Chapter 311: Nine Sons of the Dragon, Finally Stepping into the Star Sea!

Fifty years later, in the vast expanse of Xingkong.

Near a fiery-red star, a planet shrouded in thick white mist, orbiting it, suddenly trembled.

At once, a piercing crimson hue emerged, mingled with yellow and white; thread-like filaments stretched out like flesh buds, wantonly unfurling the scarlet bud-like growths.

Within them, one could faintly see various fibrous, tender textures, like the freshest of meat!

Seen from afar, it was as if this planet had fallen ill, sprouting fleshy tendrils like a living being!

After an unknown length of time, the flesh buds seemed to reach their limit, growing slender, beginning to spread and explore outward.

Just then, once the strange fleshy tendrils stretched beyond a certain boundary around the planet, they abruptly began to tremble visibly, and then started to wither from their fresh blood-red color, turning charred black.

It was because the tender, fragile tendrils had crossed some invisible protective layer, poking out into the unprotected Xingkong, where they were mercilessly bombarded by various chaotic energy rays, causing them to collapse and die.

"Hmph."

In an instant, a barely audible muffled grunt sounded from a corner within the planet.

The next moment, one saw these flesh buds, one after another, as if gaining some kind of aid, actually ignoring the chaotic energy radiation of Xingkong, endlessly entangled between withering and rebirth, stretching outward, then converging into whisker-like things that constantly wriggled, writhed, tangled, and fused!

As large amounts of black ash silently fell, the tender flesh buds began to tenaciously aggregate, finally slowly transforming into a layer of fresh flesh and blood, clinging to a corner of this strange planet!

With the appearance of the fresh flesh and blood, the withering and corrosion upon it began to slow.

As one grew and the other waned, the bizarre and horrifying flesh and blood became ever more abundant; it seemed to carry wisdom, carry Spirit! Spreading and devouring outward around the entire planet, layer upon layer of fresh flesh and blood emerged with various biological tissue-like structures…

Scene after scene of horrifying and bizarre imagery, just like this, appeared in this silent corner of Xingkong.

No one knew how long this bizarre planet had been orbiting the massive star, the strange flesh and blood on its surface spreading ever wider, growing ever more vivid, as if life had appeared, pulsing and contracting, like a newborn fetus.

Seen from afar at this moment, it actually looked like a ball of mangled flesh!

A massive planet, just like that, silently transformed into an incomparably huge mass of flesh and blood!

It quietly occupied the planet's original position, pulled by gravity, endlessly orbiting the giant star; layer upon layer of withered, charred-black color constantly appeared upon its surface, and constantly turned into black ash and fell away, drifting in space.

After an unknown length of time—perhaps a year, five years, ten years?

This bizarre mass of flesh underwent another change; threads of jade-like white began to emerge ceaselessly, condensing and connecting!

Then, large amounts of flesh and blood began to endlessly proliferate, cling, writhe, and converge, slowly transforming into four things like Tianzhuzhu holding up the heavens!

Feet formed, then the head rose, and finally the tail emerged!

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Fifty years later,

Upon the fresh red flesh, a vast expanse of peculiar white Membrane-like things began to be born; a touch of ink-like black began to spread across its surface; layer upon layer of things with a mysterious texture began to emerge upon this flesh, slowly transforming into hard, indestructible scale-like things.

At this point, it was complete!

At this moment, what appeared in Xingkong was a divine, incomparably majestic unknown beast, as vast as a planet!

Its four feet stood proudly; its entire body was black and white, like a tiger yet not a tiger, like a dragon yet not a dragon!

A pair of awe-inspiring eyes radiated divine light as they opened and closed; atop its dragon-tiger-like head, a pair of ferocious dragon horns thrust skyward; as its steel-whip-like tail swayed, the void trembled, exuding a terrifying aura!

"It's done!"

Feeling his brand-new body, Baichuan sighed inwardly.

After a full hundred years, his planet-body had finally been successfully born!

At this moment, feeling an unprecedented experience, an indescribable feeling welled up in Baichuan's heart.

Both an urge to cry and an urge to laugh, a sense of exhilaration to share it loudly with the world!

This was the feeling of a small wish, a small goal in life finally being completed—filled with a sense of achievement and pride!

