Chapter 410: I Am the True Heir of the Dragon Palace!

Overseas, Four Seas Gate.

With the fall of the Heavenly Jiao, the place where the Dragon Palace of the Eastern Island was located had already fallen into utter chaos. The surging demonic qi almost drowned the entire Dragon Palace.

Suo Huan’s previous encounter was by no means an exception.

Over the years, the overseas realm had long suffered under the Dragon Palace. In order to gather resources, the True Dragon Clan had plundered almost everything overseas, leaving nothing usable untouched.

It was only because the Dragon Palace had the Heavenly Jiao, a True Dragon at the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection stage, suppressing everything that the situation had remained as steady as Mount Tai.

But now, the Heavenly Jiao was dead.

Then no one could be blamed for turning against them. Besides, the wealth of the True Dragon Clan was well known to all. Who would not want to fish in troubled waters and seize this rare chance to plunder heavily?

At worst, they could simply escape inland after the looting.

The law could not punish the masses.

Everyone harbored a bit of wishful thinking: “If I only take a little, even if the Dragon Lord returns, he may not care. If I hide inland, perhaps I’ll be fine.”

Spiritual treasures, Dao techniques, divine abilities—

They fell upon the Dragon Palace like crashing waves, only for a soaring grand formation to instantly dissolve them all into nothingness.

At the same time, silhouettes emerged from within the Dragon Palace, riding their escape lights outward, revealing their true forms. Among them were shrimp soldiers and crab generals, True Dragon Bloodline descendants, and even one or two old dragons at late Foundation Establishment stage. At this moment, they presided over the formation, quickly stabilizing the situation to prevent total collapse.

“Who dares to trespass upon my Dragon Palace!?”

“Courting death! Are you not afraid the Dragon Lord will return and settle accounts one by one!?”

“Hold the formation!”

For a time, the entire Dragon Palace was thrown into turmoil, while the other three powers of the Four Seas Gate kept their gates tightly shut, clearly choosing to turn a blind eye.

“So that is the Dragon Palace’s grand formation.”

From a distance, Lü Yang watched with wary eyes. After all, it was a force with a True Lord presiding. With such a formation guarding the place, no one could possibly break in.

Naturally, Lü Yang would not openly join the chaos. Instead, he followed the “secret path” Suo Huan mentioned. It was located on a remote island about ten thousand meters away from the Dragon Palace. There, a teleportation array had been established, allowing one to bypass the front and directly enter the Dragon Palace.

“The Dragon Palace actually allows such a secret path to exist?”

Seeing Lü Yang’s doubt, Suo Huan smiled calmly. “Senior is unaware—this secret path was originally meant for the Dragon Palace’s private use when going out in secret.”

“Private use?” Lü Yang raised an eyebrow.

“Correct.”

Suo Huan explained, “I don’t know the exact details, but I accidentally discovered that this was the place where the Dragon Palace secretly traded with the Dao Court.”

Trading with the Dao Court?

Hearing this, Lü Yang stroked his chin. He was not worried about Suo Huan deceiving him. After all, with him under the Myriad Spirits Banner, it was impossible to lie without being detected.

Soon, as Lü Yang and Suo Huan stepped into the formation, visible light patterns spread out. The scene before Lü Yang shifted, and in the blink of an eye, he had arrived inside a remote palace. From outside, the muffled roar of countless shouts and killings faintly reached their ears.

“We truly entered!”

Lü Yang grew even more astonished. For such a secret path to bypass the Dragon Palace’s defensive formation and lead directly inside meant its confidentiality level was extremely high.

Otherwise, with the Dragon Palace in chaos and isolated from the outside, this path should have long been cut off by the True Dragon Clan.

That it remained intact only proved how few knew of it—perhaps only the Dragon Lord and the crown prince, the Heavenly Jiao.

At that thought, Lü Yang immediately reached out his hand.

The next moment, a handsome youth with sharp horns appeared at his side. It was none other than the Heavenly Jiao—whom the outside world believed to have already fallen!

After all, he had been a True Dragon at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection.

And with Lü Yang’s frugal and thrifty ways, honed by the Saint Sect, he naturally made full use of all resources. How could he allow such a dragon to simply reincarnate?

Of course, he refined him into a Banner Spirit—granting him a twisted form of fate.

“This place… what is it?”

“A secret hall set by my father,” Banner Spirit Heavenly Jiao answered honestly. “I usually stayed here to negotiate with the Jiangdong Dao Court.”

“Negotiate what?”

“To negotiate the True Dragons joining the Dao Court.”

The Heavenly Jiao revealed an earth-shattering secret: “Father always wished to return to the mainland. For this, he contacted both the Jiangxi Pure Land and the Jiangdong Dao Court.”

“However, the Jiangxi Pure Land was too sinister. Even Father remained secretive about it. In the end, he chose to cooperate with the Jiangdong Dao Court. The Dao Court agreed to let us return inland as national totems, reclaiming the Jiangdong waters. But in exchange, we had to give up our fate-born status as Heaven’s Nobles.”

Soon, Lü Yang understood the cause and effect.

In short, the Tianwu royal family of the Dao Court had long coveted the True Dragon Clan’s noble destiny—being born with Foundation Establishment cultivation. They wanted it for themselves.

Thus, they sought to recruit the True Dragons.

The terms offered by the Dao Court were generous: national totem status, rise and fall with the nation, and even partial autonomy.

Both sides had even reached preliminary cooperation.

A hundred years ago, the Dragon Lord secretly sent a group of dragonlings to the Dao Court, assigning them to manage rivers as a trial. Both parties were satisfied with the results.

But plans could not keep up with changes.

Originally, further cooperation was planned. But with Uncle Master Chong Guang’s emergence and the True Lords of the world going into seclusion, the matter was left unsettled.

As Lü Yang memorized this useful intelligence, he also cast a divine ability to conceal himself. Then, with the Heavenly Jiao leading, he and Suo Huan advanced unimpeded into the deepest part of the Dragon Palace. Finally, they stopped before a palace shaped like a coiling dragon.

The Dragon Palace Treasury!

The entire hall resembled a coiled dragon, with its door being a dragon head with closed eyes. Its silent bearing radiated unspeakable oppression.

“This place was also set by Father.”

The Heavenly Jiao whispered, “Before, even within the True Dragon Clan, only I could enter—because my bloodline was the purest, as Father’s second son.”

“Only now…”

At this point, the Heavenly Jiao looked troubled.

To preserve one’s state after death, one must willingly enter the banner. Since he had been slain and forcibly refined by Lü Yang, he could no longer retain his bloodline.

“No matter.”

Lü Yang smiled lightly. He too was now a True Dragon. The 【Book of a Hundred Lifetimes】 had given him a bloodline talent that surely surpassed the Heavenly Jiao’s.

With that thought, he stood before the Dragon Palace Treasury.

In the next second, the dragon-head gate shuddered. Its tightly shut eyes suddenly opened, casting a beam of divine light onto Lü Yang.

Then the dragon-head gate began to move.

With a heavy rumble, the dragon’s jaws slowly opened wide, revealing within a blinding radiance of treasures!

“Hiss—!”

In an instant, Lü Yang and Suo Huan swiftly sealed off all the treasure light, ensuring not a single glimmer escaped outside.

Mine. All mine!

At that moment, Lü Yang had only one thought in his heart:

Take it all away! Take everything!

The True Dragon Clan had always revered bloodline. Now that the Dragon Lord was in seclusion and the Heavenly Jiao was dead, in terms of bloodline, I should be the Dragon Lord’s true heir!