Chapter 265: Changes in Time, Teaching and Testing
Yinglong bid farewell to Qi and others, and immediately returned to the East China Sea after leaving Yunmengze, convening the clan elders to discuss the matter.
"Lord Yinglong, if you just want to provoke trouble and create some conflicts with the Immortal Court, causing the two sides to turn against each other, that would be easy."
"Anyway, the group of casual cultivators who came out of the mud ditch have never seen any big scenes. They have a shallow vision, see gains and forget their own good, and cannot see the subsequent risks."
"As long as the tribesmen who go out are allowed to be more arrogant, do not cover up, and reveal flaws, they don't even need to take the initiative to provoke them, and they themselves will be unable to bear it."
"It's just like them, even if a few people die, and the level is not enough, it can only be regarded as a small fight. It is difficult to reach a big Luo Jinxian, let alone let the adults take action."
"Moreover, most of the casual cultivators are not strong enough. Although they are unjust and willing to sacrifice their lives for profit, they still know the importance and do not dare to be too ruthless."
"If it was just a fight between juniors and a few people died, and Lord Yinglong took action himself, he would inevitably underestimate the wisdom of the world's heroes."
"At that time, don't say that it won't involve Heavenly Court. Even if it really has nothing to do with Heavenly Court, but the Dragon Clan protects others, outsiders will still blame Heavenly Court for this matter."
"Then your master's plan will only end in failure. I'm afraid I won't be able to make a good deal."
The person who spoke was an old turtle standing upright, wearing a dark green long-sleeved robe with white beard and hair. He was trembling when he spoke, making people worry that he would fall to the ground in the next second.
Ying Long frowned when he heard this, and then he began to realize the difficulty of this matter, and asked the old turtle who spoke:
"Prime Minister Turtle is an experienced and prudent person, so I have to take this matter into consideration. The Prime Minister has already assumed the position of Prime Minister of the Dragon Clan to assist my elder brother when my eldest brother was here. He is one of the few wise men in the world. What can you teach me?"
The old turtle stretched out his hand to stroke his long beard, and from time to time he would pick up a strand and grind it with his two fingers. After a while, he answered:
"Reporting to your lord, there is a way. However, there is something that I don't know, so I dare not make false claims. I need your lord to tell me something."
Ying Long frowned even more, he didn't like this procrastination the most.
But thinking that the old turtle was already so old, and that he had been caring for the Dragon Clan for a long time, he could only suppress the irritability in his patience and said:
"If there is anything that the Prime Minister does not know, I ask the Prime Minister to explain it clearly. If I know it, I will never hide it."
Prime Minister Gui naturally understands what kind of temper Ying Long is like. After all, he has watched Ying Long grow up.
Knowing Yinglong's impatience, Prime Minister Gui still deliberately waited for a moment to test Yinglong's temper before asking:
"I dare to ask, sir, what other words did the heavenly court have to say when it first explained this matter? Is there a limit to the scale?"
"Do you want all living beings in the wild to know that the Dragon Clan expelled the Immortal Court because of Heaven's instructions? Or do you want to avoid involving Heavenly Court and do it for the Dragon Clan's sake?"
Prime Minister Turtle was not afraid that Ying Long would think he was delaying. He had already followed Zu Long before the Dragon Clan was established and jointly established the great cause of the Dragon Clan.
After the Dragon Clan returned to seclusion, he was also responsible for taking care of the situation, receiving courtesy from outsiders, contacting those who owed the Dragon Clan Karma, and asking them to help take care of things.
Confrontation appeases many dragon clan members, allowing the desperate to retain a glimmer of hope, and preventing them from following those fellow warriors.
Let the radicals be barely stable, and prevent them from completely degenerating into villains burdened by karma, entangled in cause and effect, and giving up on themselves, dragging the dragon clan into the abyss again.
He knew Ying Long's character best, he was a born leader, but if he were to lead a clan, it would still be a bit shallow.
And the Dragon Clan is different from other people. Compared with all the races in the wild, the Dragon Clan’s experiences are too rich and colorful, with ups and downs, which are beyond the control of humans.
The Dragon Clan was too high at its peak, with overwhelming power. With one against two, it could withstand the pressure of Phoenix and Qilin, and even had a chance of victory.
The Dragon Clan's trough period was too low, and it was like a shooting star, without any turning points, falling straight into the trough. To this day, the broken muscles and bones have not shown any signs of healing.
