Author: Lotus Heart Mortal
Lotus Heart was the child of a lotus flower. He gained sentience in an illusory rain, and from then on, he dove and played in the nearby waters.
One night, beneath a purple moon hanging in the sky, Lotus Heart was diving when he suddenly heard a dragon's roar. Looking up, he saw Dragon Who Never Weans, drinking milk, fly across the sky. Lotus Heart envied him greatly and wanted to be like Milk Dragon, so he began cultivating diligently, searching everywhere in the water for materials to advance. At last, with the help of a pavilion tower, he emerged from the water and came onto land.
The world outside was dazzling and colorful. Here, Lotus Heart saw asarum blooming with dark purple flowers, as well as angelica covering the ground. He continued forward as he looked around, when suddenly he felt a gust of cold wind sweep past. Even the faint purple light cast by Purple Moon was blocked by something.
When he looked up, he discovered in horror that a monster, ten thousand zhang long and roughly a thousand zhang wide, was flying toward him from a hundred li away. In the blink of an eye, it was already before him. It was a Frost Centipede, with a total of eighty wings growing along both sides of its body. Its presence was terrifying, and piercing cold radiated from its entire body.
Fortunately, it merely swept past more than ten li above Lotus Heart's head and did not hit him. Otherwise, with Lotus Heart's tiny six-foot body and his mere Kindergarten Level Two strength, he definitely would have... Still, Lotus Heart was frozen in place by the cold it gave off.
Before long, another boy wearing a straw hat came running this way. He was