Lu Changfeng approached even more cautiously, slowly extending his hand toward the barrier's "mirror surface"...
Just then, something changed without warning!
"Riiip!!!"
A dazzling bolt of blue-white lightning tore through the dark lake water without warning. Like a venomous snake that had long lain in ambush, it shot from the shadows of the stone forest below and to his side with terrifying speed!
It struck straight for Lu Changfeng's vulnerable waist and abdomen!
Before the lightning reached him, a savage aura-violent, scorching, and carrying an innate pressure-crashed into him!
In that instant, Lu Changfeng spun around and saw his attacker clearly. It was a young flood dragon about fifty feet long, covered in fine, pale-golden scales, with a pair of small, short horns on its head and four stubby claws beneath its belly.
It clearly had yet to reach maturity, but it already possessed a dragon's form and an extraordinary majesty.
Especially striking were its slit pupils, where lightning swirled amid bone-deep murderous intent!
Lu Changfeng's heart tightened. It was the flood dragon from the rumors, and it had been lurking beside him all along!
-The Record of Strange Tales from Mountains and Seas recorded: "A dragon can grow large or small, rise or hide. When large, it summons clouds and breathes mist; when small, it conceals its scales and hides its form. When rising, it soars through the universe; when hiding, it lurks beneath the waves."
This young flood dragon had clearly begun to master just such an innate divine ability!
Lu Changfeng suppressed his shock and reacted with incredible speed. The instant the lightning reached him, his body bent at an uncanny angle like willow fluff drifting through water, narrowly avoiding a fatal hit. Even so, the lightning's fringe caught his left sleeve, scorching it black and sending