Chapter 160 (pretending)

Gu Heng reached out a finger and poked the Daoist robe of Qingxuan Old Ancestor.

He then pointed to Divine Venerable Lietian, who had just transformed and was gloomily touching the weeds on top of his head.

"Even if God-Venerable Lietian has become a blade of grass, you can at least sense a trace of faint Origin Dragon Qi from his leaves, right? But what about this old man? Can you feel even a shred of anything related to the Dragon Clan in his Origin?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the wind on the plaza seemed to stop.

Black Dragon Immortal Emperor opened his mouth wide and stiffly turned his head to look at the Green Dragon Immortal Emperor beside him.

Green Dragon Immortal Emperor was also struck as if by lightning, standing frozen in place.

The dragons were speechless.

They subconsciously released their Divine Thought, scanning Qingxuan Old Ancestor over and over again.

"...This is impossible!"

After a few moments of silence, Green Dragon Immortal Emperor slapped his thigh and leaped up from the ground.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"Senior, please do not play such jokes on us!"

Green Dragon Immortal Emperor waved his hands wildly in the air, desperately denying this absurd conclusion.

"This The Chosen Son was verified by the blood-drip test of the Ancestral Dragon Array! The phantom of the heaven-tracing mirror, the nine golden dragon phantoms, and that soaring golden light of Luck—we saw it all with our own eyes; it absolutely cannot be fake!"

"That's right, Senior!"

Red Dragon Immortal Emperor also hurriedly crawled forward on his knees two steps and eagerly chimed in.

"The Ancestral Dragon Array is the supreme Formation left by the Forefather, flowing with the Forefather's purest will. Could it be... could it be that even the Ancestral Dragon Array is conspiring to deceive us?"

The surrounding Dragon Clan Elders nodded one after another.

"That's right, the Formation cannot be wrong."

"How could the Forefather's will mistake its own Bloodline?"

Green Dragon Immortal Emperor looked at Gu Heng's half-smiling expression, and a glimmer of hope suddenly arose in his heart.

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said with a dry laugh.

"That's right... perhaps, perhaps The Chosen Son has reincarnated in the Lower Realm too many times, and the aura of the mundane is too heavy. Or perhaps your strength is too great, Senior, that even someone of your caliber was momentarily..."

He had wanted to say, "Even you, Senior, misjudged it," but when the words reached his lips, he saw the row of expressionless Devil Emperors and Immortal Emperors behind Gu Heng, so he swallowed the words back and changed them to, "Even you, Senior... have had some misunderstanding?"

"Idiots."

A low voice came from the very front of the dragon crowd.

The one speaking was not anyone else, but the Master of the Dragon Domain.

The Domain Master slowly stood up from the ground, his face falling at that moment, his eyes filled with undisguised exhaustion and bitterness.

He looked at Green Dragon Immortal Emperor and coldly interrupted what he was about to say next.

"Did you all forget the scene at that time?"

The dragons were stunned. They all looked at the Domain Master in unison.

"At that time, besides this old man dripping his blood into the Formation, what else happened?"

The Domain Master took a deep breath, his voice somewhat hoarse.

"At that time, there was also that Fairy who accompanied the Senior here, breaking through her Immortal Emperor Bottleneck right here, triggering the supreme Heavenly Tribulation."

"What if... the resonance of the Formation back then wasn't because of this old man's blood at all? What if it was because some kind of power escaping from that Fairy's body during her Breakthrough resonated with the Ancestral Dragon Array?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Green Dragon Immortal Emperor felt a tightness in his chest and was rendered speechless on the spot.

He opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.

The surrounding Dragon Clan Elders' complexions also instantly turned from pale to ash-gray.

"This..."

Black Dragon Immortal Emperor recalled the scene of the Formation erupting back then.

The moment that drop of blood fell into the eye of the Formation, it did indeed coincide with Lin Qingyue's Immortal Emperor Tribulation.

