The Endless Promise {COMPLETED}

152. Arrogance

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The evening after the Caoyang massacre, Sky Palace released a Resounding Edict which flew to every region of the Sky and Mortal Realms, and the edict proclaimed Yin Xiaolong guilty, accusing him of being the Demon King Incarnate.

This Edict was accompanied by a collection of memories...

The memories of witnesses who first saw Bailong transform into a Black Dragon in the Out Worlds, and then the memories of the witnesses who saw the Black Dragon attacking the Sky Empress.

In one particular memory, the black dragon had flown right towards the heavily pregnant Empress.

All but a few shut their eyes as the heavily pregnant Empress clutched her stomach, trying to run, but the black dragon crashed into her, sending her flying.

She brutally smashed into a stone wall and fell to the ground, vomiting blood. But before she could rise, the dragon unfurled and shot straight for her again. She stood up while trying to cast a feeble seal, then sighed in relief when Zhurong Fen appeared, descending to stand before her, facing the black dragon.

Zhurong Fen fought against the dragon for a while, but it was clear to all that she was outmatched, and soon, the dragon claimed her life, drawing gasps as she fell from the sky to the ground.

By now, the floral immortals around had fled and a few were still running away. But the dragon did not go after them. Instead, it went right for the still weak Empress again, brutally rushing at her...

The Immortal's memory ended there as he used the opportunity to slip away.

But this was the memory Tianlong and Fei Yun had seen that day in the Floral realm.

Seeing the brutal deaths had been too much for them to bear, especially Tianlong who had lost three people all in one...

Wife, child, and sister.

The only family he had left.

And this had been the final spiral against Bailong, leading to the cold-blooded attack on Caoyang...

As for the Immortals, they were also convinced that the Black Dragon could only be Yin Xiaolong.

The black dragon in that memory was clearly after the Empress...

"Hmph! Who doesn't know that the Empress opposed Yin Xiaolong everywhere?!" They gossiped.

"Wasn't the Empress one of those insistent that the Snake Clan be destroyed? Didn't that make her Yin Xiaolong's enemy?!"

"And how many dragons in Sky realm can defeat the great Zhurong Fen so easily?!"

"Which other dragon is powerful enough to blind the stars?!"

They had judged him on their own...

And as for the Mortals, they simply listened and believed in what the Immortals said.

In the end, without any form of trial, Sky Realm had deemed Yin Xiaolong guilty of being the Demon King Incarnate, and the respect and admiration once held for him, had turned into fear and hatred...

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Meanwhile, earlier at dawn of that same day, Bailong had set Caoyang in a decent form of order.

Then he vanished silently when no one was looking.

Sky Realm was still sealed, so he found a secluded spot to meditate, raising a water clone in the East Sea.

First, he directed the clone to Four-Petal garden. There, he dismissed everyone within, giving each one chests-full of rare treasures, and then he sealed the garden off for good, freezing the seeds, plants, and herbs in a timeless state.