The major conglomerates of the Tianyuan Realm had discovered that the Taixu Stardust Dragon had been formed from Miao Yunying's Immortal Fallen.
An Jing had anticipated this long ago—a True Lord-level Immortal Dao spirit beast had suddenly appeared in the Ancient Immortal Ruins. No matter how one looked at it, that was a major event, and it was only natural for all kinds of plans to be altered because of it.
But after thinking it over, An Jing immediately found something odd. "But if a Taixu Stardust Dragon truly is rampaging about, shouldn't the Four Cities Grand Competition be postponed? Why has it been moved forward instead?"
"Heh."
Principal He drew out the sound. Ever since An Jing had joined Third Middle School, he had visibly grown much younger, even suffering far less internal strain. Now, he narrowed his hawkish eyes and smiled. "That's precisely where the coincidence lies. That Taixu Stardust Dragon attacks indiscriminately!"
"Though part of the Net Dao has been destroyed and a Taixu Sky Ship was damaged, we were not the ones who suffered the greatest losses. It was the Dao Court guards and ancient mechanisms within the Ancient Immortal Ruins!"
"Especially since the Ancient Immortal Ruins originally restricted overly powerful cultivators from entering, yet for some reason, that Taixu Stardust Dragon was not bound by the restriction. In just a few days, it smashed through the 'Autumn Frost Skylight'—the ruins' cooled Core Region—that our exploration teams and main forces had been unable to breach even after untold hardship."
"Not only that, the Stardust Dragon is remarkably adept at seeking out crucial points. I hear that several 'secret passages' which the higher-ups specifically ordered us to investigate have all been found and pierced through by it."
"Now, the Stardust Dragon's whereabouts are unknown. It counts as