His words sounded lofty, yet every one struck at the heart! Throwing the fierce beast into an Earth Vein Node maintained by the young dragon? How was that any different from tossing in a cancerous tumor? And under the name of "suppressing fiends," he could openly probe the core of Mount Li!
Meng Tian's tiger-like eyes brimmed with killing intent. The trace of Ancestor Dragon Origin within him boiled with rage. "This thing's evil poison has seeped into the marrow. Throwing it into the Dragon Pool may contaminate—"
"General Meng!" Lu Buwei interrupted, his voice turning cold. "His Majesty's decree was to 'suppress the fiend'! Suppress, not burn! Could it be that General... has other intentions?" His gaze, like that of a venomous snake, swept across the bloodstained Tai'a Sword in Meng Tian's hand, his meaning clear.
The atmosphere instantly froze. The black-clad guards pressed their hands to the hilts at their waists. Meng Tian's personal guards glared back in fury. The laboring sounds of thirty thousand convicts seemed to fade away, leaving only the sticky squelching of the tiger corpse's flesh and blood writhing within the fissure.
Just as the standoff reached its peak—
Buzz!
At Meng Tian's chest, the essence originating from Ancestor Dragon's Demise suddenly pulsed! A faint yet incomparably pure stream of dragon aura flowed upstream along his connection with the Earth Vein altar! This dragon aura differed from before, carrying a trace of... the tragic sharpness of metal tearing through fiends! It seemed to have crossed space and sensed the pain and struggle of being pierced by myriad swords in Edge Sharpening Valley!
Meng Tian's whole body shook! Golden light burst from his tiger eyes! He abruptly looked eastward, as though his gaze had pierced through space and seen the small figure trapped in the