50 The Dragon Girl’s Birth
Seeing Yan Zhen enter, Grand Elder Yu Yan immediately said, “Yan Zhen, you’re just in time. This is Xuan’er’s cousin, Yu Die, currently ranked fourth on the Rising Star List. You two should get acquainted.”
Yan Zhen, snapping back to reality, greeted politely, “Greetings, Senior Sister Yu Die.”
Yu Die looked at Yan Zhen with a smile. “Calling me Senior Sister is too formal. Just call me Cousin, like Yu Xuan.”
“Uh…” Yan Zhen blushed and scratched his cheek, then changed his address. “Hello, Cousin~”
Yu Die chuckled. “You actually listened. You’re quite obedient, Cousin-in-law. It seems our Yu Xuan will be very happy.”
Yan Zhen’s blush deepened into embarrassment.
Grand Elder Yu Yan, her eyes narrowed in a smile, said, “Alright, Yu Die, stop teasing Yan Zhen. Let’s get down to business.”
Yu Die obediently stepped aside.
“Cousin-in-law, come closer.”
Yan Zhen approached the desk, looking at the giant egg curiously. “Grand Elder, did you want to show me this?”
“Indeed. Do you know what this is?”
“It looks like a Mystic Beast egg, but I can’t tell what kind.”
Not just Yan Zhen, even his knowledgeable Beautiful Master couldn’t identify it, because a standard dragon egg didn’t look like this.
Long Ying was originally a beautiful young girl from the Dragon God Clan. She had transformed back into an egg after eating the Nirvana Fruit from the Phoenix God Clan.
The Nirvana Fruit was a treasure of the Phoenix God Clan, containing abundant Nirvana power. After consuming it, Long Ying also gained a trace of phoenix power, which, combined with her own true dragon power, transformed into “Dragon-Phoenix Divine Power,” causing both scales and feathers to appear on the eggshell.
In other words, this wasn’t a dragon egg, nor a phoenix egg, but an unprecedented “Dragon-Phoenix Egg.”
“Do you know what kind of egg it is, Grand Elder?”
“It seems to be a Dragon-Phoenix Egg.”
Pfft! Yan Zhen almost spat out his tea. He couldn’t understand. How did the Grand Elder know?
“Dragon-Phoenix Egg? Is there such a thing?”
“I’m not sure either, but that’s what it said.”
“It?”
“The egg.”
What?!
“Can this egg talk?”
“It could when we first found it,” Yu Die interjected, recalling, “It said something like this…”
—I am the one and only Dragon-Phoenix Divine Beast, once ruler of the vast Eighth Continent, reduced to this state by treachery. If you find a boy named Yan Zhen and have him offer the evolutionary power of the Great Crimson Skyfire, I can hatch. Then, you will be my benefactor, and I will help you ascend to godhood, unifying Jiā Lán Continent!
Yan Zhen frowned. This speech pattern sounded like a scam message.
This… this wasn’t right. Would that silly, gluttonous little girl say such things? She would only come up to him, put her hands on her hips, and say:
“Zhenzhen, I’m hungry!”
Then, she would stare at him with her big, watery eyes, as if saying, “If you don’t feed me, I’ll be angry.”
—Did I mistake the egg?
Yan Zhen doubted himself, then suddenly realized:
—This isn’t right. How does this egg know my name?
“Cousin Yu Die, are you sure it said my name?”
“Yes, when I found it in the Great Forest outside the academy, it did say that… I was stunned for a moment before realizing that Yan Zhen is your name.”
Yan Zhen was even more confused. “How did you find it, Cousin Yu Die?”
In the script, he was the one who awakened Long Ying from her Nirvana state, which caused her to fall from the giant tree, startling him. He had thought someone was trying to ambush him.
“I was cultivating when I sensed a strange fluctuation. When I went to investigate, this egg suddenly fell from the tree.”
Also falling from a tree… Yan Zhen pondered.
In the script, after stealing the Nirvana Fruit, Long Ying was chased by the Phoenix God Clan. In her desperation, she crushed a teleportation talisman and arrived in Jiā Lán Continent, already transformed into an egg. She fell from the sky, landing in the Great Forest, then temporarily “died” before slowly reviving through “Nirvana.” Therefore, no one noticed her presence.
It had to be her, but how did she know about “Yan Zhen”? They weren’t supposed to know each other yet.
“There’s no point in overthinking it. We’ll find out if we try.” Grand Elder Yu Yan smiled. “I checked the records when I went back. That crimson Extreme Flame you possess is the Great Crimson Skyfire, correct?”
Yan Zhen nodded, opened his palm, and summoned a crimson flame. The temperature in the room instantly soared, making Grand Elder Yu Yan and Yu Die feel like they were standing inside a volcano, despite it being the middle of winter.
The Great Crimson Skyfire, the hottest Extreme Flame, had evaporated the Cloud Dream Marsh, turning it into the Great Marsh Desert. Its power was comparable to a Supreme Elder.
Grand Elder Yu Yan felt a surge of emotion.
The vast Yu family, after hundreds of years of development, had only produced one Supreme Elder by chance. Yet, Yan Zhen, a mere Mystic Master, already possessed three Extreme Flames. The Gold and Silver Fire was the weakest, but it still had the power of a Mystic Lord. The Great Crimson Skyfire and the Evil Spirit Dragon Breath Fire were Supreme Elder level and Demigod level, respectively. If he continued to grow, he could indeed lead the Yu family to new heights.
I wonder what kind of storm he will create in the Inner Academy… Yu Die thought to herself.
The two women stared at the Great Crimson Skyfire in Yan Zhen’s hand, sensing its immense and violent energy, yet he controlled it with ease.
“The Great Crimson Skyfire possesses the power of evolution. It’s a sacred object to Mystic Beasts. Try infusing the flame into the eggshell and see what happens.”
Yan Zhen hesitated. It wasn’t time for the gluttonous little girl to appear yet. But then, remembering that he had entered the Inner Academy early to save Ling’er, he figured there wasn’t much else to do.
—Please don’t let anything go wrong!
Yan Zhen prayed silently as he infused the Great Crimson Skyfire into the giant egg.
The moment the crimson flames touched the eggshell, their energy was absorbed rapidly. The scales and feathers on the eggshell began to glow, and the entire Dragon-Phoenix Egg slowly levitated, emitting a powerful aura. A rhythmic thumping sound came from within, as if a powerful being was about to awaken.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Yan Zhen increased the intensity of the flames, his Mystic Power rapidly depleting.
Grand Elder Yu Yan and Yu Die’s expressions turned serious, prepared to suppress whatever monster emerged from the egg.
Crack.
After nearly fifteen minutes of continuous infusion, a crack suddenly appeared on the eggshell. More and more cracks appeared, spreading across the surface, until finally—
Bang!
A burst of energy filled the room with golden light, the eggshell shattering and falling away, revealing a curled-up figure.
A small girl, like a porcelain doll, with two small, fleshy horns on her forehead, clearly not human. Her long, soft hair was a rare cherry-blossom pink, like a veil covering her naked body, a seemingly instinctive act of modesty.
Under their gazes, the little girl opened her eyes, a golden light flashing in her emerald pupils, then reflecting Yan Zhen’s face.
A bright smile appeared on her delicate face, and she lunged towards Yan Zhen.
“I finally found you, Zhenzhen!”
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