Years ago, Long Ji, who had been missing for a century, returned to the vast sea.
As an Ascended being with an endless lifespan, Long Ji, the master of the vast sea, had been away for a hundred years of travel, which was not a spectacle for the countless demons.
What astonished the demons of the vast sea was that when the most beautiful woman in the demon kingdom of the vast sea returned this time, she was holding a tiny infant close to her.
From that day on, amidst the heartbroken cries of countless elders and disciples in the Vast Sea Sect, their Sect Master announced she had a child.
She was the little princess of the Vast Sea Sect – Linglong.
Although the Vast Sea Sect was the last sacred land of the demon race, it surprisingly did not reject human disciples.
Even in the words of some great demons, they believed that humans might have once been part of the demon race in ancient times, only separating later.
Whether these words were true or not could no longer be ascertained.
However, it was clear that the Vast Sea Sect was a demon force friendly to humans.
Therefore, although countless great demons were heartbroken by the fact that Long Ji had become a mother, they did not reject this little princess, a hybrid of human and dragon.
However, regarding the husband whom Long Ji refused to mention, all the great demons harbored a grievance.
You snatched the most beautiful flower of our vast sea, yet you didn't even show your face?!
It's so infuriating!!!
But towards Linglong, the attitude of the great demons was very gentle.
As a failed human-dragon hybrid, Linglong did not possess the terrifying physique of a true dragon. However, the natural bloodline pressure that deterred all demons made the great demons feel quite close to her.
But the great demons did not know that while they hated the so-called father, Long Ji, the person involved, felt utterly bewildered.
In her memory, the origin of Linglong had been completely erased. Long Ji even discovered that a piece of her soul was permanently missing.
Furthermore, Long Ji clearly found herself still a virgin, yet upon seeing Linglong, she naturally understood that she was her mother.
This inexplicable sense of contrast and confusion initially made the master of the vast sea feel extremely abnormal.
However, Long Ji's contingency plan before tearing her soul finally took effect. As time passed, Long Ji's subconscious paid less and less attention to her past anomalies.
Because as Linglong officially began her cultivation, and the spiritual energy stimulated her body, yet she still hadn't awakened her true dragon form, Long Ji discovered a serious problem.
Her daughter wouldn't live long.
In the following years, Long Ji and the entire high-ranking officials of the Vast Sea Sect worked tirelessly for Linglong's fated great tribulation.
Until Linglong herself brought back a young man from outside the sect.
...
The moment the second wave of heavenly tribulation was about to descend, Linglong's life flashed before her eyes like a kaleidoscope.
Her time with her mother in the Vast Sea Sect felt like yesterday, but as her memories rewound, and the scenes instinctively remembered by the infant Linglong surfaced.
Linglong's heart was engulfed by immense shock.
Who were they? What was mother's relationship with them? What was I, truly?
Countless questions caused Linglong's heart to falter for a moment in confusion.
Outside the tribulation's range, Chen Luo, who had been observing the scene, immediately changed his expression!
The next moment, Chen Luo's voice boomed like thunder:
"Linglong! Wake up!!!"
As if a thunderbolt had shattered the haze in her mind, the myriad images flashing in Linglong's mind suddenly cleared.
But the second wave of heavenly tribulation was already upon her!!!
The might of the lightning illuminated the girl's tragic face, turning it deathly pale!
In this thunderous moment, time itself seemed to slow down!
However, the lightning transformed into light! It instantly shattered everything before Linglong's eyes!!
Boom!!!!!
The thunder roared! The heavens displayed their majestic might!
Vast waves trembled, and countless beings shivered beneath the sea.
This was the tribulation descended by the heavens for a true dragon!
How could a mere girl with a frail body and meager abilities possibly withstand it?!
Long Ji stared at her daughter, struck by the lightning, and was completely stunned.
Linglong... Linglong?... Linglong!!
Under the immense impact, Long Ji could no longer suppress the destructive desire in her heart!
"Roar!!!"
A vast dragon's roar, terrifying a hundred beasts, exploded out of nowhere over the sea's surface.
Looking again, where was the enchanting and captivating Vast Sea Dragon Princess beside Chen Luo?
Only a thousand-zhang-long silver true dragon, its whiskers bristling with rage, roared as if to strike the heavens!
Heaven had killed her daughter, so she would fight against heaven with her own being!
"Roar!!!!" The mournful dragon's roar caused countless great demons in the Vast Sea's small world, tens of thousands of miles away, to inexplicably feel a sense of sorrow.
"Quiet!" Suddenly, a calm male voice suppressed the dragon's roar.
No, he was suppressing more than just the true dragon's cries!
Chen Luo clenched his hand in the air, and countless spiritual patterns flickered in and out of existence in the sky.
The spiritual patterns, fused with the five methods of protecting the Dao, elevated Chen Luo's power to an extreme at this moment.
In an instant, countless spiritual patterns combined and evolved, forming an earth-shattering grand formation!
And the target of this grand formation was Long Ji, who had lost her sanity and intended to confront the great tribulation head-on!
"Roar!!!" As the true dragon roared, its claws, not using any immortal essence, carried a terrifying power capable of shattering space!
The spiritual energy within a radius of ten thousand miles, mobilized and converted by the formation's spiritual patterns, almost emitted the dazzling radiance of immortal essence.
Countless earth-shattering divine arts were continuously generated within the grand formation, fiercely impacting the still enraged and struggling true dragon.
For a time, amidst the constant formation and dissipation of this astonishing grand formation, Chen Luo, at the seventh stage of the Dao Path, actually managed to temporarily trap the sixth-stage Ascended Vast Sea Dragon!!!
No, Chen Luo hadn't even used his full strength in his spiritual energy path. His eyes weren't focused on the frenzied true dragon, but were fixed on the majestic heavenly lightning descending from the sky!
The crazed Long Ji did not notice that the power of this second wave of heavenly tribulation had not returned to heaven and earth long after striking.
It was as if their mission was not yet complete.
Indeed, this was the case. Under Chen Luo's tense gaze, within the boundless lightning, a tiny figure was still struggling desperately against the lightning!
Her spiritual energy had been almost depleted by the first wave of lightning, her body had become shattered by the residual power of the lightning, and the girl, like a blooming flower, was already covered in wounds from this great tribulation.
But she did not give up!
"Ah..."
A faint cry echoed between heaven and earth.
This sound was so minuscule that it was like an illusion, masked by the thunder.
But both Chen Luo, who was watching tensely, and Long Ji, who was fiercely attacking the formation, couldn't help but their eyes lit up!
"Ah."
In the sea of lightning, the crying voice grew clearer!
"Ah!"
Beneath the heavenly tribulation, within the liquid sea of lightning, a figure covered in black was shouting!
She should have long ago turned to ashes! She should have been utterly incapable of resisting this great tribulation!
But the girl was truly and undeniably alive!
Her body was more than half charred and broken, her eyes had completely vanished, and even her vocal cords were so damaged that she could only emit hoarse cries!
But these cries were not of pain, but almost of rebirth!
She wasn't enduring in the sea of lightning, but seemed to be swimming!
Deep within Linglong's body, observed only by Chen Luo,
At the location of her broken and charred heart,
A wisp of golden blood,
Was born!
"Roar!!!"