Starting My Cultivation With Time Management - Chapter 1110: 76: The Old Father Grinds His Teeth

Chapter 1110: Chapter 76: The Old Father Grinds His Teeth

The moment Long Hu called out “Father,” it completely shattered Ying Long.

Tears immediately streamed down his face, and he wanted to reach out to touch Long Hu’s face, but halfway through raising his arm, he stopped, and finally just carefully asked:

“These… these years, have you been well?”

Hu Li stood by expressionlessly, thinking to himself, what kind of nonsense is my brother-in-law asking?

After you left, how much suffering and hardship did my sister endure? Don’t you have any idea in your heart? Isn’t your self-imposed exile in the Demon Locking Tower because of your unresolved guilt towards my sister?

And now you’re asking your daughter such a question, is it because you can’t find a topic to talk about, so you’re forcing it?

Long Hu was stunned for a moment and then responded:

“I’ve been alright, I suppose.”

“Yes, yes…” Ying Long said incoherently, “And have you resolved the bloodline issue in your body?”

Seeing Long Hu become silent, Hu Li hurriedly explained beside her:

“It’s resolved! Not only did Long Hu go to Beiming Fanyang to solve her bloodline issue, but she also subjugated the entire Jiaolong clan!”

“Very good, very good.” Ying Long was overjoyed, “As expected of my daughter!”

“With your bloodline, the clan ought to follow your lead. If anyone disagrees, just tell me, I…”

“Brother-in-law, you’re stuck here, what can you do?” Hu Li teased, “Don’t worry, Shi Yao and I won’t stand idly by.”

Ying Long heaved a sigh of relief, about to speak when Hu Li continued:

“Moreover, Long Hu later managed to deal with the four great lords, expelled the Qilin Clan from the imperial capital, and ascended the throne as the new emperor!”

This was like a bolt from the blue, leaving Ying Long completely stunned, unable to speak for a long while.

His daughter had resolved her bloodline issue, subdued the Jiaolong clan, dealt with the four great lords, and reclaimed the throne of the Jiaolong clan. Any one of these achievements was enough to fill Emperor Ying Long with immense satisfaction.

But having all of them together was a bit overwhelming. After all, in Ying Long’s memory, when he led his army on an expedition to the Mortal Realm, vowing to break the Demon Locking Tower and rescue his kin, this daughter was still inside her mother’s womb, and due to the bloodline conflict, he wasn’t even sure she could be born normally!

When he was imprisoned in the Demon Locking Tower, never seeing the light of day, it seemed as if time had come to a standstill.

Time flew by like a white steed flitting past, a hundred thousand years gone in the blink of an eye. When he came to, the daughter who had been in his wife’s belly was not only safely grown up, but had also reclaimed all the glory lost in his hands.

To Emperor Ying Long, the past hundreds of thousands of years of torment and suffering seemed to be compensated and rewarded at this moment.

“It’s nothing.” Seeing her father seemed to want to praise her, Long Hu bashfully said in a low voice, “I just did some small tasks, mainly relying on Aunt, Shi Yao, and the collective efforts of the Jiaolong clan, with Long Long assisting me.”

“Hmm.” Emperor Ying Long smiled and said, “Daughter, there’s no need to be modest. It’s only natural for those in position to be surrounded by others; your achievements will not diminish in the slightest because of it.”

“I’m not being modest.” Long Hu shook her head and continued, “It’s precisely because I rose from the very bottom, step by step, that I can truly feel the hardships and difficulties. If it were just by my effort alone, there’s absolutely no way I could have survived until now.”

“Father, I know you’ve always felt guilty for abandoning mother and me back then, to the extent of feeling so remorseful that you torture yourself here. While I don’t have the right to forgive you on behalf of mother, I do want to say… at least I don’t feel that you owe me anything, Father.”

Ying Long repeatedly opened his mouth, trying to speak, but in the end, couldn’t find any words.

“But Father, I do understand the pain of being ‘abandoned’.” Long Hu continued to say softly, “Long Long… Father may not know who Long Long is, but it was he who promised mother on her deathbed to escort me to Beiming Fanyang, to find a way to resolve my bloodline issue.”

“Along the way, we supported each other and developed feelings… at least I’ve already decided on him, my heart will never change, just like the rising and setting of the sun.”

“But after fulfilling the promise, he took the Heaven-Mending Stone fragment from me and then completely disappeared.”

Emperor Ying Long was dumbfounded, almost unable to process the fact that his daughter had not only grown up but was also taken by someone. All he could hear was Long Hu’s tearful plea:

“I want to ask you, Father, to help me find Long Long. Since he is interested in the Heaven-Mending Stone, he will definitely seek other fragments. I heard from Mother that these fragments were brought back from the Mortal Realm by Grandmother, but the enemies in the Mortal Realm are formidable, and I have no idea where to start…”

Emperor Ying Long finally came to his senses and said solemnly:

“Since you ask, how can I, as your father, refuse? Since Long Long dared to betray and abandon you, as your father I will first find him, make him kneel before you to confess and repent, and then beat him to the point of his form and spirit being destroyed…”

“Father.” Long Hu shook her head and said, “I don’t want Father to kill Long Long, I just want him to stay with me and not leave me again.”

