Free Web NovelIt was the end of the world.
Golden Yuanbao's body began to disintegrate, and his feathers turned into ashes, piece by piece...
“It’s over...” Mingxi's defenses crumbled, and her knees buckled as she fell to the ground.
Suddenly, all the scattered ashes became still.
The three thunder cores shot into Golden Yuanbao's hollow, ghost-fire-burning eye sockets like cosmic particles. As the last thunder core merged, the golden patterns Drawing Spirit had drawn on his body suddenly flickered.
“Buzz—”
Giant rule characters appeared, forming a heavy and prolonged hum.
The entire Peach Blossom Forest, or rather, the entire Reverse God Ruins, trembled, then fell into absolute silence.
All sounds and chaos were suspended in mid-air, as if the universe had pressed the pause button.
Including Mingxi and Wu Luo.
But Mingxi could clearly ‘feel’... Golden Yuanbao’s body, which had been turning to ash, began to reassemble.
Every cell in his body was undergoing billions of annihilations and rebirths in the miraculous collision of Luo Jie Luo's thunder ring self-destruction and the thunder cores.
“Golden Yuanbao...”
Mingxi's pupils, fixed in place, shook wildly as if fitted with electric motors.
Her emotions fluctuated, and her mind was in a turmoil.
In her perception, Golden Yuanbao's body seemed to be undergoing an evolution, experiencing earth-shattering changes.
His spinal vertebrae grew layers of dragon spines, with miniature thunder rings appearing at the end of each bone spur, almost identical to Luo Jie Luo's floating thunder rings.
His originally golden, purple, and black gradient colossal wings seemed to have been melted and torn by thunder plasma, splitting into six large sections. Moreover, the upper part of the feathers completely lost their feathery softness, turning into hard scaly feathers.
The twenty-four feather chains extending from his tail feathers also changed; faint golden patterns were vaguely visible on each bone chain. Although not very clear and lacking a strong rule aura, Mingxi was certain that they were all part of 【Nothingness】.
Mingxi’s rationality was taking a deep breath; she couldn't comprehend the changes Golden Yuanbao was undergoing, but she deeply understood that he had gained a blessing in disguise.
It wasn’t an evolution, but it was better than an evolution.
Every inch of his bones, every feather, was filled with violent beauty, yet he did not lose his original elegance and nobility as a bird.
It was as if a wicked dragon and a beautiful phoenix had perfectly merged within him.
It couldn't be called a mismatch; it was a powerful combination.
“Master, quickly look at Yuanshi Demon Phoenix's eyes!”
The space-time in the area was relatively still, but it couldn't affect Guangguang, who was in the Time Realm.
It was also because of the Time Realm that Mingxi could ‘clearly perceive’ Golden Yuanbao's situation.
This meant her body was still, but her soul was not.
Mingxi ‘looked’ over.
The pair of black-gold demon horns on Golden Yuanbao's head became even more domineering and ferocious, and the three eyes beneath the demon horns...
Just one glance—
And there was a feeling of extreme terror.
“...Is this still the Heaven and Earth Thunder Eye?!”
Mingxi’s soul couldn’t help but tremble three times; extreme stiffness and extreme shock intertwined in her heart.
Golden Yuanbao’s eyes at this moment were clearly displayed in her perception, as if presented by a microscope.
His left pupil was entirely a deep swampy dark green, with irregular dark golden Brindle, looking strikingly similar to stirred asphalt at first glance.
The edge of the pupil was surrounded by a ring of charcoal-colored radial cracks, like cracked pottery after being scorched by thunder fire. The vertical, narrow, shuttle-shaped pupil expanded into an oval in the dark, with a molten-like dark red glow at its center, flowing with the intensity of light.
Gazing at it, there was a disorienting sensation of the space one was in collapsing, as if the entire field of vision was being sucked into a black ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) hole, and one was constantly shattering!
And his right eye socket was slightly sunken, the surface of the eyeball covered by a transparent scaly cornea. The overall base was lead-gray, with tiny blue-white electric patterns flowing within, like lightning leaping in clouds.
The pupil split into six snowflake-like petals, with branch-like discharge patterns extending from the tip of each petal!
The whites of his eyes were like boiling silver-white thunder plasma, even more bizarre and terrifying.
Finally, there was the true Thunder Eye in the center of his forehead.
It was protected by three bone-shield-shaped scales, with a transparent cuticle covering the outer layer, resembling a dragonfly's compound eye. The iris had a molten-gold annual ring-like texture, and the central pupil continuously contracted into a thin line like a cat's eye!
The outer three bone-shield scales gradually closed, leaving only a slit-like opening.
Additionally, the area around all three eyes was covered with coral-like dark red crystals.
This was the first time Mingxi had so directly ‘seen clearly’ Golden Yuanbao's eyes, even how the red blood vessels in the whites of his eyes were branching was perfectly clear.
It was so magical.
Mingxi was bewildered and dazed. In fact, she had prepared herself for Golden Yuanbao to become a blind pet in the future, but she didn't expect such a turn of events.
Was the Heaven and Earth Thunder Eye's hidden ability a bit too overpowered?
“...”
“Buzz—”
After a familiar hum, the world returned to its impermanence.
It was like a painting coming to life.
“Boom!”
The clamor from all directions around Mingxi made her eardrums scream.
However, whether Beast Tamers or pet beasts, they all realized that brief, yet immeasurably long, moment of stillness in the world.
They looked in unison at Golden Yuanbao, who had taken on a new appearance.
Mingxi noticed that his eyes had basically returned to their original appearance; both eyes were still blood pupils, only the third eye on his forehead was a semi-closed, scale-slit shape, just as she had seen in her perception.
If not for this third eye, she would probably have thought that what she had ‘seen’ just now was her imagination.
“Hoo—”
Whatever the reason for this bizarre situation, Golden Yuanbao being fine was better than anything.
Mingxi exhaled a long, deep breath.
However, just as she released half of that breath, a strong killing intent, accompanied by a fist wind, came from ahead.
The fist struck her chest, and Mingxi retreated repeatedly, her back hitting a peach tree heavily. Peach blossoms rustled down, turning into blades upon touching her. free𝑤ebnovel.com
But almost all those blades were blocked by shen guan before they could harm Mingxi.
Although tools were mostly useless in the Reverse God Ruins, divine artifacts couldn't be entirely useless.
However, even with shen guan's intervention, the petals still injured Mingxi, showing how much the rules here restricted tools.
She pressed her bleeding left arm, looking at Wu Luo, who stepped out of the shadows, a short blade glowing with blue light in his hand.
He suddenly flicked his wrist, and the blade grazed Mingxi's ear, embedding itself in the peach tree. A strand of broken hair fell onto her shoulder.
The young man observed her unmoving reaction, then glanced at the pet beast standing calmly beside her, not retaliating.
He frowned imperceptibly.
Suddenly, he bared his teeth, laughing like a madman. fгeewebnovёl.com
“Hahaha... It seems the legendary genius is nothing more than an idiot who follows the crowd, only knowing how to tame beasts and not how to improve his own combat strength! Hahaha...”
The crazier he laughed, the calmer Mingxi's expression became.
“If you’re trying to provoke me and my pet beast into attacking you, then forget about it.”
