Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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“Dragon ascending?” Lu Bao opened his mouth wide, “Brother Yu has experienced a tribulation and turned into a real koi demon?”
“Why don’t you understand?” Mr. Void Cat Lord thought to himself: That’s really “The frog at the bottom of the well”, then he waved his claws and hated iron for not becoming steel[1]. “He jumped over the dragon gate and transformed into a dragon and soared! No wonder I heard that there was a ninety-nine thunder tribulation in your B city. Only a transformed dragon can lead to such a big battle. It’s not easy. Ah, the success rate of a fish leaping over the Dragon Gate is extremely low, and you may not encounter it even once in ten thousand years!”
Mr. Void Cat Lord was very excited. This was the first time he had encountered it after so many years of practice. The fish was the defeated enemy of the cat tribe, but the dragon was different, it could in turn overwhelm the cat clan, especially now that it was becoming more and more difficult to transform into a dragon. This nine-stripe dragon koi could be said to be very powerful!
Lu Bao was completely frightened by its words. As an amphibious tribe that lived on the water bank all year round, Lu Bao had a very close relationship with the aquatic tribe. Naturally, he understood the status of the dragon tribe and the concept of transforming into a dragon. However, he usually only heard about fishes transforming into dragons? Not many fish dared to have such daydreams, including Brother Yu, who had said that his greatest wish in this life was to survive the Forty-Nine Thunder Tribulation and become a real carp spirit…
Brother Yu could cross the dragon gate, of course Lu Bao was proud of him and wished he could use the best things to celebrate him.
But while he was happy, Lu Bao suddenly felt a trace of melancholy: Will Brother Yu not live with him in the small lotus pond in the future? Would it be possible for him to see Brother Yu? Were frogs really qualified to get along with dragons?
“Great Lu Bao, your Brother Yu has gone to the heavens!” Xu Maomao happily patted Lu Bao, but saw that it stayed there for a long time without blinking, “What’s wrong? Aren’t you happy?”
Lu Bao came back to his senses: “I was just surprised…”
“We are all surprised,” Mr. Void Cat Lord patted his chest, “But now you don’t need to worry about his safety.”
“Where is Brother Yu now? What?”
Void Cat Lord raised his paw and said, “No doubt, in the sky.”
Lu Bao also raised his head and murmured, “When will he come down?”
“It’s hard to say, the Dragon Clan always does what it wants. Okay, I’m going back, Daddy, don’t forget to send me the car.”
Xu Maomao said “goodbye” to it and saw the chubby cat king disappearing in front of his eyes. Just when he was about to say hello to Lu Bao, he saw Lu Bao looking worried.
“Lu Bao, what’s wrong with you?”
Lu Bao raised his eyes and suddenly started to cry: “Mr. Cat, I never thought I could be friends with a dragon.”
Xu Maomao: “A dragon is a dragon, it’s still your Brother Yu.”
“But the cat Taoist just now said that Brother Yu is in the sky,” Lu Bao said distressedly, “and I am just a little frog, and I can’t reach his height. Do you think he will think I am a frog in the well too? Will he also dislike me?”
Although Lu Bao had worked very hard to improve himself, the term “frog in the well[2]” had been coined by humans and had spread to every corner of the world. Even the well-informed Lu Bao inevitably felt that he would be given this big hat.
Xu Maomao suddenly understood something. It turned out that Lu Bao was worried about his friend’s success and that he would forget about him after it. This kind of thing was very common in the world. There was “Don’t forget each other even if you are rich and noble”, but there was also “I will ignore you when I reach the peak of my life.” No wonder Lu Bao was worried about it. The difference in status was really big, just like the friend you played with in the mud when you were young suddenly becoming the president.
But Xu Maomao somehow felt that the demon world was purer than the human world, so it shouldn’t be like this.
Xu Maomao quickly comforted him: “No, you have known each other for hundreds of years, right? Don’t you still know what he is like?”
Lu Bao was dumbfounded: “Then why doesn’t he come back?
“Maybe something happened?”
“Really?”
“It must have been something else.”
