[White Jade Capital], Central Palace Complex.
To this day, no True Lord had set foot here. Patriarch Tingyou and True Person Demon-Sweeping each stood guard, and the Dragon Lord's corpse had successfully intimidated everyone.
Yet precisely because of this...
A Foundation Establishment True Person had actually bypassed every obstacle and slipped silently into the Central Palace Complex. It could not have been more suspicious.
Nameless Dao Lord therefore locked onto him directly and quickly spotted the clue: This person's cultivation is nothing special, but someone has controlled this Foundation Establishment True Person and sealed his Sea of Consciousness. Not even a True Lord can search his soul. The only one capable of forcibly controlling him must be the Ancestral Dragon, acting in secret!
A perfectly reasonable judgment.
Yet when he tried to follow the trail and find the mastermind controlling this Foundation Establishment True Person, the result of his deduction made him frown:
I can't calculate it.
Nameless Dao Lord was somewhat surprised by the result, but quickly made sense of it: Of course. It is the Ancestral Dragon, after all. How could he lack formidable methods?
It would have been stranger if he could calculate it.
With that thought, he stopped beating around the bush. A strand of Divine Thought instantly entered the Foundation Establishment True Person's Sea of Consciousness, plunging the man's senses into darkness.
Only then did he laugh aloud.
"Fellow Daoist Ancestral Dragon, I have been waiting for you for quite some time!"
As the words fell, Nameless Dao Lord assumed an air of holding every pearl of wisdom in his grasp, as though all things beneath Heaven and Earth lay under his control, intending to seize the initiative.
"..."
Then he saw the Foundation Establishment True Person abruptly halt. His tiny soul raised its head,