"Since you're here, stay awhile. The Dragon Realm is vast. You can take a look around." After saying that, she asked no further questions. She simply turned and walked behind the enormous dragon skeleton.
Di Tian stood where he was, watching that figure shrouded in seven-colored light gradually disappear into the distance. Then he quietly let out a breath.
He glanced sideways at Zi Ji and found her looking at him as well. They exchanged a look, then followed after her in silent understanding.
Star Dou Great Forest, Lake of Life.
Morning light filtered through gaps in the canopy, casting scattered, dappled reflections across the lake.
Mist hung above the water like a thin veil, drifting slowly in the breeze.
Everything around it looked no different from usual. The ancient trees still stood quietly along the shore, their branches and leaves rustling softly in the wind like an endless old ballad.
But deep beneath the lake, something was slowly awakening.
The first change came from the lake itself.
The once mirror-still surface began to ripple ever so faintly, spreading outward from the center in ring after ring, as though something beneath the water was slowly turning its body.
The ripples were not large, yet they carried a steady rhythm, like breathing.
Then, a silver-white glow emerged from the depths of the lake.
The light was not dazzling, but it possessed a peculiar penetrating quality. Passing through layer upon layer of water, it dyed the entire lake with a faint silver radiance.
The ancient trees along the shore seemed to have been coated in a fine sheen beneath the light, their leaf edges glimmering with faint silver-white specks.
That glow grew brighter and more solid, like a silver-white star buried deep beneath the lake slowly rising toward the surface.
Then,