In the azure lake, Zhu Ya quietly stared at the currents spreading open like mountain ranges. She saw a segment of fully corroded, unrecognizable bone dissolving atop a scarlet, slender, forked tongue. From the shape of the bone, one could vaguely tell it had once been human.
At her call, it stopped, then spat it out as though swallowing saliva.
The bones sizzled and bubbled in the lake water, slowly sinking like withered leaves. Meanwhile, the long-eared serpent head gradually faded within the blue water until it vanished without a trace.
Zhu Ya gave a faint, bitter smile. She knew her grandfather had hidden himself.
She could not see him, but she could sense his existence through her bloodline. That was the very foundation allowing her to come and go freely here.
The bones settled and decomposed, gradually crumbling into dregs like stalactites. She had long since grown familiar with this sight; she merely felt a little disappointed.
A human with decent talent had been lost for no reason at all.
Heh!
She let out a soft laugh.
In this world, countless living beings believed they could succeed whenever they learned of an opportunity to contact the Devouring Serpent.
Zhu Ya did not deny their talent, but in the end, their fate was always to become food. Throughout all these years, aside from Hubble's direct descendants, not a single person had won recognition.
It was simply a little regrettable. After all, he had brought her out from the Demon's pursuit.
She slowly turned, preparing to swim away. But just then, an eerie golden radiance caught her eye. The mangled remnant of bone had become completely wrapped in golden light, and streams of radiance, like sacred beetles, shuttled back and forth through the skeleton.
Slowly, the decayed bones regained vitality. Veins