In the Zhilin World, upon a boundless plain.
This was fertile soil in Zhilin World, where all things flourished and countless grasses grew. Most striking were the enormous mushroom stalks, each as thick as a bucket and shaped like roots, which towered high above the ground. Several zhang up, their crowns spread immense caps a zhang across or even wider. They grew densely over ten thousand li, lending the entire world a dreamlike splendor.
"Chirr, chirr!"
Strange creatures resembling rainbow lizards could often be seen running across these mushroom caps.
These were the rainbow lizards unique to the Zhilin World. They seemed to have developed a civilized society much like that of sentient beings, but their intelligence fell far short, and everything remained primitive.
They communicated with one another, bred, and thrived, adding their own ecological wonders to this wild environment.
Suddenly, these spirit creatures running across the mushroom caps like flocks of sheep upon the plains all raised their heads in unison.
Beside a nearby lake, several gigantic, dinosaur-like lizards also lifted their python-like necks toward the sky, gazing around in bewilderment.
The sky was high and the clouds thin. Apart from the sunlight shining down, the vast heavens seemed empty.
But before long, an intensely dazzling light appeared.
It shone as brightly as dawn, then quickly eclipsed the sun's radiance. A blink later, the light dimmed, replaced by a gigantic meteor trailing a long tail of flame as it plunged down from the outer void.
The meteor's reflection appeared in the eyes of a dinosaur-like lizard. It suddenly broke into a frantic run, fleeing the area.
Around it, the other lizards and beasts, large and small, also began stampeding like startled shoals of fish.
The meteor was falling directly toward the lake where they stood.
Before long, a