Shi Feiyang let out a Long's roar that sent echoes rolling through ten thousand mountains on the Western Continent. Since Qian Kang had built Evernight City on the East Mainland and driven out various spirits and nonhuman creatures, most beings with substantial cultivation practiced on the Western Continent. Hearing that heaven-shaking Long cry, they emerged from the caves where they lay hidden and peered in his direction.
Deep beneath the nearby sea lived an Ancient Poison Dragon with nearly ten thousand years of Dao Practice. Over the years, he had trained relentlessly to contend with the ever-growing power of the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Xian.
He had been refining his Purple Lightning Dragon Pearl until irritation churned within him and his blood boiled. Suddenly, he heard an unfamiliar Long cry and knew that a powerful Long had arrived from elsewhere. Already in a foul mood, he answered with an angry roar and shot straight up from underwater, bursting through the sea like a cannonball. Flying into the air, he bellowed, "Where did this crawling worm come from, daring to make such a racket here!"
Shi Feiyang saw a mass of purple cloud racing toward him from hundreds of miles away. Amid it stood a monster with a human body and a Long's head, nearly twenty feet tall. His head already showed signs of taking human form, with two horns atop it and a mouth full of fangs. Fine purple scales covered his body as he hurtled over like a shooting star or a streak of lightning.
Shi Feiyang was still in his Long form, hundreds of feet long. The instant his opponent spotted him, he spat out a stream of purple elixir qi without another word. Clutching at the air with both hands, he rapidly rubbed them together a few times, gathering