What Kind of Hypocritical Facade Is This?

They saw the truth in Li Tian's eyes:

If they remained stubbornly deluded, then in the next instant, it would be the moment the Dragon Race was severed at the root, left without descendants!

Wiping out the Four Seas and bathing the Dragon Palaces in blood would take no more than a lift of his hand.

In his eyes, the Dragon Race no longer possessed the slightest power to intimidate.

With life and death hanging by a thread, the Dragon Kings finally lowered their proud dragon heads.

They knew better than anyone—if they delayed a moment longer, the Dragon Race would not even have a place to bury their bones.

"That's right... it was the Heavenly Court!"

"We secretly forged an agreement with Haotian Shangdi: the Dragon Race would disrupt the Human Race's fortune, and the Heavenly Court would grant us the divine office of rain-bringing."

"After the ancient great calamity, our race bore overwhelming Karmic Force. Only the merit of a divine office could dissolve it... that was why we struck it off at once."

"Only the four of us brothers knew the full story. No one else was involved!"

The Four Sea Dragon Kings spilled every secret, each word drenched in blood.

"So it really was the Heavenly Court!"

Before the words had even faded, the entire hall erupted in uproar.

The mastermind behind it all had finally surfaced.

Yet the truth coming to light did not mean reckoning would come at once.

Though the Heavenly Court had declined, it was still nominally the orthodox authority revered by the Three Realms;

behind it stood the tacit approval and support of the Heavenly Dao's will;

after the Investiture of the gods, the three hundred and sixty-five Orthodox gods of the Zhou Heaven each fulfilled their duties, their reserves unfathomably