When Yue Wen saw Ao Weisheng arrive so suddenly, he actually wanted to find an excuse to leave.
The East Sea Dragon Hall and the Azurefall Profound Gate were both leading powers in the Human Realm. If he overheard something he should not while big shots from powers like those discussed business, he might die someday without even knowing why.
But Ao Weisheng did not treat him as an outsider and brought the matter up directly. It was not that Ao Weisheng was careless. After all, everyone in this Supernatural Affairs Bureau was either one of River City's human elites or a trusted member of Perfected One Nagiko's inner circle. Surely none of them could be colluding with a Fox Demon who had been suppressed for three hundred years?
As soon as Yue Wen heard what Ao Weisheng was talking about, he abandoned the idea of leaving and listened obediently from the side.
"Not dead?" Perfected One Nagiko raised her eyes slightly and stared at Ao Weisheng's face. "How did you learn that?"
The moment she grew serious, the pressure from a Dao Realm expert inexplicably tightened Ao Weisheng's chest, making even breathing feel difficult.
Only after silently taking a few deep breaths did he explain, "You should know that my lineage answers to the Void Dragon King."
At the mention of that title, his tone grew more respectful, and a trace of flattery naturally appeared in his eyes. It seemed to have become a conditioned reflex.
Yue Wen had heard that title as well. Within the Four Seas Dragon Palace, only Dragonkin who reached the Eighth Realm, the level of a Dao Lord, could be granted the title of "Dragon King."
When he had looked up information on the East Sea Dragon Hall, he had learned that it currently