Chapter 106 The Senior's Meaning

At the same time,

inside the core hall of the Ancestral Dragon Great World.

The Five Great Dragon Emperors and the Dragon Domain Lord sat in their seats; no one spoke.

The fluctuations of the world-breaking shuttle had penetrated the outer three layers of the confusing barriers.

One hour.

The Ancestral Dragon Array would completely collapse.

"From the Dragon God Domain side... is there a reply yet?"

"Reporting to the Domain Lord, the message has been sent through the cross-realm transmission array. The Ancestral Land... will definitely send a Divine Venerable Realm expert down."

"I'm not asking if they will send someone!" The Domain Lord suddenly looked up. "I'm asking, when will they arrive?!"

"At the earliest... it will take three hours. Penetrating the Star Domain Barrier requires constructing a channel; the adults from the Ancestral Land cannot burn their Origin to forcibly descend like that madman, otherwise, it would cause the Laws of both realms to collapse..."

"Three hours."

The light in the Domain Lord's eyes dimmed for a moment.

The Ancestral Dragon Array would last for one hour, but the reinforcements would take three hours.

The two hours in between were enough for that Xuantian Hall God Lord to slaughter the Dragon Domain three times over; even the earthworms in the ground would be struck to ash by the lightning.

"We can't hold him back."

The Golden Dragon Immortal Emperor sighed. "That is a God Lord, and he even holds a God Emperor-level world-breaking shuttle. Once the Ancestral Dragon Array is torn open, an existence of his level can lock onto a target with a single sweep of his Divine Sense. How can we delay him? By throwing our lives away?"

The hall fell silent again.

The Green Dragon Immortal Emperor's body suddenly trembled. He jerked his head up, his lips quivering and his eyes darting around.

"Wait..."

The Green Dragon Immortal Emperor's voice shook. "That... that white-clothed Senior... isn't he still in the Longyuan Hall?!"

Everyone was jolted.

Right.

The one who didn't even need to use the front gate to break through the world and descend, wasn't he in the Longyuan Hall?

"Bang!"

The Red Dragon Immortal Emperor stood up abruptly, a phantom of flames rising behind him, his face full of fanaticism.

"Right! With that Senior here, what do we have to fear?!" The Red Dragon Immortal Emperor's voice was like thunder. "A mere God Lord is nothing! Before Senior, he isn't even fit to carry his shoes! As long as Senior blows a breath, that God Lord will be turned to ash!"

The atmosphere in the hall changed.

The Domain Lord exhaled a breath of turbid air and turned to look at the Black Dragon Immortal Emperor, who was sitting in the corner without making a sound.

"Old Black."

The Domain Lord's eyes were burning. "Didn't you go to ask for instructions before? When you reported the situation outside to Senior, what did he... say?"

The gazes of the other four Dragon Emperors fell on the Black Dragon Immortal Emperor.

The Black Dragon Immortal Emperor sat in the shadows, his expression complex.

He didn't answer, picking up the cold tea in front of him, drinking it all in one gulp, and taking a deep breath.

Facing the five pairs of eyes, the Black Dragon Immortal Emperor spoke one word at a time,

"Senior said... 'Then we'll talk about it when the time comes'."

"..."

The air in the hall froze.

The Red Dragon Immortal Emperor blinked. "Just... just that one sentence?"

"Just that one sentence."

The Black Dragon Immortal Emperor nodded.

"He didn't bestow any defensive Magic Treasure? Didn't teach any enemy-defeating Formation? Not even a definitive word?"

"No. After Senior said that, he told me to leave."

The Dragons looked at each other and fell silent again.

"What that Senior meant..."

The Red Dragon Immortal Emperor scratched his head, making his red hair a mess. "Is it for us to let the God Lord in? And then he'll close the door and beat the dog?"

"It seems to mean that, right?"

The Black Dragon Immortal Emperor nodded, recalling Gu Heng's nonchalant expression at the time.

"And after that? Senior didn't say he would personally take action?" the Green Dragon Immortal Emperor pressed.

"He didn't say."

"..."

