Before the words had even faded, the entire grand hall began to shake violently! A piercing, metal-splitting roar echoed from afar, making the surrounding jade pillars tremble and sending fine dust sifting down. The blood-red Jade Pendant trembled violently in Ling Xiao's palm, growing so hot it nearly scorched his skin. The golden veins on its surface twitched like living things, pointing toward a coiled-dragon jade pillar in the southeast corner of the grand hall.
"It's over there!" Ling Xiao's pupils constricted slightly, the Dragon Clan essence within him boiling uncontrollably. He could sense that something was awakening—an existence intimately connected to his own bloodline yet entirely distinct from it.
Qingyao suddenly let out a terrified moan, stumbling back a few steps. The wound on her back strangely emitted a cyan glow, as if responding to something. "L-Lord... it's coming..."
Chapter 739