"This illusory space was created from the heart force of me and my companions. Were you the one absorbing it earlier?" the skeletal dragon replied.0

"I apologize. I've stopped doing so," Xiao Nanfeng replied immediately.0

"Forget it. Ignorance is not a crime."0

Xiao Nanfeng bowed, then waited patiently while Croak, Warble, and the Superior absorbed the toxins and cursed energy from the ancestral dragon.0

Nearby, Ao Zhou, watching Croak and Warble benefit from what was going on, anxiously cried and began to complain, "Ancestor, the Eastern Sea Draconic Palace has suffered terribly. While you were gone, it was destroyed. My father died in tragedy, and all the elders perished as well. The descendants of the Eastern Sea have almost been wiped out entirely. I am the last survivor. I struggled to establish a new palace, but we're destitute and constantly being bullied by other forces. Ancestor, please help me out!"1

The skeletal dragon clearly hadn't expected to have such a shameless descendant. It...0