Beneath the white sun.
Ink clouds churned and violet lightning flowed. Below stood a treasure palace formed of shifting lightning, with deep-purple Thunderbolt condensed like liquid mercury gathering beside it into a vast thunder marsh.
A jet-black plaque hung high above, inscribed with the words [Thunder Void]. Coiling-dragon pillars of azure wood stood before the Main Hall. The Bronze Gate was tightly shut, with occasional flashes of lightning escaping through its seams.
The palace had two halls. Thunder coursed around them, making it difficult for outsiders to approach, yet Purple Mansion cultivators still surrounded the place, concealed in the shadows.
The Purple Mansion cultivators present had not begun fighting. All waited, maintaining a delicate peace. No one dared act rashly, for someone seemed to be sitting before the Bronze Gate.
Or rather, a dragon.
Violet scales gleamed, and lightning scattered from its horns. Its majestic, wondrous dragon head hung low. Dressed in sumptuous, deep-purple dragon robes, its body stood twice a person's height, and it knelt facing north.
This dragonkin clearly possessed Purple Mansion cultivation. All vitality had vanished, its life extinguished, yet it had not returned its Dao to heaven and earth. Its flesh remained intact, which was decidedly strange.
"This is... dragonkin of the Radiant Light line, descended from Heavenly Huo. To think we would still find one in the Heavenly Leaf Dao Lineage."
Jia wood's azure light shifted, and a young woman stepped out of it, her bearing like an autumn moon. She wore a well-fitted Robe of Law in Jin and emerald and seemed to be injured still. Black-and-white thunder could faintly be seen flowing beneath azure leaves.
Xiao Dianqing, True Person Guiqing of the Autumn Clarity Gate.
As Shu's foremost Immortal Dao lineage, after Azure Radiance lost its influence, another great cultivator of this lineage