"What? Eldest brother!"
The Dragon King of the Eastern Sea's intervention stunned the other Dragon Kings. The Dragon Kings of the Southern and Northern Seas cast everything else aside and hurried forward to examine him.
But this had been the Ancestral Dragon's furious strike, and Ao Guang had offered no resistance. The meridians around his heart had shattered, and his Great Encompassing Golden Immortal magic power collapsed all at once. Without immediate treatment, he would likely die.
"Ancestor, please don't kill our eldest brother! If you must kill someone to vent your anger, kill me!" The Dragon King of the Southern Sea dropped to his knees.
"No, Ancestor! Kill me instead! Our eldest brother has done more for the Dragon Clan than any of us. I'm no use at all!"
The two Dragon Kings competed to die in his place, forming a stark contrast to the Dragon King of the Western Sea's earlier cowardice and desperate clinging to life. It was a bitter irony indeed.
The Dragon King of the Western Sea's mouth twitched. Words lodged in his throat, but he did not dare utter them.
"Ha! What a joke! Do you think the wrongs you've committed today can be made up for with your few paltry lives?"
The Ancestral Dragon laughed in his fury. Naturally, he would not let such a clumsy performance fool him into letting them off. Roaring, he jabbed a finger toward the Western Sea behind him, its waters littered with corpses. "Do you think your lives are worth more in my eyes than those young dragons you slaughtered?"
"All your talk of swallowing humiliation for the greater good, of painstaking efforts! Of toil deserving credit! A Dragon Clan without blood in its veins or backbone in its body would be better off going extinct!"
"Today,