The high-pitched dragon roar shook heaven and earth. The thousand-mile-long skeletal dragon body slowly fell toward the ground beneath the dragon's might.
"The Dragon Clan... actually produced a powerful new Ancestral Dragon like you?" White-Bone Ancestral Dragon's divine consciousness trembled as it spoke. Three parts shock, seven parts joy.
Wang Xuan looked up at the skeletal dragon body that blotted out the sky, saying nothing.
White-Bone Ancestral Dragon fell silent for a moment. Its dragon head slowly lowered, while the divine fire within its skull flickered uncertainly.
"I perished long ago. This wisp of consciousness I forcibly retained cannot last much longer." Its voice carried a sense of relief. "To see the Dragon Clan's legacy continue into later generations before the end is enough... While I am still lucid, it is time to be free."
With those words, it no longer held on.
The thousand-mile skeletal dragon body shattered with a thunderous crash, turning into a flurry of snow-white bone powder that scattered over the mountains below.
A brilliant divine radiance, wrapped around a resounding dragon roar, surged into Wang Xuan's body. It was all of White-Bone Ancestral Dragon's remaining Ancestral Dragon Qi and vital essence, given without reservation.
The bone powder fell like snow, burying an entire mountain range.
Wang Xuan stood quietly amid the rain of bones. He reached out and caught a handful of white ash, remaining silent for a long while.
From Old Ancestral Dragon to this nameless White-Bone Ancestral Dragon, the Dragon Clan's unity and self-sacrifice had exceeded his expectations time and again.
Whenever these old dragons saw a promising junior, they were willing to burn themselves away to help him succeed, never asking for anything in return.
"Rest assured." Looking toward where the bone powder drifted down, he swore inwardly, *"As long as I