Chapter 222: Legendary Mist Colt!!!!
All those qualified to participate in the Lunar Divine Festival were Beast Tamers who had reached the pinnacle in ancient times.
While they only displayed a few Pet Beasts outwardly, their others hadn’t vanished, but simply faded from public knowledge over millennia.
For example, millions of years later, Lian Xing’s legacy might be remembered for her Shining, Ancient, and Fallen Species, and her numerous Legendary Pet Beasts, but not her entire lineup. Listing it all would be too absurd…
Therefore, despite being thoroughly disgusted by Star Sand on the first step, everyone displayed their unique abilities when faced with the more terrifying True Spirit aura, ascending without much hesitation.
Of course, this was just the beginning.
The further up the staircase, the denser the True Spirit’s aura became.
By the time they faced the True Spirit directly, it was uncertain how many would remain standing.
Meanwhile, many spectators watched with apprehension as Lian Xing’s progress resembled a snail’s crawl compared to Nether Concubine and Ice Queen. She had to stop every few steps for Mist Colt to expel the accumulated pressure.
After all, Mist Colt was still a Royal-Tier newborn, tens of thousands of times weaker than a high-ranking Legendary Emperor like White Abode.
After some time, Tai Yin and Star Goddess caught up, easily overtaking Lian Xing.
Setting aside Tai Yin, who frequently interacted with True Spirits, Star Goddess had battled the True Spirit-level Eleventh Zodiac. She wouldn’t be fazed by this minuscule, illusory pressure.
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“…”
“Hoooo~~~”
After Mist Colt once again expelled the pressure and congestion as steam, Lian Xing unhurriedly crawled forward a few steps.
This wasn’t a race about reincarnation speed, but about who could climb higher and further.
She only needed to advance at her own pace.
After several hours, under the constant influx of the True Spirit’s aura, Mist Colt’s level and realm became indistinct.
Its capacity for the aura increased severalfold.
It was as if the repeated expansion and contraction had forcibly stretched the capacity of its viral shield.
“Not good, is its realm about to break through?” Lian Xing frowned slightly.
Having met the conditions for multiple evolutionary paths, Mist Colt showed signs of forcibly breaking through to Monarch-Tier.
While a direct breakthrough would result in a decent Monarch-Tier combatant, it wouldn’t suffice for the later stages of the Lunar Divine Festival.
After pondering, Lian Xing snapped her fingers.
“Snap!”
With Unbreakable Heaven’s Ring, Mist Colt’s state was instantly reset to its initial condition.
Its blurring realm cleared once more.
Yes, she would use this method to repeatedly refine Mist Colt’s proficiency… Lian Xing thought with satisfaction.
Preventing her Pet Beast’s evolution; she was probably the first to do so.
Back in the Cloud Mist Sea Palace during the Married Pet Beast battle, she herself had been repeatedly reset by Unbreakable Heaven’s Ring, inexplicably remaining untouched, as if nothing had happened.
However…
While Lian Xing amused herself, her progress slowed further.
Her supporters grew anxious.
Within the Bubble Pet Beast World, at the Beast Tamer Alliance, both the original inhabitants of White Moon Continent and the Earth players worried about Lian Xing’s progress.
Somehow, Lian Xing seemed to be struggling!?
The other participants, however, appeared relatively at ease.
Was her short career truly insufficient to compete with these ancient Beast Tamers…?
There were no comments or discussions during the Lunar Divine Festival broadcast, so everyone could only watch anxiously in silence.
This was especially true for the second wave of Earth transmigrators.
Having never witnessed Lian Xing in action, they mistakenly believed she was the weakest.
The students of Youlan Academy in White Moon Continent felt similarly.
The last time they saw Lian Xing fight was during the All-Pet Beast Tournament. While Drunken Glaze Eight-Star Bewitching Moon and Nether Leaf Dark King’s Court had put on a dazzling display, their current opponents weren’t Tear Heavenly Maiden, but the strongest Beast Tamers of millennia. Could Lian Xing truly stand out among them?
It had only been a year since Lian Xing left Youlan Academy!!!
Even the second White Moon Continent League had ended just a month ago…
Meanwhile, Lian Xing’s harem of potential suitors, including Silver Dragon, remained calm, perhaps accustomed to her peculiar behavior.
Even Star Goddess was using her Shining Species’ aura to resist, yet Lian Xing hadn’t even bothered to activate Shining Moonlight Rabbit’s aura. Clearly, she was plotting something.
Perhaps she was feigning weakness, secretly scheming…
***
Three days passed quickly.
Star Goddess and the others showed signs of fatigue on the second staircase.
Fortunately, they were nearing the end of the second section.
Only Lian Xing remained in the latter half, still engrossed in her game, repeatedly resetting Mist Colt with Unbreakable Heaven’s Ring, returning its shield capacity to zero.
Effectively, Mist Colt hadn’t received any enhancements.
However, there was one crucial difference…
A body tempered by a True Spirit’s aura wouldn’t forget that experience easily.
Even with its state completely reset, the memory remained, etched eternally.
The first change began with its Life Crystal.
Deep within Mist Colt, the surface of its jade-green, translucent Life Crystal began to shift, transforming from an irregular shape into a perfect cube.
Then, under everyone’s gaze, Mist Colt ceased expelling mist to resist the pressure.
Atop its viral shield, its two thick, dreamlike antlers dissolved, replaced by intricate, swirling patterns of cubic particles that enveloped Lian Xing.
Geometric viral blocks surrounded her, forming an impenetrable barrier, their fragmented, abstract forms swirling around her, their surfaces covered in striking scales.
