Jin Xuanzhang always kept this firmly in mind. Thus, the moment he learned Jin Yanhua had returned, he immediately volunteered to probe her.
"The eldest young master may never have cared about this younger sister of his, born from the same womb. He may only find provoking her amusing—but we retainers cannot afford to overlook her."
Jin Xuanzhang knew very well that the eldest young master, already at the peak of Saint Manifestation and secure in his position as heir to the Dragon God, simply did not regard Jin Yanhua, a "younger sister" still lingering in the Divine Treasury Realm, as worthy of notice. No matter how fiercely she resisted, she was like a hissing kitten: irritating, perhaps, but occasionally rather entertaining.
But as a dragon who had truly experienced the hardships of dragon life, Jin Xuanzhang knew all too well just how extraordinary Jin Yanhua's resolve was.
Within the Heavenly Sea Dragon Court, any ordinary dragon guard possessed the Divine Treasury Realm. In the mortal world, they would be Demon Kings—if not free to run wild, then at least local tyrants receiving the worship of the people.
Yet in the Heavenly Sea, everything was different.
Though they never lacked food, it was mostly nothing more than fish and shrimp caught in the mortal world. And because of the Heavenly Court structure established by the Shangxuan Sect in Zhongheng Dao Continent, every dragon guard had to answer commands from all quarters of Zhongheng Dao Continent at all times—calling thunder and raising winds, driving clouds and spreading rain. Though praised as divine dragons, they were in truth nothing but laborers.
If they did not wish to work, they could only head into the various Heavenly Seas and exterminate the great sea demons that refused to submit to the Dragon Court, or