What disappointed Zhou Yugan most was that several years had passed since he last sensed that trace of dragon aura.
Even if that dragon really had perished, its aura shouldn't have vanished without a trace. Had it hidden itself somewhere else?
Zhou Yugan was full of questions, but there was no one who could answer them for him now. He was caught in a dilemma, unable to advance or retreat. Meanwhile, inside the Green Fruit Barrier, Lu Xiaotian slowly opened his eyes. Several years earlier, just as Zhou Yugan had completely lost his ability to sense the dragon aura, Lu Xiaotian's accumulated dragon essence had finally broken through to a new level after more than a century of painstaking seclusion. He had now reached the level of a Heavenly Immortal dragon.
He had also learned from Black Dragon that Ying Langtian's and Xie Xie's divine sense avatars had left the Green Fruit Barrier through some special sacrificial method. Lu Xiaotian had no way of knowing whether they had successfully escaped or been annihilated in the void. In any case, there was no trace of either avatar left inside the Green Fruit Barrier.
At that moment, Lu Xiaotian had no mind to wonder which of them had ultimately escaped, or whether they had both made it out. What was done was done; regretting it now would serve no purpose.
By rights, advancing to the level of a Heavenly Immortal dragon should have been cause for celebration. Lu Xiaotian's strength had indeed increased enormously: both his dragon essence and dragon pearl had improved substantially. His cultivation had reached an entirely new realm, and his Primordial Spirit, which had already been nearly as powerful as that of a Golden Immortal, had surged again after his breakthrough to the Heavenly Immortal realm. It now