Shenhua Mountain

The water in the secluded ravine ran cold, while mountain winds carried the fragrance of flowers, yet they could not blow away her worries.

Bai Yujun had always remembered how hard it was to survive. She spoke and acted cautiously, strictly abiding by the survival rules she had set when she was reborn in the Hundred Thousand Mountains. Rule Four: when facing danger, flee with all her strength.

Danger lurked in the north, perhaps deadly danger. Yet she struggled over whether she should flee and cling to life, or go and fight.

When the demonic cult had been besieged years ago, she had hidden in distant Melt Heaven Ridge, far from disaster. She could ignore the disputes between humans and demons, but now the world was in peril. All living things should defend their homeland.

Heaven's will cherished all living beings. As a spirit beast nurtured by Heaven and Earth, she should all the more bring blessings to all things. A flood dragon steadied the four seas and all beneath the heavens.

Bai Yujun did not know whether other worlds had divine dragons ruling over them, but she could be certain that this world had only one juvenile flood dragon—herself. She barely managed to uphold the task of driving clouds, bringing rain, sorting out the dragon veins of mountains and rivers, and controlling the landscapes of one region. It was exhausting, but fulfilling.

She picked up a pebble and tossed it down the mountain.

"Mu, I'm timid and afraid of death. When I was little, I was only a snake demon, thinking of ways every day to scrape by and survive. That slogan about being invincible among those of the same rank only came after I grew stronger. Really, I just wanted to live. I didn't want to die."

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