Chapter 371: The Star-Devouring Dragon: The True Special Form of the Light-Point Power

Baichuan felt as though he had dreamed a dream, an extraordinarily long and bizarre one.

In the dream, he seemed to see a mysterious and strange world, within which stood countless living beings emanating terrifying auras, and he too seemed to be one of them. They fiercely contended for something, as if that orb of light were a supreme treasure beyond ordinary beings.

And among them, he stood at the forefront, the blazing flames upon his body even more vast than those terrifying beings. Merely with his every movement, he pressed those beings into fearful retreat. Only a handful could rival him, standing out together from the multitude to approach that "supreme treasure."

In the end, with a slight trick, he overtook those relentlessly pursuing figures and reached the orb of light first.

But the instant he drew near, before he could truly see what they were contending for, a fierce hunger suddenly surged up from within — a hunger from the depths of his soul, as if his entire body were crying out to him — Hunger!

And so, he awoke.

In that final moment, he seemed to see a familiar figure pounce toward him — a mouse of enormous size, its entire body as if carved from white jade?

The next instant, a massive dragon body directly broke through the shell-like cocoon encasing him. A majestic dragon head rose from within the mist, its dragon eyes filled with confusion, for his current state was exceedingly strange. His entire body seemed covered in mesh-like openings, ceaselessly leaking hazy mists.

And his body itself kept transmitting waves of hunger, urging him to feed.

But at a single glance, whether the fresh flesh and blood prepared as usual or the vast energy sufficient to sustain his life activities — he had not the slightest appetite for any of it.

Though abnormally hungry, he had lost all appetite for these ordinary foods; they could not fill his hunger.

This was his first sensation.

It was also the first time he had not waited for evolution to complete and awaken naturally, but had abruptly woken midway.

He did not know whether this was good or bad. He only knew he was hungry! Abnormally hungry!

He needed to feed!

But what was to be done when there was no food that satisfied him?

Baichuan was bewildered for a moment. Amid the increasingly urgent hunger within his body, he grew somewhat irritable. Finally, a thought flashed through his mind like a sudden spark of inspiration.

Flesh and blood were unsuitable, energy was unnecessary. He was terribly hungry, yet could find nothing fitting. So then —

He would swallow the entire world!

All the matter of a world — surely he could find food suited to him…

The moment this thought arose, Baichuan jolted awake, and at the same time understood…

Yes — devouring worlds (planets)!

Only worlds could sate his bottomless, overwhelming hunger!

At this thought, a drop of viscous, transparent liquid slowly dripped from the corner of his dragon maw.

Baichuan's gaze grew somewhat greedy, and he surveyed this "delicious" world with a look he had never before possessed… Yes — delicious!

In his eyes, the world had actually become delicious, like an incomparably sweet pastry, which he would pick and choose from, waiting only to taste a bite.

Urged on by instinct, he opened his dragon maw…

The next instant, amid his hunger, a flash of clarity crossed his eyes. His reason told him he could not eat this world! This was his planetary body, the world he had painstakingly built, and within it lived countless beings he cared about.

He could not eat it!

If he could not eat this, then what should he eat?

The next instant, Baichuan suddenly recalled — as if in sudden enlightenment — that the world following him at present was not only the single life-planet Tianyuan Star, but also another, the Original Star, which for some unknown reason was in a special state and followed along with his planetary body!

That world was the starting point of everything for him!

The increasingly intense hunger within his body left Baichuan unwilling to deliberate any further.

His slender dragon body, ceaselessly leaking vast mists, moved. In an instant, he departed that evolution space he had specially established for himself.

And so, a slender dragon body of fully fifty thousand meters in length once again appeared before the eyes of all living beings in Tianyuan Jie.

In the blink of an eye, boundless clouds swiftly gathered, endless hazy mists spontaneously arose and drifted, and an oppressive force so intense it neared substance instantly enveloped above the heads of all living beings. A creature of utter mystery had appeared!

It was a being of a level nearly countless tiers beyond all creatures of this world — a power such that a single breath could cause unimaginable destruction.

It merely stood there, needing not to move, needing not to bear the slightest malice or benevolence. Simply by existing, its biological magnetic field could Assimilate all living beings, causing the fields and powers within them to fall into chaos and ceaselessly draw toward this mysterious creature.

"What in the world is that?"

