Destroy the Dragon Clan! Respectfully Send the Ancestor to Ascend!

"Those are... Yinglong and Huanglong Zhenren? Why are they here?"

Immortal Dingguang's expression darkened as he stared at the two figures.

What astonished him most was Huanglong Zhenren's cultivation. This man, who had ranked at the bottom among the Twelve Golden Immortals, had actually broken through to the early Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.

To Immortal Dingguang, it was utterly inconceivable!

"Do not panic. Let us see what they intend to do!"

Ji Meng remained as steady as a mountain as he spoke indifferently.

At this moment!

Yinglong and Huanglong Zhenren descended above the Eastern Sea Spring Eye. With no more than a light sweep of their jade sleeves, countless aquatic rebel troops vomited blood and flew backward.

"Three fellow Daoists, where is Ao Guang?"

Yinglong wore a black Daoist robe, his long hair cascading over his shoulders, his gaze deep and sharp.

Through the Heavenly Dao Merit he had gained by helping Xuanyuan wage war and assisting Da Yu in regulating the rivers, he had successfully dissolved the shackles imposed upon him by the Heavenly Dao and broken through to the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.

When he sensed that the Dragon Clan was facing calamity, Yinglong had chosen to come without hesitation. By a fortunate coincidence, he had encountered Huanglong Zhenren on the way, and the two had joined forces.

"Brother Ao Guang went to Penglai Immortal Island to discuss the Dragon Clan's ascension to heaven with the Qinghua Emperor of the Eastern Pole!"

"These aquatic clans of the Four Seas were incited by Demon Sage Ji Meng and Immortal Dingguang. That is why they are madly attacking the Eastern Sea Spring Eye—their goal is to force the Dragon Clan into joining the Demon Court!"

Seeing Yinglong and Huanglong Zhenren arrive to help, Ao Qin hurriedly explained the entire situation.

At this moment!

Huanglong Zhenren formed a hand seal and said with a frown, "Fellow Daoist Ao Guang's whereabouts are unknown. He is not on Penglai Immortal Island, but he should not be in mortal danger for the time being."

"Let us first crush the aquatic clans of the Four Seas, lest the Eastern Sea Spring Eye be caught up in this!"

Upon hearing Huanglong Zhenren's words, the hearts of the three Dragon Kings sank. Yet they did not lose their fighting spirit. Instead, they transformed into streaks of light and charged back into the battlefield.

Yinglong and Huanglong Zhenren exchanged a glance, and both activated their mana!

In an instant, the Dragon Clan, which had been fighting against the wind, roared as they crushed the aquatic clans of the Four Seas.

Ji Meng and Immortal Dingguang's faces twisted when they saw this. They had not expected the aquatic clans of the Four Seas to be so useless that they could not even hold back two early Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals.

"It seems the Dragon Clan will not be joining the Demon Court!"

"If we cannot have them, then we will destroy them. If the Dragon Clan ascends to heaven, the Heavenly Court will naturally gain control of the Four Seas. When that happens, the Demon Court will be in trouble!"

"Demon Sage, it is time to make a choice!"

Immortal Dingguang said in a grave voice as he looked toward Ji Meng.

When they had first devised this scheme, they had considered the possibility that the Dragon Clan would remain stubborn and refuse to submit. But now that this reality stood before them, stormy waves still surged within their hearts.

Yinglong and Huanglong Zhenren had come to aid the Dragon Clan. The situation had now been reversed!

"Immortal Dingguang, return to Golden Turtle Island at once."

"Everything that happens next shall be borne by this Sage alone. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the Interception Sect."

Ji Meng's expression was solemn as he spoke slowly.

As though he had anticipated this long ago, Immortal Dingguang headed toward Golden Turtle Island without the slightest hesitation. He could not allow this matter to become entangled with the Interception Sect.

As for Ji Meng, he brought forth his natal spiritual treasure—a Sea-Stirring Trident, a genuine high-grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasure.

"Aquatic clans of the Four Seas, heed this Sage's command!"

"Charge into the Eastern Sea Spring Eye!"

Ji Meng swung the Sea-Stirring Trident. Soul-snaring ghostly light shot toward the countless aquatic clans of the Four Seas, and they immediately seemed to lose all reason, falling into boundless madness. Before long, they tore open a gap in the Dragon Clan's defensive line.

"The Eastern Sea Spring Eye will erupt, and calamity shall descend upon the Primordial World!"

"During the Witch-Demon Calamity, this Sage already shouldered no small amount of karmic sin from slaughter. Adding a little more now makes no difference. So long as I can help the Demon Court eradicate its enemies, I will not have betrayed the trust of the two Demon Emperors."

A crazed, vicious grin appeared on Ji Meng's face, while his dragon-scale armor gleamed brilliantly.

The seawater surged, and the waves rolled on without end.

The aquatic clans of the Four Seas were ferocious beyond measure and cared nothing for their own lives. Treading upon the corpses of Dragon Clan members and others, they leaped directly into the Eastern Sea Spring Eye. Explosions soon rang out.

The aquatic clans of the Four Seas had been controlled by Ji Meng and were self-destructing directly within the Eastern Sea Spring Eye.

"Hold them back!"

