"Dragon Son? Dragon Son! To think that was where my name came from. I actually possessed a true spirit bloodline."
"So that was it..."
After hearing the True Dragon's words, Li Longzi's mind thundered, as though bolt after bolt of lightning had struck straight into the sea of consciousness within his soul. His entire being fell into a daze, and he failed to notice even the changes in his own body at first.
He merely felt that everything about him had long since been written by fate, that a great hand had been manipulating things behind the scenes to bring him this far.
Now, it seemed that hand belonged to the Supreme before him.
Li Longzi's life before this had been exceedingly simple.
He had been born in a remote mountain village. His birth parents were both ordinary people without any aptitude for cultivation, but Li Longzi was different. Before he turned ten, he had displayed the talent of a prodigy. A disciple of the Yu Long Sect passing through had discovered him, marveled at him as though he were a celestial being, and brought him into the sect.
After that, Li Longzi had advanced triumphantly all the way, attaining a Great Dao fruition in just a few hundred years.
His fate had grown somewhat more colorful afterward. First, he had been expelled from the sect, then an order from the True Dragon had allowed him to rejoin it.
Li Longzi had thought all of this was simply the work of fate. Now, it seemed that this fate had not been fate at all, but the True Dragon before him.
What he found even harder to accept was that he was actually this True Dragon's offspring.
Yet Li Longzi wrestled with it for only a few moments before accepting