"Your Majesty, this old minister has been wronged!"
The Four Seas Dragon Kings stepped forward one after another, bowing with clasped hands as they protested their innocence.
"Even if you lent this old minister ten times the courage, I would never dare commit such an act of defiance!"
Ao Gan wore a miserable expression. The Dragon Clan of old might not have feared the Witch Clan, but after the War of the Three Clans, they had withdrawn their main forces to the Azure Dragon Realm. Today's Four Seas Dragon Clan had scarcely any experts left. Why would they go looking for trouble with the overwhelmingly powerful Witch Clan?
And looking at the current Heavenly Court, so many Sages were backing this newly appointed Heavenly Emperor. Unless they had grown tired of living in the sea, why would they do something so foolish?
The youthful-looking Heavenly Emperor swept his gaze over the Four Seas Dragon Clan, then looked at the Witch Ancestors. He nodded and said, "I know. For such large-scale chaos to suddenly erupt on the day I ascend the imperial throne, someone is deliberately slapping my face—and the face of the Heavenly Court!"
No one knew whether things were truly as Hao claimed. The Fortune of the Ten Thousand Clans was now scattered, and the heavenly secrets were in disarray. Even the Sages could not calculate the truth.
Of course, there was another possibility: the mastermind behind it all was also a Sage. In that case, even Sages would find it difficult to divine someone of their own level.
After receiving the answers of the Three Pure Ones, Red Cloud, Nuwa, and the others, Wu Chu did not even need to think twice before directly setting his sights on those two brothers in the West.
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