Chapter 11
Time Flies Like Urine, Xuan Yi's Background
Long Yunmei smiled as she looked at the two little ones, then slowly walked up the steps and sat down on the large prayer mat above.
"Alright, since Xiao Shuan just arrived today, let's review how to refine the throat bone and some basic dragon language first."
Upon hearing this, Shen Shuan immediately looked away and sat up straight.
Xuan Yi was the same. Although he had refined the throat bone, he had no complaints. Instead, his golden vertical pupils became serious.
Because he had only recently been brought back to Dragon Island, and because his mother was not a dragon, she had not received any inherited memories, and therefore did not speak pure dragon language.
He managed to refine the throat bone by learning from the demon beasts, but he still couldn't grasp the essence of dragon language because there were no books recording it.
He had only been on Dragon Island for half a month, and his voice was still somewhat off-key, a flaw that he could not tolerate.
Looking at the two innocent yet well-behaved little faces below, Long Yunmei's tone unconsciously softened.
Oh, so cute.
Little babies are cutest when they're small!
……
A single lesson in dragon language can easily last all morning.
By the time class ended, Shen Shuan's eyes were glazed over, and her stomach was completely empty.
The several hours of dragon language class passed by like urine, leaving only an uncontrollable feeling of incontinence.
"Awooo? Awooo!"
"You're howling, you're not howling."
Shen Shuan has successfully refined the throat bone. Whether it is a natural advantage of true dragons or a secret technique unique to the dragon race, this step is very simple.
However, even in basic dragon language, a single syllable has hundreds of different pronunciations and meanings.
Damn it, her reputation as a genius is probably doomed before it even gets off the ground.
Shen Shuan felt a surge of urgency and subconsciously began to practice more.
Xuan Yi, standing beside him, twitched his ear and glanced at Shen Shu'an, who was practicing.
He was silent for two seconds, as if he wanted to speak, but in the end he didn't say anything.
The pronunciation is wrong, but...
"Kids, are you hungry? Come and eat."
At this moment, Long Yan made a dazzling appearance, looked at the two little ones, and laughed heartily.
"Your Highness, why don't you go with Xiao Shu'an? Come on, let's have dinner with Uncle Yan."
Upon hearing this, Xuan Yi stood up, nodded slightly, and walked towards Long Yan.
He recognized this senior Jinlong; by blood, he was a distant cousin.
However, he was ultimately a distant elder, and since he had no parents, they had very little interaction and remained strangers.
Shen Shuan, whose soul had almost left her body, came back to her senses, lowered her head and let out a long sigh. She then got up from the mat with her bottom sticking out and walked towards Longyan.
She was not quite used to suddenly returning to her childhood body.
Damn it, does Aunt Meryl Streep have some kind of twisted sense of humor?
"Okay, thank you, Uncle Yan."
Xuan Yi paused, glancing at Shen Shu'an once more.
Shen Shu'an, puzzled, looked back with her large, icy blue eyes.
Whether it was because of his dragon form or not, when he transformed back into human form, Shen Shu'an had white hair and clear, icy eyes.
Xuan Yi felt a little confused by the stare, so he looked away and continued walking towards Long Yan.
He simply couldn't understand why Shen Shu'an called Long Yan "Uncle" so naturally.
As far as he knew, this person, who was not much older than him, had long since passed the true infancy stage.
He survived alone in the Western Continent, a place teeming with demons, for over a decade, hiding from the jaws of monsters and fleeing from the hands of cultivators of other races. He had no relatives or friends, and was utterly alone.
It wasn't until they returned to the Dragon Clan that they learned that the place was called the "Heavenly Demon Mountain Range," a vast expanse of land ridges, teeming with demonic beasts, and utterly uninhabited.
No wonder, after searching for more than ten years, he only found a few scattered corpses, and there were no profound magic techniques in the storage bags, and he couldn't even learn the Transformation Technique.
However, he honed many rough skills through fighting with monsters.
His thoughts settled, Xuan Yi silently withdrew his gaze and walked past Shen Shu'an.
His laughter this morning wasn't malicious.
But... I thought of how I looked when I first arrived on Dragon Island.
At that time, he was also under Aunt Mei's spell, forced to transform into a child, and was even almost held in her arms.
Thinking of this, Xuan Yi froze, then silently quickened his pace.
This human body is so inconvenient that it cannot fly, and with its two short legs, it cannot go fast.
Shen Shu'an: "?"
Shen Shuan didn't really understand, but she didn't bother to think about it.
