The Beautiful CEO's Dragon Blood Bodyguard

Pa—a crisp sound rang out.

Little Kirin raised two fingers and easily pinched the sword blade in front of him.

"Still not showing yourself?!"

He gave a low shout, and there was a boom right before his eyes.

The talismans on the woman behind the Longsword exploded, and she suddenly appeared.

She was dressed in coarse linen mourning clothes—who else could it be but the Ninth Princess.

"You dog thief, I’ll kill you!"

She yanked hard on the sword, but the Longsword didn’t budge at all in Little Kirin’s hand.

Little Kirin snorted with a laugh. "So this is how your Dragon Palace treats its guests?"

The Ninth Princess cursed, "You killed my husband—what kind of guest are you? I can’t wait to hack you into a thousand pieces!"

She let go of the Longsword and fumbled a long whip out of her Storage Ring, about to lash it down at Little Kirin again.

Ao Jie moved fast; he grabbed the whip in one swift motion and barked at the Ninth Princess, "Ninth Sister, stop causing trouble for the Dragon Palace."

The Ninth Princess glared at him with red eyes and cursed, "You’re no good either. You’re of the Dragon Clan, yet you’re colluding with these thieves."

Ao Jie raised a brow, tugged with his hand, and with a sharp snap snatched the long whip from the Ninth Princess’s hand.

"You..."

The Ninth Princess stomped her foot in rage, but before she could react, Ao Jie had already used her own whip to tie her up.

The Dragon Mother hurried over at this moment and snapped at everyone, "All of you, stop!"

A group of soldiers followed behind her, surrounding the place.

The Dragon Mother glared at her daughter, then immediately apologized to Little Kirin and the others, "I’m sorry, my daughter just lost her husband, her emotions are out of control. I must ask you all to forgive her."

The Ninth Princess cried and struggled, "I don’t need you to meddle! Let them kill me, let me follow my husband!"

Her pitiful, delicate look made Ao Jie’s heart stir; involuntarily, he loosened his grip and unwrapped the whip from around her.

Her body went limp, and she collapsed weakly to the ground.

The Dragon Mother had the maidservants take her away at once, then stood there with a dark face for a while, thinking that if Little Kirin and the others had any sense, they’d know the banquet should end here.

Little Kirin did stand up, but instead of doing what she expected, he clasped his fists to her with a light smile. "Your Majesty, you’ve worked hard today. If you’re free, do go back and rest. We’ll drink here by ourselves; no need for you to be overly courteous with us."

The Dragon Mother was speechless; she’d never seen skin this thick.

She nodded in mute resignation and said "good" three times in a row.

After she left, Little Kirin and the others all burst into snickers.

Little Bai laughed. "The Dragon Mother must be cursing us to death in her heart."

"She’s probably never met anyone this shameless."

Even the Vermilion Bird couldn’t help but laugh.

Little Qing lifted her cup, took a sip of wine, and said softly, "So, should we make our move now?"

Little Kirin nodded to them, and together they all took out a Substitute Talisman from their Storage Rings.

Just then, Ao Jie suddenly stood up and bid them farewell. "Senior Brothers, Senior Sister. My cousin is in a bad mood, I’ll go comfort her a bit. You all keep chatting."

"Go on then!"

Little Kirin and the others looked at him in surprise, then exchanged a faintly mischievous smile.

The Yunmeng Marsh Dragon King, however, called out in some displeasure, "Let her cry if she wants—what’s the use of you going?"

Little Kirin blocked his mouth with a wine cup, clinked drinks with him, and said, "Dragon King, is your house and the East Sea Dragon Palace close kin or distant kin?"

The Dragon King said rather awkwardly, "To be honest, there’s no kinship at all. But we’re all Dragon Clan, so we look out for each other, that’s all."

Little Kirin said, "So that means the two of your houses can intermarry as well?"

