True Dragon Clan

Biodata

Power Progression

Territory and Organization

• Imperial Mountain Range: The clan shares this Demon Race stronghold with seven other great imperial clans and countless royal clans. The mountain range is rumored to occupy more than sixty percent of Grand Sovereign Heaven 29.
• Patriarch: The current patriarch is a five-clawed golden dragon at the peak of the Quasi-Emperor Realm 24.
• Ancestors: The clan has ten great ancestors. Its senior ancestors preserve the lineage’s foundations and ordinarily avoid emerging unless the clan faces an existential threat 42.
• Dragon Son: Ao Xu holds this title and is regarded as the foremost member of the clan’s current younger generation 24 29.
• Branch bloodlines: The Azure Nether Heaven-Swallowing Flood Dragons rank among the clan’s strongest branches and possess their own Quasi-Emperor ancestor 12.

Bloodline Hierarchy

A true dragon’s type and number of claws largely determine its innate talent, potential, and status 24.

Notable Members

• Ancestor-title inconsistency: The senior ancestor is introduced as the Fourth Ancestor, but subsequent passages call him the Third Ancestor 42.

Abilities & Skills

Dragon Physiology and Transformation

• Clan members can change between dragon and human forms; the canyon delegation transforms after arriving in its true-dragon forms 29.
• True dragons possess naturally formidable bodies. Ao Xu’s physical strength approaches that of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body and Azure Heaven Tyrant Physique 35.
• Before advancing to Samsara, Ao Xu describes his body as nearly as tough as a Saint Weapon. Ji Jingtian’s void-infused palm fails to injure him 34.
• This durability has limits: Yuan Zhexian overwhelms Ao Xu in a direct contest of physical strength 35.

Dragon Flame Claw

• An unnamed clan prodigy manifests a dragon claw burning with red flames, sharply raising the surrounding temperature 30.
• Yuan Zhexian reflects the attack and strengthens it with his Double Pupils, injuring its original user 30.

Natal Golden Dragon

• Ao Xu channels spiritual power through a golden ring to manifest a powerful natal golden dragon 34.
• The dragon breaks Ji Jingtian’s Void Sealing after a sustained contest of spiritual power 34.
• Ao Xu also wraps his natal six-clawed golden dragon around himself defensively. The Quasi-Saint beast guarding the eighth drop of Power-Fusing Essence Blood shatters it with a tail strike 38.

Emperor Dragon Annihilation Art

• An inherited emperor art that Ao Xu uses to transform spiritual power into a gigantic six-clawed golden dragon 36.
• Ao Xu combines it with six other heirs’ techniques against Yuan Zhexian’s Hand of Heaven, but their combined attack is destroyed 36.

Ancestral Dragon Heaven-Conquering Art

• An inherited technique created by a Supreme Great Emperor of the clan 41.
• The Quasi-Emperor ancestor uses it to send an enormous seven-clawed dragon claw against Yuan Xun’s combined Immortal-Slaying sword technique 41 42.

Secret Communication

• Clan prodigies use a secret method to summon Ao Xu during their confrontation with Yuan Zhexian 30.
• Ao Xu subsequently uses a secret method to order the other clan members to abandon their opportunities and gather to hunt the Yuan Clan 30.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Quasi-Emperor weapon: The clan’s grand elder draws one alongside seven other hostile elders during the confrontation with Yuan Xun 41.
• Dragon-headed cane: Used by the golden-robed Quasi-Emperor ancestor to meet Yuan Xun’s Instant Sword Strike; the collision forces both combatants back dozens of li 41.
• Communication stone: Ao Xu receives messages from allied heirs through it while gathering the Power-Fusing Essence Blood 37.
• Power-Fusing Essence Blood: Ao Xu obtains one drop from Du Ke and uses it to reach the Samsara Realm. Yuan Zhexian collects the blood after killing the rival heirs 37 38.

