Chapter 297: I Am the Legitimate Heir of the Dragon Palace!

Overseas, at the Four Seas Sect.

With the fall of Tian Qiu, the region where the East Island Dragon Palace stood was now in complete chaos; soaring demonic qi nearly threatened to completely submerge the entire Dragon Palace.

Seeing Suo Huan's previous predicament was by no means an isolated case.

For years, the overseas regions had suffered greatly under the Dragon Palace; the True Dragon clan, in their quest to gather resources, had scavenged the overseas lands so thoroughly that not a single usable item was left behind.

It was only because the Dragon Palace previously had Tian Qiu, a True Dragon at the peak of Foundation Establishment, suppressing the area that it remained as stable as Mount Taishan.

But now, Tian Qiu was dead.

Then do not blame everyone for turning hostile; moreover, the wealth of the True Dragon clan was common knowledge—who wouldn't want to fish in troubled waters and seize this opportunity to rob them thoroughly?

At worst, after robbing, one could flee to the inland.

The law cannot punish the masses, after all.

Everyone harbored a侥幸心理 (luck-based thought): "I'll only take a little; when the Dragon Lord returns, he may not even care, and if I hide in the inland, perhaps nothing will happen to me."

Magic treasures, Daoist techniques, divine abilities.

Like a tidal wave, they crashed upon the Dragon Palace, yet ultimately, a great formation soaring into the sky dissipated them all, instantly rendering them formless.

Simultaneously, figures rode trails of escaping light out from within the Dragon Palace, revealing their true forms; among them were shrimp soldiers and crab generals, as well as True Dragon bloodlines, including even one or two old dragons at the late stage of Foundation Establishment, who were now managing the great formation to quickly stabilize the situation and prevent a total collapse.

"Who dares to offend my Dragon Palace!?"

"Seeking death! Do you not fear the Dragon Lord's return and the subsequent reckoning with each of you?"

"Hold the great formation!"

In an instant, the entire Dragon Palace descended into chaos, while the other three powers of the Four Seas Sect kept their mountain gates tightly shut, obviously choosing to turn a blind eye.

"That is the Dragon Palace's great formation..."

Lu Yang observed from afar, his face showing caution; after all, this was a power backed by a True Person, and with a great formation standing here, no one could possibly breach it.

Naturally, Lu Yang would not openly join this great chaos; instead, he took the "secret passage" mentioned by Suo Huan, which was located on a remote island about ten thousand meters away from the Dragon Palace, where a dedicated teleportation formation had been established to allow direct entry into the Dragon Palace's interior via a back door.

"The Dragon Palace actually allows such a secret passage?"

Facing Lu Yang's doubt, Suo Huan smiled calmly: "Senior, you may not know, but this secret passage was originally intended for members inside the Dragon Palace to go out privately."

"Go out privately?" Lu Yang raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Indeed."

Suo Huan explained: "I am not clear on the specific details, but I accidentally discovered that this place serves as a site for secret transactions between the Dragon Palace and the Dao Court."

Transactions with the Dao Court?

Hearing this, Lu Yang stroked his chin; he was not worried about Suo Huan deceiving him, for once inside the Myriad Souls Banner, it was impossible for anyone to lie to him without his knowledge.

Soon, as Lu Yang and Suo Huan stepped into the formation, visible patterns of formation light spread out; in the next moment, Lu Yang found the scenery before him shifting, and in the blink of an eye, they had arrived inside a secluded palace, while from outside the hall, the dense sounds of killing cries could be faintly heard.

"We actually got in!"

Lu Yang grew even more surprised; that such a secret passage could bypass the Dragon Palace's mountain-protecting great formation and enter the palace indicated that its level of secrecy must be extremely high.

Otherwise, with the Dragon Palace now in chaos and cut off internally and externally, a secret passage like this should have long been severed by the True Dragon clan.

The fact that it had not been cut off could only prove that very few people knew of this passage; perhaps only the Dragon Lord and Tian Qiu, who was the Crown Prince, were aware of it.

Thinking of this, Lu Yang immediately reached out and beckoned.

The next second, a handsome young man with prominent horns appeared beside Lu Yang; it was none other than Tian Qiu, whom everyone in the outside world believed had already perished!

