Tian Long couldn't help but look fondly at Yasenia's dragon form. The girl who couldn't even transform was now a majestic dragon, blending empyrean beauty and draconic nobility into a figure that could be admired regardless of race. There wouldn't be anyone looking at Yasenia's dragon form and thinking that it wasn't imposing or beautiful.
"Uncle Long! Look, my wings are larger than yours!"
Yasenia proudly spread her massive wings, which reached a wingspan of 110 kilometers. Seeing the beautiful Moon and Sun images on each wing, Tian Long used his head to pat her. "Great wings! They are longer than your length, which is race related. Usually, the wings and body length are similar, if not identical."
Yasenia's tail wagged, striking a few mountains behind her and causing a few disasters. Tatyana noticed and waved her hand, protecting the mountains.
"Thank you, Uncle Long! Although compared to Uncle Long, I am too slender… Uncle Long's body is large and muscular. I really admire it."
Seeing her beautiful and perfect daughter looking at Tian Long's muscular body with envy made Tatyana's expression crumple. 'What if, the next time she transforms, my gorgeous and pudding-like Little Treasure turns into a brick house!? No! I shall not allow it!'
Before Tian Long could even speak up, a giant phantom hand appeared above his head, smacking him on the back of his head. The strength behind the hit threw his head down like a meteor, cratering with a loud explosion.
Under Yasenia's stupefied expression, Tatyana appeared before one of her eyes and smiled like a flower. "Your slender body is the best. Alright, love? You are perfect as you are; no need for muscles."
Fearing she would become a victim of the same fate as Tian Long, she nodded obediently and sat down like a good dragon daughter. "I-I won't change. My body is perfect as it is, after all."
Tatyana manifested a giant hand to pat Yasenia's head. "Good girl."
Meanwhile, Tian Long slowly pulled his head from the crater, his eyebrows twitching with annoyance. "Was there a need for that?"
His rumbling voice snapped Tatyana out of her patting mood, making her look sideways with a snort. "Don't you dare give me that look. You, uselessly big dragon, were probably going to say something not good."
"How is it useless? The times you've told me to charge into a planet and use my size to create an apocalypse are not few!"
This time, it was Yasenia's eyebrow that twitched. Tatyana coughed and put on a serious expression. "Don't tell me that if you were riding a durable dragon as large as a Moon, you wouldn't have the urge to see what happened? The results are incredible!"
"At least… they were planets without living beings, right?"
Yasenia asked suspiciously. Tatyana looked into the large golden-colored eye and opened her mouth twice, only to look sideways as she answered. "O-Of course."
Our dragoness deadpanned, and Tian Long sighed. "It was partially their fault for bothering us too much, but I still think that splitting their world in half by making me slam against it at full speed was a bit too much."
Not really knowing how to react to the sentences she was listening to, Yasenia decided to do the smartest thing she could.
She looked at Tian Long and smiled. "Uncle Long! Do you want to go fly around for a while? It has been a while since I could because I was fearful of being attacked."
Tatyana and Tian Long felt their jaws slacken. 'She completely ignored it!? Won't you make at least one small comment!?'
However, none of them dared to say a single word. Yasenia's golden-slit eyes carried a strangely powerful pressure that spelled doom to whoever dared to steer the conversation back.
"Hm… I guess we could. Did you have something planned, Tatyana?"
Tatyana shrugged. "Nothing that gets to conflict with Little Treasure's desire. You wanted to go visit that Lan Clan, right? I think now is a good time to get your rewards for being robbed back then."
Tian Long frowned, his already ominous face becoming even fiercer. "Someone dared to rob our Little Princess? Should we scorch everything with Abyssal Fire?"
Tatyana waved her hand. "It was just a Transcendence-ranked herb. There is no need to kill them all."
"... 'Them all'? What do you mean with 'them all,' Mom?"
Tatyana blinked innocently. "Well, since that girl robbed you, shouldn't we at least kill that one?"
Yasenia sighed. 'I've been around so many relatively reasonable people lately that I forgot how Mom behaved usually.'
Moreover, the secondary body was too weak to follow through with Tatyana's usual murderous tendencies, so she also held back during that time. 'Back in the Sky Continent, didn't she and I kill people for even the slightest disagreement?'
Tatyana noticed Yasenia's thoughtful look and chuckled. "Love, you've softened a lot, haven't you?"
Yasenia tilted her head cutely. "Did I? I feel that more than softening, now I am thinking a bit more about consequences. After all, if we kill them for that minor altercation, we will be making enemies of them. The gains and losses are just not comparable, right?"
