Wrong! Everything had been wrong from the very beginning.
In that instant, all his previous unease became reality. It was as though a flash of inspiration had torn apart the fog, allowing Lu Yang to connect every clue at once:
"The Ancestral Dragon wasn't released just now!"
"As early as the First History, the moment the Cang River Dragon Lord reincarnated as [True Lord Biluofuguang] and slew the Huai River Dragon Lord, the Ancestral Dragon had already broken free!"
"From then on, [True Lord Biluofuguang] was the Ancestral Dragon!"
"In the second history, the Sacred Sect Great True Lord in the Real World who inexplicably had his soul scattered, and the Sacred Sect Great True Lord in the Netherworld who fled after watching the show—they were both him!"
"It had always been the Ancestral Dragon. It had never changed!"
In other words, only a few years after Si Sui died and the Dao Lord ascended to [Other Shore], the Ancestral Dragon's Primordial Spirit consciousness had secretly been released by Chu Sheng!
Back then, before the Three Lives Stone.
On the surface, the Ancestral Dragon had escaped through [True Lord Biluofuguang], but that had merely been a show for others. In truth, he had broken free long ago!
The [True Lord Biluofuguang] standing before the Three Lives Stone had always been the Ancestral Dragon!
And the one who had truly been awakened then was actually the Cang River Dragon Lord!
After that, the Cang River Dragon Lord had taken on the Ancestral Dragon's Karma and become his substitute, while the Ancestral Dragon had shed his shell like a cicada, quietly casting off his identity as a dead spirit.
That was why Chu Sheng had said:
[Dao friend, go early and return early.]
At the time, all the Dao Lords had thought