I'm Hungry

Su Ziji felt an immense force seize him and tried to resist. But unlike when he had faced the Young Dragon, this time even the half Rosewood Pendant did not stir.

"What is that?" As everything around him rushed backward, he glimpsed a shadow in the endless void.

The shadow loomed high above, radiating an almost sacred presence. Yet in that single glance, Su Ziji sensed that beneath its vast, mist-shrouded majesty, something was missing.

Boom! Thunder exploded beside his ears, peal after peal. Su Ziji grunted, feeling his very mind shake.

Had the Young Dragon's Heavenly Tribulation finally caught up with me? But all fell quiet. When he opened his eyes, the sight before him left him dazed.

"Is this the Dragon Palace?" Su Ziji looked up. A pale-gold firmament rippled like water, shedding faint light over the courtyard's flourishing spirit grasses and lingzhi.

Beyond it stood a great hall, its white jade walls carved with dragons and coral branching across them. Spiritual light still circulated slowly through the palace. A clear, fresh air, like a mountain after rain, filled its depths. One breath left his whole body at ease.

It's the Dragon Palace, but it's both familiar and strange. It seems even more lavish than the last time I came. Have I gone back inside the shadow?

He stood on a high terrace outside the great hall. Not far away, palaces shimmered beneath the water, stretching on without a barren patch among them, all splendor and luxury.

The Dragon Palace was larger, too, sprawling farther than it had when Su Ziji last saw it during the inheritance. Through the firmament and the water beyond, he could see fish and shellfish swimming leisurely through the lake. Yet when they neared the Dragon Palace, even these ordinary creatures showed a