Back in the room, as soon as Li Ping'an lay down and closed his eyes, his mind was filled with the image of the Dragon King of the Jing River wielding the Thunder Technique. That earth-shattering spectacle was truly magnificent and his heart was still tumultuous from the experience.
Li Ping'an pondered learning the Thunder Technique himself; if he couldn't find Zixia in the next couple of days, he would return to the real world to search for Taoist scriptures about the Thunder Technique. As he was lost in thought, he unknowingly drifted off to sleep.
However, the scene that occurred in the Fallen Dragon Pit was unknown to others, but atop the Ascension Tower within the Golden City of the Chang'an Imperial Palace—the mystical domain of Emperor Li Gai of the Great Tang—a pair of eyes had been silently watching everything that happened in the Fallen Dragon Pit. After a long while, they voiced a cry of alarm:
"The Destined One has arrived!"