Yang Wenqing naturally agreed with Lan Ying's assessment.
Ao Guang was calm, cautious, and wise. Even after her Primordial Spirit had been imprisoned, she had still found a path to turn the situation around in the shortest possible time.
Once someone like her regained a foothold in the Dragon Palace, no one could predict how far she might go. Yet precisely because of that, he began looking forward to Ao Guang's future achievements. If she could truly use Ao Yuan to gradually infiltrate and control the Dragon Clan's core power, it would undoubtedly benefit him.
But every step of cooperating with her required utmost caution.
"Roar—!"
Ao Tai's furious roar pulled him from his thoughts. Like a wild beast trapped in a cage, he had finally realized the cage walls were there.
After roaring, he plummeted toward the sea below at top speed, seemingly intending to dive into the water and escape.
Ao Yuan reacted at once. A formation over a hundred meters in diameter appeared beneath his feet out of thin air. Deep-blue light spread outward from him as its center, while Water Spirit Aura rapidly gathered within the formation's coverage.
The next instant, a bone-piercing chill appeared above the sea out of nowhere, freezing the ocean surface across dozens of kilometers in a single breath.
Ao Tai's dragon body slammed head-on into the ice. The immense impact smashed spiderweb cracks across its surface, which spread hundreds of meters from the point of impact before stopping. Then a deep-blue Water-Spirit Formation surged from the gaps between his scales, attempting to pass directly through the ice with a water escape technique.
At the same moment Ao Tai began falling, Yang Wenqing had already raised his right hand. Five-colored light flashed across his palm as Five Yang Five Qi poured forth