"..."
The female voice was clear and pleasing, its lingering notes curling through the air. Yet at its sudden appearance, both Su Ziji and the crown prince immediately looked over.
Su Ziji's expression remained calm, but his gaze was sharp.
Only when he looked did he discover that, at some unknown moment and for some unknown reason, a deep, shadowy shimmer of water had suddenly appeared. A palace faintly emerged within it, actually connected to the Crown Prince's Residence!
Before the voice sounded, neither Su Ziji nor the crown prince had noticed a thing!
How could they not secretly go on guard?
But as he looked more closely, a flicker of surprise crossed his face. Tiered towers and overlapping pavilions rose amid slanting branches of coral, wondrous and beautiful in their fathomless depths, with a familiar air.
"Hmm? The Dragon Palace?"
The Dragon Palace had grown larger since his last visit. A faint layer of watery ripples seemed to lie between the entire palace and the Crown Prince's Residence, with glimmers of water shifting dimly when he looked toward it.
Deep within the palace, a young dragon lay coiled on a jade couch, snoring soundly.
Who else could it be but the Young Dragon Lord?
A young dragon? The Dragon Palace?
The crown prince had also looked over. Though he had never seen the Dragon Palace, he recognized a dragon, and with such a spectacle before him, this certainly could not be a palace of the mortal world.
And how could a member of the demon race manifest a dragon's form?
The crown prince froze outright.
Splash.
Amid the sound of water, jade pendants chimed, and two figures gradually emerged.
Su Ziji knew, however, that they had not concealed their forms. They had just teleported over.
The Shell Maiden, whom