"On my way here, I met a little girl who had accidentally eaten Shapeshifting Grass. Her true form seemed to be a Void Ancient Dragon of the direct royal bloodline."
Li Chen deliberately stressed the words "direct royal bloodline."
Zhu Kun's golden pupils abruptly contracted.
"She spends every day digging for medicinal herbs alone on the mountain. If she finds any, she eats them. If she doesn't, she goes hungry. She ate the wild fruit on the back mountain for years. When she got sick of it, she started rummaging through the herb gardens, and people scolded her whenever they caught her."
Li Chen thought for a moment, then continued,
"She doesn't know she's a Void Ancient Dragon, or who her father is.
She's lived all these years without even knowing what she is.
All she knows is that eating medicinal herbs helps her grow, so she searches for them desperately and eats them just as desperately."
Zhu Kun clenched his fists until his knuckles cracked. If Li Chen had only mentioned royalty, he could have claimed she belonged to a collateral branch and had nothing to do with him. Yet Li Chen had specifically emphasized the direct royal bloodline.
The direct royal bloodline-the Dragon Emperor's line of the Void Ancient Dragons, the purple-gold bloodline, with only a single heir in each generation.
Seeing this, Li Chen clicked his tongue. "What a shame. That little girl's father can only sit somewhere that never sees the light of day, waiting for a chance to escape, utterly ignoring his daughter's life without parents or anyone to rely on."
"Enough!"
Zhu Kun roared, his Dou Qi surging as the pressure of a late-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng bore down like a sky-shrouding tide.
Li Chen dropped his casual attitude, ready to test exactly where