Ao Lie stowed Nine Infants' corpse in his pouch, then turned and returned to the others.
Son Goku laughed. "Little White Dragon, how about we call you Little Golden Dragon instead? Your true form has become a nine-clawed golden dragon."
Little White Dragon smiled. "You might as well call me by my name. I became a golden dragon because the senior gave me an Ancestral Dragon Pearl, awakening my ancestral bloodline."
"Oh, so that's why. I'll ask my big brother for another Heavenly Dragon Pearl for you later. Then you'll be able to attain Primordial Unity and awaken your bloodline further, becoming a Chaos Heavenly Dragon," Son Goku said.
"What? The senior even has a Chaos Heavenly Dragon's Dragon Ball?" Ao Lie asked, his eyes widening in shock.
"My big brother has plenty. He probably didn't give you one before because your body was too weak to withstand the bloodline power of a Heavenly Dragon Pearl," Son Goku said.
Ao Lie nodded in agreement.
Afterward, they continued west.
On the Northern Ju Lu Continent, all the demon sages learned of Nine Infants' death the moment he fell. Their faces darkened.
"That fool Nine Infants took it upon himself to seek revenge," Bai Ze said. "He deserved this calamity. It was his fate."
"Exactly," Ji Meng said. "He knew Little White Dragon had wreaked Havoc in Heaven and reached the Quasi-Saint Peak, yet he still went after him. Wasn't that asking to die?"
"You're both right," Ying Zhao said. "Not only that, Buddhism used him to become one of the trials in the Journey to the West Calamity. Utterly foolish."
"That may be true," Shang Yang said, "but his son was killed. Doing nothing at all would have been too cowardly. All living beings would have mocked him."
"And now they