The Mermaid beside him saw this and was slightly confused, so she followed him into the sea. Then, to her astonishment, she realized that Cheng Zongyang seemed to be undergoing a metamorphosis.
By now, the dolphins in the sea had long been scared away. However, Cheng Zongyang's body began to tremble slightly, as if he were undergoing an arduous metamorphosis. First, his massive, hard scales began to loosen. They slowly lifted piece by piece, like the surface of a wall gradually peeling away from the erosion of time. Beneath the scales, a layer of soft, glossy new skin faintly emerged.
His limbs gradually shrank, and his once thick, powerful claws slowly became smaller, growing more delicate and agile as the contours of fingers became distinct. His head was also changing; the massive, majestic dragon head steadily became more compact. His nearly thirty-meter-long body was continuously shrinking.
Twenty-eight meters, twenty-five meters, twenty meters...
