Time flew like flowing water and speeding arrows.
Three years passed in a rush. Zhang Qi had grown into a little boy, running wild with the village children every day. He especially loved playing at being a general commanding battles. Strangely enough, the village children truly listened to Zhang Qi—if he told them to go east, they absolutely did not dare go west. He had every bit the bearing of a child king.
The village had changed greatly. The only thing unchanged was that slender figure by the lake.
Bai Yujun gazed at the lake with an expressionless face.
Amid the tangled states of the world stood the shadow of enduring pines; through fleeting years came the sound of flowing water.
After three years of unceasing acceleration and fattening, the force-feeding was nearly complete. Zhang Qi had already absorbed the Earth Vein Dragon Qi he was meant to contain ahead of time. It was time to take Zhang Wan's family away from this place and find somewhere secluded to live.
Wait a little longer. Wait until it rained.
Several days later, Kaihe Township was hit by a heavy rain. The people whispered that a dragon had flown into the sky and departed...
A remote village near a lake.
A spacious house had been built at the foot of the mountain, with green tiles and gray bricks. Its back rested against verdant mountains, its front faced a clear lake, and a massive Ginkgo Tree stood to the east of the house. Small streams ran along both sides of the courtyard and joined into a lotus pond before the gate. With water flowing in from both left and right, its feng shui was superb.
Vegetable plots, rice paddies, plowing oxen lowing, waterwheels turning lazily—Bai Yujun had personally arranged and altered the place