Lin Shishi couldn’t find ti to laugh at him, because she too was thrown off balance in the overwhelming tremor, desperately grabbing onto a huge rock. The feeling of the tremor suddenly vanished, as if everything just now was rely her illusion.
"Look over there."
Zuo Chen suddenly pointed towards the horizon.
Lin Shishi raised her eyes to look, only to see a golden light behind the waterfall shooting straight into the sky. The brilliance of the light seed blinding, causing Lin Shishi’s eyes to hurt and instinctively squint.
The golden light disappeared in an instant, leaving the sky soft with white clouds and a clear wash of blue.
Zuo Chen instinctively grabbed Lin Shishi’s arm, his voice trembling as he said, "There’s a monster...".
"Did you capture it?" Lin Shishi turned her head to glance at Zuo Chen.
Zuo Chen hesitated montarily, gripping the cara in his hands. It seed that... although he was quite frightened just now, his fingers had reflexively kept pressing the shutter...
He should have captured it all.
Lin Shishi chuckled, "Surely the Helian Family’s lair is just behind the waterfall, and just now that golden light...".
"I know, definitely soone’s passing a trial, isn’t that how novels write it? Will there be lightning striking down?" he said, looking up at the sky.
Lin Shishi rolled her eyes, "Unreliable."
After speaking, she walked forward a few steps, and huge splashes rained down, with sprayed water soaking her. Lin Shishi wiped her face, crouched down and scooped up so water to splash on her face, drinking a mouthful, her eyes opened wide in delight.
"Such sweet water."
This was the purest mountain spring water, untouched by any modern chemical pollution, refreshing to the taste.
Zuo Chen imitated her, crouching down to scoop up water to drink, "This tastes way better than that so-called Nongfu Spring," he said, taking out a cup to fill it full.
Bending over, in a careless mont, he was about to fall into the rushing water, when Lin Shishi quickly grabbed his collar and pulled him back, "Be careful."
Zuo Chen fell sitting on the ground, the freshly filled cup of water spilling all over him. He jumped up saying, "You did that on purpose, didn’t you?"
Lin Shishi rewarded him with an eye roll, "If I hadn’t pulled you, you’d be washed away by the current and beco a pile of bones beneath the cliff; the water pressure here is too high. Are you sure you’d still have a whole body if you fell?"
Zuo Chen stamred for a while without a word.
Lin Shishi continued on her own accord, "The earthquake and that blast of golden light just now surely signal sothing wrong. We’ll wait here, I don’t believe those people won’t co out."
——
Elder Feng hurriedly made his way to the forbidden area, asking as he walked, "Where’s Elder Yun?"
The guard replied, "Elder Yun went down the mountain to gather herbs...".
"He went down the mountain to play, didn’t he? At such a ti, he still has the leisure to play?" Elder Feng grumbled angrily.
In Qiankun Hall, the golden light had emanated from the Spiritual Boulder, now faded, but upon closer inspection, faint golden light seed to emanate from the grey stone body of the Spiritual Boulder.
A deep crack ran across the ground.
Elder Feng briskly walked around the Spiritual Boulder, "This is bad, the Spiritual Boulder is warning us that the world is about to be chaotic...".
"Quickly summon the other two elders."
The guard hurried off.
The Feng, Yun, Yue, and Xing are the four major elders of the Helian Family, and rank highest in the family next to the Family Head and the two protectors. In terms of authority, collectively, even the protectors cannot challenge them.
Elder Yue was in seclusion, so only Elder Xing ca rushing over. Elder Xing was an old man with an ethereal appearance, with white hair, white beard, and white eyebrows. At first glance, it seed like he hadn’t been colored, as he entered he said, "Boulder anomaly, the heavens are about to be chaotic."
Elder Xing was skilled in divination and astrology, so Elder Feng wasn’t surprised by his words, instead he asked, "What do you an?"
Elder Xing stroked his long beard, shaking his head and sighing, "There is no solution."
"The Spiritual Boulder showed signs a month ago, back then I thought it was caused by the person in the forbidden area, and I did not pay it much attention. Now it seems it has nothing to do with that person at all."
"Forbidden area? What do you an?" Elder Xing, who rarely went out, knew nothing about outsiders entering the forbidden area.
"The Family Head brought back a man from outside and placed him in the Place of Trials. It’s been several months. I thought he had long since turned to ash, since no one has ever survived the Place of Trials, except the Family Head and that peculiar man."
"What? Soone from outside is in the Place of Trials?" Elder Xing pinched his fingers in calculation, muttering incantations, then suddenly his eyebrows twitched, "This person is deeply connected with our Helian Family; he will be the only one capable of solving this catastrophe."
"Has he likely already turned to ashes?"
"This is bad." Elder Xing’s expression changed drastically and he suddenly turned and hurried out.
"What happened?" Elder Feng quickly caught up, seeing him heading toward the forbidden area and couldn’t help but ask, "What exactly happened?"
Before getting close, they saw flas soaring into the sky, like a giant dragon soaring, roaring and dancing across the sky, blocking out the sun.
