Chapter 181: Granting All Things the Opportunity to Evolve! (4k)

Time slowly slipped away, and in the blink of an eye ten days had already passed.

At this moment, deep beneath the deep sea, a massive, pitch-black egg-shaped object suddenly began to sway with a faint, rhythmic motion, and along with the swaying, cracks began to appear across its surface.

Instantly, a string of bubbles rose from the seabed, beginning to float up toward the surface, startling countless fish gathered nearby into scattering away.

"Crack crack—!"

Amid a series of crisp shattering sounds, the enormous egg abruptly exploded with a tremendous boom.

At once, a terrifying, visible-to-the-eye surge of water current swept across the seabed, and large amounts of shell fragments shot out in all directions.

And within the murky churning waters, a terrifying creature with a slender body and beautiful glowing patterns all over its body swam out, its movements stirring up countless turbid currents.

This was none other than Baichuan, who had already completed his evolution.

"Hoo~~"

After taking a deep breath, Baichuan finally began to sense the changes within his body.

At this moment, he only felt a sudden strange sense of nakedness and discomfort, as if the various reactions from his body's movements gave him a peculiar feeling, lacking the all-controlling sensation he once had.

That came from the sudden disappearance of his massive tail fin; the habits he had built over many years, the water currents stirred by each sweep of his tail fin, and his own movement had all changed.

It seemed he needed to grow a new tail as soon as possible.

While pondering, Baichuan directly Burst forth with brilliant blue-white light, shooting up from the deep sea toward the surface.

In just a few breaths, he returned to land once more, gently evaporating the moisture on his body's surface to avoid affecting the birth of his tail's spider silk.

At this moment, his tail also began to undergo changes.

He saw wisps of peculiar liquid rapidly secreting out, then solidifying at a speed invisible to the naked eye into slender yet extremely tough threads, which began to hang down toward the ground under the pull of gravity.

Before long, Baichuan's previously bare, slender tail had transformed into a horse-tail-like tail covered in countless fine, long hairs.

This tail formed from gathered spider silk shimmered with a faint silver glow even in the dead of night.

At this point, half of Baichuan's newly born dragon tail was complete; the remaining half naturally involved coating it with a layer of incomparably sharp iron to increase its weight and lethality.

However, that required consuming massive amounts of iron elements to convert, something he could not currently do.

Since the purpose of this trip had been accomplished, Baichuan no longer hesitated, shooting skyward once more, then carving a beautiful arc through the air before plunging back into the deep sea.

Target—the undersea volcano two thousand meters below!

That's right, the slumber spot Baichuan had chosen for this trip was there; not that he didn't want to go to a deeper place to slumber, but his current maximum diving range was around two thousand meters,

And within that two-thousand-meter range, that location was currently his best choice, because not only did it contain the large amounts of iron ore needed for the later stages of his tail, the previous young beast was also waiting for him nearby.

His subsequent plans could not do without the young beast's help.

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, his entire body once again erupting with terrifying electric light as he swiftly dove down into the deep sea.

Within the pitch-black seawater, the slender, mysterious flood dragon began to swiftly swim and dive downward.

……

Time once again flowed rapidly, and in the blink of an eye three more days had passed.

And along with the three days passing, he had finally returned to the place where he had once stayed before.

"Moo—!"

Before he could get close, a long, ethereal, and melodious cry rang out from the deep sea; the instant he heard this sound, Baichuan froze for a moment.

Because from that sound he sensed a thick sense of pleasant surprise, a feeling that brought back a peculiar scene to his mind.

It was the kind of scene where a grown-up older brother deceives his young brother at home, telling him to wait at home properly because he'll be back very soon after stepping out.

Yet what awaited it was a brother who had forgotten about it, happily playing outside on his own, only remembering the brother he had deceived into waiting bitterly once he'd had enough fun and returned home.

For a moment, Baichuan inexplicably felt a sense of guilt.

Shaking his head to shake off this absurdly bizarre emotion, Baichuan responded with a dragon cry, then slowly approached.

And this made him completely freeze, his pupils dilating, as if he had encountered something inconceivable.

Because the young beast reflected in his eyes at this moment was no longer the familiar blue whale body with a giant squid head, but rather an extremely familiar form—

Four claws, a slender dragon body with wings, looking extremely similar to his former appearance.

