Obsessively Raised by My Doll 156

Chapter 156

Zheng Xuening showed her respect for the black dragon, while Lu Dieqing carried the food box with pastries, her smile looking guileless. This scene did not look dangerous at all.

The expressions of the two were quite sincere, which made the black dragon doubt its own whim just now—could it be that it had been so used to being deceived by the people of the Xuanqing Sect that it had overthought things?

It hesitated for a long moment, then transformed its body into the size of an ordinary ox and horse, and reached out a claw to hook the food box in Lu Dieqing’s hand.

Lu Dieqing immediately helped to open the food box and let the other see the pastries inside.

“We often eat these ourselves. They’re delicious,” she added.

The black dragon narrowed its eyes, hooked the edge of the food box with a claw, raised its dragon mouth, and poured all the pastries into its mouth like sesame seeds.

Just… like a cow chewing peonies.

Zheng Xuening slightly averted her gaze, while Lu Dieqing blinked her eyes with great curiosity.

How can a thousand-year-old black dragon look like a child?

Each piece of pastry, if it had been eaten by Lu Dieqing and Zheng Xuening, would have required a few bites.

However, twenty pieces of pastry, handed to the black dragon, even with its shrunken form, were just a mouthful.

No wonder the other had to shrink its body before eating. Otherwise, it wouldn’t even have been enough to fill the gaps between its teeth.

“Not sweet enough,” the black dragon said, throwing the empty food box to the ground, smacking its lips, and shaking its dragon head, a little picky.

Lu Dieqing took the initiative to speak.

“Then why don’t you, senior black dragon, stay here for a few more days and taste all the delicacies of this place, so that you won’t have come to the mortal world in vain?”

This was what she and Ningning had discussed in advance, to try to use some methods to keep the other here to extend the time limit.

The cultivating ancestor of the Chaoying Kingdom had mentioned in the yellow cloth that the formation in this place could only let those otherworldly visitors stay for a month.

No matter what, this month was enough for them to improve their strength a little.

As for after a month…

They would talk about the future in the future. Nothing could be perfect. All they could do was to increase their strength as much as possible on the basis of what they could plan, so that they would have more say.

There was a long way to go.

The black dragon received the invitation to stay for a few more days, and its eyeballs began to roll.

It looked at Lu Dieqing, then at Zheng Xuening, clearly hesitating whether there was another pit here.

Seeing that she couldn’t persuade the other, Lu Dieqing could only look back at Zheng Xuening.

The latter, understanding, continued where Lu Dieqing had left off.

“Senior, you may not know, but our mortal lifespans are short. If we were to leave with you to go to that Xuanqing Sect, I’m afraid there would be no more chance to come back. Even if we did come back, our relatives and friends here would already have reached their end, and it would be difficult to meet again.”

Hearing this, the black dragon snorted. “That’s natural. A Xuanqing Sect disciple is not so easy to be. If you don’t go into seclusion for a few hundred years, how can you come out?”

When he said this, it was just a casual mention, but to Lu Dieqing and the other, they had truly learned the cruelty of cultivation.

This was a successful attempt to get information!

Zheng Xuening’s face darkened. She knew that if she let Lu Dieqing go to that Xuanqing Sect alone, it would be easy to get in but difficult to get out.

To go into seclusion for a few hundred years at a moment’s notice, was that a requirement of that sect?

If that was the case, if it really came to the point where she had to go with the black dragon, she was also prepared to go with Lu Dieqing.

Anyway, she had never had any feelings for her father, the Emperor, or her brothers and sisters.

Only for her maternal grandfather, she felt a little guilty.

If she really left, she would probably never see him again.

And Qingqing’s parents…

Zheng Xuening knew that Lu Dieqing was different from her. This girl had grown up in a small home full of love. From childhood to now, the days she had been separated from her parents and lived outside were few, let alone for the sake of cultivation, to be far away from her homeland and never see her relatives for the rest of her life.

If it really came to that point, and she had to leave her homeland to go to that Xuanqing Sect, who knew how sad this girl would be.

Zheng Xuening did not want to see Lu Dieqing sad.

There were very few people she cared about in this life, only this girl.

Just the thought of Lu Dieqing shedding tears and being sad would make Zheng Xuening’s heart clench in advance, and she would feel a pang of heartache.

Both Zheng Xuening and Lu Dieqing were intelligent. From the words the black dragon had unintentionally revealed, they had both gotten the information they wanted.

For a moment, both of them were a little silent, no longer showing the smiles they had deliberately shown before.

After the black dragon had snorted coldly and was about to say something more, it saw that Lu Dieqing and the other no longer had their previous enthusiasm for it. It coughed a couple of times and said, pretending, “But since you’ve so warmly invited this dragon to taste the delicacies of the mortal world, then this dragon will reluctantly agree.”

Anyway, it couldn’t stay in this place for long, and it wouldn’t delay the Xuanqing Sect’s business.

Besides, to be honest, yesterday it had flown in the wild for a long time and had discovered that no matter where it went, mortals were respectful to it, and some even knelt down to worship it.

This had made the black dragon very proud.

In the cultivation world, almost all mortals were related to those sects, and it was impossible to see a wild one.

The mortals in the cultivation world, even if they couldn’t cultivate, had ways to prolong their lives and practice martial arts. After being irrigated with thick spiritual energy, their horizons were also broadened. Even if they saw it descend from the sky, they would not be as surprised as the mortals here.

This had made the black dragon feel a lack of a sense of accomplishment in the past.

And now, this lacking sense of accomplishment was found in this small mortal world, which was quite special.

The black dragon was very good at self-brainstorming, especially after discovering that Zheng Xuening was no longer taking out her long sword to cut its dragon whiskers at a moment’s notice. It slowly recovered some of its lively nature.

“Since you want this dragon to taste the delicacies, have you prepared a place for this dragon to stay for a short while?”

The black dragon suddenly spoke.

Lu Dieqing and Zheng Xuening, however, as if they had thought of the same place from the other’s words “short stay,” simultaneously thought of a place.

—The forbidden land!

The forbidden land where they had obtained the legacy.

There was an illusion formation there, and a valley island that was a world of its own.

Either they could make it so that the black dragon could never take them away.

But this was too risky, and the source of this matter was that so-called Xuanqing Sect. If the black dragon did not return for a long time, there would probably be others who would come to check.

So this move was not appropriate.

Or…

Lu Dieqing seemed to have thought of something. Her beautiful almond eyes lit up bit by bit, but because the black dragon was present, it was not convenient to talk to Ningning directly.

So she could only look at Zheng Xuening, her watery almond eyes full of excitement.

Zheng Xuening looked at her at the same time. As their eyes met, they suddenly both smiled.

—That’s right. They could think of a way to enter that valley and use the rich spiritual energy and the different flow of time there to cultivate and deepen their cultivation.

However, this matter still needed to be discussed with the consciousness of that forbidden land.

“Ningning, Ningning…” Lu Dieqing couldn’t help but lean closer, wanting to hint at the idea she had thought of.

Zheng Xuening’s eyes softened. She reached out to stroke the girl’s hair and said softly, “I know.”

The two of them’s gazes reached a tacit understanding in their silent exchange.

Leaving the black dragon with its big head, its face full of confusion.

No, what do you know?

You’re not plotting against this dragon, are you!