North of the Primordial Era stood the mountains of Xianjian and Dafeng, where the Ji River flowed in and the northern sea poured out. To their west was another mountain, called Yu's Piled Stones.
The mountains towered high, their peaks rising and falling, their strange rocks jagged, their cliffs sheer as a thousand ren. Countless exotic flowers bloomed there, and myriad birds and beasts roamed about. It was truly a blessed land.
Yet two great powers stood locked in confrontation.
One was Ancestor Cang Tian, and the other was Ancestor Huang Tian. Both were among the first batch of Innate Beings born between heaven and earth, possessing extraordinary foundations and profound cultivation.
These two beings of immense divine abilities could not stand each other. Whenever they met, they either exchanged barbs or fought with their Dao arts.
This time, they had encountered each other by chance and come into conflict over an innate spiritual material.
To Cang Tian and Huang Tian, it was merely an ordinary innate spiritual material and not particularly important. Had they encountered any other great power, one of them might simply have yielded it. But they had run into their sworn rival, so neither could back down.
Just as Cang Tian and Huang Tian were about to fight, they looked toward the Western Primordial Era.
There was quite a commotion over at Mount Sumeru!
"What is Rahu up to?"
"Since he is employing Steal Heaven and Change Sun, his ambitions must be enormous."
Filled with doubt, Cang Tian and Huang Tian simultaneously calculated with their fingers.
They peered into Mount Sumeru with their Dharma eyes, using their Grand Unity Dao Fruits to deduce the heavenly secrets.
Only when the Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation appeared over Mount Sumeru did they finally understand.
So Rahu had refined an Innate Spiritual Treasure.
Such methods were truly remarkable.
For a time, both Cang Tian and Huang Tian became more wary of Rahu.
Beyond the eastern Primordial Era lay a vast ocean. Tides surged like silver mountains, fish entered hidden caverns, and the jeweled sea churned snowy waves as mirages left the abyss.
The sea was a boundless expanse of emerald waves, with water and sky meeting in a single line far away.
Great flocks of strange birds soared along the shore. Some had one eye, some two heads, some three tails—there were all kinds.
Even more living creatures filled the sea: fish, shellfish, seaweed, coral...
From time to time, dragon shadows could be seen.
Wherever spiritual energy burst forth beneath the sea, true Dragons would surely coil nearby.
Dragons were the leaders of the Scaled Insects. Their forms possessed nine resemblances: heads like camels, horns like deer, eyes like rabbits, ears like oxen, necks like snakes, bellies like clams, scales like carp, claws like eagles, and paws like tigers.
An extraordinarily divine true Dragon rested beneath the sea with its eyes closed. Eighty-one scales covered its back, embodying the utmost yang number of nine times nine.
A Dragon's Roar sounded in the distance, like bronze plates clashing.
Looking again at the dragon's mouth, whiskers grew beside it; beneath its throat was a reverse scale, and atop its head was a boshan, also known as a chimu.
Suddenly, a true Dragon burst from the sea and soared upward. It exhaled clouds, and could transform into both water and fire.
Dragon fire blazed when exposed to moisture and raged when exposed to water. If chased with human fire, it immediately went out.
It could hide or reveal itself, become tiny or enormous, short or long. At the spring equinox, it ascended to the heavens; at the autumn equinox, it dived into the abyss.
Dragon's Nine Offspring were each different. Not only did Ancestor Dragon have nine sons; the first true Dragons all had nine offspring as well. (Nine is the extreme of numbers; this nine was an indefinite number indicating many.)
For instance, Ancestor Dragon had a son named Yinglong, a true Dragon with a pair of wings on its back.
In later myths, Yinglong held an extremely lofty status. He killed Chiyou, killed Kuafu, aided Yu the Great in controlling the floods, even gave birth to Phoenixes and Kirins, created heaven and earth, and most absurdly of all, raised Pangu.
There were also hui, qiu, chi, Flood Dragons, pan, and shen, among others.
As for Pig-Wife Dragons and the like, they were not worth mentioning.
At the bottom of the Eastern Sea, atop the largest Spiritual Veins, stood a dragon palace. It was incomparably magnificent, radiant with countless colors, veiled in auspicious vapors and enveloped in mist.
This was Ancestor Dragon's traveling palace.
Squad after squad of valiant Dragon Clan warriors guarded the palace.
Only true Dragons were qualified to guard this palace.
Flood Dragons and the like did not qualify at all.
Deep within the dragon palace, Ancestor Dragon was cultivating in seclusion.
The Dragon Race Destiny grew stronger by the day, greatly benefiting Ancestor Dragon's cultivation.
While Ancestor Dragon cultivated in seclusion, all major and minor affairs of the Dragon Clan were discussed and decided by several Dragon Clan Grand Unity experts.
The Dragon Clan now had more than a dozen Grand Unity level experts. Several were Innate Beings recruited by the Dragon Clan, while only a few were true Dragons.
Among the current Grand Unity level true Dragons, aside from Ancestor Dragon, were Azure Dragon, Black Dragon, Xuan Dragon, and others.
There was also the mysterious Candle Dragon.
An immense surge of Dharma power erupted from where Ancestor Dragon was cultivating in seclusion.
This Dharma power amounted to roughly seven billion years, already exceeding a Calamity.
One Calamity's worth of Dharma power was the minimum standard for a Quasi-Saint. Around seven billion years of Dharma power naturally placed one at the Quasi-Saint level.
The hundreds of thousands of true Dragons guarding the dragon palace all sensed this Dharma power.
This was Ancestor Dragon's Dharma power.
For a time, the fervent gazes of hundreds of thousands of true Dragons turned toward Ancestor Dragon's seclusion chamber.
The clan leader had broken through to Hunyuan level cultivation.
The Dragon Clan had already been the greatest clan in the Primordial World. Now, it had become even more dominant.
Given time, the Primordial World would surely become the Dragon Clan's Primordial World.
Even the Phoenix Clan and Kirin Clan would sooner or later submit beneath the Dragon Clan.
All of these hundreds of thousands of true Dragons firmly believed so.
"Hahaha..." Ancestor Dragon laughed heartily and withdrew his Dharma power.
"What is going on? The Dragon Race Destiny is actually rising!"
Quite a few great powers in the Primordial World noticed the changes in the Dragon Race Destiny.
Originally, the Dragon Race Destiny had been trending upward, but the increase had been modest. Now, however, it had suddenly skyrocketed.
This was highly unusual.
Amid their astonishment, many great powers grew wary.
An overly powerful Dragon Clan was not something many great powers wished to see.
At Immortal Volcano, Yuan Feng's figure appeared. Her brows were like kingfisher feathers, her skin like congealed fat, and her dark hair cascaded like a waterfall. Divine light flowed through her gaze, and her Seven-Colored Rainbow Robe was gorgeous and noble. Every gesture she made was peerlessly elegant.
In terms of beauty, no one in the Primordial World could currently compare to Yuan Feng.
At this moment, Yuan Feng gazed solemnly toward the Eastern Sea with her beautiful eyes.
She too had noticed the change in the Dragon Race Destiny.
Even if the Dragon Clan had obtained several Innate Spiritual Treasures, its fortune should not have risen by so much.
Though she could not calculate the answer, after analyzing it, she feared Ancestor Dragon's cultivation had broken through to the Hunyuan level.
Hunyuan level cultivation was that of a Quasi-Saint, also known as a Hunyuan Golden Immortal.
Once a Hunyuan Golden Immortal attained a Hunyuan Dao Fruit, one could be called a Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
A Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal whose Primordial Spirit was Entrusted to Heavenly Dao was a Saint.
The fortune between heaven and earth was finite. If the Dragon Clan's fortune increased, other races might lose fortune.
Of course, as the Primordial World continued to grow, its fortune would become increasingly abundant as well.
At present, the Phoenix Clan's fortune was still increasing, and its rate of increase had not slowed.
From this, it seemed that the Dragon Race Destiny's great increase had not affected the Phoenix Clan. But those without far-reaching concerns would surely face immediate troubles.
He who did not plan for eternity was not fit to plan for the moment.
It would be too late once the Phoenix Clan's fortune was affected.
Below Buzhou Mountain, First Kirin's expression was equally grave.
For the moment, the Dragon Race Destiny's great increase had not affected the Kirin Clan either.
Soon after, First Kirin announced that he would enter seclusion.
The Kirin Clan did not yet have a Quasi-Saint. If the Dragon Clan already had one, the Kirin Clan would be at a severe disadvantage should the two clans clash.
Therefore, First Kirin decided to enter death seclusion and would not emerge unless he broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm.
He also took a great quantity of the clan's top-tier resources for his own use.
"It seems Ancestor Dragon has broken through to the Quasi-Saint realm."
Somewhere in the Primordial World, Lu Ya muttered to himself.
He was only somewhat surprised, not overly shocked.
It was only natural for the leader of the Primordial World's greatest clan to advance rapidly in cultivation with the aid of Great Destiny.
Moreover, Ancestor Dragon's foundation was extraordinary.
Looking across the Primordial World, there were not many whose foundations could compare with Ancestor Dragon's.
With Ancestor Dragon's cultivation greatly increasing, the Dragon Clan would certainly become even more domineering. But Lu Ya did not care.
Although he had joined the Phoenix Clan, Lu Ya did not have any deep ties to it.
Simply put, Lu Ya lacked any sense of belonging toward the Phoenix Clan.
This was perfectly normal.
Setting aside the influence of those fragments of memories from his previous life, Lu Ya's current body was merely an incarnation of the Sun Star.
Of course, since he had joined the Phoenix Clan, he did not mind contributing some effort.
But asking Lu Ya to wholeheartedly make plans for the Phoenix Clan was beyond him.
Suddenly, Lu Ya's mind and spirit stirred. Yuan Feng was contacting him.
When Lu Ya sent a wisp of divine consciousness into the Phoenix Clan's Consciousness Realm, he discovered that Yuan Feng had not only contacted him, but Vermilion Bird, Black Bird, and others as well.
The matter of the Myriad Birds Banner was proceeding steadily. It was a major "project" of the Phoenix Clan.
This time, Yuan Feng had contacted the clan's powerful members to discuss how to deal with the Dragon Clan.
Yuan Feng was preparing to enter seclusion and strive to break through to the Quasi-Saint realm as soon as possible.
Furthermore, the Phoenix Clan needed to add several more "projects," such as refining Dragon Slaying Swords, Dragon Slaying Sabers, Dragon Binding Ropes, and the like. The central point was to target the Dragon Clan.
Presumably, the Kirin Clan would also undertake some "treasure refining projects" aimed at the Dragon Clan.
Of course, refining even one Innate Spiritual Treasure was no easy task, and Yuan Feng did not dare imagine refining several of them.
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