Chapter 421 — Evolution Amid the Stars
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[Super Rank]: Imagination Domain (Perfect), Dragon of Imagination (Perfect)
[Taught Skills]:
[Mid Rank]: High-Speed Healing (Masterful), Super Vision (Masterful), Critical Strike (Masterful)
[High Rank]: Absolute Sleep (Masterful), Illusory Phantom (Masterful), Intimidation (Skill Approaching the Dao), Spatial Shackles (Masterful), Instant Teleportation (Masterful), Void Concealment (Masterful), Multiplication (Skill Approaching the Dao), Swarm Command (Masterful), Doppelganger (Skill Approaching the Dao), Four Symbols Star Array (Masterful)
[Super Rank]: Spatial Control (Perfect), Anti-Magic Domain (Perfect), Ultimate Absorption (Perfect)
[Normal Energy Value]: 7,000,000+
[Will Grade]: Advanced (Overlord Will)
Though Buggy's foundation was not as rich as Eleven's, and it did not have as many species skills as Eleven, unlike Eleven, Buggy's evolution skill was a species skill—far more suited to itself than Eleven's superalloy or Ginseng Baby's mutant form.
After one final check of Buggy's data, Shi Li:
"Come on," Shi Shuo commanded, and Chongchong, in its magnificent body, cast one last reluctant glance at itself.
By its own aesthetic standards, its current form was still rather pleasing to the eye.
But well—to grow stronger, it would stop being a bug.
This present change was only for a better future!
After all, once the Dragon of Imagination reached the realm of the sublime, or even the pinnacle where technique approached the Dao itself, it could evolve again.
When that time came, it would remake itself into the race it most adored, the most perfect race of all.
For now, though, it would make do with a dragon's shape!
Chongchong's gaze gradually hardened. Then it shut its eyes, entered a dream state, and began to imagine!
First, through the Domain of Imagination, it drew upon the power of the surrounding starry sky to form a perfect environment for evolution!
Following the various legends of Blue Star, before long, the first glimmer of light appeared amid the stars.
Like a single star, or a constellation, in the dark, profound cosmos—and then a second light surfaced.
A second, a third, a fourth...
The seven lights that emerged connected with one another to form a domain, stirring the vast starry power around them and coalescing into the prototype of the Eastern Seven Mansions among the Twenty-Eight Mansions.
Horn, Neck, Root, Room, Heart, Tail, Winnowing Basket... Before ascending to the starry sky, Chongchong and the others had put in no small effort. Soon, a ten-thousand-meter astral domain shaped like a divine dragon was condensed by Chongchong through the Domain of Imagination and the power of the stars!
Of course, the Seven Mansions before it now were merely a shell of a shape—nothing more than the preparatory work within the preparatory work.
Chongchong sat within it like the eye of the Azure Dragon constellation, as if it had invoked its own combination secret art: painting the dragon and dotting its eyes.
"Interesting..."
The Legend of Divine Origin stood nearby, watching Shi Jin and the others make their preparations with rapt attention.
It seemed that, in order to evolve toward the Azure Dragon form, Shi Jin and the others had made considerable preparations!
"Woo! (I'm exhausted!)"
At this moment.
Once the preparations were complete, Chongchong began absorbing the Azure Sky Divine Cang Dragon's dragon pearl, stored in its spatial pocket for so long, along with the Dragon-Transforming Fruit from Mirage Abyss City and the power of the alien water in the starry sky.
It had been craving them for ages.
Among them, the Dragon-Transforming Fruit could refine Chongchong's constitution, the dragon pearl could boost its power of imagination—using that power to simulate the Azure Dragon—and the alien water of the stars could enhance Chongchong's affinity for starry power, letting it absorb as much of the vast, all-encompassing astral force as possible!
"Woo! (I'm so stuffed!!)"
Though nothing showed on the outside, Chongchong was on the verge of bursting.
It had no choice but to immediately activate its own foundations and attempt a breakthrough.
BOOM!!!
Driven by its overlord will and its racial skills, the aura around it began climbing steadily, higher and higher.
At the same time, it linked the power of the three legendary resources with the imagined Azure Dragon.
Within the cosmic storm sweeping across the starry sky, the light blazed dazzlingly bright. Soon, a vast radiance of evolution enveloped the ten-thousand-meter Azure Dragon constellation—and wrapped Chongchong within it as well!!!
All the gathered starry power became nourishment, assembling this brand-new body.
At this moment, though still mid-evolution, Chongchong's race had already begun a rapid ascent thanks to all the preparatory evolutionary work.
[Energy Value]: 10,000,000
20,000,000... 30,000,000... 40,000,000... 50,000,000... 60,000,000... 70,000,000...
Even for a bug-type, under the chain reinforcement of three legendary resources, it would be hard not to become a top-tier overlord.
What was more, having evolved through the Dragon of Imagination, Chongchong would no longer be a bug—the Dragon attribute would become its brand-new attribute, one inherent to it even in its normal state.
"Not bad. Quite the imposing aura."
"Worth the trip."
"I never thought this little fellow would have an overlord will."
"Looks like after the breakthrough, it'll have at least around 80,000,000 energy value—and its physique won't be inferior to a true quasi-mythical dragon race either."
"Add the spatial element, the power of imagination, and the resonance with Shi Ying's psychic force, and another invincible overlord is born."
Off to the side, the Legend of Divine Origin nodded silently.
At his age, he suddenly felt a surge of excitement too.
One could already picture it: Shi Jin at the World Tournament, representing Donghuang, waging a blazing campaign!
Shi Jin stood atop the asteroid, eyes blazing, gazing at the ten-thousand-meter Azure Dragon constellation in the starry sky, ceaselessly maintaining his telepathic link, trying to stir the Azure Dragon's divine anomaly.
By the time of Shi Jin's eleventh evolution, he had reached a conclusion.
Only when a pet beast possessed the corresponding compatibility could it resonate with the matching anomaly in its mental memory.
Eleven had originally been incompatible with the Taiji Domain, but as it evolved through light and darkness and mastered the corresponding yin and yang forces, it immediately gained a certain compatibility with the Taiji Domain.
So theoretically, the same should hold true for Chongchong.
In its Daydream Butterfly state, in its normal Daydream Dragon state, it likely had no compatibility whatsoever with the Azure Dragon Domain. But now, through stellar force, through the wood-attribute Dragon-Transforming Fruit, through the dragon pearl left behind by the Azure Sky Divine Cang Dragon that had evolved toward the Azure Dragon, and through the power of daydreams, Chongchong had simulated the Azure Dragon's form almost perfectly. It ought to have some degree of compatibility with the Azure Dragon Domain now, surely?
Shi Jin said that the momentum of Chongchong's current evolution was already formidable, and after evolution its initial energy value would likely be no less than seventy or eighty million. But while the Divine Origin Legend was satisfied, Shi Jin was not!
This level was still far, far from the true Azure Dragon.
The true Azure Dragon was a god, not a dragon—a form given to dragon shape by the faith of constellations, a deity, not a member of dragonkind.
If it existed, it would have to be on the same level as the Abyssal Sea Sprite.
Not enough.
Still not enough!