The Divine Realm, at its central nexus.
"What's going on?!"
Sea God Tang San, a imposing man dressed in a water-blue robe with long, water-blue hair, instantly knitted his brows.
Just moments ago, Douluo Star, which he had been watching all along, had suddenly been completely enveloped by a dense layer of world power.
Even with the Divine Realm's central nexus backing him, Tang San could see nothing but a blur.
"...A final gamble? Or has some unforeseen variable appeared?"
A purple gleam flashed through his eyes. Tang San couldn't quite understand what the Douluo Continent Plane Will was thinking.
His father and mother had long since slipped down to the lower realm. Yet at a time like this, it was squandering world power so recklessly?
It had already given him reason to kill it!
After a moment's thought, Tang San shook his head lightly.
"No matter. Just a cornered beast's struggle."
With his arrangements, there might be a few twists along the way, but nothing could possibly derail the outcome of his ten-thousand-year plan.
Still...
To be safe, I should send a strand of divine consciousness down with Xiao Qi's main soul.
Star Dou Great Forest, the Lake of Life.
A dense layer of deep-blue mist spread across the lake's jade-smooth surface.
It swirled gently around a large cocoon at the center of the lake, half of which lay submerged in the water.
The cocoon's surface kept rising and falling, an orange-red glow flickering within it with every undulation.
"...What...is...going on...?!"
El's mind was a complete mess.
One moment, he saw himself sitting at his computer, hunting Alatreon with a longsword; the next, he saw a giant dragon trading blows with all sorts of colossal beasts on a continent steeped in primordial wilderness...
Chaotic images flashed through his mind, while all manner of voices clamored in his ears.
At last, a gentle voice tinged with weakness rose above the others, growing clearer and clearer:
"The Golden Tree...the Seed of Life...the child of destiny...help me..."
"What kind of nonsense is all this?"
As though someone had pressed an ice cube against his face during a nap, El's consciousness abruptly snapped awake.
Instinctively, he chose to follow the impulses of his current body.
"Man!"
A damp, translucent claw flecked with deep-blue light elbowed through the cocoon's membrane, exposing itself to the air.
From that opening, the terrifying aura of an exceptionally high-tier dragon bloodline instantly spread outward.
"This aura..."
So, so, so...so pure!!
What an incredibly pure true dragon aura!
The black-haired, middle-aged man standing beside the lake instinctively took a step back.
Judging by the pressure bearing down on his bloodline, this unknown hatchling's bloodline ranked even higher than his own!
Di Tian's golden, slit pupils contracted.
Which meant...
Dragon King level!
But how was that possible?
This cocoon had appeared and gradually developed right under his nose. He was certain nothing connected to the dragons' former Nine Great Dragon Kings had ever appeared.
A true dragon with a Dragon King-level bloodline, spontaneously nurtured by heaven and earth?
Did Douluo Continent have that kind of ability?
And what kind of dragon had translucent, deep-blue scales like those...?
While he pondered, El had already broken free of the cocoon entirely.
His translucent, deep-blue wings, which looked wet and soft, spread and folded before settling against his back. Then, along with his scales of the same apparent texture, they all withdrew beneath his skin.
"Phew~"
El stood suspended above his cocoon and, like a great whale drawing in water, sucked every last wisp of mist over the lake into his body.
Along with the energy into which the remaining cocoon had dissolved.
Then he surveyed the creatures gathered along the shore, finally settling his gaze on the middle-aged man in black robes who seemed to be their leader.
"Who are you?"
"...My name is Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, current chief of the black dragon clan."
Facing this unknown hatchling, who looked like a six- or seven-year-old human child, Di Tian fell silent for a moment before giving his name and title.
"Di Tian?"
The corner of El's mouth twitched.
He scanned the surroundings and the creatures once more:
Trees towering into the clouds, a jade-green lake brimming with vitality, a middle-aged man named Di Tian, a big red dog with three heads, and an irritating-looking giant bear with Behemoth blood...
Fuck, Douluo Continent!
From the situation around him, El worked out roughly where he was in the timeline.
