Chapter 400 — The Team's First Quasi-Divine Skill

When Shi Jin had gone to the Seven Isles before, it had been invited too, and had refused. Afterward it had regretted it more than a little—the boy's knack for finding resources was simply top-notch.

This time... was Shi Jin going to stir up trouble in Tingxiang again?

"Hmm. Let me think it over. I'll give you an answer later," the Frost Dragon said, not refusing outright.

"All right." Shi Jin smiled. "I still have to go see Senior Sea Dragon King about something, so I'll head over there first."

"Shoo, shoo."

Next, Shi Jin made his way to the Sea Dragon King's palace, only to be told by Chancellor Turtle that the Sea Dragon King had taken the Little White Dragon out for training... though he ought to be back within the next two days.

Shi Jin: "..."

What could Shi Yu do? He could only wait.

This time, he returned to his own palace in Shenyuan City.

As for Anchang, it could stay in the ruins for now, left in the care of the platypus and Xiao Ji for a couple of days; that would be no problem.

With the supplements and recovery items he provided, and with the chance to cultivate inside the ruins, the results would not be poor.

Then, once the Sea Dragon King returned, he would have it help purify the Sea Flood Dragon's bloodline and evolve it, and that would about do it.

Shi Tan settled back into rest and recuperation, waiting for the next mythic revival stat point, but Chongchong alone was released by Shi Jin to go cultivate on its own at the Dragon God statue in the Dragon God Ruins.

At present, Shi Yan's Chongchong was the only "outsider" the Dragon God permitted to pass through the Dragon God Palace into the Dragon God Ruins, and this was not Chongchong's first time going alone, so there was little to worry about.

Even if the Dragon God noticed, nothing would come of it.

Only this time, the situation was a little different.

The Dragon God Palace.

Right now, besides the peerlessly magnificent Dragon God, there was unexpectedly another humanoid woman present whose beauty was in no way inferior to hers.

She had pointed ears, long emerald-green hair falling over her shoulders, golden eyes, a doll-like face with a queenly cast, a lovely figure and complexion, and an immense natural charm, her bearing utterly transcendent.

"Atian, it seems a little beast tamer just passed over your palace," the emerald-haired woman said lazily.

"Leave it be," the Dragon God said with a shake of her head, having also noticed the passing Chongchong.

She understood now: Shi Jin had used Star City again.

She had indeed granted Shi Yan's Chongchong the right to go to the Dragon God statue for meditation and cultivation.

"A butterfly... and quite a strong one among monarch-level, at that. It shouldn't be a member of your Shenyuan City, should it."

"Mm. The beast of a junior from the Donghuang human race."

"Xier, let's continue what we were discussing," the Dragon God said, turning to this Elf Empress from Tingxiang, a powerhouse of demigod-level life like herself.

Few knew that the Dragon God and the Elf Empress Sylphra were in fact close friends.

"Very well. But I truly never imagined your Shenyuan City would choose to sit out this World Tournament. I had assumed you would cooperate with Donghuang." Sylphra smiled.

"Since you are not participating, then do me a favor: let a few of Tingxiang's young people come to Shenyuan City for some training, to build up experience in dealing with the dragon race. Or your overlords could travel to Tingxiang—that works too. I will host them well."

The reason the Dragon God and the Elf Empress got along so well was also tied to the fact that neither had much love for the Western totem power, the Giant Dragon Empire.

As for why the ancient kingdom of Tingxiang and the Giant Dragon Empire were on bad terms—it was because the legendary Western beast tamer, the Dragon Hunter, was himself a man of Tingxiang...

The Elf Empress's descent this time was chiefly to discuss with her best friend the matter of the mythic era that might soon be upon them...

........

Two days later.

Shi Ying's palace, within the Legendary Ruins.

Shi Qi let out a breath of relief as the fading cooldown essence finally disappeared.

Then he looked at the cube before him.

At this moment, Rin analyzed: "By my calculations, when the mythic revival reaches the mastery level, it will produce its first qualitative change."

"It is very likely to make the dream memories clearer, and quite possibly to grant an initial awakening of the quasi-divine skill, Blessing of the Wind."

"Enough talk—let's do it!"

Shi Jin could not wait a moment longer; he seized the cube before him and began adding points!!!

Rin's analysis was not wrong. After this round of point allocation, the divine power within it revived with an intensity greater than any before!!

Even as she was steeped in boundless agony, Rin sensed the changes taking place in the Qilin fossil...

Before long, an immense and overwhelming delight surfaced in the minds of Rin and Shi Ying.

The quasi-divine skill, Blessing of the Wind, was awakening!!!

As the mythic revival skill was raised to mastery level, the quasi-divine skill Blessing of the Wind, which Rin had failed to awaken during its previous evolution, was finally about to awaken this time!

Neither Shi Yu nor Rin could contain their excitement, knowing full well what this meant.

It meant that Rin could leap straight from a quasi-mythic species to a mythic species, gaining potential to rival those demigods.

At the moment the Blessing of the Wind awakened, Rin reverted directly to its Wind Qilin form, the perfect form manifesting once more. The entire Legendary Ruins was affected by it—sky and earth turned a vast expanse of white, light breezes swirling. At this moment, Eleven, Ginseng Baby, Crimson Pupil, Susu, and the others elsewhere within the Legendary Ruins all changed expression abruptly, feeling the suppression emanating from their very bloodlines.

Even at that moment, the Tyrannosaurus and the platypus within the ruins, and An Chang and the others as well, were staring wide-eyed in shock, feeling an indescribable, unlookable power ripple shrouding heaven and earth, so oppressive that they could scarcely breathe.

Dong——————

In that instant, it was as if the legendary ruins themselves were quaking, and a profound voice of rules emerged; within that space, spatial force and natural force alike were utterly suppressed, a state scarcely different from the anomaly of a quasi-divine skill as Senior Ji Li had described it.

What was more, not only within the legendary ruins: even on the several islands surrounding the one where Shi Jin dwelt, as Lin awakened its quasi-divine skill and made its transition toward the mythic races, every creature upon them felt an unnameable sense of oppression!!

One dragon after another gazed up at the sky, their expressions stunned; this oppressive feeling shook them even more than the Dragon Kings did. Faint though it was, its very texture stirred certain memories in some of the overlord dragon clans.

Yes—this was exactly the feeling they had when they beheld Lord Dragon God!!!

"Has Lord Dragon God come out of seclusion?" Most of the dragons stared up at the sky in astonishment.

The farther one was from Shi Jin, the harder this divine pressure was to sense; yet for true powerhouses, even across countless layers of space, sensing that same force was not so difficult.

In the Dragon God Palace, the Dragon God and the Elf Empress were still conversing and exchanging views when, all at once, their expressions shifted slightly, and they looked toward the distance.

"A-Tian, this is…" Sylphra's face was astonished.

The Dragon God looked equally bewildered.

How could this be.

Within Shenyuan City, could there still be a being that, like them demigods, had begun to touch the realm of the divine? Those totem dragon kings, perhaps? No—given their endowments, it was impossible.