City of Thorns, the Lord's Palace.

"Lao Lu, I fired the tax collector of Thorn City, you know the situation in the mansion better, pick a capable person to go up first."

Gu Bei was eating, and in front of him was a large pot of boiled demonic beast meat, although the energy contained in raw meat was higher, but he didn't like to eat raw meat, he only ate it when it was roasted or cooked.

The housekeeper Lao Lu thought for a while and said: "Among the several stewards in the house, Pang Wen has the strongest ability to manage the house, and the accounts in and out of our house are all in order after passing through his hands. ”

"The most important thing is that Pang Wen came with us from the national capital, he knows the roots, his character is not bad, and the old slave thinks he is more suitable for such an important position as a tax official."

Gu Bei took a large piece of demonic beast meat into his mouth and chewed it, and said vaguely: "Then you can call Pang Wen in." ”

"Yes."

Lao Lu immediately went out, and after a while, he came in with a middle-aged man wearing a cyan robe with a serious expression.

"The villain has seen His Royal Highness." Pang Wen saluted to Gu Bei.

"Steward Pang doesn't need to be polite."

Gu Bei swallowed the last piece of demonic beast meat, wiped his mouth with a clean handkerchief, looked at Pang Wen, and said, "Thorn City is now short of a tax officer, Lao Lu recommended you to me, what do you think?" ”

Pang Wen was surprised and delighted, he didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to go from a small city lord's mansion manager to a tax collector in Thorn City.

Pang Wen didn't shirk either, and said to Gu Beidao: "If Your Highness can give the villain a chance, the villain will definitely do his best to manage the taxes of Thorn City and share his worries for His Highness!" ”

"Good!" Gu Bei nodded with satisfaction and said, "Steward Pang, you will be the tax official of Thorn City in the future!" ”

"But this prince needs to remind you that the position of tax officer is very important, and there is a lot of oil and water, you must know what you should take and what you shouldn't."

Gu Bei's gaze became fierce: "If you are like the former tax officer, you can only fish the people and raise yourself to be fat and fat, but you don't do practical things, you don't need to say more about the consequences, right?" ”

Pang Wen was shocked, immediately knelt down, and said: "Your Royal Highness the prince, rest assured, Pang Wen will definitely do things for His Royal Highness in a down-to-earth manner, and will never engage in personal gain." ”

Gu Bei's gaze became calm again, and said, "Get up, in a word, what should be taken and what should not be taken, you must be clear in your heart." ”

"There's no problem, just go with Lao Lu to get the official uniform and official seal, hand over the affairs of the house, and take office immediately, and the house of the former tax official will also belong to you."

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Pang Wen bowed again, then got up, followed the housekeeper to get the official uniform and official seal, and handed over the affairs of the house by the way.

Gu Bei took Ye Wei to the military camp outside the city, Ao Xing's state has been a little strange recently, and he has not been able to move well in the past two days, and he often sleeps on his stomach.

If the diet was normal, Gu Bei wondered if it was sick.

……

In the center of the barracks outside Thorn City, Ao Xing curled up in a ball, lying quietly in a dragon's nest woven by trees, with soft hay underneath.

At this time, the scales on its body were oozing blood, but the dragon's blood did not drip off, but turned into a blood mist, wrapping it little by little.

There were soldiers who were usually in charge of feeding who wanted to get closer, but Ao Xing bared his teeth at him, very fierce, and scared the soldiers away.

The blood mist became thicker and thicker, and gradually, Ao Xing's figure could no longer be seen clearly, and from the outside, he could only see a large cloud of thick blood mist enveloping the dragon's nest.

"What's going on?"

"Go and tell His Royal Highness!"

In the barracks, Yang Shifu looked at the blood mist shrouded in the dragon's nest, he was very worried, he knew the importance of this dragon to Gu Bei, so he sent someone to inform Gu Bei as soon as possible.

There are too few people who have raised dragons, and no one knows what the situation is in Ao Xing, Yang Shifu used to be a disciple of a small sect, and he didn't know much about dragons.

