The world within the Glazed Empress's body was a mysterious realm unto itself.
Endless ranges of reddish-brown volcanoes rose from the earth, their rocky walls gleaming with dark golden light as though they had been tempered by Emperor Fire for a thousand years.
Mist coiled around the volcanic peaks, but it was no ordinary Water Vapor. It was hazy white vapor containing pure warm currents, rising in wispy patterns like the morning fog atop Changbai Mountain. Amid its crispness was a gentle Spirit Rhyme, and a single breath left one feeling refreshed and clear-headed.
At the heart of the volcanic region, a winding stream trickled from crimson rock crevices. Its water was clear as crystal, chiming softly as it flowed.
The stream descended with the terrain and gathered in a low-lying area to form a mirror-like lake. Its surface was calm and unruffled, reflecting the volcanoes and mist. Even the air seemed especially clean, as though washed by the crystal-clear lakewater.
The lakeshore was carpeted in layers upon layers of blue-green moss, soft as velvet and utterly silent beneath one's feet.
Several dark ancient pines dotted the moss, their needles sturdy and upright.
At that moment, the Glazed Empress reclined against a glossy black jade reef in the center of the hot spring lake.
The reef emitted a faint chill that formed a strange balance with the warm lakewater.
A thin veil of mist surrounded the Glazed Empress, blurring her outline while further accentuating the graceful, slender curves of her figure.
She wore a thin moon-white gauze dress, translucent as cicada wings and embroidered with fine pale-purple cloud patterns. It drifted gently with the water, clinging closely to her skin and vividly outlining her narrow waist and the softness of her shoulders and back.
Sensing Lin Yi's aura pierce through