All members of the Dragon Clan possess dragon bones, which serve as a crucial source of their power.
The color of the dragon bones varies according to each dragon's abilities. For example, Shen Qing, like Han Ze, has awakened the power of ice. Her dragon bones are a blue - purple hue, resembling precious jade.
Moreover, all the memories about the Dragon Clan in her mind seemed to be suddenly awakened.
Shen Qing stood still, suddenly understanding the feeling of chaos in Li Xian's mind when she received the inheritance of the mermaids.
She felt dizzy looking at the scene in front of her. Finally, she simply lay on the ground, closed her eyes, and focused on absorbing the information in her mind.
However, in her spiritual sea, Shen Qing saw a white dragon emerge.
The white dragon looked at Shen Qing with loving eyes, filled with reluctance and pride.
Looking at the white dragon, Shen Qing only felt a sense of familiarity and warmth. She couldn't help but want to get closer to it, even though it was their first encounter. There was an intimate familiarity between them.
Even though she had a guess in her heart, Shen Qing still dared not confirm. "Who are you?"
The white dragon floated up, circled around Shen Qing twice, and then transformed into a human form when it landed again.
Like Han Ze, she had long white hair, but her pupils were as white as snow, emitting a beautiful blue light.
Shen Qing found that she looked extremely similar to the human form of the white dragon. If one didn't look carefully, they would seem to be carved from the same mold.
The white dragon reached out her hand and gently stroked Shen Qing's head. Shen Qing felt that the white dragon's hand was warm.
The white dragon spoke, her voice as clear as ice - cold spring water, pleasing to the ear. "Shen Qing, my name is Bai Li. I'm... your mother."
Upon getting the definite answer, Shen Qing's heart tightened sharply, as if being firmly grasped. Her nose also started to ache.
"Mother..." Shen Qing's throat felt blocked. Her words were filled with a strong nasal tone.
Before Shen Qing could say anything else, Bai Li's eyes were overflowing with heartache.
She opened her arms and suddenly pulled Shen Qing into her embrace, holding her tightly. Tears welled up in her eyes and fell.
After tens of thousands of years, mother and daughter finally met for the first time.
Both of them couldn't help crying. Shen Qing considered herself not a sentimental person, but after going through so many things and finally meeting her kin, she still couldn't help feeling aggrieved and sad.
She had shown envy more than once when seeing the Red Butterfly True Person and Hong Chaoyang together. She so hoped that she could also have a mother like that, who could protect her and accompany her as she grew up.
She once thought that the wife of Erhu in Xiaolin Village was her mother, but she soon realized that having such a mother was worse than having none at all.
So she gave up such thoughts.
But now she learned that the wife of Erhu was not her biological mother, and her hope was reignited. When she saw the memories that Han Ze showed her, Bai Li's figure had already been deeply engraved in her mind.
She was both gratified and extremely disappointed because the Dragon Clan had been destroyed, and she thought she would never have the chance to see her mother again.
But now Bai Li appeared in her spiritual sea, alive, with warmth, and touching her!
"Mother, you don't know... how much I've missed you."
Shen Qing buried herself in Bai Li's embrace. The fresh scent on Bai Li's body lingered around her nose, making her reluctant to leave.
How could Bai Li not miss her daughter? So before she died, she took out her dragon pill and injected a wisp of her soul into it, so that she could meet Shen Qing tens of thousands of years later.
Seeing that Shen Qing didn't want to leave her embrace, Bai Li helplessly curled the corner of her mouth, but there was a happy expression on her face. She let Shen Qing act coquettishly.
She knew that she had been absent from her daughter's life. For their first meeting, it was only natural for her daughter to act coquettishly. How could she, as a mother, not indulge her?
Bai Li gently stroked Shen Qing's back and said softly, "When you were still in the dragon egg, I could tell that you were a lively child."
"I'm sorry for the hardships you've endured over the years. It's mother's fault that I couldn't protect you well."
Shen Qing shook her head, about to tell Bai Li that it wasn't her fault.
But her nose felt sour again, and she couldn't help shedding tears. Her throat felt blocked, and she couldn't say a word.
Bai Li knew that Shen Qing would never blame her, but as a mother, she still couldn't help blaming herself.
The tender moment passed quickly. Seeing time slipping away, Bai Li had to put aside the joy of mother - daughter reunion and said to Shen Qing, "Shen Qing, you must remember what I'm going to say next."
Shen Qing, who had been hugging Bai Li, suddenly tightened her grip on her, and then nodded heavily.
Bai Li smiled faintly and began to tell the whole story.
It turned out that the merit stone was actually Bai Li's dragon pill.
And the jade pendant with a hidden space was also made by Bai Li with all her strength.
When the human and demon races attacked the Dragon Abyss, she, Tian Shui, and other members of the Dragon Clan used a spatial secret technique to place the inheritance temple of the Dragon Clan in the Dragon Abyss into the jade pendant.
Bai Li originally planned to give the jade pendant and the merit stone to Han Ze and ask him to take them out.
But the incident happened suddenly. Han Ze had already hidden in the crack beside the temple, so she didn't go to look for him. Instead, she hid these things under her body.
After the massacre, the merit stone and the jade pendant were taken away and occupied by a member of the demon race and a member of the human race respectively.
The ancestor of the Ling family followed the main human army to fight against the demon race ten thousand years ago and accidentally obtained the merit stone.
Seeing the value of the merit stone and wanting it to be used by his descendants, he asked his descendants to take the merit stone to the mortal world and offer it up.
The person who picked up the jade pendant died at the entrance of the Demon Abyss, and the jade pendant was left there.
A thousand years ago, when the people from the main temple took Ling Zhou and others to seal the Demon Abyss, Ling Zhou's soul was accidentally absorbed by the jade pendant.
Therefore, his soul was nourished in the space and luckily didn't dissipate. That was why he was able to meet Shen Qing.
As for how the jade pendant ended up in the hands of the wife of Erhu as a family heirloom, one would have to ask the True Person Heng Ling.
Shen Qing listened to Bai Li's gentle voice telling the past events, as if she were listening to a story, and couldn't help being entranced.
"It's such a series of coincidences. If it were in a storybook, I would think the author was writing something absurd."
Shen Qing touched her warm cheeks, her tone filled with a hint of disbelief.
Bai Li smiled faintly.
Although it was a series of coincidences, there were intricate fates at play.
If these things had fallen into the hands of others, the secrets within them would never have been discovered. Only members of the Dragon Clan had the chance to open these spaces.
Bai Li didn't say this. If she did, Shen Qing would surely retort, "That's not true!"
Wasn't it Lin Yibai's system that allowed her to recognize the jade pendant as her own by dripping blood on it?
It seemed that extraterrestrial objects were indeed more powerful.