And I'd fucking transmigrated into the Douluo II era!
Wait, why did I instinctively find Xiong Jun so annoying?
El suddenly caught on.
Because of his Behemoth bloodline...
Then why did I hate Behemoths?
"Urgh!"
Memories surged forth again. Amid scenes of primordial wilderness appeared giant dragons, phoenixes, qilins, Behemoths...
The figures of countless colossal beasts flashed past, until everything finally settled on an entirely white dragon radiating an immensely powerful aura.
The Dragon God!
El's eyes snapped open, his patterned, orange-gold dragon pupils widening.
He understood his current identity and situation.
This was his second time transmigrating to Douluo Continent.
The first time, he had arrived just a little too early, transmigrating into the Dragon God's brother, the legendary ancestor of lesser dragons and the bloodline progenitor of the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon-the Radiant Dragon King.
Then he had fallen in the Dragon-Phoenix War.
Because of that, he now possessed the Alatreon Martial Soul, which commanded the four ultimate elements of ice, fire, water, and lightning, as well as the Dragon Element that symbolized the power of destruction.
And...
Perhaps because he had transmigrated twice, he also possessed a second Martial Soul!
In the Monster Hunter world, Safi'jiiva was the target of Alatreon's policing, possessing the ability to manipulate the power of the earth's veins and reshape the environment at will.
His Martial Soul was its juvenile form-Xeno'jiiva.
"Am I fucking stuck going round after round with Douluo Continent...?"
Having transmigrated into the same world twice, El felt an overwhelming urge to curse.
Seeing El lower his hands from his head as his expression returned to normal, Di Tian guessed that he had probably received his bloodline inheritance and was about to ask about it.
"Unknown hatchling, you..."
"Shh!"
"Shut it, battleship."
El paid no heed to this Beast God. After making a gesture for silence, he lowered his head and looked beneath his feet.
Through the deep waters of the Lake of Life, he could feel a powerful tug upon his bloodline.
"Aren't you coming out to see me?"
Layers upon layers of scales emerged on El's body once more.
Unlike the limp-looking scales from earlier, these were predominantly dark purple, with razor-sharp edges and flecks of iridescence, exuding an intense sense of annihilation.
More importantly, the scales on his body were arranged in the exact opposite direction from those of every other dragon, their diamond-shaped tips pointing skyward!
Every scale on El's body could be called a reverse scale!
Another bloodline aura, unfamiliar yet faintly recognizable, emerged from him. Di Tian, who had been somewhat displeased, abruptly changed expression and hurriedly dropped to one knee.
Of course, El's aura wasn't the only reason he did so...
"Greetings, my lord!"
An enormous silver dragon's head rose from the lake, jade-green water streaming down her long, graceful neck.
The moment Di Tian spoke, the other Ferocious Beasts, whether in beast or human form, also lowered their heads in submission.
They had only come at Di Tian's request to witness a new companion's birth, but this turn of events seemed rather off...
Ignoring the Ferocious Beasts, the Silver Dragon King raised her head to El's height, her purple eyes fixed intently on him.
"Huang?!"
"It really is you?!"
"But you already..."
Became a part of 'me.'
The Silver Dragon King left her sentence unfinished.
"Didn't see that coming, did you?"
Integrating his two sets of memories, El grinned.
"I elbowed my way past the Big Boss, completed the Snow Peak Triathlon, and won the revival round!"
"?"
What did that mean?
Plain bewilderment appeared on the Silver Dragon King's draconic face.
"Ah, never mind."
"Just some unimportant knowledge from beyond this world."
El waved a hand.
"Simply put, you can think of it as my soul going beyond the cosmos after I died and spending a lifetime reincarnated in another world."
"Thanks to that, I got a glimpse of the future and learned some very closely guarded secrets."
Looking at the boy before her, who seemed a little off, the Silver Dragon King tilted her head.
This Radiant Dragon King...
Why did he feel so different from the one in those memories?
In those memories, had he been this...
This...
After thinking for ages, the Silver Dragon King finally found the word.
This lively?
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