Chapter 421 — Evolution Amid the Stars

"But it felt... pretty real," Yu Shu's mother said, oddly.

Such things were happening all over Donghuang, and even abroad.

In the Seven Isles region, there were also groups that worshipped the Azure Dragon Totem. At this moment, within the Azure Dragon Shrine, shrine maidens one after another stared in bewilderment and shock at the manifested Azure Dragon God statue.

They cried out to the Legendary Divine Lord.

The Totem Nation. The Dragon-Man Empire.

To the rulers of the surrounding Totem Nations, the Dragon-Man Empire's tyrant, the Storm Dragon King, was no stranger. This despot claimed to be the orthodox Azure Dragon, and had evolved using the Azure Dragon as his template.

The only difference was that his form was that of a humanoid Azure Dragon. Thus he also demanded that the people of his nation—humans and transcendent creatures alike—worship him, worship the Azure Dragon.

At this moment, this standout among top-tier totems, hailed as the one most likely in all the Eastern lands to become a demigod, erupted with a terrifying aura in a fury.

He felt his power of faith being contested.

His dragon eyes brimming with indescribable shock, he looked up at the starry sky, at a loss.

Meanwhile, in but a short while, the hot topic of the Azure Dragon God's manifestation shot to the very top of Donghuang's internet trending searches, sparking nationwide discussion!!

If it had been only an isolated case, it would not have provoked such a violent reaction.

But the faith accumulated by the Azure Dragon Totem over millions of years had scattered its believers across every stratum of society. Though it was not as vast or as ancient as that of the truly existing Abyssal Sea Sprite, it was still a force not to be underestimated; otherwise, it would hardly have drawn the covetous gaze of so many Totem demigods.

Naturally, this phenomenon had also manifested within the colossal dragon clan power that was Mirage Abyss City.

"What happened?"

"Don't tell me the Azure Dragon has truly been born from the power of faith."

Within Mirage Abyss City, the Sea Dragon King received the Turtle Chancellor's report, his gaze flickering with doubt and alarm.

"Should we notify the Dragon God?"

No one knew that all these mutations had their origin in the starry sky.

Out in the starry void, wave upon wave of spiritual faith rippled across space itself, converging upon the body of the Azure Dragon constellation.

Beside it, the gaze of the Mechanical Legend, Shen Yuan, had gone dull and blank.

He stared incomprehensibly at the converging power of faith, his face a mask of shock and bewilderment.

He was as stupefied as he had been when he first saw Shi Ying's pet beasts wield quasi-divine skills.

From the very beginning, the Legend Shen Yuan had never been optimistic about Shi Ying's Chongchong evolving into an Azure Dragon.

How could it be that easy?

He had not refused, thinking that even if the evolution failed, so long as it was completed, the beast's strength would not be weak.

Those dragon-clan Totem demigods had also evolved toward the Azure Dragon and failed, had they not? Yet were they weak? Not necessarily.

So, holding to the notion that there was nothing to lose either way, he had brought Shi Jin up into the starry sky.

What unsettled the Mechanical Legend, however, was that at this very moment, the Void Butterfly in the midst of its evolution was actually absorbing the power of faith from some unknown source.

How could this be!

"ROAR!!!!!"

At last, the gathering power of faith completed the final form of the Azure Dragon constellation.

Accompanied by a dragon's cry that resounded through the starry sky, beneath the azure-gold light of evolution, its body took final shape.

Its form stretched ten thousand meters long, coiling through the stars. It was dragon-shaped, crowned with twin golden horns, its body clad in azure scales; at its eyes and tail, golden flames of spiritual faith seemed to burn. Its image was utterly breathtaking.

Through the evolution of the ages and the shifts of history, the Azure Dragon's image had varied, yet the Azure Dragon that Chongchong had finally become would not be inferior to any of them.

After all, beyond the form of the Azure Dragon, Chongchong had also fused into it the concept of the perfect dragon, optimized from the statues of every Dragon God!

At this moment, Shi Ying's heart was wild with excitement, thumping so hard it seemed to leap from his chest.

Beside him, the Legend Shen Yuan remained caught in his stupor.

[Name]: ???

[Attributes]: Spirit, Space, Dragon

[Energy Value]: ???

What... had happened?

The Legend Shen Yuan stared at the energy data before him... another unreadable one?!

He cried out in shock, "Shi Jin!!! Don't tell me it actually evolved successfully!!!!"

"It really evolved into an Azure Dragon that can receive the Azure Dragon's power of faith!!!"

BOOM!!!!

"ROAR!!!!" With a cry of the Azure Dragon, the earth-shaking might that Chongchong unleashed swept across the starry sky.

Empowered by the faith flowing in from Blue Star, its anomaly instantly broke through the Mechanical Legend's shielding, wreathing the entire Silver Ring Star Belt.

"What's going on!!!"

On the other side of the Star Ring Belt, a group of Snowfield beastmasters who had completed their assigned missions and were preparing to return to Blue Star suddenly looked into the distance.

With expressions of disbelief, they registered the shocking fluctuations surging toward them from afar.

Beep, beep, beep...

[Energy Value]: ???

Even across the vast distance, they could sense the immense energy fluctuations.

At this moment, this group of Snowfield beastmasters, who had originally intended to return home, exchanged glances, and in an instant, with the aid of their spacecraft, flew back up into the starry sky and gazed into the distance.

And then, they beheld a breathtaking sight.

And then they heard it—a thunderous dragon roar that, even out in the starry void, echoed across the vastness of space.

It was a ten-thousand-meter azure dragon, coiling around the Silver Ring Star Belt, mirrored beneath the Moon Palace, its colossal form utterly breathtaking. In the face of its roar, even the overlord pet beasts and Totem guardian deities at the side of this group of snowfield beastmasters felt their minds shake, unable to believe what they were witnessing.

"Oh no, what is that."

"Heavens, how could a dragon appear in the cosmos!!!"

"What's going on? Record it, quickly, and transmit it back to Blue Star!"

In that moment, this group of snowfield beastmasters was utterly stunned as well.

Of course, Shi Jin and the others had no time to bother with these people. They had been seen, and so be it—there was nothing worth hiding anyway. At this very moment, Shi Jin was gazing at the azure dragon, the two locking eyes directly!

Inside the ship, Little Machine and the others were also staring fixedly at Chongchong, clutching their heads in disbelief!!!

"Roar!!"

We are both dragons—why do you get to be this handsome!!

"Yes."

"Senior Shenyuan."

"We succeeded!!!"

Shi Ying's psychic message rang out through the space.

Leaving the Legend of Divine Origin even more dumbstruck.

"To be precise, we've half succeeded. Its strength isn't up to par, and it hasn't yet fulfilled the true duties of the Azure Dragon, so the faith power it has received isn't much—it can't be called a true Azure Dragon just yet. Even so, it can already be called... the creature closest to an Azure Dragon."

"It has, in the truest sense, surpassed all other imitators, possessing the ability to preliminarily mobilize the faith power of the Azure Dragon."

Shi Tan looked at Chongchong in its giant form, already deeply satisfied, overjoyed beyond compare.

Chongchong's golden eyes fixed on Shi Jin, and it gave a nod.

That form made it hard for Shi Jin to recognize it as the same tool-bug from before.

It had not been easy...