Lu Bao thought about it, and he didn’t know what good memory he was thinking of, but he laughed secretly. Then he said: “That’s right! We clearly agreed that we would walk out of the lotus pond and travel to a wider place together.”
Xu Maomao looked at the two groups of blushes on the big frog’s flat face and joked: “Are you treating your fish brother…”
Lu Bao: “… Croak!” Mr. Cat discovered all this. QUQ, how can the Sa family be a frog!
“Is this really like this?” Xu Maomao was even more shocked. He didn’t expect that the canned frog fish CP he originally made up was actually true?
“Hush, hush! I just secretly like Brother Yu!” Lu Bao slapped his face and bounced shyly, “He doesn’t know yet!”
Xu Maomao laughed. As the saying goes, there are three things in the world that you can’t hide, poverty, sneezing, and love. I guess that fish has already seen through it.
“Hey, there was a racial barrier to begin with, and now Brother Yu—no, Brother Long—and I are even more incompatible, QAQ…” Lu Bao was already worrying about the issue of matching, and the fighting spirit he had just recovered suddenly died down.
“Have you heard the story of Cinderella? Have you heard the story of Princess Diana? Have you heard the story of Sakura Commoner Princess? They are all examples of lovers from mismatched families eventually getting married.”
The frog shook his head: “No. I don’t know.”
Xu Maomao told it all the fairy tales in one breath. He could give countless examples of this kind of rational marriage theory of Cinderella striving to become a noble lady from ancient times to the present. He was not afraid that he would not be able to encourage this frog!
Sure enough, after listening to several inspiring marriage stories about pheasants turning into phoenixes, Lu Bao was greatly encouraged and said with renewed vigor: “Okay! Even if Brother Yu turns into a dragon, I will not give up pursuing him! Now that Brother Yu has gone to heaven, I will find a way to go up!”
Xu Maomao asked happily: “How do you plan to go up?”
“I have to practice hard and become as powerful as the Golden Toad!”
Xu Maomao said: “…How many years will it take?”
“…The golden toad seems to have cultivated for ten thousand years?” Lu Bao cried sadly, “Then Brother Yu might have had a baby dragon with another dragon girl by then QAQ…”
“It’s good that you know.” Xu Maomao said solemnly: “Let’s think of another way, we can’t sit still and wait for death.”
Lu Bao lowered his head in distress: “Humans often say that friends have a long way to go, but this is a long road to immortality. This little friend is not that powerful. I guess I can’t go up.”
“Don’t worry.”
Xu Maomao, knew someone, a friend from the fairy world, that was Jade Rabbit.
[Oscar]: Mr. Jade Rabbit, how are you doing lately?
[Jade Rabbit]: No, it’s terrible!
[Oscar]: ?
[Jade Rabbit]: I was imprisoned after they found me picking marshmallows. Hey, how can I fix it?
[Oscar]: …Where is the confinement?
[Jade Rabbit]: Guanghan Palace
Xu Maomao raised his head and glanced at the sky and had the courage to greet it for a few words before he asked tremblingly: Please tell me how to get to heaven.
[Jade Rabbit]: Easy, I can bring you up. Just kidding, but considering that I am locked up in a dark room and it will take a hundred years for me to come out, can you wait?
…The stinky rabbit was really unreliable! Doesn’t that mean you can’t do anything? After a hundred years, maybe Brother Yu would have made a marriage contract with some female dragon, okay? If Brother Yu works harder, the little dragon might also be pregnant.
Xu Maomao coolly went offline. He only knew two mythical beasts, and the remaining one was Suan Ni, the dragon that had seen its head but not its tail. However, after he poked for a day, Suan Ni never responded.
When Shen Yu came back in the evening and learned that the fish had turned into a dragon, he was not too surprised. He calmly asked the two little pets: “Have you thought of a way to get to heaven?”
The two little pets cried: “Not really.”
Xu Maomao: “You, how high can the family’s private plane fly?”
Shen Yu scratched his little nose: “Si Mao, no matter how high it flies, can it reach the fairyland?”
