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When the dragon was first discovered, it was just a few piles of stones.

When he woke up again, he built a small temple half a person's height.

When I opened my eyes again, I saw this.

When the dragon heard them calling the stone statue "Dragon God", he thought humans were very strange creatures. Why did they call the stone "dragon"?

Besides, a dragon is a dragon, why add the word “god”?

He went to ask the mountain goddess, and she said it was called "faith."

Long said, “They are talking to me.”

The mountain goddess told him: "I am not talking to you. Humans are just making wishes for the safety of their families, high positions and generous salaries, and a successful harvest."

Grandma touched his scales and said, "You just need to sleep well, don't listen, don't interfere, all living things have their own set of rules."

Joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, are but a hundred years’ occurrence; laughter, anger, and scolding, are all passing clouds.

The dragon believed it and hid in the pond to sleep.

The man's exclamation woke him up, and the "butterfly" flew out and landed on the black, cold stone statue.

The man had been ripped open by the beast, but he was still alive. He saw the white, glowing butterfly.

He said: "I hope the Dragon God will bless my child and wish him a smooth life with good fortune and health..."

Long remembered Xiao Shitou's father, and also remembered Xiao Shitou's timid look when he followed adults.

He also remembered Xiao Shitou's grandfather, an old man with a pair of kind yet confused eyes.

In this world, there are no gods, only "spirits" that are born naturally and "dragons" that curl up and sleep deep in the pool.

The little stone seemed to be asking God, but actually he was asking the dragon.

The dragon knew that the little stone needed an answer, so he said, "There is the mountain goddess, and there is the dragon."

Little Stone: "Then why did my father die in the Dragon Temple?"

The sound quieted down.

After a while, Long said, "The mountain god said we can't interfere in the affairs of the human world, otherwise terrible things will happen."

Little Stone looked up at the top of the cave, where there seemed to be a crack in the stone, with light shining through.

The light shines in through the cracks, forming ribbon-like beams of light that shine onto the water, making the water appear as green as tourmaline.

The little stone looked at the light and the "dragon" sitting on the water, not understanding: "Why? Aren't you gods?"

Isn't it that people worship gods in order to obtain their protection?

If there is no God, then human offerings are nothing but a joke.

The dragon emphasized: "I am a dragon. I am not a god."

The little stone was deflated and lost interest in arguing with the dragon about whether he was a god or not.

Little Stone said, "Well, I believe you are a dragon."

Long is very simple. With just a word from Xiao Shitou, he puts all the unhappy things behind him.

Long said happily: "You believe me!"

Little Stone slowly loosened his grip on the wooden sculpture and said, "I believe you."

The dragon did not respond to him, but as soon as Little Stone finished speaking, he saw something seemed to be moving on the branch-like corner of the little boy in the pond.

Looking closely, the white leaves were flying up as if blown by the wind.

It turned out that they were not leaves, but many white butterflies.

Those butterflies were emitting pure silver light, their scales and powder were scattered, and their fluttering wings reflected a fragmented and short dream.

The white butterfly has a nice name - to ward off evil spirits. When it is young, it is an insect that follows jade and lives there. It likes to eat chalcedony and makes a cocoon out of jade, which it breaks into to become a butterfly.

The butterfly dances to ward off evil spirits, a dream lasts a thousand years.