Yuanting split his jaws wide, exposing a mouthful of enormous, bone-white fangs, and grinned savagely. "Never have I felt so clearheaded and refreshed. It is as though I have truly come alive."
Chu Mo smiled as well. He beckoned, and the Two Forms Sword pinning Yuanting rang out with a clear chime, turning into a streak of black-and-white light that vanished into his palm.
The instant the blade withdrew, Yuanting shuddered all over. He stretched his dragon body, which had been suppressed for so long, then transformed into a man in dark robes and landed before Chu Mo.
"True Self."
Chu Mo nodded slightly and looked at him, speaking calmly. "You spent countless tens of thousands of years in the Outer Sea. You must know quite a few secrets."
"Of course," Yuanting answered without hesitation. Previously, even if Chu Mo had subjected him to every imaginable torture, he would not have told him a single word.
But now... they were all on the same side. There was nothing he could not say.
With that thought, Yuanting said cheerfully, "The so-called Outer Sea is less a region than an enormous cage."
"A cage?" Chu Mo raised an eyebrow.
Yuanting explained, "Though Dragonkind reigns supreme in the Outer Sea, we cannot take so much as half a step beyond Fuli. Even though the Dragon Lords can already survey the world with their divine thought, the Three Sects keep them from extending it beyond the Outer Sea. What else could such stifling confinement be called, if not a cage?"
If they could move freely between sea and land, they would immediately wipe out any Human Race cultivator who showed the potential to threaten Dragonkind. How could the likes of [Azure Depths Si Xuan] or [Nether Crossing, Nether Command] ever have arisen?
"Alas." He