The lightning strikes on Lexi continued, each one building up to a shorter duration and growing stronger with each strike. He endured each strike with all his might, leaving him covered in wounds afterward, which he healed himself with his spiritual energy.
Several times, before it was properly repaired, it was struck by lightning and almost didn't survive.
While everyone was captivated by the astonishing scene and their hearts were pounding with fear, Nian Wanzhou was sensing something.
Since she transformed into a dragon, her sensitivity to every blade of grass and tree around her has become increasingly acute, to the point that she would prick up her ears at the slightest sound of wind or movement.
"Whoosh..." A barely perceptible breeze blew by, passing through the barrier and lifting a strand of Nian Wanzhou's hair.
Nian Wanzhou stared blankly at the wind for a moment, and in that instant, she was transported into a pure white space.
A gentle voice echoed in the space: "Finally, the time has come when you're no longer being watched, Nian Wanzhou. Do you know who I am?"
"Who are you?" Nian Wanzhou remained calm, the familiar scene and manner made her think it was Xiao Tiandao.
“Me…” A gentle voice laughed, the eerie yet silvery laughter echoing in the space. “I am someone like you, someone who was deceived and sacrificed just like you. Oh, perhaps I shouldn’t be called human now. No one knows what I am now.”
The voice was so cryptic that Nian Wanzhou couldn't understand it either, so she pressed it for an answer: "Then what are you? Why did you bring me here?"
"None of that matters, you know? I was once just as naive as you, thinking I was the savior who would save everyone, but he actually sacrificed me, hehe~" A white dragon appeared in the pure white space, much larger than Nian Wanzhou.
It is comparable to the appearance of a true dragon.
"Thanks to you for summoning the thunderclouds I left behind many years ago, otherwise I would have forgotten that I was once a white dragon. Long before that, I was also a human, with my own family just like you."
"You are... the White Dragon from ten thousand years ago? Everyone has told me about you, you're amazing. Your family, and now you're a remnant soul or something, is there anything I can help you with?" Realizing that this was her senior, a sense of kinship arose spontaneously, but it was quickly shattered by the White Dragon before her.
But seeing the black mist emanating from Bai Long's body, Nian Wanzhou dared not say anything more.
"See? Well then, can you help me remove this?" Bai Long chuckled again, his eerie laughter making the space feel unusually cold.
Soon, white frost covered Nian Wanzhou's face.
The black mist... had completely attached itself to it, or rather, they were originally one.
"Why do you have this?" Nian Wanzhou asked in a trembling voice. She wasn't afraid of the black mist, but she sensed that something was wrong.
"This is the one who brought you here, and now I'm like this. Did you think you came here to be a savior? You're just a sacrifice, like me." The dragon floated and spun around, arriving in front of Nian Wanzhou.
The overwhelming sense of oppression and majesty accumulated over millennia caused Nian Wanzhou to take several steps back, almost collapsing to her knees.
When the boatman looked up at the end of the year, he could only see a blurry outline.
The illusory white dragon parted its lips slightly, uttering chilling words: "I am your future experience."
It suddenly flicked its tail and coiled itself around itself, creating a chilling wind that seemed to penetrate one's body and soul.
After Bailong finished speaking, he slowly closed his eyes and remained silent, as if he was thinking about something, but one could sense that he was filled with exhaustion and confusion.
"Can you tell me more precisely what all this is? I don't quite understand why your current appearance will become my future experience, and why you are a sacrifice?" Faced with the overwhelming unknown, fear overcame the cold, and Nian Wanzhou asked in bewilderment.
The person who brought her here seems to be either Little Heavenly Dao or the Origin of the World?
"Is the black mist on you left over from the sacrifice? Why is that...?"
She hadn't seen Xiao Tiandao for almost twenty years, and some of her memories had begun to fade, as if someone was deliberately blurring something.
Twenty years is a very long time for her, a former student.
She was almost forty, but being cared for by everyone every day, she always felt like a child. Everything seemed to remain unchanged from before her death.
The white dragon's body became increasingly transparent, and a strong sense of sorrow and oppression permeated the wind, causing the entire space to change accordingly.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"I'm tired, go to sleep..." the white dragon said weakly as his breath grew fainter.
Then, the enormous white dragon transformed into a ball of light mixed with black mist and white spiritual energy and slowly dissipated.
"Wait, don't go! You haven't told me yet!" Nian Wanzhou reached out to stop it, but as soon as she touched it, the wind suddenly exploded and disappeared.
As the space flickered in and out of existence, its voice became ethereal: "Think it over slowly. When the time is right, I may come back to find you after I awaken again. You... do not easily believe the person who brought you here, or what he says to you."
......
A thunderous boom pulled Nian Wanzhou out of the space. She still felt a chilling cold, fear, and sadness within her body. These feelings told her that what she had just experienced was not just an illusion.
That space seemed to be a part of Bai Long's heart that had not been completely corrupted during his lifetime, still retaining his former kindness.
But it seemed rather dazed, and it was shrouded in black mist.
As the year drew to a close, her eyelashes frosted with white, Nian Wanzhou looked up at the source of the thunderclap in the sky. It was Lexi who, after enduring countless hardships, had successfully been promoted.
The thunder lasted for two whole days, seemingly disturbed by something and never stopping.
Although it didn't deal a serious blow to Le Xi, it was still quite terrifying, and its strangeness was no less than what Wei Wenru experienced when she was promoted.
Nian Wanzhou's face didn't show much joy. The biting coldness lingered in her mind, like the icy temperature after death, like being in a freezer... making it hard to breathe.
She staggered to her feet, her small figure barely visible in the darkness. Then, Nian Wanzhou passed through the barrier and left without a sound.
No one noticed her departure. Even the sect leader and others who had been studying the dragon-shaped cloud in the sky did not notice that someone had crossed the barrier.
Nian Wanzhou ran wildly all the way to the back mountain barrier, ran straight in, and curled up in a pool of clear water.
She didn't even know why she was doing it; she just felt safe and comfortable, as if she were back in her mother's womb.
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