The Red-Brow Emperor Lord furiously cursed Ji Fengzhou, resolutely resisting Jing Kingdom's Nine Sons Suppress the Sea plan. "Are we like Ao Shuyi? Would we willingly become dogs and horses?"
This was not merely contemptuous abuse directed at Ao Shuyi; in a sense, it also described the truth.
Nine stone garrisons suppressed the Long River, granting the Ancestral River of the Present World peace for tens of thousands of miles and tens of thousands of years. That unremovable shackle truly lay upon Ao Shuyi!
According to his agreement with Human Emperor Lieshan all those years ago, he would forever suppress the Long River, and forever be suppressed by the Long River. One might call him the least transcendent of all Transcendents—possessing supreme power, yet trapped within the Dragon Palace, constrained by the Long River.
Though the Long River stretched tens of thousands of miles and bore incomparable transcendental significance, it was still far too confining to contain a Transcendent within it.
If the Sea Race accepted the Nine Sons Suppress the Sea framework outlined by Ji Fengzhou, the Cang Sea would only become more cramped than the Long River. Thereafter, all powerful Sea Race figures would be the same: once they possessed the qualifications to threaten the Human Race, the shackles upon them would appear.
And Transcendents would become almost impossible to produce again.
Thus, Red-Brow would rather die than surrender.
But why would someone like Ao Shuyi, who had been cursed as a "river dog" for so many years and cared not at all for dignity or freedom, surrender first and rebel later?
And why do so so many years after the war between humans and dragons had already ended, at a moment when success could be said to hold no hope at all?
The Dragon Race could never