Mythical Era: My Evolution into a Celestial Beast

Once the three Chaotic Crystals had passed through the spatial passage, the silver radiance on either side of the Destructive Dragon Emperor's feathery horns gradually dimmed as the passage finally shut.

At the same time, the principle domain that twisted space around them also dissipated. As a result, the two bickering colossal dragons failed to witness the moment the Life Crystals vanished.

Although the Dragon Emperor no longer needed to conceal many of its secrets due to its rising strength—like how it once deceived the Little Purple Dragon by claiming that the spatial transfer passage was a sacrificial teleportation channel—there were still matters it preferred to keep hidden. The Life Crystals, for instance, were troublesome to explain and had to be dealt with in secret.

After all, the Dragon Emperor had once told the Silver Colossal Dragon and the others that it could convert Life Crystal's energy into "comprehension," and this was the supposed reason why its abilities were so vast and powerful.

Just then, the Silver Dragon eagerly thrust its head forward.Ao Tian, can we set off now?

The Dragon Emperor gave a slight nod with its massive, fearsome head, exhaling a deep, low growl.Let's go. The sooner we unify the Chaotic Region, the sooner we begin our expedition.

Depart! The great Saixitia shall be crowned Chaotic Overlord!The Silver Dragon bellowed with excitement. Its silver-scaled wings flared wide, kicking up gales and shockwaves that blasted outward.

Compared to the Silver Dragon's liveliness, the Golden-Blue Colossal Dragon was far more graceful. It unfolded its wings with poise and followed the Dragon Emperor skyward. As the countless Longjia and colossal beasts respectfully watched from below, the three massive colossal beasts quickly vanished into the dim horizon.

The vast Chaotic Region was divided in two by a massive forbidden zone spanning over a hundred million kilometers. On the opposite side was a dark void that stretched for tens of millions of kilometers.

The area currently occupied by the Dragon Emperor alone already exceeded four million kilometers in width, and its full extent remained unknown.

Moreover, the region was riddled with temporal fractures, areas of spatial collapse, and perilous danger zones. Even with five ancient titans leading the charge, sweeping through it would still require time.

To expedite their conquest, the Dragon Emperor had divided the territory into sections, assigning one to each of the five ancient titans. They would sweep forward in a horizontal front, spaced approximately eight hundred thousand kilometers apart.

Any mythical or titan-level beasts encountered would be immediately suppressed. If they encountered an ancient titan, they were to alert the Dragon Emperor through a special Dragon King Token.

After its power had advanced, the Dragon Emperor had used the power of principles to reforge the tokens held by the dragon kings. These new tokens were equipped with communication and precise positioning functions, ensuring the Dragon Emperor could instantly arrive on the battlefield to suppress or devour the ancient titan in question.

Unless one possessed overwhelming power like the Dragon Emperor, a battle between titans of similar level could last several day-cycles without a clear victor. Even a late-stage ancient titan attacking an early-stage one wouldn't guarantee success; unless the target was surrounded, it would be difficult to stop it from escaping.

***

While the Dragon Emperor began its horizontal sweep across the Chaotic Region, elsewhere, Chen Chu stood gazing at over ten thousand floating Life Crystals, a smile spreading across his face.

Though attribute points could no longer directly raise his level or cultivation stage after he broke through to the mythical level, they remained extremely valuable to him. Whether it was for enhancing weapons and saving him countless hours of refining, or igniting them to enter a state of epiphany and accelerate his cultivation, the functions of these points remained potent.

Chen Chu even sensed that the attribute points held far more untapped potential. He could help the three human supreme powerhouses strengthen their weapons, or even upgrade the Federation's ultimate weapons, like the Celestial Annihilation Satellite and Deathline Satellite.

Enhancements done through attribute points followed no logic. As long as the materials were sufficient, they could be fused to elevate the item's level. If the supreme powerhouses' weapons and Heavenly King Zhenwu's True Martial Divine Stele were strengthened, their combat strength would naturally rise as well.

By now, Chen Chu had no need to hide many of his secrets, such as his talent for quickly tempering and reforging weapons by melting and fusing others. Of course, not needing to hide didn't mean he would reveal everything. He planned to attribute this to an "awakened ability" when the time came.

It would serve as a way of repaying the help he had received in the past. When Chen Chu broke through the Eighth Heavenly Realm and entered the mythical world, the three supreme powerhouses had each acted to help him, slashing out strands of principle power to forge forbidden weapons for him. Among the four weapons, only the Rebirth Crystal went unused because of how quickly Chen Chu's strength improved. The others had all served him well.

In the future, he could strengthen even the weapons of the mythical-level kings and heavenly kings. When that happened, the human elite's overall combat strength would surge dramatically.

Of course, for now, this was only a plan. The number of Life Crystals required to enhance everything just once over would be astronomical, so much that even Chen Chu felt a chill run down his spine. The human race simply could not provide that kind of foundation.

