[The White Elephant Demon puts away its iron hammers and lets out a long cry, then manifests its enormous original Dharma body!]
[The fat-bellied strong man’s body sways and changes. His body rapidly grows larger, becoming a huge white elephant like a mountain!]
[This white elephant has a total of six uneven, sharp tusks on both sides of its mouth. When it roars, it is exceptionally fierce and savage.]
[As the Six-Tusked White Elephant Demon Dharma body manifests, a strange phenomenon also appears between heaven and earth…]
[In an instant, the wind and clouds change color. Just now, the sky was clear for ten thousand li, with the blazing sun hanging high, but now heaven and earth turn dark, and violent winds rise.]
[The Six-Tusked White Elephant Demon raises its head and lets out a long trumpet. Its huge elephant trunk stirs like a dragon, lifting toward the sky and spraying out vast water vapor.]
[The water vapor transforms into rolling dark clouds. Accompanied by thunder and lightning, torrential rain pours down in moments!]
[With the White Elephant Demon’s magic power and its divine ability to summon wind and call rain, it can easily drive changes in the weather within a radius of one hundred li.]
[The White Elephant Demon puts away its Dharma body and changes back into human form. Drenched in the heavy rain, it says to you somewhat proudly, Junior brother, how is it? This basin-pouring great ladle, ladle, uh, torrential great basin, pour, ladle, uh… what heavy rain!]
[A short while later, the storm suddenly stops. The clouds disperse and the sun appears. You and the White Elephant Demon wait for a long time, but no illusion similar to a mirage appears.]
[The White Elephant Demon somewhat loses face and continues saying to you, Junior brother, perhaps the rain just now was still not heavy enough. Senior brother will bring an even greater rain right now.]
[You stop the White Elephant Demon and shake your head…]
Lin Xun narrowed his eyes, and countless dense characters flashed through them.
Judging from the information revealed by the Guerrilla General, at first, the illusion appeared relatively frequently and lasted for a fairly long time. Most likely, it was because that Mirage Dragon still had some power left here, and thus used that power to create the illusion.
Later, the illusion became increasingly unstable, only appearing once every year or half a year. By seven years ago, it needed an extremely rare rainstorm before it could manifest.
From this, it seemed that the power left behind by the Mirage Dragon was nearly exhausted. It was so powerless that it even needed to borrow the degree of drastic changes in weather.
Now, the White Elephant Demon had summoned wind and called rain, but no illusion had appeared. Either the Mirage Dragon’s remaining power had already completely dissipated, or the residual power was too weak and no longer sufficient to drive the illusion by simply relying on a rainstorm weather phenomenon.
Lin Xun thought briefly, then possessed the little dragonkin’s Shell.
[You possess the Shell of Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Ancient Dragon!]
[You wait for a moment. After seeing no abnormalities appear, you activate Ancient Dragon Oath and transform your form!]
[In an instant, you transform from a half-dragon into a huge crimson ancient dragon!]
[You let out a long roar, flap your wings, and soar into the air. Your entire body burns with raging crimson flames.]
[After the White Elephant Demon sends the Guerrilla General away from the valley, you open your dragon jaws and spew scorching dragonfire toward the ground of the valley below!]
[The extremely high-temperature dragonfire pours down, causing the earth that has just been drenched by the rainstorm to steam with water vapor. The sand and soil are burned until they become scorching hot. Soon, the sand, stones, and scorched earth melt into a sticky gelatinous substance…]
[When the scorching dragonfire dissipates, the valley beneath your feet has already transformed into a lava purgatory!]
[After hearing your instruction, the White Elephant Demon once again fully urges the art of summoning wind and calling rain.]
[Rolling dark clouds cover the blazing sun, and amid howling violent winds, pouring rain arrives again…]
[You summon the shikigami Origin-Tracing Snow Woman of the Mountain and have it ride on your dragon back, using Domain of Extreme Frost!]
[The rainstorm has just fallen when it turns into ice crystals and hail that sweep across the earth.]