The Yunmeng Marsh Dragon King nodded. "Of course we can. It’s just that our status is too low; they don’t think much of us. Back when this Ninth Princess was to be wed, I went to the East Sea with a proposal. But they’d rather pick some Sea Dragon Foreign Clan from the Nether Sea than make a marriage alliance with us. You tell me, isn’t that looking down on people?"

"You mean Ao Jie used to have a very good relationship with the Ninth Princess?"

Little Kirin’s face lit up with interest.

The Yunmeng Marsh Dragon King said, "Yes, they grew up together—you could call them childhood sweethearts. If the Dragon King and Dragon Mother hadn’t interfered back then, my boy might have ended up with her."

He took a gloomy gulp of wine and said, "But I’ve thought it through now. They look down on us; we now look down on them. My boy follows your father—that’s great destiny in the making. How could he ever go back and marry a widow?"

"Yes, yes indeed!"

Little Kirin chuckled, and seeing the timing was about right, he and his four siblings activated the Substitute Talismans together.

These talismans had been refined with their blood and flesh, and could take on their appearance.

Their true bodies slipped out like a golden cicada shedding its shell, leaving the hall and heading for the sea eye within the East Sea Dragon Palace.

The Yunmeng Marsh Dragon King knew nothing of this and kept chattering on endlessly with "Little Kirin and the others."

The Dragon Palace was vast; Little Kirin and his companions searched around inside and finally found a clue in an abandoned area.

The place was covered in coral reefs, and the temperature was very low, completely different from elsewhere.

In the middle of the coral reefs was a wellhead.

Gusts of cold wind were blowing out from within. The wind carried a murderous chill, stinging painfully against the skin.

Little Xuan was sensitive to Yin Qi; he looked toward the wellhead and said, "This well isn’t ordinary. It should be very deep."

Little Kirin examined it and said, "I’m guessing the sea eye is right here. Father said that when the East Sea Dragon Palace was first built here, it was precisely to use the Yang Qi to suppress the Yin Malevolence Qi below. This site is at the center of the Dragon Palace, so it should be where the sea eye lies."

The Vermilion Bird, a bit timid, said, "Are we really going to let that Demon Chief out?"

Little Kirin said, "If we don’t, all the effort we went through to swipe that Peach Tree will be for nothing."

Little Qing said, "Father said the great tribulation of the Three Realms is coming anyway. One more Demon Chief doesn’t matter, and one less doesn’t make a difference."

"Exactly. What are we afraid of? The Demon Chief’s enemies aren’t us anyway. We save him, he ought to thank us."

Little Bai agreed.

Little Kirin made the final decision. "We’re already here. Let’s go down and take a look first."

He took the lead and, together with his four siblings, entered through the wellhead. There was no water below—astonishingly, it was a huge cavern.

The five of them went in and were immediately taken aback.

The cavern was bottomless; about a thousand meters below, they could see blazing Volcanic Magma.

They had barely shown themselves when the Volcanic Magma began to churn.

A fire-colored creature suddenly burst out from within, roared up at them, and spat nine streams of flame that swept toward them.

Little Bai cried out in shock, "Holy shit, what the hell is that?!"

"Command!"

Little Kirin hastily activated the Primordial Unity Grand Splendor Talisman, shielding them below and whooshing all nine streams of flame into it.

The creature, which resembled a phoenix, stared at them in a daze, clearly surprised as well.

The Vermilion Bird felt a strange familiarity. "This creature isn’t dead; it’s alive."

"Could it be a phoenix?"

Little Qing exclaimed.

Little Kirin steadied his mind and shouted down at the phoenix-like creature, "Who are you? We mean no harm. We can talk!"

The phoenix gazed at them for a moment, then its body suddenly transformed into human form, becoming a woman dressed in a fire-colored Phoenix Robe.

This woman exuded imperial might, her face cold as ice, with an excellent figure and stunning looks.

She circled in the air once, then clasped her hands behind her back and appeared in front of Little Kirin and the others.