Noticing this strange phenomenon, Tai Yin on the staircase, Dao Yao within her, White Abode and Cold Moon within Ice Queen, Inverse Time within Star Goddess, the various Guardians outside, and all seventy-two Legends, stared in disbelief.
Was this…
The birth of a Legend!?
“…”
“…”
“How is it?” Lian Xing asked the Divine Machine, currently residing within Mist Colt.
After a long silence, the Divine Machine displayed a list.
[(Day and Night), one of the original seventy-two Legends, has been removed. Legendary traits retained, but reincarnation eligibility and uniqueness revoked. Future Beast Tamers may awaken with a companion Pet Beast of the same lineage as (Day and Night).]
[Mist Colt replaces (Day and Night) as one of the seventy-two Legends, gaining Legendary traits and reincarnation eligibility. From now on, no Beast Tamer can awaken with Mist Colt as a companion Pet Beast.]
[Awakened form altered.]
[Arcane Art potency enhanced by Legendary status.]
[Innate talents gain Legendary traits.]
“…”
“…”
“Whoosh—!!!!”
Seconds later, a dreamy green aura exploded outwards.
A colossal, iridescent, emerald-green horn, covered in scale-like patterns, sprouted from the top of the cubic viral shield, extending hundreds of kilometers, its proportions wildly disproportionate.
But, it looked…
Incredibly fast?
Within Lian Xing, the Divine Machine, Death Sentence, Snow Flower, Star Sand, and Replay all sensed a kindred spirit.
Mist Colt, Legendary Evolution!!!
[Monarch-Tier · Viral · Jade Soaring Firmament (Mist Colt)]
Tempered and compressed by the True Spirit’s aura, Mist Colt had finally taken this step, becoming one of the seventy-two Legends!!!
Although currently an incomplete Monarch-Tier form, it was likely the only Legend born through transformation by a True Spirit’s aura!!!
Therefore…
Both the Divine Machine and Lian Xing understood.
Having just ascended to Legend, Mist Colt was already a high-ranking Legend, even surpassing Returning Dust and Star Sand in rank.
Under everyone’s stunned gazes, the golden-haired girl within the green viral shield issued a command.
“Whoosh—!!!!”
A raging, green, flame-like cloud erupted from the tip of Jade Soaring Firmament’s massive horn, swirling around the scale patterns and billowing outwards, the smoke trailing behind it exploding.
The starry staircase blurred amidst the fiery cloud.
“Boom!!!!!”
A deafening roar echoed as the girl and the horn vanished.
The explosive shockwave extended from the latter half of the second step to the fourth, engulfing all the participants, including Tai Yin, in its fiery wake. Even the vast starry sky trembled from the impact.
Moments later, as everyone’s vision cleared, the smoke dissipated.
The golden-haired, starry-eyed girl with twin buns stood on the fourth step, looking back at her dumbfounded competitors.
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……
Silence descended.
Utter shock gripped everyone.
What speed was that…?
If measured using the longest Pet Beast, the Fallen Species and former Great Calamity known as Drought, Mist Colt had traversed the distance of three Droughts in a single second!!!
[Legendary Talent · Mist Travel]
Grants an additional instance of extreme acceleration.
After extreme acceleration, a temporary power outage occurs.
The more accelerations used, the shorter the outage duration.
After three consecutive outages, the fourth acceleration incurs no outage and resets the cooldown.
Even as a Legend, Mist Colt possessed no offensive abilities, but instead, an unparalleled speed.
Now, not even Ancient Moonlight Rabbit’s signature ability, [Moon Chase], could compare.
Moon Chase allowed instantaneous jumps to any location.
However, “instantaneous” was still a unit of time.
At least, during Mist Colt’s sprint, Moon Chase couldn’t keep up.
***
Meanwhile, in the Ice Soul World.
The Ice Soul World was a mid-sized Soul World subordinate to the True Spirit World, Sea Soul, and a sister world to Sea Soul’s ally, the Snow Soul World.
Located within a vast, snowy landscape, a woman in a bathrobe with twin blue ponytails stopped abruptly.
Her eyes were composed of teardrops, resembling Tear Heavenly Maiden.
However, she had three distinct blue teardrops beneath each eye, as if perpetually crying.
Her twin tails weren’t hair, but two fleshy, moving mermaid tails.
She wore a transparent, steamy bathrobe because her tails constantly sprayed water, soaking any clothing she wore.
After a moment of silence, she looked inwards thoughtfully.
“What’s wrong, Crescent Frost Flower…?”
“…”
“…”
[My homeland, the Moon Soul World’s time flow has synchronized.]
[Why didn’t I notice in the Cloud Soul World?]
[Now, upon arriving in the Ice Soul World, I immediately sensed something amiss!!!]
[Moreover, the events unfolding in the Moon Soul World were forcibly projected into my mind!!!!]
As the Pet Beast, Crescent Frost Flower, spoke in alarm, the blue-haired woman blinked in surprise.
Moon Soul World…?
The time flow of the legendary True Spirit World had synchronized?
While Crescent Frost Flower couldn’t understand, the blue-haired woman had a hunch.
Perhaps because the Cloud Soul World and Water Soul World were Divine Ruins, they remained unaffected by other True Spirit systems.
However, the Ice Soul World was different.
Crescent Frost Flower, despite being tens of thousands of miles away, had been forcibly influenced by the presence in the Moon Soul World.
“Crescent Frost Flower, can you share the images in your mind?” the blue-haired woman asked curiously, touching her mermaid tails.
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