Regarding the matter of the dragon egg, Jing Nian initially wanted to ask Huo Yi for more details. However, due to the pitiful cries of the baby dragon, Jing Nian had no choice but to inform Huo Yi.
“I need to return to the Dragon Clan first,” he said. After speaking, he noticed that the man seemed to want to say something. Jing Nian recalled that the dragon egg lost by Huo Yi was also a concern. After some thought, he extended an invitation, “Do you want to come with me to the Dragon Clan? I can help you inquire. I…”
As Jing Nian spoke, the magical letter in his pocket suddenly lit up. He lowered his head and opened it.
[My dear friend, there are three guests here who claim to be your family. Do you want to meet them?]
The bottom half of the letter was a dynamic image transmitted by magic overnight. In the image, three handsome young men were shirtless and engaged in physical labor.
But their faces were clearly visible.
Jing Nian stood frozen in place.
Huo Yi, with a slightly brightened expression, waited for Jing Nian to finish speaking. However, when he suddenly took out the letter and glanced at it, Huo Yi was dumbfounded. He approached a little closer, intending to speak, but to his surprise, Jing Nian, who had been in a daze, suddenly jumped up, hugging his leg and sobbing.
“Brother, second brother, big brother! Waaah, my brothers! My brothers!”
Jing Nian was so excited that he couldn’t articulate coherent words. He clung to Huo Yi’s leg without any sense of dignity.
Huo Yi: “Brother?” In his mind, he recalled the several young men he had encountered outside the hospital in the real world, who were Jing Nian’s brothers.
The mushrooms they had used to mark their path to find Jing Nian and the mysterious benefactor behind them, coupled with Jing Nian’s status in the interstellar world, suddenly made sense to Huo Yi.
The enigmatic benefactor was none other than Jing Nian’s brothers!
[“Friend! I’m coming right away!”]
Jing Nian took a deep breath, suppressing his excitement, and calmly replied to Ga’erfu’s letter.
Then, he turned to Huo Yi and said, “We need to make a quick stop at Ga’erfu’s house; my brothers are there!”
As he spoke, there was a cheerful smile at the corner of Jing Nian’s mouth that he couldn’t hold back. This handsome and delicate youth, for the first time, revealed such a light and happy smile, which momentarily left Huo Yi mesmerized, nodding absentmindedly.
Fortunately, the youth was too caught up in his excitement to notice.
Just as the two were about to teleport over, Jing Nian paused, once again drawn to the frantic mental connection.
It turned out that the baby dragon, which had been ignored in his mind for quite a while, had begun to doubt whether Jing Nian still wanted it. It cried so intensely that it seemed to turn the whole abyss canyon upside down.
“Waaah… Jin Jin, where did you go? You disappeared after waking up~~~”
“Jin Jin, I miss you, waaah~”
“Jin Jin, Jin Jin, Ao Ao is so hungry, can’t eat without Jin Jin…”
…among these cries, other dragon voices were mixed in.
A certain Wind Dragon: ‘Dragon Lord, don’t cry! I’ll take you for a high-flying ride!’
“Waaah! No! I want Jin Jin!”
A certain Fire Dragon: ‘Dragon Lord, don’t cry; we’ll have a fight for you to watch!’
“Waaah! No, I want to wait for Jin Jin and watch together!”
Old Hesse: ‘You first drink your milk. Then I’ll take you to see Jin Jin, alright?’
However, the baby dragon couldn’t be appeased. Instead, it cried even more fiercely, and its willful voice in Jing Nian’s mind was mixed with panic: No, I want Jin Jin!
Then there was a chaotic scene.
Some dragons were shouting, “The milk spilled! The milk spilled!” “You bumped into me!” “What’s wrong, can’t handle a bump, are you made of paper?” “Do you want to fight?” “Come on!” “Come on!!!”
After the commotion, the solemn dragon roar of the old dragon Hesse resounded.
Squeezed inside the Dragon Palace, the young dragons, who had initially tried to comfort the baby dragon, had almost started a fight and nearly toppled the roof. They suddenly fell silent as chickens.