Right now, all she could think of were a bunch of different pronunciations of "ao," "hou," and "aowu," and these were just the simplest dragon language, like the Chinese characters for one, two, and three.
After a morning of exhaustion, I was starving and my head was spinning. I quickened my pace and jogged toward Longyan.
Upon seeing this, Long Yan squatted down, opened his large hands, and looked at the two of them expectantly with his dragon eyes.
Shen Shuan did not disappoint Long Yan. She jogged over and let Long Yan pat her head.
But Xuan Yi stopped in his tracks and stood to the side.
Despite his small stature, his golden eyes were deep and unfathomable.
Long Yan saw this but didn't force them. He smiled and led the two to their meal.
During her lunch break, Shen Shu'an munched on a dragon fruit as big as her face and mentally said to the system, "System, system, please respond."
[Here! Host, I'm here.]
"This Xuan Yi, he's already on Dragon Island, how come he's still a little kid in human form? It makes me feel like a little kid too."
Shen Shuan wiped the Longlong fruit juice off her face, her tone somewhat resentful.
It's inconvenient for kids to do anything; they get fruit juice all over their faces when they eat fruit.
[Host, it's not that he's the one who made you a little brat, it's that you are a little brat.]
[After you successfully transformed into a dragon, your vitality increased dramatically. According to the age calculation of dragons, a dragon in its teens is already considered a cub.]
Shen Shu'an: "???"
Shen Shu'an abruptly stopped chewing. "What? So I can't turn back later?"
[You won't have a host yet. Once you've mastered shapeshifting, you can switch forms at will.]
"Phew." Shen Shu'an breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. "So, I misunderstood him?"
As she spoke, she looked at Xuan Yi, who was sitting on a futon with his eyes closed, not far away.
The other person had short, uneven black hair, with bangs lightly covering their eyebrows and eyes, and long eyelashes that drooped down, making them look quiet and aloof.
Even during a short rest, their backs remain ramrod straight, as if they can't relax for a moment, which looks exhausting.
[That's right, host, you've misunderstood him.]
[You and he were both turned into cubs by Long Yunmei, so Long Yunmei should like children.]
Shen Shu'an: "..."
No wonder she said that Aunt Mei's smile was like her looking at a kitten in her past life!
[Host, perhaps you could try befriending Xuan Yi. This young man possesses exceptional talent and would greatly benefit your completion of side quests and the accumulation of emotion points.]
Shen Shuan blinked. Right, she could only get emotional points from people she knew.
However… Shen Shuan looked at Xuan Yi’s closed eyes and the faint dark circles under his eyes.
"No rush, System, let him rest first."
The scales on a dragon's body are like the hair on a human body.
After she transformed into a human, her hair was smooth and glossy, and of uniform length, indicating that her scales were also intact.
However, Xuan Yi's hair was of varying lengths, and as the Dragon Prince, he had scales that were half new and half old.
It must have lost its scales after being injured in the past, and then new scales grew back, repeating this process over and over again.
Shen Shu'an fell silent. She didn't remember the plot of the book very well, and couldn't recall the specifics.
She only vaguely remembered that Xuan Yi's mother neither loved nor hated him, and that her relationship with the Dragon King was just a fleeting affair; she simply became pregnant and wanted to give birth.
However, she was seriously injured when she was about to give birth and was chased by her enemies. In the end, she had no choice but to give birth to Xuan Yi in a bear demon cave deep in the Tianyao Forest.
She calmly gave instructions regarding her newborn child, leaving behind a storage ring before passing away peacefully.
The black bear demon that returned from its journey became the first enemy Xuan Yi encountered after its birth.
Shen Shuan thought about it and quietly calmed down.
If it were her, perhaps she wouldn't live to see the day the dragons find her?
Having had such an experience, it's perhaps understandable that one might have an eccentric and unpredictable temper.
In the words of Blue Star, this is called having a bad family of origin and suffering great trauma.
She put down the fruit pit she had finished eating, took out a handkerchief from her storage ring, and carefully wiped her face clean.
Speaking of this storage ring, Old Ancestor Bai is truly kind.
It contained all the daily necessities she needed, as well as several jade boxes filled with rare treasures, though she couldn't understand them yet.
After a while, the lunch break ended.
Long Yan stood up, waved his hand at Shen Shu'an and Xuan Yi, and said with his hands on his hips, "Haha, Uncle Yan will be teaching the afternoon training session!"
"You little rascals, get ready, hohoho!"
Shen Shuan and Xuan Yi looked up at Long Yan, who was laughing heartily.
