Chapter 274: Fate Cannot Be Defied
Chapter 274: Fate Cannot Be Defied
At the Eastern Island Dragon Palace of the Four Seas Sect, misty vapors coiled around the palace steps, while thunderous breathing reverberated within—like a colossal beast resting inside.
But upon entering, one realized the source wasn’t a monster at all.
A white-robed youth, refined and handsome, lounged by a window, engrossed in an alchemy scroll.
Suddenly, a woman stormed into the hall. Her curvaceous figure bore a vermilion beauty mark between her brows, her elegance laced with wild defiance as she snapped, “Big brother! How can you still be reading at a time like this? If we keep hiding, the Four Seas Sect and the Dragon Clan will soon be the laughingstock of all!”
Tian Qiu sighed, glancing up. “Sister, have you forgotten Father’s decree? We’re to remain in sealed cultivation, reciting scriptures. This calamity requires patience. Staying here keeps us under Father’s protection—venturing out courts disaster.”
“But Chong Ying is dead!” Sui Ling bared needle-sharp fangs, fury twisting her features. “Chong Ying was a Dragon King, slain by outsiders! How can we do nothing?”
Chong Ying, her twin brother and Dragon Palace’s pride, had fallen. Sui Ling’s grief burned white-hot. Yet Tian Qiu remained calm. “His death occurred inland. Will you hunt them across the seas? Abandoning caution now risks everything.”
Tian Qiu, second son of the Dragon Sovereign and a True Man of Foundation Building Perfection, had long served as his father’s right hand. While Sui Ling brimmed with youthful rage, he understood their precarious position: resisting inland powers’ oppression meant courting annihilation.
“Then what?” Sui Ling spat. “Let me draw them to the Dragon Palace instead.”
Tian Qiu’s brow lifted. “Lure them here? If you succeed, no one could blame you.” True Monarchs played the grand game of cultivation politics, leaving True Men like pawns to navigate details.
“Excellent!” Sui Ling clenched her fists. “A friend from the Xuanyuan Clan foresaw the killer’s arrival in the Overseas Dominion. Karmic threads lead him straight to Yuan’ci Magnetic Mountain—the very treasure you coveted. Brother, shift the mountain into our domain! He’ll either storm our palace or abandon his cultivation gains. Either way, I’ll have my vengeance!”
Tian Qiu’s lips tightened. Yuan’ci Magnetic Mountain—ah, the fragment of a True Monarch’s fallen Cave Heaven, brimming with potential for his own ascension. Letting it go now felt like tearing a limb from his destiny. Yet claiming it risked igniting a lethal karmic war.
He gazed toward the Dragon Palace’s depths, as if meeting his father’s mountainous golden gaze. Father, you knew this would come. Why demand inaction? That mountain could crown my rise…
At last, he sighed. “The mountain’s power isn’t ripe yet. Moving it now wastes its potential. Go first, sister—gather forces to guard it. If the killer comes, we’ll act then.”
Sui Ling departed, triumphant. Tian Qiu remained, his scroll closed, thunder rumbling above like a god’s choked wrath.
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“Enough!” The Dragon Sovereign’s growl shook the heavens, summoning tidal cataclysms across the Overseas Dominion. Yet three unseen forces smothered the chaos, pressing waves and storms into submission.
“Ah, Dragon Sovereign,” a voice chided, Buddhist and smug. “Why the haste? The game’s always had winners and losers. Accept defeat gracefully—else you’ll seem petty.”
Petty? The Dragon Sovereign clenched his jaw. Three against one isn’t loss—it’s theft. Once celestial nobles, dragons now languished as livestock for inland powers. Every generation, Foundation Building adepts neared ascension, only to be “tested”—baited into deathtraps. Four factions united made mockery of fairness.
Unless…
He withdrew his divine sense, retreating to his palace. Golden eyes pierced veils of illusion, revealing a tall, smirking figure.
“Decided?” Ang Xiao asked.
The Dragon Sovereign nodded slowly. “One promise: birth a new Dragon Sovereign, help us claim the Heavenly River Waters, and I’ll send them to your Underworld.”
(End of Chapter)
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