Mu, Old Dragon Qingbing, and Qing Fei raised their heads, gazing up at the inverted White Dragon World.
They watched with their own eyes as the land of the White Dragon World cracked and warped, expanding at a pace visible to the naked eye. The half-real, half-illusory world beyond the heavens was growing; mountains and rivers shifted positions. What seemed like endless natural disasters was actually some kind of transformation underway.
Old Dragon Qingbing's dragon head was spinning.
"Senior Mu, are you saying... she is the Imperial Daughter of the Dragon Court, the princess of our dragon race?"
Sitting on Qing Fei's shoulder, Mu took out a spirit fruit and casually stuffed it into Qing Fei's mouth. She cared for the two weakened dragons with great attentiveness, though she showed somewhat less warmth toward Qingbing.
As she peeled the shell, she sighed.
"Though she was born extraordinary, she too was forced into slumber as a child. After hatching, she began cultivating as a White Snake."
Thinking of a certain Bai's past, Mu could not stop her eyes from reddening.
"Poor thing. She often went hungry as a child, and she had to learn trades to earn money and support herself."
Qing Fei and Old Dragon Qingbing had yet to recover from their shock when they fell into confusion again. They could not understand how the dignified Imperial Daughter of the Dragon Court had actually gone hungry...
Mu stuffed the peeled spirit fruit into Qing Fei's mouth and took out a handkerchief to carefully wipe her dragon horns.
"Bai had it hard as a child. She entered the Daoist sect and cultivated the Dao, learning only Daoist techniques. After great difficulty, she underwent Snake to Flood Dragon Transformation and prepared to become a dragon, but the Dragon Gate was destroyed by