Did we go back a few dozen chapters and I just didn't notice? All of this feels like it should have happened ages ago.
I mean, he defeated the strongest cultivator on the planet and fought off cultivators from another dimension.
You can't just jump straight from that to settling relatively petty debts with nobodies from like 100 chapters ago.
The weirdness of people suddenly freaking out over his dragon general status when he's already built up far, far more impressive feats furthers my theory that this chapter was meant to happen ages ago, but the author just forgot to include it so they're throwing it in now.
I mean, it's not a huge problem. It's not like I come to these stories for the A+ writing, but I can't be the only one who thinks this is really weird.