Huang Yuelan opened her eyes, her golden pupils emitting a faint glow in the darkness.
She carefully sensed the call of that bloodline, which guided her like a beacon.
She then started walking slowly across the rock-strewn riverbed, searching with care.
There were far too many stones here—tens of thousands, each with a different shape.
But that unique sensation allowed her to clearly distinguish her target.
At last, among a pile of utterly unremarkable ordinary gray stones, she sensed the strongest throb.
That's it!
The stone looked no different from the ordinary stones around it.
It was gray, oval-shaped, and even had some rough patterns on its surface.
It was as ordinary as could be.
If not for the guidance of her bloodline, she would never have spared it a glance even after walking past it a hundred times.
Joy welled up in Huang Yuelan's heart. Suppressing her excitement, she slowly reached out and grabbed at the seemingly ordinary gray stone.
Her fingertips were just about to touch the stone when, at that critical moment—
Boom!
An incomparably violent and terrifying pressure, thick with the aura of bloodshed and the primeval wilds, suddenly erupted from the silt beside her!
The riverbed exploded. Mud and sand churned, and the water instantly became utterly murky.
A colossal shadow, like a ferocious beast that had lain in wait for ten thousand ages, suddenly burst from the silt.
It opened a maw large enough to swallow a small mountain and viciously bit down at Huang Yuelan!
It was a giant crocodile more than a hundred zhang long.
Its entire body was covered in savage scales resembling black divine iron, flashing with a cold metallic sheen.
Its four limbs were thick and powerful, while its claws gleamed with a chill sharp enough to tear through