Soon, Gu Bei bumped into the soldiers who reported the news at the gate of the city, and when he heard that Ao Xing had an accident, he immediately rushed to the barracks as fast as he could.

When Gu Bei rushed outside the dragon's nest, Yang Shifu, who was so anxious, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Highness, you can be regarded as here, go and see Ao Xing, we can't get close to it."

Gu Bei walked towards the blood mist, but at this moment, the black bead pendant on his neck suddenly became hot, and it jumped slightly, and a message was instilled into Gu Bei's sea of knowledge.

After Gu Bei read this information, he immediately stopped.

"His Royal Highness, why don't you leave?" Ye Wei asked anxiously.

"Ao Xing is transforming, you can't bother it."

Gu Bei turned back to Yang Shifu and said: "Order, no one is allowed to approach the dragon's nest, and those who violate the order will be killed!" ”

"Yes!"

Yang Shifu immediately mobilized the city guards and surrounded the dragon's nest from afar, not allowing anyone to approach except Gu Bei and Ye Wei.

Gu Bei and Ye Wei were guarding outside the dragon's nest, he stared nervously at the dragon's nest, the transformation of the dragon clan is an opportunity and a disaster, if the transformation is successful, the strength will increase greatly, and the ability will also increase, but if the transformation fails, direct death is also possible.

"Ao Xing, you must succeed!"

Gu Bei clenched his fists, he thought of the miracle when Ao Xing was born, and thought of the divine dragon, he thought that the probability of Ao Xing's transformation should be very high.

But before the results came out, Gu Bei was still very nervous, for fear of a small probability event.

As time passed, the blood mist outside the dragon's lair became even thicker, as if it had become a thick cocoon, enveloping Ao Xing.

Ao Xing's breath was also very unstable, sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and everyone sweated.

Fortunately, it has been a long time since the falling dragon incident, and most of the foreign masters in Thorn City have left, otherwise someone would definitely come to check.

Gradually, when it got dark, torches were lit in the barracks, and the soldiers took turns on duty, while Gu Bei stayed where he was, and he didn't even eat dinner.

In the middle of the night, suddenly, the blood mist in the dragon's lair suddenly contracted sharply, and at the same time, an earth-shattering dragon roar resounded throughout the sky of Thorn City!

"Roar!"

A three-zhang long, with a pair of fleshy wings, a beautiful body, and a golden body, jumped up from the dragon's nest and flew into the sky with wings!

Ye Wei looked at the dragon hovering in the sky in shock, and said in a stammering tone: "Temple...... Your Highness, Ao Xing has succeeded! ”

Gu Bei nodded heavily, he clenched his fists excitedly, his eyes kept staring at the flying dragon hovering in the sky, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

He guessed correctly, Ao Xing is not small, and there is no problem with the first transformation.

From today onwards, Ao Xing is no longer an earth dragon, but has transformed into a flying dragon that can travel in the sky.

This made Gu Bei very excited, the dragon that can fly can reflect the real strength of the dragon clan, the earth dragon is limited to the ground after all, and its combat effectiveness is far worse than that of the flying dragon.

"Roar!"

Ao Xing roared again, then flew down to the ground and landed in front of Chenbei, setting off a gust of wind.

Ao Xing put one wing on the ground, looked at Gu Bei with his eyes, and tilted his head to his back.

Gu Bei knew that Ao Xing was inviting him to his back, just like a child who had learned something new to show off to his parents.

"Haha, Ao Xing is awesome!"

Gu Bei climbed onto the dragon's back along the dragon's wings and grabbed the bone spurs on Ao Xing's dorsal fin.

"Roar!"

Ao Xing kicked his legs, flapped his wings and flew into the air, flying with Gu Bei over Thorn City, attracting the envious eyes of countless people.

Gu Bei listened to the wind whistling in his ears, looked at the dotted lights below, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

Ao Xing has finally grown up!