit uncomfortable.

“It’s nothing. I’ll handle it,” Zhu Minglang said with a forced smile.

In truth, seeing Zhu Heavenly Officer sitting there, having a late-night snack and drinking tea, Zhu Minglang took a deep breath of relief in his heart.

He remembered every word his father had said at the time. Even though not a single word mentioned his expectations for him, Zhu Minglang could feel his silent guardianship.

The entire Zhu Clan was silently paving the way for his progress, even if it meant standing up against a deity!

And at that moment, Zhu Minglang truly felt what it was like to have someone to withstand the collapsing sky for you.

But that feeling was not pleasant!

Zhu Minglang still hoped that in the future, no matter how long he roamed outside, when he returned to Zhu Gate, when he came back to this study, he could still see Zhu Heavenly Officer leisurely sipping tea here, rather than everyone throwing themselves into the river of oblivion, just so that he and a few others could tread over their shoulders and skulls to reach the other side.

“Jade Blood Sword and Silver Chuan Sword are your third and second most satisfactory Sword Products. What’s the first one?” Zhu Minglang asked.

Zhu Heavenly Officer was stunned for a moment.

He gazed at Zhu Minglang, then stretched out his finger toward Zhu Minglang.

“Me?” Zhu Minglang inquired.

Just as Zhu Minglang’s heart began to surge with emotion, Zhu Heavenly Officer shook his head.

“?????” Zhu Minglang felt that Zhu Heavenly Officer was hiding something else from him.

“Isn’t it right in your hand?” Zhu Heavenly Officer said with a bitter smile.

While Zhu Minglang was still puzzled, the Sword Spirit Dragon flew out from behind him, circled around Zhu Minglang, looking very cheerful.

Zhu Heavenly Officer was pointing, not at Zhu Minglang, but at—the Sword Spirit Dragon!

“This…” Zhu Minglang didn’t know what to say for a moment.

“During the years you were missing, I sent people to search the Supreme Court but couldn’t find you; I thought you were dead. I was heartbroken during those days, so I went to the place you lived, Abandoned Sword Forest,” Zhu Heavenly Officer recounted.

“You forged the Sword Spirit Dragon???” Zhu Minglang asked, somewhat in disbelief.

“In the Abandoned Sword Forest, upon seeing those abandoned swords, I used the sky’s light as furnace fire, and rusty swords as materials, to forge a Sword Spirit. Originally, it should’ve been branded with my spiritual mark like my other Sword Products, becoming my exclusive forged sword, but those abandoned swords seemed to have been stained with your blood, giving birth to a Spiritual Sense that could only merge with you. I intended to treat it as you, letting it accompany me, but it refused to leave with me. It only wanted to wait for you in the Abandoned Sword Forest, more firmly believing you hadn’t died… However, I never anticipated it would later transform into a dragon, as if it knew you had become a Dragon Shepherd!” Zhu Heavenly Officer narrated this calmly.

Zhu Minglang’s heart was immensely shaken.

The Sword Spirit of the Abandoned Sword Forest…

All this time, Zhu Minglang thought it had formed naturally.

It turned out Zhu Heavenly Officer had been there and used those abandoned swords to piece together a consolation for his heart.

He probably poured too many emotions into it, which allowed this Sword Spirit to exceed all of his previous Sword Products, even ascending from Sword Spirit to a dragon, becoming a truly independent and intelligent life!

There aren’t so many coincidences in the world, only too many traceable details that one overlooks in the rush of moving forward.

If everything had gone as per the last trajectory, he might never have known the true origin of the Sword Spirit Dragon in his lifetime.

“Why have you never mentioned this to me before?” Zhu Minglang felt a pang of sorrow, especially thinking about the battle on the morrow, where he would recklessly attempt to slay a god.

As a Casting Master, he was already extremely outstanding. As a Sect Leader, he had propelled the Family Door to its zenith. As a father, he had been silently protecting him, and when the sky fell, he bore everything for him.

“Didn’t your Grandfather also feel too embarrassed to tell you that he had set up a spiritual tablet for you?” Zhu Heavenly Officer started to smile.

“Eh, he set up a spiritual tablet for me???” Zhu Minglang tugged at the corner of his mouth, imagining the Elder Sword Sovereign with a big beard on his face, and finally understood why he seemed so guilty when he saw him!

“How did you learn about the Jade Blood Sword, considering that not many people know of it?” Zhu Heavenly Officer inquired.

“Elder Jing Lin told me, but the Royal Family should also know by now that the Jade Blood Sword is in our possession,” Zhu Minglang said.

“Is that so? That doesn’t quite make sense,” Zhu Heavenly Officer fell into deep thought.

“Why doesn’t it make sense?”

“Even if the Jade Blood Sword is called The Best Sword in the World, because of your grandfather’s incident, it had been lost to the outside world long ago, and everyone knew it.”

“Ah?” Zhu Minglang felt like the script was off. Wasn’t the Jade Blood Sword at Zhu Gate?

“However, in recent years, as our Family Door has flourished, we’ve gradually retrieved those Jade Blood fragments scattered abroad, and I secretly reforged the new Jade Blood Sword. Yet, very few people know that I reforged the Jade Blood Sword; how can they be so sure that the Jade Blood Sword is now with us at Zhu Gate?” Zhu Heavenly Officer stated.