History

Conflict over the Dragon Bloodline

Nine Great Saint Azure Nether Heaven-Swallowing Flood Dragons serve as draft beasts for the Yuan Clan’s palace. Although they belong to a branch lineage, the True Dragon Clan regards their use in this role as an insult to dragon blood. At the canyon secret realm’s opening, Ao Xu vows to kill the participating Yuan Clan members in retaliation 12 29.

Inside the realm, five True Dragon Clan prodigies confront Yuan Zhexian and summon Ao Xu, only to be killed before he arrives. Ao Xu then gathers his remaining clansmen for revenge. Another True Dragon Clan prodigy participates in the pursuit of Yuan Ruochu and is killed when Yuan Zhexian intervenes 30 33.

Battle for the Dao Comprehension Tea

Ao Xu helps organize a coalition of hostile heirs against the Yuan Clan at the lake where the Dao Comprehension Tea will emerge. He defeats Ji Jingtian by breaking his Void Sealing and exploiting the requirement that an incompletely mastered Void Body become tangible when attacking. Ji Jingtian nevertheless evacuates the wounded Yuan Clan members before collapsing 34.

Yuan Zhexian arrives before Ao Xu can finish them off. He overpowers Ao Xu physically, then defeats the Dragon Son and six allied heirs with the Hand of Heaven. The announcement concerning the inheritance gate gives the defeated heirs an opportunity to escape and search for Power-Fusing Essence Blood 35 36.

Ao Xu’s Breakthrough and Death

After recovering, Ao Xu kills Du Ke, takes his essence blood, and advances to the first stage of the Samsara Realm. He reunites with a coalition holding six drops of blood and six Samsara Realm experts, intending to kill Yuan Zhexian at the inheritance grounds 37.

The rival heirs follow Yuan Zhexian toward the eighth drop, which is guarded by a Quasi-Saint vicious beast. The beast badly wounds them, and Yuan Zhexian blocks their escape from the cave. He kills Ao Xu and his seven companions with Supreme Tribulation Annihilation and takes their Power-Fusing Essence Blood 38.

Confrontation with the Yuan Clan

Outside the secret realm, the True Dragon Clan’s grand elder joins other forces in demanding Yuan Zhexian’s surrender. Their confrontation with Yuan Xun escalates into armed combat, prompting a True Dragon Clan Quasi-Emperor ancestor to intervene 41.

Yuan Shengyuan arrives after three additional Quasi-Emperors join the confrontation and wounds all four with his pressure. Senior peak Quasi-Emperors then emerge to protect them. The four hostile forces collectively agree to deliver one emperor-grade herb and thirty Quasi-Emperor-grade herbs within three days as compensation 42.

Afterward, the True Dragon Clan’s senior ancestor rejects further direct confrontation with Yuan Shengyuan. Instead, he proposes awakening the clan’s dormant ancient prodigy and bringing out its emperor’s son to challenge Yuan Zhexian through battles between members of the same generation 42.

Relationships

• Azure Nether Heaven-Swallowing Flood Dragon clan — A powerful branch lineage. Its members’ service as Yuan Clan draft beasts triggers Ao Xu’s campaign of retaliation 12 29.
• Yuan Clan — Enemy during the canyon secret realm conflict. The dispute escalates from bloodline grievances to the deaths of Ao Xu and other prodigies, followed by an unsuccessful attempt to seize Yuan Zhexian 29 30 38 41 42.
• Golden-Winged Peng Clan — A hereditary mortal enemy: peng eat true dragons, and true dragons eat peng. Despite this feud, their heirs and elders cooperate against the Yuan Clan 29 34 41.
• Mystic Sect and Heavenly Cang Clan — Allies against the Yuan Clan during both the secret realm battles and the subsequent confrontation between elders and ancestors 34 37 41 42.
• Dark Nether White Tiger Clan and Heaven-Overturning Barbarian Bull Clan — Participate alongside the True Dragon Clan in the anti-Yuan coalition 34 36 41.
• Heavenly Profound Holy Land and Supreme Profound Holy Land — Their heirs cooperate with Ao Xu in the battle against Yuan Zhexian, while their elders join the confrontation with Yuan Xun 34 36 41.