After finishing his all-night talk with Ma Xiaotao, Zhu Ziyang had planned to return to his room for a brief rest. Yet before he could even close his eyes, something else happened to interrupt his sleep.
In Zhu Ziyang's room, the cocoon of light formed by Xing Cai finally stirred after nearly four years of silence. Cracks appeared across the massive cocoon, and a dense aura of light bloomed from within them, drawing the eye.
Zhu Ziyang was briefly stunned, but quickly pulled himself together and watched Xing Cai, who was about to emerge from her cocoon. Honestly, with his current strength, even if Xing Cai had undergone a complete transformation and improved by leaps and bounds, she was still little more than a mascot to him. Unless the little one reached the level of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, she truly could not offer him much help.
Of course, he had never expected her to help him in the first place.
Soon, more and more cracks spread across the cocoon. At last, under Zhu Ziyang's gaze, it shattered with a boom, revealing an extraordinarily majestic unicorn. It stood over three meters tall and stretched more than five meters long, its entire body covered in golden fur. A pair of radiant, rainbow-colored feathered wings grew from its ribs, while a crystal horn gleaming with multicolored light rose from its forehead. Its eyes were a captivating amber gold.
This was unmistakably an adult Starlight Unicorn.
"Xing Cai, congratulations. You're all grown up!" Zhu Ziyang said with great feeling. To be honest, he had never expected Xing Cai to rely directly on her cultivation to enter adulthood. Though even as an adult, Xing Cai could still only serve as a mascot.
"Hehe! Thank you, Lord Ziyang!" Xing Cai's voice had not changed much.