Of course, although the planet dragon-body was complete, it differed somewhat from the dragon-body he had envisioned—

Because the planet was an ellipse close to a circle, it resulted in the current planet-body, which still needed to use the planet as its framework, taking the shape of a four-legged beast-body with a torso shorter compared to a dragon's, rather than an elongated dragon-body.

Of course, his current body could not be said to be completely unrelated to a dragon either—with a dragon's head and a beast's body, it was extremely similar to one of the Nine Sons of the Dragon in his memory—Bian!

Extremely similar.

It seemed that if he wanted to transform this dragon-body into a true planet-dragon, he would either have to make the planet serving as his foundation even more massive to construct a true dragon-body, or forge a colossal dragon-body composed of countless planets as bones.

Perhaps then he could call it a Star-Sea Dragon!

Developing along these lines, if one day he could reach the grand sight of stars as eyes, planets… or even neutron stars as his body!

Then, he would be truly powerful; regardless of realm or life level, he would simply overwhelm others with an unstoppable, majestic momentum, subduing them by sheer force!

Thinking this way, the development potential of his Bian-body was not bad either.

After a somewhat self-satisfied sigh, a sudden thought flashed through Baichuan's mind:

Perhaps beyond the two methods above, he wondered if there was a possibility that he could directly shatter other planets and incorporate their matter into his own planet?

After all, planets themselves are composed of various substances; if given enough matter, and if he used his external Bian-body to eliminate all negative effects—such as meteorite impacts damaging the terrain—could it grow slowly like a living being?

If that were truly the case, wouldn't he have to embark on a journey of devouring everything?

Could this also be a path to power?

Baichuan wasn't sure for now, so he didn't think about it further.

The next moment, his consciousness once again attached itself within.

Everything was completely perfected; it was time to set sail!

Xingkong, here he comes!

As his consciousness merged into the Bian-body, he felt the terrifying power brought by this massive frame—

Streams of seemingly endless chaotic energy rays and radiation, upon approaching his body, were silently weakened into gentle breezes and vanished among his fur and scales.

Following that, streams of energy torrents, incomparably abundant compared to his original body, began to converge, then merged into a dazzling giant fireball!

Which then spread from the giant fireball over the entire world.

This was the energy Core of this Bian-body, and also the small energy world currently serving as the sun within the world!

His Juanzhu, as well as his followers and even his original dragon-body, all stayed within this peculiar yet incomparably energy-rich small world.

This is the place where the energy of the entire world, the planet, is most concentrated — after all, it is the energy supply point of an entire planet-beast.

"Truly intoxicating, this vast and mighty power…"

Sighing inwardly, Baichuan's body moved, breaking free of the faint invisible pull — that was the gravitational pull from the vast star.

But now, in his eyes, it was fragile beyond reach, snapping with a single tug!

Even now, feeling the mighty power within his body, a restless eagerness welled up inside him — the wild ambition to devour a star in a single strike.

"I wonder if the current Bai'an body can pull it off?"

That fleeting thought crossed his mind, but Baichuan decisively rejected the tempting attempt.

Though the Bai'an body was large, compared to a star hundreds of times his size, it was still far too small.

Once he got too close, perhaps he could endure the star's temperature for a while, but the star's gravity might bind him tightly, never to break free, until it slowly wore him to death.

But not daring to provoke a star didn't mean he wouldn't dare to provoke a planet of the same level.

He surveyed the other members of this star system around him, silently selecting the closest earth-colored planet — its size was only one-third smaller than his own body.

Think it, do it — in a single thought.

The massive Bai'an body raised its thick, sturdy four claws, moving through the vast starry sky as if treading on empty air.

Ripples spread continuously beneath its claws, and then this proud, majestic, incomparably handsome Bai'an strode gracefully toward that earth-colored planet.

Three months later, he finally drew near that earth-colored planet —

It was a planet with no trace of life whatsoever, its entire body made of earth-colored rock, bizarre jagged peaks everywhere, and occasionally enormous fissures could be seen reaching nearly to the planet's core.

"I suppose this planet wouldn't mind him adding another fissure to it, would it?"

That fleeting thought crossed his mind, and Baichuan moved.

The Bai'an body — white as its base, black as its patterns, interwoven with threads of blue lightning — slowly raised a sharp claw wreathed in flickering black-gold flames, and the next instant slammed it down!

"Boom——!!!"

A tremendous tremor exploded —

Of course, this was impossible!

