Brocade Fairy Maiden

The girl next door carefully examined Bai Yujun's dragon horns and pointed ears.

"To be honest, everyone says there are four Divine Dragons guarding the seas in the four directions, but I've heard there are especially many divine posts at sea. Here in the Heavenly Court, we've only heard that dragons exist in the Four Seas—no one has ever seen them. You're the first real, living dragon I've ever seen with my own eyes."

Her eyes burned with curiosity.

Bai Yujun realized that those four truly had no presence at all. There were simply too many immortals in the seas. Though they were said to guard them, their actual circumstances were probably not easy. They could be called model rebels.

"I heard that a qilin cultivates on an immortal mountain in Eastern Continent. It is rarely seen and has not descended the mountain for hundreds or thousands of years."

Well then, the qilin was probably scared. It hid in its old nest, playing dead and refusing to come out, diligently becoming a crouching demon lord.

"As for phoenixes..."

The girl furrowed her brows in serious thought.

"I've never heard any news of the Phoenix Clan. My master said they may very well have gone extinct. What a pity. Phoenixes are the emperors of the Feathered Clan, and they're beautiful. I'm afraid we may never see them again."

Hearing that the phoenixes might have gone extinct, Bai Yujun felt a pang of shared sorrow.

Nothing was sadder than the extinction of a species. So-called survival of the fittest was merely an excuse habitually used by destroyers. The birth of every species was immensely difficult. Once it was gone, it was truly gone. The world of the future should not be filled with nothing but photographs.

Phoenixes—even Bai Yujun knew they were