[The giant stele rested upon a central base, with more than ten narrow stone bridges radiating out to buildings resembling mausoleums.]
[These mausoleum-like buildings appeared fantastical, as if they did not truly exist.]
[Atop each mausoleum stood a massive statue of a different exotic beast, resembling dragons yet not dragons, having both dragon-like traits and distinct features of other species.]
[You saw a colossal monster statue with the head of a dragon and the body of a fish, as well as monstrous forms that resembled giant turtles with dragon heads and dragon scales, and even godly and bizarre creatures with the heads of dragons and the bodies of wolves or lions...]
[The stele bore the inscription: Ancient legends speak of the Dragon giving birth to nine offspring, but nine is but a symbolic number; in reality, the Dragon had numerous descendants, among which sixteen were the direct progeny of the first generation.]
