"Favored"

Moreover, after the banquet ended, she had secretly kept watch over the scene of you and Shen Xing going to meet the Old Dragon King. This only made her feel that she could not make a move against you lightly, or she might very well become the Old Dragon King's target for killing the chicken to scare the monkeys.

Linlong herself was only in the Immortal King First Realm. Her Immortal King Realm cultivation gave her enough weight to serve as a chicken to scare the monkeys, yet there was still some distance between her strength and that of the Old Dragon King, who had just advanced to a third-realm Immortal King. She was clearly the ideal target. Thus, she ultimately chose to watch for a while longer. Perhaps her guess was wrong, and your relationship with the Old Dragon King was merely ordinary.

Yet over these eight years, she had also learned certain things about you from some Mirage Dragon juniors. "Traveling alongside the Pureblood Dragon Race"! "Helping uncover a True Immortal Realm curse"! "Saving Shen Xing, a rising star of the Mirage Dragon Race whose Dao Path had seemed hopeless"! "A prodigy who returned from the Sea God Trial after thirteen years"! "First place in the Golden Immortal Grand Competition"!!!

Though these did not include the secret of your entering the Three Lives Secret Realm for the Mirage Dragon Race, since not every Mirage Dragon knew of it. Even the few of you who had emerged from the Three Lives Secret Realm had sworn Heavenly Dao Oaths not to tell others about the matter.

But whenever those Mirage Dragon juniors spoke of such things, their faces were filled with reverence for you. It was clear that although you were not a Mirage Dragon, your prestige within the race