In the void of space, there was no medium for sound to travel. Perhaps inside that planet, one could hear a terrifyingly deafening roar, but Baichuan, standing in the starry sky, could not possibly hear it.

There was only violent shaking — the entire planet, under the Bai'an's strike, completely broke free from the star's pull and drifted away into the distance. A fearsome beast-claw imprint could faintly be seen deeply carved into it, as if about to split the entire planet in two!

Even from Baichuan's vantage point, a visible depression could be faintly seen around the area, silently proclaiming just how terrifying that strike of the Bai'an body was!

Rolling lava spewed forth, bringing a touch of different color to the entire planet.

This was a level of destruction that his former thousand-meter Flame Dragon body might have only achieved by exerting every ounce of its strength — yet now, the Bai'an body had created this terrifying devastation with just a single forceful slap!

The Bai'an body — the power of a planet was terrifying as such!

Watching that earth-colored planet drift away as if fleeing, Baichuan's gaze shifted — how could he let it float off?

His body moved, arching its back like a feline, and with an agile pounce, his two front claws caught the planet, forcibly halting its momentum. The entire motion was as effortless as lifting something light, as if he were merely playing!

A playful romp belonging to the planet-being Bai'an!

Just then, holding the earth-colored planet, his eyes suddenly narrowed — on this planet he had smitten with a massive fissure, his sharp gaze caught an unusual movement imbued with a strange aura!

A tremor began to stir, and then, between the bizarre jagged mountains on the side of his tiger-dragon-like face, something began to tremble.

A few breaths later, the movement grew greater — the mountains suddenly rose, the earth cracked, as if an Earth Dragon were turning over!

Then that endless mountain range began to rise… no, not rise — it stood up!

Only then did Baichuan realize — that was no mountain range at all!

It was entirely a colossal beast!

It was a giant beast, fifty thousand meters in size, lying prone on this earth-colored land, disguised as if sleeping!

Those jagged mountains earlier were merely its back!

It now stood on its hind legs — its forelegs much smaller than its hind legs, yet capable of grasping, while its hind legs were as steady and thick as great mountains, rooted firmly in the earth. Beneath its chin grew black beard-like hair like a forest, and its back was covered in jagged stone-blade-like spines,

Perhaps from prolonged contact with this earth-colored rocky planet, its entire body was also earth-colored — shaped like a standing lizard? Or perhaps Godzilla?

But its current state was not good — perhaps affected by Baichuan's earlier strike. On the messy, long beard-hair beneath its chin, a glaring earth-yellow liquid had stained it, dripping and splattering continuously,

Of course, even a single drop of this liquid, in the eyes of a mortal, would be a vast lake.

A fifty-thousand-meter small stone-blade lizard — only Baichuan's current Bai'an body would dare call its size petite,

At this moment, he eyed it with some suspicion, just like a cat that had spotted a figurine toy, full of curiosity.

What is this supposed to be?

He had only just been born with the Bai'an body, casually picked a planet, and like winning a lottery, startled out a disguised super-giant beast,

Fifty thousand meters — a size his original body could never reach no matter what.

If his original body had encountered it before and fought it outside the planet he controlled, it would have been extremely grueling, and neither side could do much to the other.

After all, it was truly too large — even if he could breach its defenses, wounds that would normally be devastating to a small creature would probably feel to it like nothing more than being pricked by a toothpick.

Fortunately, his Bai'an body had appeared.

But was the appearance of this super-giant beast a lucky chance encounter?

Or did such creatures exist on every nearby planet?

And why had they appeared here?

Subconsciously, Baichuan surveyed the other planets in this star system around him, various doubts continuously surfacing.

He was just that cautious — a dragon who loved to get to the bottom of things!

Then he turned his head back, looking at the stone-blade lizard on this planet (named by Baichuan).

At this moment, the stone-blade lizard was watching him with utter terror.

Of course — anyone sleeping soundly, suddenly having their bed torn apart, ears bombarded with piercing noise, even being shaken so badly they coughed up blood and were injured, then upon waking finding an incomparably massive face peering at them with curiosity, treating them like a toy — would feel extreme terror!

On this point, even the Ridgeback Magma Dragon — called the God of the Earth by other beings ten thousand years ago — was no exception!

At this moment, the Ridge-Spine Demon Dragon, which had only just been startled awake and whose mind was unsettled because of the sudden incident, was utterly terrified!

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(End of Chapter)