Back then, they were blinded by greed and excitement, their minds filled with the ecstasy of "The Chosen Son returning and the Dragon Clan flourishing," so they never bothered to look deeper into the coincidence.

Now that the Domain Master had pointed it out, that fig leaf was ruthlessly torn away, revealing a truth full of holes.

"That Fairy..."

The Domain Master shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"With such strange aura, being able to resonate with the Ancestral Dragon Array and trigger heavenly phenomena is within reason. This is also the only reasonable explanation."

Hearing the four words "only reasonable explanation," the Dragon Clan experts completely collapsed.

They turned their heads to look at Qingxuan Old Ancestor, who was hiding behind Gu Heng.

Their gazes were extremely complex.

There was shock, anger, shame, but more than anything, a sense of fury and powerlessness after having their intelligence insulted.

They, the Dragon Clan, the high and mighty Dragon Clan, who prided themselves on being the most noble Bloodline across all the heavens and myriad worlds.

For all these days, they had actually been treating a decrepit old human man like their ancestor!

Not only did they gift him countless Heaven And Earth Treasures, let him live in the most luxurious side hall of Longyuan Hall, but they also prepared meals made from various Heaven And Earth Treasures for him every day, changing the variety constantly.

Where was this any The Chosen Son? He was clearly a complete and utter fraud!

A human ant who had stepped in dog shit Luck and, by relying on a coincidence, had played their entire clan for fools!

Flames of fury burned in the eyes of many Dragon Clan Elders.

Some hot-tempered Red Dragons could no longer suppress the Immortal Qi within them, their fingers cracking as they clenched them.

"Wait... wait a minute!"

Just at this tense moment.

Green Dragon Immortal Emperor seemed to have suddenly grasped a key clue, and ecstasy lit up in his eyes.

He pointed at Qingxuan Old Ancestor and shouted loudly.

"Right! Cultivation Technique! Nine Transformations Dragon Cultivation Technique!"

"Everyone, don't forget! Back then at the Ancestral Dragon Altar, when I personally handed the supreme Cultivation Technique left by the Forefather to The Chosen Son, he was immersed in studying it for a long time! At that time, he showed an expression of intoxication and enlightenment, as if he had 'heard the Dao in the morning and could die content in the evening'!"

Green Dragon Immortal Emperor, as if he had found evidence for his own redemption, looked at Qingxuan Old Ancestor and shouted almost pleadingly.

"The Chosen Son... no, old sir! Please circulate that Cultivation Technique! Circulate the Nine Transformations Dragon Cultivation Technique and prove it to the Senior, prove it to us!"

"As long as you can circulate even the first transformation, it proves you truly possess our Dragon Clan's core Bloodline! Hurry!"

A faint glimmer of hope once again sprouted in the eyes of the dragons.

That's right, that Cultivation Technique cannot be studied without the Dragon Clan's core Bloodline; an ordinary human would explode and die upon touching it.

If he could practice it, that meant he was still The Chosen Son!

Qingxuan Old Ancestor was stared at fixedly by tens of thousands of glowing green dragon eyes, and he shuddered in fear.

He shrank behind Gu Heng, clutching the golden cage with both hands, his old face full of embarrassment and awkwardness.

He stroked his beard, scratched his head, and said with a dry laugh.

"About that... actually, that Cultivation Technique... I was just faking it."

"Faking it?" Green Dragon Immortal Emperor was completely dumbfounded.

"Yeah, faking it."

Qingxuan Old Ancestor shrugged and muttered somewhat embarrassedly.

"The whole thing was covered in dense, tadpole-like Ancient Dragon Scripts; I couldn't read a single word. I'm a cultivator with dignity, after all, and an Old Ancestor in the Lower Realm; I couldn't just admit I was illiterate in front of millions of people, could I?"

"That would be so embarrassing. So I could only try my best to put on an expression of profound understanding and sudden enlightenment, so you'd think I was highly learned..."

"???"