Longzang

Chapter 436 I've Exterminated Your Romantic Encounters
This time, both sides made moves very quickly, and Wei Yuan had a great deal of trouble responding. The two sides played nearly three hundred moves in total, and the Seventh Elder was defeated in the endgame, just one step away from victory.

"One more game!" The Seventh Elder gritted his teeth, waved his sleeve, and the chessboard was restored to its original state.

Wei Yuan placed his piece on the 3-3 point again.

Wei Yuan handled this situation much more smoothly. The mortals had already discovered some of the Seventh Elder's common tactics, so the number of steps that needed to be calculated was greatly reduced, which allowed Wei Yuan to barely cope.

Wei Yuan placed a piece in the east and another in the west, seemingly without any strategy, but after only sixty or seventy moves each side had made, the Seventh Elder had already collapsed.

After the game ended, the Seventh Elder stared intently at the chessboard, remaining silent for a long time.

What he couldn't accept wasn't losing, but rather not understanding how he lost.

Wei Yuan felt a little uneasy, unsure whether he was playing well or not. In any case, he just followed the suggestions given by the mortals and eventually won.

The Seventh Elder suddenly said, "I need to review the game. You can decide what to do here." With that, he grabbed the chessboard and vanished in an instant.

After the Seventh Elder left, Bao Manshan looked Wei Yuan up and down, making Wei Yuan feel uneasy.

Bao Manshan clicked his tongue and said, "I didn't realize you had reached the level of a grandmaster in Go! I've never seen the seventh brother lose so helplessly. To be honest, I don't see how you won either."

"Have I offended the Seventh Elder?" Wei Yuan asked somewhat nervously.

Wei Yuan had originally planned to fight hard but narrowly lose, just to make the Seventh Elder happy. However, his chess skills were really limited, and he dared not ignore the mundane aspects of the game and make random moves, lest the Seventh Elder see through him and discover that he was actually a terrible chess player.

As a result, the Seventh Elder was already dead before Wei Yuan even started fighting.

Bao Manshan laughed and said, "His last sentence meant that I could make the decision about Yun'er. Hmm, you've won over another elder, now we only need one more."

Wei Yuan was pleasantly surprised to find that he had actually won the support of an elder by playing chess with the help of a mortal in his Dharma Form. The support of the Seventh Elder was arguably the easiest to obtain.

Bao Manshan was also quite happy, but not because he was happy to have won support.

He patted Wei Yuan's shoulder hard and said, "Well done! That seventh brother always likes to brag about his chess skills. I've disliked him for a long time, but I can't beat him. This time, he lost so badly that he won't be able to eat or sleep for at least a few months!"

Bao Manshan suddenly stopped smiling and turned serious, saying, "Let's get down to business. What do you want Yun to do with you this time?"

Wei Yuan said, "I want to give her a city and make her the city lord."

Bao Manshan pondered, "You want to use the luck of humanity to repair her damaged foundation?"

"Yes. Qingming has just begun to flourish from nothing, and it is the time when the human world is at its most prosperous. It should not be missed."

Bao Manshan nodded: "That's one method. Anything else?"

Wei Yuan hesitated for a moment, his old face slightly red, and said, "I think that my senior sister is still young and has a long future ahead of her. She shouldn't get engaged at this time, so I plan to ruin this matter first."

Bao Manshan asked, "Anything else?"

"...And it all depends on Senior Sister's wishes."

Bao Manshan chuckled and cursed, "You slippery fellow," then sighed, "Even without you, I wouldn't have agreed to this from the very beginning. Would my Bao family really have fallen to the point of having to sell our daughter? Humph, all you ever think about is breaking the deadlock, but why don't you ever consider why we haven't been able to break the deadlock for hundreds of years? Isn't it because we old folks are so useless?"

"If you take Yun away this time, and then let her down in the future, don't blame me for being impolite!"

"Absolutely not!" Wei Yuan answered very decisively this time.

After Bao Manshan left, Wei Yuan did not see Bao Yun, so he left the courtyard and went to Bao Yun's residence to find her.

