Outer Sea, Dragon Abyss.
All was silent in the darkness, so pitch-black that even divine thought could discern nothing. The sole source of light was black as ink as well, shining from an immense figure in the deepest reaches.
A dragon so enormous his size defied imagination.
His body lay coiled at the bottom of the abyss, ink-black thunderlight coursing through his scales, terrifying to behold. Each scale was larger than a star, as though it possessed the mighty power to bear an entire world.
He was the emperor of all dragons, master of the profound thunder dao fruit.
The Dragon Emperor of the Outer Sea.
His form flickered, turning into a black-robed man. Then he stepped lightly into the Crystal Palace. Within it, a woman radiant with maternal warmth was waiting for him.
"Thank you for your efforts." The Dragon Emperor smiled apologetically.
The Dragon Empress shook her head. "I can still hold the situation in the Outer Sea together. But over these past few centuries, those people from Great Evolution's Shuiluo Clan have pressed us step by step, already taking four statuses of vastness."
"Fortunately, dragonkind hasn't come away empty-handed either. We killed that Dao Venerable of the Luo Clan who cultivated the Dao of cloud and rain. With a little more effort, we may yet reclaim [cloud and rain] through his remains."
As she spoke, she looked at the Dragon Emperor with a trace of concern. "But you, my emperor... is Your Majesty's condition still all right?"
Thunderclap was divided into five branches, all belonging to dragonkind. Yet the four apart from Mysterious Water Thunder had long since been seized by Heaven's Will Sect, during the primordial beginning and the Primordial Era respectively. Even now, the Dragon Emperor could retain his status as a Great Dao Venerable