A gentle breeze stirred, sending ripples across the calm lake. The setting sun slanted down, draping all things in golden robes.
At the Summit of the Sacred Tree, wisps of cooking smoke rose into the air—a testament to Little Flower Fairy Jasmine and Purple Jade Mountain's team of chefs busily at work in the kitchen.
Amid the lush crown of the Sacred Tree, a group of Little Flower Fairies was idly playing hide-and-seek. Among them were several little Phoenix Birds, little Qilins, and a little white dragon.
They were not members of the Phoenix Clan, Qilin Clan, or Dragon Clan, but transformations produced by the Celestial Silkworm Clan after cultivating the Celestial Silkworm's Nine Transformations.
Heaven Ice and Heaven Snow, the two ancestral Celestial Silkworms, had now attained Taiyi Realm cultivation. They had changed from little qilin forms into little white dragon forms.
Among their descendants, some had become little qilins or little phoenixes. There were even some whose very first transformation had taken the form of little dragons.
After countless ages of reproduction and evolution, this clan had gradually begun to reveal its potential. Although there were still no Daluo Realm Celestial Silkworms, it was not impossible that there would be in the future.
Many giant lotuses bloomed across the great lake, their fragrance drifting through the air. Some Little Flower Fairies chased one another atop the giant lotuses. They were not playing, but gathering duck eggs laid by the water ducks in the lake. Some ducks laid their eggs in the grass along the shore, while others nested beneath the lotuses. No one knew how they had developed the habit of nesting in the water.
Whether duck eggs or wild pheasant eggs, they could all be made into delicious dishes, especially cakes and other sweet desserts. Of course,