Unwelcome Guests

On Poison Dragon Island, at Long True Lord's Nascent Soul banquet, Long True Lord sat high upon the platform, expounding upon the cultivation heritage of refining "demonic beast bloodlines" and forging a Dharma Aspect.

Below the platform, the many cultivators attending the banquet were immersed in it, carefully recording and studying Long True Lord's teachings and transmission of the Dao.

At the same time, within the surrounding palaces, Long True Lord's followers, newly accepted disciples, and others had likewise mostly turned their attention to Long True Lord's teachings and transmission of the Dao.

For Liang Zhaohuang and the others, they perhaps still had to consider whether the cultivation arts and heritage Long True Lord was expounding—refining "demonic beast bloodlines" and forging a Dharma Aspect—contained any traps or restrictions.

But for Long True Lord's followers and disciples, there was no such concern at all, and so they focused even more intently on his teachings and transmission of the Dao.

After all, even for disciples accepted by Long True Lord, opportunities for such detailed instruction—lectures on refining "demonic beast bloodlines" and the path of forging a Dharma Aspect—would certainly not come often.

Being able to hear it one more time was an opportunity his followers and disciples could not afford to miss.

Thus, for a time, throughout Poison Dragon Island and the mountain gate of the Dharma Aspect Sect, only Long True Lord's voice could be heard expounding the Dao. Everyone's thoughts were fixed upon it, and few noticed the changes beyond.

Among the countless venomous snakes and flood pythons circling the seas around Poison Dragon Island, spraying seawater and swimming back and forth, faint black halos gradually began to spread.

Within those faint black halos, the venomous snakes and flood pythons gradually grew frenzied, their eyes slowly filling with bloodlust and