Who Was the Final Controller!

(Second update: three thousand words! Seven thousand across two updates. Please recommend and bookmark for encouragement, hehe!)

Rumble!

Heaven and earth shook. The tremors grew so violent that even the tiny stones scattered across the ground began to jump!

Clatter!

Bottles and jars tipped over and rolled across the floor. Several transparent bottles, too old to retain their protective energy, cracked apart. The strange potions inside, in every color imaginable, spilled everywhere!

Hiss!

Drops of red liquid splashed onto the floor and ate through it like concentrated sulfuric acid, instantly leaving a broad swath of pits!

Bang!

The rock over the underground passage was suddenly thrown aside, and a massive snake head emerged! Its scarlet eyes fixed on Er Dongsheng, carrying an unreadable glint!

"Just in time!" A hoarse voice came from within. It was...

A moment before the giant python broke in, while the white Barrier trapping Er Dongsheng had yet to shatter, a streak of blue light shot out of the cavern where the python lay buried. It stopped silently before him!

"Roar!"

The python, which had closed his eyes to rest, snapped open two enormous, lantern-like eyes. He stared at the thing before him—so familiar, and so deeply etched into his memory!

That presence... For three hundred years, he had never forgotten it. For countless years, he had lingered here, all for the sake of...

"Hiss!" He struggled even more violently, and the rocks wedged around his neck began to rattle!

"Tsk, tsk. Little fellow, it's been three hundred years, and your temper's still this bad!" Wind Demon smiled at the python pinned fast by the rocks. He had never expected the creature to fall into his hands again after three hundred years!

"Roar! Roar! Roar!" The python bellowed in boundless fury, his eyes brimming