Chapter 1: Picking Up a Holy Dragon Egg

The Azure Dragon Mountain Range.

The mountains stretched on without end.

They wound their way forward.

If one looked down from the sky,

it would look like a colossal Azure Dragon coiled up.

This was also one of the reasons behind the name of this mountain range, which spanned several thousand kilometres in every direction.

Within the Azure Dragon Mountain Range, ancient trees reached to the heavens.

From within came the roars of dragons and the howls of tigers.

Occasionally, serpentine shapes glided through the sky above the range.

There were also fiery-red figures that gave clear, crisp calls, leading flocks of thousands of birds in flight.

Giant beasts and immortal birds appeared and vanished throughout the range.

In a corner of the deep southwestern part of this mountain range,

there was a village.

The village was cut off from the world; although it was not at the centre of the range,

getting out to a city would probably require a journey of over two hundred kilometres.

Holy Dragon Village.

That was the name of this village.

Within the village, the land was flat and broad, the houses neatly arranged.

There were fertile fields, pretty ponds, mulberry trees and bamboo, and the like.

Paths crossed in all directions; the clucking of chickens and the barking of dogs could be heard from one another.

The people there came and went, tilling and working, looking every bit the picture of living and working in peace and contentment.

Inside the village,

there stood one such house.

Above it was written: Holy Dragon Dojo.

Inside, a young man was lying in a rattan chair, at ease and content.

Suddenly!

The young man sat up.

His face was full of bewilderment.

"Where am I—!"

"I've transmigrated?"

New memories and information kept flooding into his mind.

They let Chen Xuan understand his own situation now.

This was a parallel world.

In this world there were all manner of phantom beasts, each with a different form and different abilities.

Some phantom beasts could summon wind and snow, turning an entire sweltering region into a snowy domain.

Some phantom beasts could move mountains and overturn seas, easily destroying enormous mountain ranges.

Some phantom beasts possessed such tremendous destructive power that a city of several million people could vanish at any moment.

Most of these phantom beasts lived in the wild; many of them got along peacefully with humans, and some even became humans' good friends, good companions, good helpers.

But likewise there were also some phantom beasts that loathed humans and bore them ill will, and incidents of powerful phantom beasts attacking humans often occurred.

Of course!

Where there were powerful phantom beasts, there were also born beast-tamers who could counter all manner of phantom beasts.

To tame powerful phantom beasts and resist the invasions and destruction of countless phantom beasts—

that was the wish of many beast-tamers.

A powerful beast-tamer was an existence revered by all.

"Host detected as meeting the conditions; system booting!"

"Boot successful; auto treasure-hunting system activated successfully!"

"The treasure-hunting system will automatically search for phantom beasts or other resources for the host three times a day!"

"Each time the host's beast-tamer level increases by one rank, one additional treasure-hunting chance can be gained."

"Searching for treasure…"

"Detected a Holy Dragon Egg fifty metres from the host at the one-o'clock position, thirteen o'clock direction. Host is advised to head there immediately to pick it up!"

A mechanical voice!

It rang out from within Chen Xuan's mind.

A system!

This was a plot that often happened in novels.

In any case, since he had already transmigrated, Chen Xuan was, if anything, unshaken by the appearance of a system.

"Holy Dragon Egg!"

Hearing the system's prompt,

Chen Xuan started in surprise, then was overjoyed.

Just from the name of this egg, one could tell it was a fearfully powerful phantom beast.

A 3D virtual direction marker appeared in Chen Xuan's eyes.

Without the slightest hesitation, he stood up from the bamboo chair.

He walked toward the indicator marker.

Yet the distance and direction of the indicator marker kept changing.

Under the system's guidance,

Finally!

In the vegetable garden of his own backyard, he found an oval-shaped stone.

"This is the Holy Dragon Egg?"

Looking at that stone that resembled a fossil,

Chen Xuan found it hard to believe this was a magical beast egg.

However!

The system's indicator marker already showed the distance as zero.

Moreover, when he looked at this egg,

A message also appeared.

【Holy Dragon Egg】

A magical beast egg left behind in Holy Dragon Village; having gone undiscovered for too long, it was covered by soil, with a layer of hardened earth clinging to its surface.

After the passage of long years, it finally saw the light of day again, tumbled up by the rain.