Chapter 100: Ghost
"Who could possibly have the power to alter the grand forces of heaven and earth like this?" Luo Yue's eyes flickered, her silver hair lifting gently in the breeze.
She pinched the strand of dragon qi she had captured between her fingertips. The dragon vein should have been pure and immense, brimming with vitality.
Yet in Luo Yue's perception, it now felt strangely sluggish, as though bound by invisible shackles. As it writhed and struggled, it exuded an indescribable resentment and sorrow.
"It's become Tiger-Trapping Ridge and Dragon-Locking River-"
She murmured, a cold gleam flashing deep within her ice-blue pupils, like an undercurrent beneath the polar ice.
"What an undertaking!"
Her mastery of Source Arts had long since reached the ranks of grandmasters. She understood the veins of heaven and earth and the greater forces of mountains and rivers intimately.
Azure Dragon River's dragon vein was vast, its myriad caves breathing in and out. It should have formed an ascending configuration, a dragon soaring through the nine heavens and nourishing all things! Across from it, White Tiger Ridge's baleful qi pierced the skies, its tiger dens grim and forbidding. It should have been a place of descent, fierce with slaughter and gathering the sharp qi of yang metal.
Dragon and tiger should have complemented and nurtured one another, forming a treasured land where yin and yang flowed in harmony and creation worked its mysteries.
But now, as Luo Yue examined it with the Qi Gazing Art, she discovered that these two forces, which should have balanced or even blended with one another, had been forcibly twisted and imprisoned by a powerful, sinister external force.
The azure dragon qi was bound deep beneath the river by invisible "chains." Not only could it no longer nourish the landscape, it