Chapter 421 — Evolution Amid the Stars

Vast constellation force, wreathed in azure evolutionary light, had already sketched out a dragon's form. The entire body was slowly taking shape, while Shi Jin kept communicating with the Azure Dragon Domain, trying to assist Chongchong's evolution.

At last, as the Azure Dragon's body neared completion, hard work paid off.

BOOM!!!!

A terrifying dragon might erupted from Shi Jin as well. His black eyes transformed directly into golden pupils, brimming with supreme majesty.

Hm?

"What's wrong?" The abrupt change in Shi Jin startled the Mechanical Legend beside him.

Just moments ago, Shi Jin had been perfectly normal; now, azure-gold ripples diffused directly from his body, and the awe-inspiring golden pupils of the mind manifested in this stretch of starry sky.

The Mechanical Legend was briefly taken aback. This form of Shi Jin's rather resembled the mental domain he had displayed before...

But back then, Shi Jin had said the developed mental domain could only amplify that Iron-eating Beast, hadn't he?

That yin-yang mental domain truly was incompatible with the Daydream Butterfly currently evolving toward the Azure Dragon.

No.

What Shi Jin was displaying now was not that yin-yang mental domain at all—it was something else entirely!

"Senior Divine Origin, I seem to have had a realization. My telepathy appears to have broken through."

Divine Origin: ???

As Shi Jin's words fell, with a boom, a domain expanded from his body once more, merging as one with the Azure Dragon Domain that Chongchong had conjured. The entire Azure Dragon constellation grew more dazzling still, anomalies arising one after another.

The Divine Origin Legend's mouth fell slightly open—though in its current robotic form, it had no mouth.

He simply could not understand. Was the telepathy talent truly this wondrous?

At this moment, he could indeed sense that the power on Shi Jin's body was entirely materialized psychic fluctuation—but what was with this immeasurably vast power?

Phew.

At this moment, within the dark world of memory, Shi Jin arrived at a star palace: an Azure Dragon mural formed from interconnected constellations. It radiated a mysterious magic that stirred Shi Jin's heart. At once, his spirit-thought power connected directly with Chongchong, and the evolving Chongchong abruptly beheld this mysterious mural as well.

The transcendent power upon the mural was like faint starlight—the same as the starry force of the Silver Ring Star Belt—gathering ceaselessly toward its body.

In this instant, Chongchong, which had already felt its strength growing ever more terrifying, now had the sensation of being several times stronger than moments before.

"Ngh!"

BOOM!!!

Upon the ten-thousand-meter Azure Dragon constellation, Chongchong painted the dragon and dotted its eyes. The eye portion of the Azure Dragon constellation was the first to open—golden twin pupils identical to Shi Jin's, like the eyes of a god coiling in the ancient starry sky, gazing down upon the tiny planet.

It was not over yet.

Chongchong and Shi Jin felt that this was by no means the endpoint of the evolution.

At this very moment, Chongchong had a wondrous sensation.

Beyond the starry force drifting through the void, beyond the void force and nature force that filled every place, it could sense another sort of power—an utterly wondrous psychic energy.

This pure psychic energy was immeasurably vast, adorning the distant Blue Star, resonating with Chongchong.

In but a brief moment, Chongchong realized what it was.

It had, in fact, sensed this power before, in the Kingdom of Heavenly Foxes.

This power had appeared upon those statues of the Fox God.

The power of faith.

It was the power of faith of the countless multitudes—the countless multitudes who worshipped the Azure Dragon, their faith in the Azure Dragon Totem, in the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast!!

Chongchong felt that absorbing the power of the starry sky, absorbing the Dragon-Transformation Fruit, absorbing the Azure Sky Divine Azure Dragon's dragon pearl, and drawing upon Shi Ying's spiritual power—none of that had amounted to a complete Azure Dragon evolution.

Only by receiving the power of faith would it truly have accomplished what countless legends and countless demigods had failed to do.

To become a true Azure Dragon.

"I need your power."

I need your power.

A spiritual connection spanning space, transmitted to the distant Blue Star.

Upon Blue Star.

In Donghuang, at the Azure Dragon Village.

This was an unremarkable little village under the jurisdiction of a tier-three city.

Within the village, the strongest beastmaster was merely Professional grade.

And yet this village bore a rather grand and imposing name: Azure Dragon Village.

The reason was simple. In ancient times, the villages surrounding Azure Dragon Village were ravaged by natural disasters; the harvests failed entirely, and the people could barely survive.

To survive, the people of the area began to worship the gods, and the one they chose was the Azure Dragon Totem, a figure conjured up by the even more ancient peoples.

The Azure Dragon Totem was revered as the god who guarded the East, possessing the transcendent power to bring all things to life. Though such power was exceedingly common among transcendent creatures, for frail ordinary people it was never something easily accessed.

If one was going to believe, one might as well believe in the strongest.

By coincidence, under the villagers' worship at Azure Dragon Village, the weather around them truly began to turn favorable, and all things revived. The whole of Azure Dragon Village was thus preserved through every kind of calamity, and so the custom of worshipping the Azure Dragon Totem was kept alive here, handed down for several hundred years—and the village's name was changed accordingly.

Since the Azure Dragon Totem was a fictional totem, ever since Donghuang entered the modern era, it had not cracked down on the tribes that worshipped the Azure Dragon. Thus many Azure Dragon-worshipping tribes were preserved, living in various parts of Donghuang.

At this moment, inside the Azure Dragon Temple of Azure Dragon Village, a country girl responsible for cleaning the statue of the Azure Dragon God stared with wide, watery eyes. She looked at the statue, which was wreathed in radiance—radiance that had filled it for the first time in a thousand years—and immediately ran out in shock.

"The Azure Dragon God's statue has manifested! The Azure Dragon God's statue has manifested!!!"

Such things happened in many rural villages, but the most shaken groups were in the great cities—the well-traveled, worldly beastmasters.

The Divine Capital. The Azure Dragon Museum.

This was a museum that collected ancient artifacts related to the Azure Dragon God faith. Its curator, a level-six dragon-type master, watched as, within the empty Azure Dragon Museum, one artifact of the Azure Dragon God faith after another began to glow in unison. His jaw dropped in shock, and he looked left and right, suspecting that some senior of his was playing a joke on him.

Impossible. Absolutely impossible.

He was a top-tier master! Even an Overlord-grade beast wouldn't dare play tricks in front of him.

What... was going on?

The Ancient Capital. Inside a luxurious villa.

"Ah." In front of the television, a curly-haired middle-aged woman dozing on the sofa jolted awake from a dream, her face dazed.

"What's wrong, honey? Fell asleep and had a nightmare?"

"What is it, Mom?" Yu Shu said.

The father and son chatting nearby looked at the woman with amusement.

"Not exactly a nightmare—I dreamed of the Azure Dragon God, saying he wanted to borrow my power. Damn weird, is what it is," Yu Shu's mother, a top-tier dragon-taming master, grumbled as she lit a cigarette.

"You just haven't rested enough," Yu Shu said. He knew his family's totem was the Azure Dragon God, so it was hardly strange for his mother to have such a dream.