At this moment, in Bao Yun's residence, Zhao Fusheng stood in the courtyard, clearly agitated.

He casually plucked a white-gold leaf, crumpled it in his palm, and said irritably, "Why don't you understand? Wei Yuan has been avoiding a crucial issue: status!"

Bao Yun reached out, and a pale pink flower flew into her palm before gradually disappearing. Looking at the laurel tree before her, she said calmly, "I don't care."

A ball of dragon fire rose above Zhao Fusheng's head as he roared, "How can you not care about something like this? If you don't care about this, then what else is there to care about?"

Bao Yun sighed softly and said, "Young Master Zhao, you are a good person..."

"I'm not a good person!" Zhao Fusheng said firmly. He clashed his fists together, producing a clanging metallic sound and sending sparks flying, then said, "But I won't let anyone bully you like this!"

Wei Yuan had just stepped into the courtyard when his eyes met Zhao Fusheng's. Suddenly, dragon flames erupted above Zhao Fusheng's head, and he threw a punch at Wei Yuan's face!
Wei Yuan raised his hand to block, but just as his fist and palm were about to collide, Zhao Fusheng suddenly stopped and said, "My cultivation level is higher than yours, so it would be dishonest for me to win."

Wei Yuan hurriedly said, "It's just a slight difference, don't worry about it." He didn't want to let go of this opportunity to give Zhao Fusheng a good beating.

Although he knew there was nothing between the two, seeing Zhao Fusheng standing in Bao Yun's courtyard still made Wei Yuan furious.

Zhao Fusheng frowned, the dragon flames on his body appeared and disappeared, and he couldn't decide whether to step forward or not. Although he sincerely wanted to beat up this frivolous libertine, fighting in Bao's house was really not a good look, and would make Bao Yun look down upon him.

Wei Yuan remained calm and composed, holding a stone in his hand.

Once the battle begins, he will launch this stone into a corner of the courtyard and activate it at the right moment. When Zhao Fusheng suddenly witnesses this famous scene from the secret realm, his Dao heart will surely be thrown into chaos. At that time, if he doesn't move the young girl's Yin and Yang, it won't be a problem for him to get a good beating.

Anyway, the two weren't friends, and Wei Yuan had no intention of being friends with him. After this fight, it would be up to the young island lord to decide how much to pay for the stones. Given the young island lord's influence, he certainly wouldn't give them a discount; otherwise, it would be disrespectful to Qiongshan Immortal Island.

After much deliberation, Zhao Fusheng actually suppressed his fiery temper and said, "If I beat you up in front of Miss Bao, she probably won't be happy..." Wei Yuan quickly replied, "She won't care."

Zhao Fusheng glared at Wei Yuan: "Shameless scoundrel, do you think I'd fall for your trick? Hmph, if you hadn't used the pretext of fighting me just now, would you have alerted so many elders? And your purpose in coming to the Bao family to demand money and people is to do just that."

Seeing that a fight was unlikely, Wei Yuan had no choice but to put the stone away, otherwise holding a stone in his hand would be too conspicuous.

Zhao Fusheng stared at Wei Yuan, his murderous intent rising, and shouted, "Shameless lecher! I ask you, what title do you intend to give Miss Bao?"

This question was Wei Yuan's Achilles' heel, and he was immediately at a loss for words.

Bao Yun suddenly asked Wei Yuan, "If I fall in love with you someday, will you betray me?"

We will never betray you!

Bao Yun smiled gently and said, "That's enough! It's too early for formal titles and such. I'm still young. There are many cultivators who don't find a Daoist partner until they are three or four hundred years old. I'm not one of those ordinary women who have to get married and have children at fifteen or sixteen."

Zhao Fusheng said solemnly, "I am not just looking for someone to have nine sons with. I want to... uh..." His head started breathing fire again, and his whole body turned red. With Wei Yuan watching from the side, he couldn't say the second half of the sentence even if he was killed.

Bao Yun said, "I understand the young island master's intentions, but I am still young, and it is too early for me to understand everything. Perhaps it will take a few years before I can understand my true feelings. Please return, young island master, my junior brother and I have something to discuss."