Xu Maomao: “Hey, I think Suan Ni can help us, but I always can’t contact him. Is it true that he works with your good friend Qiao Lingfeng?”
Shen Yu was silent, and suddenly thought of the big red lion cat he had seen in his dream. That cat named Black Lightning… yes, it was during the second dream that these two demon cats came to the man’s mansion, and even discussed something with the man in cat language. If that mansion was located in the heavens, they must have a way to get there.
“Qiao Lingfeng is too busy filming now,” Shen Yu said thoughtfully, “Maybe you can ask your black cat.”
Black Lightning? Xu Maomao looked at the male god in surprise. Didn’t he always care about Black Lightning?
“That black cat must have some connections.” Shen Yu said firmly.
“Hey, it’s so busy.” Although he didn’t know why Shen Yu relented and asked him to find Black Lightning, at present, apart from Suan Ni and Jade Rabbit, the only powerful monster Xu Maomao knew was Brother Lightning.
Xu Maomao tried to send a message to Black Lightning, who had also been offline for a long time. He waited for six or seven hours before Black Lightning responded to him.
[Black Lightning]: The fairy world is currently closed to the human world, and even I can’t go up easily
[Oscar]: Have you ever been there?
[Black Lightning]: Of course, but I have not been granted an official immortal position in heaven, so I can only go up there when the foreign director is debriefing, and besides, I can’t get away now. Oscar’s separation technique only lasts less than seven days, which is the key.
Xu Maomao almost forgot about this. Now he was adapting to being a cat more smoothly and couldn’t remember his original identity anymore.
[Black Lightning]: But I can make a guess about the whereabouts of the dragon. Now the fairy world needs to fix a bug, and there is a special shortage of manpower, so it may be appointed by the higher ups to help, and it may not be able to come down to earth in a short time.
[Oscar]: That won’t work, my friend can’t wait that long
[Black Lightning]: There is also a way, but I have only heard rumors and am not sure whether it is feasible
[Oscar]: (⊙o⊙) Tell me quickly
[Black Lightning]: There is a Yin-Yang Inn in Fengdu. Legend has it that it is a transit station for the six realms. Maybe you can go directly to the fairy world from there…
Yin-Yang Inn! Wasn’t that the Sun and Moon Youth Hostel?
[Oscar]: Ahhh, I’ve been there
[Black Lightning]: It’s just a rumor, and it’s not easy to go to the fairy world now, because some bad things happened in the past, and basically all the entrances are strictly guarded
[Oscar]: We have to give it a try! Thank you Black Lightning!
[Black Lightning]: I wish you good luck, I am going to start my retreat.
Basically, the black cat only appeared in the red envelope group twice a week, and it would not appear again the next week.
It seemed that he had to go to Fengdu again, but now that the transformation potion had been used up and Dr. Mi had not put new products on the shelves, could it be that he would have to check in as a pet with Lu Bao?
Xu Maomao was really embarrassed to crowdfund potion for the second time in the group, so he simply poked at Void Cat Lord and asked him if he had a transformation charm or something like that.
[Void Cat Lord]: No, I specialize in escape, movement, and position divination, and Dr. Mi specializes in morphological changes.
[Void Cat Lord]: Wait, which inn are you going to? I remembered, there is another way to enter that inn! You can get in with the talisman array!
[Oscar]: Is it, is it teleportation?
[Void Cat Lord]: Bingo! Wait a minute, I’ll look for the talisman array… I found it! The legacy left to me by my master is the ancient site of this inn.
[Picture]
Xu Maomao took a look and saw that it was the complicated “array symbol”. It was very different from what he had seen on TV before. Instead, it looked a bit like… a QR code?!
[Void Cat Lord]: Let me tell you why the human invention of QR codes looks so familiar. It is because it is the wisdom of our demon ancestors!
Xu Maomao: “…”
The father of QR codes was probably going to cry when he heard this.
[Void Cat Lord]: Come on, scan it, maybe you can teleport there!
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[1] Not living up to expectations.
[2] Don’t be like the frog at the bottom of the well and think that the sky is only as big as the top of the well.