113: Ao Zhan: My disciple, I have dug a hole for you. Will you lie down in it or lie down in it?

As for Long Aotian, he eventually returned to Cloud Palace Dragon Peak with Long Jing Tian.

Only then did Long Aotian realize that Long Jing Tian had grown up on Dragon Peak since childhood, becoming the Peak Revered Master of Dragon Peak the year she came of age.

Cloud Palace originally had eleven peaks; the extra Dragon Peak was forcefully carved out by his Revered Master Ao Zhan, and its grandeur was in no way inferior to the main Cloud Peak.

Dragon Peak's defensive Formation was many times stronger than Cloud Palace's strongest defensive Formation; Long Aotian simply couldn't discern how high its level was.

He only knew that, coming from his Revered Master Ao Zhan's hands, and specifically set up to protect his daughter, even if powerful experts from the Immortal Realm arrived, they might not be able to break it.

The ordinary defensive Formation set up by Ao Zhan was merely superficial; the truly formidable aspect was the Void Formation contained within, so high-level that even Long Aotian didn't know what tier of Void Formation it was.

Upon entering Dragon Peak, the Spiritual Qi inside was incredibly dense, over a hundred times more concentrated than outside, which was quite terrifying.

Long Aotian immediately used his Divine Sense to probe underground and couldn't help but curse.

Damn it!

A full fifty high-grade Spiritual Ore Veins!

Revered Master truly doted on his Senior Sister beyond measure.

At this moment, if anyone told him that his Senior Sister wasn't his Revered Master's daughter, he wouldn't believe it even if it killed him.

With so many high-grade Spiritual Ore Veins, Revered Master must have scoured the entire Sky Ruins Continent for them, right?

Who said the cultivation resources in the Eastern Wilds were scarce?

Just Dragon Peak alone was enough to rival the cultivation resources of a large Empire.

At this moment, Long Aotian understood: the Eastern Wilds weren't lacking in cultivation resources; rather, the cultivation resources were almost entirely concentrated on Dragon Peak, in his Senior Sister's hands. His Revered Master had set up multiple powerful Formations on Dragon Peak to protect them, so even people from Cloud Palace didn't know that Dragon Peak contained so many high-grade Spiritual Ore Veins.

If these high-grade Spiritual Ore Veins were utilized, they could definitely create a continent-level giant Immortal Cultivation force!

"Junior Brother, how is it? Are you satisfied with this place?"

Long Jing Tian couldn't help but smile slightly as she saw Long Aotian, who was stunned and somewhat dumbfounded.

She was very satisfied with Junior Brother's inexperienced expression!

"Satisfied, I am extremely satisfied!"

Long Aotian nodded somewhat woodenly, then couldn't help but ask, "Senior Sister, have you never brought anyone else to Dragon Peak?"

"No!"

Long Jing Tian shook her head: "Revered Master used a Formation to protect this place very well. At the entrance of Dragon Peak, there's also an incredibly dangerous Illusion Killing Formation. Even a Level Ten Formation King wouldn't be able to break this Illusion Killing Formation. To enter Dragon Peak, one needs to hold my Dragon Peak's entry token; otherwise, let alone entering Dragon Peak, one wouldn't escape death just at the Illusion Killing Formation stage... After going out, I gradually understood that the cultivation resources in the Eastern Wilds were incredibly scarce, which made me even more afraid to expose Dragon Peak's secret or bring anyone else in."

"But you brought me in now, didn't you?"

"That's different."

Long Jing Tian smiled faintly: "You are my Junior Brother. These are all things Revered Master left for me. Revered Master even told me to marry you; I am even yours, so what do these things matter?"

"..."

Hearing this, Long Aotian awkwardly rubbed his nose, somewhat speechless.

At this moment, he also understood.

He had been complacent about obtaining a small high-grade Spiritual Ore Vein in Immortal Severing Mountain, only to find that Revered Master had directly buried fifty high-grade Spiritual Ore Veins for Senior Sister, each one larger than the one in Immortal Severing Mountain.

So, it wasn't that Revered Master didn't want to use Immortal Severing Mountain's high-grade Spiritual Ore Vein for his daughter's Cultivation; it was that he simply didn't care for Immortal Severing Mountain's high-grade Spiritual Ore Vein, which ultimately benefited him?

"Come, Senior Sister will take you to an even better place for Cultivation!"

Soon!

