"Master… was… was that a true dragon just now?"
Hua Ming had spent his entire life loafing around Yellow Oriole Valley and had never seen anything of great significance.
Naturally, at this moment, his eyes were wide open and he found it utterly inconceivable.
Hua Ming's eyes went wide, his face a mask of shock. He swallowed hard. "Then… isn't the true dragon a divine beast of legend? Would it become one of those legendary divine spirits?"
"It would." Jiang Chen didn't deny it.
Hua Ming was completely dumbfounded. He was only now beginning to understand, in a vague sort of way, why his master had once said he didn't particularly care about even the Ten Great Divine Kingdoms.
A true dragon was serving his master. Just how terrifying a background did that imply?
Was there truly something in this world even more powerful than the Ten Great Divine Kingdoms? Hua Ming felt his tiny brain was simply not equipped to handle this.
For a long while, Hua Ming remained speechless.
"Enough. Don't make a fuss over something so ordinary. Just wait here. The true dragon is about to break through—it'll take a while."
Jiang Chen could tell that
This region was rather desolate. Advancing here carried some risk, but it was still better than somewhere like Yellow Oriole Valley.
Jiang Chen began summoning the Gold-Munching Mice, instructing them to set up a defensive perimeter within a three-hundred-li radius. Anything particularly suspicious was to be reported immediately.
As a true dragon, Long Xiaoxuan's breakthrough to the Heavenly Position was bound to be accompanied by terrifying momentum. Jiang Chen therefore had to make preparations.
Fortunately, the true dragon race's breakthroughs didn't drag on as long as those of the human race. The process for the true dragon race was also far less complicated.
That was one of the advantages of the true dragon bloodline.
This wilderness region had no sign of human habitation within a three- to four-thousand-li radius, so Long Xiaoxuan's breakthrough proceeded relatively smoothly.
In the final moment, the aura of the true dragon surged straight into the heavens, triggering celestial phenomena that were nothing short of spectacular. However, out in this wilderness, there were hardly any people nearby.
As a result, no one was alerted.
By the time the distant experts were roused and arrived at the scene, Jiang Chen and his companions had long since vanished without a trace.
After Long Xiaoxuan's breakthrough, the effect on the Grand Fortune White
This kind of healthy competition was something Jiang Chen was only too happy to see.
The rivalry between dragon and tiger, each pushing the other forward, would ultimately make them into formidable helpers for Jiang Chen.
But Jiang Chen had to admit—the bloodline of the ancient divine beasts was simply heaven-defying. All things considered, he and Long Xiaoxuan had always been roughly at the same cultivation pace.
And Jiang Chen's own speed of cultivation was already monstrous. Yet Long Xiaoxuan, relying on the dragon bloodline, had effortlessly kept pace with Jiang Chen and was the first to break through to the Heavenly Position.
"Sigh, the bloodline of divine beasts is always monstrous. When it comes to innate bloodline advantages, human geniuses truly can't compare with the divine beast clans."
Jiang Chen didn't indulge in false modesty. He knew this was simply the advantage of the divine beast clans, and there was no need to be jealous.
Roughly an hour after Jiang Chen and his companions departed, experts from all directions began converging on the area. Clearly, the violent upheaval earlier had drawn out the old monsters within ten thousand li, all arriving to investigate.
The aura released during a true dragon's breakthrough was simply staggering.
Even after an hour had passed, that terrifying dragon qi had not fully dissipated.
"What powerful Spirit Beast aura is this?"
"The celestial phenomena earlier—dragons soaring and phoenixes dancing—felt extraordinary. Could it be that some divine beast bloodline broke through here?"
"A divine beast bloodline? Why would it choose such a desolate wilderness?"
"That's hard to say. Perhaps it just happened to be passing through and caught a flash of inspiration for breakthrough."
"This aura is filled with an ancient, primordial feeling. It's definitely an ancient bloodline—possibly even a divine beast bloodline!"
"Doesn't this feel like dragon qi? True dragons have never appeared in our Blue Mist Island Domain, but sub-dragons and dragon descendants have shown up before. It feels very similar—only much stronger!"
"A dragon? A true dragon? That can't be—when has a true dragon ever appeared in the Blue Mist Island Domain? Impossible, impossible!"
"There are no legends of true dragons in the Abyssal Islands either."
"Well, you're wrong about that. Throughout the history of the Abyssal Islands, there have indeed been legends of true dragons."
"True dragon bloodline—how could it appear so easily? Once it does, it signals the arrival of a great era!"
"The Abyssal Islands' boundless seas must harbor true dragon bloodline somewhere. It's just that the gestation of a true dragon bloodline takes an enormously long time. Who knows when it might appear?"
"Perhaps it's a true dragon bloodline nurtured in the seas around the Blue Mist Island Domain, passing through here?"
"If it really is a true dragon, this aura doesn't seem particularly formidable. It should still be a young dragon."
The experts who had gathered from all directions discussed the matter among themselves.