Chapter 82: The Rising Talent of the Lu Family

"Take it."

After stripping away the dragon's blood, scales, tendons, bones, horns, and whiskers, leaving only the flesh behind, Lu Wanshan tossed the spatial ring to Lu Sheng and said gruffly.

The meat of a fourth-rank flood dragon might have been precious in the eyes of others, but Lu Wanshan did not care for it in the least.

Not to mention that a great master could draw upon the vital energy of heaven and earth to meet his own needs; even if he wished to indulge his appetite, he could cultivate what he required himself by virtue of his power to transmute vital energy into matter.

To him, the most important thing on this flood dragon's corpse was the aura of the dragon itself—

With it, he could make the true dragon spiritual essence within the Mountain and River Seal carry even greater majesty.

Otherwise, as an Abyss-Viewing grandmaster, why would he covet something belonging to a junior?

As for the dragon blood and scales, Lu Wanshan had taken them not only to add to the accumulation of the Great Jing Lu clan, but also to help Lu Sheng escape disaster—

After all, once his identity was exposed, with Lu Sheng's strength he would never have been able to keep the flood dragon's corpse.

Lu Sheng naturally understood all this. So when Lu Wanshan asked for the flood dragon's corpse, he felt little resistance in his heart.

At that moment, he happily took the ring and said to Lu Wanshan:

"Thank you, Ancestor."

Seeing the flood dragon flesh left inside, his heart was brimming with delight.

The reason he had thickened his face to keep the flood dragon flesh was not that he could not bear to part with its deliciousness. Rather, after mastering the Devouring Divine Power, not only had his teeth become formidable, but his appetite had also grown astonishingly vast.

For the Lu Sheng of now, ordinary meat was not only entirely unchewy, but once swallowed, it would be digested without a trace the moment it reached his stomach.

Only the flesh of demonic beasts could satisfy his craving.

For this very reason, compared with the dragon blood, scales, and the rest, this hundred-thousand-jin flood dragon flesh was what Lu Sheng found hardest to let go.

However, before he could bask in his delight for long, Lu Sheng heard Lu Wanshan say:

"Where is the dragon pearl?"

"Where did you put the dragon pearl of this flood dragon?"

Just now, Lu Wanshan had not only searched the flood dragon's corpse several times, but had also carefully examined Lu Sheng's spatial ring.

Yet even so, he had still been unable to find any trace of the dragon pearl.

"The dragon pearl?"

"Why does Ancestor want it?"

"The dragon pearl of this flood dragon was swallowed by a demonic beast. It is not in my hands now!"

Without changing expression, Lu Sheng replied.

He had long guessed that once his identity was exposed, someone would ask after the whereabouts of the dragon pearl. Only, that pearl had already been swallowed by the Flying Dragon Horse puppet, leaving him no choice but to find words to deal with the matter.

"Swallowed by a demonic beast?"

With an amused glance at Lu Sheng, Lu Wanshan did not press further.

As a grandmaster of the Abyss-Viewing realm, he did not attach much importance to a fourth-rank dragon pearl. The reason he had brought it up now was more to give Lu Sheng a warning, so that he would not keep feeling as though he had suffered some great loss—

At the very least, the dragon pearl, one of the most important treasures, had still remained in Lu Sheng's hands.

Thus, although he could tell Lu Sheng's words were not entirely true, Lu Wanshan did not continue the inquiry. Instead, he spoke to him about Murong Yu:

"As for your relationship with Murong Yu, there is no need for you to worry at all."

"Do you know why I chose you yesterday to be Murong Yu's husband?"

"Why choose me to be Murong Yu's husband?"

Hearing Lu Wanshan's words, Lu Sheng thought of what he had said the day before and replied with a grin:

"Didn't Ancestor say yesterday that I am 'clever and perceptive, brave and strong'—"

"I suppose that makes me one of the most outstanding talents among the younger generation of the Great Jing Lu clan!"

He had added "one of" rather than saying outright that he was the most outstanding talent because Lu Sheng recalled the prodigies list he had seen the day before, which contained one member of the Lu clan whose ranking happened to be higher than his own.

"Lu Yunfei, eighth on the prodigies list, eighty-first on the earth list."