Long Jing Tian took Long Aotian's hand and entered the back mountain of Dragon Peak. Long Aotian could clearly feel that the further Long Jing Tian led him, the denser the Spiritual Qi became.

During this time, Long Jing Tian opened several isolation Formations.

Namely:

Dragon Peak Outer Gate, Dragon Peak Inner Gate, Dragon Peak Core Gate.

The Inner Gate's Spiritual Qi was ten times denser than the Outer Gate's, and the Core Gate's Spiritual Qi was ten times denser than the Inner Gate's.

After passing through the Core Gate, they arrived at a Cultivation Immortal Cave, where the Spiritual Qi was so dense it formed a mist with visibility less than ten meters, making Long Aotian secretly click his tongue in amazement.

Opening the Cultivation Immortal Cave, Long Aotian quickly saw a high-grade Spiritual Spring Lake, which was surprisingly over a thousand meters deep and had an area of roughly a thousand square meters, leaving Long Aotian momentarily dumbfounded.

"How about it, how is Cultivating here? This is the Peak Revered Master's Cultivation Immortal Cave that Revered Master built for me. The Spiritual Spring Lake is connected to the fifty high-grade Spiritual Ore Veins underground, so the Spiritual Spring inside basically won't dry up, unless the fifty high-grade Spiritual Ore Veins underground are exhausted."

"...Senior Sister, you still say Revered Master is biased? Revered Master clearly gave you all the good things! I, your Junior Brother, don't even have a decent high-grade Spiritual Ore Vein, but you, on the other hand, have a full fifty in your Cultivation Immortal Cave. Wuwu, at this moment, I even doubt if you are really Revered Master's biological daughter!"

"...Hehe, Junior Brother doesn't need to be envious. Perhaps I really might be Revered Master's daughter. If I hadn't left Dragon Peak or traveled to other parts of the Eastern Wilds, I wouldn't have known how incredibly good Revered Master, that old man, was to me."

"Then why did you change your surname to Long instead of Ao? If you think you're Revered Master's daughter, you should change your surname to Ao."

"...Revered Master, he's actually so divine, he even predicted this?!"

Upon hearing Long Aotian tell her to change her surname to Ao, Long Jing Tian was also momentarily stunned.

"...What do you mean?"

Long Aotian's brows furrowed slightly; it seemed there was something else he didn't know?

Long Jing Tian said somewhat blankly and shyly: "All this time, I never knew Revered Master's name, only calling him Senior Long Soul. Later, I also changed my surname to Long. It wasn't until Revered Master was about to pass away that he told me his name was actually Ao Zhan, and his surname wasn't Long.

But just as I was about to change my surname to Ao, he told me, 'If Junior Brother ever feels that you are also like my daughter, and thinks you should change your surname to Ao, then you can change it then..."'

"Like, too much like it! Change it! I think you should change it!"

Long Aotian decisively made the call.

Are you kidding? He had already deduced that Long Jing Tian was the Reincarnation of Ao Zhan's daughter, right? Long Jing Tian should change her surname to Ao; what was there to hesitate about? He felt very awkward hearing that Long Jing Tian's surname wasn't Ao.

He, Long Aotian, could finally do something for his Revered Master; this could be considered fulfilling his old man's wish, right?!

As for why Ao Zhan wanted him to make this decision, was there some deeper meaning behind it?

Just as Long Aotian slightly furrowed his brows, feeling somewhat confused, Long Jing Tian said blankly and with a blush: "Revered Master said, if Junior Brother thinks it's better not to change, then I will be siblings with Junior Brother. If Junior Brother thinks it's better to change, then I will be husband and wife with Junior Brother."

"..."

Long Aotian was completely dumbfounded.

Good heavens, he was waiting for him here.

"...Junior Brother, are you still changing it?"

Long Jing Tian asked, looking at Long Aotian somewhat shyly.

Change it?

This was truly a dog's breakfast!

If he changed it, he would gain a Dao Companion.

If he didn't change it, he felt he would be letting Revered Master down.

To say Revered Master forced him, well, Revered Master let him choose.

To say Revered Master didn't force him, he couldn't choose and he couldn't not choose.

"What do you think?"

Finally!

He kicked the ball back to Long Jing Tian, but immediately after kicking it, he realized something: would Long Jing Tian hesitate?

Indeed!

"Of course, I'm changing it!"

"..."

Long Aotian's mouth twitched: "As long as you like it!"

"Hehe!"