"Hmm?!"
Duobao stopped smiling, and the expressions of Ji Hong and Anping turned grave as well.
The Dragon Monarch of the Chengyue Sea Realm was gone!
Before the heavenly soldiers of the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion could even arrive, the Chengyue Sea Dragon Monarch had vanished!
After exchanging a glance with Ji Hong, Anping immediately returned to the clouds to inform Shen Yao, while Duobao stared fixedly at Ao Tu. "When did the Chengyue Sea Dragon Monarch go missing? State the exact time, and where you last met him!"
At this moment Ao Tu was truly frightened out of his wits, pouring out words like peas from a split bamboo. He answered whatever was asked, and even spoke of things unasked. "It was just seven days ago! It was just seven days ago!"
"Seven days ago, Royal Father suddenly summoned me and said I was the new acting dragon monarch, telling me to take charge of all affairs within the dragon palace and the sea realm."
"I was excited, but I also felt something was amiss. I asked him what would become of my eldest brother, Ao Lian—after all, my eldest brother Ao Lian had previously been the dragon palace's acting lord, and everyone up and down the dragon palace listened to him."
"Royal Father said he was going to gather some resources to help my eldest brother break through his realm to Integration, so that my eldest brother could contend for the position of garrison dragon monarch in another sea realm. He said that by then, our household would have two sea realms..."
From Ao Tu's panicked and disordered words, Ji Hong committed three pieces of intelligence to memory: seven days ago, the Chengyue Sea Dragon Monarch had already foreseen something; they were plotting to seize the garrison of