"Th-thank you, High Priestess!" Xiao Bai hastily lowered her head in thanks, her voice carrying a little more genuine sincerity.
Bo Saixi wasted no more words. She turned and headed straight down the white bone steps toward the sea of blood below. Xiao Bai hurried after her, following close on her heels.
At the shore, Bo Saixi stopped and lifted her chin slightly. "Now, return to your true form."
Xiao Bai dared not delay. Gray-blue light flashed around her, and she instantly transformed into a twenty-five-meter-long Demon Soul Great White Shark.
Yet the moment she plunged into the thick, dark red seawater, her enormous body still shuddered instinctively.
Bo Saixi lightly pushed off a reef with her toes. Her red robes fluttered as she landed lightly and steadily on the shark's broad back.
She took one last look toward a certain courtyard on the island, then steeled her heart and turned away.
She gazed toward a certain direction at the edge of the horizon, shrouded in blood-red mist:
"Let's go."
The Surface World, Star Dou Forest, the Lake of Life.
Above the lake, an enormous blue-silver spiderweb of liquid metal glittered brilliantly in the sunlight.
Qian San sat cross-legged at the core of the mother network, his eyes tightly shut,
His hands lay flat on his knees, a blue-silver metal spider thread as fine as gossamer extending from each of his ten fingertips.
These threads did not connect to the ancient trees around him. Instead, they stretched straight ahead, all disappearing into the slowly rotating silver Realm Gate on the eastern side of Star Dou Forest.
Through these specially made spirit-conducting spider threads, Qian San attached part of his perception to a thousand-year Blue Silver Spider, gradually exploring the world on the other side of the Realm Gate in