Light Fortress-Chapter 1530 - 225: Deep Sea Conference
"I want to join the Ice Sea mission."
Gu Xiaoman’s voice was firm, "When do we set sail?"
Five years. She had cultivated in the Source Tower for five years and hadn’t returned to the Southern Continent... For some reason, when she heard the words Ice Sea, the deepest chord in her heart was plucked.
From Spiritual intuition, or perhaps fate’s guidance, something in her heart told her.
This mission, she must go.
"This information, for now, should only be known in the Upper City."
The Red Dragon stood at the window, gazing out, and said softly, "Coinciding with the new Divine Envoy trial, according to the Source Tower’s rules, this sailing mission might be combined with the Divine Envoy candidate trial... If you decide to set sail, you will inevitably be tied with the ’Divine Envoy trial’."
"In other words... you need to try to take on the ’Red Dragon’ title."
He withdrew his gaze, slowly turned around, and looked at the black-caped girl, "Are you willing?"
"Such calculation, I guessed correctly, you want me to inherit the ’Red Dragon’ legacy."
Gu Xiaoman couldn’t help but sarcastically say, "Earlier, Cloud Tiger made things difficult for me, you pretended not to see, is it for this reason too? Are you hoping to ignite the anger in my heart?"
"Not quite."
The Red Dragon shrugged, "If he had gone too far and you couldn’t handle it, I would have naturally intervened... But just now, there you were fighting with satisfaction, wasn’t there something enjoyable about delivering yourself to be beaten?"
"..." Gu Xiaoman was speechless.
"I’m not interested in any title other than ’Lord of Wine’."
Gu Xiaoman calmly said, "If I must go to the Ice Sea as a candidate under the ’Red Dragon Envoy’ title... so be it. But I don’t understand, you clearly have other ways to get me in."
The Red Dragon merely said indifferently, "The weight of those three words, Lord of Wine, is not as light as you imagine. Just say whether you are going or not."
Gu Xiaoman glared furiously at this somewhat rogue guy.
"...I’m going!"
Over these past five years together, she had come to understand the Red Dragon very well.
His true nature was completely opposite to what he showed on the surface.
The Red Dragon seemed lazy, but actually, he had a clear boundary; he never delayed or allowed things that crossed the line to happen.
The reason he has been securely sitting as the chief of the Divine Envoys for so many years is because of his extraordinarily high cultivation talent and his ability to kill.
This is someone on the same level as Master Bai Xiu!
But what Gu Xiaoman couldn’t understand was... with such high talent, the Red Dragon’s attitude toward cultivation was quite indifferent, he didn’t seem to pursue the pinnacle of extraordinary cultivation but was interested in other things.
Such as nurturing others.
This truly is a strange person.
She had previously visited the Red Dragon’s residence once, he obviously had the authority to live in the high levels of the Source Tower, the places above the clouds, yet he chose to live at the base of the Double God Dream, a place that rarely sees the sun. However, the Red Dragon grew many green plants in the absence of much sunlight, and no matter how meticulously the owner takes care of them, watering them regularly, those plants never grew very lush.
Nonetheless, the flowers and plants that the Red Dragon nurtured had tough vitality, surviving stubbornly without dying.
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In the East Continent, the highest specification virtual conference room held an emergency high-level meeting.
More than twenty people were seated.
The leaders from the Jiangnan and Jiangbei regions... the rulers of the three institutions and the five prominent families, all gathered here.
"Everyone, regarding the news of the [Ice Sea Ruins]... what are your thoughts?"
The elderly Gu Qilin sat in the highest seat at the virtual long table, responsible for leading this meeting.
He had already resigned from the position of Great Commander of the command office.
But for a meeting of this specification, it had to be him personally leading to make every attendee satisfied and convinced.
The members of the long table, the legislators, and leaders whispered discussing.
Just recently, a message spread among the East Continent high-level... the Storm God’s Throne, missing for six years, finally returned from the Ice Sea.
The Storm did not immediately inform the highest seat of his return.
Instead, he secretly dispatched the Giant Deer Saint southward.
The veracity of this news has not been verified yet, but if true, then the purpose of this can only be one... A relic indeed appeared deep in the Ice Sea!
"This news is rather strange, if I may be frank, before obtaining definite verification, the East Continent should refrain from any actions."
A legislator from the Jiangnan region spoke. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢
His words were not without reason, thinking carefully, how could such confidential news leak, and even if known by outsiders, why would they kindly inform the East Continent?
The long table was abuzz with debate.
"Ladies and gentlemen..."
At this moment, a dignified female voice spoke: "I can ensure the authenticity of the news."
The noisy meeting table suddenly fell silent, everyone turned to the speaker, seated to the right of the elderly Lu Nanzhi.
The Dadu District is the leading section of the Jiangnan Four Districts.
And Lu Nanzhi, in these years has proven her position with iron-blooded methods... Whether in influence or reserve power, she ranks as Jiangnan’s number one.
This statement immediately prompted the previously skeptical Jiangnan legislator to smile and say: "I see... Since it’s assured by the ’Madam’, then I retract my previous statement."
The Gong Family Master asked with a deep voice, "Apologies for the abruptness, it’s not that I doubt your credibility, but I want to know... for news this important, is there definite imagery?"
