Departure for Immortal Severance City (2/3)

"Stop making trouble!" Huotian casually slapped her away.

"Ow!" The Blue Dragon Empress immediately sprawled onto the ground. By the time she climbed back up, her aura had completely vanished, and she had reverted to the innocent, bewildered young girl she had been before.

Zhou Heng could not help inwardly lamenting. While the Blue Dragon Empress had "woken up," he should have asked her some questions—whether she had truly recognized Huotian's identity, for instance, or the whereabouts of the Dragon Emperor and the other four Dragon Emperors.

With the Blue Dragon Empress no longer countering him with her aura, Zhou Yuhe's presence surged through the skies in wave after wave, like a vast ocean sweeping across the entirety of North Horse City.

This continued for nearly half a day. Only after he had drained this continent's spiritual energy to near exhaustion did Zhou Yuhe suddenly snap open his eyes and descend from the sky.

"Congratulations, Ancestor Yuhe!" The members of the Zhou Family all cried out in boundless delight.

"This was all thanks to Zhou Heng!" Zhou Yuhe revealed a trace of embarrassment. As the beneficiary, he knew all too well just how precious that skullcap bone was! Though he could not understand the runes upon it at all, merely studying them had given him sufficient insight to break through to the Creation Emperor in one stroke. That alone showed how invaluable it was!

Yet, in order to treat his injuries, Zhou Heng had unhesitatingly given that skullcap bone to him!

What an immense favor that was?

Though family did not stand on ceremony with family, Zhou Heng was not a direct descendant of Zhou Yuhe, but the descendant of his brother! It was one thing that, as an elder, he had not given the younger man a proper meeting