The Death Empress landed on Yasenia's snout with a chuckle. "You are right, but since we are overwhelmingly stronger, I don't really see the problem with stomping a few bugs. Still, if you want to play around, we can…" Tatyana paused and glanced at Yasenia with a squint. "Just to make sure, you're not holding yourself back for fear of becoming hypocritical or something, right? If you are thinking something stupid like, 'I don't want someone to do that to me, so I should not do it myself,' I'll have to kick your butt a few times."
Yasena shook her head calmly. "Not at all. Even if I do that, those who were initially going to be cruel to me won't change their attitudes. We don't live in a kind enough world that those words can be kept without making ourselves suffer."
Tatyana's expression relaxed. "Good. I have not taught you to be ruthless and cold-blooded so that you can screw it up at the last second. We are cultivators, selfish by nature. The lines that separate our good and evil are muddy at best, and those who commit evil will never be merciful if you show them mercy. Instead, they will think of you as a weak person and try to use that kindness against you. Of course, we must be reasonable to an extent. We are not porcupines nor bloodthirsty demons. Nevertheless, few people will become someone whom you can truly trust in front of absolute profit."
Yasenia nodded gently, Tatyana being thrown up and down with her large head's movement. "I understand, don't worry. I was just thinking that since we will never see them again, creating karmic ties by killing them is not necessary. Better deal with it and forget about them."
Tatyana smiled. "Alright, that's a good explanation. I accept it. Now, let's go!"
After Tatyana pointed, neither Yasenia nor Tian Long moved, making the Death Empress blink. "Um… Why are we not flying?"
Yasenia asked, confused. "Do you know the way to the Lan Family?"
"..." Tatyana paused and shook her head. "Don't you? I thought you would've investigated their location since you wanted to go visit."
Yasenia shook her head. "I was going to ask Lady Death Saintess for it when I decided to go."
"Oh." Tatyana nodded and then shouted. "Xing Jimie!"
Xing Jimie appeared by their side a second later with a respectful expression. "You called, Lady Death Empress?"
"Yeah, where is the Lan Family? The one that bothered Yasenia. Also, where is that Cai Xue girl? I thought she was following behind, but I can't see her."
Xing Jimie answered with a neutral tone. "Lady Death Empress, Cai Xue stayed behind at my orders, thinking that you would want to have a private time with Lady Yasenia. I'll call her straight away. Other than that, the location of the Lan Family is in the 12th Continent."
Tatyana blinked. "Oh. Quite high."
She had already learned the structure of the world thanks to the Emperors, so she knew that the 12th continent was among the top forces.
Xing Jimie smiled. "Indeed. However, the Lan family is not strong over there. Their ancestor is a Level 2 Law Creator, which is why they still remain in their ancestral lands. Sadly, it seems that they are declining, as the following strongest individual is a peak-level Transcendence Ranked individual, and the current patriarch of the family."
Tatyana hummed. "I see. Anyway, carry the Cai Xue girl here so that she can accompany Yasenia. Don't worry about her being bothersome. After all, she has become Yasenia's personal maid."
"Huh?" Xing Jimie blinked and glanced at Yasenia. "Um… Since when?"
Yasenia smiled. "A few weeks ago!"
"I see…" Xing Jimie pondered, her face thoughtful. 'Personal maid…'
After Cai Xue arrived, she stood on Yasenia's head, and they all departed. The massive wings of both dragons pushed the air as they moved, creating large gusts of wind that soon became small-scale hurricanes.
Using energy as the primary medium, their ridiculously huge and weighty bodies lifted off the ground, soaring to the sky. Xing Jimie observed the two gargantuan dragons blotting the sky with their figures before disappearing in the distance.
"...Lady Yasenia is truly beautiful in her dragon form."
She had not seen it before, and she regretted it a bit. 'If I knew, I would've loved to pet her in her dragon form. Although, with how I thought about her before, I might've held back from doing it just for spite.'
Shaking her head, her mind started thinking back on her previous thought process. 'I wonder if… I mean, it's not that I am dissatisfied as Lady Death Empress's Saint. Nevertheless, I am not of much use to Lady Death Empress due to my lack of strength. On the other hand, if I were Lady Yasenia's person…'
The more she thought about it, the more plausible she found it. She was still doubtful, though.
Meanwhile, Yasenia and Tian Long soared through the skies together. Their figures swiftly moved above the clouds, their bodies covering incredible distances with each wing flap.
Yasenia smiled, free and easy. She really loved the sensation of flying in her dragon form. "So nice… It has been a while since I stretched my wings."
Tian Long and Tatyana smiled. "Little Princess, you can now fly as much as you want. If you ever want to take a lap in the sky, just give me a call and I'll help you."
Yasenia smiled sweetly. "Thank you, Uncle Long!"