After speaking at length with the True Dragon, the Origin Emperor, a Human Supreme, quietly left the True Dragon Secret Realm.
Outsiders had no way of knowing exactly what the two Supremes had discussed.
But from then on, the True Dragon Secret Realm never opened again, nor did the True Dragon summon anyone.
Meanwhile, the situation within and outside the Yu Long Sect grew increasingly dire. Wave after wave of probing attacks left even the sect's many Great Divine Ability Users somewhat exhausted from rushing to respond.
Just like that, time slowly slipped by, and half a year passed.
Woooo!
Woooo!
That day, a strange sobbing sound suddenly resounded within the True Dragon Secret Realm, drawing many people's attention.
Then many saw an indescribable aura of decay gush out of the True Dragon Secret Realm, shooting straight into the highest heavens above it and soon enveloping the entire sect.
Among the countless mountains and ravines, everything was shrouded in gray gloom.
Roar! Roar! Roar!
An enormous phantom of the True Dragon climbed into the starry sky along with that black aura.
The phantom was immense, but deathly energy pervaded its entire body. After circling amid the stars for a long time, it swooped down and arrived above the Yu Long Sect.
At that moment, a glimmer of awareness suddenly appeared in the phantom's eyes. It gazed deeply at the Yu Long Sect below, only for that awareness to be worn away bit by bit by the deathly energy surrounding its body.
The next moment, its body shuddered, and cracks appeared one after another.
At first, those cracks were tiny, but in the blink of an eye, they widened and deepened, spreading across the phantom's entire body. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The next moment, a fierce wind rose, and the phantom eroded