Across the vast Eastern Sea, where azure waters and blue skies once stretched across millions of qing in peace and serenity, a thick, chilling killing intent now lingered. The baleful aura of clashing iron and steel surged into the heavens, blotting out the sky in a heart-stopping display.
Ten million immortal soldiers and generals of the Immortal Court stood in orderly ranks midair. Each was clad in standard-issue spiritual treasure armor and brandished standard-issue weapons. With solemn expressions, they waited in battle readiness, their collective momentum condensing into a unified military spirit that pierced straight through heaven and earth.
On the sea surface below, several hundred pure-blood true dragons led hundreds of millions of water clan warriors, standing poised for battle.
They stood in open defiance against the immortal soldiers and generals of the Immortal Court.
At the very forefront were the Four Seas Dragon Kings, led by Ao Yin.
All four possessed Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation.
However, burdened by their race’s karmic transgressions and karma, Ao Yin and the other three Daluo Golden Immortal true dragons could not unleash the full might of their realm.
Worse still, the more power they exerted, the deeper their race’s karmic transgressions and karma would erode them.
This erosion would continue until their Daluo Dao Flowers withered, their Dao foundations collapsed, and their lives ultimately perished as their Daos were extinguished.
Such was the tragic fate of those ensnared by racial karma and karmic transgressions.
Yet to protect what little dignity the Dragon Clan had left, Ao Yin and the other Four Seas Dragon Kings had no choice!
Even if they fell in battle today, they would not allow the dignity of the Dragon Clan—an innate grand clan and the absolute hegemon of the previous era—to be trampled upon.
Standing high in the sky with an arrogant expression, Duke of the East looked down upon the Four Seas Dragon Kings below, his eyes brimming with disdain and contempt. “Is this the Dragon Clan? Reduced to merely four crippled old dragons to keep up appearances?
“Not even a single late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal?
“And with just this, you dare defy this Emperor time and time again?”
The rolling sea wind whipped fiercely against Duke of the East’s Extreme Yang Imperial Robe. Unleashing the aura of Daluo great perfection, the laws of the Extreme Yang Great Dao coiled around him in sacred solemnity, resembling an absolute blazing sun shining upon heaven and earth, radiating imperial majesty to the fullest.
Yet his words were so dripping with contempt and humiliation that the Four Seas Dragon Kings and hundreds of pure-blood true dragons burned with rage.
Suppressing his fury, Ao Yin stepped forward against Duke of the East’s Daluo great perfection pressure and said, “Immortal Emperor, our Dragon Clan is burdened with guilt and sins, well aware that we owe a debt to heaven and earth. For endless ages, we have sealed ourselves beneath the seas, wishing only to avoid being dragged into new conflicts. Why must you press us so relentlessly?”
“Heh.”
“What you say does make some sense,” Duke of the East remarked. “If I take in your Dragon Clan, this Emperor would also have to shoulder the karmic transgressions and karma you carry. It brings a hundred harms and not a single benefit.
“How about this: offer up your Dragon Clan’s treasury as compensation for defying this Emperor previously.”
After establishing the Immortal Court and gathering factional providential destiny, Duke of the East had also come to realize that the Dragon Clan was a piece of poisoned meat.
He couldn’t swallow it.
Yet he was unwilling to let the Dragon Clan off the hook so easily.
Thus, on the advice of a scheming advisor, Duke of the East set his sights on the Dragon Clan’s treasury.
Rumor had it that in ancient times, the Dragon Clan was the wealthiest race in Honghuang, their territory spanning the boundless Four Seas, half the sky, and half the land.
Over countless ages, the resources, spiritual treasures, and spiritual roots accumulated within the Dragon Clan’s treasury were unimaginably vast.
It was safe to say that once he acquired the Dragon Clan’s treasury, the cultivation of the Immortal Court cultivators under his command would skyrocket, instantly making them the greatest faction in Honghuang!
When that time came, if he proclaimed himself the shared sovereign of Honghuang, even the Three Purities would not dare object to his face.
Hearing Duke of the East’s demand, Ao Yin felt aggrieved and stifled, yet with no other choice, he could only grit his teeth and agree.
