A sage within, a king without; the bearing of a sage king, a frog at the bottom of a well!

Jin Zhou, chief of the Three-Eyed Golden Toad Tribe, still remembered the day sixty years ago when the Third Prince of Azure Sea Lake ascended to the throne of Dragon Monarch.

Everyone had been astonished then. No one had expected this young prince to become the ultimate ruler of Azure Sea Lake.

At first, they had harbored doubts, feeling that he was still too young.

Even with peerless talent and cultivation unrivaled among his generation, he was far too inexperienced to govern the vast Azure Sea Lake. His reign might not be a blessing for its waters.

Yet the world defied all expectations!

After his accession, every decree, every decision, and every measure he enacted made people slap the table in admiration.

Long ago, while the Water Virtue Dragon Lord was still trapped in Jianmu, he had also used the Three-Eyed Golden Toad Tribe's innate Qi-Gazing talent to examine the fortunes of the entire lake region.

Back then, a Fortune Golden Dragon had also coiled above the Dragon Palace, its radiance vast and its might extraordinary.

But that Golden Dragon had taken a thousand years to slowly assume its form.

After the Jianmu Assembly ended, this spiritual embodiment of fortune had grown weaker by the day. Its divine light faded, its body shriveled, and its vitality steadily ebbed.

It was precisely during that decline in fortune that Gu Changqing, Gu Changze, and their ilk had secretly nurtured their ambitions, plotting to seize the authority of Azure Sea Lake's Dragon Monarch.

Sixty years ago.

The Fortune Golden Dragon belonging to the previous Dragon Monarch had lost all its spiritual radiance, gradually dissolving into the cloudy heavens. This was an omen of dynastic change, heralding the imminent accession of a new Dragon Monarch.

A new Fortune Golden Dragon had slowly materialized in