Son of the Dragon King Ao Guang Seeks to Join the Chan Sect? Jie Sect in Turmoil: Senior Disciple Brother is Away, You Must...

"First generation? Master, what does first generation mean?"

The dejected Great Peng Bird was somewhat curious.

"Don't worry about it. You only need to know that your Yin-Yang Great Dao is an invincible path—why borrow another's way?"

Qingyuan sized up the Great Peng Bird, then a mischievous urge arose. He put on a stern face and said, "When Yin and Yang fall into chaos, stain the clear heavens with your demon blood!"

"When Yin and Yang fall into chaos, stain the clear heavens with my demon blood?"

The Great Peng Bird muttered it over, his eyes brightening. In an instant, his confidence returned. He puffed out his chest and said, "Master, I understand. But wouldn't this be too arrogant of me? If I stain the clear heavens with my demon blood, won't the Ancestor kill me?"

"..."

Qingyuan was speechless. "Shut up."

"Got it~"

The Great Peng Bird chuckled, transformed into his true form—the massive Golden-Winged Great Peng—and carried Qingyuan as they flew toward the Kunlun Mountains.

Along the way.

They passed a great river where a Little Azure Dragon was besieged by tens of thousands of demon soldiers.

Qingyuan paid it no mind.

But the Little Azure Dragon, trapped in the river, saw the passerby and spoke with hope in his eyes: "Daoist friend, please stay!!! I am Ao Guang, son of Ao Tian, the Dragon King of the East Sea Dragon Clan. If you save me, once I escape this plight, I will surely reward you heavily in the future!!"

An ordinary person, upon seeing the banner of the Heavenly Court's Demon Race.

Would never dare to stop.

But when Qingyuan heard the words 'Daoist friend, please stay.'

Murderous intent surged.

A host of Innate Spiritual Treasures appeared around him, ready to strike.

Yet upon hearing the name 'Ao Guang,' he restrained his killing intent and had the Great Peng Bird hover high above, looking down.

There in the river.

A battered Little Azure Dragon stared back with wide eyes, full of desperate pleading.

"Which Golden Immortal is this? Get lost!"

"It's that Golden-Winged Great Peng from before—let's kill him together..."

Voices rang out from the demon army below.

Then two Golden Immortal figures charged up, their momentum immense. But the next moment, they were casually slain by Qingyuan. After collecting their corpses and Spoils of War, he revealed the Three-Sturgeon Bird's magic artifact and shouted, "The Three-Sturgeon Bird is dead. If you do not retreat now, do not blame me for showing no mercy!!"

Seeing the token of the Three-Sturgeon Bird.

The tens of thousands of demon soldiers instantly fell into disarray and scattered in defeat.

The Little Azure Dragon seized the chance to escape the river and flew into the sky.

He then transformed into a youthful figure, bowed deeply to Qingyuan, and said gratefully, "Ao Guang of the Dragon Clan, thanks to you, Daoist friend, for your aid!"

"You, a mere little True Immortal—how dare you call him 'Daoist friend'? You should call him Senior!"

The Great Peng Bird was displeased, thinking to himself that this little dragon was far too arrogant and rude.

Low in realm, and lacking in vision.

You, a mere Early True Immortal, calling my master 'Daoist friend'—then what am I supposed to call you?

Ao Guang did not admit fault. Instead, he raised his head and laughed, "This Daoist friend, you don't understand—I am of the Dragon Clan."

The Great Peng Bird sneered. "So what if you're of the Dragon Clan?"

"Do you know that in the most ancient times, the Dragon Clan were the overlords of the Primordial Wilderness? They ruled the boundless seas as the foremost of all scaled beings in the Primordial Wilderness. As a member of the Dragon Clan, and the son of the East Sea Dragon Clan's chieftain, my status and position alone outweigh many things."

Ao Guang was secretly smug.

He cast a haughty glance at the Great Peng Bird and smiled, "Daoist friend, there's no need to be bitter. Some things, if you're born with them, you have them; if you're not, you don't. There's no need for envy."

