On the afternoon of December 27, 2058.
The public trial of Li Yao and his wife for harming a councilor's family was held at the Limit Martial Hall Headquarters.
Li Yao and his wife were sentenced to death and escorted to the Wilderness Zone for immediate execution.
During the execution, faced with the threat of death, Li Yao broke through to the Planetary Level and attempted to escape.
Luo Feng chased after him and controlled the first form of the Sky-Escaping Shuttle, turning it into a streak of golden light. Before everyone's eyes, he killed Li Yao, who no longer had the Black God Set to protect him.
That evening, after having dinner with his family, Luo Feng let Yun He know he was leaving, slipped out of the residential complex under cover of darkness, and entered the King-Level Intelligent Fighter hovering in midair.
Yun He smiled faintly, knowing that Luo Feng was about to enter seclusion to break through to the Planetary Level.
He turned to look at the night sky in the direction of the ocean.
"It should be about time. I ought to go take a look. Hopefully, I can find it and spare myself some trouble later." Yun He became a streak of black light and swiftly vanished into the night.
At 9:36 p.m. on December 30, 2058.
As countless people around the world prepared for the coming New Year's Day.
On Earth, in a region of the Pacific Ocean several hundred kilometers from the Hawaiian Islands.
Deep on the cold, dark ocean floor.
An enormous oval egg, roughly twelve meters in diameter, lay quietly on the seabed like a reef rock.
The Black Giant Egg had remained there for over a year. Covered in sludge and seaweed, it had become thoroughly inconspicuous.
Many monsters in the surrounding waters had discovered this mysterious giant egg long ago, but not a single one had ever managed to bite through its shell.
Gradually, fewer and fewer monsters bothered with the incredibly hard giant egg.
Crack, crack, crack...
Suddenly.
The Black Giant Egg began to tremble slightly, then with increasing frequency.
As it trembled, the seaweed, sludge, and other debris covering it began to slide off, revealing the strange golden markings on its surface.
Hmm?
A nearby dark figure was drawn over by the disturbance and hovered in the water, silently watching the giant egg before him.
Found you, little thing!
The corners of Yun He's mouth curved upward. Without disturbing it, he concealed his entire aura and waited quietly.
Crack, crack, crack...
As the trembling intensified, a fissure appeared on the surface of the Black Giant Egg.
Thump, thump, thump!
Several impacts sounded from within the giant egg. Something inside was striking it, seemingly trying to get out.
Crack...
The Black Giant Egg split open, and an unidentified pitch-black creature covered in slime crawled out.
Crunch! Crunch!
As soon as it was born, the slimy, pitch-black creature began devouring its eggshell.
It ate ravenously, as though it had been starving for ages. Beneath its sharp teeth, the hard shell was crushed and swallowed.
In just over ten minutes, it ate roughly a third of the eggshell, which measured over ten meters across.
The pitch-black creature's true appearance also began to emerge.
It was an unidentified reptilian creature, black all over, covered in black scales, and possessed of four powerful limbs. Its black body also bore a pair of scale-covered wings and a slowly swaying tail resembling a dragon's.
A single horn thrust proudly skyward from its head.
It was enormous, already twelve meters long at birth.
As it devoured the eggshell, the black monster's body kept growing, gradually lengthening. By the time it finished eating the entire shell, it had reached sixteen meters in length!
By then, its body had completely absorbed the slime on its surface, and the black monster's appearance became fully visible.
Woo...
A shrill, joyful sound rose from its throat.
The black scales covering its body resembled sharp blades, sending chills down one's spine. It radiated an inexplicable, suffocating pressure-a pressure stemming from its gene level, like a king born to nobility.
Faint, mysterious golden markings adorned the sharp horn atop its head, though they were barely noticeable.
A closer look revealed that the golden markings extended along its horn, head, neck, and the scales on its back, spreading across its entire body.
The Golden Horned Beast!
One of the ten supreme bloodlines among Starry Sky Behemoths.
Born with a noble bloodline and a tenfold gene level.
It was at the Planetary Level from birth. Even if it did nothing but sleep, it could reach the World Lord Level upon adulthood.
After finishing the black eggshell, the Golden Horned Beast hatchling settled on the seabed and surveyed its surroundings.
The ancient memories contained in its bloodline gradually flooded its mind.
The Golden Horned Beast hatchling's dark-gold pupils suddenly brightened, turning a dazzling gold!
The golden markings covering its entire body also began to glow faintly, becoming more distinct.
The surrounding water momentarily stilled, and even the rocks of the seabed beneath the hatchling trembled slightly.
Streams of energy poured into its body.
But after only a brief moment, it stopped absorbing energy.
Woo...
The Golden Horned Beast hatchling was clearly dissatisfied with this energy. Growing by simply absorbing it was far too slow.
Somewhat irritated, it stood up and kept looking around, as though searching for something.
Woo...
Suddenly, the Golden Horned Beast hatchling spotted a small dark figure hovering a short distance away.
Its dark-gold pupils lit up. It seemed to vaguely sense the immense energy contained within Yun He's body.
But that energy gave it no sense of danger!
Woo...
The Golden Horned Beast immediately let out an excited growl and flicked its tail.
Whoosh!
It surged through the water, ready to devour the small dark figure before it.
Yun He raised an eyebrow, the corners of his mouth curling upward.
Pretty cocky, aren't you, little thing?
He extended a hand and slowly opened it toward the Golden Horned Beast hatchling.
Mixed Hole!
Hum...
A black hole ten meters in diameter suddenly appeared directly in front of the Golden Horned Beast hatchling.
Then...
The Golden Horned Beast hatchling plunged straight into it and vanished.
Yun He slowly closed his hand, and the black hole shrank along with it. Eventually, it contracted to just ten centimeters across, hovering above his palm and rotating slowly.
Yun He lowered his head to look at the Mixed Hole in his palm.
Woo...
Faint roars from the Golden Horned Beast hatchling came from inside the Mixed Hole. Clearly, the little thing was struggling desperately within.
"Little thing, once you're in my bowl, there's no escaping." Yun He smiled faintly.
Only then did he privately breathe a sigh of relief.
Following the original story's description of the approximate location where the Golden Horned Beast was born, Yun He had come to this stretch of ocean and searched for three full days before finally finding it just as it hatched.
That kid Luo Feng was a walking disaster.
Even being on the same planet as him was unsafe.
A Golden Horned Beast hatchling, something incredibly precious and rare even in the vast universe, had actually appeared in a remote, barren place like Earth.
The odds of that were less than one in hundreds of millions.
Of course, given his strength, Yun He would not fear the Golden Horned Beast even when it appeared before the world a year later, having reached the Star Level.
After all, the Golden Horned Beast at that point did not even possess a domain, let alone any laws.
Still, a Star Level Golden Horned Beast had a tenfold gene level, along with an enhancement Innate Secret Technique that could double its strength. Dealing with it then would be somewhat troublesome.
Yun He preferred to nip every danger in the bud.
He did not want to let it grow up and wreak havoc.
Splash!
Yun He shot out of the ocean, holding the Mixed Hole above his palm. After determining the direction of Jiangnan Base City, he became a streak of light and vanished.
Luo Feng, your delivery is here.
Before you continue