Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Is an Inferior Dragon

Everyone was indeed working for the empire, but throwing away their lives for such a meager salary from the empire would be foolish.

The further Soul Masters cultivated, the more they wanted to advance, especially people like them who had already entered the Soul Douluo realm and were only a step away from breaking through to become Title Douluo.

After the group had completely departed, silver light flickered in Duan Yu's eyes. He compressed the power of space and swept it across the surroundings. Only after confirming that there was truly no danger nearby did he withdraw Heaven's Secret. With a flash of silver light, he quickly left the area.

Elsewhere, at the crown prince's palace in the Heaven Dou Empire.

"What did you say?"

Xue Qinghe stared at Stingfish below him, fury filling his eyes. "You mean to say that a perfectly healthy living person simply vanished into thin air?!"

Stingfish knelt on one knee and forced himself to answer, "Young Master, everything this subordinate said is true."

"Heh."

Xue Qinghe sneered and snapped, "So you're saying that a living person vanished into thin air right in front of you, and then you vanished along with him?!"

Xue Qinghe's words were sharp, aimed directly at Stingfish, leaving him at a loss for words.

What could he say? Was he supposed to say, yes, yes, that was exactly what happened—your friend suddenly disappeared like that, Young Master, and I have no idea what happened either?

Stingfish recalled the scene from back then. Even now, he still could not understand what kind of power it had been.

He had watched Duan Yu vanish in a flash of silver light, while he himself had also been carried out of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect by an inexplicable force. By the time he came to his senses and tried to resist, he realized it was already useless.

Xue Qinghe glared at Stingfish. Stingfish lowered his head but did not say a word.

The two remained locked in silent confrontation. In the end, Snake Spear could not stand watching any longer and spoke up to ease the tension.

"Young Master, we were ordered by the Grand Worshipper to follow you. Your orders are our orders. Stingfish would never deceive you."

Xue Qinghe looked at Stingfish, who was still kneeling, then waved his hand. "Get up. What happened after that? Once he disappeared, did you go find him?"

Stingfish said nothing. After a long while, he finally answered, "No."

"No?"

Xue Qinghe swept the teacup from the table and smashed it onto the floor. "He disappeared, and you didn't even bring him back?"

"When this subordinate returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, I saw from afar that an intense battle had erupted there. By the time I arrived, I only saw the severely injured Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect on full alert."

At that point, Stingfish hesitated before continuing, "The power that could heavily injure Yu Yuanzhen was anything but ordinary. This subordinate feared being discovered, so I retreated."

After Stingfish finished speaking, the scene suddenly fell silent. It was not only Xue Qinghe—Snake Spear's expression had also turned strange.

Yu Yuanzhen was a level ninety-five Super Douluo. With the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect as his home ground, even the two of them would have to think carefully before facing him.

Yet Stingfish had just said that Yu Yuanzhen had been severely injured. How could Snake Spear not be shocked?

"What happened after that?"

Snake Spear pressed, "Did you see who injured Yu Yuanzhen?"

"No."

Stingfish shook his head. "The battle between those two could be felt within a hundred li. I was afraid of being discovered, so I did not dare release my soul power too openly."

"By the time I arrived, they had already finished fighting. I only saw a white figure from behind in the distance, nothing else."

Clap! Clap! Clap!

Xue Qinghe suddenly applauded and laughed. "You two really put on quite the performance just to fool me."

"You don't even bother making your lies believable anymore, do you? You mean to say that you, a dignified Title Douluo, sensed a terrifying power from a hundred li away."

"Then, because you didn't dare draw attention to yourself, you secretly went back and saw the heavily injured Yu Yuanzhen and the missing him!"

Stingfish's expression changed. He once again dropped to one knee and said, "Young Master, everything this subordinate said is true."

Xue Qinghe's face darkened at those words, and he said furiously, "I don't care whether it's true or not. I want you to find him and bring him back right now!"

Just then, outside the palace, a figure dressed in white robes walked toward them. His pace was not fast, but every step was steady.

Space leaped, and the hands of the clock swayed. As that figure drew nearer, the people inside the palace increasingly sensed the figure's profound control over the elements.

"This is?!"

Inside the palace.

The stalemated group first sensed that spatial elemental aura, which made them all uneasy. The next moment, as the distance gradually closed, their minds trembled.

"It's Duan Yu!"

"That kid?!"

Xue Qinghe, Stingfish, and Snake Spear reacted one after another, their faces filled with shock.

With a flash of silver light, Duan Yu appeared inside the palace the next instant and saw the group locked in confrontation amid a silence that could not have been more oppressive.

Sensing the unbearably awkward atmosphere, Duan Yu asked in confusion, "Qinghe, what's this?"

"It's nothing."

Seeing that Duan Yu was unharmed, Xue Qinghe walked over. "They were reporting to me. Are you done with your business?"

Duan Yu nodded. "I'm done, and I gained quite a lot."

A mass of yellow radiance emerged from Duan Yu's body. It was the divine artifact, the Mountain Dragon King's Crown. The distorted halo expanded outward, directly isolating the entire palace.

As the Mountain Dragon King's Crown appeared, everything around them quietly changed in ways unseen.

Xue Qinghe only had six soul rings. He could merely sense the artifact's unusual nature, but his perception was nowhere near as profound as that of Stingfish and Snake Spear, who were Title Douluo.

The instant the Mountain Dragon King's Crown appeared, the two of them sensed the change in this place.

Rather than saying they were inside a palace, it would be more accurate to say that they were now standing within a mountain range cut off from the world.

"What is this?!"

Stingfish and Snake Spear exchanged looks, their expressions shocked.

Noticing everyone's reactions, Duan Yu smiled faintly and explained, "This is the fated item I obtained when I went to seek alms at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect—the Mountain Dragon King's Crown."

"The Mountain Dragon King's Crown?!"

Xue Qinghe was startled. "The supreme treasure the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect had hidden all this time was this thing?!"

"That's right."

Duan Yu nodded. "At first, the Mountain Dragon King's Crown was incomplete. It had been divided into nine pieces and scattered among the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's nine mountain ranges."

"Now that I have taken them out and fused them together again, they formed this Mountain Dragon King's Crown."

"Mountain Dragon King's Crown? What kind of dragon is that—the Mountain Dragon?" Xue Qinghe asked doubtfully.

Duan Yu nodded. "Yes, you could put it that way. Mountain Dragons are a race, while the Mountain Dragon King is the ruler of the Mountain Dragon race."

Xue Qinghe froze. "But why do I feel that the Mountain Dragon King's aura is even more powerful than the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's?"

"Because the Mountain Dragon race are true dragons. They are naturally more powerful than inferior dragons like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon."