Chapter 170: Viral Awakening, Eleventh Zodiac!!!
Within the vast, profound starry sky, a small meteor drifted, moving between the sun, moon, and stars. Standing at the edge of the meteor, the golden-haired girl’s expression was one of shock.
“Pet Beast Evolution Battle, the tenth-anniversary buggy event map…”
“How…how is this possible!?” Remembering this familiar scene, the star patterns in Lian Xing’s eyes constricted.
She had been trapped in this anniversary event map created by the game developers after encountering a Fallen Species attack, unable to log out for over ten hours, forcing her to discard the new clothes she had just bought.
So, what was happening now?
After encountering a Fallen Species again, she had been pulled back into the game?
She wasn’t dreaming, nor was she delusional, like those naive girls who mistook this for a dream. Something was definitely wrong.
To confirm this place’s reality, Lian Xing opened her pet beast panel, then the pet beast panel in the game’s UI.
[Royal-Tier — Biological Species — Eight-Star Bewitching Moon LV1111]
[Commander-Tier — Viral Species — Dreamflow Sunset Glow LV94]
[Commander-Tier — Elemental Species — Celestial Bride’s Star Sea LV65]
[Commander-Tier — Mechanical Species — Celestial Anchor LV100]
[High-Tier — Weapon Species — Golden Leaf LV60]
A cold sweat trickled down Lian Xing’s forehead.
Because the two panels before her…they were identical…
Whether she used her Beast Tamer ability to view the panel or the game’s UI, the information was the same. And her pet beasts from her previous life as a player weren’t here.
She had considered many possibilities, but not this.
The transmigration was real, the correct pet beast panel before her proved it.
But…
Why was the Pet Beast Evolution Battle UI still here!?
And it even displayed her current lineup…
This meant that there were no dream-inducing pet beasts affecting her, no external interference. This starry sky truly existed somewhere in the Pet Beast World.
So, although she was reluctant to believe it, Lian Xing began to question the nature of Pet Beast Evolution Battle.
She suspected that it wasn’t just a game from Earth, but a real beast-taming simulation world created by some Mechanical Species in this Pet Beast World!!!
Just like how the pet beasts in this world could also evolve in the virtual battle regions.
And this UI…
Even a Mid-Tier Mechanical Species could easily create it.
But in that case…
If Pet Beast Evolution Battle was real…
Then where were the pet beasts she had evolved in her previous life?
“…”
“…”
“Whew~~~” After a long while, Lian Xing sighed.
Unable to find an answer, she decided to stop thinking about it for now.
So, she shifted her focus to the familiar map before her.
Since she had gained so much from her previous visit, she had to find something useful this time as well.
A few seconds later, at the starting point of the map, Lian Xing saw several towering stone tablets covered in unreadable symbols.
Lian Xing had ignored them last time.
But this time, she instantly recognized them.
This was…
The language of pet beasts!!!
She hadn’t been able to understand it before transmigrating, but after almost a year of sharing her pet beasts’ vision, she could now decipher these symbols…
[Eleventh Zodiac, originally the 3rd ranked species among the 72 Legends. Removed from the list after achieving Shining Species as a Viral Species, transcending the concept of life.]
[This place was created using a fragment of the Eleventh Zodiac’s aura. Consider it a higher-dimensional Viral World, capable of wandering through the void beyond the Pet Beast World.]
[If you, a Beast Tamer or a pet beast, have arrived here, don’t be mistaken. You’re not chosen. This place simply overlaps with your current spacetime coordinates. Pure luck.]
[This place’s magnetic field attracts certain beings. So, you’re here for one of a few reasons: either a Shining Species passed by, a Fallen Species shattered the space, or a Viral Species hybrid accidentally activated their Viral Space at the right coordinates.]
[There are no treasures here, only naturally spawned pet beasts, and some insignificant evolution information and Pet Beast World history. Help yourself—]
“Ugh…” Seeing this, Lian Xing felt a headache coming on.
After all, these words had been carved by an incredibly powerful being using its aura, to preserve them for a long time. Reading them was like staring into the eyes of a Sovereign-Tier Emperor, naturally uncomfortable.
But…
Pet Beast Evolution Battle…it had indeed been created by a Mechanical Species…
And the Eleventh Zodiac…
Lian Xing had never heard of this species.
In her memory, the third-ranked Legend should have been [Reverse Time].
The Eleventh Zodiac, a peak Legend that had embarked on the Shining path…its power and level must be unimaginable…
After reading the first tablet, Lian Xing, enduring the discomfort, looked at the others. They mostly described unimportant Pet Beast World history, the most recent entry from over a million years ago, seemingly not worth reading.
Screw this, I’m not reading them…
After a while, Lian Xing’s expression turned to disappointment.
“I finally returned here, and there’s nothing I can take…?”
“If I remember correctly, our world should have been torn apart by a Fallen Species. If I can’t find anything useful here, then we’re doomed…”
Lian Xing tried to summon her pet beasts, but there was no response.
As the tablet had said, this place was like a special Viral World, isolating everything except her consciousness.
And as time passed, Lian Xing felt her consciousness fading, as if she were about to leave this place.
“Damn, is my body waking up…?”
“I don’t even have time to explore…”
“Is there anything else I can do…?” Lian Xing looked around anxiously.
A few seconds later, an idea struck her.
Her starry eyes twinkled, a daring and unthinkable plan forming in her mind.
Wait, hadn’t the first tablet said…
That this place was created using the Eleventh Zodiac’s residual aura…?
Then didn’t that mean the Eleventh Zodiac’s aura was still here, or rather, that the Pet Essence here had been tainted by it?
Thinking of this, Lian Xing didn’t hesitate.
She squatted down, then, like a dog , lay on the ground.
“…”
“…”
“Lick, lick, lick, lick~~~”
In the empty, starry sky, the golden-haired girl licked the meteor’s surface, her mouth filling with dust and grit, her dignity gone.
Although the aura had been diluted over millions of years, she could still faintly taste it…
After licking the area around the stone tablet, Lian Xing stood up, wiping her mouth, satisfied.
It tasted like flat Sprite…
A few seconds later, a mysterious, warm sensation spread through her body, following her Pet Essence flow.
Nothing to take, huh?
They underestimated her shamelessness…
They hadn’t expected a living being to be able to absorb the residual Pet Essence this way.
At this moment, as this warm, golden Pet Essence flowed through her body, Lian Xing felt a strange sensation, as if she were burning up…
Her expression turned to pain…
After all, this was the residual aura of the Eleventh Zodiac, a being that had transcended the concept of life!!!
Even with a high bloodline purity, her frail human body couldn’t withstand it…
However, the burning sensation soon subsided, the energy merging with her own Pet Essence, becoming dormant…
Lian Xing blinked, confused.
“That’s it!?”
“I was just starting to enjoy the pain…”
“This Eleventh Zodiac’s aura…nothing special~~~~” As her mocking words echoed, Lian Xing felt a change within her.
Her dormant Viral Space, a hidden aspect of her Viral Species hybrid nature, it had finally awakened…
Just like how newborns would cry the moment they were born, Lian Xing instantly understood her hybrid ability…
Seeing her body becoming increasingly translucent, she squatted down and extended her hands towards the ground.
“Open!!!!!”
“…”
“…”
“Whoosh—”
With a flash of golden light, a shimmering, golden, prism-like mirror appeared between Lian Xing’s outstretched hands. In the next second, the meteor’s surface within a radius of several dozen meters around her collapsed, creating a crater.
And then, her figure blurred, gradually disappearing from the starry sky.
In the blood-red, shattered world…
Although the initial shockwave had subsided, the Fallen Species’s oppressive aura was still crushing, the Pet Essence in this world unstable, the air itself thinning.
Even breathing was difficult.
Within the Dominating Cauldron Palace, thanks to the protection of the Azure Sky Emperor’s cauldron, it was one of the few safe havens…
At this moment, inside the cauldron, not only Jade Lady, but also the voluptuous woman with the black umbrella, the Emperor, were guarding Lian Xing and Snow Flower. She wasn’t worried about Lian Xing stealing from the Azure Sky Emperor’s legacy. Things had gone too far for her to care about such trivial matters…
She was here for Snow Flower.
Sensing Snow Flower’s powerful aura, the black umbrella Emperor stood behind Jade Lady, its expression wary. Snow Flower, after waking up, hadn’t done anything, simply sitting there, waiting for Lian Xing to regain consciousness.
After all, its beloved Golden Leaf was still within that golden-haired girl…
Just then, the Emperor suddenly remembered something and looked at the green-haired girl curiously. “By the way, Jade Lady, can you still contact Lover’s other consorts?”
“Not really, Little Sister-in-Law. Lover’s aura is being blocked by that thing. I’m completely offline…~~~” Jade Lady said, shaking her head.
But even if the other consorts knew, they couldn’t do anything about Flood. After all, Flood was one of the infamous Four Fallen Heavens. Even the six Sanctuary Guardians of the new world were helpless against it.
No one could interfere with a Fallen Species’s trajectory.
“But as long as Flood’s path doesn’t change, our Pet Beast World still has a chance. After it passes through in a month or two, we can breathe again~~~”
“I’m just worried that a Sanctuary Guardian might intervene and try to stop it. Then our world is doomed. Even a slight aftershock could kill us all…”
“A Sanctuary Guardian? What’s that?” the black umbrella Emperor asked curiously.
Jade Lady immediately covered her mouth.
But she quickly realized that she was offline now. Revealing information about the new world wouldn’t be a problem.
However…
In the next second…
As if sensing something…
Jade Lady, the black umbrella Emperor, and Snow Flower, they all turned to look at the golden-haired girl lying on the ground.
Lian Xing, as if she were a corpse rising from the grave, sat up abruptly, her movements stiff.
“…”
“…”
“Lian Xing, you’re…” Jade Lady’s excited words were cut short.
She stared at the girl’s eyes in disbelief.
For some reason, the star in Lian Xing’s left eye was…gone…
Replaced by…
A chaotic starry sky pattern…
Countless stars seemed to be swirling within her colorless iris, a faint, golden starlight flickering within.
“Where is the Fallen Species…?”
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