What bad intentions could the original dragon have?

The 'Bailongxia Secret Realm' is very large, and it is hard for Ying to imagine that this is just a small world created by Zhong Ling.

The sleeping palace was built in the sea of ​​clouds, that is, in the "sky".

Since there is heaven, there must also be earth.

It's just that Ying hasn't been there yet. The ecology in the 'Bailong Gorge Secret Realm' has actually formed a cycle. Even though Zhong Ling hasn't been back for more than five hundred years, the ground in the 'Bailong Gorge Secret Realm' is still full of vitality.

"Let's go wake up 'Lily of the Glaze'." Zhong Ling gently pushed Ying away. "Business is more important."

"Let me hold you for a while, just a while." Ying, who was pushed away, came back again.

He put his arms around Zhong Ling's waist and rested his head on her shoulder.

"This is the first time we've gotten rid of Paimon." Ying's fingers were restlessly groping on Zhong Ling's back, but because Zhong Ling's clothes were layered, such a touch could only feel the amazing silkiness of the high-quality fabric and a little bit of Zhong Ling's curves, and there was no other feeling.

"Yeah." Thinking back carefully, this was the first time he got rid of Paimon.

"Linglong..." Ying loosened her grip slightly, but still leaned on Zhong Ling. "Things will be resolved soon... Have you thought about a new 'contract'?"

"A new... 'contract'..." Zhong Ling lowered her eyes slightly. "I don't know."

The 'contract' to protect Liyue is about to expire, and the next 'contract' has not yet been found.

"Hey, let's travel together, and visit the Seven Kingdoms or something. This is only the second stop." Ying said with a smile. "Linglong has also been in 'White Dragon Gorge' for more than 500 years, right? Linglong doesn't know much about this era, right?"

"Yeah...I don't know much about Teyvat now." Zhong Ling nodded.

"So, let's go and see what Teyvat is like now."

"...Okay." Zhong Ling nodded and agreed for the time being. Anyway, she would officially retire after this was over, so traveling with Ying would be a good choice.

"But..." Zhong Ling looked at Ying who was leaning against her. "We..."

It's a bit hard to say...

In fact, hugging and cuddling with Ying like this, and being often taken advantage of by Ying, was already a very overstepping of the boundaries for Zhong Ling.

"We? What's wrong with us?" Ying blinked, waiting for Zhong Ling's words.

"Nothing...nothing." Zhong Ling shook her head. 'How can Ying know all this...I think I should bring it up first.'

Wedding candles, veil, wedding wine...

Even Zhong Ling had thought about this.

"Ying won't refuse, right?" Zhong Ling glanced at the girl in her arms.

Although Ying has said more than once that she wants to marry him, she said it in a joking tone every time.

After being told this several times, Zhong Ling was no longer sure about Ying's thoughts.

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B.49 Temperament

"Ying, can you sing?" Standing in front of the 'Glass Lily' that was about to bloom, Zhong Ling looked at Ying and asked.

"I'm great at it!" Ying said, patting her chest.

"Really? Then I'll leave it to Ying."

"No, I want to hear Linglong sing." Ying shook her head like a rattle.

She can sing, but not very well.

Zhongli said that Linglong has extremely high attainments in various talents, so Ying wants to see them for herself.

"..." Zhong Ling touched her lips through her sleeve. "I haven't sung for a long time."

I vaguely remember that the last time I sang was more than two thousand years ago.

"It's okay~ I want to listen!"

"Okay." Zhong Ling raised her hand, and a golden light flew out from the bedroom in the clouds and arrived in front of Zhong Ling almost in the blink of an eye.

"Oh! The money is withdrawn!" Ying said something that Zhong Ling could not quite understand.

However, Zhong Ling also understood that the strange words Ying said came from another world.

"Hey? Linglong wants to play the piano?" Ying said with some regret as she watched the flowing light fall into Zhong Ling's hands and turn into a jade harp.

"Why does Ying look so disappointed?" Zhong Ling blinked in confusion. "Don't you like listening to the piano?"

"Uh..." Ying pressed her brow. "It's not that I don't like to listen... It's just that I don't understand."

"This..." Zhong Ling opened her mouth and then laughed. "It doesn't matter if you don't understand. Music is for both the elite and the masses. People who understand it will listen to its connotation, and people who don't understand it will just think it sounds good."

Even though there is a saying that "high mountains and flowing waters seek soulmates", this does not mean that only soulmates can appreciate a person's music.

It is also a beautiful thing to be able to play music for people who like it.

The pianos of Liyue are just like the people of Liyue, reserved and introverted.

The zither music is "joyful but not lewd, sad but not sorrowful".

The emotions in most of Liyue's piano music are very peaceful.

Of course, peace does not mean dullness.

The peaceful sound of the piano can calm people's mood and gradually bring them into the mood of the music.

A chapter of piano music can be long or short.

A short one can describe yesterday's events; a long one can express a lifetime's emotions.

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Gently stroking the strings of the zither, Zhong Ling slowly exhaled.

Compared to a month ago, my mood has completely calmed down.

No longer has the temper that you get when you are poisoned.

Although she rarely showed it when she was poisoned before, sometimes, she would inexplicably feel angry and irritated.

And now, that nameless fire has been completely extinguished.

The poison that had plagued the area for more than five hundred years was finally completely eliminated.

“It sounds so beautiful!”

"?" Zhong Ling, who was stroking the strings of the zither, was stunned when she heard Ying's words.

"You play the piano so beautifully!" Ying came closer with sparkling eyes.

"..." Zhong Ling sighed, waved her hand, and the [Jiaowei Qin] on her leg turned into a stream of light and returned to the Cloud Palace. "Okay, Ying, don't make fun of me."

