Just as everyone was wavering between shock and suspicion.
A group slowly emerged.
At their head was an old man dressed in a blue-green brocade robe.
His cheekbones jutted high, and several green scales still clung to his cheeks, opening and closing slightly with his breathing.
Behind him followed a dozen or so fierce-looking figures in blue-green robes, their eyes gleaming with menace and their blood and vitality brimming.
This sight.
Fell into the distant Red Sun Demon Venerable's eyes, twisting the old bastard's face in an instant.
Jiang Yuechu turned her head slightly and glanced at Old Red Flood Dragon beside her, who looked as though he faced a formidable enemy.
"You know them?"
"I'd know them even if they were burned to ash!"
Red Sun Demon Venerable gritted his teeth as he told Jiang Yuechu, "That's the Northern Sea Green Flood Dragon Clan. The old bastard leading them is the current clan elder of the Northern Sea lineage, Azure Nether Great Sage."
At that.
Jiang Yuechu offered a somewhat perfunctory reply. "Oh..."
The blue-green-robed elder walked slowly into the square and cupped his hands toward the yellow-robed elder from afar, smiling without warmth. "I was wondering whom the Golden Scale Tribe would send for this opening of the Dragon-Washing Pool... I never expected Soaring Heaven Great Sage to come in person..."
He paused, his gaze brushing almost imperceptibly over the brocade-robed youth.
"It seems... the Golden Scale Tribe is determined to secure this chance to become a dragon?"
At the sight of him.
The yellow-robed elder, addressed as Soaring Heaven Great Sage, merely lifted his eyelids slightly and nodded indifferently. "Indeed, we are."
"But... I have spent my life waging war and slaughtering foes. Of my six lamp-lightings, I have already used five... If you truly desire this