Six Dragons of Path-Opening
"So that's how it was... 'He' truly is the Ancestral Dragon!"
Riftwing Great Sage Ghost Owl let out a long sigh. "Although we had our suspicions before, we never dared to be certain... Now it seems many beings were deceived back then. The Ancestral Dragon was never killed; he had long possessed a way to escape."
"Looks like the two of you aren't entirely in the dark either."
Ji Changli was not overly surprised. The Nine Heavenly Kings ought to have known the Lord of the Divine Court's secret identity. Ksitigarbha Holy Emperor might well have known too. As for these two demon Great Sages—antiques with lifespans so immense—it was not impossible that they knew a few clues.
"At most, we know a few scraps," Elephant Ancestor said. "After all, the history of that primordial age in which the Ancestral Dragon lived was altered by some force. It has become a sea of chaos, and there is almost no way to peer into that ancient era."
"Unless one possesses divine abilities and dharma power like Emperor You or the progenitors of the Buddhist and Daoist lineages," he continued, "or borrows the Heavenly Buddha Shadow Grotto to travel through past and future, then no matter what heaven-piercing means you may have, you can forget about glimpsing that ancient history."
Mighty Heaven Great Sage cleared his throat. "Ghost Owl and I know these scattered details because our Six-Tusk Copperhide Demon Elephant Clan is relatively ancient. We were demonic beings born almost in the same era as the Five Great Flood Dragon Clans."
Among the demon races of the Abyssal Realm, the Heart Fox Demon Race, the Crimson Fiend Ant Clan, and Six Ears' demon gibbon race were all powers that rose to prominence later. Only the Six-Tusk Copperhide