"I''m going."
he said tly.
As soon as the words fell, his figure moved.''
He turned into a streak of golden light and shot toward Northridge.
Vivian stood on the city wall, watching that streak of light vanish at the far end of her sight.''
Only then did the tears finally slide down her face.
Luther and Grace stood beside her, both still looking in that direction for a long time without speaking.
Rnd bowed deeply, his voice respectful and firm. "We respectfully see off Your Majesty!"
Behind him, dozens of giant dragons threw back their heads and roared at the sky all at once.''
The dragon cries shook heaven and earth, as if they were sending off the Dragon Emperor.
*****
Northridge, the Teleportation Hall.
It was an ancient stone hall, built entirely from massive blue-gray blocks.
The doors were carved with dense runes that gave off faint spiritual ripples.
Several Wardens stood around the stone hall, all of them at the High Immortal Realm.
The moment Jarednded in front of the Teleportation Hall, every one of those Wardens went pale and hurriedly bowed.
"Greetings, my lord!"
They did not know who Jared was.''
But they had seen the world-shaking dragon cries just now, and they had seen the dozens of giant dragons circling above Cloudhaven City with their own eyes.
Anyone who could make the Draconians bow their heads and obey wasn''t someone they could afford to offend.
Jared didn''t spare them a nce. He walked straight into the Teleportation Hall. Inside the hall, a massive Teleportation Array stood in silence.
The formation was circr, about 10 yards across. Elder runes covered the ground in denseyers, giving off a faint golden glow.
At the center of the formation was a recessed slot meant for celestial elixir.
An old man with a full head of white hair came out from deeper inside the hall. The moment he saw Jared, he hurriedly bowed.''
"This old servant greets my lord. Is my lord here to use the Teleportation Array?" Jared gave a small nod.''
"I''m going to Luminous Sanctuary."
The old steward paused for half a beat, then nodded at once.''
"Luminous Sanctuary is extremely far from here. It takes arge amount of celestial
elixir. By the rules, each person needs 120 bottles of celestial elixir..."
Before he could finish, Jared had already taken a satchel of holding out of his Storage Ring and tossed it over.
The old steward caught the satchel of holding and sent his spiritual soul inside. His face shifted at once.
Inside, there were 400 bottles of celestial elixir, lined up neatly.
"My lord, this... this is too much," the old steward said quickly.
Jared waved it off.''
"The extra is your reward."
The old steward lit up and thanked him again and again. Then he turned around in a rush and went to start the Teleportation Array.
A momentter, the runes on the Teleportation Array lit up one after another. The golden light grew brighter and brighter until the whole stone hall was shining clear and bright.
Jared stepped into the center of the formation.
The old steward stood outside the array and bowed once more.''
"My lord, the Teleportation Array has already been activated. It will send you to the outer edge of Luminous Sanctuary. As for what''s happening over there, this old servant doesn''t know either. My lord must be careful."
Jared nodded.
He turned around and gave the outside of the Teleportation Hall onest look. Outside the hall, there wasn''t a single person in sight.
Only in the distant sky could the faint outlines of circling dragons still be seen. He drew his gaze back.
The light of the formation kept growing stronger until it swallowed himpletely.
"Bzzzz-"
A deep hum rang out through the hall.
The golden light swelled to its limit in an instant, then vanished just as suddenly.
Jared''s figure disappeared from the Teleportation Array.
Inside the Teleportation Hall, everything went still again.
The old steward stared at the empty array and let out a long breath.''
"Just where did this my lorde from? He can make the Draconians bow to him,
and he can leave all those forces too scared to make a sound..."
He couldn''t make sense of it.
But one thing was clear to him. From this day on, the sky over Cloudhaven City hadpletely changed.
On the wall of Cloudhaven City.
Vivian was still standing there, looking toward Northridge.
Luther stood beside her in silence.
Grace gently took Vivian''s hand.''
"Miss Janis, don''t worry. Mr. Chance... he''ll definitelye back safe."
Vivian nodded and said nothing.
In the distance, dragon cries still echoed between heaven and earth.
Golden light washed over the whole of Cloudhaven City.
It also lit the road stretching into the distance.
Vivian drew back her gaze, took a deep breath, then turned to look at Rnd.
"Draconian Chief, from today on, Cloudhaven City is in your hands."
Rnd bowed.''
"Miss Janis, please rest assured. I will do everything in my power to guard this city
and guard everything Your Majesty entrusted to us."
Vivian nodded.
She lifted her head and looked up at the sky.
The sky was a clear, pure blue, and white clouds drifted by at an easy pace.
It looked as if nothing had happened at all.
But she knew everything was different now.
From this day on, Cloudhaven City reigned under the Chance name.
And the man who had pulled her back into life and let her see hope had already set
foot on the road to Luminous Sanctuary.
Jared... you have toe back safe.
She said it silently to herself.
At the same time, the Great Elder of
the Celestial Pce took the contact jade slip they had used to reach the Demon Dragons and went to speak With their Chieftain about a possible alliance.
The Fourteenth Firmament, the edge of the Demon Marches.
It was and buried under darkness and dead silence.
The sky stayed gray forever. There was no sun, no moon, no stars. Only the asional dark-red bolt of lightning tore through the heavy clouds and shed across the barren ground below.
The earth was cracked open, and not a de of grass grew anywhere. The air was thick with the sharp stink of sulfur and the rot of decay.
The Demon Dragon Lineage had hidden itself here.
Pastyer afteryer of fog, and beyond countless dark-red restrictions, a towering ck pce came into view, standing on a broken cliff at the very edge of the Demon Marches.
The whole pce had been built from ck demon crystal stone. Under the glow of the dark-red lightning, it gave off a strange, eerie shimmer.
Above the pce gates, a lifelike ck giant dragon had been carved into the stone. Ghostly green fire burned in its eyes, as if it were watching every visitor who
came near.
This was the heart of the Demon Dragon Lineage, the Demon Dragon Hall.
At that moment, the air inside the Demon Dragon Hall was strange and heavy.
On both sides of the great hall stood more than a dozen Elders from the Demon Dragon Lineage.
They all looked like middle-aged
l.ne
men. ck robes draped over their bodies, and dark-red demonic aura rolled off them in thick waves,pletely different from the golden
draconic energy or the on the
orthodox
Draconians.
Among these Demon Dragons, the weakest was at High Immortal Realm Level
Eight, and quite a few of them were strong enough to stand at True Immortal Realm
Level One.
It had to be said that after these
Demon Dragons threw in with the demon race, the fusion of demonic techniques and the Draconian Bloodline had pushed their strength
a little above that of the Sky Dragon
n.
At the center of the great hall, in the seat of honor, sat a broad-shouldered middle-
aged man.
He wore a dark-red robe embroidered with dragon patterns. His face was hard, and between his brows sat a cold, sinister kind of authority.
His eyes were dark gold. Every time they opened and closed, it looked like two
clusters of ghostly fire were burning inside them.
The aura around him ran deep as an abyss. He was unmistakably a terrifying
existence at the True Immortal Realm, Second Order.
This man was the Chieftain of the Demon Dragon Lineage, Darian.
This Darian was not the other Darian.
The guardian Elder from Ancient Dragonmere was also called Darian, but that one
belonged to the Sky Dragon Lineage.
The one here was the Chieftain of the Demon Dragon Lineage. Same name,
different fate.
Darian sat high in the main seat, lightly tapping the armrest with his fingers as his gaze rested on the figure standing in the middle of the great hall.
It was a white-haired old man in a silver robe, with the mark of the Celestial Pce
embroidered over his chest.
It was the Great Elder of the Celestial Pce.