Chapter 263 — The Third Prince of Shenyuan City
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His pupils contracted. He stared gravely at Shi Jin and was just about to shout, "My dad is the Sea Dragon King!"
But Shi Jin spoke faster.
"So, uh, if I said this was all a misunderstanding, would you believe me?" Shi Jin stroked his chin, studying the White Cang Dragon that now hovered in the sky, not daring to make a reckless move.
White Cang Dragon: ?
"Are you little Bai?"
"I've heard the elders in my family mention you."
"To think you'd grow up so big in the blink of an eye."
White Cang Dragon: ?
A look of reminiscence came over Shi Jin's face as he produced the Sea Dragon King's scale. "You don't know me, but I know you. When your father gave me this scale, you hadn't even been born yet."
The White Cang Dragon froze, mouth agape as it stared at the Sea Dragon King's scale in Shi Jin's hand, utterly dumbstruck. Holy shit, this aura... it really was its father's scale. Wh-what on earth was going on here???
In an instant, the White Cang Dragon was completely bewildered, staring at Shi Jin and the others in shock.
"Seniors, you are...?"
Its telepathic voice rang out. As expected of a totem's offspring—it had already mastered telepathy at Commander-tier.
In that instant, Shi Yi and the others, along with the Gem Cat, were all stunned.
"We're all family here, family! Come, come, sit, sit." Shi Jin said with a smile. "So how did you get out of Mirage Abyss City?"
Hearing that this was a big shot acquainted with its father, the White Cang Dragon's nerves shot to an extreme—it nearly thought Shi Jin had been sent by its father to catch it. Trembling with tension, it said, "Just... getting some air outside, doing a bit of training."
Shi Jin: "..."
"Isn't Mirage Abyss City hosting the Dragon Palace Banquet soon?" Shi Tang asked.
"Yeah, yeah." The White Cang Dragon nodded.
"You ran away from it?" Shi Tang asked, because through telepathy he had sensed the White Cang Dragon's anxious, nervous heart.
White Cang Dragon: "..."
"I was really going stir-crazy. Locking a wind-element divine dragon like me up in the sea—does that make any sense?" The White Cang Dragon wore a bitter expression.
"Ao?" "Hm?" "Ee?" "Mew?"
Shi Yi and the others pointed and chattered among themselves—it really didn't make sense.
At the very least, they ought to have locked it up in a blizzard.
"Is that really the only reason?" Shi Jin was gradually seizing the initiative.
"Ah, no—the main thing is my father wants me to find a beast tamer to follow, but I don't want to be a human's pet... I want freedom!!" It grimaced. "All those human beast tamers I've seen before were utter trash—follow them? No way! Uh, of course, I don't mean you, senior. Please don't tell my father about this, okay?"
Shi Jin: "..."
Good heavens, Shi Jin inwardly exclaimed, good heavens.
So this was the offspring of the overlord species of Qixia City?
But then he glanced at the White Cang Dragon's Super-Constellation teaching success rate...
Extremely low...
Never mind.
You're trash yourself.
You don't even have an overlord's will, and you have the nerve to call yourself a totem's child?
"No, no, of course I won't say anything." Shi Jin gave a chuckle. "There really is no rule saying you must follow a human."
"Right?!" The White Cang Dragon felt as if it had found a kindred spirit—it never expected Shi Jin to understand it so well.
To give up being the third prince of Mirage Abyss City, to forgo a life of fine food and drink, and instead lock itself in the cramped space of a human beast tamer, suffering through training every day—what was the point?
"My father has his own obsession, insisting I fulfill his wish for him. How hateful." The White Cang Dragon said resentfully. "He even says that only by following a human beast tamer does one have a chance to step into the Mythic realm..."
Chongchong and the others gradually pieced it all together. This White Cang Dragon's father was none other than the Sea Dragon King—the dragon carp pet that Lin You, the evolution-talent beast, had casually raised and which had evolved—the dragon totem who had married into Mirage Abyss City!
Shi Jin: "...Haha, your father was surely just thinking of your future. Come, come, let me ask you something—how many overlords' offspring are coming to the Dragon Palace Banquet this time? Do you know? Of course, I mean those still in their juvenile stage, aside from you..."
The White Cang Dragon blinked, not understanding why Shi Jin was asking. It looked at Cenyu with suspicion.
Still, it did carefully begin to recall...
"They should all be attending, I think."
"Currently, the overlords' offspring in Mirage Abyss City..."
"The Sponge Overlord's little baby? And the Octopus little brother from the Ten-Thousand-Claw Octopus Overlord's family, oh, and the child of the Neptune Overlord—that silly starfish."
"Mm, and there's Sister Orca, plus that idiot Bull Shark."
"Oh right—after the Second Princess of Mermaid Isle ran off with a human, the Mermaid Queen seems to have gotten pregnant again. I wonder if it's been born yet. Incredible, really—that auntie is practically Qixia City's fertility pioneer..."
"Besides them... I think there's also Sister Sea Yaksha, the daughter of the Yaksha General?"
White Azure Dragon racked his brain. After thinking for ages, he could only recall fewer than ten offspring of Overlord-tier beasts that he was relatively familiar with.
By now, having heard White Azure Dragon's account, Shi Cen sank into deep thought.
SpongeBob? Octopus Bro? Silly Starfish? What the hell? These are Overlord heirs? This is Qixia City?
"That Sister Orca you mentioned—what race is she, exactly?"
"And the Bull Shark?"
"Speaking of that Second Princess of Mermaid Isle—did she leave with a human named Lu Heng? And tell me, is the Mermaid Queen's child always guaranteed to be a mermaid princess?"
"That Sister Sea Yaksha you mentioned—do you have a photo?"
"Oh, wait, no—what I actually want to ask is, does Shenyuan City currently have any Totem big shots about to reincarnate?" Shi Jin had a great many questions, and he even inquired about that unreliable-yet-reliable prophecy of the Prophecy Owl.
White Azure Dragon: ???
What exactly are you trying to do?