The mountain forest was lush and verdant, its peaks thrusting into the clouds like blades, imposing and magnificent.
In a small valley beneath a mountain range lay an oval pool. It was not particularly large, but it was divided into two halves, one milky white and the other vermilion. Though they shared the same pool, the two remained as sharply separated as two distinct rivers.
Billowing steam rose from the boundary between the two hot springs, climbing continuously until it reached the mouth of the valley, where it slowly dispersed.
The enormous Blue Silver Emperor now occupied over a dozen square meters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Each blade was two feet wide, its clear golden markings glittering in the sunlight. Xiao Yan found her with a single glance.
Just then, the Blue Silver Emperor's blades suddenly stirred. As though sensing something, she raised them into the wind. The golden lines on her blades seemed to come alive, pulsing faintly and rippling like waves of golden light.
At the same time, the Purple Cloud Wings pressed against Xiao Yan's back unfurled with a whoosh. Then he leaped straight down from the mountaintop toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
High in the distant sky, a streak of purple light flashed across the heavens as though chasing stars and overtaking the moon, hurtling toward the Blue Silver Emperor growing at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
As he drew closer to the Blue Silver Emperor, air mingling heat and cold rushed against his face. Narrowing his eyes at her golden leaves, Xiao Yan let out a soft breath and asked, "Are you really my mother?"
His flying speed gradually slowed after he spoke. His body trembled slightly, and the Purple Cloud Wings on his back first