On the ground, a living being, shaken to the point of being unable to swallow, spoke with difficulty.

He was one of the renowned powerhouses of this world, second only to the source of this world's power — those deities. Known to the world as Carefree True Lord, yet at this moment he felt that before the other party, he was as weak as a three-year-old child. It was a power even greater than that of the source — the deities!

"Chen Tianjiao, come fight! The world calls you… What?! What is that thing?"

"Dragon Lord (Ao Qing) Your Majesty? No! No, that's a great existence even more exalted than the Dragon Lord!"

On a certain great continent, within a flourishing giant city.

A dashing young man of outstanding talent stood proudly in the void, challenging a white-robed youth below to a duel. Countless onlookers — experts or commoners who loved a spectacle — had stopped to watch excitedly.

These were among the most renowned prodigies of Ping Zhou, powerhouses with hopes of pursuing the True Lord realm. Yet before the young man could even finish speaking, the celestial phenomena suddenly changed, displaying a sight none of them had ever seen in their lives!

In the endless heavens, hazy mists ceaselessly emerged, spreading rapidly like ocean waves. Within them, a creature so vast it exceeded their imagination swam, and the occasional glimpse of a single scale or claw was enough to terrify them!

It was a mysterious, powerful being whose mere appearance and passage left them struck dumb, robbed of all speech!

But alas, as swiftly as this figure appeared, it vanished just as quickly.

Before the crowd could react, it had disappeared over the horizon.

Leaving behind only the shaken multitude, speechless for a long time.

"That figure — it seems an ancestor of mine, a great-grandmaster, once encountered…"

No one knew how long passed before someone in the crowd suddenly murmured to himself thus.

"Oh? My friend, might you share a thing or two?"

The moment these words were spoken, countless gazes turned toward him.

Some, their eyes shifting, even opened their mouths to inquire.

"Ah, well, let me think…" Seeming unaccustomed to being watched by so many, that fellow grew slightly nervous, a little timid, and scratched his head as he carefully considered. "That seems to have been several thousand years ago. At that time, my great-great-great… grandfather was still just a little child…"

……

No one knew how long passed before the dashing young man who had issued the original challenge suddenly spoke thus:

"Fu Bo, let's go! We go to seek out that existence. I wish to see what the true summit of power truly looks like…"

"Huh? Young, Young Master, then this challenge?" The old man seemed somewhat bewildered. Weren't they just about to challenge the famous experts on the Prodigy Ranking?

How could they suddenly give up?

Hearing this, the youth smiled. "Having witnessed such an existence, such child's play need not be fought!"

"Besides, look — who still has the mood to watch or fight?"

Having seen such a magnificent existence, watching them now brawl like children squabbling is simply like a game.

……

Leaving that side aside, at the same moment, those shaken were not only ordinary people. Those who, thanks to Baichuan, had transformed into lofty, deathless gods in this world — Ao Qing and the other followers, no matter where they were, whether enthroned high in the Divine Kingdom or wandering Ren Jian — all opened those god-eyes brimming with endless majesty, staring in horror at the figure that had abruptly appeared within the world.

"Senior seems to have grown even stronger. The gap between us seems to have widened even more…" Ao Qing gazed at that figure and could not help but sigh with a certain shock. It had already been several thousand years since they met. The current Senior had, without his noticing, already surpassed his imagination.

He could not even imagine what realm that was.

At this moment, this world was already several thousand years after Baichuan had last descended. With his attention turned away from affairs and cast toward the cosmos and Xingkong, now, apart from that original group of gods, almost no one recognized him.

After all, his gaze had long since ceased to rest within his own small world.

Leaving aside the myriad beings shaken by his appearance, he, driven by hunger, had already returned to that original world.

Gazing at this world both strange and familiar, Baichuan felt he seemed to have found suitable food, and could no longer restrain himself from opening his great maw… then, he froze.

Food, he had indeed found correctly, but how was he to eat?

The world was so vast — without a planet-sized body, how could he possibly eat an entire world?

He was now in the situation of "a lion swallowing the heavens — with nowhere to bite." He could only stare at this world in helpless urgency!

Hunger urged him on ever more insistently: Eat! Eat!! Eat now!!!

Under this hunger, the aura leaking from his entire body grew ever more exaggerated, almost gushing forth like a river.

