Old Seashell belatedly realized they had slept with the Dream Pearl. After he explained the Dream Pearl's function, Bai Ling finally understood why she had this dream-like experience - it was all because of this automatic brain projection device.

"Don't be afraid, I'll take responsibility for you. You'll follow me for the rest of your life, understand?" Bai Ling sat on the black dragon's nose and talked to him. The black dragon Lu Linsheng was so happy he could only hum. His huge black dragon tail swayed behind him, splashing water.

Bai Ling had it all planned out. She wanted to date for a few years first. After killing that scoundrel Xuan Cang, they would return to the Guiyi Immortal Sect to see her master and senior brothers. The wedding could be held then too. She was already considering who to invite to the banquet.

Meanwhile, Lu Linsheng was still overjoyed that Bai Ling was willing to let him follow her forever. As for what a boyfriend was, he didn't know.  

As for Old Seashell, when he heard his little master arranging her lifelong plans, he felt very tired. Did his little master remember that she was a young dragon? Sorry, but since her essential thoughts were that of an adult, even though she became a young dragon, Bai Ling didn't see herself as a minor. If they were ranked by body size, Lu Linsheng would be her ancestor now.

Seeing that his little master had no self-awareness, Old Seashell could only find a way himself. His method was simple - he took Bai Ling back down to the undersea Dragon Palace and found a patch of grass.

"These are Bitter Change Grass. Eating them helps dragon growth. Young dragons in our clan used to eat this grass, it's good for the body. Although the taste isn't great, but..."

Before he could finish, Bai Ling had already taken a bite. Then she became overjoyed, "Isn't this kelp?"

"Great, I haven't eaten kelp in so long. I'll cut these, dry them and make kelp knots to eat!"

Old Seashell: "???" Although Bitter Change Grass was good for young dragons and could speed up their horn shedding, dragons generally didn't like the taste. Young dragons had to be forced to eat even one or two bites.

He had thought it would take a lot of effort to get his little master to eat this, but he was surprised she liked it so much.

Bai Ling found a large patch of 'kelp' and happily harvested it all, laying it piece by piece on the black dragon's back to dry.

"I suddenly really want to eat hot pot." Bai Ling sighed looking at the 'kelp'.

Lu Linsheng stayed motionless helping her dry the kelp. Hearing this he said, "Then let's eat hot pot."

"Okay, I'll make hot pot!" Bai Ling was the type to immediately get things going once she received support. She started thinking about how to do it.

In the sea, of course it would be a seafood hot pot. She gathered a bunch of fish and threw them into the smaller sea area of the Sea Within the Sea. She also searched for shellfish, shrimp and crabs near the Sea Within the Sea, and even caught an octopus. But when she returned to the Sea Within the Sea, she found the fish she threw in earlier had all escaped.

"Lu Linsheng, curl your body into a circle."

The black dragon circled his body as told. Bai Ling threw the captured ingredients into the area encircled by his body. Lu Linsheng had become an ingredient rack.

Bai Ling found a huge shell to use as a hot pot. As she threw in handfuls of chili peppers and various seasonings, Lu Linsheng felt a wave of dizziness and his body stung. He was very familiar with this feeling - it was the residual consciousness and instincts of the Demon Dragon acting up again.

But he suppressed this transformation with all his might, not wanting to hand control over to the Demon Dragon - if he did, wouldn't all the hot pot ingredients on his body be tossed off? Bai Ling had searched for so long and was just about to eat.

With this firm belief, Lu Linsheng suppressed all the evil thoughts and Demon Dragon greed surging in his body. Then he turned his head to look at his body and found the kelp hadn't fallen off and the fish hadn't escaped. Only then was he relieved.

Just one big crab was trying to break out and had already crawled onto his tail. He smacked it back with his tail.

The ingredients were crude, they could only make do. Bai Ling originally wanted to make a yin-yang pot, but then realized Lu Linsheng couldn't eat it at all. So she directly made a spicy pot and enjoyed it herself.

Her dragon-slaying blade, before slaying a dragon, first slew an octopus. She sliced it into rings and threw it into the fragrant and spicy pot, along with snow-white boneless tender fish meat, small squid and red shrimp, big clams, sea cucumbers... and of course kelp.

