For the Dragon Clan, this might have been good news, but not for the Human Race.
For a moment, Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Xuanzhi all grew wary.
After all, to the Human Race, the Dragon Clan at its height had been even more dangerous than the Nine Abysses.
Even to this day, the Nine Abysses had never truly occupied more than half of Shangqing.
But the Dragon Clan had once truly ruled Shangqing and enslaved the entire Human Race.
However, the Dragon Emperor Cangzhou's next words instantly eased the taut strings of their hearts.
The Dragon Emperor Cangzhou gazed at Cangyuan with incredibly gentle eyes, reaching a hand toward him as he said:
"Cangyuan, my son, these tens of thousands of years-no, this long and agonizing span of time-must have been so hard on you, mustn't it?"
Just as the Dragon Emperor Cangzhou reached toward Cangyuan, Cangyuan's towering, unapproachable figure abruptly transformed into a youth five feet tall.
Cangzhou's hand cupped his cheek perfectly.
His face full of youthful spirit, Cangyuan shook his head firmly and said:
"Father Emperor, I haven't suffered."
At the words "haven't suffered," Cangzhou's eyes suddenly grew moist.
He took a deep breath, shook his head, and smiled with fatherly affection.
"Foolish child, how could I not know your suffering?"
He looked up at the gloomy sky, a faint tremor in his voice.
"When I left, I took every elite of the Canghai Dragon Court with me. Not one of them was less gifted than you."
"Yet your cultivation achievements today surpass theirs tenfold, a hundredfold."
At this, Cangzhou lowered his head and turned his gaze back to Cangyuan before continuing:
"Without efforts and trials beyond an ordinary person's imagination, how could you have achieved so much?"
The greater Cangyuan's cultivation achievements today, the more