The Golden Dragon Immortal Emperor stood up abruptly, waving his sleeves with a furrowed brow. "Then what does it mean? Let him in? That's a God Lord! Once he's allowed into the heart of the Dragon Domain, even just the aftershocks of the battle could level half of the Ancestral Dragon Realm! Does he want us Immortal Emperors to be cannon fodder and go to our deaths?"

"Shut up!"

The Domain Lord gave a sharp shout, interrupting the Golden Dragon Immortal Emperor.

"What do you mean by that? How dare you speculate on Senior's intentions behind his back? Senior is so unfathomable that even a God Emperor bows before him; what does a mere God Lord count for? Since he's doing this, it must be under his control, and there must be a reason for it!"

The Domain Lord paced two steps in the hall with his hands behind his back.

"Don't you understand yet?" The Domain Lord suddenly turned around, tapping the table with his finger. "If Senior wanted to kill that God Lord, he would only need a single thought. But why didn't he act? Why did he say 'we'll talk about it when the time comes'?"

The Dragon Emperors held their breath.

"Because he is watching!"

The Domain Lord's eyes sparkled. "Senior is watching our Dragon Clan's backbone! He's watching our attitude when facing an imminent disaster! The Xuantian Hall God Lord is coming for his servant Lei Wanjun; this is actually a test Senior has given to our Dragon Clan!"

"If we shrink back because of fear now, or shamelessly run to beg for Senior's protection, then in Senior's eyes, our Dragon Clan will become a bunch of spineless weaklings! What right would we have to follow Senior in the future?"

As soon as these words were spoken,

the Five Great Dragon Emperors in the hall were struck as if by lightning.

The Black Dragon Immortal Emperor slapped his thigh. "So that's it! I felt that the look Senior gave me back then was full of deep meaning; it turns out all he wanted was an attitude from us!"

The Golden Dragon Immortal Emperor lowered his head. "It was my stupidity; I almost misunderstood Senior's profound meaning."

The Domain Lord took a deep breath and drew the Ancestral Dragon Longsword from his waist. "Pass my decree!"

"Effective immediately, strike the Nine Dragons Heaven-Shaking Bell! Assemble all combat forces above the King Realm in the entire domain and gather at the square in front of the Longyuan Hall!"

"Since Senior wants to see our attitude, then we will show the Dragon Clan's bloodiness! Even if we have to fill it with our lives, we will pave a path to the heavens for Senior!"

"As you command!!!"

The Five Great Dragon Emperors roared in unison and turned into five streaks of light, rushing out of the hall.

...

At the same time,

at the boundary of Chaos between the various realms,

countless broken star remnants floated in the turbulent currents.

This galaxy was boiling.

A figure was faintly visible in the mist of Chaos.

"Roar—!!!"

A roar echoed through the galaxy, shaking the Void Realm barriers and causing cracks to appear.

Purple-black lightning was wrapped around his body; every flash of lightning crushed the surrounding asteroids within millions of miles into powder.

The Xuantian Hall God Lord had disheveled hair and tattered divine robes stained with spots of green venom.

His eyes were blood-red.

As a dignified God Lord arriving with the Sect's protective Divine Artifact, it should have been an overwhelming display. Instead, as soon as he stepped into this Star Domain, he was tricked by the confusing Law of the Ancestral Dragon Array.

He was forcefully teleported into a swamp in the Snake God Domain and even had a fight with a molting venomous snake.

"Dragon Clan... loaches... I will skin you alive and pull out your tendons, then use you as sky lanterns!!!"

The God Lord gnashed his teeth.

What pained him even more was the depletion of his Origin.

To break free from the Snake Emperor's entanglement and to urge the world-breaking shuttle to deduce the flaws in the Ancestral Dragon Array, he had burned twenty percent of his heart's blood.

That was a hundred thousand years of Lifespan.

A hundred thousand years was not long for the God Lord Realm, but any depletion of Origin was a permanent loss.

To make up for this loss, he would have to cultivate bitterly for at least another hundred thousand years.