Jing Nian, who was listening to the live broadcast from a distance, felt guilty and worried!
Leaving the baby dragon alone with this group of silly dragons was really not reassuring.
He called out, “Ao Ao.”
The crying on the other side immediately softened because the baby dragon hadn’t fully recovered from crying. It was still sniffling, and its voice sounded very aggrieved.
“Daddy~”
The soft, affectionate, and somewhat fearful two words almost brought tears to Jing Nian’s eyes. This little dragon had argued so many times before, refusing to call him “daddy.”
He would either playfully call him “mommy,” or insist on “little brother,” or, when faced with Jing Nian’s stern expression, reluctantly call him “Jin Jin.”
The terms of address didn’t matter much to Jing Nian.
But now, calling him “daddy” so sincerely and with a hint of fear that Jing Nian might suddenly disappear made his heart ache. He wished he could hug the little one right away.
Facing the barrage of cries in his mind, Jing Nian felt a twinge of guilt and tenderness and quickly comforted, “Good baby, don’t cry for now. Drink your milk, and when you’re full, I’ll come back!”
The baby dragon was indeed easy to comfort. Upon hearing Jing Nian’s patient voice, the crying stopped. It just softly whined, wanting to cuddle and be spoiled by Jing Nian.
In the past, sharing the same body allowed them to be completely in sync with each other. They could instantly fulfill their desires, like hugging and lifting each other high. Now, being separated by such a distance, these two who were used to being inseparable were both feeling a bit uncomfortable.
Jing Nian softly comforted the baby dragon, “Let Hesse hold you first, okay?”
The baby dragon responded with a soft, “Hmmm~,” its crying now fully under control. But Jing Nian was genuinely finding it hard to restrain his emotions.
Jing Nian continued, “Our Ao Ao is the best, the bravest!”
In the deep dragon abyss, the baby dragon with tearful eyes began to brighten up. “Really?”
“Really, really! Yes, yes, yes!” The group of dragons in the palace all nodded.
With Jing Nian’s emphatic affirmation, he added, “Of course, it’s true! Do you know who Ao Ao is?”
Long Ao Tian, holding his milk, proudly raised his little head, “Who?”
Jing Nian went along with it, “Ao Ao is the most amazing baby of the Dragon Clan! The Dragon Clan is the most amazing race in the world. Ao Ao is the most amazing baby in the world!”
A rainbow of flattery rained down, making Ao Ao feel absolutely fantastic, and he even started tapping his toes in delight.
Finally, they made an agreement, and Ao Ao obediently waited for Jing Nian to return to the Dragon Clan.
Having pacified the baby dragon, Jing Nian sighed with relief and turned to Huo Yi, saying, “Let’s go.”
Huo Yi, very skilled at holding Jing Nian, noticed Jing Nian’s shyness and hesitation about being carried and explained, “It’s quicker this way.”
Jing Nian, who had the urge to struggle, glanced at his own small hands and feet and the distance to the teleportation point. He realized that it was quite far. He raised his hands to cover his reddening face and said, “Let’s go.”
As a result, when the two approached the teleportation array and opened their eyes again, they found themselves in the Lost Forest.
Jing Nian, who had been anticipating meeting his brothers, suddenly couldn’t find his bearings. He turned around, and he and Huo Yi exchanged puzzled glances.
Huo Yi also faintly sensed from Jing Nian’s expression that he seemed to have teleported to the wrong place. “…”
Jing Nian thought about what he had said to the baby dragon before teleporting. Because there was only Huo Yi with him, and Huo Yi had confessed to being a god…
So, he had been somewhat uninhibited, conversing with the baby dragon in his mind while also speaking out loud.
What had he told the baby dragon at the end?
“You drink your milk first, and when you’re full, I’ll come back.”
Jing Nian thought, ‘So Huo Yi misunderstood that I was coming back.’
