Sky Soaring slipped away quietly, just as he had come quietly. With a wave of his sleeve, he took not a single cloud with him, simply vanishing from where he stood.
Yet Lu Yang remained deeply suspicious.
Did he really leave?
He blinked, feeling that given Sacred Sect True Lord's usual nature, he might have merely hidden himself again with a Perception Barrier and was actually still lurking right beside him!
...Whatever.
As long as the Hundred Lives Book contains my consciousness, it can be awakened. At worst, I can settle things with an incense-fire avatar. I'm not leaving today!
Lu Yang hardened his resolve. Though he felt Sky Soaring was unlikely to follow the avatar into Responding King, just in case, he decided to first use the incense-fire avatar to settle Old Dragon Lord's Gold Nature, then blow the avatar up. He would absolutely not leave an opening to invite a wolf into his house.
Settling the experiences of "Old Dragon Lord/Old Dragon Mother." You are the most ancient True Dragon. The first gaze cast upon the world by the Ancestral Dragon. Born a noble scion of Heaven and Earth, yet cruelly cast down, you lingered on in wretched survival for countless years.
Crisp lettering surfaced across the panel.
What followed was a vast flood of memories that could only be described as an ocean—the memories and knowledge Old Dragon Lord had accumulated over countless ages.
Yet Lu Yang did not dare accept them.
Without the slightest hesitation, he rejected all the knowledge and memories, sealing them inside the Hundred Lives Book without digesting or absorbing them.
*The Hundred Lives Book's Gold Nature settlement has both benefits and drawbacks. The benefits are naturally the talents and the memories of the Gold Nature's owner. Yet therein also lies