Chapter 244: Chapter 155: The Secret of the Jade Ring Pool?

Ji Xueruo slowly opened her drowsy eyes, as if she had just woken from a dream spanning a thousand years.

A warm, radiant white light awakened her, and everything around her had changed.

The dark stalactites and glowing moss had disappeared, replaced by lush pine forests and a riot of colorful blooms, with rolling green hills not far away.

The sky was filled with whirling petals and catkins, borne by the wind to sketch the shape of the breeze; gazing toward the wind’s end, it revealed a boundless marsh.

"Am I dreaming..."

Ji Xueruo blinked hard, trying to shatter the dream, but the dream remained unchanged, and the sweet scent in the air seemed to tell her this was reality.

Ji Xueruo was perplexed, thinking her excessive fatigue had led her into deep sleep. You Su had yet to regain his mobility, and formidable enemies still lurked in the shadows; now was not the time for her to be peacefully immersed in a dream.

She rubbed her eyes vigorously, but to her amazement, she discovered an unsettling phenomenon—

She was thoroughly aware of her eye-rubbing action and knew she had closed her eyes, but why... could she still see the world!

Could it be... she had more than two eyes?!

Ji Xueruo suddenly looked at her arm... this wasn’t her hand but a tentacle adorned with countless ring-like patterns, resembling a giant worm!

Her gaze traveled downward to realize that the tentacles numbered far more than just one! Dozens of such bizarre tentacles formed her lower half, transforming her into an octopus-like monster!

"What is happening..."

Ji Xueruo looked around, her heart like a constantly struck gong. With a mere thought, she surged toward the mirror-like great lake.

She stood by the lakeside, staring in disbelief at her reflection on the water’s surface.

What captivated her attention most were her own eyes.

A pair of never-closing, enormous, protruding eyes, resembling the gaze of a dead fish. Yet within these huge fish eyes were countless tiny eyes, clustered together so densely that each small eye protruded slightly, rendering the whole eyeball akin to a cut-open beehive.

Ji Xueruo thus met her own gaze, gradually becoming engrossed.

After a while, she murmured in admiration:

"So beautiful..."

An immense contradiction lingered in her heart; though the myriad eyes made her physically uncomfortable, she couldn’t help but intuitively feel ’this is truly beautiful.’

She shifted her gaze, still unable to comprehend what had transpired to her body.

This crystal-clear lake seemed to beckon her, and she involuntarily stretched a tentacle into the water. Like a jolt of electricity, her tentacle quivered, and a surge of memories instantly engulfed her consciousness.

Only then did she understand, this was the Jade Ring Pool from eons ago, long before anyone had stepped into this wondrous tableau. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

And she was the Divine Beast that grew here since childhood—a creature known as Cangtu.

She was born with a heavenly bestowed authority, the authority of earth.

The mountains and land here were her creations; she had never considered leaving this soil and didn’t want other intelligent creatures to enter, thus encircling herself with these ring-shaped mountains—her home.

The one most instrumental in turning this home into a paradise, was nonetheless her sister.

Her sister and she were not of the same origin; her sister was a white dragon, a true dragon. The white dragon was the guardian Divine Beast of the great marsh, wielding the heavenly bestowed authority of water, named Cangshui.

Since birth, they had relied on each other here, exerting their respective powers to make this mountain and marshland abound with birdsong and blossoms.

At this moment, Ji Xueruo’s consciousness began to rise, detaching from this body, returning to herself.

The subsequent scenes continued to unfold, revealing for Ji Xueruo that Cangtu was a male creature.

One was a mutated male sandworm, the other a divine-like female white dragon, yet they loved each other for millennia, becoming indistinguishable; to them, the other was the most beautiful creature in the world.

Mountain peaks, lake depths, every corner of their home bore their lingering traces. Cangtu and his sister vowed to eternally protect the home belonging to the two of them.

Until one day, everything changed.

That day, Cangtu completed a gift for his sister, a magnificent underground palace.

Their activity range would no longer be confined aboveground; once his sister filled this place with water, they would truly achieve their ’Cangtu’ and ’Cangshui.’ This name was given by his sister because she always said she wanted to hide herself and her brother away, never to be found by anything.

Now Cangtu had fulfilled his sister’s wish; he excitedly swam to the bottom of the great marsh, ready to present this gift to his sister.

But the next scene filled him with rage, fear, and chaos. On the Five-Colored Soil at the lake’s bottom, two unspeakable creatures were violating his sister, and she showed no intention of resistance. Those foul beings tainted her, turning her pristine dragon scales black, with hideous tumors growing upon her.

Yet she was entranced by this fallen sensation, and Cangtu even suspected that she was enjoying it more than when he copulated with her.

He rushed forward in disbelief, ready to fight these malevolent beings to death, sworn to rescue his bewitched sister.