[Because the Snow Woman’s yokai power is weak, the range of Domain of Extreme Frost can only cover a small half of the valley. You have no choice but to carry the Snow Woman as you soar and fly, circling around the valley…]
[The cold wind bites to the bone, the blizzard is frigid, and before the hail can fall to the ground, it is roasted by the scorching lava and rainwater, then steams into water vapor that rises upward…]
[Repeating this over and over, the lower layer near the sandy ground soon becomes scorching hot, while the temperature above is extremely cold, forming an extremely rare abnormal weather phenomenon…]
[…]
[When everything settles, the blazing sun appears again. As sunlight spreads across the earth, the valley is still filled with misty water vapor, dreamlike and illusory.]
[In a daze, a brilliant rainbow appears beneath the sunlight, and through the haze, illusory mist rises from the land beneath your feet…]
[Continuous mirage qi emerges, forming scene after scene of bizarre and motley images. The valley changes without anyone noticing, silently merging into the mirage…]
[When you come back to your senses, you are already at the bottom of the sea, with endless seawater surrounding you.]
[This is not a dark seabed where one cannot see their own fingers, but a beautiful, bright, azure-blue underwater world.]
[Colorful corals and shells can be seen everywhere, and brilliantly colored fish wander in every direction. Not far before you is an underwater Dragon Palace built from coral and pearls!]
[The White Elephant Demon’s expression is shocked. It reaches out to grab a small fish swimming past, but its palm passes straight through the fish as if touching light and shadow, catching nothing.]
[It blows bubbles and gives you a thumbs-up, saying, Junior brother, how did you know this would call out the illusion?]
Lin Xun smiled faintly.
The Mirage Dragon’s residual power was almost nonexistent, so it had to borrow the mirage phenomenon before it could manifest.
Although this valley still belonged to the Gobi desert region, it was not easy for a mirage like an oasis appearing in the desert to appear. It required an extremely abnormal weather phenomenon.
At its root, a mirage was an optical illusion. When sunlight shone on the ground, due to the large temperature difference between the upper and lower layers of air, differences in air density formed a greater refractive index of light.
When the refractive index of light became large enough, mirages were likely to appear.
Since the Mirage Dragon’s residual power was weak, and a simple rainstorm after a great drought was not enough to give rise to a mirage, Lin Xun would artificially help it create a mirage, using a move of ice and fire together.
After all conditions were satisfied, as long as the Mirage Dragon’s remaining power had not completely vanished, there was a high probability of triggering a hidden plot.
[You bring the White Elephant Demon into the dazzling, magnificent underwater Dragon Palace and see the huge creature within.]
[It is a giant clam with a pure white body. It seems to sense the dragon bloodline on you, and the seam of the clam opens and closes, revealing the pink tender flesh within…]
[A voice that is difficult to distinguish as male or female echoes within the Dragon Palace…]
[Unfamiliar dragon child, He is Dragon Child Mirage Dragon, and the giant clam you see is one of His original Dharma bodies.]
[Now He has already fallen, leaving only half a wisp of thought here in a dazed, lingering existence. He can no longer even maintain His dragon-shaped Dharma body and can only use the power that still remains to arrange the mirage, waiting for a fated yokai race member to arrive here, take over His mission, and complete the unfinished duty.]
[Fortunately, before His thought dissipates, He has finally waited for you…]
[He was ordered to build the Dragon-Gazing Altar at the front line of the divine war and guide the first-generation dragon children to the front line, but unexpectedly encountered an enemy ambush halfway and died here.]
[The Dragon-Gazing Altar has a guiding function and is an indispensable object in the divine war. In an instant, it can ferry countless yokai race members onto the battlefield.]
[But such a heavy weapon is also a thorn in the eyes and flesh of the gods and Buddhas. If the enemy discovers a Dragon-Gazing Altar built by us dragon race, they will destroy it at all costs.]
[You must take over His mission and continue building the Dragon-Gazing Altar on the front line, lest the yokai race be defeated…]
[Do you want to accept the mission transferred by the Mirage Dragon?]
