After the Naga retreated, the Dragon King continued to rest in the deep, dark abyss, enduring the biting cold with his eyes closed.
The ice was bitterly cold, and the abyss was pitch black. Being trapped in such an environment for millions of years and still maintaining a clear mind Magic City, but it was different. On the contrary, it felt at ease in such an environment. For an existence like it, if it could live like a maggot in this dark and sunless place, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
But unfortunately, this world doesn't allow it.
This world forces them to fight, yet it also limits their potential.
Dragons are totems in human history, powerful and mysterious creatures. Countless human sorcerers have given up their rich and noble status, willing to become aliens outside the Dragon Palace in order to obtain the bloodline of the dragon race. But little did they know that the king of the dragon race was extremely envious of them.
Humans have an immeasurable upper limit, while dragons have almost reached their limit with their own time.
Once those true ancient beings descend, these so-called Dragon King will be no different from pathetic maggots.
Whether you become a dog or a dish depends on the mood of those in power, and you can never resist.
It had witnessed its mother being skinned and dismembered by that group of people and made into a Dragon King's Feast, while its father could only stand by with a forced smile and pour drinks for those beings.
How humiliating, how humiliating!
Even in such a humble position, the father still died, simply because the wine wasn't served at the right temperature, making the guests feel it was too cold.
Such a maggot-like life is worse than being hidden in this ice forever.
The so-called Dragon Palace and Dragon King are a joke.
Everyone says Ao Zhen is a genius of the West Sea Dragon Clan, a genius that appears only once every ten thousand years. Hah, what a load of rubbish! So what if he's a genius?
In this world, the talents of demons are all limited. What kind of demon can reach that level is already predetermined. No matter how much they struggle and try, the result will always be the same. The highest limit for the dragon race is the King Level. Even if you fight to the death, you will only reach the King Level.
A predetermined fate is the most powerless thing.
But things are different now. A group of people have appeared and changed this racial limitation. There was once a woman who could transform the dragon race.
Yes, it was the woman who sealed the Dragon Palace with the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley.
Those so-called designers possess the secret to changing their origins!
I must have that woman no matter what!
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The situation is not as bad as imagined.
This was Shen Lao'er's idea immediately after infiltrating the Dragon Palace. Now, most of the important locations in the Dragon Palace are under Chen Qing's control, especially after Ziyue established the Dragon Palace Academy, leading many students to set up numerous magic arrays here.
The most famous Blazing Yang Grand Formation originated here, and that formation is also the nemesis of aquatic creatures, and can be used underwater.
Shen Lao'er thought that the chaos in the Dragon Palace was due to all the magic arrays failing, but that was not the case. Only the magic array sealing the location of the Dragon King's Xuanbing Abyss had failed; the magic arrays in other locations were still functioning normally.
The water monsters emerging from the icy abyss appeared formidable, yet they dared not attack certain vital positions.
For example, the Dragon Palace Academy, which is protected by four layers of the Blazing Yang Grand Formation and has a huge amount of White Essence Stones as backup, is difficult to break through. Even if all the Dragon King of the four Dragon Palace came out, let alone the Dragon King who haven't come out yet, they might not be able to defeat the Dragon Palace Academy.
Upon seeing this, Shen Lao'er immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiangnan is currently lacking in internal military strength, with all its troops stationed outside. As long as the Dragon Palace Academy remains intact, the threat posed by the escaped sea monsters is limited. Even in the worst-case scenario, if Wei Gongcheng does not wake up, their greatest loss would be the Liuzhou City.
Liuzhou City is indeed very important. Shen Lao'er has already thought it through. Once the Dragon King is revived and leads those water demons to attack Liuzhou, Shen San and the others will withdraw the academy sorcerers from Liuzhou and also evacuate a large number of soldiers' families to Nanming Prefecture.
The rest of the places will be abandoned for the time being, leaving only Nanming Prefecture and Nanyang City. With my and my Laosan's methods as the Underworld, plus the city's protective formation and gate gods, even if the Dragon King himself comes, the probability of defending them is not small.
This way, although we'll be at a disadvantage later on, at least we won't collapse.
Thinking of this, Shen Lao'er carefully instructed the students of the Dragon Palace Academy not to panic, and then wanted to go back and discuss countermeasures with Laosan. However, just as he was about to go out, he heard a sorcerer report that there was a water demon outside the formation who wanted to see him.
Upon hearing this, Shen Lao'er frowned. It seemed that his whereabouts had been exposed as soon as he entered the Dragon Palace, which was troublesome.
Once he left Nanming Prefecture, his strength was even less than that of the Laowu. If he were to be targeted in the wild, it would be quite troublesome.
Take me to see it.
Outside the academy, a dark mass of water demons lurked, among whom were hundreds of Yaksha generals. Upon seeing this force, Shen Lao'er was completely certain that the Dragon King had secretly planted pawns among the aquatic creatures, secretly collecting Blood Essence Stone; otherwise, it would have been impossible to rescue so many aquatic creatures at once.
As for the source of the other party's Blood Essence Stone...
Shen Lao'er suspected that these guys might be colluding with those monsters from the Northern Lands!
"I heard you were looking for me?" Shen Lao'er looked at the sexy and alluring female demon at the head of the group.
It was the royal family of the banshees, the Naga sea monsters.
"Lord of the Underworld," the succubus bowed slightly, her voice carrying an irresistible allure, "My king has something to say to you."
"Is that so?" Shen Lao'er sneered, "Then I would like to invite Senior Dragon King over for a chat. I dare not send this junior to your place."
"No need." The Naga held up a dazzling pearl with both hands, and suddenly the surrounding light dimmed, turning Hei Wu, so that Shen Lao'er could only see the pearl held by the Naga banshee.
As soon as he lowered his guard and stepped back, he saw again from inside the pearl that a huge dragon eye was slowly opening.
"Descendants of the Shen Family."
Shen Lao'er suppressed his urge to retreat and forced himself to look at the other party. As the Lord of the Underworld, he could face the cold gaze of those ancient lords directly when facing Samsara. Although the pressure from the Dragon King was terrifying, it was far less than that of those lords.
"Senior, did you deliberately create this commotion to see me?" Shen Lao'er, somewhat puzzled.
Logically speaking, since the Dragon King has not yet been revived, he could have acted discreetly; why make such a fuss?
Now that I realize it, it was clearly intentional.
"I can't be sure which of you will come, but an important figure will definitely be coming, and I want to cooperate with you."
"Cooperation?" Shen Lao'er chuckled. "Haven't we always been in a cooperative relationship? It's just that you, sir, were the one who broke the alliance."
That was with Chen Qing, not with you.
"Our will is our Lord!"
"So loyal?" The old Dragon King sneered upon hearing this, "Then do you know Chen Qing's background?"
Shen Lao'er frowned. "What do you mean?"
"Do you know that all the suffering of your human race comes from him? In fact, your human race was almost destroyed by him?"
Shen Lao'er: "."