Star Dou's Anomaly (Seeking Collection, Seeking Follow-up Reads)

Star Dou Forest, core area, Lake of Life.

This was the innermost region of the Star Dou Forest, the territory where Great Beasts with cultivation levels reaching two hundred thousand years resided.

At this moment, however, endless darkness shrouded the sky over the core area, and the air was saturated with a dense origin of darkness. The Great Beasts looked up at the heavens in confusion.

Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King and the first among the ten Great Beasts, gazed at the pitch-black sky, a chill manifesting in his eyes.

"All members of the Star Dou Forest, be on high alert!" Di Tian's majestic voice echoed throughout the entire Star Dou Forest.

Upon receiving the order, the Great Beasts did not hesitate in the slightest and gathered at Di Tian's location; even Xiong Jun, who had always been defiant toward Di Tian, did not delay for even a second.

Within moments, the Great Beasts of the Star Dou Forest had assembled around Di Tian.

"Di Tian, what is going on?" Xiong Jun asked, addressing Di Tian directly by name.

Di Tian had no time to spare for Xiong Jun; the form of the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King dissipated, transforming into a man in black robes who radiated an intimidating aura without even needing to be angry.

He spoke slowly, uttering only a single word: "God!"

That single word alone caused a flash of incredulous shock to ripple through the eyes of the Great Beasts, followed immediately by a sense of dread and crisis that reached deep into their marrow.

Just then, waves of energy emanated from beneath the Lake of Life.

"The Lord has awakened." As Di Tian finished speaking, his figure vanished instantly.

In the space beneath the Lake of Life.

A giant silver dragon lay prone, her entire body covered in hard, hexagonal scales, surrounded by the seven elements of water, fire, earth, wind, light, darkness, and space.

It was none other than the Silver Dragon King, split from the Dragon God, the co-ruler of soul beasts, Gu Yuena!

Directly in front of her, a spatial gate suddenly appeared.

Sensing the spatial fluctuations, the giant silver dragon slowly opened her dragon eyes, from which deep purple light emanated.

"Lord."

Di Tian emerged from the gate and said respectfully.

"I have awakened this time because I sensed a fluctuation of power at a higher level." A cold, clear voice issued from the silver dragon's mouth.

Hearing this, Di Tian immediately reported the current state of the Star Dou Forest: "Lord, the Star Dou Forest is currently shrouded in an origin of darkness, and your subordinate sensed the fluctuations of divine power within it."

Upon hearing Di Tian's report, the silver dragon's massive head shook slightly: "It is not divine power; this energy is of a higher level than divine power!"

"Higher than divine power?!" Di Tian repeated.

Just then, within Di Tian's perception, a giant egg fell from the origin of darkness and landed in the core area.

At the same time, the origin of darkness shrouding the Star Dou Forest dissipated without a trace.

The Silver Dragon King also sensed the arrival of this giant egg. She perceived it far more clearly than Di Tian; inside this egg, there was not only the bloodline of the dragon race but also another form of energy that far surpassed divine power.

She commanded indifferently: "Bring it back."

"Yes."

Di Tian bowed and departed.

In the core area, Xiong Jun and the other beasts watched with their own eyes as a giant egg covered in black dragon scales fell from the origin of darkness and landed nearby.

"I'll go take a look."

Xiong Jun ran toward the direction where the giant egg had fallen.

"Let's follow and see as well."

The origin of darkness had already dissipated, and the Great Beasts no longer felt their previous vigilance. After a moment of hesitation, Bi Ji spoke.

The egg had landed inside a valley.

The valley, which had once been teeming with life, had now become a place of death, and the plant-type soul beasts that lived there had all withered.

At this moment, in the center of the valley, the giant egg covered in black dragon scales was shaking incessantly; the little fellow inside was impatient to leave that enclosed space.

A moment later, the giant egg stopped shaking and stood quietly in the center of the valley.

Under the sunlight, the pitch-black dragon scales were not only as dazzling as obsidian but also possessed the hardness of obsidian.

Inside the egg, a two-meter-long, ink-colored black dragon sat coiled like a snake, its dragon tongue lolling out of its mouth as it panted heavily.

"Chovy, if you're going to transmigrate me, at least do it properly! Is this egg made of obsidian? It won't even break."

The black dragon kept grumbling, and what came out of its mouth was actually human language.

Inside this black dragon was a human soul named Lin Tian. He had originally been at home, enjoying the air conditioning and watching anime, when a giant hand suddenly grabbed him, said some things he couldn't understand, and shoved him into this black dragon's body.

He still remembered that before the giant hand disappeared, it left him a cultivation technique and a single sentence: "Lin Tian, I am waiting for you at the peak."

God knows what Lin Tian's mood was at the time. In his previous life, he was a proper rich young master who enjoyed a life of abundance every day. Now that he had been snatched away to another world without even inheriting his family's fortune, wouldn't that just be a free handout to his half-brother?

If it weren't for the fact that his head was still spinning from bumping against the eggshell a few times, Lin Tian would have absolutely thought he was dreaming.

"Damn bastard, if I ever see you, I'm definitely going to beat you up first!" Lin Tian didn't forget to curse.

Outside, Xiong Jun and the other Great Beasts stood before the egg, studying it carefully.

"This appears to be a dragon egg," Bi Ji said, analyzing the dragon scales on the shell.

"Should we take it back with us?" the Red King asked, his three heads speaking in unison.

Just then, Di Tian suddenly appeared before them and said indifferently, "This is an egg of our dragon race. The Lord has commanded me to bring it back."

The meaning behind Di Tian's words was self-evident: do not harbor any ideas about this egg.

"The Lord? Our dragon race?"

Lin Tian, inside the egg, also heard the conversation outside. He thought to himself that it seemed he had made a precise landing in dragon territory and had been singled out by the leader of the dragons himself.

Lin Tian did not know if this was a good thing or a bad thing, but regardless, there was nothing he, a baby dragon who hadn't even hatched yet, could do about it.

However, he remembered from the novels of his past life that dragon races usually possessed ancestral memories and could speak their own names the moment they were born; he wondered if it was the same in this world.

If so, he would be in trouble, as he lacked any ancestral memories and didn't know if he could just make one up.

Thinking of this, his gaze turned firm. Ignoring the pain, he struck the eggshell with all his might.

Outside, Di Tian saw the dragon egg suddenly begin to shake and stopped the movement he had intended to use to lift it with his soul power.

Di Tian watched quietly, waiting for the little one inside the dragon egg to break out.

Under Lin Tian's unremitting efforts, a crack finally appeared on the obsidian-like shell. His eyes lit up, and he struck the crack with even greater force.

"Crack--!"

With a crisp sound, the eggshell finally shattered. Under the watchful eyes of Di Tian and the other fierce beasts, a dragon head about twenty centimeters long poked out from the shell.

Its contours were sharp and well-defined, yet it wore a ferocious expression. A pair of small but sharp dragon horns grew atop its head, and its vertical pupils were a bewitching crimson. Two slender, pitch-black dragon whiskers grew from its lower jaw.

Lin Tian, having extended his dragon head, looked at the seven figures standing before him. From them, he sensed an aura similar to his own.

He was certain in his heart that they were definitely not true humans, but rather, just like him...

Mythical creatures!

Lin Tian didn't quite know how to describe himself, so he could only use "mythical creature" as a substitute.