There were four ranks among dragonkind in the world: divine dragons, heavenly dragons, earth dragons, and water dragons.
The Dragon Demon King, however, was a flood dragon inferior even to a water dragon. Born flawed, he had never been able to transform into a true dragon, and he had suffered no shortage of humiliation since childhood.
Later, he strove to better himself and cultivated into a celestial immortal. Heavenly dragons and earth dragons no longer warranted his notice, much less water dragons.
Yet this matter had remained an obsession in his heart.
Only the bloodline of divine dragons had become his final obsession.
Afterward, he had coveted the divine dragon bloodline within the Dragon Cavern countless times.
But three old dragons at the Great Luo realm stood guard there, making him return in defeat every time.
Had those three old dragons not needed to guard the Dragon Cavern and preserve the root of the divine dragons, unwilling to taint themselves with the karmic entanglements of the world and thus refusing to leave the Dragon Cavern—
They would have crushed him to death long ago.
Unable to enter the Dragon Cavern and seize a divine dragon for its bloodline, he could only wait by the stump for a rabbit, hoping a divine dragon would emerge from within.
Yet the divine dragon clan essentially all holed up inside the Dragon Cavern and never came out.
And even if they did emerge, with old dragons of the Great Luo realm concealing the heavenly secrets, how could he calculate their whereabouts?
Fortunately, Heaven never bars every road. Some time ago, strange disturbances had arisen between Heaven and Earth, as though someone had used the Azure Dragon as their origin to attain the Dao.
That gave him an excellent opportunity.
He had no intention of