The Azure Dragon's awakening caused the spiritual energy in this stretch of sea to surge abnormally. The torrential rain overhead seemed almost condensed from spiritual energy, falling in fine streams. Even the reefs bathed in that rain looked as though they were about to become treasures. Fish leaped out of the sea, greedily bathing in the rain as though it were the very source of their lives.
It was clearly still within the Sealing, yet the Sealing might as well have been useless. Spiritual energy spilled out wildly, impossible to stop.
Chu Ge could even feel his own cultivation soaring. This baptism in spiritual energy at such close range was like swallowing an all-purpose supreme tonic.
He had no time to rejoice. His first reaction was sheer frustration. Those fragments converging from every direction were practically blazing signposts. This time, all of East Asia would probably find out!
Chu Ge could almost picture the faces of the Black Room group on the island a hundred miles away, watching over their meal.
Once the shock passed, all he could do was pace in circles. "Could we keep a lower profile?"
The Azure Dragon glanced at him. Without any particular visible action, ten thousand streaks of light shot farther east, seemingly heading for North America.
Chu Ge breathed out.
That was a decent way to divert trouble eastward... At least anyone whose collected fragments had flown away would go looking in North America.
Then the Azure Dragon reined in its aura and settled back inside the Sealing as though nothing had happened. But the ghostly flames in its eye sockets began to stir with intelligence. "Father God... why are you so weak?"
Chu Ge said, "Fuck."
"That shouldn't be right. Are you a fake Father God...?"
"Just go back to being stupid!"