East Dragon Island, Central Square.
The deathly silence of shock lasted a dozen breaths before a roar, trembling with boundless excitement, finally shattered it.
"Welcome back, His Majesty the Old Dragon Emperor!!"
Elder Qi You was the first to recover.
This usually steady and composed Two-Star Dou Saint was now weeping openly as he dropped to his knees with a thunderous thud.
Facing the figure in the purple-gold dragon robe, he performed the highest rite of the Ancient Dragon Clan!
Like the first domino falling, in an instant—
"Welcome back, His Majesty the Old Dragon Emperor!!!"
Elder Huo Zhan, Elder Shui Xuan, the West Dragon King—his expression complicated, yet he dared not show the slightest negligence—Zhu Yue, and all the other high-ranking members and elders of East Dragon Island and West Dragon Island, along with every member of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan who had sensed the gathered auras and rushed over, fell to their knees like a surging tide.
Their cries shook the heavens, filled with awe and joy rising from the depths of their blood!
The Old Dragon Emperor, Zhu Kun!
That was a name recorded in the most glorious chapters of the Ancient Dragon Clan's history!
A legend who had led the Ancient Void Dragon Clan to stand at the summit of the continent!
His return meant everything to a clan that had only just been reunited and needed an unwavering pillar to steady its foundations!
Even Huang Tian, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's patriarch, and Yao Ming, the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Clan's patriarch, who were not members of the Ancient Dragon Clan, felt their hearts tremble under the might of this being who had stood at the continent's peak ten thousand years ago.
They bowed instinctively, not daring to overstep in the slightest.
Zhu