The Great Serpent

Thanks to its sturdy structure and materials, when the Leifeng Pagoda trembled, no bricks or tiles fell or walls broke. Avrora felt as if she were standing on a boat on West Lake, with waves lapping against the boat and rocking it.

The bloody aura in the air grew even stronger, as if the blood that had filled the underground palace had evaporated into mist, filling the entire underground exhibition hall with the smell of blood.

This taste was very comforting to Avrora. Blood contains the most potent life force within an animal's body, and the stronger the life form, the more instinctively it craves blood.

Healthy human blood is the best source of nutrition on Earth; no other organism possesses a bodily fluid more valuable than human blood.

Avrora was originally an exception, but now that she has become a real human, it means that humans are still the evolutionary goal of life on Earth, and she has just achieved this goal more perfectly.

This must be the will to live that is naturally evolving on Earth... Avrora objectively assessed herself.

Since she is the life force of Earth's natural evolution, Avrora naturally has a strong sense of mission. She wants to find other life forces of natural evolution, combine them, and form an even stronger will to dominate other ordinary life forms and guide them towards a more correct evolutionary direction.

Surely someone else has done something similar before? Otherwise, how could so many legends involving supernatural life have been left behind?

Examples include Longevity, rejuvenation, unparalleled strength, and the ability to defeat a hundred enemies single-handedly.

Avrora herself created many legends, and behind many of these stories lies the manifestation of her power. Therefore, when studying legends from all over the world, she is able to keenly discern which ones are merely the fantasies and delusions of mortals, and which ones are the true will of life on Earth, demonstrating the direction of evolution and guiding life towards evolution.

Avrora was just about to recall her teacher Darwin's many theories about evolution when a crack suddenly appeared beneath her feet, causing her to instinctively twist her waist to avoid it.

Ah... Avrora couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, marveling at how alluring and elegant her waist-twisting movement was.

If we say that we are the life force of natural evolution on Earth, then women are the perfect physical embodiment of that life force.

Ugh, men are disgusting.

The cracks beneath my feet tore through the ground, and looking down through them, I saw a trembling darkness, with something enormous moving about within them.

Cracks of varying sizes appeared around the original foundation and the underground palace, and soon the entire ground sank into the darkness below.

Avrora retreated step by step, her eyes shining as she gazed into the darkness.

A gray hue appeared in the darkness.

The gray color gradually rose to the surface and turned into a faintly shimmering white.

Those glimmers of light came from the scales.

The first scale became clear, crystal clear, like a jade carving.

More and more scales formed a swimming shape, and when Avrora saw a pair of sapphire blue eyes embedded in the center of the scales, the swimming shape soared into the sky in an instant!

"HOO..." Avrora exclaimed in amazement. This must be the miracle of life. Even she rarely saw such a huge and agile creature bursting with vitality... Unlike the water monsters and beasts that remained in the primitive lands, the things Avrora had seen had long lost the vitality that contained the power of evolution because they had not evolved for so long. They were lifeless and seemed as if they would disappear from this world at any moment.

The creature before us is at the peak of its vitality; it can still molt and evolve!

Avrora couldn't help but recall the moment she emerged from her beastly state.

"You are about to evolve!" Avrora's heart pounded like a drum. After searching for so many years, she had finally witnessed a life transformation that achieved the level of the will to evolve naturally on Earth... A miracle had been created by the same opportunity that had led her to transform from a beast into a human.

She is the force that creates these miracles.

The creature covered in white scales glanced coldly at Avrora with its sapphire blue eyes, then instantly twisted its body, ignoring Avrora, and soared into the sky, knocking down Leifeng Pagoda!

"Hey, Snake Snake!"

Avrora paused for a moment, then lifted her skirt and chased after it. She hadn't expected that the giant serpent, which resembled a dragon, would completely ignore her. After crashing into and knocking down Leifeng Pagoda, it landed on the ground and then, like a silver-white waterfall shooting from the mountaintop, plunged into the snow-covered West Lake.

"Fuck!" Avrora cursed, bursting out from under the collapsed Leifeng Pagoda and plunging into West Lake after the giant serpent.

After finishing their dinner, Liu Chang'an and An Nuan left the hotel and walked onto the Su Causeway.

She described herself as a delicate flower in need of pity, lying weakly and motionless in her room, and then she was the one who said she wanted to go for a walk.

An Nuan clung tightly to Liu Chang'an's arm, a little worried that he might still consider it a reward if she clung to his arm and shook it. After all, he had already been so wanton towards her.

How pitiful! I used to think I'd always be a young girl, but I wonder if I'm considered a married woman now?

The word "young woman" made An Nuan blush a little. She should only be considered a young woman when she reached Professor Liu's age; before that, she was still a girl.

However, in Liu Chang'an's heart, she should always be a young girl.

"Say it quickly, I will always be a young girl!" An Nuan hugged Liu Chang'an's arm, jumping up and down as she spoke loudly to show how strong her demand was.

Liu Chang'an was describing a spring morning on the Su Causeway, with its six bridges shrouded in mist and willows, and the chirping of orioles, reporting on the early spring scenery of the Su Causeway. Little did he know that while she was nodding and listening to his explanation, her mind was elsewhere.

"Okay, okay, you'll always be a young girl." Liu Chang'an nodded in agreement. Whether it's a young girl or a young woman, the key is the temperament and the companionship. With a boy like him who is forever eighteen, then his girlfriend will naturally always be a young girl.

"That's more like it... Go on, by the way, it seems like if we keep walking along the Su Causeway to the other side, we'll reach Leifeng Pagoda." An Nuan pointed to the dark area above the waterfront ahead and said that she had seen Leifeng Pagoda in that location during the day, but since Leifeng Pagoda had just collapsed, there was no longer a nighttime view of the pagoda.

So on such snowy nights, pedestrians hurried along the Su Causeway toward Leifeng Pagoda. You see, for people all over the country, the collapse of Leifeng Pagoda was a very shocking event... After the shock, it was just something to talk about. But for the people of Lin'an, it was different. This pagoda had extraordinary significance; it represented the hometown sentiment in everyone's heart.

"We won't go join the fun... I actually have something to tell you," Liu Chang'an said after thinking for a moment.

"Go ahead and say it," An Nuan said sweetly and obediently.

"I actually... have superpowers." Liu Chang'an planned to proceed step by step. Compared to starting with the birth of life on Earth and telling the story of his boyfriend, using the more acceptable premise of superpowers as the beginning was obviously more appropriate.

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I recommend "The Best Era of Tokusatsu" (or "The Best Tokusatsu"). Xia Hua is reading it too; it's a great book.