"From the heights of the Great Tenuity, I paid homage to the Void Emperor. I mounted my carriage of eight vistas and, slowly and majestically, entered Heaven's Gate. Having ascended to Yu Chen's Court, I stood in solemn reverence before the Purple Pavilion. Might I ask, at the end of the Dragon-Han era, how was heaven and earth cleaved apart..."
Having transformed into a merman, Yu Chen continued wandering through the Southern Sea. The song on his lips grew ever more clear, distant, vigorous, and resonant. Faintly, instruments such as reed organs, pipes, flutes, chimes, bells, cymbals, wooden fish, cloud gongs, and great drums seemed to accompany him. Paired with the lyrics, it sounded even more like someone chanting scriptures in the air.
The creatures around him could not help gathering at his side. Dancing gracefully to his song, they condensed spiritual awareness within the music and gained the possibility of stepping onto the path of cultivation.
As Yu Chen sang, he even drew over an old acquaintance. Waves sounded one after another as a dragon maiden emerged from the spray, two small coral-like horns growing from her forehead. She held a Coral Purifying Vase in her hands, wisps of cloud and mist flowing from its mouth, while what seemed to be a bright moon rose and fell within.
The instant she appeared, Yu Chen noticed her. She was the dragon maiden he had encountered at the border of the Eastern Sea and Southern Sea when he had ridden the warm current toward the Eastern Sea years ago—the one who had directed him to the Three Immortal Isles and ruled over eight hundred li of sea.
Compared with the past, however, the aura around the dragon maiden before him had become far more powerful, pure, and sacred. Her clothes, on