Bi Chen and Lang Ye hacked their way through the waters, alarming the gray jiao guarding the cavern as soon as they entered the lake. The two monster spirits glimpsed a majestic pale-gold dragon egg hovering in the water the moment the jiao withdrew its head.

“Why is it a dragon egg? Isn’t it supposed to be Dragon Transformation Grass?” Bi Chen asked blankly. “Or has a scaled-dragon with draconic bloodline eaten the grass and turned into a dragon egg?”

Bam!

In the split second they spent gaping at the egg, the jiao slammed its tail at the two interlopers. The spirit beasts in the lake were remnants of pureblood jiao, the equivalent of this one’s descendants. It flew into a rage at seeing a great number of them slaughtered by the two impudent trespassers.

“What?!” Lang Ye gasped with dismay, never imagining that something so terrible would be present beneath Jade Ice Lake. He and Bi Chen could match human empyrean immortals because they possessed the...