Chapter 376: The Gods and People of Lan Hai Xing Diverge, the Arriving Dragon

Shrouded beneath the starlight, the Goddess was filled with incomprehension—she had never imagined that beneath this starry sky there would still be living beings bold enough to invade the domain under the banner of the Star Sky Divine Race!

What is the Star Sky Divine Race?

Their most obvious characteristic is that within the starry sky they possess a vast realm of 【Heaven Round Earth Square】—not at all like the tiny worlds of planets, but existing directly beneath the starry sky itself.

The scope is so vast that even the smallest among their divine communities measures its heaven and earth in units of an entire star system—a distance no ordinary being, nor even a god, could traverse in an entire lifetime!

Legend has it that the Star Sky Divine Race were all ancient beings born into this universe at the very moment of its creation, possessing powers beyond the imagination of ordinary creatures.

There was once a god representing wisdom who exhausted every ounce of his divine power in speculation—perhaps the reason why the innate beings within their planets uniformly and spontaneously call themselves by titles such as gods and Main Gods is a kind of radiating influence from those ancient beings born at the dawn of the universe, an exaggerated influence that has spread across the entire cosmos!

From this alone, one can see from the side just how powerful the Star Sky Divine Race truly is!

There, beings like them who are called Earth Immortals within the starry sky are numbered in the tens of thousands at minimum, while Main Gods of the True Immortal realm are beyond counting, and above them the realm of 【Divine King】 is virtually equivalent to the "Ancestor" realm powerhouses of a civilization!

And when their Lan Hai Xing first made contact with the true starry sky, they paid an unknown price just to find shelter within the perilously dangerous starry sky, so as not to be casually destroyed in the battles of the powerful, before finally establishing a connection with one of the Star Sky Divine Races and gaining protection from then on.

But who would have thought—after paying such a tremendous price to finally obtain protection, how long had it even been?

Today they have once again encountered terrifying beings that came from who knows where, launching an attack…

Before they gained protection, being bullied by even more powerful gods was one thing—the law of the jungle has been the way of heaven since ancient times, perfectly normal, and they endured it.

But now that they have gained protection, they are still being bullied by even more powerful gods—then wasn't the protection of the Star Sky Divine Race obtained for nothing?

So the gods were enraged—or rather, ecstatic!

Their realm had long suffered from the calamity of the Beast Gods from beyond the domain, but the two sides were evenly matched in strength, neither able to do anything to the other. Even with the protection of the Star Sky Divine Race, there was nothing they could do—after all, this world ultimately speaks with strength, and the Star Sky Divine Race is no charitable force.

Protecting you is merely because, in light of the price you paid, they have given you a proper glance and acknowledged your worth. But if you cannot even deal with an enemy on your own level—then sorry, your world has no value whatsoever; better to disappear sooner rather than later, lest you sully the mighty name of our Star Sky Divine Race.

Some gods even speculated that perhaps the Beast God invasion itself contained a test from the Star Sky Divine Race.

But now things are different—a being far more powerful than those on their level has appeared, so they have reason to invoke the protective artifacts of the Star Sky Divine Race, to annihilate the powerful enemy in one strike, and even to destroy those invading Beast Gods along with them. Even if they cannot destroy them, they must make them retreat in terror!

Therefore, faced with the information delivered by the Star Light Goddess, those gods who had received more detailed information than the people of Lan Hai Xing not only did not think to cooperate with the people of Lan Hai Xing to stop that powerful 【Mysterious Beast Shadow】 from descending, but actively stirred things up, disrupting the prophecy of the people of Lan Hai Xing and misleading them onto the wrong path!

The true prophecy never contained the phrase 【…poison ravages…】—it was 【Dragon Calamity Ravages】!

And this was the true reason why Tao Xing was ultimately unable to utter a single sound for a long while!

Because he had been interfered with by the very gods he believed in!

From then on, the gods and people of Lan Hai Xing diverged, each choosing a different path.

However, amid this rage and ecstasy of the gods, the Star Light Goddess—the god most skilled at divination—always harbored an ominous premonition.

Divination and prophecy, as the power closest to Time, fate, and the future, have always been shrouded in a veil of mystery, giving all living beings the impression of being unfathomably profound, a power imbued with an air of mystical mumbo-jumbo.

Even she, born from within the Star Light Celestial Phenomenon, would not dare claim to truly understand and master this mysterious power. So watching the gods ignore the prophetic information, believing that beneath the protective artifacts of the Star Sky Divine Race everything would be crushed—will things really be that simple?

