Cangze lay west of the East Sea, where twelve great rivers converged. Its Water Veins stretched for hundreds of millions of miles, nurturing more than a dozen aquatic clans of various sizes.
Before the Dragon-Han Tribulation, this place had already been brought under the Dragon Race's rule.
At the height of the Dragon Race's power, the Water Veins of the Four Seas had all obeyed Ancestor Dragon's command. Naturally, the Cangze clans had been powerless to resist.
After the Dragon-Han Tribulation ended, the dragon aura of the Four Seas fell silent, yet the dragon markings carved into Cangze's ancestral land never disappeared.
Whenever the Tide Eye of the East Sea grew turbulent, the Dragon Race would issue an imperial decree, conscripting people from the clans of Cangze to suppress it.
At first, some of them could still return alive.
Later, the baleful sea energy deep within the Tide Eye grew heavier and heavier, and fewer and fewer of those who went to suppress it returned.
The last time, the Cangze clans had been conscripted to send seventy-two people. In the end, only nine had dragged their ruined bodies back to their ancestral land, and six of those had successively fallen before a hundred years had passed.
And today, the dragon markings on the ancestral stele at the center of Cangze lit up once more.
The azure dragon shadow coiled around the stone stele slowly opened its eyes, and one name after another emerged.
Before the chosen clansmen had even reached the ancestral land, the waters of Cangze fell silent first.
The lake stretching across hundreds of millions of miles was utterly free of ripples. The twelve great rivers rushing in from every direction also seemed to have struck an invisible barrier, stopping in unison outside Cangze.
The river water continued