The next moment, his crimson dragon-eyes suddenly closed, and in a flash of enlightenment, he understood!

Boundless, endless energy Light Points were released at a speed never seen before, spreading toward the entire world.

However, the Light Points he now released were not meant to perfect this world!

They were meant to devour it!

Yes — devour!

Light Point Power, this power from the bloodworm, had never been meant solely for transformation and mutual benefit with the world. Back then, his developmental direction had been wrong — or rather, too one-sided. It was merely because of his own temperament, and various concerns, that he had chosen the path of mutual benefit with the world.

Do you still remember, when Baichuan first used this Light Point Power, how those endlessly spreading Light Points devoured everything in sight to replenish energy?

Once Light Points are sown, what they can do is far more than merely letting all things absorb them to grow strong, thereby selecting the excellent mutations among them!

They can also completely control this Light Point Power spread throughout the entire world, transforming into a glutton that devours all things, eating the entire world clean!

The life and death of all things in the world, and even the world itself — all at will!

In just a few breaths, boundless Light Points had completely occupied this former world. The next moment, Baichuan's gaze hardened, and a single thought was abruptly transmitted outward.

In an instant, all the Light Points changed!

No longer like harmless energy nourishing all things, they transformed into vicious, savage, and incomparably hungry Fierce Beasts! At this moment, this ferocious vicious beast, finally driven by Baichuan's hunger, tore open the terrifying scene beneath its harmless and gentle exterior!

Boundless Light Points rapidly coalesced, seemingly forming a vicious beast whose specific form could not be discerned, which abruptly opened that blood-basin great maw — and then snapped it shut!

In an instant, the world vanished!

As if along with the space where that planet resided, everything vanished together, all swallowed into Baichuan's belly. A great empty void abruptly appeared in the vacuum of Xingkong.

Even the radiance of the stars seemed, wittingly or unwittingly, to be avoiding him, lest this vicious beast take an interest in them!

His current behavior seemed, compared to the title of Star-Devouring Worm, to better deserve the honor of 【Star-Devouring】!

Baichuan felt his own body vanish along with it, and the head of that strange vicious beast vanished too — yet it seemed not to have vanished.

He seemed to have returned to Xingkong. He felt his current state was exceedingly strange, yet better than ever before. His hunger seemed to have eased considerably, no longer nearly driving him to lose his reason.

At the same time, he seemed to have… broken through to True Immortal?!

The breakthrough was bizarre and inexplicable.

Feeling a formless energy brimming with endless destructive power slowly flowing within the bounds of his perception, Baichuan thought to himself.

The next instant, in Xingkong, what seemed to materialize from nothing gradually transformed into a dragon-shaped creature — a dragon body coiled up, comparable in size to a planet! Unlike the Xingqiu Jigan body he once possessed, this dragon body appeared exceedingly slender, even emaciated, yet carried unimaginable tremendous strength!

However, if Baichuan had had the Time to check his Ability Panel at this moment, he would surely have discovered that the information within had undergone an unprecedented, astonishing change!

It could almost be called earth-shattering!

The vast, almost bloated abilities he possessed — whether LV1, LV2, LV3, or even LV5 — were all slowly melting and vanishing. Only a few LV6-level abilities could narrowly escape and persist.

Those vanished abilities, taking a certain ability as their Core, then coalesced according to Baichuan's will into an exceedingly special ability. Accompanying the appearance of this ability was another strange, mysterious ability that had newly emerged.

Subsequently, the ability models he had once collected seemed to want to join this great transformation as well. As if coming alive, they slowly shifted from a transparent model state that, though appearing lifelike, was actually inanimate, into living creatures!

From the first mouse-type he had originally eaten, to all the various collected mouse-types, snake-types, frog-types, tiger-types, cat-types… all the ability models he had collected, including all the living beings of that Original Star he had just eaten, seemed to have transformed back into living things. They became egg-shaped objects entwined with endless script, descending from the heavens like stars or meteors, falling into a mysterious world.

In the brief span of an instant, within this barren, lifeless mysterious world, it was as if a rain of stars had descended — countless "stars" arrived, falling and merging into this world before vanishing from sight.

This world once again returned to a state of barrenness, but compared to before, it now carried a sense of vigorous vitality.

Presumably, given Time, astonishing changes would occur.

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(End of Chapter)