Testing the Same-Boat Chains, a flying sword soared straight to two thousand one hundred zhang!

Profound Elixir Palace.

Dragon-Suppressing Platform.

A vast golden ranking banner, faintly patterned with dragon scales and bearing the words "Dragon-Slaying" at its top, hung down over the enormous True Dragon Grounds, billowing in the wind.

From afar, it looked like golden waves surging above the Dragon-Suppressing Platform.

"Legend has it that in remote antiquity, all the surviving dragons of the Shangqing Realm hid within Chenglong Heaven's three thousand grotto-heavens and blessed lands. To prevent the Dragon Clan from rising again from the ashes, Chenglong Heaven's major sects, led by the Profound Elixir Palace, summoned cultivators from across the world to Chenglong Heaven to exterminate the surviving dragons."

"And this Dragon-Suppressing Platform was the execution ground where human cultivators put those surviving dragons to death."

On a viewing stand west of the Dragon-Suppressing Platform, Xiahou Qingyuan of Jade Balance Mountain explained this to Xiahou You beside him.

Xiahou You asked, her brows drawing together slightly:

"No wonder I felt such intense resentment and murderous energy when I entered just now."

Xiahou Qingyuan nodded and said:

"That was why the Profound Elixir Palace later turned this place into a venue for its disciples' grand competitions, as well as the viewing grounds for every Dragon-Slaying Assembly."

"They wanted to use this to suppress the surviving dragons' resentment and murderous energy."

Xiahou You nodded in realization.

Xiahou Qingyuan then added:

"Today is only for Ranking Ascension, so there aren't many spectators. Once the Dragon-Slaying Assembly formally begins, you'll even see Upper Realm cultivators making special trips to the Lower Realm through spirit travel to watch."

Xiahou You remarked:

"This is on a far grander scale than the Golden Scale Assembly or the Dragon-Slaying Assembly."

"Of course." Xiahou Qingyuan nodded, then turned his gaze back toward the grounds below. "Among the Five Heavens of the