Yinglong inwardly sensed that things had gone wrong and immediately transformed into his true form.

His million-zhang body radiated dragon might. Without hesitation, he stood before that breach, allowing the endless aquatic clans of the Four Seas to tear at his body and even self-destruct before him.

Seeing this, Ao Qin, Ao Shun, and the others followed suit. Some hot-blooded Dragon Clan beings even directly burned their dragon souls and essence blood, forcibly raising their combat strength.

A night-blooming cereus's fleeting flash, a moment's splendor!

"Hehe... How can ants like you possibly stop this Sage's scheme?"

Ji Meng turned his right hand over, and mysterious light emerged.

Within the orb of light was a million-zhang figure. It possessed eight serpent heads and eight tails, radiating evil from top to bottom—so much so that even Ji Meng could not resist the urge to erase it.

"Dying for the Demon Court is getting off easy for you!"

As he spoke, Ji Meng hardened his heart and poured his essence blood and mana into the figure. Before long, its body shattered its restraints and transformed directly into a colossal form tens of millions of zhang tall.

The aura it exuded had already surpassed the realm of a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.

Tearing open space, Ji Meng flung out the ball of light in his hand.

In the next instant, the ball of light appeared directly within the Eastern Sea Spring Eye. Then, that tens-of-millions-of-zhang body emerged across the heavens, its evil laws sweeping over everything.

"Not good!"

Yinglong let out a roar, warning Huanglong Zhenren, Ao Shun, and the others.

Immediately after!

With immense magical power, he wrapped the Dragon Clan beings present in countless ordered laws and fled into the distance. Seeing that the tide had turned, Huanglong Zhenren, Ao Shun, and the rest could only follow suit.

"A mere worm dares to dream of self-detonating and destroying the Eastern Sea Spring Eye?"

"Fellow brethren, sacrifice our dragon souls and suppress the Eastern Sea Spring Eye!"

An aged voice resounded between heaven and earth.

It was followed at once by wave after wave of responses.

Hundreds of millions of li away, Yinglong and the others wore complicated expressions, tears welling in their eyes. Boundless flames of fury burned in their chests, yet there was nothing they could do to change it all.

"Ji Meng, Demon Court, Immortal Dingguang—I, the Dragon Clan, will not rest until one side is dead!"

Ao Qin clenched his fists. His scar-covered body looked utterly wretched, yet he still held his spine straight, staring solemnly and gravely at the Eastern Sea Spring Eye.

There lay all the Dragon Clan seniors who had entered to suppress the Eastern Sea Spring Eye since the Dragon-Han First Calamity.

Now, they would fight to the death!

Within the Eastern Sea Spring Eye, turbulent currents ran rampant. Ancient dragon skeletons lay scattered through the void, while figure after figure circulated the last remnants of their mana.

Boom!

The sound of an explosion burst across the sky.

Under Ji Meng's control, that tens-of-millions-of-zhang body exploded outright. An energy storm capable of annihilating all things swept forth, reducing everything to flying ash.

This included space stretching hundreds of millions of li, as well as the Four Seas aquatic clans that had lost their minds.

"Hold it back for this old man!"

"So long as we survive this calamity, the Dragon Clan descendants will be able to wash away the shackles of the Heavenly Dao! Even if we perish and our Dao dissipates, we will have made a killing!"

An elderly man in a gray Daoist robe, so frail he seemed to have one foot in the grave, cried out loudly.

This man was the most ancient ancestor of the Dragon Clan apart from Azure Dragon—Chenlong!

"Hahaha... exhilarating!"

"The sins and karmic debts of the Dragon-Han First Calamity—the Dragon Clan can repay them..."

In an instant!

Streaks of dazzling radiance flashed away. As the Dragon Clan ancestors and seniors all perished, the energy unleashed by the explosion of that tens-of-millions-of-zhang body was completely quelled.

The Eastern Sea Spring Eye remained untouched!

Only amid the vast seawaters and the dim void, every trace that the Dragon Clan had ever existed was erased.

"We bid farewell to the ancestors!"

Ao Qin, Ao Run, and Ao Shun led the Dragon Clan's surviving members to kneel directly in the seawater, then kowtowed toward the Eastern Sea Spring Eye.

One by one, dim true spirits and Primordial Spirits merged into the river of life of the Primordial World. They had already been people destined to die; now that they had repaid all their sins, they could no longer be reborn through reincarnation.

Only the Dragon Clan youths who had fallen in this bloody battle could receive the mercy of the Heavenly Dao's laws, enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and be reborn into the Dragon Clan.

"Farewell, ancestors, as you ascend to heaven!"

A figure hurried over, dropping to his knees and kowtowing.

Lingxiao stood upon the void. Watching Ao Guang reunite with the rest of the Dragon Clan, he looked toward the Eastern Sea Spring Eye. A flicker of emotion crossed his usually calm face.

"All the Dragon Clan ancestors have fallen in exchange for the complete disappearance of the Dragon Clan's Heavenly Dao shackles. Their tragic heroism is worthy of this poor Daoist's respect."

"Now, it is time for me to use the Open-Heaven Water Spirit to completely suppress the Eastern Sea Spring Eye..."