Nanaise actually never expected that her father, who seemed absolutely loyal to her mother, would still sweet-talk other members of the opposite sex, even flirt around.
And the others he flirted with were not even human, but three beautiful Snake Maidens...
This made Nanaise suspect that her father might have some special preferences...
"Don't talk nonsense, I have not been unfaithful to your mother..." Ryun flicked his daughter's forehead and whispered a rebuttal.
Then he stepped forward, facing the three resentful beautiful Snake Maidens:
"Ahem... Elder Sisters, please don't be angry. I dare not forget the promise from back then. Today, I deliberately came to Ryuchi Cave to invite you three elder sisters to come to the human world for some fun..."
As Ryun spoke, he suddenly adopted a sorrowful expression:
"But I never expected that my sincere visit would be met with your misunderstanding and complaints. You wouldn't even agree to meet me..."
As soon as Ryun finished speaking, silence fell over the palace area. After just a moment, Ichikishimahime, the youngest and most naive, was the first to cancel her invisibility and reveal herself.
"Really?"
Seeing that familiar loli face, Ryun immediately smiled.
"Don't believe him, he's probably lying again!"
Tenshinjihime and Takiutsuhime had no choice but to appear as well. The palace behind them vanished instantly, revealing once again the hot and humid Ryuchi Cave ahead. Everything just now had been a sage art illusion.
"Of course what I say is true. If you don't believe me, ask Nanaise..." Ryun nudged his daughter beside him with his elbow.
"Um... Everything my dad says is correct..." Nanaise could only brace herself and help her father tell the lie.
"Over a dozen years have passed. If he wasn't lying to us, he would have come long ago. Why wait until now?" Tenshinjihime still held hostility towards Ryun.
"Why would I lie to you? Everyone in the ninja world knows that Uchiha Ryun keeps his promises. Over a dozen years have passed, and I still came to Ryuchi Cave to fulfill my promise. Doesn't that precisely prove that I have kept you three elder sisters in mind?"
Ryun continued to stubbornly argue. His frowning, explanatory expression made the Three Great Snake Maidens momentarily dazed. They felt they might have truly wronged a good person.
"Sister, maybe we should forgive Ryun..." Ichikishimahime turned to look at her two elder sisters.
Hearing this, both remained silent, clearly having once again fallen for Ryun's lies.
"It's been so long since I've seen you three elder sisters. Your peerless beauty surpasses even the past... especially Elder Sister Tenshinjihime and Elder Sister Takiutsuhime!" Ryun, holding Nanaise's hand, stepped forward and offered praise with a very sincere attitude.
Hearing this, the two beautiful Snake Maidens subconsciously touched their own cheeks, then involuntarily blushed.
"And me! You..." Ichikishimahime's originally dark pupils suddenly turned into vertical slits. She was very angry that Ryun only praised her two elder sisters.
"Of course I haven't forgotten you, the most, most, most adorable Elder Sister Ichikishimahime..." Ryun couldn't help but reach out and pat the snake maiden loli's head.
Hearing Ryun say "most" three times in a row, Ichikishimahime's vertical pupils immediately returned to round black pupils. Moreover, she showed no trace of annoyance at Ryun patting her head. Instead, she seemed to quite enjoy it.
"..."
Nanaise felt like her father was coaxing another daughter.
This version of Ryun felt familiar to the Three Great Snake Maidens. Back when he first came to Ryuchi Cave, he was just as smooth-tongued.
"Enough sweet talk. The White Snake Sage sent us to greet you. Let's go see her first..." Tenshinjihime brought up the main matter.
"Greet me? Clearly you came to give me trouble..." Ryun pouted and muttered under his breath.
"What are you mumbling about?" The closest Ichikishimahime asked curiously.
"Nothing... nothing... Please lead the way..."
Ryun forced an awkward laugh and said.
"Oh, where is that Black Dragon fellow? Why isn't he coming out to greet us? He's getting less and less respectful!"
"Lord Black Dragon... He might be sleeping... Or maybe he's mating..." Ichikishimahime replied absentmindedly.
She actually wasn't wrong, because Ryun indeed sensed a black dragon and a large red snake entwined in the depths of Ryuchi Cave... But he didn't expect the loli snake Ichikishimahime to speak so bluntly...
"That lustful, perverted dragon... By the way, he hasn't bullied you, right?" Ryun suddenly grew curious.
As one of the few large snakes in Ryuchi Cave capable of taking human form, Ryun felt that Black Dragon definitely couldn't resist the temptation of the three beautiful Snake Maidens.
"Bully? Do you mean if he ever fought us?" Ichikishimahime tilted her head and asked innocently.
"I mean... Has he ever forced you to mate with him..." Ryun felt somewhat embarrassed asking this.
However, Takiutsuhime's reply in the next moment greatly surprised him.
"Lord Black Dragon does not mate with white snakes. He only mates with large snakes of other colors."
All three of them, the Great Snake Maidens, were white snakes, not within Black Dragon's mating preferences.
"Oh? He's quite picky..."
Although Ryun's curiosity wasn't fully satisfied, he guessed the reason somewhat.
But he didn't dig deeper, because the White Snake Hall had arrived.
"You have come..." The White Snake Sage seated on the throne initiated the greeting.
"Grandma White Snake!"
Nanaise smiled and quickly stepped forward, not afraid at all of this old woman with her eerie golden eyes and vertical pupils.
"I pay my respects to the White Snake Sage!" Ryun bowed towards the White Snake Sage above.
"No need for such formalities. After all, you are now the sovereign ruler of this world. It is I who should bow to you..." The White Snake Sage said with a squinting smile.
"You jest, Sage. How could a student not bow to a teacher..."
Ryun smiled modestly, his demeanor very humble.
"Hehe... Good children, both of you are good children..." The White Snake Sage stroked Nanaise's head, smiling quite contentedly.
"I came primarily to thank you, Sage, for the trouble my daughter has caused you... I heard you are particularly interested in egg-based foods. I specially found a few summoning beast eggs. Please accept them as a humble gift."
As Ryun spoke, he used his ocular technique to transfer three enormous beast eggs from the Kamui dimension.
One of the smaller eggs was a bird egg, very large, weighing roughly three hundred jin. It was the egg of a summoning ferocious bird, even containing a strong chakra fluctuation.
The other two eggs were of the same type, each larger than an Eight Immortals table, weighing approximately a thousand jin. They were eggs of a giant sea turtle.
Besides the three beast eggs, Ryun also specifically took out a hundred liters of Dragon Vein spirit liquid. His lavish, spendthrift appearance left the three Snake Maidens watching from the side utterly stunned.
"Haha... Are you here today to repay a karmic debt, boy? These few things are not enough to repay it!" The White Snake Sage joked with a laugh.
Due to her appearance, her smile always carried a scheming, calculating flavor, seeming perpetually ill-intentioned...
"Haha! The Sage underestimates me too much. This is merely a small meeting gift for visiting Ryuchi Cave. The debt of gratitude for teaching me techniques, which I hold firmly in my heart, is not so cheap. Please accept it without worry, Sage..." Ryun replied with a hearty, bold laugh.
The White Snake Sage was very satisfied with this answer. "Then thank you for your gifts!"
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