It's just that he has a special status and has a very high status in the Dragon Clan, but he is not a member of the Dragon Clan, so he can't teach him directly. In desperation, Prime Minister Turtle can only try to change it little by little, allowing the monarch to think on his own initiative.
Yinglong still didn't understand what Prime Minister Gui meant and said doubtfully:
"Aren't they both doing things for heaven, so what's the difference? Why should we consider that everything depends on human beings, and we must get things done first."
As soon as Ying Long's words came out of his mouth, Prime Minister Gui suddenly became a little anxious, and said with a bit of hatred in his tone:
"Master, how can you be so ignorant! The difference is huge. If there is a problem with the direction, this thing will become more and more wrong!"
"If Heaven wants to let Honghuang know, what the dragons do is ordered by Heaven in order to show Heaven's prestige."
"Then if we leave this matter entirely to the Dragon Clan, we will steal the limelight from the Heavenly Court, which will inevitably annoy people. Although the chance is small, it is unavoidable."
"If Heavenly Court doesn't want Honghuang to know, then if we expose Heavenly Court, wouldn't it ruin Heavenly Court's reputation and be labeled as being unfavorable in doing things?"
"With all the things here, people are so sophisticated, how can they be manipulated so easily? All aspects need to be taken care of in order to make things happen!"
When Ying Long heard this, he realized the real difficulty of this matter and couldn't help but feel a little headache. However, if he was asked to consider this, it would make him feel embarrassed.
When Prime Minister Gui saw Ying Long's appearance, he knew that he had not thought about this matter at all, nor paid attention to these issues, and his head suddenly became heavy.
Prime Minister Turtle wanted to make amends, so he asked:
"The Lord went to Yunmengze this time and met with His Majesty Emperor Qi. When he talked about this matter, did his tone and expression change?"
"Are there any hints in the remarks? What instructions can be given when describing the expulsion of Penglai?"
"No matter how minor the changes are, I would like to invite you to come here one by one. I have some experience, so I may be able to make some wild guesses based on how many years I have lived."
Ying Long had an even worse headache. He didn't notice any changes or hints at all. It wasn't that he didn't listen carefully, but that he didn't pay attention to this aspect at all.
Looking at the anxious old turtle, Yinglong finally could only mumble and said:
"This is Yinglong's fault. He didn't notice any hints or changes."
Then he saw that the old turtle was about to change his face. Knowing that it was his fault, Yinglong quickly added:
"The emperors are all generous people and should not care about this. If it really doesn't work, I will go to the heaven to ask again."
Prime Minister Turtle's face turned completely dark, and he couldn't help but said bitterly:
"My lord, do you want the emperors to know that my lord was distracted during the discussion and that the Dragon Clan is incompetent?"
"Still, you feel that there is no one in heaven who hates the Lord's current status?"
"And even if your majesties don't care, how can Kunpeng Baize and his ilk be easy to deal with?"
"My lord, this time is different from the past. The dragon clan has long lost its glory, and the heaven is not a dragon clan. As a minister, there is no room for carelessness."
"The fortune that comes from heaven is of vital importance to today's dragon clan. Some changes in the master's status are related to when the dragon clan can be liberated."
"Even if there is only a slight fluctuation, it will be a sentence of thousands of years. We all know this, but the Lord is still so lax, why is this!"
"I hope that from now on, the Lord will be able to calm down a little and nothing like this will happen again, otherwise the Dragon Clan will be in danger in the future."
When Ying Long heard Prime Minister Gui's accusation, he was extremely ashamed. But when he heard the last word, he realized that Prime Minister Gui might have a solution, and he immediately responded:
"That's the way it should be. It's just that this matter still needs to be completed. I wonder if the Prime Minister has any solution?"
Prime Minister Gui saw Ying Long like this and could only sigh deeply before saying:
"What's the solution? Master, please don't move lightly, otherwise you will only take action after going to heaven, and the Dragon Clan will have no choice."
"The only thing we can do is to ask the old minister to sacrifice a little face, walk around more, and ask people who had friends with the Dragon Clan in the past to see if they are willing to tell them."
What Prime Minister Turtle said was naturally modest. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Although the dragon clan is weak, Yinglong is still in the heaven, so those who owed the dragon clan karma in the past have to admit it.
If there is no Yinglong, then even if the dragon clan encounters a greater crisis and loss, Prime Minister Turtle will not be able to find those people.
Sometimes, if the cause and effect is too great, it may cause the other party to repay the favor and solve the dragon clan's dilemma, but it may also lead to the disaster of repaying the favor with the enemy.