After all, he was a True Dragon at the peak of Foundation Establishment.

And given Lu Yang's habit of thrift and conservation cultivated within the Holy Sect, he naturally believed in making full use of everything and everyone; how could he possibly let Tian Qiu simply go reincarnate?

He ought to be refined into a banner spirit, which could also be considered granting him a karmic opportunity. "Where is this place?"

"A secret hall established by Father," the banner spirit Tian Qiu explained obediently: "Usually, I stayed here to handle negotiations with the Jiangdong Dao Court."

"Negotiate what?"

"Negotiate the matter of the True Dragons joining the Dao Court."

Tian Qiu immediately revealed an earth-shattering secret: "Father has always wanted to return to the inland; for this purpose, he maintained contact with both the Jiangxi Pure Land and the Jiangdong Dao Court."

"However, since the Jiangxi Pure Land was too unorthodox, even Father spoke of it with great caution; thus, Father ultimately decided to cooperate with the Jiangdong Dao Court. The Dao Court allowed us to return to the inland as a national totem and regain control of the Jiangdong waters, but we had to relinquish our status as nobles of Heaven and Earth."

Soon, Lu Yang understood the cause and effect.

In short, the Tian Wu imperial family of the Dao Court had always coveted the True Dragon clan's status as nobles of Heaven and Earth and their fate of reaching Foundation Establishment upon adulthood, wishing to claim it for themselves.

Therefore, they sought to recruit and pacify the True Dragon clan.

For this purpose, the conditions proposed by the Dao Court were quite generous: serving as a national totem, sharing the fate of the nation, and even granting a certain degree of autonomy.

Both sides had even reached a preliminary agreement.

'As early as a hundred years ago, the Dragon Lord secretly sent a batch of young dragons to the Dao Court to manage water regions, serving as an experiment, and both parties were very satisfied.'

Unfortunately, plans could not keep up with changes.

'There was supposed to be further cooperation, but due to the appearance of Senior Master Chongguang and the seclusion of True Persons across the world, this cooperation naturally came to nothing...'

While storing this potentially useful intelligence in his mind, Lu Yang used a divine ability to conceal their forms, then had Tian Qiu lead himself and Suo Huan straight in; the three of them advanced without obstruction to the deepest part of the Dragon Palace, finally stopping before a hall shaped like a coiled dragon.

'The Dragon Palace Treasury!'

The entire hall resembled a coiled True Dragon, with the main gate being a dragon head with its eyes tightly closed, its serene demeanor exuding a silent pressure.

"This place was also established by Father."

Tian Qiu whispered: "Before this, even within the entire True Dragon clan, only I could enter, because my bloodline was the purest, being Father's second son."

"But now..."

Speaking to this point, Tian Qiu could not help but show a difficult expression.

To retain one's state from life, only a living person entering the banner voluntarily could achieve it; since he was killed by Lu Yang and forced into the banner, it was naturally impossible for him to retain his bloodline.

"It does not matter."

Hearing this, Lu Yang smiled easily; he was now a True Dragon as well, and the talent granted by the 【Book of Hundred Lives】, in terms of bloodline, would surely be no worse than Tian Qiu's.

Thinking of this, he actively stepped forward to stand before the door of the Dragon Palace Treasury.

The next second, the dragon-head gate suddenly trembled, then its tightly closed eyes snapped open, casting a beam of brilliant light upon Lu Yang.

Immediately after, the dragon-head gate moved.

Accompanied by a heavy, muffled rumble, the dragon head slowly opened its bloody maw, revealing the scene within, which was none other than a dazzling radiance of treasures!

"Hiss!"

In an instant, Lu Yang and Suo Huan, one after the other, acted with swift eyes and quick hands, skillfully blocking all the treasure light so that not a single ray escaped outside.

'Mine, it's all mine!'

At this moment, only one thought existed in Lu Yang's mind:

Move it! Move everything away!

'The True Dragon clan has always revered bloodline above all; now that the Dragon Lord is in seclusion and Tian Qiu is dead, in terms of bloodline, I should be the legitimate heir of the Dragon Lord!'

(End of Chapter)