Elder Feng incredulously said, "Fire Cloud Dragon?"
The Fire Cloud Dragon is the guardian beast of the forbidden area, a manifestation of consciousness, aning it doesn’t have a physical form. It is ford by the gathering of spiritual energy in the forbidden area. To materialize, it must accumulate enough spiritual energy, requiring thousands and thousands of years of condensation. Now that the Fire Cloud Dragon has materialized, what does it prove?
The two stared dully at the sky, the Fire Cloud Dragon flipped its body, twisting in mid-air, emitting a low roar as if from the distant skies, as though traversing millions of years of ti, carrying a heart-shaking penetrative force.
It seed surrounded by flas, every scale on its body burning, leaving a trail of fire as it flew across, marking the sky.
"It’s really the Fire Cloud Dragon, how did it appear?" Elder Feng said in surprise.
"Look closely, there’s soone on the Fire Cloud Dragon." Elder Feng pointed at the dragon.
Elder Xing squinted to look.
The Fire Cloud Dragon was so massive that it was difficult to notice the person riding on its back. But upon closer inspection, near the dragon’s neck, one could see a shadow, holding onto the dragon’s whiskers, riding the dragon’s surge.
"Who is that?" Elder Feng squinted hard but couldn’t clearly see who that person was.
Elder Xing remained silent, squinting quietly.
The dragon coiled around the Kunlun Mountain Pillar, spiraling around it, emitting earth-shattering dragon roars that could deafen listeners.
"Did you hear that sound?" Lin Shishi suddenly asked.
"Does the sound of your fart count?" Zuo Chen said playfully.
Lin Shishi didn’t have ti for jokes, listening intently, showing an unusually solemn expression. Seeing her seriousness, Zuo Chen dared not joke anymore, mimicking her and listening intently, "Seems like so creature is calling...."
Zuo Chen suddenly shivered, "Could it be so wild beast coming...?"
Lin Shishi shoved him aside, "Move away." She snatched the cara from Zuo Chen, prepared for action.
At that mont, the sky above suddenly darkened, like a giant hand covering it, blocking out the sunlight. Lin Shishi looked up at the sky, the dragon’s tail swept past, leaving the scent of burning in the air, the flowers and grass on the ground withered instantly.
Her eyes flashed with excitent, aiming her cara at the sky, the shutter clicking continuously.
"Heavens... what is that thing?" Zuo Chen gazed at the sky, instinctively leaning closer to Lin Shishi.
"Legend has it, the Fire Cloud Dragon is the son of ancient divine beasts Baize and Phoenix, a wondrous beast. It turns good if encountering good, evil if encountering evil, its roar can split stones, its presence can swallow the earth," Lin Shishi explained.
"What about divine beasts and wondrous beasts? You just said don’t be superstitious, and now you’re talking about this stuff?"
"Listening is fable, seeing is real."
At that mont, a figure flashed from the mountains and forests, in a blink reaching ten feet away, Lin Shishi didn’t even catch sight of him.
Seeing the man about to fly into the waterfall, Lin Shishi suddenly erged from the woods, "Hero, save ."
Indeed, the man halted, turned to look at Lin Shishi, his murky eyes concealed a sharp cold light, swiftly sizing up Lin Shishi.
His gaze was like an X-ray, Lin Shishi suddenly shivered, hurriedly raised her hands and said, "Hero, I’m lost in the mountains. Can you guide ? Miss will never forget your great kindness." Speaking in the style of TV martial arts dramas, she bowed with fists cupped before him.
Elder Yun didn’t have ti to deal with a young girl now, waving his sleeve. Lin Shishi’s body was suddenly drawn towards Elder Yun, she swallowed her scream back down her throat. Before being caught by Elder Yun and flying away, she threw a glance at Zuo Chen hiding in the woods.
Seeing the two disappear behind the waterfall in a blink, Zuo Chen hurriedly chased after them, the rushing waterfall’s flow made it difficult to keep his eyes open.
"Shishi?" The shout was drowned by the roaring waterfall.
Zuo Chen spun around anxiously, "Now there’s trouble."
But Lin Shishi felt extrely excited inside, having finally found the hidden Helian Family, her arduous efforts weren’t in vain.
Held under soone’s arm, feeling the wind swiftly blowing across her face, Lin Shishi’s heart was about to leap out from excitent.
Could this be light martial arts? The feeling of flying is truly exhilarating!
Due to the speed, she couldn’t observe around her before the man stopped, she heard a respectful male voice calling, "Elder Yun."
He’s an elder, seems she caught a big fish right away.
"Hmm, where is Elder Feng? Take to see him." After finishing his words, the man quickly walked forward, only then realizing he was still carrying soone, casually tossing Lin Shishi to the guards beside him, "Take her down and lock her up."
Lin Shishi felt herself being thrown out, before she could scream, another large hand caught her. Only hearing a male voice by her ear saying, "Yes."
Lin Shishi almost cried, really? How could she be so unlucky?
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