As long as the Immortal Court stopped targeting the Dragon Clan and gave up on subjugating them into their ranks, what harm was there in surrendering the treasury of one sea?
“Very well,” Ao Yin nodded in agreement. “This King agrees to present the Northern Sea treasury to the Immortal Emperor as a congratulatory gift for when Your Majesty ascends as the shared sovereign of Honghuang in the future.”
“Hahahahaha!”
Duke of the East threw his head back in laughter. “Old dragon, I like what you say, but I don’t like your attitude.
“What this Emperor wants is all of your Dragon Clan’s treasuries, not merely the treasury of one sea. Understand?”
“What?!”
Ao Yin gasped in shock, followed immediately by soaring fury. “Impossible! Utterly impossible!
“Our Dragon Clan members are still plagued by karma and karmic transgressions to this day. Without the aid of those natural treasures to mitigate their suffering, our clan would suffer catastrophic casualties!
“At most, we can give you the treasury of one sea.
“If that is unacceptable, then our only option is battle!”
“Indeed!” the current Western Sea Dragon King, Ao Lu, roared in fury. “Do not push us dragons too far! At worst, we will drag you down with us in mutual destruction!”
“Mutual destruction?”
Duke of the East sneered as if he had just heard the greatest joke in the world, laughing with unrestrained arrogance. “Then let us see whether you four old dragons have the ability to do so!
“This Emperor will first sever your Daluo Dao Flowers and see if your mouths are still so stubborn!”
With those words, Duke of the East struck brazenly, unleashing the divine might of the Extreme Yang Great Dao!
He summoned his companion spiritual treasure, the top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure—the Pure Yang True Sword.
Slashing downward with a single stroke, sword light surged like a rainbow wrapped in Extreme Yang immortal radiance. One divided into two, two into four, four into immeasurable legions. Ferocious sword shadows filled the heavens like an inverted galaxy, their momentum vast and unyielding, every single ray of sword light packed with the power of a Daluo Golden Immortal.
Driven by Duke of the East’s power, the sky full of Extreme Yang sword lights cascaded down like a torrential rainstorm, slashing overwhelmingly toward the Dragon Clan and water clans on the sea surface.
“Activate the formation!” Ao Yin bellowed, intending to use a grand array to withstand this full-power strike from a Daluo great perfection expert.
Right at that moment, ripples of spacetime stirred, sending waves of distortion across the void.
A handsome young man clad in splendid brocade robes stepped out from his own timeline, placing himself before the Dragon Clan and the hundreds of millions of water clan warriors.
“You have gone too far, Fellow Daoist.”
The newcomer was none other than Xuanjian, having rushed over from Mount Wuyi.
Watching the endless Extreme Yang sword lights carrying Daluo divine might rain down, Xuanjian frowned in displeasure. Then, from his Essence Soul, he summoned a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure—the Taixu Divine Armor.
The moment the Taixu Divine Armor emerged, it instantly transformed into a canopy of the firmament, shielding the Dragon Clan and the hundreds of millions of water clan warriors.
As the shed husk of the firmament itself, the defensive might of the Taixu Divine Armor went without saying.
Without Xuanjian even activating his 【Fifty-Fifty】 skill, the absolute defense of the Taixu Divine Armor alone completely blocked all of Duke of the East’s sword lights.
“Fellow Daoist Xuanjian!”
Seeing the figure appear, Ao Yin was overjoyed and called out in pleasant surprise.
At the same time, shock rippled through his heart.
How long had it been? That junior of the Taiyi realm back then had already attained the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
What was more, he was at the very same realm as himself: mid-stage Daluo!
“Hmm?”
“Fellow Daoist, this is a matter between this Emperor and the Dragon Clan. I advise you not to intervene.”
Though surprised by the newcomer, Duke of the East was by no means afraid of Xuanjian. He spoke coldly with an unyielding tone, bluntly warning Xuanjian not to meddle.
He truly did not take Xuanjian seriously at all.
Xuanjian shook his head at this, responding with equally unyielding force, “Fellow Daoist, this poor Daoist is protecting the Dragon Clan today. If you insist on this path, then we have no choice but to settle this with a battle.”
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