The Winged Dragon Clan made its home in the Wild Dragon Mountains of the Cangmang Continent.
Towering, treacherous peaks formed a magnificent, uneven skyline. Above them, creatures resembling winged dragons occasionally circled and descended, though they were not true winged dragons.
The Winged Dragon clansmen possessed the bloodline of the ancient Demon-Winged Dragon. Once they successfully awakened it, they could manifest a phantom of their ancestral bloodline. Unlike the martial sects of the Tianli Sword Domain, they cultivated bloodline techniques.
The stronger their bloodline and its phantom, the greater their strength.
The Heavenly Wolf Clan, for instance, could manifest an incarnation of the Crimson Flame Sky Wolf to enhance their combat power, while the Winged Dragon Clan summoned an incarnation of the ancient Demon-Winged Dragon.
Inside the great hall on the Winged Dragon Clan's main peak.
Demon Wind Heavenly Venerate had just returned and was reporting the details of the meeting at the Heavenly Wolf Clan to the Winged Dragon Clan's Ancestor, Feng Yuan Heavenly Venerate.
Feng Yuan Heavenly Venerate's hair was snowy white, his aged face furrowed with wrinkles like cracked tree bark. Yet he was tall and broad, standing half a head above Demon Wind even while seated, and carried an air of authority without needing to show anger.
He sat cross-legged on a plush rug, rolling a string of twelve beads polished from some unknown beast's bones through his fingers. The faint aura they radiated seemed to belong to a Void Insight-tier Mutant Beast.
"So only the Divine Radiance Clan is wavering?" Feng Yuan Heavenly Venerate's aged yet powerful voice echoed through the hall.
Demon Wind nodded and said:
"Radiant Light Heavenly Venerate is worried that Fang Mo will use the Heavenly Way Alliance to attack the Cangmang Continent. He does want to reconcile with the Heavenly