The villain and I have eight hundred minds combined

Long Jin snorted coldly: "Don't listen to his nonsense, the Lord of Liyuan Palace will be mine sooner or later!"

"Okay, since you are so confident, I won't ask any more questions. Let me tell you about my business first. Do you know about the ghost story in Huaiyu Town? Is this town under the jurisdiction of your Liyuan Palace?" Mu Hanxing asked him seriously.

"Huaiyu Town?" Long Jin frowned after hearing this. "It's very close to the East China Sea and is under the jurisdiction of Liyuan Palace. How could it be haunted? Why didn't I know anything about it?"

"You don't know? Do you know about the inexplicable disappearance of the ships from Huaiyu Town that were sent to the islands in the East China Sea?" Mu Hanxing asked again.

"What!? Is this true?" Long Jin was furious after hearing this, and said sternly, "It's fine if there's a ghost in the town, but if someone dies in the East China Sea, Liyuan Palace will be held responsible!"

"Look at your reaction... If you are completely unaware, these things should have happened when you were trapped in Fuyue City... ahem, when you were a concubine in Fuyue City, right? Who was in charge when you were not in Liyuan Palace?"

Long Jin frowned quickly: "Long Ling! What has he been doing all these years!"

"Longling is your brother?" she asked.

"Hmph, I knew that if I wasn't in Liyuan Palace, there would be trouble in Longling. Tell me what's going on as soon as possible." Long Jin asked hurriedly.

Then, Mu Hanxing told Long Jin everything he had seen and heard in Huaiyu Town today. He also told him in particular that the townspeople of Huaiyu Town could not even get enough to eat, but they threw food into the East China Sea to him every day in the hope of seeking his protection.

After hearing this, Long Jin had a gloomy face and mixed feelings. Sometimes he felt that mortals were so stupid that it was outrageous, but sometimes he felt that mortals were pure and lovely, which made him feel pity. All these emotions were entangled and intertwined, and he didn't know what to feel.

He paused for a moment before saying, "Go tell the people in Huaiyu Town that I don't want mortal food, and I don't need to eat. Only mortals need food to survive in this world."

Mu Hanxing is not stupid. She would not do anything that would arouse public indignation. She decisively rejected him: "That won't work. Now the townspeople think you are a guardian beast. It is impossible to stop them from worshipping you. The master of the Tong family is the savior. In the town, I cannot afford to offend you or him openly. I have to think of a clever way... By the way, why does Huaiyu Town worship you instead of Longling? Do you have any idea, my beloved concubine?"

Long Jin looked at her with disdain: "Your position as city lord was taken away by Leng Feiren, yet you still dare to act so arrogantly in front of me!"

"Oh, you're overthinking it. Sooner or later, I will pick up my sword and fight back. If you help me, you will be the first hero. I will never treat you unfairly in the future." She looked confident and had everything planned out.

Long Jin said coldly: "You really drew this pie big and round."

"..."

"Hurry up and tell me, help me return to Fuyue City, and I will naturally use my power to protect your people. Not to mention Liyuan Palace, even the nearby villages and cities under the jurisdiction of Liyuan Palace, I will do my best to take care of them." Mu Hanxing continued to paint a pie in the sky for him, and the pie became bigger and bigger.

Long Jin folded his arms across his chest and looked at her doubtfully, his expression seemed a little shaken, so he slowly told her about the past.

As rumored in Huaiyu Town, about a hundred years ago, after the old Dragon King of Liyuan Palace passed away, he turned into a statue on the bottom of the sea to suppress the sea. Afterwards, the two sons of the Dragon King started a power struggle in the underwater palace. Since Liyuan Palace does not pay attention to the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children in the mortal world, and does not consider the age, it usually judges who is more suitable to be the next Dragon King of Liyuan Palace based on martial arts and the ability to manage miscellaneous affairs in the palace.

Before being kidnapped by the female devil and taken to Fuyue City, Long Ling and Long Jin fought each other all day and all night over the East China Sea, but the battle lasted for three days and three nights without a clear winner.

One day, the two dragons were fighting fiercely when a red viper suddenly emerged from the jungle not far from the East China Sea. The red viper was emitting foul air all over its body. It stared at Long Ling and Long Jin with a pair of red eyes and rushed over. The two of them were both holding spears, but when they saw a murderous aura coming from the side, they could not help but temporarily stop fighting, and faced the outside together, pointing their guns at the red viper.

Then, in just a moment, a snake and two dragons started fighting on the surface of the East China Sea. The air was filled with smoke and spiritual light, and there was a constant "dong dong" sound coming from the sea.

The red viper had great spiritual power and was agile, it could also summon spiritual fire to instantly burn the Dragon King's two sons. However, Long Ling and Long Jin had the advantage in numbers that day, and it took two against one to quickly decide the winner. The two brothers did not hesitate to throw the red viper into the deep sea, and while the red viper was weak, they jointly sealed it in a cave on the seabed. No one has seen that red viper since then.

On that day, several people from Huaiyu Town witnessed the East China Sea War with their own eyes. Before that, there had been rumors in Huaiyu Town that there was a snake-like monster that liked to increase its cultivation by eating human flesh, and it was a major concern for the people.

Now, if those people saw the son of the Dragon King of the East China Sea pushing the giant snake into the bottom of the sea, they would definitely spread the news. The brothers Long Ling and Long Jin looked very similar, and their figures were so swift and their body movements were so changing that the people could not see them clearly. They thought that the Dragon King had used the magic of splitting himself to subdue the giant snake.

So, the people who saw the two sons of the Dragon King carved a statue with similar facial features and body shapes and placed it near the seaside to commemorate the important historical event of the Dragon King subduing the snake. Later, it was passed down from generation to generation. By Duoli's generation, they could no longer remember whether the Dragon King had driven away a snake or a toad. In short, it was the guardian dragon of their Huaiyu Town. Worshiping gods is always a local custom. In recent years, in order to calm the sea and facilitate the continued development of fisheries, the Dragon King Temple was built and the Dragon King statue was moved into the temple.

After hearing this, Mu Hanxing understood. She asked Long Jin, "So, the Dragon King worshipped by Huaiyu Town is actually you and your brother... two dragons, right?"

"But that Long Ling keeps saying that he is the guardian dragon of Huaiyu Town and he wants to completely get rid of me! I really can't swallow this!" Long Jin was furious.

This was indeed inappropriate. After all, it was two people who defeated Chigui back then, and both of them made contributions. There was a lot of fog on the sea, and the dragon turned into a flying dragon with bright light, which made it difficult for people to see clearly, let alone who was being worshipped. So it was normal for the people to be confused. However, Long Ling's behavior did make people angry. What's more, something did happen in the East China Sea during Long Jin's absence, and he must be responsible for it.