"It's all because of that Lei Wanjun... all because of the Dragon Clan!"

The God Lord's chest heaved; he had no way back.

The deadline given to him by the Xuantian Hall Palace Master was tonight.

If he couldn't bring Lei Wanjun's head back to the Divine Court and reclaim the Sect's face lost all those years ago, then his position as God Lord would come to an end.

A hint of madness flashed in the God Lord's eyes.

"Since you are seeking death, then I shall fulfill your wish!"

He closed his eyes, his Divine Sense fully unleashed.

Hum—

The world-breaking shuttle was activated, letting out a hum that made the Soul tremble.

The God Lord poured his remaining Divine Power into the world-breaking shuttle, and the surrounding Laws of Chaos were torn apart, turning into lines of light that sliced through the Ancestral Dragon Array on the outskirts of the Dragon Domain.

A stick of incense... half an hour...

The God Lord's face grew paler and paler, but a curve gradually formed at the corner of his mouth.

"Found it!"

He snapped his eyes open, his pupils locking onto a coordinate in the Void Realm. The confusing Law of the Ancestral Dragon Array showed a hint of stagnation.

That was the entrance to the Dragon Domain.

"world-breaking shuttle, open for me!!!"

The God Lord roared to the sky and dove into that coordinate.

Crack—

The sound of shattering rang out.

...

On the square in front of the Longyuan Hall.

The Five Great Dragon Emperors stood at the very front of the Formation.

Behind them were three hundred Immortal Emperor Elders clad in heavy armor and holding long halberds, and further back were tens of thousands of Dragon Clan elites in the Immortal King Realm.

A dense mass,

extending from the Longyuan Hall to the distant mountain ridge.

No one spoke.

The breathing of tens of thousands was suppressed; only the metallic friction of the mountain wind blowing against the armor plates could be heard on the square.

This was an army capable of sweeping through any realm in the lower planes.

But at this moment,

every Dragon's heart was shrouded in gloom.

The Red Dragon Immortal Emperor stood on the far left of the Formation.

His arms were crossed over his chest, and the flaming dragon wings on his back were slightly spread, constantly twitching.

He looked at the blood-colored sky, then looked up again, then down.

"Can you stop shaking your wings?"

The Black Dragon Immortal Emperor's brow furrowed. "Do those two wings of yours have fleas? It's making me restless."

"I'm checking the time."

The Red Dragon Immortal Emperor replied. "When exactly will that world-breaking shuttle arrive? This feeling of waiting for death is even more uncomfortable than taking a blade directly!"

"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?"

The Black Dragon Immortal Emperor glared at him, his hand holding the Dragon Spear also trembling. "The feedback from the Ancestral Dragon Array has been cut off, the barrier has been torn open, and he could descend at any moment."

"Stop looking."

The Golden Dragon Immortal Emperor spoke from the middle.

"If Senior wants to act, he naturally will. If he doesn't, it's useless even if you stare a hole into the sky."

"I'm not staring at Senior."

The Black Dragon Immortal Emperor swallowed. "I just want to see if that white-clothed Fairy will come out to pour a cup of tea or sweep the floor or something... As long as she shows her face, it at least shows that Senior is still paying attention to our survival."

"..."

The Red Dragon and Golden Dragon didn't speak.

The Domain Lord stood at the very front of the Five Great Dragon Emperors.

With his hands behind his back, he looked up at the spreading blood-red color on the horizon.

It was as if the sky was bleeding.

The Domain Lord did not join the Dragon Emperors' bickering. His hands, hidden behind his back, were trembling in his sleeves.

Not because of fear.

But because of frustration.

As the Lord of the Dragon Domain, he ruled over billions of lives and once called the wind and summoned the rain in the Three Thousand Great Worlds.

Now, he was being attacked at his doorstep by a God Lord from the Human Race.

Not only could he not win, but he also had to line up here, putting all the clan's elites on display like an honor guard, waiting for someone to kick the door in.

They could only wait.

This sense of powerlessness made him feel despair.

Hum—

A low hum echoed between heaven and earth.

