"I wonder which old loach owns that Dragon Pearl. How dare he make me his scapegoat!"
"Hmph! You'd better pray I never run into you!" Chen Mu gritted his teeth inside the cave at the bottom of the well.
"Once I catch you, I'll..."
"I'll spare your life!"
He did want to kill that old loach stirring up trouble behind the scenes. But since the other party had cultivated a Dragon Pearl, he was at least an Artifact Creation Realm Outer Path of Heavenly Demon. And since the Netherworld Ghost Sect disciples had taken such solemn measures to seal and imprison him, perhaps he had already cultivated the form of a True Dragon.
If they really clashed head-on...
It is better to settle enmity than deepen it. I won't lower myself to the level of that old loach. Who asked me to be so magnanimous?
Chen Mu nodded earnestly, then turned back to studying the changes after devouring the Dragon Binding Chain.
Then he discovered that the invisible barrier shrouding Golden River City had expanded outward by dozens of meters.
"The chain was actually suppressing the invisible barrier?" Chen Mu raised his brows.
He also noticed that in the areas that had reappeared within the barrier, most of the rocks and soil had vanished. What remained was scorched black, as though it had suffered intense burning and corrosion.
"Could it be that the barrier isn't imprisoning Golden River City, but protecting it?!"
Chen Mu's heart jolted.
"That really is possible!"
He turned to look at the hollow sphere that had reappeared above the dragon's head.
The Dragon Pearl had originally rested inside the hollow sphere. The invisible barrier enveloping Golden River City might have been a special protective qi mechanism created by the Dragon Pearl, and it was precisely this