A month later.
Water Dragon City, Dragon Domain.
The delegations of the Demon Race's Twelve Great Clans had all arrived, bringing together the "top prodigies" from every side.
The leading figures and powerful leaders of the Demon Race's first-rate factions had also gathered in Water Dragon City.
Voices clamored throughout the Dragon Domain and beyond, while Water Dragon City itself witnessed a spectacle unseen in a century.
The True Spirit Assembly was held above the center of Water Dragon City, on a "floating plaza" formed from the skeleton of an enormous dragon.
Now, the clans' treasure ships poured into the area like a river of stars.
The Golden-Winged Great Peng Race's gilded treasure ship broke through the clouds, trailing thirty thousand feet of rosy glow. The Mountain-Moving Demon Ape Tribe's Dark Edge warship pressed down on space until it hummed, while the nine heads of the Nine-Infant Clan's bronze carriage howled together...
Hundreds of flying artifacts hovered around the plaza, bathing the sky in flowing, brilliant colors.
Once every delegation had arrived.
On the Dragon Sacrifice Platform at the center of the venue.
Zhu Jiu, Cangming, and the other elders of the Water Dragon Division sat on either side, along with the elders of the Dragon Race's other four divisions.
On the central dais, Ao Li wore silver-patterned battle armor. Exquisitely beautiful, with an icy, noble bearing, she held the Profound Nether Water-Covering Seal in her palm, her cold, still dragon eyes surveying all directions.
As the Dragon Race's representative on this occasion, she presided over the True Spirit Assembly.
Every prodigy present, whether from a royal clan or an imperial clan, regardless of their standing within their clan.
Bowed respectfully to the leader of the Dragon Race's Water Dragon Division, unconsciously revealing their awe.
As one of the Dragon