Nine Profound Mountain, Jupiter.
Beneath the Spirit Wood tree, Wang Ping and Bai Yan sat facing each other across a Go board. Stones had already been placed upon it. Wang Ping held a teacup in one hand while deducing the board's development with the other; Bai Yan held a stone in one hand while carefully calculating the changes on the board with the other.
"Tap~"
Bai Yan placed a stone.
Wang Ping set his teacup on a small tea table beside him, picked up a stone, then suddenly looked up at Bai Yan and asked, "Do you think the Dragon Lord will communicate with me?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Yan met Wang Ping's gaze and said, "The dragon clan once sheltered Human Way Cultivators, but in their eyes, Human Way Cultivators are not worthy of trust. They only wanted the incense offerings of Human Way Cultivators. Do you know that the Dragon Lord was among the first to cultivate Divine Arts?"
Wang Ping paused, then replied, "I truly didn't know that."
Nearby, Yulian, who was playing with the Sanhua cat, curiously turned her head at Bai Yan's topic. The Sanhua cat struck a pose as though about to pounce on Yulian, its little tail swishing back and forth without pause.
Bai Yan quickly explained, "The Dragon Lord was already attempting Divine Art cultivation at least fifty thousand years ago. His Divine Art cultivation may have reached the Fifth Realm first. Yuanwu cultivated Divine Arts under his guidance, but in the end, Yuanwu did not enslave Human Way Cultivators for him as the Dragon Lord had intended. Instead, he took another path."
"Though the other four of the Five Sects of Mystic Gate today had a hand in sowing discord, Yuanwu's betrayal drove the Dragon Lord's opinion of Human Way Cultivators