Spawning Monsters

First, he gave the new egg a name—Ice Flood Dragon Egg. Then, under Jiang Tingting's utterly bewildered gaze, Fang Zheng continued his experiment.

He opened his Inventory, took out a Monster Spawner, placed it on the ground, then clicked it with the Ice Flood Dragon Spawn Egg.

Immediately afterward, a tiny dark jade dragon-shaped figure appeared inside the pixelated iron cage of the Monster Spawner. Its body was stretched perfectly straight like a long little lizard, spinning continuously inside the cage while pixel flames burned around it.

Seeing those pixel flames, Fang Zheng immediately realized, "It worked!"

"Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!"

His delighted cheers rang out. Jiang Tingting, who had been waiting nearby, watched Fang Zheng jump around on the spot, unable to understand what he was so happy about.

She merely stared curiously at the strange-looking iron cage and the incomparably tiny Flood Dragon within it.

Looking at the tiny Flood Dragon hatchling in the cage, endlessly spinning in place amid strange little red squares, she felt somewhat confused.

"Could it be that the dead embryo inside this Ice Flood Dragon Egg, which had already died, was revived by Senior Fang?"

"But why is this hatchling constantly spinning in place?"

She instinctively extended her Divine Sense to inspect it, only to become even more bewildered. "Th-this... was it really revived?"

After all, most living creatures looked rather adorable during their infancy, before they had fully developed.

Yet under the inspection of her Divine Sense, this suspected little Flood Dragon hatchling showed none of the tiny, adorable features of a young creature. It was simply a scaled-down version of a ferocious adult Flood Dragon.

Moreover, although its body kept spinning inside the cage, it remained ramrod straight, completely motionless from head to toe. Its bloodline was not circulating, its heart was not beating—no matter how she looked at it, it should have been a corpse.

And yet, Jiang Tingting strangely sensed that this Flood Dragon hatchling possessed a soul. It was not particularly powerful, but it undeniably existed.

However, that soul was also in a strange state of stagnation, somewhat like it had been sealed within divine source, yet it did not quite feel right.

She asked in confusion, "Senior Fang, did you revive this Ice Flood Dragon? But why do its body and soul seem intact, yet it looks as though it has been sealed? Did you deliberately seal it?"

"And what exactly is this Monster Spawner you mentioned?"

Hearing Jiang Tingting's questions, Fang Zheng chuckled happily and replied, "This egg wasn't revived. I turned it into a Spawn Egg, so I can use it to spawn monsters. And this is a cage for placing Spawn Eggs and continuously spawning monsters."

Jiang Tingting was puzzled. "Spawn Egg? Spawning monsters? What does that mean?"

"You'll find out soon enough." As Fang Zheng answered, he kept turning his head to look around, somewhat confused. "Huh? Shouldn't a monster have spawned already? Where is it?"

"Could it have spawned inside an underground cave?" After glancing at the ground, Fang Zheng became even more puzzled. "But I used Spectator Mode just now, and I didn't see any caves underground nearby. Where did it spawn?"

"Hasn't it spawned yet? Could it need some special spawning conditions, like lighting or something?"

Just as Fang Zheng was still puzzling over it, Jiang Tingting suddenly had a thought and looked up at the sky.

Rumble...

Far overhead, at an unimaginably distant height, a destructive shockwave blossomed downward from the sky. Jiang Tingting's pupils contracted, and in an instant, she deployed her defenses with all her strength, releasing Divine Power to envelop the area.

In an incomparably brief moment, the entire sky had turned a blinding incandescent white, as though a great sun had suddenly descended upon the world.

It was like a million, ten million, or even a hundred trillion ultra-high-yield hydrogen bombs suddenly exploding in the distant heavens.

The explosive shockwave of extreme heat and pressure compressed and heated the air high above to the limit, transforming it from plasma into a state resembling a superfluid.

Limited by the visual frame rate of his Block Person body, Fang Zheng's reaction speed could not detect what had happened in that instant. But Jiang Tingting, at the second realm of the Immortal Platform, saw it clearly.

This was a powerful force capable of threatening her life!

It was an attack comparable to the Dragon Transformation Nine Changes realm, but its scale was vastly greater, as though a hundred trillion or even a thousand trillion cultivators at the peak of Dragon Transformation Nine Changes had launched their strongest attacks at the ground from the distant heavens together.

The incandescent white expanse, radiating indescribably vast energy, swept down from above at a speed of at least ten thousand times the speed of sound—roughly one percent of the speed of light.

To Jiang Tingting's physical eyes, it was nearly a perfectly flat plane. Only by observing with Divine Sense could she detect its faint curvature and realize that it was not a plane at all, but most likely a sphere.

This meant that the range covered by this terrifying shockwave far exceeded ordinary imagination.

As the incandescent white surface gradually descended, beginning from the peaks of mountains that pierced the clouds, the ancient snow that had accumulated for ten thousand years atop those peaks, the grass, trees, soil, and stones, the forests of towering ancient trees growing amid the ice and snow...

Everything, everything, was instantly swallowed and melted away within it.

Even several Netherwood trees growing on the mountaintops, nourished at nodes of frigid earth veins and having accumulated massive amounts of yin baleful power—enough to be made into Magic Tools for Dragon Transformation realm cultivators—were destroyed by that horrifying heat, turning into glowing white embers before burning away in an instant.

However, the shockwave that seemed like an entire star crashing down did not last.

Jiang Tingting could see that in that instant, before even the brilliant light containing such heat could warm and vaporize the ground, the incomplete Imperial Formation that blanketed the entirety of the Jiang Family territory, meant to defend against internal crises, was activated at once.

Dense golden Rune Chains surged in from the horizon, filling the sky at an even faster speed.

The enormous shockwave that had yet to continue sweeping downward was completely enveloped and suppressed. The immense heat, which had already begun radiating through the air as light energy and continuing downward, was drained away entirely.

This barely allowed the mortals and low-realm cultivators within Jiang Family territory, along with the rare birds, strange beasts, and precious spiritual herbs in the mountains, to escape disaster.

In fact, because the white canopy vanished too quickly, the mortals and low-realm cultivators within Jiang Family territory could not even notice what had happened in that instant.

Looking at the formation patterns densely covering the sky, Jiang Tingting finally felt relieved, though her brows remained tightly furrowed in confusion. "Who would dare attack Jiang Family territory like this?"

"The ancient clans, or visitors from beyond the domain?"

"Could it be! Have the beings of the great life-restricted zones finally lost patience and decided to wipe out the Jiang Family?"

But before Jiang Tingting could think further, an intense sense of threat descended from the heavens.

Roar!

It was a pained dragon's roar transmitted through Divine Sense. An incomparably immense dragon might spread with it, shrouding a radius of several million li!

One had to understand that this was the entire territory of the Jiang Family in the Northern Region!

If not for the Jiang Family formation completely containing this dragon might and preventing it from spreading outward, the entire Northern Region—and even the entire Big Dipper Star Domain—would have been completely enveloped by this pressure.

Under this pressure, the countless rare birds and strange beasts within the vast mountain range Jiang Tingting used as a cultivation ground, as well as in the various nearby palaces, suddenly stopped breathing. Many Jiang Family Cultivators in the midst of cultivation also changed expression sharply.

Some people were even interrupted during their cultivation and directly coughed up blood.

The sky, which had just turned incandescent white, was instantly filled with dark clouds again. A colossal figure floated in the heavens.