Shen Shu'an: "?"
Xuan Yi: "
"Alright, since Xiao Shuan just arrived today, let's review how to refine the throat bone and some basic dragon language first."
Upon hearing this, Shen Shuan immediately looked away and sat up straight.
Xuan Yi was the same. Although he had refined the throat bone, he had no complaints. Instead, his golden vertical pupils became serious.
Because he had only recently been brought back to Dragon Island, and because his mother was not a dragon, she had not received any inherited memories, and therefore did not speak pure dragon language.
He managed to refine the throat bone by learning from the demon beasts, but he still couldn't grasp the essence of dragon language because there were no books recording it.
He had only been on Dragon Island for half a month, and his voice was still somewhat off-key, a flaw that he could not tolerate.
Looking at the two innocent yet well-behaved little faces below, Long Yunmei's tone unconsciously softened.
Oh, so cute.
Little babies are cutest when they're small!
……
A single lesson in dragon language can easily last all morning.
By the time class ended, Shen Shuan's eyes were glazed over, and her stomach was completely empty.
The several hours of dragon language class passed by like urine, leaving only an uncontrollable feeling of incontinence.
"Awooo? Awooo!"
"You're howling, you're not howling."
Shen Shuan has successfully refined the throat bone. Whether it is a natural advantage of true dragons or a secret technique unique to the dragon race, this step is very simple.
However, even in basic dragon language, a single syllable has hundreds of different pronunciations and meanings.
Damn it, her reputation as a genius is probably doomed before it even gets off the ground.
Shen Shuan felt a surge of urgency and subconsciously began to practice more.
Xuan Yi, standing beside him, twitched his ear and glanced at Shen Shu'an, who was practicing.
He was silent for two seconds, as if he wanted to speak, but in the end he didn't say anything.
The pronunciation is wrong, but...
"Kids, are you hungry? Come and eat."
At this moment, Long Yan made a dazzling appearance, looked at the two little ones, and laughed heartily.
"Your Highness, why don't you go with Xiao Shu'an? Come on, let's have dinner with Uncle Yan."
Upon hearing this, Xuan Yi stood up, nodded slightly, and walked towards Long Yan.
He recognized this senior Jinlong; by blood, he was a distant cousin.
However, he was ultimately a distant elder, and since he had no parents, they had very little interaction and remained strangers.
Shen Shuan, whose soul had almost left her body, came back to her senses, lowered her head and let out a long sigh. She then got up from the mat with her bottom sticking out and walked towards Longyan.
She was not quite used to suddenly returning to her childhood body.
Damn it, does Aunt Meryl Streep have some kind of twisted sense of humor?
"Okay, thank you, Uncle Yan."
Xuan Yi paused, glancing at Shen Shu'an once more.
Shen Shu'an, puzzled, looked back with her large, icy blue eyes.
Whether it was because of his dragon form or not, when he transformed back into human form, Shen Shu'an had white hair and clear, icy eyes.
Xuan Yi felt a little confused by the stare, so he looked away and continued walking towards Long Yan.
He simply couldn't understand why Shen Shu'an called Long Yan "Uncle" so naturally.
As far as he knew, this person, who was not much older than him, had long since passed the true infancy stage.
He survived alone in the Western Continent, a place teeming with demons, for over a decade, hiding from the jaws of monsters and fleeing from the hands of cultivators of other races. He had no relatives or friends, and was utterly alone.
It wasn't until they returned to the Dragon Clan that they learned that the place was called the "Heavenly Demon Mountain Range," a vast expanse of land ridges, teeming with demonic beasts, and utterly uninhabited.
No wonder, after searching for more than ten years, he only found a few scattered corpses, and there were no profound magic techniques in the storage bags, and he couldn't even learn the Transformation Technique.
However, he honed many rough skills through fighting with monsters.
His thoughts settled, Xuan Yi silently withdrew his gaze and walked past Shen Shu'an.
His laughter this morning wasn't malicious.
But... I thought of how I looked when I first arrived on Dragon Island.
At that time, he was also under Aunt Mei's spell, forced to transform into a child, and was even almost held in her arms.
Thinking of this, Xuan Yi froze, then silently quickened his pace.
This human body is so inconvenient that it cannot fly, and with its two short legs, it cannot go fast.
Shen Shu'an: "?"
Shen Shuan didn't really understand, but she didn't bother to think about it.
Right now, all she could think of were a bunch of different pronunciations of "ao," "hou," and "aowu," and these were just the simplest dragon language, like the Chinese characters for one, two, and three.