After all, the solution to cause and effect is not only to repay it, but also to extinguish the other end. Without the source, there will naturally be no cause and effect.
Ying Long was a little surprised when he heard this. The dragon clan has fallen to this point, and there are still people who are willing to remember the karma they owed in the past.
It seems that since he was unblocked, only two people who went to the Dragon Clan to settle the karma were regarded as good karma, and the rest were all people who took the opportunity to ask for property.
Even among those two good deeds, one was Qi Huang, who came to the Dragon Clan to repay the consequences of the catastrophe. The only one who wanted to repay the Dragon Clan was an insignificant Da Luo Jinxian.
At that time, the Dragon Clan was weak and he had just unsealed the seal. Qi Yougui was the leader of the water gods in the world. Due to the gap in cultivation and status, Yinglong simply did not dare to ask Qi for the Yunmengze Dao Lineage as he had originally said.
In the end, he just asked for a statement of protection and pulled the opponent's tiger skin to make those innate saints who came to fight the autumn wind restrain themselves a little.
Fortunately, it was a favor that allowed Tianting not to be cruel when Ying Long promoted the method of transforming into a dragon, but instead allowed him to serve in Tianting.
Since he had doubts in his heart and the people in the scene were all members of the Dragon Clan, Yinglong asked directly:
"With today's dragon clan, who else will remember the original cause and effect? How can there be any possibility of repayment?"
Prime Minister Gui just smiled lightly and said:
"If it is an outsider, then naturally he will not repay it and treat it as if it does not exist. But what if that person is in heaven?"
"And we are not forcing him to do anything, we are just asking a question."
"Fortunately, the Lord is also in the heaven now, otherwise those karma would really let them escape. Although it is not very useful, it can still make some noise."
"If you are not willing to do this little thing, then the cause and effect will be huge."
When Prime Minister Turtle said this, a cold look flashed in his eyes. At that time, the Dragon Clan was very powerful, and there were not just one or two people who sought the Dragon Clan's head.
But with the decline of the dragon clan, the original prosperity was shattered like a dream, and the people who came to beg for help at that time became strange and unbearable.
Ying Long didn't know what Prime Minister Gui was thinking. He was just recalling who in heaven might owe the dragon clan karma, and he could also explore the emperor's attitude.
"Bai Ze? That's normal. His dojo is on the coast of the East China Sea. It's impossible to avoid the Dragon Clan. He can indeed point the way for us."
Yinglong muttered to himself, and Prime Minister Turtle was silent on the side, but did not disturb Yinglong when he was thinking. He moved his palm slightly and let the people around him leave.
There are too many people who owe the dragon clan karma, and there are too few awake people in the dragon clan now. If they know some things, it will only bring disaster.
As long as these things are used properly, they will help the dragon clan to revive in the future.
But if you try it casually and ignore the prerequisites, it will only make the dragon clan's hibernation process longer and more tortuous.
He will not easily tell Yinglong who these people are, unless he dies before, or when he recognizes that Yinglong can lead the clan, he will make it clear.
Otherwise, with Yinglong's current cultivation, the karma he wants will naturally be unimpeded, but he will eventually end up with a reputation of suppressing others, and then the next time the dragon clan is weak, it will bear bad consequences.
Yinglong suddenly asked:
"The Taoist temple of the King of the East is also in the Tang Valley on the coast of the East China Sea. Does he also owe the dragon clan karma?"
Although it was a question, Yinglong's voice was full of affirmation. Although he was sealed after the great catastrophe of the beast, he did not understand many things.
But he had a very clear understanding of his brother. A congenital sacred living on the coast of the East China Sea, with the character of his elder brother, it is impossible not to show favor to him.
Prime Minister Turtle nodded, and finally showed a little satisfaction on his face. He was able to draw inferences from one instance and know the whole from one instance. He was a potential person that a leader must have.
After dozens of Yuanhui, Prime Minister Turtle finally saw some growth in Yinglong, who was more like a king than a soldier.
It's not that being a soldier is bad, but a pure soldier is not suitable to be a king who leads a race forward.
They may have some similar characteristics, but the differences will lead a race to a completely different future.
Prime Minister Turtle saw Yinglong's transformation, which he had been looking forward to for a long time. In the darkness of the Dragon Clan, that little ray of hope.
"Dong Wanggong did owe the Dragon Clan karma, but now facing the order of the Heavenly Court, what judgment should the Lord make?"
"This karma, in the hands of the Lord, what room for manipulation?"
Faced with Prime Minister Turtle's question, Yinglong knew that this was a teaching and test for himself, and he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
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