Honghuang Taihuang

Chapter 106 Dragon Clan's Scheme

The two royal rulers also had gloomy expressions, clearly not expecting that they would have such a destiny.

If they truly embark on such a destiny, then the Phoenix Royal Family and the Xuan Turtle Royal Family will be doomed. Therefore, Zhu Qi and Xuan Si also sent envoys to the Dragon Clan to discuss the matter of the Four Divine Beasts with the Azure Emperor.

On Taiwei's side, at the moment when Cangdi, Zhuqi, and Xuansi discovered their own destiny, he once again felt the connection between himself and the destiny of the Western White Tiger Sacred Beast growing ever stronger.

Within the Purple Palace, countless starlight descended, and the Western White Tiger Sacred Beast, which had previously been just an illusion, had now become completely solid.

The enormous, sacred body completely covered Taiwei's primordial spirit, and the pure gold and silvery-white starlight illuminated Taiwei's Purple Palace.

As countless thoughts raced through Taiwei's mind, he realized that the Azure Emperor, Zhu Qi, and Xuan Si already knew about his destiny, and a smile appeared on his face.

Taiwei watched the gold and silver patterns beneath him slowly disappear into the earth's dragon veins, then returned to the Golden Palace, quietly awaiting the contact from the three royal families: the True Dragon, the Phoenix, and the Black Tortoise.

Taiwei was not kept waiting for long. Just a hundred years later, a dazzling black rainbow suddenly descended outside the Golden Palace where he was.

The young man, dressed in red with a dragon tattooed on his chest and a pair of crystal-clear jade horns on his head, looked at the Golden Palace Dao Palace before him, which showed no trace of spiritual energy, and gave a bitter smile: "It actually shielded all the energy fluctuations of its own Dao Palace. Is this senior deliberately toying with me?"

The young man slowly floated towards the Golden Palace, his bitter smile and complaining expression completely disappearing. The person in front of him was a top-level powerhouse from the beginning of creation, the Ancestral Dragon Emperor, who was no weaker than their True Dragon Lord in the past.

Although this person has just returned from his tribulation, as a member of the Dragon Mirroring Division of the True Dragon Royal Family, the young man knows that the Second Ancestor of the White Tiger Royal Family, Tianxu, was killed by Taiwei. In the young man's opinion, such strength, even if it is weaker than that of his Dragon Clan's Ancestral Dragon Emperor, is not much weaker.

The moment the young man reached the gate of the Golden Palace, the exquisitely carved white jade gate slowly opened, and a darkness slowly surged out from within the palace, which was then dispelled by the dazzling starlight.

A ray of starlight drew the young man into the Dao Palace. Behind the white jade desk, Taiwei looked at the Four Divine Beasts he had just finished painting and writing on the desk, his expression quite satisfied: "Perhaps this will work."

"The Dragon Clan's intelligence network is truly terrifying. I concealed all the energy fluctuations of my Dao Palace, yet you were still able to find it. Has your Dragon Clan established an intelligence network in the Zhou Mountain region?"

The white jade and purple-haired brush that shimmered with starlight disappeared from Taiwei's hand. Taiwei put the scroll on the table into his sleeve, looked at the dragon youth kneeling on the ground below, and asked.

"You jest, Dao Lord. According to the agreement of 38 million years ago, the Zhou Mountain region belongs to the Qilin royal family. How could our Dragon Clan possibly set up any intelligence network in the Zhou Mountain region?"

The young man spoke neither humbly nor arrogantly, his eyes fixed straight ahead, his voice calm.

"Although I don't know if you believe what you're saying, I'll assume you do for now."

With a wave of his hand, Taiwei put the Zhou Tian Flying Tiger Ship, which had transformed into the Golden Palace, into his sleeve. Looking at the dragon youth below, Taiwei walked up to him and said, "Take it out. I've wanted to experience the True Dragon Royal Family's Tai Xu You Long Talisman for a long time."

The young man's calm expression suddenly changed, and he looked at Taiwei with a look of surprise.

If it weren't for the fact that his mission this time was to contact Taiwei, even he, as the first-class director of the Imperial Observatory, wouldn't know about the Taixu Dragon Travel Talisman. How could Taiwei, an outsider, possibly know about it?

"Don't look at me like that. Your so-called intelligence and spies are of little use to true top-level experts. I know far more secrets about the True Dragon Royal Family than you do."

"I know all of these: the Void Soaring Dragon Talisman, the Four Seas Ascending Dragon Gate, the Great Underworld Ghost Dragon Pool, and the Heavenly Mansion Dragon Spring, or rather, all the top-level experts know them."

Taiwei made calculations with his left hand, looking at the young man before him, his pupils narrowing almost imperceptibly: "Interesting, this kid named Ji Meng is not simple."

"This person's fortune has even reached half of mine. Such fortune is extremely abnormal for a true immortal. Does this kid also have a destiny?"

Taiwei looked at Jimeng with a probing gaze, secretly deducing Jimeng's destiny. Jimeng, however, was unaware of Taiwei's actions and was still pondering the profound information revealed in Taiwei's words earlier.

"If that's the case, why do the five royal families each have their own departments specifically for gathering intelligence and calculating celestial secrets?"

"The Dragon Mirroring Heaven Bureau of my Dragon Clan, the Phoenix Heaven Nine Bureaus of the Phoenix Royal Clan, the Wentian Palace of the White Tiger Royal Clan, the Bagua Nine Palaces Pavilion of the Black Tortoise Royal Clan, and the Tianlin Life Palace of the Qilin Royal Clan—aren't these intelligence networks painstakingly built up by the five great royal clans?"

"Haha, it seems your understanding of destiny and fate is still too naive."

Taiwei looked at the bewildered expression on Ji Meng's face and laughed loudly: "In the eyes of true great beings of heaven and earth, heavenly secrets and destiny are merely a reference. True strongmen care about destiny, but they will not act entirely in accordance with it. Otherwise, the Azure Emperor would not have come to find me this time."

"As a member of the Dragon Clan's Mirror of Heaven, shouldn't you be very clear that once the great calamity descends, all heavenly secrets and destinies will be obscured by the chaos of the Heavenly Dao?"

"By then, no one will be able to detect any divine will or secrets. That's when the intelligence network that you intelligence officers have worked so hard to build will come in handy."

"The intelligence department is very useful, but its usefulness is not usually apparent. So you don't need to worry that you are doing useless things. The Azure Emperor spent so many resources to build an intelligence network that covers the entire prehistoric world. He didn't do it for nothing."

Seeing the disappointment on Ji Meng's face, Taiwei spoke up and took a wooden talisman with a dragon relief from Ji Meng's furrowed brows.

Taiwei held the Taixu Youlong Talisman and sensed an extremely pure spatial and temporal power emanating from it. If he wished, he could crush the Taixu Youlong Talisman at any time and reach a radiant coordinate within it.

"Alright, your task is complete. You may leave now."

With a wave of his sleeve, Taiwei sent Ji Meng's figure disappearing from the Dao Palace. Ten thousand miles away, Ji Meng looked at the location of the Golden Palace, his brows furrowed, and he sighed. His figure then transformed into a dragon-shaped rainbow and vanished without a trace.

(End of this chapter)