"Envy your head! I am the Yuan—"

"Enough."

Qingyuan silenced the Great Peng Bird, nodded to the Little Azure Dragon, and said, "So you are the Dragon Clan's Crown Prince. My apologies for not recognizing you sooner. Greetings to you!"

"No matter. You are far more polite. Still, I must thank you, Daoist friend, for saving my life. But I left in a hurry and brought nothing with me. Once I return to the Dragon Palace, I will put in a good word with my father and bestow a heavy gift upon you in thanks. How does that sound?"

Ao Guang was a little embarrassed.

"You little dragon—first you promise a heavy reward, then you say you'll write it later. So everything is just talk from you?"

The Great Peng Bird's face was flushed with anger.

Qingyuan, however, did not mind. He smiled and said, "It's fine. Meeting is fate. Since you have nothing on you, Daoist friend, we can meet again another day!"

"You're a truly good person!! Unlike this bird-beast, who has no manners at all!"

Ao Guang nodded with a smile, then mimicked his father's grand gesture of stroking his beard.

Only then did he realize he had no beard at all.

He awkwardly rubbed his chin, then said solemnly, "Fellow Daoist, to be honest, the reason I left the Eastern Sea this time is to join the Chan Sect!"

"Join the Chan Sect?"

Qingyuan's expression turned somewhat strange.

"That's right, I'm heading to the Kunlun Mountains to join the Chan Sect!"

Ao Guang's face lit up with longing. "The Chan Sect is the great sect founded by Yuanshi Tianzun of the Jade Purity. Its teachings expound the Heavenly Dao and uphold the rules of heaven and earth, allowing my dragon clan to follow the heavens in the future, gaining boundless merit and fortune, and washing away all our karmic sins!"

"In this way, I can shed the heavy shackles upon me and step into higher realms step by step!!!"

"Why do you want to join the Chan Sect? Why not join the Jie Sect?"

The Great Peng Bird asked curiously, "Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun, Sect Master Tongtian, founded the Jie Sect. Its teachings embrace all without discrimination, accepting many disciples. Anyone who sincerely seeks the Dao can join the Jie Sect. Isn't that better than the Chan Sect?"

"What do you know?"

Ao Guang shot the Great Peng Bird a contemptuous look, as if staring at a country bumpkin, and sneered, "The Jie Sect takes in all sorts of riffraff, it's bound to be a chaotic mess. There's no guarantee of proper cultivation. When those poor bastards hear I'm from the dragon clan, won't they be fawning over me every day? How could I cultivate in peace?"

"But the Chan Sect is different."

"It only recruits elite and powerful beings. Those who join the Chan Sect are the top-tier mighty creatures of heaven and earth, destined to become great powers shaking the Primordial Wilderness!"

"These are all connections and relationships. If I build good ties with them, it will bring many benefits to the dragon clan in the future!!!"

As he spoke.

The little azure dragon even started laughing.

His face beamed with pride and ambition, as if he could already see the scene after joining the Chan Sect.

Only Qingyuan and the Great Peng Bird grew more and more awkward.

Seeing their expressions turn increasingly strange.

Ao Guang felt a surge of irritation and said displeasedly, "What do you know? My father said that useless connections only waste your time and are utterly pointless. Only by befriending powerful beings can you ride their momentum and soar upward in the future!!"

Yet the more earnest the little azure dragon became.

The stranger Qingyuan's expression grew.

The Great Peng Bird couldn't hold back and burst into laughter. "Hahaha, this little dragon is killing me, you're simply—"

"Shut up!"

Qingyuan stopped him, then cupped his hands to Ao Guang. "Fellow Daoist, you truly have lofty ideals and ambitions. We are but nameless cultivators who know nothing. How could mere ants like us grasp the will of a true dragon?"

"We still have matters to attend to, so we'll take our leave. May good fortune be with you, Fellow Daoist!"

With that.

He and the Great Peng Bird left the place.

This behavior.

Only made Ao Guang more displeased.