Zhao Fusheng remained silent for a moment, then said, "Very well, I, Zhao, will wait for you for ten years!"

Watching Zhao Fusheng's tall figure disappear into the distance, a thought suddenly popped into Wei Yuan's mind, but he shook his head.

Bao Yun knew him well and could tell at a glance that Wei Yuan was up to no good again, so she asked, "What mischief are you planning to do now?"

Wei Yuan said, "I was thinking that the young island master's Floating World Dragon Map is a rare book in the world, and it's a real pity to leave it empty. If I find him a woman with whom he can cultivate together, could some of their nine children be given to him? Oh, I'm not greedy, four will do. If that's not possible, three is acceptable too."

Bao Yun couldn't help but burst out laughing, and said with a laugh, "You, you really are..."

When this topic came up, Wei Yuan suddenly had a thought and for some reason thought of the Xu family youths in the new city.

Bao Yun pulled Wei Yuan into the study, then closed the door and set up a magic array to isolate divine sense before sitting down next to Wei Yuan and asking, "Tell me, what exactly is this about the title?"

Wei Yuan felt a headache coming on: "Didn't you just say you were still young?"

Bao Yun said, "Whether I agree or not is one thing, whether you bring it up or not is another!"

Wei Yuan suddenly recalled the figure of that day who pointed to the sky and angrily rebuked the immortals. He sighed and said, "Now there is such a person. She is the first in terms of affection and gratitude. If we talk about titles, we can't get around her, so I can't mention it."

As Bao Yun listened, her eyes suddenly widened, she covered her mouth with her hand, and looked at Wei Yuan with a shocked expression.

Wei Yuan forced himself to sit in place.

"You, you guys actually..." Bao Yun patted her chest, finally managing to calm herself down, and said, "...No wonder, I always felt there was something strange about the situation between you two, acting like you could live and die together at any moment, humph!"

"No, that's not it." Wei Yuan wanted to say that his teacher had always been a compassionate person, and that his actions towards him were more out of the Tianqing Palace's usual protectiveness. However, this was a fact that was difficult to explain, and the more he explained, the worse it would get.

"Alright, next question." Seeing that Bao Yun didn't dwell on this question, Wei Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Bao Yun then said, "Since you can't give me a formal title, why did you take me with you? Did you just want to have some fun?"

What kind of indecent language is this...

Wei Yuan hadn't expected this question to hit the nail on the head. Fortunately, he had been thinking about this question for a long time, so he said, "I have no improper thoughts. I just want to do my best to get you out of this predicament so that you can live according to your own wishes. When you achieve the Dharma Form in the future, you will naturally be free from constraints."

"So all those words you said earlier, 'I will never betray you,' were just lies to me?"

"Of course not! If..." Wei Yuan couldn't bring himself to say it. It was simply too embarrassing to broach the subject.

Bao Yun pressed on relentlessly, moving her chair to sit opposite Wei Yuan, her knees almost touching. Staring into his eyes, she asked, "If I fell in love with you, would you betray me?"

"will not!"

"That's good. I'm not entirely sure of my own feelings yet, so let's get to know each other for a few years first. Maybe one day I won't care about titles or status anymore."

Hearing this, Wei Yuan felt a complex mix of emotions, a mixture of joy and trepidation. Before coming here, he hadn't thought about the future, because there was no solution. He thought that as long as he could pull Bao Yun out of this quagmire, that would be enough.

But now, judging from the meaning behind her words...

In her utter confusion, Bao Yun suddenly asked, "Besides her, is there anyone else?"

"No." Wei Yuan immediately thought of the promise he had made to Consort Yuan.

Bao Yun gasped, "There's more!?"

She suddenly grabbed Wei Yuan and pulled him outside, saying, "Let's elope!"

Wei Yuan was dragged out of the courtyard by her, and exclaimed in surprise, "Isn't that a bit unnecessary? We're only missing one elder now..."

Bao Yun pulled him straight to the flying boat field, gritting her teeth and saying, "I can't control what happened in the past, but from now on, at least for the next few years you've been with me, just forget about those rotten romances, don't even think about one!"

(End of this chapter)