After a morning of exhaustion, I was starving and my head was spinning. I quickened my pace and jogged toward Longyan.
Upon seeing this, Long Yan squatted down, opened his large hands, and looked at the two of them expectantly with his dragon eyes.
Shen Shuan did not disappoint Long Yan. She jogged over and let Long Yan pat her head.
But Xuan Yi stopped in his tracks and stood to the side.
Despite his small stature, his golden eyes were deep and unfathomable.
Long Yan saw this but didn't force them. He smiled and led the two to their meal.
During her lunch break, Shen Shu'an munched on a dragon fruit as big as her face and mentally said to the system, "System, system, please respond."
[Here! Host, I'm here.]
"This Xuan Yi, he's already on Dragon Island, how come he's still a little kid in human form? It makes me feel like a little kid too."
Shen Shuan wiped the Longlong fruit juice off her face, her tone somewhat resentful.
It's inconvenient for kids to do anything; they get fruit juice all over their faces when they eat fruit.
[Host, it's not that he's the one who made you a little brat, it's that you are a little brat.]
[After you successfully transformed into a dragon, your vitality increased dramatically. According to the age calculation of dragons, a dragon in its teens is already considered a cub.]
Shen Shu'an: "???"
Shen Shu'an abruptly stopped chewing. "What? So I can't turn back later?"
[You won't have a host yet. Once you've mastered shapeshifting, you can switch forms at will.]
"Phew." Shen Shu'an breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. "So, I misunderstood him?"
As she spoke, she looked at Xuan Yi, who was sitting on a futon with his eyes closed, not far away.
The other person had short, uneven black hair, with bangs lightly covering their eyebrows and eyes, and long eyelashes that drooped down, making them look quiet and aloof.
Even during a short rest, their backs remain ramrod straight, as if they can't relax for a moment, which looks exhausting.
[That's right, host, you've misunderstood him.]
[You and he were both turned into cubs by Long Yunmei, so Long Yunmei should like children.]
Shen Shu'an: "..."
No wonder she said that Aunt Mei's smile was like her looking at a kitten in her past life!
[Host, perhaps you could try befriending Xuan Yi. This young man possesses exceptional talent and would greatly benefit your completion of side quests and the accumulation of emotion points.]
Shen Shuan blinked. Right, she could only get emotional points from people she knew.
However… Shen Shuan looked at Xuan Yi’s closed eyes and the faint dark circles under his eyes.
"No rush, System, let him rest first."
The scales on a dragon's body are like the hair on a human body.
After she transformed into a human, her hair was smooth and glossy, and of uniform length, indicating that her scales were also intact.
However, Xuan Yi's hair was of varying lengths, and as the Dragon Prince, he had scales that were half new and half old.
It must have lost its scales after being injured in the past, and then new scales grew back, repeating this process over and over again.
Shen Shu'an fell silent. She didn't remember the plot of the book very well, and couldn't recall the specifics.
She only vaguely remembered that Xuan Yi's mother neither loved nor hated him, and that her relationship with the Dragon King was just a fleeting affair; she simply became pregnant and wanted to give birth.
However, she was seriously injured when she was about to give birth and was chased by her enemies. In the end, she had no choice but to give birth to Xuan Yi in a bear demon cave deep in the Tianyao Forest.
She calmly gave instructions regarding her newborn child, leaving behind a storage ring before passing away peacefully.
The black bear demon that returned from its journey became the first enemy Xuan Yi encountered after its birth.
Shen Shuan thought about it and quietly calmed down.
If it were her, perhaps she wouldn't live to see the day the dragons find her?
Having had such an experience, it's perhaps understandable that one might have an eccentric and unpredictable temper.
In the words of Blue Star, this is called having a bad family of origin and suffering great trauma.
She put down the fruit pit she had finished eating, took out a handkerchief from her storage ring, and carefully wiped her face clean.
Speaking of this storage ring, Old Ancestor Bai is truly kind.
It contained all the daily necessities she needed, as well as several jade boxes filled with rare treasures, though she couldn't understand them yet.
After a while, the lunch break ended.
Long Yan stood up, waved his hand at Shen Shu'an and Xuan Yi, and said with his hands on his hips, "Haha, Uncle Yan will be teaching the afternoon training session!"
"You little rascals, get ready, hohoho!"
Shen Shuan and Xuan Yi looked up at Long Yan, who was laughing heartily.
Shen Shu'an: "?"
Xuan Yi: "