If you care about benefits, then approach it from a benefits perspective. If you just want to make yourself happy, then stroke your fur the right way.
After a round of interaction, Wen Yan really felt that King Guilong wasn’t the kind of guy with a heavy hostile vibe. King Guilong did have a strong bias against the Scorching Sun Departnt, especially found Cai Qidong annoying as hell.
And yeah, King Guilong truly had this attitude of, "I don’t want anything, I just do what makes happy."
So Wen Yan could only play along.
When it ca to talking about the Ghost Servant, King Guilong didn’t think much of it and just said it outright.
"At the ti, there was this little ghost who said he ca on behalf of his master, and asked if I wanted to beco the Water God of so new river.
Tch, what random mutts or cats are these, who dare to say this kind of thing to my face? I squeezed the thing to death on the spot.
The water system in this world, it’s all accounted for. Since ancient tis, apart from the Four Pollutions, who else can even make it to the next level?
Even the Four Pollutions aren’t that stable—Ji River got swallowed up just like that.
None of them know I just love staying here on the West River."
Wen Yan thought to himself, so it was really like that, a spot-on landmine strike.
No wonder King Guilong didn’t even bother talking and flipped his lid right away.
The dude just cares about being close to ho, just loves his own place, doesn’t even think the Four Pollutions are a big deal.
You try to tempt him with sothing like a new river Water God? Isn’t that just begging to get smacked in the face?
As for the new river?
The Divine Land Governnt hasn’t given the nod, hasn’t done any planning—where’s this "new river" supposed to co from?
No green light from the Scorching Sun Departnt either, so how could there be a new River Dragon God?
The temple can’t even get built, there isn’t a single person around—are you expecting creatures in the water to burn incense for you underwater?
"That Ghost Servant, it was the Mountain Lord’s. The Mountain Lord has already awakened too."
King Guilong paused for a mont, a bit of disdain in his tone.
"So it was him. How dare he co find ?
That bastard, if it wasn’t for him back then, we wouldn’t have ended up going dormant so fast.
Didn’t he look down on us Acquired Dragon Clan back then?
What? Got himself killed once and now not so arrogant?
Willing to contact us Acquired Dragon Clan now?
Pah, no way. He’s still just as arrogant—wants to talk to and just sends a little ghost to insult .
Waking up so early, must be even weaker than expected.
From the look of him, that ghostly wretch is bound to get killed again sooner or later."
Wen Yan was a bit surprised. So, the grudge goes way back, huh?
"What happened back then?"
King Guilong, who’d just been swearing, fell silent for a mont and mumbled vaguely.
"That damn salted fish pissed off the Emperor at the ti, dragged us into it as well. No matter how bloodthirsty he was, he couldn’t compare to the founding Dragon Emperor. Bet he was dumbfounded at the end..."
King Guilong clearly didn’t want to talk about it, so Wen Yan didn’t push any further.
Now that it seed like they knew each other and the relationship clearly wasn’t good, at least Wen Yan could be sure, with King Guilong’s temperant, there was no way he’d cooperate with the Mountain Lord for anything.
Right now, as long as those two don’t start fighting, that’s enough.
Don’t be fooled by King Guilong saying he wouldn’t ss around—if it really ca to a brawl, he didn’t seem like soone who’d hold back once the fight was on. He’d probably just go all out and not care about the details then.
"Why’d you bring that guy up?" King Guilong changed the subject himself.
Wen Yan thought about it, then decided to just tell the truth.
"I heard sothing—Scorching Sun Departnt’s worried you two might fight, and then the whole thing would get out of hand.
My ho is right next door. If sothing happens, I’d be hard-pressed to avoid getting caught in the crossfire.
So, I wanted to check things out with you.
But hearing what you said now, that Mountain Lord sent a ghost just to humiliate you.
So—what if he did it deliberately, just to piss you off?"
"Huh..." King Guilong’s mind shifted. Seed pretty possible.
After all, back then he just heard that little ghost say a few words and instantly flew into a rage, crushing the unlucky thing on the spot.
"Look here, isn’t this possible:
He got you mad on purpose, and next ti, to show ’sincerity,’ he says he’ll et you in person to discuss things.
You think you’ll manage a few sentences before he pisses you off again?
Then you lose your cool and throw down, and you two go at it big ti right here.
And when you get carried away, river waters start boiling over, flooding the banks.
If sothing bad happens, you’ll be the one left holding the bag.
Look at that Cai guy in the Scorching Sun Departnt—he’s as ruthless as they co.
If the flood reaches Virtue City and even the morial archway in the city center gets subrged—
Or if even the Dragon Mother’s temple gets flooded—
That bastard Cai would pin you as a traitor, unfilial, a total deviant, and co after you without rcy.
End result: The Mountain Lord walks away clean and you end up everyone’s target.
Isn’t that possible?"
"Who’s a traitor?! Who’s unfilial?" At this, King Guilong flew into a rage.
Wen Yan hurried to pacify him.
"See? If the Mountain Lord insults you once, and next ti uses things like that to rile you up again, wouldn’t you lose your cool?"
King Guilong imdiately cald down, and started thinking it over carefully.
Just now he’d thought Wen Yan was talking nonsense, but now that he thought about it, it actually made sense—he and Mountain Lord never got along, just couldn’t stand that guy.
If the Mountain Lord really baits him with a couple of comnts, he just might lose his temper for real.
They both just woke up, way weaker than their peak days. If a fight breaks out, things will only keep getting ssier.
As a Dragon King, he’d naturally want to use ho advantage. Wen Yan might really have a point—things might end up just as he described.
That bastard Cai wouldn’t miss this chance either. From what Wen Yan said, Cai was even nastier than expected. If that’s the case, he just might tell everyone that King Guilong is a traitor, a disgrace, even dares to flood his own mother’s temple.
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