However, since he had already returned, the Abyss had sensed Jing Nian’s presence, and a group of dragons flew in to welcome him, especially one baby dragon perched on the head of a dragon who looked eager.
Jing Nian thought, ‘Oh, well.’
He considered and decided to ask two dragons to help him fetch his brothers. They were easy to identify, with hair and eye colors identical to his and similar appearances.
In the end, Jing Nian could only write a letter to Ga’erfu, informing him that he couldn’t come for the time being and inviting him and his brothers to visit the Dragon Clan.
So, on this day, the city of Lan found itself surrounded by dragons once again.
It was said that this time the dragons even abducted a few people in front of the city’s guards.
At this moment, Jing Nian, who unknowingly added to the dragon clan’s misdeeds in the Grans Era Dragon History, was comforting the baby dragon while anxiously waiting for his brothers.
Originally, teleporting directly to Ga’erfu’s location would have been faster, but the baby dragon, who had experienced not finding Jing Nian after a nap, now clung tightly to him and refused to let go.
Additionally, since Jing Nian had left the baby dragon’s body, he didn’t dare to use the player-exclusive teleportation array with it.
So, Jing Nian could only awkwardly extend his hand to pat the baby dragon, which had grown quite a bit and was now even larger than himself. The baby dragon eagerly gazed in the direction the dragons had left.
Among the other accompanying dragons, some recognized Huo Yi as the man in black who had previously traversed the Dragon Abyss. They immediately cast fierce glances in his direction.
In fact, one particular dragon, who had enjoyed the last battle immensely, had flames billowing from its nostrils, seemingly eager to challenge Huo Yi to another fight.
Jing Nian quickly intervened, explaining that this person was his friend.
Upon hearing Jing Nian’s words, the flames billowing from the dragon’s nostrils went out with a “whoosh.” It grinned, its majestic dragon face taking on a more innocent look, and extended its short but adorable claws compared to its massive body.
“My apologies, my apologies! The Dragon Lord’s friend is also my friend.”
Despite having secretly observed the youth’s position within the Dragon Clan by hiding in the baby dragon’s horn, Huo Yi still felt a slight sense of surprise when witnessing it with his own eyes.
The temperament of the Dragon Clan was mostly similar: proud, untamed, and even powerful individuals who had defeated them found it difficult to make them bow. Even his own baby dragon, when in his presence, hadn’t been as tame as these dragons were in front of Jing Nian.
But these dragons genuinely treated the youth as their Dragon Lord.
Huo Yi paused for a moment and then extended his hand, shaking claws with the dragon that had shown friendliness.
Subsequently, the group of dragons behind Jing Nian seemed to find this interaction entertaining. One after another, they formed a line, introduced themselves, and shook hands with Huo Yi.
Jing Nian, lost in his thoughts about his brothers, hardly noticed.
The dragons were thoroughly enjoying themselves.
Suddenly, they all turned into handshaking companions.
Huo Yi: “…”
They didn’t have to wait long. A familiar voice came from the sky, and in the next moment, several dragons sent to fetch the people appeared in the sky. Because of the size of the dragons, Jing Nian saw the three figures being carried in the mouths of the leading dragons.
It was his brothers!
Jing Nian’s heart skipped a beat, and his eyes welled up with tears.
It was really his brothers!
In almost an instant, the dragons from the sky arrived in front of Jing Nian and gently placed the four people on the ground.
The three Jing brothers, after landing, hadn’t even steadied themselves before they began looking around. Amidst the group of massive and terrifying dragons, they spotted a shrunken version of Jing Xiao Nian, held tightly by another chubby little dragon. It was a mini version of Jing Xiao Nian, complete with two adorable dragon horns.
The three brothers, their eyes red with astonishment, stood there in disbelief.
Jing Da-ge1eldest brother: “???”
Jing Er-ge2second brother: “???”
Jing San-ge3third brother: “???”
Jing Nian’s eyes welled up with tears, and he couldn’t help but exclaim with a touch of a childish, tearful tone, “Brothers!!!”
The collective expression of the brothers split wide open: “???”