Even on the Dragon Emperor's side, it would be impossible to gather that many Life Crystals within just a year or two. The black orca and others had only managed to scrape together just over ten thousand level 4 or higher Life Crystals after slaughtering vast numbers of mutated beasts in the Chaotic Sea.

There were no ordinary mutated beasts remaining throughout the entire Chaotic Region. Only in the Chaotic Sea were there still some transcendent mutated beasts dwelling, but even then, aquatic species were rare.

Furthermore, the mutated beasts in the mythical world differed fundamentally from those on the Blue Planet. The beasts here were born as transcendent beings, their genes extremely stable. Only by reaching the peak of their species could they begin to condense Life Crystals.

If a mutated fish had a species cap of level 5, then even at the peak of level 4, it wouldn't produce a Life Crystal. It had yet to reach its limit and had no need to ignite evolution through a Life Crystal.

This was the greatest difference between the lives of the mythical world and those of the Blue Planet. When the powers of the two worlds clashed, the lifeforms on the Blue Planet became inherently unstable, prone to mutation, awakening, and stepping onto the path of transcendence.

This effect wasn't limited to the Blue Planet alone. Every world devoured by the mythical world experienced a similar process. All living beings underwent an initial phase of unstable mutation.

[You have converted one high-purity Energy Crystal and gained 73 attribute points.]

[You have converted one high-purity Energy Crystal and gained 138 attribute points...]

Surrounded by countless Life Crystals, it took Chen Chu over half an hour to finish converting them all into attribute points. The transparent interface displayed a new total of 1,075,238 attribute points.

Over one million attribute points. Even Chen Chu couldn't help but take a deep breath. Unfortunately, ever since both the Dragon Emperor and its own abilities reached the level of divine transformation, further enhancement was no longer possible. Otherwise, these attribute points alone would have been enough to build a powerful ability from scratch.

With that thought lingering, Chen Chu turned his gaze toward the massive Chaotic Crystal Core floating in front of him. It was a gray, multifaceted elliptical crystal fourteen meters in diameter. In the Dragon Emperor's eyes, it looked no larger than a grain of sand, but to a human, it was the size of a small building.

As he felt the chaotic matter flowing inside the core and the devouring instinct surging through every cell of his body, Chen Chu couldn't help but reach out his right hand and gently touch it.

Boom!

The entire gray crystal trembled violently. The overbearing chaotic matter within surged through his palm and poured into him, ravaging everything in its path. This same chaotic matter had once made the Silver Dragon and other mythical beasts scream in agony as their flesh shattered, yet it had no effect on Chen Chu's true form.

His body now had a level of strength comparable to an ordinary ancient titan—indestructibly powerful. As the chaotic matter entered him, his cells and flesh began undergoing some kind of transformation. It gave him a sensation of becoming more whole.

"Wholeness, huh," Chen Chu murmured in thought. So this was the reason the Chaotic Crystal Core could purify a beast's bloodline. The chaotic matter it contained made the essence of a mythical lifeform more complete.

In just over ten minutes, the massive crystal, fourteen meters in diameter, turned to dust and scattered. Chen Chu had completely absorbed all of its energy and chaotic matter.

This transformation hadn't significantly improved his life stage, but for Chen Chu, it was an important breakthrough. His true form, already that of a top-level Innate Demon God, now possessed a trace of the special trait of a chaotic lifeform. It had become more complete, and he could faintly sense a deeper resonance with the heavens and earth.

Boom!

Suddenly, an immense surge of energy burst from Chen Chu. His black hair whipped about violently, and a golden light wheel manifested behind him, slowly spinning and radiating a boundless brilliance that even outshone the sun above.

With the help of the Chaotic Crystal Core, he had crossed the final threshold he had lacked, and his cultivation broke into the middle stage of the heavenly king level. His aura became even more overwhelming.

Chen Chu sighed softly. "Middle-stage heavenly king... It's a pity that the principle has to be fully complete to ascend to the supreme level. It'll still take time."

As he reflected, Chen Chu slightly turned to glance behind him, his gaze falling on the slowly rotating world light wheel and the planar world behind it.

The central continent within the world had expanded to over seven thousand kilometers in diameter. Above it, where black astral winds howled and purple lightning roared, a golden-white sun spanned the sky, radiating infinite blazing light.

Most importantly, surrounding that golden-white sun were rippling transparent waves, each one emanating an energy that seemed capable of suppressing all realms and crushing space-time itself. It was the embryonic form of the Supreme Power Principle.

Chen Chu narrowed his eyes slightly. "Their growth and evolution are too slow. Looks like I'll have to find a way to slay another one or two ancient titans."

After the planar world finished digesting the titanic beasts and the refined essence of an ancient titan's skeleton, its rate of expansion dropped drastically and had become sluggish. Its growth directly influenced his supreme principle's evolution, which in turn affected his path toward becoming a supreme being and even beyond to higher stages.

