"Candle Dragon! I know you are heading to Donghua. Judging by your bearing, this is no small matter! Then let this Venerable ask you to lend me a hand!"
Amid the vast starry sky, an intent pierced through the river of stars. It itself became part of space, rushing and whirling through it like a gale!
The words carried by that intent went straight into the ears of that enormous being—Candle Dragon.
It had a human face and a serpent's body. Its immense form coiled and twisted, seemingly without end. Across the vast expanse of its back, like a continent itself, the Scale-Armored Tribe lived and multiplied.
Not long ago, following a single command from Candle Dragon, the entire Scale-Armored Tribe had mobilized. The various factions ceased fighting one another, readied their armies, and prepared to invade a continent.
Candle Dragon's enormous body had plunged directly into the gap between the Void and the starry sky, speeding onward in a mysterious form!
Within that crevice, he could almost shut out all outside influences and remain untouched by any intent. Based on his past experience, it would not take long for him to reach his destination directly.
But this time, only halfway there, the power originating from the source and Order deep within his huge body erupted. The boundless starry sky seemed to develop a will of its own, trying to cast him out! Yet Candle Dragon forcibly withstood that power with his fleshly body. Afterward, however, his body grew ever weaker, its internal structure increasingly slack, as though it might collapse and shatter at any moment!
Under such circumstances, he could not even maintain that mysterious form. He had no choice but to withdraw from the crevice-space and return to the starry sky. His speed of travel naturally slowed as