At the time, Cui Jiuyang was directing Heavenly Thunder to crash down while dividing his attention to guide the little Golden Gong's Shouyang Fire toward the False Dragon's tail, intending to ignite its tail fins and destroy its sinister flying swords.
Normally, the False Dragon would nimbly dodge the Heavenly Thunder and easily repel the Shouyang Fire with the Frost Beneath the Moon it spat out.
But this time, because the False Dragon abruptly froze for an instant, the Heavenly Thunder struck its head squarely, sending it staggering in midair, while the Shouyang Fire seized the opportunity to cling to its tail.
A sizzling sound rang out. The jade-white scales on the False Dragon's tail were instantly coated in char, giving off an acrid smell.
As the battle continued, these strange pauses began occurring frequently.
Every so often, the False Dragon would freeze for an instant without reason, and these pauses often came precisely when Cui Jiuyang brought down Heavenly Thunder or Master Tiger swung his saber at the formation inscriptions.
As a direct result, the False Dragon either took a heavy blow squarely or could only watch helplessly as Master Tiger successfully destroyed important nodes in the formation.
After this happened several times, the False Dragon naturally noticed something wrong with itself.
By now, the Three Hun and Seven Po of those old Daoists from the Directorate of Astronomy had already merged completely into the Dragon Soul.
The souls of the three junior brothers had already scattered, all their Soul Power extracted to reshape and strengthen the False Dragon's Dragon Soul.
Only their leader, Liang Quan, had forcibly retained a faint trace of lucid awareness so he could control the False Dragon.
This was also preparation for the Directorate of Astronomy to control it smoothly in the future. Otherwise,