The only slight difference from his previous self was that although this giant beast's head had also grown a dragon head similar to his, unlike his mane, its mane was made of countless swaying tentacles……

At this moment, if not for the familiar aura he sensed from it, and its unchanged, violently wagging tail welcoming him as always, he would have thought he had mistaken the beast.

He hadn't expected that following his Juanzhu, this "other half" of his had also transformed into the dragon form he was familiar with.

What does this count as?

Those who stay near cinnabar turn red, those who stay near ink turn black, and those who stay near him, Baichuan, become dragons?

Speechlessly holding his forehead and laughing for a while, Baichuan, under the young beast's anxious and expectant gaze, gently stroked its newly born head.

Of course, during this process, he also emitted his own special Light Points, signaling it to absorb and inscribe them.

This was the truth he had come to understand after using the abilities from the other party for so many years.

The Core of all the bloodworm's power was these Light Points.

Strong Light Points, strong bloodworm; weak Light Points, weak bloodworm.

And as his other half, existing entirely for him, the young beast could naturally also grow stronger by absorbing the mutated Light Points he emitted.

After it finished absorbing them in pleasant surprise, Baichuan then brought it close to the vicinity of the volcano.

Looking at this volcano that even in the deep sea caused the surrounding waters to turn a patch of crimson, Baichuan's gaze at this moment was somewhat complex.

From now on, he was about to stay here for a very long time.

But there was no rush; he still needed to teach the young beast some matters, so that it could help him after he fell into slumber.

After all, relying on his own strength alone, he could not drive the evolution of such a vast range across the entire planet; even adding the young beast, it still couldn't be done.

This was also the reason he had chosen to slumber at the bottom of the sea.

Not for any other reason, but only here could he achieve the feat of spreading his Light Point power across the entire planet in one breath.

With his current strength, he could not accomplish driving the evolution of such a vast range across the entire planet alone, and he didn't want to run from region to region, spreading Light Points five kilometers at a time.

That way would just be too ridiculous and exhausting for a dragon; perhaps even working himself to death wouldn't be enough to drive global evolution.

So he could only borrow the planet's own power, using the planet's own strength to help him — only then could he achieve twice the result with half the effort.

As for how to borrow the planet's power, there was only one way: by harnessing the planet's entire Water Cycle System!

That's right, the Water Cycle System!

This is a system unique to this planet:

The various bodies of water on the planet's surface evaporate by borrowing the power of the sun, forming water vapor that gathers high above the planet, then forming cloud masses that precipitate across the planet's surface. In this process, the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere are organically connected, forming a massive Water Cycle System.

And what he needed to do was insert his own Light Point power into this massive system, thereby using that power to help him spread the Light Points.

By then, he would only need to manufacture Light Points; as for everything else, he could leave it to the planet's own power.

And the best place to insert himself into this system was naturally the ocean — the greatest source of the water cycle!

Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't need to sleep; he could just directly manufacture Light Points.

But no matter how, although his current lifespan was long compared to other creatures, compared to the scale of the entire planet, it was incomparably brief.

And the Time required to spread Light Points and wait for creatures to evolve and mutate was precisely something that demanded extremely long years.

So, for the sake of his brief lifespan, it was still best for him to enter slumber and wait for all things to evolve the abilities he needed.

At the same time, slumber could also lower his own life activities to the lowest point, using his scarce energy to manufacture more Light Points and spread them across the globe.

This was the true reason he had chosen a deep-sea volcano as his sleeping place.

The volcano could not only let his newly evolved Thermal Energy Conversion ability draw energy from it, but the endless variety of life around it could also serve as his food.

Besides that, this was the most dangerous volcano in the entire ocean. Of course, for the current him it was no longer dangerous, but for other creatures, danger still existed.

Therefore, such a scorching environment could naturally reduce the external disturbances he would receive during his slumber.

While he was pondering, several more days passed, and Baichuan had by now arranged everything.

Finally, under the reluctant gaze of the young beast, he unhesitatingly turned his head, swayed his body, and swam toward the scorching volcanic crater.

As the temperature grew ever more blistering, Baichuan's eyes also began to turn a deep red — that was the scorching lava flowing through the seawater; he could already hardly tell seawater from lava.

