You want me to play the Foehn wind? Are you kidding me?

When the train crew passed through the ancient stone archway, Tingyun was already standing in the center of the stone platform.

She closed her fan, her back to them, facing the churning sea.

Hearing footsteps, she turned around, a gentle smile on her lips.

"My benefactors, you have arrived faster than I expected."

March 7th, I walked up quickly.

"Miss Tingyun! Are you alright? What's going on here...?"

March 7th stopped talking, and she also saw the tree canopy unfolding in the distance.

Tingyun followed her gaze, her voice carrying just the right amount of emotion.

"Jianmu is waking up. I only realized the situation was more serious than I expected after I arrived."

She paused.

"But now that our benefactors have arrived, there should still be a way."

Walter stepped forward, stood at the edge of the stone platform, and looked at the canopy of trees.

"The Jianmu tree is spreading faster than expected. Its roots have already covered three-quarters of this area. If its canopy were to fully expand, it would engulf the entire Lin Yuan Realm."

On the other side, along an unnamed narrow path, two figures were moving quickly along the shadows on the side of the stone wall.

Blade walked in front, with Kafka following behind him.

Suddenly she stopped, listened to the sounds in the distance, and then spoke.

"Ah Ren, he should be up ahead."

Blade didn't answer, but he quickened his pace.

On the stone steps in the distance, Dan Heng was walking alone up the winding stone path. He had just come from the main city of Luofu and was walking alone on the road to Lin Yuan Realm.

After he walked a little further forward...

He saw someone he didn't want to see.

Blade stood in the middle of the road, blocking the way.

Dan Heng's gaze fell on the blade. He remained silent for a moment before speaking.

"Get out of the way."

The blade did not move.

"Yinyue, it's time for you to come back."

Dan Heng tightened his grip on the gun slightly.

"I am not Yin Yue."

Ren looked at him, neither refuting nor backing down.

Kafka's voice came from the side.

"Danheng, we're not here to make things difficult for you."

She stood in the shadows on one side of the stone path.

"But if you don't reclaim that power, those people in the Scaled Abyss Realm might not be able to get out."

Danheng turned his head and glanced at her.

"You are using me."

"It doesn't count as exploitation."

Kafka shook her head.

"I just helped you make a decision you would have made sooner or later."

She tilted her head slightly.

"Jianmu is devouring Lin Yuanjing. Jing Yuan will be there soon, but he needs you to be in the right position."

Dan Heng's fingers tightened slightly as he gripped the gun, his knuckles turning white.

He looked at the blade, and the blade looked back at him, neither of them showing any intention to back down.

The blade moved.

His sword was faster than his words; a dark arc of light sliced ​​through the air above the stone steps, heading straight for Dan Heng's face.

Dan Heng dodged to the side, the tip of his spear tracing a semicircle, sparking a string of sparks as it scraped against the blade of the sword.

The two passed each other on the narrow stone path.

The moment Dan Heng landed, the spear tip had already spun around and stabbed at the back of the blade. The blade did not turn around; instead, it moved sideways, parrying the attack, and then turned around, its tip stabbing straight at Dan Heng's chest.

Dan Heng took a half step back, blocking with his spear. The force came from the tip of the sword, and his foot slid half a step further on the ground.

The blade did not continue its attack.

"You're still hiding."

"I didn't dodge."

Dan Heng's voice was a little lower than before.

"You're running away."

"After running for so long, what have you managed to escape from?"

Blade's voice grew even angrier.

Danheng did not answer.

The tip of his gun dipped slightly.

The tip of the spear drew an arc in the air, aiming straight for the shoulder of the blade.

The blade didn't dodge; instead, it slashed diagonally, the spear tip grazing his shoulder and drawing a thin line of blood. At the same time, the blade's sword had already pierced Dan Heng's chest.

The sword didn't pierce deeply, but its position was so precise it was as if it had been measured.

Danheng's body froze for a moment, like a stone thrown into still water. Then, the power of the Vidyadhara Dragon was forcibly activated from his body, and pale blue light patterns appeared on the edges of his wounds, frantically repairing his damaged body.

Dan Heng knelt on one knee, the gun slipping from his hand and hitting the stone steps with a crisp sound.

Kafka's voice came from the side.

"Ren, it's time to go."

Ren glanced down at Dan Heng kneeling on the ground, snorted, then sheathed his sword, turned around, and didn't look back.

Kafka followed beside him, and the two figures quickly disappeared into the distance along the shadows on the side of the stone path.

Dan Heng knelt on the stone steps, his hands supporting him on the ground, and a blue light was emanating from his body.

He raised his head, and the wind from the Scaled Abyss Realm blew through his hair, causing the changing strands to flutter.

Suddenly, footsteps sounded in the distance, steady and unhurried.

It is Jingyuan.

He stopped in front of Dan Heng, looking at the eyes that were slowly rising and covered by azure light, and at the dragon scale patterns that were appearing on his back.

He stared at it for a long time.

Jingyuan withdrew his gaze and turned to the direction where Kafka and Ren had left.

"They're gone... The sea in Lin Yuan Realm is churning beneath the roots of the Jianmu tree, and the ancient site of Chi Ming is being eroded. I need you to open the sea."

Dan Heng was silent for a moment, his voice still hoarse from the loss of his dragon power.

"...You knew I'd come?"

"I knew you would come, but it wasn't my arrangement."

"The Star Core Hunters have their own script, and I just followed a part of their story."

Danheng pushed himself up from the ground.

Jing Yuan turned around and looked at the churning sea and the gradually unfolding canopy of the Jianmu tree in the distance.

"Someone is using the revival of Jianmu to create chaos. His aim is to drag Luofu into the old feud between Chiming and Xianzhou, but now..."

He turned his head and glanced at Dan Heng.

"And now you're here. He overlooked that."

Jing Yuan glanced at him.

"Let's go... Dan... Heng."

Jing Yuan turned around and walked towards the direction of Lin Yuan Realm.

……

As they passed through the stone archway, several figures on the stone platform in the distance were approaching.

On March 7th, they were the first to see them. First, they saw Jing Yuan, and then their gaze fell on the figure behind him.

Her eyes widened slowly, as if she had checked several times to make sure she wasn't seeing things.

"Danheng?! You...how did you become like this?"

Her voice was clearly filled with surprise.

"It's a long story."

Dan Heng looked down at the spreading roots at his feet, and then he spoke.

Where is the fishing season opening?

Jing Yuan raised his hand and pointed in a certain direction on the sea.

"Directly below the site of the ancient Chiming, the roots of the Jianmu tree have already begun to spread upwards."

Dan Heng looked in that direction and saw nothing unusual on the surface of the sea, but he could see the outlines of roots that were slowly extending underwater.

"How could the Jianmu tree spread so quickly? What happened to the seal?"

(P.S.: The author is exhausted... one more chapter will be added today.)