At that moment, Chan Qin had yet to grasp the Great Toad King's deeper considerations, but she knew that the father before her was about to help her.
The Great Toad King descended with the scale in hand, though he left something in the wall niche before coming down.
The dragon scale's spiritual glow illuminated father and daughter alike. After some thought, the Great Toad King asked her a question.
"Tell your father everything you did before and everything you intend to do next, leaving nothing out. Explain Ya Ci's death again as well. Without all the details, I won't be able to help you!"
The Great Toad King had received a message from his daughter earlier and knew that Ya Ci's death was a filthy scandal within the North Sea Dragonkind. It seemed the North Sea Dragon Lord had killed his own son, but he did not know the precise details.
Chan Qin was both delighted and worried. Seeing her expression, the Great Toad King gave a helpless smile.
"Do you think that if something happened to you, your father would do nothing? That I could simply stay out of it?"
Guilt stirred in Chan Qin's heart. She was about to speak, but the Great Toad King stopped her. He raised his head slightly, then led his daughter outside, closing the Li Household's door behind them. Only once they were outside did he hear the details from her.
Father and daughter rode a gentle breeze to a path far from the fishing village, walking along it as they conversed quietly through voice transmissions.
From the death of the previous North Sea Dragon Lord until several hundred years before the present, no member of the North Sea Dragonkind had successfully transformed into a True Dragon for nearly a thousand years.