After all, over so many years, although the Four Seas Dragon Palaces had always been under the enslavement of the several celestial courts and dared not harbor any disloyal thoughts, after so many years under such oppression, Lu Xiaotian had heard that it was not uncommon for some Dragon Race members who could no longer bear the hardship to rise up in revolt.
Although the resistance of these sporadic Dragon Race members could not stir up much of a storm and was completely suppressed the moment it showed any sign, it still caused greater or lesser losses on a few occasions.
This time, Lu Xiaotian was coming to the East Sea Dragon Palace to retrieve the Earthly Tri-Yin Water, and he could not afford the slightest mishap. If poor guardianship led to any trouble with Lu Xiaotian or the Earthly Tri-Yin Water, this long journey would become a joke.
A boundless expanse of magnificent blue ocean appeared in his line of sight, where the sea surface surged with springs from time to time, forming a dragon-shadow-shifting portal resembling a dragon gate. Rows of gold, cyan, and white carps, each several zhang long, leaped into that dragon gate. Suddenly, a giant kun with whiskers all over its lips rose within the hazy water vapor, shaking its head and tail as it came toward them. The creature opened its whisker-laden mouth wide, and instantly this sea area seemed to collapse. These carps leaping into the dragon gate and a massive amount of seawater were all sucked into its mouth.
A large volume of seawater spurted out from the giant kun's back and gill slits with a whoosh, forming dense white mist in the void that stood out prominently under the glare of the scorching sun, and even mirage-like images could be faintly