Star Dou Forest, core region, Lake of Life.
This was the very heart of Star Dou Forest, where ferocious beasts with cultivation bases of two hundred thousand years or more lived.
At this moment, endless darkness shrouded the sky above the core region. Dense Dark Origin filled the air as the ferocious beasts looked up at the heavens in confusion.
Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King and the foremost of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, gazed at the pitch-black sky, a trace of coldness in his eyes.
"Everyone belonging to Star Dou Forest, remain on full alert!" Di Tian's imposing voice spread throughout Star Dou Forest.
Upon receiving the order, the ferocious beasts gathered at Di Tian's location without the slightest hesitation. Even Xiong Jun, who had always refused to submit to Di Tian, did not delay in the slightest at this time.
Before long, the ferocious beasts of Star Dou Forest had assembled around Di Tian.
"Di Tian, what is going on?" Xiong Jun asked, directly calling Di Tian by name.
Di Tian had no time to deal with Xiong Jun. The Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King's true form vanished, replaced by a man in a black robe whose presence was naturally imposing.
He slowly spoke, uttering only one word: "God!"
Yet that single word made disbelief flash through the ferocious beasts' eyes, followed by wariness and a sense of danger that seeped into their bones.
Just then, waves of disturbance rose from beneath Lake of Life.
"The Lord has awakened." As soon as Di Tian spoke, his figure vanished.
The space beneath Lake of Life.
A massive silver dragon lay sprawled there, its entire body covered in hard hexagonal scales. The seven elements of water, fire, earth, wind, light, darkness, and space swirled around it.
It was the Silver Dragon King split from the Dragon God, the sovereign of all Soul Beasts—Gu Yuena!
A spatial gate suddenly appeared before her.
Sensing the spatial fluctuations, the silver dragon slowly opened her draconic eyes, deep purple light radiating from within.
"My Lord."
Di Tian emerged from the gate and spoke respectfully.
"I awakened this time because I sensed fluctuations from a higher level of power," the Silver Dragon King said in a cold, clear voice.
Upon hearing this, Di Tian immediately reported the current situation in Star Dou Forest. "My Lord, Star Dou Forest is now shrouded in Dark Origin. I sensed fluctuations of divine power within it."
After hearing Di Tian's report, the Silver Dragon King gently shook her enormous head. "It is not divine power. This power is of a level higher than divine power!"
"Higher than divine power?!" Di Tian repeated.
Just then, Di Tian sensed a giant egg falling from the Dark Origin and landing in the core region.
At the same time, the Dark Origin shrouding Star Dou Forest dissipated without a trace.
The Silver Dragon King also sensed the giant egg's arrival. What she sensed was far clearer than Di Tian's perception. Not only did the egg contain the bloodline of the Dragon Clan, but it also held another form of energy far beyond divine power.
She calmly ordered, "Bring it back."
"Yes."
Di Tian bowed and departed.
In the core region, Xiong Jun and the other beasts watched with their own eyes as a giant egg covered in black dragon scales fell from the Dark Origin nearby.
"I'll go take a look."
Xiong Jun ran toward where the giant egg had fallen.
"Let's follow and take a look too."
With the Dark Origin gone, the ferocious beasts no longer held their previous vigilance. After hesitating for a moment, Bi Ji spoke.
The giant egg had landed within a valley.
The once vibrant valley had become filled with the aura of death. The plant Soul Beasts that lived there had all withered away.
At this moment, in the center of the valley, the giant egg covered in black dragon scales kept shaking. The little fellow inside could not wait to leave that confined 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 as hard as obsidian as well.
Inside the egg, a two-meter-long ink-black dragon coiled like a snake. Its dragon tongue hung from its mouth as it panted heavily.
"What the hell—if you were going to transmigrate me, at least do it properly! Is this egg made of obsidian? Why won't it break?"
The black dragon kept grumbling, and he was actually speaking the human language.
Within this black dragon was the soul of a human named Lin Tian. He had originally been sitting at home in the air conditioning and watching anime when a giant hand suddenly grabbed him. After saying things he could not understand, it sent him into the body of this black dragon.
He still remembered that before the giant hand disappeared, it had left him a cultivation technique and one sentence: "Lin Tian, I will wait for you at the summit."
Who knew how Lin Tian had felt then? In his previous life, he had been a genuine rich young master, enjoying a life of abundance every day. Now that someone had dragged him into another world, would the family fortune he had yet to inherit not be handed over for free to that half-brother of his who shared the same father?
If he had not just rammed his head against the eggshell several times and left himself dizzy, Lin Tian would have absolutely thought he was dreaming.
"Damn you! If I ever see you, I'll beat you up first!" Lin Tian cursed.
Outside, Xiong Jun and the other ferocious beasts stood before the egg, studying it carefully.
"This seems to be a dragon egg." Bi Ji analyzed it while looking at the dragon scales on its surface.
"Should we bring it back?" Scarlet King's three heads spoke at the same time.
Just then, Di Tian suddenly appeared before them and said calmly, "This is an egg of our Dragon Clan. The Lord has ordered me to bring it back."
The meaning behind Di Tian's words was obvious: do not entertain any ideas about this egg.
The Lord? Our Dragon Clan?
Lin Tian inside the egg had also heard the conversation outside. Looks like I landed right in the Dragon Clan's territory and was immediately singled out by their leader.
Lin Tian did not know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing, but whether it was good or bad, there was nothing he, a dragon baby who had yet to hatch, could change.
However, he remembered that in the novels from his previous life, dragons seemed to possess inherited memories and could call out their own names from birth. He did not know whether this world was the same.
If it was, then he might be in trouble, because he had no inherited memories and did not know whether making something up would work.
At that thought, his gaze became resolute. Ignoring the pain, he desperately slammed himself against the eggshell.
Outside, Di Tian saw the dragon egg suddenly begin to shake and stopped himself from using Soul Power to lift it.
Di Tian watched quietly, waiting for the little fellow inside the dragon egg to break out of its shell.
Through Lin Tian's unrelenting efforts, a crack finally appeared in the obsidian-like eggshell. His eyes lit up, and he struck the crack with even greater force.
Crack—!
With a cracking sound, the eggshell finally shattered. Under the gazes of Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts, a dragon head about twenty centimeters long emerged from the shell.
Its contours were sharply defined, yet its face looked fierce and sinister. A pair of small but sharp dragon horns grew from its head, while its vertical pupils were crimson and bewitching. Two slender pitch-black dragon whiskers grew beneath its jaw.
Lin Tian, having extended his dragon head, looked at the seven people standing before him. From them, he sensed an aura similar to his own.
He was certain that they were not truly humans, but beings like himself...
Mythical creatures!
Lin Tian did not quite know how to describe himself, so he could only use mythical creature as a substitute.
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