"Good thing she didn't get stuck in that dead end of hers. Saved me the trouble."
Outside the shattered cabin, Nian watched the green Dragon God dancing through the sky and smiled in relief. As sisters for many years, Nian naturally knew Xi well, including why Xi had stayed within her paintings for so long.
"Was that an epiphany? Still, I didn't expect them to be able to turn into dragons. Then again, even if they were fragments of the Time Beast, they came from the same source."
Watching the green Dragon God soar skyward and feeling the aura radiating from it, Shen Fei could not help but think of this. Still, Xi's transformation into a Dragon God had caught him somewhat by surprise.
"Thank you for this. She's finally come through it." Nian rarely looked so serious as she thanked Shen Fei.
"What happened?" Shen Fei asked curiously.
"For Xi, another world was both an opportunity and a trial," Nian said slowly.
"So this is the way of painting. Come to think of it, Xi's ability is quite formidable. Given enough time to grow powerful enough, she might even be able to create a real world of her own."
After hearing Nian's explanation, Shen Fei more or less understood why Xi had changed like this. Xi had always hidden inside her paintings and refused to sleep for all these years because she feared that, like the figures in her scrolls, her own existence might rest entirely on a single thought.
At the same time, Xi had always suspected that the Terra she lived in might itself be a painting. That suspicion came from her powers and her path; she could not help thinking that way. She simply had no way of proving whether her world was false, so it