Scales of Secrecy - Baomi Dengji

“The tide will always be swayed by the moon.” --- From the beginning of time, dragons and humans had never gotten along. The heavens, full of immortal gods, had always looked down on them as foul beings, and such disdain does not dissipate easily. Shen Xinyi, Grandmaster of Knowledge in Lower Heaven, faces such hatred head-on as he is discovered to be none other than a water dragon himself. After his exile to the human realm, Shen Xinyi has to live out his days trying to collect 300 years worth of qi to ascend again. --- 100 years prior, there was a great war. The Li kingdom awaited the return of the water dragons to save them from the wrath of the heavens. The entire kingdom resented the dragons, namely the Shen family, head of the dragons, for their failure to protect their most loyal believers. Eventually, almost everyone had forgotten the dragons. Due to the loss of his family, Hei Yue descended into madness, taking up demonic cultivation as his main practice. After being unwillingly banished from his sect and confined to Wei Mountain, the demonic cultivator flees in search of a spirit pearl, fabled to be found in the barren wasteland of the West Desert. Said pearl would grant one the power of 500 years of cultivation. --- As the two’s past unknowingly intertwines, leading to their future, what peril will they face because of past mistakes?