Two hours later,
just as Lu Ran was absorbed in his research, he suddenly sensed a strange fluctuation both within his Martial Soul and from far away.
At the same time,
a dragon's roar that shook heaven and earth erupted without warning.
The entire sky of the Small World trembled.
The instant Lu Ran's figure vanished, he reappeared beside the Rock Crystal Dragon egg.
The earth trembled.
The hundred-meter-tall Rock Crystal Dragon egg was cracking apart. Rock-scaled shards of its shell crumbled down, crashing onto the green grass.
Each shard was a meter thick and wide, and struck the ground with a dull boom.
The power of the earth, which had previously flowed only through the cracks, began to spill out.
"Roar—!!"
The entire earth trembled.
The Rock Crystal Dragon roared again, more domineering, more imposing, and more majestic than before its awakening!
A dense surge of the power of the earth exploded in response!
More of the shell shattered, raising a sky full of dust that was then scattered by the sound waves.
A colossal figure rose slowly from the earthen-yellow light, so immense it took one's breath away.
A hundred meters away, Lu Ran tilted his head back.
He'd thought the Rock Crystal Dragon's fifty-meter-long body was already enormous, bigger than the vast majority of Soul Beasts. Even the Scarlet King, whose cultivation was close to three hundred thousand years, was only five meters long.
But now,
standing before him was a mountain range that seemed impossible to overcome!
The Rock Crystal Dragon's already massive body had doubled in size—one hundred meters long!
It had changed dramatically.
Its scales were no longer the warm amber color they'd been before, but a deep earthy brown, as profound and heavy as ancient rock strata after millions of years of sedimentation.