Clearwater Dragon Palace, the western palace complex.
This was the territory of the three rare-bloodline clans within the dragon palace.
But now, its former bustle was gone.
The Phantom-Tide Jellyfish Clan, once the most populous, had suffered countless casualties after the Phantom-Tide Demon King forcibly drained its members and then died in battle.
Even the survivors had suffered grievous losses of vitality, their cultivation plummeting.
They were a communal species to begin with. Now, a host of dragons without a head, they could no longer amount to anything.
The Negative-Water Cold Tortoise Clan was likewise shrouded in gloom.
With their patriarch Han Weng dead in battle, the Negative-Water Cold Tortoise Clan no longer had a Monster King.
Although they were somewhat better off than the Phantom-Tide Jellyfish Clan, their situation was still precarious.
At that moment, the Great Elder of the Negative-Water Cold Tortoise Clan was gathering every sixth-rank member in a great hall.
"Great Elder, must we really do this?"
A Negative-Water Cold Tortoise who appeared to be in his prime could not help speaking up.
Just moments earlier, to secure the clan's standing, the Great Elder had overridden all objections and prepared to have them jointly perform a secret art of the clan-
The Harmonious Origin-Returning Art.
The Harmonious Origin-Returning Art was one of the powerful secret arts collected by the Negative-Water Cold Tortoise Clan.
Performing it required three members of the same clan: one primary participant and two supporting participants.
The primary participant sat at the front, with the two supporting participants side by side behind him, forming an arrowhead.
Once the secret art began, the two supporting participants would burn their blood qi and cultivation together, transforming them into harmonious origin-returning blood that would merge into the primary participant.
It would help him break through to