Yunxi returned to the Mirror World once more. She thought she should be able to return to the Demon Realm this time, but the mirror above her head sucked her in again.
In her daze, Yunxi felt something calling to her. The next instant, she began free-falling again, except this time she could see clearly that she was plummeting toward a golden lake.
Yunxi slowly steadied herself as she fell, landing atop the golden lake's surface five breaths later. She sensed immense power within the golden water. The Immortal Spirit Grass in her Dantian began to stir restlessly, but she stopped it.
Before she figured out why Fang Jing had sent her here, she would not casually absorb the power here and break the balance of this world.
At that moment, a hundred-meter-long golden python appeared by the lake. Its vertical pupils fixed on Yunxi standing upon the water, its scarlet tongue flickering constantly. Its body coiled like a mosquito coil, its raised head swaying from side to side, brimming with hostility toward Yunxi.
Sensing its hostility, Yunxi raised a brow. She then stepped across the water to the shore. The instant her feet touched solid ground, the Golden Python twisted its body, its golden scales flipping outward. Three breaths later, it transformed into a towering man two and a half meters tall, with long golden hair draped over his shoulders.
Dense, fine golden scales covered the exposed skin of his body. A leather skirt of the same color hung around his waist, and he stood barefoot on the ground, sizing Yunxi up and down with golden eyes as though trying to determine her origins.
After the two had studied each other for a long while, the man finally spoke.
"Who are you? Why did you appear in the Sacred