The sudden change was this: the Old Dragon King, who should have had his dragon form severed for this life and been sent to the underworld to reincarnate, had instead taken the place of Dragon Prince Ao WuLie, who had recklessly summoned rain and disrupted the order of heaven and earth, crashing onto the Dragon Slaying Platform. For his son's sake, he had willingly given up that sliver of life and taken on the greater share of the blame.
The sudden turn of events left everyone speechless. Ling Miao Gong's face was stricken with grief.
Earlier, the other earth gods had been relieved that Ao Liu would not have to be killed until his soul was scattered. Only Ling Miao Gong knew what choice Ao Liu would make. He would never choose to survive at the cost of his son being sent to the Dragon Slaying Platform, especially when a father had just discovered that his son had finally repented.
Star Lord Taibai, however, looked toward True Lord Tianyou.
With the latter's ability to fight a Great Sage to a standstill, an injured True Dragon would be no match for him.
If Tianyou had wanted to stop him, he could have caught Ao Liu with a lift of his hand.
Then he could have sent Ao WuLie to the Dragon Slaying Platform.
But the tall, imposing divine general, whose stern features held even a hint of menace, merely lowered his eyes. Within the limits of the North Pole Exorcism Institute, he tacitly accepted the Old Dragon King's choice. The laws within and beyond the Six Realms each had their own order. The earth gods did not belong to the Heavenly Court, and the one responsible for law and punishment in the Heavenly Court was the Judicial Great Celestial Venerable.
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