The Secrets of Jade Ring Pool?

Ji Xueruo slowly opened her sleepy eyes, as if she had just woken from a dream that spanned a thousand years.

A warm, white light woke her up, and everything around her changed.

The dark stalactites and glowing moss have disappeared, replaced by lush pine forests and colorful flowers, with rolling green hills in the distance.

The wind lifted countless catkins and petals, outlining the shape of the wind itself. Looking towards the end of the wind, one could see a vast, boundless marshland.

"Am I dreaming...?"

Ji Xueruo blinked hard, trying to shatter the dream, but the dream remained unchanged. The sweet fragrance in the air seemed to be telling her that this was reality.

Ji Xueruo, unaware of the reason, assumed that she had fallen asleep due to excessive fatigue. You Su had not yet recovered and a formidable enemy was still lurking in the shadows; this was definitely not the time for her to peacefully indulge in her dreams.

She rubbed her eyes vigorously, but to her astonishment, she discovered a chilling phenomenon—

She was fully aware that she was rubbing her eyes, and she was fully aware that she was closing her eyes, but why... could she still see this world?

Could it be... that she has more than two eyes?!

Ji Xueruo suddenly looked at her arm... This was not her hand at all, but a tentacle with countless ring-shaped patterns, just like a giant earthworm!

As she looked down further, she realized that there was far more than one tentacle! Dozens of these bizarre tentacles made up her lower body, turning her into an octopus-like monster!

"What's going on...?"

Ji Xueruo looked around, her heart pounding like a drum. On a whim, she rushed towards the mirror-like lake.

She stood by the lake, staring in disbelief at her reflection in the water.

What attracted her most was her own eyes.

These are a pair of huge, protruding eyeballs that never close, like the eyes of a dead fish. But within these enormous eyes are countless tiny eyes, crowded together so that each little eye protrudes slightly, making the entire eyeball resemble a cut-open honeycomb.

Ji Xueruo stared at herself, gradually becoming somewhat lost in thought.

After a long pause, she finally let out a soft, low praise:

"What a nice view..."

A profound sense of contradiction lingered in her heart. She clearly felt physical discomfort from the dense array of eyes, yet she couldn't help but have an intuition that 'this is so beautiful.'

She looked away, still not understanding what had happened to her.

The clear lake seemed to beckon her, and she involuntarily reached her tentacles into the water. As if electrocuted, her tentacles trembled slightly, and a surging tide of memories instantly swept over her consciousness.

She then realized that this was the Jade Ring Pool from long ago, so ancient that no one had ever entered this beautiful scene before.

And she was actually the Divine Beast who had grown up here since childhood—Zangtu.

She was born with the authority bestowed upon her by heaven, the Earth Authority.

This mountain range and land is her masterpiece. She never thought of leaving this land, nor did she want other intelligent beings to come in. So she surrounded herself with this ring-shaped mountain range. This is the home she built for herself.

But the one who deserves the most credit for turning this home into such a paradise on earth is her sister.

Her sister was not of the same origin as her; her sister was a white dragon, a true dragon. The white dragon was the Divine Beast of the great swamp, wielding the Water Authority bestowed by heaven, and was named Hidden Water.

They have lived here together since birth, relying on each other and using their respective strengths to make this mountain area a beautiful and idyllic place.

Just then, Ji Xueruo's consciousness began to rise, she detached from this body, and returned to herself.

The next scene continued, and Ji Xueruo then realized that Zang Tu was a male beast.

One was a mutated male sandworm, and the other was a goddess-like female white dragon, but they had loved each other for thousands of years and were no longer distinguishable from one another. In their eyes, the other was the most beautiful creature in the world.

On the mountaintop, in the lake, every corner of their home bears traces of their tender moments. Zangtu and his sister vowed to forever protect their home.

But one day, everything changed.

That day, Zangtu completed the gift he was giving to his sister: a magnificent palace built underground.

Their activities will not be limited to the ground. Once their sister fills this place with water, they will truly be able to 'hide the soil' and 'Hidden Water' here. This name was given to them by their sister because she always said she wanted to hide herself and her brother and never be found by anything.