Not long after, the Flood Dragon's massive, slender body burrowed into the volcanic crater, settling permanently within the volcano.

In an instant, Baichuan felt a faint but ceaseless stream of energy continuously flowing toward him, giving him an indescribably comfortable sensation for a moment.

Baichuan roughly estimated the surrounding temperature — it should be around five or six hundred degrees Celsius. Of course, since this was based on his own experience, some error was possible.

But he figured the difference shouldn't be much.

Baichuan thought this to himself.

Finally, he surveyed his surroundings.

By now, no other creatures could be seen around.

At such temperatures, even if many heat-loving creatures existed nearby, they couldn't withstand this level of heat. Probably only a darling of the flames like him could find it comfortable.

While pondering, Baichuan slowly closed his burning dragon eyes in comfort.

Not long after, in the darkness of the deep seabed, a massive surge of seemingly endless colorless Light Points erupted from the volcanic crater.

Those were Light Points Baichuan had specially prepared for this moment. Only this form of Light Point could appear in the air as colorless, odorless, formless, yet omnipresent — granting all things the chance to evolve without being truly seen by other creatures or obstructing their vision.

Yet even so, the eruption of such a tremendous surge of Light Points still caused the seawater to take on a distorted appearance, their forms faintly discernible within it.

At this moment, under the Burst of endless Light Points, it was as if the volcano itself had begun to erupt.

Go!

Go!!

Take the entire planet as your cradle!!!

Go grant all things in this world the chance to evolve!!!!

……

At this moment, watching the Light Points continuously drifting away from his body, Baichuan began a silent cry within his heart.

He seemed to already see an incoming new era.

It was an era of humans and dragons coexisting — both harmonious and mutually slaughtering each other — where only the Catastrophe Ancient Dragon reigned supreme, periodically destroying unsuitable civilizations developed by all creatures in an age of rampant giant beasts.

Accompanying his cry, ever more tremendous Light Points surged forth.

For a moment, the entire seabed seemed as if a world-shaking giant beast had appeared, freely stretching its body……

And after the endless Light Points erupted from the undersea volcano, the young beast nearby also swayed its body and briefly departed the area.

This wasn't because it was fleeing or anything — it was a mission Baichuan had given it.

It not only needed to guard him well, but also, after a certain period of Time or once animals within the volcano's range grew scarce, drive large numbers of various creatures into this area as his food.

Yes, food!

Even though Baichuan had stored countless amounts of energy over the past several years on land, and had evolved the ability of Thermal Energy Conversion to absorb heat within the volcano and transform it into energy,

It still wasn't enough!

Because he was going to use the planet's Water Cycle System to spread Light Points across the entire world!

This was an entire planet. Back then, merely spreading vitality across a small portion of a single continent had nearly cost him all the energy he had absorbed from an entire continent's Meat Dragons.

Now, to cover the entire planet, his current energy was completely insufficient — it could only be called a drop in the bucket.

So even though his current energy was still sufficient, he still had to prepare a large amount of food in advance, ready to provide energy whenever he needed it.

And Baichuan, in a state of slumber ceaselessly manufacturing Light Points, couldn't do this — so he could only rely on the young beast.

At this point, Time began to pass rapidly. Large quantities of Light Points also began to quietly diffuse out from a certain volcanic crater two thousand meters beneath the sea, spreading through the seawater with the crater as their center.

The first to be changed were the various fish species in the deep sea.

Because until the Light Points spread out in large quantities and reached near the sea surface, where they could be evaporated by sunlight and carried to lands across the planet, these fish could only stay in the seawater and barely survive by relying on various microorganisms.

Because this was two thousand meters beneath the sea, with no sunlight present, they couldn't perform Photosynthesis.

It was also thanks to Baichuan having considered this point in advance. After learning that Light Points could carry life information, he had directly inscribed into these Original Light Points the command to absorb microorganisms to survive — this was what prevented these Light Points from dying directly due to losing Baichuan's energy supply.

Therefore, these light points that had not yet risen to the surface of the sea were the first to bring changes to the various fish species of the deep sea.

From this moment on, subtle changes began to quietly appear in the deep sea…

(End of Chapter)