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Seeing that Yu Yuanzhen was so enraged by Gu Rong's sarcastic provocation that his thunderous power was about to erupt again and he was about to turn on Gu Rong without any regard for the consequences, Ning Fengzhi calmly stepped forward and acted as a peacemaker, trying to find a way out for the old dragon.
"Sect Master Yu, please calm down. Uncle Gu is just a straightforward person who speaks his mind. Please don't take it to heart."
With his signature gentle smile on his face, Ning Fengzhi calmly advised, "Xuanhao was indeed a bit reckless and impulsive today.
He shouldn't have come to your sect and caused such a scene without a word. But to be fair, after today's exchange, your sect's second leader... didn't really gain any advantage; on the contrary, he was at a disadvantage."
Ning Fengzhi changed the subject and proposed a compromise: "Since neither side has suffered any irreparable casualties, how about we both take a step back?
Xuan Hao can pretend he never came to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan today, and I assure you that not a single word of what happened in the square today will reach Heaven Dou City or the Soul Master world.
Let's just treat it as a misunderstanding."
Upon hearing this suggestion, Yu Yuanzhen's old face darkened to the point of being almost dripping with water, and his chest heaved violently, clearly feeling extremely aggrieved.
But he also knew in his heart that he really had no other choice in this situation.
In a one-on-one fight, he was absolutely confident that he could suppress either Gu Rong or Dugu Bo.
The problem is, if these two old foxes join forces, and Ning Fengzhi, with his unparalleled support-type weapon spirit "Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda," provides a full-scale boost...
No matter how domineering and invincible Yu Yuanzhen's Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex is, it will suffer a major setback today against this extremely disgusting "two attackers and one support" top-tier lineup!
Not to mention, there's Xuan Hao, who can strangely suppress dragon-type martial souls, lurking nearby, eyeing them covetously.
Seeing that Yu Yuanzhen remained silent, Xuan Hao knew that the time was almost right and timely offered a more "reasonable" way out.
"Sect Master Yu, Uncle Ning is right.
Actually, today's matter is not as serious as you think."
Xuan Hao shrugged: "All I did today was exchange a few blows with the second leader and send him flying.
I didn't even touch the plaque of your Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan."
"Besides," Xuan Hao pointed to Liu Erlong, who had a complicated expression on her face, and began to talk nonsense in a serious tone, "As you can see, I came with Erlong.
To put it bluntly, this is not some kind of bad incident where outsiders come to cause trouble and challenge the family's dignity."
"This is actually just a melodramatic family drama about a neglected illegitimate daughter who, in order to avenge the past, returns with her promising young lover and beats up her irresponsible father!"
"This is your second-in-command's private matter, a family affair!
It has absolutely nothing to do with the reputation of the entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!"
The moment these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the room instantly became extremely strange.
Everyone, including the disciples of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Yu Yuanzhen, Yu Luomian, and even Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu who came to join in the fun—all changed their expressions in that instant, and turned their incredulous gazes to Liu Erlong and Xuan Hao.
When Liu Erlong, the person involved, heard Xuan Hao shout the words "little lover" in front of hundreds of people in the entire sect, her originally fair cheeks flushed red, and an indescribable sense of shame and anger rushed straight to the top of her head!
"Xuanhao! What nonsense are you spouting, you bastard?!"
Liu Erlong stepped forward in a fit of rage, raised her elbow, and, both embarrassed and annoyed, forcefully twisted it across Xuan Hao's ribs.
She then demanded through gritted teeth in a low voice, "Didn't we agree at Blue Tyrant Academy that you'd be my adopted younger brother?!
Why are you bringing up that 'little lover' nonsense again? Do you want to die?!"
However, it would have been better if Liu Erlong hadn't reacted this way.
Everyone was still thinking that Xuan Hao, that troublemaker, was just joking around with nonsense.
but!
With that jerk and glare, coupled with her flushed face and coquettish tone... in everyone's eyes, there was no trace of the fiery tyrannical mother dragon known as "Horn of Slaughter"!
This is clearly a flirtatious exchange between a girl who is both embarrassed and anxious after her lover publicly exposed their relationship!
You should know that with Liu Erlong's notoriously fiery temper, if she really had nothing to do with Xuan Hao, she would definitely not hesitate to use her martial spirit to fight against such slander that was almost "ruining her reputation"!
Where would you ever again be able to so casually, even with a hint of "coquetry," twist someone's ribs like this?!
Something just doesn't look right!
For a moment, everyone's eyes were filled with complex emotions and shock.
Even the usually composed and refined Ning Fengzhi, the self-proclaimed knowledgeable Gu Rong, and the Dugu Bo who was watching the show with his arms crossed, couldn't hold back anymore, their mouths twitching wildly.
Ning Fengzhi couldn't help but turn his head slightly, looking at Xuan Hao with an extremely incredulous expression, his mind racing as if a million alpacas were stampeding through his veins.
You little brat... when exactly did you hook up with Liu Erlong, that notorious tigress?!
She's old enough to be your mother!
The tense atmosphere, which was originally on the verge of escalating into a life-or-death battle between titled Douluo, was completely ruined by Xuan Hao's unreasonable and disruptive behavior.
The suffocating pressure of soul power in the air vanished without a trace, replaced by an intense, unsettling atmosphere of gossip and awkwardness.
Yu Yuanzhen's lips twitched violently twice.
He stiffly turned his head and stared intently at his second brother, Yu Luomian, with an extremely complex and indescribable look.
As the sect leader, Yu Yuanzhen had always been too lazy to get involved in matters concerning his niece, Liu Erlong.
After all, she was Yu Luomian's biological daughter.
Back then, when she and Yu Xiaogang had that scandalous family affair that violated human ethics, Yu Yuanzhen entrusted the entire matter to Yu Luomian, her father, to handle.
He himself didn't want to ask a single question, feeling ashamed.
But today... what's going on?!
Yu Yuanzhen roared inwardly:
How did you raise this daughter?!
It was one thing for her to have taken a liking to her cousin back then, but how old is she now?
A middle-aged woman in her forties, almost fifty, actually hooking up with a teenager, a mere child?!
How come her tastes get more and more outrageous, more and more depraved each time?!
Facing his elder brother's gaze, which was full of questioning, shock, and even a hint of "disdain," Yu Luomian was completely dumbfounded.
It was as if ten thousand bolts of purple lightning exploded in his mind at the same time, leaving him blank.
Although he controlled the family's intelligence network, he had indeed heard that Xuan Hao was very close to Liu Erlong's Blue Tyrant Academy in Tiandou City and had a fairly familiar relationship with him.
But in his mind, it was at most Xuan Hao, the little tyrant, collecting protection money, or the two of them having some kind of cooperation.
He never imagined that these two people... these two people who are two generations apart in age, and Liu Erlong could even be Xuan Hao's mother, could actually hook up in private?!
This guy isn't here to cause trouble; he's clearly brought back some random guy to annoy his father!
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