Shi Feiyang had come to the Central Land with a comprehensive plan for collecting treasures. Yu's Cauldron at Wild Goose Lake was only his first stop. His Dao Practice had been limited when he devised it, and he had never expected so many complications to spring out of nowhere and delay him for so long.
After obtaining the Inner Scenery Origin Treatise, he had cross-referenced it with the Heavenly Book and Golden Talisman he had acquired earlier, gaining insight into many authentic Huaxia teachings from the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Looking back, his original plan had been far too small in scope.
Originally, he had intended to return to Geng Kun after gathering treasures in the Central Land and cultivate in seclusion under his protection. Only after surviving his final skin-shedding tribulation at Great Roc Bay and becoming a True Dragon would he go elsewhere to establish his own immortal dwelling. To repay Geng Kun for guarding him during his cultivation, he would give him the set of Red Cloud Flower-Scattering Needles he had obtained in the Northern Sea, then help him escape his own tribulation when the time came.
But as his Dao Practice deepened, he discerned from the divination signs that Geng Kun had other designs on him.
After his final shedding at the age of three thousand, his two inner cores would merge through the harmonization of water and fire, becoming a dragon Pearl. Thanks to his painstaking cultivation, this Pearl would differ from other dragon Pearls and possess many unique mysteries. Geng Kun had coveted it from the moment Shi Feiyang arrived on the island, and after Shi Feiyang killed Wu Qiming, his greed had only intensified.
Geng Kun knew only that he possessed a Divine Fire Inner Core, yet that alone