Yun Ya River.
This great river ran through all of Beihai Prefecture.
After Bai Ruxue entered the Yun Ya River, she had brought torrential rain. But the waterways Xiao Mo had spent years clearing throughout Beihai Prefecture were no mere showpieces, and the great dams he had built there were no decorations.
On top of that, Xiao Mo had notified the prefect of Beihai Prefecture well in advance, so preparations had already been made.
At most, the people on both banks would be frightened. They would come to no harm.
Xiao Mo sat on Bai Ruxue's back.
Ruxue's body was changing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Her slender body stretched and writhed, now reaching a full thirty zhang in length.
Her entire body was covered in silver-white scales that shimmered in the faint light, like an icy river formed from moonlight and starlight.
A pair of delicate, translucent silver-white dragon horns had begun to break through the scales atop her head. Like jade shoots carved from snow, they were still tender, but already glimmered with a flawless purity and an extraordinary shape.
Ordinary flood dragons had no horns, but Ruxue did—a testament to the purity of her bloodline.
Newly sprouted snow-white fur draped down her neck and back like tassels, gleaming with a silky sheen.
Ruxue had grown four claws on her new limbs. Most flood dragons had only three.
Her eyes, too, were gradually turning golden, their pupils narrowing to slits.
Although Ruxue had yet to reach the sea, her form was already indistinguishable from that of an ordinary flood dragon.
"Xiao Mo, this last stretch is going so smoothly," Bai Ruxue said to him.
Bai Ruxue had thought she would face some sort of resistance, but nothing had happened.
"Mm." Xiao Mo nodded. "It is