Heaven Gate.
Di Shitian was shocked to hear that Lin Lang and the others had already set sail.
"What's going on? There's still a long time before the Divine Dragon emerges. Why have they left already?"
"I couldn't possibly have miscalculated, and that Mud Bodhisattva's divination couldn't possibly surpass mine. Are they planning to act early?"
Acting early meant the Divine Dragon would be stronger than expected, because according to his divination, only when it awoke on that particular day would it be at its weakest and easiest to kill.
He had thought Lin Lang would think the same way he did and wait until success was most assured before acting.
He had never expected Lin Lang to be so reckless, utterly unconcerned about how strong the Divine Dragon was.
"Someone, prepare a ship. We're setting sail too!"
He had to get there as quickly as possible. Only then could he seize the Dragon Essence after Lin Lang and the others killed the Divine Dragon. Otherwise, everything would be too late.
If Lin Lang left with the Dragon Essence and hid somewhere to refine it in seclusion, Di Shitian would probably no longer be his match when he emerged.
"It's all that old fellow Xiao Sanxiao's fault. He actually chose to help Lin Lang!"
If Xiao Sanxiao had not been stationed in the Great Ming Imperial Palace, making him afraid to approach at all, his plan to hold Lin Lang back with internal turmoil in Great Ming would surely have succeeded.
What he could not understand was why Xiao Sanxiao did not care about the Divine Dragon.
Did Xiao Sanxiao not realize that after obtaining the Dragon Essence, Lin Lang would become Number One Under Heaven?
Or was Xiao Sanxiao so confident in himself that he believed his four thousand