"Even if you have already killed Shi Ying, his ranking still exceeds yours."

"This man was the husband I had originally chosen for Murong Yu, and after sealing him, I placed him in a spatial bag."

In this world, people possess an inner heaven and earth within their bodies. So long as they are alive, they cannot be placed into ordinary spatial equipment.

However, for grandmasters who have cultivated an inner heaven and earth, there were methods by which they could seal away another person's unformed inner heaven and earth, and thus place that person into spatial equipment.

The current Lu Yunfei had been sealed by Lu Wanshan and stored inside a spatial beast bag.

"Lu Yunfei, spatial bag!"

Though he had long guessed that Lu Wanshan must have other arrangements, hearing this still sent a chill through Lu Sheng. He hurriedly asked Lu Wanshan:

"Then does he know about this?"

"I do not want my wife to be thought of by others in the future!"

Laughing heartily, Lu Wanshan said:

"Not yet. But if you want him to know, I can release him right now."

"Then the two of you can have a proper spar!"

Before the matter of the Snow Eagle King’s reincarnation was settled, of course Lu Wanshan would not tell anyone else.

Even Lu Yunfei had only been guided by him to cultivate in seclusion within the White Jade Pagoda, then secretly sealed and brought to the Western Regions.

Right now, aside from him and Lu Sheng, no one knew that Lu Yunfei had made a trip to the Western Regions.

"Boy, I know you are quick-witted, and you surely guessed that I had long prepared a candidate."

"Now that I tell you his name, it is so that you do not make wild guesses."

"Even if you are displeased, you may beat him up a few times in the future, but do not go around killing members of the clan at random!"

After joking for a while, Lu Wanshan looked at Lu Sheng's embarrassed, somewhat annoyed expression and said solemnly:

"Although Lu Yunfei is for the moment ranked above you on the prodigies list and the earth list, I can see that your strength has already surpassed his."

"The two of you are both outstanding talents of this generation of the Great Jing Lu clan, and in the future you may even become martial lords, or perhaps grandmasters. As the guardian of the Great Jing Lu clan, of course I do not want the two of you to slaughter one another and let outsiders reap the benefit."

"So I took the initiative to tell you this, so that you would not keep guessing!"

Hearing Lu Wanshan's admonition, Lu Sheng replied just as solemnly:

"Rest assured, Ancestor. So long as Lu Yunfei does not provoke me, he and I will keep to our own paths and not interfere with one another."

"However, if he hears wind of this and then comes looking for trouble, do not blame me for showing no mercy!"

Whether one admitted it or not, becoming Murong Yu's husband and having a daughter who was the reincarnation of a mighty expert was a great opportunity for Lu Sheng.

Lu Yunfei, having had that opportunity snatched away, might well be unwilling to let it rest once he learned the truth, and then come looking for trouble.

Therefore, although Lu Sheng agreed to Lu Wanshan's words, he still left himself room to maneuver.

"Relax. He will not come looking for your trouble," Lu Wanshan said. "So long as neither of us says anything, no one will know about this matter."

The reason he had chosen Lu Sheng in place of Lu Yunfei was to give the Snow Eagle King's reincarnated self a better family, and thereby deepen his sense of belonging to the Great Jing Lu clan.

It was impossible for this matter to leak out, leaving Lu Sheng and Lu Yunfei as laughingstocks.

"What about this one?" Lu Sheng asked, pointing to the fourth-rank Roaring Sea Eagle beneath his feet.

A fourth-rank Roaring Sea Eagle possessed intelligence no less than that of a human. If it heard any of this, it might well carry the information outside.

"This one?" With an approving look at Lu Sheng, Lu Wanshan said, "My domain has long since enveloped the surrounding area. Not to mention it, even a grandmaster of the Abyss-Viewing realm would not be able to hear our conversation so long as he did not break through my domain."

"So you need not worry that the sea eagle heard any of it at all!"

While speaking with Lu Sheng, Lu Wanshan had already veiled the surrounding void. Aside from Abyss-Viewing grandmasters, no one else might perhaps notice the sea eagle, but they would in no way notice them.

Still less could they hear their exchange.

Thus, Lu Wanshan was utterly at ease.