While Second Prince Qian Ye was whipping his lathered warhorse southward along the dusty mountain highway with blood still dried on his chin. The Gu Family’s weekend camping party arrived at the sparkling emerald shores of Moon-Mirror Lake at 11:30 AM on Saturday morning.
Located twenty-five miles south of Sky-Crown City, Moon-Mirror Lake was a vast, five-mile-wide alpine lake surrounded by golden autumn reeds and weeping willows.
Out near the center of the lake, however, the dark blue water spun in a terrifying, hundred-yard-wide funnel of roaring white foam—the notorious Lunar-Tide Whirlpool. Whose crushing Rank 4 water pressure could tear an iron-plated warship into toothpicks in three seconds flat!
In Second Prince Qian Ye’s past-life memories, Secret Realm #2: The Sunken Star-Lake Grotto lay three hundred feet beneath the exact center of that whirlpool. The water vortex only calmed down for fifteen minutes at 12:00 AM midnight when the full autumn moon aligned overhead.
“Look at the size of that whirlpool, Changsheng!”
Standing on a weathered wooden fishing dock at the edge of the lake, Grandpa Yao , at Rank 4 Early, held onto his tall white baker’s hat. The damp lake wind whipped his snowy beard. “Even though you, Butler Fu, Physician Qin, and I are all Rank 4 Early Immortals now, our three children are still at Half-Step Rank 4, and Envoy Zhao is only Half-Step Rank 4!