Prophecy never shoots its arrow without cause—did the birth of this prophecy perhaps include the factor of the Star Sky Divine Race's protective artifacts? Will things truly develop as they envision?

The Star Light Goddess did not know, and as a god with no combat ability, her words had always carried little weight within the divine system—she could not decide anything.

Now, she could only hope that everything really was just her overthinking, and secretly tip off a few people in the shadows, trying to track down the 【Dragon Calamity Ravages】 indicated in the prophecy.

Thinking of this, she cast her gaze from Shenyu toward Lan Hai Xing, toward a few Xinglao of middling status—only Xinglao of such standing would not attract the gods' attention, would not be discovered violating their intentions, and yet would not be so low-ranking that her prophecy would be ignored…

……

Lan Hai Xing.

"Hey, Granny Wang, have you seen the recent news? Lord Hulan of the General Pavilion has wiped out another organization that ruined countless families—it's truly satisfying!"

"Oh! You mean that one? Indeed! Truly, you don't know until you check, and it's a fright when you do—I never expected our Eastern Alliance to still harbor such an evil organization. Lord Hulan really has done a great deed!"

"That's right, and that's not all. I heard that recently the Alliance has been strictly cracking down on all evil organizations—anything related to poison or drugs has been completely eradicated!"

"The Alliance…"

'Strange,' Haiming thought, just returning from his part-time job, dragging his exhausted body as he prepared to buy some food to take home, listening to the elderly folks along the way discussing things, and couldn't help but feel a twinge of doubt.

No wonder those debt collectors hadn't shown up lately—turns out the higher-ups were clearing out all kinds of evil organizations.

Still, he felt the General Pavilion had been making an unusually big fuss lately. The Alliance, which normally couldn't be bothered with such matters, had for some reason gone crazy eradicating evil organizations—could it be that some big shot's relative up above had been victimized?

Or perhaps the treasure he had obtained from some mysterious organization had drawn the Alliance's wrath? To the point of frantically suppressing things in an attempt to recover that 【Mysterious Finger Bone】?

Thinking of this, Haiming's heart tightened. That section of Mysterious Finger Bone was now his trump card for turning his life around—it absolutely could not be lost. It seemed he needed to learn more when he got home.

But then again, he probably also had this matter to thank for why the people from that mysterious organization hadn't come knocking lately.

In that case, it seemed he needed to seize this opportunity and grow stronger quickly!

Thinking of this, Haiming decided to go on a big shopping trip today, buy plenty of supplies to keep at home and not go out again, and make good use of the time to perform several more 【Traversals】, striving to gain powerful strength before anyone from the mysterious organization or the Alliance came knocking!

"Oh~ Little Hai, you're here? What would you like to eat today?"

At this moment, the old lady who had been busy chatting finally noticed Haiming's arrival and quickly asked with a beaming smile.

"Mm, Granny, give me some of this, this, and that…"

"Here, this is the money."

Looking into Granny's kind eyes, Haiming showed a slightly shy smile.

"Oh oh, alright. Take care on your way, Little Hai."

Granny stared blankly at Haiming, who seemed somehow different—had her eyes played tricks on her just now? Why did she feel that for an instant just now, she seemed to see a flash of very bright golden light in Little Hai's eyes?

Granny thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out what had just happened. With the peak hour of customers arriving and another patron coming, she could only set aside her doubts and chalk it up to getting old and her eyes being unreliable.

What she didn't know was that, in the angle she couldn't see, from the moment she locked eyes with Haiming and caught that flash of golden light, deep within her pupils there had also unknowingly flickered a thread of gilded color—and this thread of golden intent spread further with every person she made eye contact with.

One passes to two… two to four… four to eight… without end.

This mysterious thread of golden intent, like a terrifyingly infectious virus, spread at a speed beyond ordinary imagination, swiftly and inexorably蔓延ing to everyone who made eye contact…

Even later, when countless infected people gathered together to move about, the invisible golden intent, like threads, strung out from their pupils, slowly weaving into an invisible golden net that shrouded all directions. Anyone stepping in here who was uninfected would be instantly entangled by the 【Golden Net】 and become part of it.

And this golden net was following the movements of those infected, spreading outward slowly yet steadily.

If at this moment there were a being capable of seeing this thread of golden intent looking down from above, they would surely see that the endless 【Golden Threads】, crisscrossing like a great net, seemed to be using all living things as a foundation, slowly converging into an invisible seal imbued with wondrous golden intent!

