The light faded, and everything had changed.
They had arrived from Yin-Yang Love Querying Valley at Dragon Valley—the dragon clan's burial ground.
Over a thousand true dragons had fallen here, leaving behind endless desolation and grief.
Gu Yuena said, "You knew, didn't you?"
Mu Xuanheng said, "Knowing is one thing. Feeling it is another."
The giant dragons' bones lay exposed in the wilderness. He slowly stepped forward and lightly touched a piece of bone.
He could feel the dragons' mournful cries before their deaths.
Chaofeng appeared and let out a roar.
The thousands of skeletons seemed to let out sorrowful cries.
Chaofeng was atoning.
This was its sin.
Mu Xuanheng could not touch Chaofeng, nor could he reach the grief left behind by those dragons, but he could feel those emotions.
"Having received your kindness, it is now my turn to repay it. Chaofeng, imprint their appearances into my mind. I will restore everything as best I can."
Gu Yuena stood beside him. "This is also a responsibility I must bear."
As the ruler of soul beasts and one of the few remaining true dragons, she, too, had to shoulder this responsibility.
Mu Xuanheng said, "Go retrieve the Dragon God's Heart first. Restoring and burying all of these won't be done anytime soon."
Chaofeng had already given him a new life, and he would not covet the power that had once belonged to the Dragon God.
Gu Yuena should take it. It was something she deserved to possess.
The dragon phantoms in Dragon Valley undoubtedly belonged to the Dragon God.
He did not need to deal with them. Gu Yuena would reclaim the power within them.
One majestic dragon after another appeared in his mind. Chaofeng was using its memories to tell him everything.
Chaofeng spread its wings once more