Time flies and it’s already three days later.
Behind the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea, near the Dragon Abyss, there is a tall stone platform that is several feet above the ground and over a hundred feet in circumference. Eighty-one dragon-raising pillars stand around it, each carved with a lifelike green coiled dragon, all holding a pearl in their mouths and facing the center of the stone platform with their heads held high.
At this moment, the stone platform was surrounded by descendants of the Dragon Palace, each with a solemn expression, waiting for that glorious and sacred moment.
Shen Luo and Qing Chi stood side by side in front of the crowd. They glanced around and found that there were many more aquatic cultivators with extraordinary auras around them. Among them were the green-skinned mermaids he had seen before and deep-sea giants covered with scales that he had never seen before. Feeling a little strange, he asked Qing Chi.
“These are all the Dragon Palace soldiers and generals who were originally stationed in various places in the East China Sea. Some of them were originally independent cultivators from the East China Sea. They have all returned to the Dragon Palace one after another. Some came back to garrison the Dragon Palace, and some just wanted to witness this moment in history.” Qing Chi replied immediately.
"So that's how it is." Shen Luo said.
"Buzz..."
At this moment, eight mermaid warriors with purple skin came to the front of the stage, each holding a white conch as big as a water jar in their hands. They put them to their mouths and blew them with all their strength.
Layers of special sound waves were transmitted from it, rippling towards the sea in all directions, spreading along the crystal light curtain outside the Dragon Palace, and spreading tens of thousands of feet away.
A large number of deep-sea creatures cruising around the sea froze and stopped swimming when they heard the sound.
But then, as if they had received some kind of summons, they all swam towards the direction of the Dragon Palace.
At the same time, the soldiers and aquatic creatures stationed in various places in the Dragon Palace also stopped their actions. They stood in place with solemn expressions, looking motionlessly in the direction of Shenglongtai.
On the side of Shenglongtai, golden light flickered in the sky. Two golden dragons, one big and one small, circled and descended from the sky and landed in the middle of the stone platform. Two figures appeared in the light. They were Ao Guang, the Dragon King of the East China Sea, and Ao Hong, the Ninth Prince.
"Greetings, Dragon King." Seeing this, everyone bowed.
"Thanks for your help in guarding the East China Sea for a long time, but it will eventually come to an end. Today, Shenglongtai is reopened to pass on the ancestral spirit to the ninth son Ao Hong. I hope that you can assist me wholeheartedly in the future to protect the descendants of the East China Sea in this doomsday and benefit all people in the world." Upon seeing this, Ao Guang waved to everyone and spoke.
When everyone heard this, they all looked sad, and for a moment they fell into silence, with no one speaking.
"I will follow the Dragon King's orders."
After a while, a loud voice suddenly came from the other side of the stone platform.
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Ao Zhong holding his hands together and saluting towards the two people in the center of the stone platform. It was obvious that the words just now were said by him.
"I will follow the Dragon King's orders."
Soon after, another voice was heard, and the speaker was Yuan Lu, the turtle prime minister with great experience in the Dragon Palace.
With them taking the lead, everyone in the Dragon Palace began to speak up, and the voices of "We will follow the Dragon King's orders" began to rise one after another, resounding around the Shenglong Terrace.
Upon seeing this, Ao Guang walked forward with great satisfaction, raised his hand and pressed twice to get everyone to quiet down.