Deep within the Mount Taihang Mountain Range, atop the immense Qingqiu Holy Mountain, a vast palace resembling an academy stood halfway up the mountain.
Figures bearing beastlike features sat quietly in meditation and cultivation throughout the palace.
Yu'er was among them.
Yet as several of them abruptly opened their eyes, each looked somewhat uncertain.
"Lady Yu'er, why has it become so cold..." At last, a female cultivator with fox ears could not help asking.
Yu'er rose as well. She walked out of the courtyard and looked up at the sky.
Frost had begun to form among the mountain woods without anyone noticing.
The entire world had turned considerably colder.
It was still the height of summer. This had never happened in previous years.
"Someone is about to break through." Yu'er looked toward the mountaintop before answering.
"Is it Lord Minyue?" someone else asked.
"No. Prepare to notify the Ye Family cultivators, as well as Lord Phoenix Saint and Lady Fox Saint!" Yu'er naturally knew that the one breaking through was clearly the Ye Family's Jade Scale Dragon.
She could even sense it—like a white true dragon was slowly awakening in the void, already releasing a faint, elusive pressure.
Before Yu'er could send a voice transmission, spiritual light began flowing across the entire holy mountain shortly afterward. It was clearly the grand formation spreading out to cover the area.
The Qingqiu Fox Saint and the Heaven Nirvana Phoenix Saint also descended before the Azure Nether Pool atop the mountain.
At this moment, the spirit pool had completely turned to solid ice, while streams of frigid dragon-shaped shadows gathered around it.
Ripples of rosy light gradually emerged as well.
"What a swift breakthrough. As expected of a flood dragon bearing the bloodline of a true dragon." Both the Heaven Nirvana Phoenix Saint