"Yiya, yiya!"
Hearing Xiao Chen call her a little ferocious beast again, the snow-white Little Beast, KeKe, immediately jumped down from atop Bai He's head. It seemed she had secretly wiped away her tears already.
She angrily clenched her tiny snow-white paws and put on a fierce expression at Xiao Chen. Then she quickly turned around and excitedly ran toward the center of the cross-section. She wanted to introduce her "home" to her friends!
Upon reaching the center of the divine tree, they found fragments of eggshell scattered before them. They were as crystalline and translucent as seven-colored divine jade, flowing with faint colored light.
KeKe rolled about among the shattered jade shells, affectionate yet mischievous. Xiao Chen's mouth fell open in shock. KeKe had actually been born from a divine jade-like colored egg!
As for Bai He, he already knew the snow-white Little Beast's origins.
As KeKe rolled around among the jade fragments, she suddenly seemed to recall something. She grabbed the "treasure tree hat" from her head, then planted it beside the broken jade shells. The sacred sapling's roots immediately sank into the ink-jade-like cross-section.
"Ah? Was the sacred sapling dug up from here?"
Xiao Chen asked KeKe in surprise.
The snow-white Little Beast nodded vigorously.
After introducing her "home" to her friends, KeKe's mood improved considerably.
The snow-white Little Beast leaped back onto Bai He's head and comfortably lay between his silver-white dragon horns. Xiao Chen, meanwhile, tore a piece of cloth from his clothes, gathered up the pile of colored jade shells on the ground, wrapped them up, and carried them on his back.
Roar!
A tremendous dragon roar suddenly came from afar. Its thunderous sound shook the nearby mountain ridges, while rolling sound waves pierced the clouds and even scattered a large bank of