After leaving Sea God's Pavilion, Han Yue seemed to deliberately, or perhaps unconsciously, head toward where Ye Chen was. Her mind had already sunk completely into her memories.
Time rewound to two years ago. Deep within the boundless Star Dou Forest, pale golden mist rose from a vast lake that resembled white jade, carrying immense Life Energy that nourished the thriving vitality around it.
Everything around it was so quiet. Under the bright moonlight of the night, it looked as dreamy as a fairyland. In nearly every corner, one could find the promise of life, dazzling anyone who beheld it.
That was the true core of the Star Dou Forest, and also an absolute forbidden zone for human soul masters.
Over the past ten thousand years, countless explorers had entered it for all manner of reasons. Unfortunately, none had ever returned.
Only a handful of terrifying powers on the continent had records of this place. Most soul masters likely could not imagine that such a paradise on earth existed in the perilous depths of the Star Dou Forest.
Yet within this place where slaughter and vitality coexisted stood a beautiful figure, utterly out of place amid the Great Ferocious Land's fearsome reputation.
On a strange branch hanging over the lake and drawing nourishment from it, a girl in a light pink dress sat with her bare jade-like feet submerged in the water. As her legs swayed, ripples spread across the surface. Her equally light pink eyes gazed blankly over the endless Lake of Life, while her thoughts had long since drifted to distant horizons.
The girl looked to be twelve or thirteen years old, no different from Han Yue's appearance when Ye Chen had first met her two years ago.
The Imperial Beast had only just successfully taken human