"Besides hot pot, I also want barbecue. Octopus tastes even better grilled." In addition to the dragon-slaying blade, Bai Ling had taken another weapon from the treasure vault as backup. In case her weapon was dropped during a fight, she could have other options.

This backup weapon was an imposing trident. Bai Ling didn't remember the grand name Old Seashell called it, so she just called it the Big Fish Spear. It was great for skewering octopus legs for barbecue.

As Bai Ling ate, Lu Linsheng just watched from the side, asking her, "Is it tasty?"

Bai Ling nodded. Seeing him quietly watching her eat, she felt a little distressed. After Lu Linsheng devoured the Demon Dragon, perhaps because the Demon Dragon was too nourishing, his mind became clear and his intelligence grew.

At this moment, he keenly sensed Bai Ling's thoughts and comforted her, "I'm not hungry now. Look, I'm not even drooling."

Right, usually when he drooled from craving, it was while watching her. He probably really had no appetite for hot pot.

Bai Ling suddenly felt justified eating alone. She slurped over a dozen strips of kelp. That night, after transforming back into dragon form, she felt her dragon horns itching. If a young dragon grew fast, it would shed its horns very frequently, probably like a child losing teeth.

Bai Ling's head was so itchy she couldn't sleep. She unconsciously used her head to bump the black dragon, waking him up.

The tiny white dragon swam to his head and showed him the horns on her head, "My head is itchy."

The black dragon didn't react. Bai Ling looked up and saw the black dragon's eyes were black, a pure black filled with malice, not the clear red that belonged to Lu Linsheng. Her heart jolted. It was here, the Demon Dragon!

She crashed into the Demon Dragon's head. Just as she was about to do it again, she found the Demon Dragon didn't attack, but curled up slightly, its eyes slowly turning red.

"Lu Linsheng?"

Lu Linsheng didn't look at her, his eyes watching the sea surface. Bai Ling took a look and saw the two familiar dragon horns. That bump just now had knocked off the dragon horns she was going to shed.

Lu Linsheng silently fished out her broken dragon horns and placed them in front of her, intently looking at her bald dragon head.

Bai Ling finally felt a pain in her head, but she touched the spot and didn't pay much attention. She took the two dragon horns and asked Lu Linsheng, "Do you want to eat this? They fell off anyway, so I might as well let you eat them."

She really stuffed them into Lu Linsheng's mouth. The black dragon crunched down the horns that fell off her head in two bites and lay there comfortably.

"How does it taste?" Bai Ling asked curiously.

"Hmm... it's crispy," Lu Linsheng said.

Bai Ling felt like he was describing cookies, so she said, "I really want to eat cookies too."

Her horns weren't itchy now, but they hurt. She couldn't help reaching out her paw to touch them. Lu Linsheng lowered his head and licked her dragon head.

Bai Ling: "...Does it really taste that good? You're even licking the plate."

It took Lu Linsheng a moment to react before he was amused by her teasing. "No, I saw some of the Demon Dragon's memories. When a baby dragon's horns break, having an adult dragon lick them like this makes it feel much better."

The reason was valid. "Okay, then you lick." With her permission, Lu Linsheng started earnestly licking her head.

Bai Ling felt like Lu Linsheng was licking chopsticks. Thinking about it, she laughed and stretched out her body, tensing it into the shape of chopsticks. "Look, don't you seem like you're licking chopsticks?"

Lu Linsheng never used chopsticks when eating demons, but that didn't stop him from laughing along with Bai Ling.

Old Seashell: I shouldn't be on the sea surface, I should be at the bottom of the sea.

After quietly watching the moon for a while, Bai Ling leaned against Lu Linsheng's head and tugged at his dragon whiskers, "You reacted so fast just now. I only bumped you once and you woke up. I thought I was going to have to battle the Demon Dragon for three hundred rounds!"

Lu Linsheng: "No need, if you bump me twice I'll definitely wake up, three times at most." If she bumped him a few more times, her head would probably start bleeding. Just thinking about it made his heart ache. No matter what, he had to struggle to wake up.

