After chanting a full three hundred words of the Dragon-Inviting Litany, Li Qingxian held the imperial edict level and bowed his head toward the basin of water, saying, "I invite the divine dragon to lend its aid."
A wisp of bright yellow light flew out from the imperial edict, landing among the ten stacks of yellow talisman paper.
Swish, swish...
The yellow talisman papers stirred without wind, linking into a single line like a long snake that drilled straight into the water basin.
Splash...
The booming sound of a massive entity emerging from the water erupted. The Fifth Rank assistant department head turned his head to look around in all directions; the narrow prison cell was gone, and he felt as though he were sitting upon the surface of the sea, surrounded on all sides by an endless ocean.
The skies in every direction were clear and pristine, save for the east where endless white clouds churned like towering heavenly walls.
Within the white clouds, countless millions of yellow talismans could be faintly seen soaring upward to form a massive body.
In the process of rising, the yellow talismans gradually transformed into individual azure scales.
Before long, a faint azure dragon was leisurely swimming through the layers upon layers of white clouds, revealing only a scale here and a claw there without showing its full form.
It turned its head to look at Li Qingxian, while Li Qingxian stared blankly at the eastern sky.
"You... truly are an Eighth Rank Fate Arts Master?"
Li Qingxian nodded.
"This is the 'Chamber-Born Four Seas'!"
"You've mistaken it, this is an illusionary technique."
With that, Li Qingxian bowed to the giant dragon in the east and said, "Thank you, Daoist friend, for your assistance."
Afterward, Li Qingxian took a single step forward, vanished