"What are we waiting for, then?"
Chen Qiu followed Ao Tian's gaze toward the distant horizon. "Where's the Dragon Palace? Let's go there and see if we can find Black Dragon, or whether there's any way to end the inheritance early."
"The mortality rate has already reached ninety-nine percent."
"There's no need to make Black Dragon take such a risk. The sooner we go, the better his chances of survival—even if only by a thread."
"It's useless."
A flicker of despair passed through Ao Tian's eyes. He seemed to age several years in an instant, staggering before sitting down on a nearby stone, his voice trembling. "The Dragon Palace is a supreme treasure of the Dragon Race. It has two states: one is fixed in a certain location, while the other wanders the depths of the sea at high speed and without pattern."
"When the Dragon Race moved out of the Dragon Palace tens of thousands of years ago, it entered its second state."
"Only by holding the Dragon Palace Token can one establish contact with the Dragon Palace and find it in the boundless depths of the sea. That token has always been passed directly from one Dragon Race patriarch to the next, kept in the Dragon Clan Treasury."
"The moment I realized this, I swiftly spread my divine sense over the entire Dragon Clan Treasury. The Dragon Palace Token was gone. That means Black Dragon truly took the token and went to the Dragon Palace."
"Without the Dragon Palace Token, we simply cannot find the Dragon Palace."
"And the Dragon Race Inheritance cannot be interrupted or stopped."
"The only thing that can save him now..."
"Is to heed the Mandate of Heaven."
"If Heaven wants him to live, he will live."
"If Heaven does not favor him, then