Now that Zangtu has fulfilled his sister's wish, he excitedly swims to the bottom of the swamp, ready to give the gift to his sister.

But what happened next filled him with anger, terror, and panic. On the Five-Colored Soil at the bottom of the lake, two indescribable creatures were violating his sister, who showed no desire to resist. These filthy evil beings corrupted her; her pure white dragon scales began to turn black, and disgusting tumors grew on her body.

She, however, was addicted to this feeling of depravity, and Zang Tu even felt that his sister was enjoying herself more at this moment than when he had sex with her.

He rushed forward in disbelief, ready to fight the two evil creatures to the death and save his bewitched sister.

He holds the Earth Authority; this is his territory, and he fears no opponent!

But his efforts were in vain before those two evil creatures...

Even in his memories, he couldn't recall the appearances of the evil beings, as if he had never been worthy of seeing their true forms from the very beginning.

They didn't even need to act together; that one evil creature alone was enough to shatter his proud Earth Authority.

He seems to control all elements—metal, wood, water, fire, wind, thunder, lightning, and earth—and all of these elements are at His disposal, rendering all of Zangtu's efforts futile before Him...

He could only watch helplessly as the remaining evil spirit continued to violate Hidden Water, and her divine power was gradually drained away.

It wasn't just Hidden Water that had its power devoured; Hidden Earth suffered the same fate. These two evil beings originally had no gender distinction; the evil spirit that controlled the elemental power was drawing upon the Earth Authority within him.

Tibet refused to give up, desperately resisting the erosion of evil forces.

But why... why does my sister look so engrossed in it?

This tore at his heart, but his sister only looked at him with hatred and continued to fawn over the evil thing on her body.

Zangtu didn't know what the evil creature on his sister's body looked like, but he remembered that it had opened its eyes! Those were eyes he could never forget, radiating a mesmerizing, seven-colored light.

He seemed to see everything in the world reflected in those eyes, and he could find the answers to all his questions within them.

He saw his sister actively helping the humans outside the mountains, bringing rain to irrigate the lake for them. It was also his sister who personally brought the two evil creatures into their home. It turned out that his sister didn't want to hide here at all; she wanted to connect with the outside world.

He saw his sister personally offer up her Water Authority, and he also saw her return to her cave abode to make love with them after playing with him many times...

Everything felt like a nightmare...

When Zangtu awoke again, he was firmly fixed inside the underground palace he had carved out himself.

Corrupting Evil covered his entire body, and one day it would corrupt him into a true evil until the day he died.

The gradual corrosion made him increasingly weak, and his divine power uncontrollably scattered, then flowed from the ground into the great swamp, giving the entire swamp a more vigorous vitality. As a result, more and more Mystic Qi gathered here.

Without his and his sister's obstruction, humans finally discovered the paradise they had created together. They occupied the mountains as houses and the water as ponds, forcibly taking away their home.

No... this isn't his and his sister's home, this is his own home!

Hidden Water, the source of all this chaos, is the one who ruined everything! She could have rebelled alongside him!

But why... why did he give in like that?! Leaving him alone to guard this dilapidated home.

Zangtu remained in solitude for a thousand years, but when he saw that the Great Swamp had given birth to a White Dragon Carp with innate intelligence, Zangtu finally made up his mind.

He wanted revenge. He wanted revenge against those two evil creatures he had never seen before, and also against his sister who had betrayed him!

He accepted the corruption of Corrupting Evil and began to plan how to reclaim his power with the help of these humans. But he could not reclaim all his power; to gain divine power beyond what he had ever possessed, he still needed to devour the soul of the White Dragon Carp!

Fortunately, the Corrupting Evil within him seemed to originate from the evil creature with strange eyes, which granted him the ability to create illusions. So even though his power was insufficient to break free from the shackles underground, he could still make these foolish humans personally deliver their power into his mouth.

He learned from the thoughts of these humans that the two evil beings had become forbidden Evil God, one the Lord of the Five Elements and the other the Lord of Dreams. They possessed powerful authority comparable to the Heavenly Dao, and their divine power earned them the title of 'Evil God'.

