"Y-you... how do you know all this?!"
Ancestral Dragon's voice trembled. "Secrets from the very dawn of creation like these should be unknown to anyone in the Primordial World except us old fellows!"
"Yuanfeng told me."
Dijiang said calmly, "But her knowledge doesn't seem complete. So I'd like to hear your version."
Ancestral Dragon fell silent for a long time.
He looked at Dijiang, a complicated light flickering in his eyes.
After a long while, he let out a deep sigh.
"Since Yuanfeng has already told you, there's nothing left for me to hide."
A trace of profound helplessness and bitterness seeped into Ancestral Dragon's voice.
"Yuanfeng was right. Back then, we were indeed born in accordance with the Will of Heaven's Way, to fight those Demon Gods of the Destruction Faction and the Ferocious Beasts."
"But..."
Ancestral Dragon paused, his tone turning somewhat strange. "There's one thing Yuanfeng doesn't know. Back then, our Dragon Clan... actually cooperated with the Water Demon God in secret."
"What?!"
At those words, Dijiang's pupils abruptly contracted, and towering waves surged through his heart.
The Dragon Clan actually cooperated with a Demon God?!
This turned everything he knew on its head!
"Those Demon Gods wanted to destroy the Primordial World. Cooperating with them was no different from bargaining with a tiger for its skin," Dijiang rebuked in a low voice.
"Let me finish."
Ancestral Dragon gave a bitter chuckle. "Although the Water Demon God was also a member of the Demon God Faction, he was different from those Ferocious Beasts that knew only slaughter and destruction."
"Great God Pangu destroyed his physical body back then, and only a wisp of his remnant soul escaped. He found me and proposed a deal."
"He told me that although Heaven's Way had nurtured the three of us,