After setting aside the matters of Shrek Academy, Xiao Yun flew on his sword with Liu Erlong to the mountains north of Heaven Dou City.
The Nine Dragon Mountain Range lay among the mountains north of Heaven Dou City.
The nine ridges resembled solidified spines. Viewed from high above, they truly looked like nine crouching dragons.
The territory of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was situated in a vast valley formed between the two thickest ridges.
Steep cliffs rose on both sides of the valley, while a small river ran through its floor. Buildings of blue tiles and gray walls lay scattered along its course, extending inward from the valley entrance and arranged according to the river's flow. From afar, they resembled a giant dragon coiled within the valley.
A broad river stretched across the valley entrance. Its surface was calm and its current gentle, but its riverbed was deep, with bare rocks lining both banks.
Xiao Yun stopped his sword above the valley entrance and looked down for a while before descending with Liu Erlong, landing on the smooth flagstone ground at the river valley's entrance.
The mountain gate of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan stood there. A stone-carved dragon coiled around each of the two thick pillars, their heads facing one another. Between them hung a jet-black plaque engraved with the words "Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon."
Standing beside Xiao Yun, Liu Erlong looked up at the plaque without saying a word.
She had no fondness for this clan. From childhood to adulthood, its main gate had never opened for her or her mother.
Her mother's only regret before her death had been that she could not be buried in the clan's ancestral graves with a proper status.
Now, standing here with her mother's coffin, Liu Erlong's