"The fluctuations of the world-breaking shuttle... are getting closer."

The Green Dragon Immortal Emperor murmured softly.

No one responded.

Everyone felt it; the pressure of the God Lord Realm was pressing down on their shoulders through the space cracks.

The Immortal King Realm elites with slightly weaker cultivation had already bent their backs.

After a few breaths.

The Domain Lord frowned.

He turned his head and glanced toward the side and back of the square.

"What's wrong?"

The Black Dragon Immortal Emperor noticed the anomaly and tightened his grip on the Dragon Spear with a flick of his wrist.

"...I don't know."

The Domain Lord turned back, his brow furrowing deeper. "I just feel... something isn't right."

"What's wrong? Is the God Lord attacking from the side?" The Red Dragon Immortal Emperor bristled, his dragon wings spreading.

"It's too quiet."

The Golden Dragon Immortal Emperor spoke, his voice extremely low.

Everyone was stunned and followed the Golden Dragon Immortal Emperor's gaze.

"Over there."

The Golden Dragon Immortal Emperor tilted his chin toward a small peak to the side and back. "In that direction... it's too quiet. So quiet that there isn't even a hint of an aura."

The Dragon Emperors sensed carefully, and their expressions changed.

The Dragon Domain was constantly enveloped by the Ancestral Dragon Qi, and with a great enemy approaching, the Spiritual Qi of the whole clan was surging, with auras flowing everywhere.

But on that mountain peak,

there was nothing.

The Domain Lord gnashed his teeth and sent out a wisp of Divine Sense.

Blank.

His Divine Sense entered that area like a clay ox entering the sea, meeting no resistance; it was just a void and a blank.

But beneath that blankness, the Domain Lord captured two auras.

Those two auras seeped out from the gaps in the void, extremely faint and extremely quiet.

They were completely out of place with the overwhelming pressure of the God Lord in the sky, yet they existed steadily, not affected by the blood-red sky in the slightest.

The Domain Lord's pupils shrank, and the moment he withdrew his Divine Sense, his body swayed.

"There are... people up there?"

The Black Dragon Immortal Emperor was uncertain.

The Red Dragon Immortal Emperor also sent out a wisp of Divine Sense to investigate.

The next second.

The Red Dragon Immortal Emperor's crimson face instantly turned pale.

He opened his mouth wide, and the flaming dragon wings on his back went out with a poof.

"What did you see?" the Golden Dragon Immortal Emperor asked.

The Red Dragon Immortal Emperor didn't answer, just stared blankly in that direction.

Then,

the Golden, Green, and Black Dragon Emperors... all Five Great Dragon Emperors, along with the three hundred Immortal Emperor Elders behind them, all sent out their Divine Sense.

And then,

everyone's expression changed.

That scene, ignoring the distance of space, was engraved in each of their Seas of Consciousness.

It was a cliff.

Beside the cliff was a green stone.

On the green stone, the white-clothed Gu Heng and the white-clothed Lin Qingyue sat side by side.

The two of them were looking at the sky that was about to collapse and was dyed blood-red.

A teacup hung silently in the air.

That look in their eyes was like watching a shadow puppet play in a theater.

What made all the Dragons' scalps tingle even more was—

the steam rising from that cup of tea.

At this moment, with the pressure of the God Lord crushing down from the sky, the Spiritual Qi of the entire Longyuan Hall square was compressed into a solid state, making it difficult even for those in the Immortal Emperor Realm to breathe.

Yet, that wisp of steam from the cup rose straight up.

"???"

On the square.

The Five Great Dragon Emperors were stunned.

The three hundred Immortal Emperors were stunned.

The tens of thousands of Immortal King elites were also stunned.

Everyone looked up at the sky above that was dyed blood-red by the God Lord's fury, looking as if it would crash down at any second.

Then they looked at the image in their Seas of Consciousness of someone leisurely pouring tea and watching the scenery.

The Red Dragon Immortal Emperor stiffly turned his neck and looked at the equally dumbfounded Domain Lord, his voice trembling,

"Senior is..."

"Drinking tea?"