Spirit World.
"Granny" watched the dazzling light rising ahead, the expression in her eyes flickering uncertainly.
"How many times has it been?"
The graceful Tianchi stepped forward and stood beside "Granny." Her amber eyes watched the rising pillar of light, her expression calm, but a closer look revealed a flicker of sorrow deep within her gaze.
"Who remembers anymore, besides us...?"
Granny murmured unconsciously. As she watched Yue Yao enveloped in the light, a trace of indescribable helplessness lingered in her cloudy eyes, but more than that was the resolve of a gambler staking everything.
Granny and Tianchi stood atop the mountain, their gazes fixed firmly on Yue Yao within the light.
The Ice-Blue Spear Xiao Fan had seen before now stood within that radiance.
Yet the Ice-Blue Spear looked vastly different from when Xiao Fan had seen it. Blue ice crystals resembling dragon scales bristled along its shaft, their glinting, icy light radiating a fearsome sharpness that made the heart tremble.
"Roooar~"
A faint dragon's cry echoed through the void. Then, under Granny and Tianchi's gazes, a massive blue ice dragon burst howling from the spear and circled in midair, its enormous shadow blotting out the sky.
Its enormous eyes regarded Granny and Tianchi on the mountaintop.
A trace of reminiscence appeared in their eyes as they watched the dragon's shadow overhead. In the next instant, the blue dragon's shadow became a streak of light and withdrew into the Ice-Blue Spear.
The bristling dragon-scale ice crystals returned to their original state. Then a fair hand settled on the spear.
"The dragon spear has awakened again..."
Tianchi watched Yue Yao grasp the dragon spear within the light, her eyes growing moist. Her emerald hair fluttered in the wind, concealing her expression. As the breeze blew, Tianchi's figure vanished from where