Emperor Ying Long was filled with anger, like a person dying of thirst in a desert who finally finds an oasis only for a large camel to come and drink up all the water in the lake… thus he forced down his anger and patiently comforted his daughter:

“Alright, alright, I won’t kill him. Then I’ll break his limbs, put him into a vase, and make him into a dragon puppet so that he can stay with you day and night…”

“I don’t want Father to turn him into a dragon puppet either.” Long Hu said, half crying and half laughing, “I just hope he stays completely intact and promises to stay by my side forever.”

“Completely intact, wouldn’t that be too lenient on him?” Emperor Ying Long pondered and said, “Alright, then let’s extract his soul to torment and educate him, making him completely broken mentally so that he will only listen to you… ”

“Father!” Long Hu angrily said, “Don’t hurt him! Isn’t it enough just to find him?”

Emperor Ying Long was suddenly struck dumb by his daughter’s sternness, as if his sanity had completely crumbled. It took him a while to regain his consciousness, and with tears streaming in his heart, he forced a smile and said:

“As you wish, as you wish.”

“So does our brother-in-law have a way to escape from this place?” Hu Li worriedly asked from the side.

The last time you ventured out to save me, you refused to come out; now the restrictions of the Demon Locking Tower have been patched up, do you regret it?

“Of course.” Emperor Ying Long said proudly, “In the past, if I had not willingly stayed here, how could this mere Demon Locking Tower hold me?”

A quarter of an hour later, three members of the Demon Race, disguised as cultivators of Shushan, sneaked out of the Demon Locking Tower, swiftly via sword control before the guard cultivators noticed them.

“What’s going on here?” Hu Li couldn’t comprehend, “How did they just get out so easily?”

“The restrictions of the Demon Locking Tower are, after all, lifeless.” Long Hu could see some of the subtleties, “Father has been inside for so long, he must have figured it out long ago.”

“If I’m not mistaken, what is truly sealed inside the restrictions is actually the Dragon Puppet that Father created, right?”

“Correct.” Emperor Ying Long nodded, “When your aunt rescued me last time, although I deliberately lost to Long Eyebrow and returned to the Demon Locking Tower to imprison myself again, I used this chance coming and going to thoroughly understand the last few joints of the restrictions.”

“Since then, the restrictions cannot completely bind me anymore, and I can always use the Dragon Puppet as a substitute to escape.”

“If that’s the case,” Hu Li couldn’t help but ask, “why does our brother-in-law still stay inside?”

“What can I do if I come out?” Emperor Ying Long shook his head, “With my family separated and my clan in decline, I no longer have a reason to return to the Eastern Emperor Realm. As for this Mortal Realm, it holds no nostalgia for me. What difference does it make where I stay?”

He lovingly looked at Long Hu and said:

“Fortunately, I still have you, my daughter… in the future, it will be just the two of us, father and daughter, relying on each other through heaven and earth.”

“It’s not that I am unwilling to be close to Father.” Long Hu smiled politely and said, “But I have already found the most important person in my life, and there might even be children in the future. Saying ‘relying on each other’ sounds really pitiful!”

Emperor Ying Long seemed to be struck by Thunderbane, as if even his teeth were about to shatter.

Long Hu continued to ask:

“If we have children, Father will love them very much too, won’t you?”

“That… that’s of course.” Emperor Ying Long replied seriously.

Of course children will be loved, but the father doesn’t need to be, he should still be dealt with.

Speaking of the bandit named “Long Long,” Emperor Ying Long suddenly remembered something.

During his long years of self-imprisonment in the tower, most of the time he was undisturbed. Occasionally, when someone was unfortunate enough to come in, he would casually dispose of them.

But there was indeed one unique human who managed to earn some favor and trust from him, and received the mission of “rescuing his daughter”… Of course, Emperor Ying Long only did it on a whim, as an excuse to excuse himself from the adversary.

But now hearing his daughter’s words, it becomes clear that this human really succeeded! Otherwise, out of the vastness of the Eastern Emperor Realm, how did he manage to find his wife and daughter? What a coincidence that would be!

After explaining the situation to Hu Li, she quickly realized:

“Qiu Changtian of Kunlun!”

“Are you sure?” Emperor Ying Long asked, frowning.

So that damn scum is a cultivator from Kunlun?

“Yes.” Hu Li replied seriously, “When I was using the name Marquis of Mount Tu, I encountered him in the Demon Locking Tower and I can confirm it.”

“Very well.” Emperor Ying Long immediately said, “With this clue, we can continue the investigation to find this… ahem, this dear son-in-law and bring him back to my daughter’s side.”

“I’ll leave it to you, Father.” Long Hu softly said.

The three returned to the Eastern Emperor Divine Palace at Yu Long Mountain, and Shi Yao, upon receiving the news, excitedly came to greet them personally.

Goodness, they even rescued the former emperor, our Jiaolong clan’s resurgence seemed vastly accelerated!

“I heard you rescued another senior earlier?” Emperor Ying Long asked with a smile.

“Yes.” Shi Yao quickly replied, “That senior was trapped in the Mortal Realm, and we…”

“It’s alright.” Emperor Ying Long waved his big hand, “I’ve heard of Mad Dragon senior’s reputation before.”

“Currently, the Jiaolong clan is still too weak, we need all the strength we can use. Go ahead and take me to see him.”

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