The overall outline of that seal resembled an ancient, mysterious disc, upon which a winding, soaring dragon shadow slowly coiled around a special character! Its strokes were like the strange, twisted script of worm-crawls and bird-pecks—the character 【Demon】.

【Dragon Blood · Wheel Rotation Seal】—【Demon Seal】!

And at this very moment, combat personnel across every alliance branch of the entire world were still, under the misdirection of the divine spirits, burning the midnight oil to exterminate all manner of evil organizations in order to prevent the descent of the "Mysterious Beast Shadow" that would bring about the world's destruction.

In the blink of an eye, another month of Time had passed.

Yet this brief month was the darkest period for all evil forces across the entire Lan Hai Xing; every official faction in the world—even those that had once been their superiors, bosses, or backers—was, as if seized by madness, hunting them down, their former glory gone forever.

And Haiming also began his second traversal. This time, perhaps because there were no other factors at play, although he did not have the "good fortune" of his first crossing into Baichuan's world to become an Innate Spirit, he did become a member of a transcendent family.

At the same time, the faintly sensing Baichuan once again discovered that the power of his seal seemed, without his noticing, to have spread to yet another world.

This gave Baichuan an even deeper understanding that the "treasure" possessed by that lucky fellow was no simple thing! It was absolutely not, as he had guessed, merely a one-time fluke of slipping into his world, but rather something that could selectively traverse to transcendent worlds that possessed life or held "value"!

His desire to obtain that treasure grew ever stronger!

Time slipped away once more, and another half month passed.

Following a faint tremor from the unseen depths, an invisible seal, as if etched into the very earth of Lan Hai Xing, was instantly completed—and then activated!

The invisible ripple crossed an endless span of space, causing Baichuan, who was deep within the Subspace, to slowly open his brilliant dragon eyes. A profoundly mysterious seal slowly surfaced from deep within his pupils, and on that ancient, simple Wheel, it seemed as though some mysterious force had begun to push, turning it inch by inch.

The seal was complete!

A force was answering him.

It was time for him to set out!

Thinking this, Baichuan—who had long been prepared and had waited so long—unfurled his slender dragon body. A Wheel phantom, mysterious beyond measure, bearing several seals arranged in a circle, slowly materialized above his body. The very next instant, the power of the Wheel Rotation Seal enveloped his entire dragon body, and he slowly vanished.

Lan Hai Xing, Outer Space.

This was an incomparably peculiar Planet. Unlike ordinary life-bearing planets, which were merely wrapped in atmospheric gaseous matter, its outermost layer was encased in a substance resembling the Membrane of an eggshell, ceaselessly drawing in and expelling the violent, raging streams of energy and radiation from the Xingkong, transforming them into the gentlest, most nourishing energy for the Planet's interior.

In the deep Xingkong surrounding it, shadowy, terrifying figures drifted in units of ten—some twisted like giant octopi, some humanoid with a single horn on their heads and a dozen or so eyeballs, others taking the form of beasts outright… each one at the very least ten thousand meters in size!

These were Beast Gods!

A ferocious, dim-witted species unknown in origin or origin, with no fixed dwelling in the Xingkong, forever seeming to moan and deliriously mutter as if in agony, yet greedily devouring the Planet Essence of life-bearing planets, feeding upon the Essence, the flesh and blood of living beings, and their Spirits.

At this moment, an invisible ripple abruptly appeared in the surrounding void, spreading outward like ripples on water, and a wisp of powerful life aura slowly drifted out.

"Crack…"

The very next instant, a sound like shattering glass actually rang out in the void of space, drawing the attention of every Beast God.

The Beast Gods, who seemed to exist in a perpetual state of agony and hunger, finally tore their starving gazes away from the Planet before them and slowly turned to look toward the source of the disturbance.

They sensed an incomparably alluring, supremely nourishing fragrance of deliciousness slowly drifting toward them.

A dripping sound rang out continuously—it was the saliva the Beast Gods were unconsciously drooling.

Then, they saw—

A ferocious Dragon Claw, as if gripping something solid, seized the void. The very next instant, its muscular strength—far more powerful than refined steel—casually crushed the void! Then, with a violent pull, the void was torn open like ragged cloth, leaving a massive rift.

Two points of brilliant, undying light shone from within the torn void, and a dragon head, its mane flying and whiskers streaming, slowly poked out from within!

The True Dragon Baichuan had descended…

(End of Chapter)