Bai Ling: "Can't bump too much either. If you don't wake up after two bumps, I'll run." Otherwise, if she kept bumping him, what if she knocked Lu Linsheng silly again? He was smart one moment and dumb the next.

Lu Linsheng reassured her, "Now that you're right beside me, I can control this body better."

He and the Demon Dragon were in a state of one waning as the other waxed. The Demon Dragon's brutality and killing intent were being suppressed by him and dissipating day by day. The Demon Dragon's consciousness that existed by relying on this killing intent was also weakening along with it. After some more time, he would be able to completely counter-devour the Demon Dragon's body.

He was currently in dragon form, but was still in the state of being devoured. When he could transform back to his original form, it would mean he had completely counter-devoured the Demon Dragon.

However, he now felt that being in dragon form seemed not bad either. He could stay in the water together with Bai Ling.

Bai Ling couldn't sleep. She took out a bunch of shells left over from the barbecue hotpot. "Lu Linsheng, let me skip some shells on the water for you to see. I'm really amazing, I can make them skip six times!"

The little white dragon demonstrated to the big black dragon how to skip shells on the sea surface. She walked on the sea surface in dragon form, and the black dragon imitated her walking.

The two dragons skipped shells clumsily. The scene was quite idiotic for a while. Old Seashell couldn't bear to watch and closed its shell, isolating itself.

It was still the middle of the night. A huge bright moon floated on the sea surface. The shells that Bai Ling skipped almost flew into the reflection of the bright moon. At this moment, Bai Ling thought of a line of poetry - "The bright moon rises from the sea, while loved ones share this moment under the same sky."

She quieted down and nuzzled against Lu Linsheng beside her.

In stark contrast to their peaceful moment, the state of Supreme God Xuan Cang, whom they considered their ultimate enemy, was miserable. It was an understatement to describe his situation as being in a frantic mess.

He had finally seen the speed at which the many small worlds were collapsing slow down. He tidied up his mood and returned to the body of Supreme God Xuan Cang in this small world, preparing to speed things up.

But the result? A great situation had been completely ruined, and the culprit was none other than himself... or rather, his alter ego, which was himself.

This realization was so stifling. He wanted to curse at the stupidity, but held back.

Cursing at others was fine, but cursing at himself was not. Even when he did something stupid, he rationalized that it was because of mistakes others had made.

"Summon Immortal Youshui," Supreme God Xuan Cang ordered coldly.

Immortal Youshui had been in a great mood these past few days because she had gotten rid of the thorn in her side, Bai Ling. Unfortunately, this good mood ended as soon as she saw Supreme God Xuan Cang.

"Bring Bai Ling back." Supreme God Xuan Cang threw this sentence at her out of the blue.

Immortal Youshui's smile froze. She thought she had misheard, but Supreme God Xuan Cang's clear instructions told her that she had not; it was exactly this kind of unreasonable demand.

"But, God, it was you who ordered Bai Ling to be..."

Supreme God Xuan Cang interrupted her, "Now I am telling you to go find her."

Immortal Youshui pinched her fingers in her sleeves and forced out a look of trepidation. "Perhaps the dragon girl is already dead by now. After all, without the protection of Mount Youfu, the Demon Dragon had his eye on her..."

Supreme God Xuan Cang: "She's not dead yet. Even if she is, you must find her corpse for me." The system had not yet issued any abnormal warnings, so Bai Ling should still be alive.

Like every subordinate with a domineering and willful boss, even Immortal Youshui, who had long admired Supreme God Xuan Cang, couldn't help cursing in her heart at this moment. Was the Supreme God sick to be so capricious? Do gods go crazy from living too long?

"Go, within ten days I want to see Bai Ling appear before me." After throwing down this sentence, Supreme God Xuan Cang waved his sleeve and sent Immortal Youshui out of the divine hall.

Immortal Youshui gnashed her teeth at the bright moon and tugged at the collar of her clothes, which she had deliberately disarranged just so before coming. She muttered under her breath, "Crazy, he's really gone crazy!"

Author's Note: I know, no matter what I say, you guys just want to turn me into an idiot, right? (looks at everything with a knowing gaze)