Something no one had expected suddenly happened above Chaoge City.
Bu Qiuxiao looked toward the cloud where the Central Province Sect Master stood and said calmly, "My apologies, True Person."
With those words, an inkstone flew from his sleeve. In the sunlight, it grew countless times larger, casting much of the wilderness outside Chaoge City into shadow.
The inkstone was ordinary in shape and dark in color, with faint dragon forms along its walls and an enormous dragon's tail hanging down from it.
It was none other than the Dragon-Tail Inkstone, one of the four treasures that guarded the One-Thatch Studio.
Watching this, Liu Ci was somewhat surprised. The One-Thatch Studio, which had always been on good terms with the Zhongzhou Sect, had actually been the first to step forward-and intended to strike directly at the Azure Dragon.
The Divine Emperor, however, found it natural. The One-Thatch Studio had always judged matters rather than people. Whenever anything threatened the safety of the people under heaven, the scholars of the studio would certainly intervene.
Besides, this had been one of the agreements reached at the Plum Gathering all those years ago.
The Zhongzhou Sect provided the Demon-Suppressing Prison, the Imperial Court managed it, and the authority to deal with it lay with the One-Thatch Studio-the Dragon-Tail Inkstone was a Law Treasure the studio used specifically to restrain the Azure Dragon. Otherwise, how would the Imperial Court have dared agree to let the Azure Dragon become the Demon-Suppressing Prison and remain hidden beneath Chaoge City for so many years?
Seeing Bu Qiuxiao bring out the Dragon-Tail Inkstone, White True Person gave a cold snort from the sky, but made no other move.
The Dragon-Tail Inkstone shot through the air, trailing rays of light ten thousand fathoms long, and struck the Azure Dragon's