And Zangtu will become the perfect combination of evil and divinity; he will be the fourth great Evil God in this world!

Ji Xueruo stood frozen in place. The conspiracy of the entire Jade Ring Pool was now obvious. Zangtu was originally a divine Divine Beast that protected the earth, but it had been corrupted by evil spirits and turned into this state, which was truly lamentable.

Humans are but ants before such beings; their actions, driven by their own purposes, were all part of the calculations of these colossal creatures.

What surprised Ji Xueruo was why she could have such a dream? Who had the ability to tell her all of this?

She could only think of one possibility: that mysterious Little White Fish! It was the spirit of the White Dragon Carp, born with intelligence! And it was highly likely that it had inherited the memories of the Hidden Water!

That's why she shared the good times with Tibet, but became an observer when it came to painful memories.

But why does the Little White Fish possess the abilities of evil spirits Dream Master Type?

The scene then shifts, this time focusing on the Hidden Water.

The Hidden Water has lived much longer than the soil dragon. It is a dragon of noble status, with a deeper understanding of the world and more knowledge of its secrets.

Zangtu is not actually a sand worm, but a clone created by Hidden Water using its own dragon bones. Heavenly Dao took pity on it and bestowed upon this ugly sand worm the Earth Authority.

From then on, Hidden Water finally had a companion. She cherished Zangtu's existence and indulged all his requests.

But good times always come to an end, just like everything she had ever experienced. Those two unprecedented Evil God came knocking, Hidden Water knew they were doomed.

Fortunately, their goal was not their lives, but only their power and authority.

That future Lord of the Five Elements was frantically seizing power from other living beings. At that time, He was already an unstoppable Evil God.

The Hidden Water are willing to give up everything so that they may spare the Tibetan land.

But in fact, she had planned everything all along. Her most powerful ability has always been a secret... that is, the ability to secretly copy other people's authority!

She was so close to replicating the authority of the Lord of Dreams!

Compared to that insignificant Water Authority, the power of the Lord of Dreams is enough to rival the Heavenly Dao!

With such a powerful Dream Authority, she could at least drive these two Evil God out of their home!

But Zangtu had to interrupt at the most crucial moment. She had clearly shown him that scene using her Dream Authority... Why didn't he just give up and leave obediently? Why did he have to come and die?

This not only led to her revealing her secret of possessing incomplete Dream Authority, but also enabled the Lord of the Five Elements to collect all elemental authority!

Because of Zangtu's selfless love, everything was beyond repair.

The Hidden Water was casually crushed by the Lord of Dreams; the proud white dragon was not even as good as an earthworm in front of the Evil God.

Ironically, a thousand years later, this paradise-like Jade Ring Pool gave birth to a guardian spirit, but this time it was no longer the noble Divine Beast White Dragon, but an evil spirit Dream Master Type.

The Little White Fish inherited all of Hidden Water's memories, but it is not the real Hidden Water after all. Memories cannot turn you into another person. It is just a creature that embodies the birth of nearly a hundred generations of people from Jade Ring Pool.

It has loved its people since birth, yet it fears the hidden soil at the bottom of the lake.

The timid creature wanted to escape, but its intense guilt made it turn back before it had gone very far.

More and more of its subjects are being misled and falling into an abyss from which they cannot escape.

It could the Unseen that these two young people who entered the pool were the ones who would change its fate, and it was going to gamble! It was going to kill the hidden soil at the bottom of the lake and restore the Jade Ring Pool to its most primitive form!

Ji Xueruo suddenly sat up, panting heavily, her body already soaked in sweat.

It was as if she had traveled for a thousand years, and now the journey had come to an end. She returned wearily to her starting point, that dark underground cave.

And waking up with her was You Su, whose brows were furrowed.

He had clearly experienced the same dream as Ji Xueruo, and the deepest secrets were all revealed to them by the Little White Fish.

Ji Xueruo she wanted to say something, but You Su's first words instantly jolted her awake from her dream:

"Miss Ji, please... cultivate with me."

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