"You're saying the Central Continent Emperor is also a cultivator?"
That day, Du Bai received a paper-crane message from Shi Xuan and hurried to Luojing.
"Yes!"
Shi Xuan nodded. "Yesterday, I happened to pass near the imperial palace and suddenly sensed an immense pressure. When I opened my celestial eye, I saw dragon qi soaring above the palace, already taking the form of a true dragon."
"Dragon qi? Is this the Dao of Fortune or the Dao of national destiny?"
Du Bai looked up at Luojing and frowned. "Come on, let's go take a look!"
The two entered Luojing together and arrived near the imperial palace.
"It really is dragon qi taking form!"
Opening his Heavenly Demon Eye, Du Bai discovered an enormous golden dragon coiled above the imperial palace. A vast, domineering pressure that seemed to suppress all under heaven spread forth, making their hearts tremble.
"This power definitely isn't something an ordinary mortal emperor could possess. There's a strong chance the Central Continent Emperor is a cultivator."
Du Bai nodded. "If the emperor is a cultivator, then with the power of ruling an entire country, he may well know how to leave Central Continent."
"I thought the same. So, we need to pay this emperor fellow cultivator a visit."
Shi Xuan smiled and gestured ahead. "Let's go!"
As he spoke, the two rose together on streaks of escaping light, intending to fly straight into the imperial palace.
In their eyes, even if the emperor was a cultivator, at most they would address each other as fellow Daoists. Neither held much respect for the emperor.
But... just as their escaping lights swept over the palace wall—
"Roar..."
A tremendous dragon roar rang out, and the Virtuous Dragon coiled above the imperial palace suddenly erupted with boundless pressure.
It blanketed