It was chaos. Complete chaos.
Bai Yujun's inherited memories recognized it as the Ba Snake, a terrifying creature of legend.
The colossal beast's sudden awakening from deep slumber unleashed disaster on a mountain-collapse, earth-rending scale. Birds and beasts that had lived in the mountains for years suffered terribly. Earth and Stone collapsed, forests snapped apart, rolling dust swept up splinters and blades of grass, streams were cut off, and lake and pond water splashed into the cracks...
Bai Yujun stood where she was, her pretty face stunned, mouth hanging open without words.
Countless birds and beasts shrieked as they fled the mountains—among them a one-legged Wild Ox and a fox-like monster with only one eye.
The hill moved. The Ba Snake raised its enormous head, stirring gale-force winds that sent Bai Yujun's long hair flying and her robes snapping. The aura of primordial wilderness was close enough to touch.
Rumble~
Ancient beasts of every size fled past her in panic, sending dirt and grass flying everywhere.
A palm-sized, bearded rat creature in clothes bounced past for its life. A strange giant like an iron tower, formed from stone, swept by her side. Bai Yujun remained utterly motionless, a streak of white standing out conspicuously amid the herd.
The beasts fled past in terror.
Splash, splash~
Hearing water, Bai Yujun slowly turned her head.
She watched a one-horned monster fish with a huge head leap away, flinging spray everywhere...
Its fortune seemed dim and murky, shadowed by a crisis that would claim its life.
Crash! A giant tree fell from the sky and struck the one-horned monster fish. The fish died. Though it was a strange beast, the ancient tree was likewise an ancient species—heavy and hard. Such was fate.
Bai Yujun suddenly understood something. She felt the shock that her