"Junior Lu Ye pays his respects to the Third Ancestor!" Lu Ye bowed respectfully.
If they truly counted seniority, then throughout the entire Dragon Race, the man before him was likely second only to Yang Qing in rank.
Moreover, he should have been the first Dragon Race member to seal himself within the Ancestral Abyss Restriction.
Had the Dragon Race not possessed such long lifespans, there was no way he could have endured until today and still survived.
Yang Lie nodded slightly. "I can sense that the Dragon Vein within you is pure. It seems you encountered some opportunity within our race?"
Lu Ye replied, "Some years ago, I obtained a drop of Ancestor true blood in the Dragon Pool. That was how I came to possess a Dragon Vein body."
"So that's how it is..." Yang Lie understood. As he spoke, his divine sense swept across the entire Ancestral Abyss Restriction, and he was mildly startled. "There are already so many clansmen here? It seems I have slept for far too long."
When he entered back then, he had been all alone. He knew nothing of what happened afterward.
Yet judging solely from the number of clansmen gathered here, the years he had slept through were likely beyond calculation.
Turning to Lu Ye, Yang Lie asked, "What is the situation outside now?"
The instant he had laid eyes on Lu Ye, he knew that this young man was the one his race had awaited according to the ancestral teachings. Now that endless years had passed, the awaited person had appeared and even helped burn away part of the corrosive power, restoring his consciousness. That could only mean that some tremendous upheaval had taken place outside.
"I was just about to explain it to you, Senior." Lu Ye said, "Several