"Hmph, you look down on me just like my father. Once I join the Chan Sect and become a disciple of a saint, I'll make you all grovel to me!!"

"When I join the Chan Sect, I'll make everyone who looks down on me look up to me, revere me, and fawn over me. I'll make you all realize you can never reach my level!"

"Both Huanglong and I are dragons. If I want to join the Chan Sect, he should help me out of clan kinship, right?"

"Even if he doesn't help me, he should at least help me join for the sake of the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, shouldn't he? I wonder how angry my father will be when he finds out I took the Ancestral Dragon Pearl..."

"Forget it, I'll get to the Kunlun Mountains first."

"Once I become a Chan Sect disciple, all this will be worth it. I'll make you all understand that you're the ones with no vision..."

Ao Guang snorted lightly.

Then carefully flew toward the Primordial Wilderness...

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Qingyuan and the Great Peng Bird, who had flown millions of miles across mountains and rivers, chatted with strange expressions.

"Master, how is that little dragon even more arrogant than me? He's only a True Immortal, and a dragon with mixed, impure blood at that, not even a true dragon from the True Dragon Realm. How can he talk about joining the Chan Sect like that?"

The Great Peng Bird snorted, "A mutt dragon like that, with such a low realm, I probably wouldn't even bother eating him!!"

"Maybe he has his own confidence. We don't need to meddle in others' affairs. Let's hurry back to the Kunlun Mountains. It's been years since we returned, and I wonder how things are at home."

Qingyuan smiled and patted the Great Peng Bird.

But in his heart.

He felt that Ao Guang's journey would likely not go smoothly.

His Second Martial Uncle, Yuanshi Tianzun, was truly particular about background, fortune, and origin.

Simply put, he was extremely picky.

If it weren't for the master-disciple bond between Huanglong and his Second Martial Uncle, and the offering of the dragon clan's treasure, the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage, he probably wouldn't have been able to join the Chan Sect.

What's more.

Daoist Huanglong, who joined the Chan Sect, was still only a Mystic Immortal to this day.

The cultivation method was merely the simple Jade Purity Immortal Method.

Not a single decent treasure to his name.

A pure and utter three-nothing Daoist.

Even Daoist Huanglong received such treatment—how could a mere True Immortal like Ao Guang have the confidence to claim he could join the Chan Sect?

This was simply...

a fool's dream...

Who would have thought that the East Sea Dragon King Ao Guang, who in the Journey to the West Calamity era was timid and shifted with the wind, was in his youth a youth even more arrogant than the Great Peng Bird...

"Alright, alright, I'll speed up right now, we're going home!!"

Hearing that they were returning to Kunlun Mountains.

The Great Peng Bird was also overjoyed.

It immediately quickened its pace, charging with all its might toward Kunlun Mountains...

Now, within Kunlun Mountains.

At the peak of a mountain farther away than Shangqing Peak, the three large characters 'Inspection Department' on a massive City Archway marked the location.

After more than two thousand years of development.

Not only had the number of Jie Sect disciples doubled again.

The scale of the Inspection Department had also expanded.

From the original hundred or so people, it had grown to several hundred today.

Yet today, outside the Inspection Department, thousands of Jie Sect Registered Disciples had gathered, each with an angry expression, venting their dissatisfaction toward the department within.

"Senior Disciple Brother Duobao! Since the Senior Disciple Brother isn't here, you must come out and uphold justice!"

"Yes, Second Senior Disciple Brother! Ever since the Chan Sect gained that Daoist Randeng, they've been bullying us fellow disciples more and more, often disregarding face and bullying the weak. These past years you've been in Secluded Cultivation, but we junior brothers and sisters have been suffering unbearably!!"

"We beg Senior Disciple Brother Duobao to come out and take charge!!"

"Brother, if you don't come out, the Jie Sect will truly collapse..."

Outside the Inspection Department, many Jie Sect disciples wailed for help.

This caused a tall, stout figure deep in a great hall within the Inspection Department to open his eyes...