Chapter 84 Dragon Seven
"What do you want to do!" Long Ba jumped up in a hurry and almost hit Long Qi's waist.

Long Qi ignored him and went straight out of the courtyard.

After a while of searching, Long Qi first found Zhang Tie sitting in the yard studying the fruit trees. Seeing Zhang Tie studying the longevity fruit tree, Long Qi thought to himself that this outsider really liked the longevity fruit tree, what a pity for the short-lived species.

"Master, my name is Long Qi, and I am the former lord of Jiulong City." Long Qi bowed respectfully to Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie turned around and saw a white-haired old man with a foundation-building level. He looked quite familiar. He thought to himself, "He looks like Long Ba! But he's a lot taller!"

"My name is Zhang Tie, nice to meet you, Fellow Daoist Long Qi." Zhang Tie returned the greeting, "May I ask what you may have to say to me?"

"It's like this. I heard that the mage was brought into Kowloon City by the sacred beast of the tribe, but he didn't explain the situation here clearly to you, so I specially explained it to you on behalf of the Kowloon City human race."

"Yes, that's true." Zhang Tie motioned for the old man to continue.

"The human race in Jiulong City is now dwindling in talent, and we have repeatedly failed to achieve good results in the competitions for hunting evil monsters from the outside world. That's why we sent holy beasts that can cross the deep sea to invite human monks to help us overcome the difficulties."

As he spoke, Long Qi asked the boy to take out a plate of fruit, and then lifted the golden covering, revealing eight longevity fruits.

"I heard that cultivators in the outside world are all limited by their life span, so I specially sent these eight longevity fruits to you, I hope you won't despise them."

Zhang Tie looked at the longevity fruit in front of him without saying a word. He just looked at the longevity fruit tree next to him, meaning, there is a longevity fruit tree behind me, and you are giving this to me now, are you embarrassed?

"Didn't you hear about this, fellow Daoist?" Long Qi pretended to be surprised. "The lifespan increased by this longevity fruit tree will only take effect within this formation. If you leave this Nine Dragon City, the effect will be reduced to one tenth of its original value!"

“What!” Zhang Tie felt a chill in his heart when he heard this. He thought to himself, if the longevity fruit only works here, if he wants to rely on it to achieve immortality, does he have to stay here forever like the people here?

"This Long Ba is really careless!" Long Qi put on an angry look, "If you want to increase your life span, you still need my Longevity Fruit!"

"The longevity fruit I have here was taken from the secret realm of Kowloon City. It is the same as the normal longevity fruit in the outside world, but the quantity is rare. Over the past few hundred years, I have only saved up these eight fruits."

Zhang Tie was a little tempted when he saw this, but he still held back and asked, "No reward without merit, please tell me what you want!"

"Great!" Long Qi clapped his hands in praise.

"Then I'll be frank. The Demon Hunting Competition will be held in ten days. As long as the mage is willing to help us kill ten seventh-level demons and one eighth-level demon, these eight longevity fruits will be yours!"

“Eighth level!” Zhang Tie frowned and said, “Are you kidding me, fellow Daoist? Not to mention this eighth level monster, even a fifth level monster is not something I can handle.”

"Don't be angry, fellow Daoist. Our sacred beasts have brought in cultivators from the outside world before. That cultivator was also at the foundation-building stage, but he helped us kill three eighth-level monsters!"

"How is that possible!" Zhang Tie said in disbelief. "This is an eighth-level monster, not a dish. How can it be destroyed just like that?" "Daoyou are such a joker." Long Qi laughed. Judging from the power, this evil monster is indeed an eighth-level monster, but they have a fatal weakness, which is that they are particularly afraid of fire. If Daoyou can use fire magic to deal with these evil monsters, even an eighth-level monster can be solved with just a few dozen fireballs.

“This.” Zhang Tie was somewhat tempted when he heard this. “Although he cannot recover his spiritual energy here, he still has a lot of spiritual stones. If he can really exchange them for these eight longevity fruits, it would be a very cost-effective deal.”

“Master, don’t agree to him!” The short boy suddenly jumped out. In fact, he had been eavesdropping, but he knew that he had not told Zhang Tie about the longevity fruit, so he did not dare to come out.

But now that he found out that Zhang Tie was really going to be kidnapped by Long Qi, he could no longer hold back. “The mages before were all deceived by the Golden Source. Although they easily killed those eighth-level evil monsters, their spiritual energy was also exhausted, and they had to stay here in the end!”

"You can't get out because you've exhausted your mana?"

"Is such that!"

"You! Don't you want to win this monster hunting competition?" Long Qi said with a gloomy face, "Or do you think you can rely on your ridiculous fireballs to compete with those half-dragons whose physical strength is comparable to that of monsters!"

"Humph! That's better than you lying and getting yourself killed! You know what happened to the last mage who ran out of spiritual power!"

Long Ba then came to Zhang Tie and said, "Master, I'll tell you the truth. Foreign cultivators cannot live in Jiulong City. For unknown reasons, the bodies of foreign cultivators will be affected. If the spiritual energy in their bodies is used up, they will gradually turn into the half-dragon, half-human form that we saw before."

"However, the consciousness of the half-dragon transformed by the foreign monk will be eroded, and he will eventually become a humanoid weapon that only knows how to kill."

"So fellow Taoist, you must not agree to his conditions, and you must not use up all your spiritual power!"

"Master, please consider it carefully. I have these eight longevity fruits ready for you at any time. After the matter is accomplished, we will also send the sacred beasts of our clan to escort you out. Please consider it carefully."

After saying that, Long Qi handed Zhang Tie a jade slip, then bowed and left.

"Well, I'm leaving too. If you have any needs, just tell Xiaojiu directly." Long Ba didn't feel comfortable telling Zhang Tie about his next request, so he found an excuse and left.

"It's really too complicated!" Zhang Tie felt a headache after listening to it. He rubbed his eyebrows with his hand. Zhang Tie decided to discuss it with Han Li and the others first.

"Find someone to keep an eye on this place, and send someone to cause them some trouble tomorrow. I want to see if Long Ba can still turn the tables by relying on a few outsiders!"

"Wait," Long Qi suddenly stopped the boy who was about to leave, "By the way, notify the half-dragon man and tell him that we can discuss the matter of the secret realm. As long as he can help me regain the position of city lord, I can give them more resources of the human race!"

"Yes!" The boy took over Long Qi's order and went straight to the gathering place of the half-dragons. Only Long Qi was left with a gloomy face, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"This Kowloon City will return to my hands sooner or later!" Long Qi suddenly said, then waved his hand and walked towards his mansion.

(End of this chapter)