The sound of the piano can gradually bring people into the artistic conception. When the sound of the piano stops, the listener will gradually wake up from the artistic conception.

But most people would savor it for a while, instead of being like Ying, who couldn't wait to start bragging right after smoothing out the strings.

"Who would react like you after listening to a musical performance?" Zhong Ling rolled her eyes at Ying in annoyance.

Those eyes as bright as stars look very charming even with just a roll of the eyes.

"Ahaha..." Ying scratched her cheek awkwardly. "Although I didn't understand it, it did give me a reassuring feeling."

"And..." Ying pinched her chin as she thought about how to describe it. "I always feel like... ah, it feels like iced mint and sweet flowers."

"Iced mint sweet flower? What is that?" Zhong Ling said with a low laugh, covering half of her face.

"It's a peaceful, slightly sweet feeling." Ying didn't know how to describe it. "Isn't it a little hurried at the end? It seems to be different from the overall rhythm."

"..." Zhong Ling looked at Ying, then narrowed her eyes slightly. "Ying...you are proficient in music, right?"

When she was playing the piano just now, what she played was her mood in recent days.

'Glass Lily' is a joyful flower. It will bloom when it hears a cheerful song or tune.

And Zhong Ling's happiness in recent days is inseparable from Ying.

There is naturally sweetness in the happiness. Although Ying always likes to bully people, Zhong Ling doesn't actually hate this feeling.

She was happy these days, but she also felt an indescribable sense of panic in the past few days.

Originally, I thought Ying didn't understand, so Zhong Ling could use the music to tell 'Liuli Lily' her feelings.

After all, 'Glass Lily' is the flower that understands music the best.

But Zhong Ling didn't expect that Ying could actually hear the emotions and thoughts in the sound of her piano.

"No, I don't understand." Ying quickly shook her head. 'What's going on?! Linglong's eyes are so dangerous!'

"Really don't understand?" When Zhong Ling narrowed her eyes slightly, her big eyes were partially covered by her eyelids.

If this part is covered, her eyes will appear as narrow and long phoenix eyes similar to Zhongli's.

Normally, she displays "spirituality", while when she narrows her eyes slightly, she displays "nobility".

"Really?" Zhong Ling asked again, and even moved closer to Ying.

At this moment, she is the most honorable "Chief of Female Fairies" in Liyue.

However, Ying seemed to completely ignore Zhong Ling's momentum.

Well, it can’t be said that she ignored it. She actually felt some unnatural feelings as well.

But this feeling is different from the aura of [Yuan Jun], the oppressive feeling coming from a superior.

Rather than being oppressed by being in a superior position, it’s more like the feeling of being at a loss when your girlfriend suddenly loses her temper.

"I...should I understand...or shouldn't I understand?" Ying swallowed timidly and asked with his neck shrunk.

"This..." Ying's words made Zhong Ling's aura stagnate, and then her aura disappeared completely like a burst balloon.

Yes, she herself didn’t know whether she hoped Ying understood or not.

Ying was very disappointed when she couldn't understand what was said.

But if Ying understood, she would be so embarrassed that she would be unable to utter a word for a long time.

"You...if you understand, you understand. If you don't understand, you don't understand." Zhong Ling's cheeks were slightly flushed.

"What?" Ying scratched her head. "Although I think Linglong is cute when she's in a bad mood, how do I solve this problem?"

"I really don't understand music, I just listened to a lot of music, so I have a little feeling about it." Ying considered her words. "Anyway... it just sounds good, I can't really explain the specific feeling."

"Is that so?" It's hard to say whether I'm happy or unhappy, but my mood is very complicated.

B.50 The Fire Wolf Enters the House

Palace in the Clouds

"Alright, the final preparations for the 'Sending the Immortals Ceremony' have been completed."

Using the [Alchemy Technique], these two top-grade 'Glass Lilies' were refined into two bags of powder weighing only one gram each.

"If you smell it this way, there's no fragrance."

"But if we mix it into the 'Eternal Life Incense' and then light the 'Eternal Life Incense', we can complete the highest standard of the 'Sending Immortal Ceremony'."

"Oh, the 'Sending Immortal Ceremony' is really troublesome." Ying held her cheek and sighed.

“After all, it’s the ‘Ceremony of Sending Off the Immortals’ of [Emperor Geo King]. As the god of Liyue, it must be of the highest standard.” Zhong Ling spread his hands.

"What about [Cangming Yuanjun]?" Ying asked Zhong Ling.

"Ying, you are cursing Cangming Yuanjun with what you said, be careful." Zhong Ling rubbed Ying's cheeks twice with the same technique she usually used to rub Paimeng. "However, Yuanjun's specifications are naturally the highest."

"It sounds so tiring to go through all these steps again..." Ying rolled her eyes. "So, why not just prepare two copies at the beginning?"

We used the 'Night Mooring Stone' to make sacrificial vessels. Since we bought three boxes, it was enough for two 'Send Immortal Ceremony'.

However, there was only one portion of the 'Piao Miao Xian Yuan Ointment' made with 'Rainbow Flower'. Zhongli knew that Zhong Ling also liked this one, so why not just make two portions from the beginning?

And some other stuff...

"Oh, yes, 'Eternal Life Incense'... I should really extort some more money from [Young Master] directly." Ying thought of the 'Eternal Life Incense' worth three million Mora.

I should just buy two of this thing and give [Young Master] a big rip-off.

"It's not expensive." Zhong Ling said calmly.

Three million Moras may not sound like much at first glance, but from a common sense perspective, it is indeed nothing.