Su Hao swept his gaze around the grand hall with great interest before finally looking at the Heavenly Dragon King upon the lotus platform. "So it's you, Venerate."
"Su Hao, why must you push things to the bitter end?" The Heavenly Dragon King's voice from atop the lotus platform was vast and majestic, carrying the solemnity of the Buddhist sect. Sanskrit characters seemed to flow through the opening and closing of his golden eyes, and he already possessed three parts of a Buddha's dharma visage.
"Heavenly Dragon King, why do you say that?" Su Hao asked in return.
"What were you planning to do to the Four Seasons Dragon Lords just now?"
A trace of killing intent appeared in the Heavenly Dragon King's eyes.
Unmoved, Su Hao instead smiled. "The bloodline origins within the five Dragon Lords are incomparably pure. They should be extractable."
"Do you not know the consequences of doing that? Their bloodlines would become thin or even vanish. Even if they returned to the Heavenly Court afterward, they would be unable to recover their peak strength."
The Heavenly Dragon King growled, golden light flickering from the lotus platform.
In the blink of an eye, he stood before Su Hao.
From the lofty lotus platform, he looked down upon Su Hao.
Now standing ten feet tall, he still gazed down at Su Hao. With the bearing of both god and Buddha, his eyes brimmed with disdain.
A vast pressure descended like the collapse of heaven.
"What does that have to do with me? They are officials of the Heavenly Court. How I treat them is not for you, Venerate, to interfere with. If the Heavenly Emperor truly holds me accountable, I will bear the consequences myself."
Su Hao stood as steady as a mountain, fearless before that powerful