Dragon City, Heaven Dou Empire.
This was the largest city in the northern region of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Sky Dragon Sect and Earth Dragon Sect, the two great sects, occupied the south and north of the city respectively.
Of the two, Sky Dragon Sect was stronger. Its sect master was a genuine Title Douluo, while Earth Dragon Sect was more like Sky Dragon Sect's vassal.
Mu En was no stranger to this city. He himself had countless ties to Sky Dragon Sect.
For ten thousand years, Sky Dragon Sect had maintained a distant yet enduring connection with Shrek.
The current sect master of Sky Dragon Sect had once been a disciple of Shrek Academy's Inner Court.
By seniority, he was even Mu En's junior descendant.
It could be said that everyone in Sky Dragon Sect had to treat him as an elder.
Yet on this trip, Mu En did not lead the group to the south side of the city.
"Go directly to Earth Dragon Sect." Mu En's voice was calm as he explained,
"The Sky Dragon and Earth Dragon Sects have a delicate relationship.
Sky Dragon Sect is dominant, while Earth Dragon Sect endures in silence. Though it appears to be a vassal, it may not lack convictions of its own.
If we let Sky Dragon Sect bring us in to negotiate, Earth Dragon Sect may become wary and see it as pressure from Sky Dragon Sect, breeding resistance instead."
The four arrived before Earth Dragon Sect's main gate.
Two young disciples in their early twenties stood guard there, their postures straight and their gazes sharp.
Upon seeing the visitors, one of them immediately stepped forward and barked,
"Who goes there?"
His gaze swiftly swept over the four of them, and inwardly, he was alarmed.
At the front