The plane that Chen Chu had opened had always maintained a weak presence, merely serving to carry and nurture the Law of Power, and providing a slight defensive enhancement through World Force. However, once he broke through to the supreme level, this plane would reveal its true might.

A real, complete inner planar world with a diameter exceeding ten thousand kilometers had always been the aspiration of demon gods and divine kings, as it symbolized imperial potential. Perfecting and materializing the principles within a world, and eventually fusing them with themselves to become the principle itself, was the cultivation path beyond the supreme level.

Since Chen Chu had opened this planar world, his will was its Heavenly Dao. Compared to other demon gods, the difficulty of integrating its principles and inner world with his true form was much lower.

"So I'll need to slay at least two more ancient titans." With a quiet sigh, Chen Chu's figure silently vanished, heading off to pursue the fleet that had already flown over a hundred thousand kilometers ahead.

Unlike demon gods who had cultivated for countless years, Chen Chu was pressed for time. With an inner world like his, which required slow accumulation and evolution over time, he could only make up for it with enough resources.

However, slaying ancient titans and using their remains as nourishment was an immense endeavor.

***

In the spacious circular conference chamber, Chen Chu sat in the central seat. Opposite him was Heavenly King Xuanwu. To either side sat Heavenly King Jiuyou and Chen Wang, the latter sporting a head of silver hair.

Sensing the slightly surging aura around Chen Chu that faintly obscured the air above, Xuanwu appeared a bit startled. "Chen Chu, have you broken through to the middle stage of the heavenly king level?"

Chen Chu nodded with a gentle smile. "Yes. I had a sudden insight earlier, so I temporarily left to find a place for the breakthrough."

What an absolute monster.Both Jiuyou and Chen Wang revealed visible shock.When did Chen Chu break through to the heavenly king level? Ten days ago? Maybe fifteen?

Jiuyou sighed. "Every generation brings forth its own talent. Old Yan, Old Chen, don't you two feel like you've been given a slap?"

Chen Wang gave a bitter smile. "Slapped is too mild. It's more like being crushed so badly I want to bury myself in a hole. You two are still better off. You're already late-stage heavenly kings. I came in a generation later, and I only just broke into the late stage of the king level after so many years. Compared to Chen Chu's pace, it's downright humiliating."

Xuanwu burst out laughing. "Hahaha... I'm fine with it. Aside from some surprise, I don't feel much. I've never compared myself to others."

Unlike Jiuyou and Chen Wang, who had shown astonishing talent from the start, Xuanwu had matured late. He only broke through to the Seventh Heavenly Realm in his twenties, and had always focused on surpassing his past self rather than comparing with others.

Being praised face-to-face like this, even Chen Chu felt a little awkward. He gave a dry cough and said, "You flatter me, sirs. I'm just moving a little faster."

That humble tone, however, left Jiuyou and Chen Wang speechless.Just a little faster?

Chen Chu shifted topics and calmly said, "I asked the three of you here today because I have something I'd like to give you."

As he spoke, the space in front of him twisted, and three gray crystals appeared—two with a diameter of three meters, and one of one meter. The chaotic ripples they emitted stirred a visceral reaction in all three men.

"While I was breaking through earlier, the surge of energy caused a spatial collapse that shook loose a hidden ruin. These crystals were what I found inside. They contain faint traces of chaotic matter and can enhance a cultivator's physical body and innate talent." After confirming the effects of the Chaotic Crystal Core, Chen Chu had shattered the two remaining pieces into fragments of varying sizes, intending to give them to those he was familiar with.

However, as the gray crystals floated before them, Xuanwu, Jiuyou, and Chen Wang didn't immediately reach out. Instead, they looked at Chen Chu. "I didn't expect them to be chaotic matter. No wonder our bodies reacted so strongly."

Then Xuanwu solemnly shook his head. "Chen Chu, we can't accept this. Compared to us old folks, the effect after you refine them would be far greater."

"Indeed." Jiuyou and Chen Wang both nodded slightly in agreement.

Chen Chu gave a light smile. "There's no need for formality. I've already refined a much larger Chaotic Crystal Core earlier and developed resistance."

He truly wasn't trying to be courteous. The most valuable aspect of these cores was the way they granted lifeforms a trace of chaotic traits. This made them more whole and aligned with the world, thereby enhancing potential. The contained energy, bodily enhancement, and slight purification of bloodline were secondary effects.

Even the Dragon Emperor, which possessed evolutionary abilities, experienced a steep decline in effect after refining a second core. The rest it consumed later served only as a source of energy.

Rather than wasting them, it was better to offer them to these trusted allies and raise their strength. The remaining Core fragments in Chen Chu's possession had already been earmarked for gifting, such as to the three supreme powerhouses. After refinement, they could offer at least a minor improvement. Others included Chen Hu, Luo Fei, and King Xie Chen.