Free of Such Worldly Desires (13)

Sister, don't joke around. This is your new body, right?

Ming Guangchen clearly knew more than An Jing and the others. He quickly understood what True Monarch Yepo meant and hurried to explain things to his master and his disciple. I know. You were originally of the Northern Sea Azure Dragon Court's bloodline, but after your family lost a struggle against the West Sea Court, they sent you to the Mingjing Sect.

To keep the West Sea Court from hunting you down, your parents drained your dragon blood and replaced your dragon bones, turning you into a "human" with a dragon soul but no dragon body... This instead awakened your Fate Grid, making your cultivation progress by leaps and bounds.

But that was also where the problem lay—as your strength grew, until you became a True Monarch of the Divine Treasury and even a True Monarch of Saint Manifestation, your Fate Grid, "Hidden Dragon in the Abyss," helped you less and less. After all, even the West Sea Dragon Court was only a Middle Sect with a Pure Yang foundation and a Saint Manifestation Dragon Lord at its helm... Your enemies were no longer such powerful foes that you had to lie low and look up at them. If you wanted to advance further, you needed to do something big.

"Yes."

True Monarch Yepo knew Ming Guangchen was explaining the whole story to his master and disciple, and she cooperated by clarifying, "Although I became a True Monarch, I knew very well that I couldn't challenge the West Sea Dragon Court by myself. I also didn't want to drag the sect into my revenge, so I needed to gain greater power and break free of the limits of my Fate Grid."

"You told me that a dragon lurking in the