Dao Venerable Yuhua gazed up at the Mysterious Yellow Cauldron, his heart stirring.
The cauldron held the Four Extremities steady, auspicious qi hanging like curtains. Mysterious yellow qi streamed in and out of its mouth, forming a vast canopy that upheld the sky and held the flood behind it.
Yet although the great cauldron had stabilized this stretch of heaven and earth, it had not truly stopped the flood. Torrential waters kept surging from the Four Extremities, each wave higher than the last, battering the mysterious yellow qi.
Within mere breaths, the mysterious yellow qi showed signs of collapse.
"Alas..."
A soft sigh echoed through the mortal world. Then Clear Sky Great Dao Venerable stepped out of the void, surveyed the flooded landscape, and said helplessly:
"Fellow Daoist of Dragonkind, why have you suddenly invaded our Radiant Splendor Heaven? Can the world of Fuli's Outer Sea no longer satisfy you?"
As his words fell, a figure slowly rose from the flood. Her jade-like face was flawless, her bearing graceful and majestic. It was the Dragon Empress. A trace of mockery rested on her porcelain-white face:
"You ask what you already know. Since you dared harm our Dragonkind with your schemes, you must pay the price. Today is merely courtesy repaid in kind."
Qingxiao's brows furrowed slightly. What was bound to come has come at last, he thought.
He had personally overseen the affair involving the Realm of Neither Being nor Nonbeing. He simply had not expected Fuli's Mahayana cultivators to turn his scheme against him and dump it into the Outer Sea.
Strictly speaking, both Dragonkind and Zhaohua were victims. But clearly, the former had not come to reason with him. "Fellow Daoist," Qingxiao tried one last time, "I was indeed at fault in that affair, but I too fell