299 398,421 Spirit Stones
Long Guang could not manually or voluntarily change the shape of his body. No matter what he did, despite his high cultivation, he could not change his figure as a kid. This was a problem of his because, in the future, no one would look at him seriously.
Proceeding to a building with a Dragon Prince, he entered the front door without any fuss and just incapacitated the two dragon servants guarding here. When he entered, he was welcomed by a flurry of attacks and with just a casual wave of his hand, all these attacks stopped midair like they were trapped in space.
The Dragon Prince had long noticed Long Guang’s arrival. He quickly called on the other Dragon Princes about his appearance. From what he could see, unlike before, he could not see through Long Guang and he was not likely his opponent anymore.
What they did not know, however, was that Long Guang was already stronger than them in the past. If it weren’t for their peak Saint Emperor guards, Long Guang would have already chosen to make them serve him. But the odds wouldn’t always be on Long Guang’s side. Therefore, he chose to seclude himself for a few years and had only gotten out when he already had the strength to fight those who had the peak strength in Da Shikong.
“Petty tricks,” he said as he twisted space to send the incoming attacks back to his enemies. Unlike before as well, Long Guang was now more familiar with the thread-like things he could see in midair. They were rules that he could comprehend and with his talent, being topnotch even among his fellow disciples, he managed to comprehend multiple rules on his own. One of them was the rules of space and time—given that both rules were quite abundant in Da Shikong, just like what its name suggested—Realm of Spacetime.
“What the hell?” the Dragon Prince muttered as he saw how his subordinates were easily defeated—and even with their own attacks. “Are you being serious here?”
He hurriedly grasped a communication token and sent more urgent messages to the other Dragon Princes to immediately come to his palace as Long Guang was going rampant.
Other than some old monsters in the Dragon Emperor Palace, no one could probably defeat Long Guang. However, even with these old people, he wasn’t sure if they could defeat this childlike Dragon Son they had chosen to offend because of power.
“Get out of here, Long Gu,” Long Guang muttered as he climbed the stairs towards the next floor of the palace. “I’m not here to play any of your games and no matter where you hide, I will always come to find you.”
The palace was very grandiose, with all the chandeliers and the paintings on the walls. However, because of Long Guang’s infiltration, everything was destroyed and Long Guang did not even use any of his own attacks to exact this much damage on the palace.
Long Gu, the Dragon Prince, on the other hand, was shaking beyond belief. He was thoroughly frightened, especially how easy it already was for Long Guang to defeat his men who were at the peak of the Saint Emperor Realm. Those were peak Saint Emperors! They were only below the Dragon Emperor and the Dragon Ancestor! No one else would be able to threaten them and he had quite spent a lot of his resources to recruit them to his camp! And now, they were all gone just like that—and not even half an hour had passed—hell, even five minutes were not up!
“It’s been a while, Long Gu,” Long Guang said as he blasted off the door of the other party’s room. “I’ve been waiting for this moment.”
***
“Hurry up, you guys,” Yang Lujia said. “We still need to investigate baldy’s matter after we go to the Dragon Emperor Palace. I wonder if I can be of help to the Dragon Emperor who took care of my disciple all those years that passed.”
Brownie only scoffed while Yin Hang continued to gobble happily on the food in his hands. On the other hand, Sheng Ao’s face was still indifferent, but he was curious about his second senior brother. His master said that his second senior brother was the most talented disciple his master had ever accepted.
Yang Lujia scanned the faces of the people on this floor, within the restaurant they were eating in. “It seems like the people here are quite sensible, or should I say dragons. They seem to don’t dare offend somebody on this floor. I’m quite surprised that up until now, trouble did not come our way. I wonder how that kid, who tried to hinder us outside, was doing. He said he was a Dragon Prince’s son, right? In other words, he was of one blood with the dragon who tried to harm my disciple in the past?”
Seeing His Highness’ expression, Cai Hong felt chills running down his back. It felt like another unfortunate soul would suffer at this moment—because they offended someone like His Highness. Other than this, he was also curious about someone who His Highness had acknowledged as his disciple. Was he really that talented like what His Highness had told him before?
Moreover, Cai Hong himself was shocked to know how it seemed easy for Sheng Ao, who previously had no cultivation, to reach the realm of Saint Emperors just because he accepted Yang Lujia as his master. Although he should not be surprised at all, his emotions could not hide the authentic emotions he had felt regarding the matter.
“The bill, please,” Yang Lujia said as he gave a hand signal to one of the waitresses. “How much is it?” he asked when one of them approached their table.
“It’s…” The waitress did her calculations. “398,421 spirit stones, sir. High-level spirit stones.”
“What the…” Sheng Ao’s eyes went wide as even he could not afford that many high-level spirit stones when he was still the Holy Son of the Holy Light Palace!
“Master…” Sheng Ao was stumped and could not help but call out.
However, his master still had an indifferent expression on his face and he felt even more shocked. Could it be that his master was really this rich?
“Instead of spirit stones, could I pay using something of the same value?”
The waitress snickered, seeing that Yang Lujia seemed to have no money with him at all. They all had noticed him before. Because he was a guest and a customer at the same time, the waitresses did not dare express their disgust towards this group. However, now that they were about to unveil this man’s pretentious façade, they could not wait to humiliate him.
‘Why not just say you don’t have any money to pay at all?!’
“Please wait, sir. I will talk to the owner about this matter,” the waitress said as she brought out a communication token from one of her purses.
Yang Lujia waited as he ignored the smug look on this waitress’ face. His only task was to pay. Whether they like it or not, he would still pay them with things of the same value or even things that exceeded the value of what they ate.
“Sir, the owner wants to talk to you,” the waitress said, with a respectful expression. However, Yang Lujia knew that she was filled with disdain for him.
“Alright,” Yang Lujia replied as he signaled the others to wait until he paid for all of the food that they ate. He even felt like face-palming when he saw Yin Hang still licking on one of the plates.
Cai Hong, on the other hand, was having sweats on his back when he saw His Highness’ momentary expression. After all, he was the one who was tasked to take care of the kid and so far, he had not taught this kid the manners of how to eat like a pro. This kid actually continued to lick on his plate even when Cai Hong already smacked him in the back, oblivious to the fact that Cai Hong was trying to reprimand him.
Brownie, however, was looking at this sight with amusement as he went back to sleep.
Meanwhile, Yang Lujia already went with the waitress to go inside a room. “This room had a sound-canceling formation. No one would be able to hear us from the outside with this formation,” he commented.
The waitress was surprised and looked at Yang Lujia. “That’s right, sir. Anyhow, I’ll leave you here, sir. The owner doesn’t like to show his face to even us. Actually, it’s more like we don’t have the right to see him at all.”
“Is that so…”