Leaping over the Dragon Gate was merely a beautiful legend.
Like a tiny loach in a muddy pool, no matter how long it cultivated, without an inherited bloodline, it could never become a divine dragon.
But the black-and-white fish from the Divine Sea leaping from the Weak Water into the void meant far more than a fish leaping over the Dragon Gate.
In that instant, it had broken free of heaven and earth's restraints on life.
In the next moment, the void became a sea of chaos.
A ray of heavenly light—something that had never happened before—pierced through the ten-thousand-zhang abyss. Like a streak of divine radiance, it fell upon the fish transforming within the chaos.
The man on the shore sighed and murmured to himself, "Is this fortune or misfortune?"
"I don't know whether I should congratulate you or worry for you. What if one day the laws of heaven and earth turn on you... Will you despair then? How will you face it?"
The fish in the chaos paid him no heed.
After a hundred years of evolution and transformation, every scale and every bone had changed beyond recognition.
To the man watching, the fish in the chaos seemed to live through a hundred years in a single glance, transforming in an instant.
The fish that had escaped the restraints of heaven and earth became an old acquaintance, eyes tightly shut and hands forming a seal.
Rumble!
Just then, thunder sounded once more above the nine heavens, as endless violet divine lightning gathered on the horizon.
Yet the youth with his eyes closed seemed not to hear it. The man on the shore chuckled, as if he hadn't heard a thing either.
By the laws of heaven and earth, that torrential divine lightning could never pass through the