"The White Bone Lineage had been declining with every passing day. Under immense pressure, they had no choice but to seek a marriage alliance with our dragon clan, marrying the Saintess of the White Bone Lineage to one of our dragon clan's great powers! Our dragon clan stepped in and mediated the grudges between them and the divine beasts!"
"Out of reverence for our ancestor, the divine beasts accepted this mediation as well. After all, they merely wanted to teach the White Bone Lineage a lesson. For the sake of the first-generation White Bone Saint, they would not truly wipe out the White Bone Lineage!"
"From then on, the White Bone Lineage became exceedingly low-key. Their domineering reputation was never heard of again!"
As Long Haiwei recounted the tale in detail, Zhou Heng gained a general understanding of what had happened.
The White Bone Lineage had once been incomparably overbearing, for they had the strongest Saint of that age holding the fort. But the situation had taken a sharp turn for the worse. The Saint had fallen, and with only one Chaos Realm expert left to support them, the White Bone Lineage immediately found itself stretched thin.
One could imagine that the Heavenly Venerable of the White Bone Lineage—Shi Yang—had certainly not traveled as far in the Chaos Realm as Huotian and Red Moon. Those two could freely ravage the old Azure Dragon and old Vermilion Bird!
They were not Saints, yet they could almost stand shoulder to shoulder with Saints!
Shi Yang might only have taken five hundred steps—perhaps even just a hundred!
After all, once one completed nine sets of ten steps, one could attempt to break into the Chaos Realm. By that calculation, the weakest Chaos Realm cultivator only needed to take ninety-one steps.
Shi Yang could