Xu Taiping asked in astonishment:
"Swallow your Dragon Pearl?"
Ao Yan gave Xu Taiping a long look and said:
"Xu Taiping, I sensed the aura of Ancient God Chiyou's Dao Essence on you. Unless something unexpected happened, you should already have mastered a means of drawing Dao Essence from Chiyou's divine intent, correct?"
Despite his astonishment, Xu Taiping eventually nodded and said:
"That's right."
As he saw it, since Ao Yan could sense Blade Ghost's presence, it was hardly strange that he could sense Chiyou's Dao Essence power.
Ao Yan continued:
"Once you swallow this Emperor's Dragon Pearl, you can use the means by which you draw Dao Essence power from Chiyou to draw the Dragon Emperors' Dao Essence power from the divine intent of generations of our Dragon Clan's Dragon Emperors."
Xu Taiping's heart shook violently at those words.
Had Ao Yan not reminded him, he would never have considered this.
Xu Taiping drew a deep breath and asked curiously:
"So you pulled me into this stretch of time merely to help me obtain the Dragon Clan's Dao Essence power?"
Ao Yan gave a mysterious smile, shook his head, and said:
"Though Dao Essence power is exceedingly precious to you now, once you break through the Dao Integration Realm, it will become as commonplace as your true essence is today."
"And the reason this Emperor made a point of telling you this..."
"Is naturally something else."
After a brief pause, Ao Yan suddenly looked at Xu Taiping with a grave expression and said:
"According to the deductions of our Dragon Clan's successive Dragon Emperors, those supreme beings manipulating the Great Void Calamity behind the scenes and plotting the successive destruction of the ancient gods, our Dragon Clan, and the Human Race..."
"In terms of combat strength, they need only