The Dragonkin easily dug a shaft sixty meters deep. That was deep enough.
Meanwhile, Huang Ji studied the Dragonkin Language with Vahana.
Honey was astonished. At first, she thought Huang Ji was learning from Vahana, but she quickly realized that was not the case. "Why are the two of you learning from Little Youmi together?" Honey asked in surprise.
Little Youmi was a five-year-old Dragonkin child.
Adults learning to speak from a child? So Vahana was not even as proficient in Dragonkin Language as her own child? Huang Ji said, "A language is recorded in the Dragonkin genes. They automatically learn it as they grow older. If someone teaches them, they learn faster. If no one teaches them, they finish learning it when they turn five."
"After the age of five, the function that automatically activates the language disappears. They have to learn it consciously through rote memorization."
"Those humans like Alexei who were transformed into Dragonkin became twenty years old immediately after their transformation, so they initially did not know Dragonkin Language. Only after they had children did they learn it from the Dragonkin children in turn."
However, to people like Vahana, it was equivalent to a second language rather than their native tongue. Their mother language was still English.
Listening to Little Youmi's "ang hoo, ang hoo," Honey bared her teeth and said, "Our physiological structures are different. We can't learn Dragonkin Language, can we?"
To her surprise, Huang Ji immediately began howling along with Little Youmi. Huang Ji was clearly struggling and lacked some of the proper inflections, but Little Youmi still understood him. The two actually started talking.
Of course, Huang Ji was only saying a few everyday phrases.
Huang Ji smiled. "It's not too bad. Dragonkin Language has no grammar—or rather, its grammar is very