Before Ao Xiu could react, Zhang Yuan grabbed Ao Xiu and stuffed the dragon into his clothes. He immediately summoned the Golden Carriage and flew away from the Yu Kingdom's Capital City with Xiao Yuanjun.
Just when they needed taihu dragonheart grass, taihu dragonheart grass appeared in the Yu Kingdom's Capital City. How could there be such a coincidence under heaven? If he had charged into the capital without thinking...
They might well have entered the Yu Kingdom's Capital City only to find no taihu dragonheart grass, but an entire city full of pursuers instead. Then they truly would have had no road to heaven and no door into the earth.
Besides, the Yu Kingdom's Capital City was still a national capital. However weak the kingdom was, how could its gates stand wide open while its walls were completely deserted? One glance was enough to tell that something was wrong.
Just as Zhang Yuan had expected.
The moment Zhang Yuan flew away, a thunderbolt blasted out of the Yu Kingdom's Capital City and struck the Golden Carriage of [Golden Carriage Luan Chariot], instantly dissipating its conceptual image.
Neither Zhang Yuan nor Xiao Yuanjun was injured. They stopped in midair, while Ao Xiu turned around and poked a head out to inspect the situation before them.
They saw...
A "figure" had appeared at some point atop the deserted walls of the Yu Kingdom's Capital City.
It was an old man dressed in a loose, plain Daoist robe. A pair of dragon horns resembling Ao Xiu's grew from his head, and a dragon tail extended behind him. Scales faintly covered his exposed arms.
A dragon.
"What a cautious young fellow. I used mystic wonder to draw your heart-mind here, then conjured taihu dragonheart grass, all to invite you into the city. To