Chapter 430: Sheng Xi's Growth Stage

Chapter 430: Sanxi’s Stage of Growth

Levi stared at the four brand-new, epic-tier extraordinary traits he had just acquired.

He remained lost in awe for a very long time.

Only after a great while did he finally tether his mind back to reality.

The extraordinary trait of Life Sharing from the Divine Dragon brought him no immediate surge in combative power.

Yet, it granted him a vast, sweeping extension of his mortal lifespan.

For who among the living did not yearn to endure a little longer?

Levi required no effort at all; so long as Sanxi remained unharmed, he could effortlessly look forward to six thousand years of life.

Moreover, this horizon would only expand as Sanxi continued to mature.

A fully grown Divine Dragon could easily live for a hundred thousand years.

In a single stroke, Levi had grasped the very prize that countless souls could only dream of.

To chase a longer span of days, even Torresta had been forced to cast aside his humanity, turning into a lich merely to scrape together a thousand years of meager survival.

Yet now, Levi could outlive Torresta without lifting a finger.

Even for a lich, the thread of life was not truly infinite.

They remained shackled by the material durability of the phylactery they fashioned.

Levi, on the other hand, suffered no such limitations.

Most crucial of all, he did not have to surrender a single shred of his human nature.

Aside from the material decay of a phylactery, a lich faced the immense peril of eroding emotions.

To exist for too long was to eventually become a true creature of the undead.

To become a mindless, skeletal lich.

Torresta had to rely on tortuous, intricate methods just to barely preserve a remnant of his human feelings.

Levi harbored no such anxieties.

A lifespan of six thousand years—who could say if the human empire would even endure after six millennia?

After all, from its inception to the present day, the empire had not even crossed the threshold of two thousand years.

It had reached its zenith a millennium ago.

Now, it was already on a downward slope.

The second extraordinary trait, Body of the Sacred Dragon, was equally formidable.

It directly bestowed upon Levi the immunity to the vast majority of negative statuses.

Simple, brutal, and direct.

At the very least, no affliction below the legendary tier could leave a mark upon him.

Negative statuses at the legendary tier and beyond touched upon the fabric of rules and laws.

It would then depend on whether the Body of the Sacred Dragon possessed greater authority, or if the rules governing the affliction were more absolute.

But that lay in a future far too distant.

Levi had encountered barely a handful of legendary powerhouses.

There was no need to borrow trouble from vague, ethereal enemies of tomorrow.

For now, the Body of the Sacred Dragon was already potent enough.

It was nigh-invulnerable.

The third extraordinary trait, Dragon's Might, required very little explanation.

Its effects were akin to consuming a Dragon Blood Elixir.

Yet, its efficacy far surpassed any potion.

A Dragon Blood Elixir could only offer its drinker a fraction of a dragon's true strength.

The power Levi currently drew from Sanxi might seem inferior to the elixir for the moment.

But as Sanxi grew, this strength would inevitably eclipse the limits of any potion.

It was a height no elixir could ever hope to rival.

Dragon's Might possessed an extraordinarily lofty potential for growth.

The fourth extraordinary trait, Divine Power, belonged entirely to the unique heritage of the Divine Dragon.

The reason the Divine Dragon could reign as one of the apex lineages among dragonkind.

Depended precisely upon this incomparably devastating Divine Power.

The most paramount characteristic of Divine Power was its absolute disregard for energy-based defenses.

No magical shield, ward, or barrier could hope to withstand the passage of Divine Power.

Its efficacy against physical defenses was not quite as absolute as its mastery over energy defenses.

Yet, it was still a force to be reckoned with.

The damage wrought by Divine Power could essentially be regarded as true damage.

The most vital point was that Divine Power could be infused into any of Levi's attacks.

This meant that once Levi's spells were imbued with Divine Power, they could bypass an enemy's magical shields entirely, inflicting true damage upon their flesh.

Mages, when facing Levi, were stripped utterly defenseless.

A sorcerer's physical constitution was inherently frail.

When even the magical barriers they relied upon for survival lost their efficacy.

It could be said that no mage was qualified to stand against Levi in a direct duel anymore.

They simply had no means to endure his onslaught.

After Dragon Fire evolved into Sacred Dragon Breath, its tier ascended from basic to advanced.

An advanced dragon fire already carried the destructive fury of a fully matured dragon's breath.

This meant the might of the Sacred Dragon Breath would

He bestowed half of his life force to Li Wei.

To himself, it was a tremendous burden.

The body of the Sacred Dragon also required a powerful supply of life force to grow strong.

Li Wei gently stroked the little Sacred Dragon's head and said, "Sheng Xi, go rest in the Beast Ring for a while."

Sheng Xi shook her head, unwilling to go inside.

There was still Nitro's body within the Beast Ring.

It made her feel rather uncomfortable.

After Sheng Xi's resurrection, her level was only at the fourth stage.

As she continued to grow, once she left infancy and entered the juvenile phase, she should reach the sixth or even seventh stage.

Dragonling Phase, Infancy Phase, Juvenile Phase, Mature Phase, Perfect Phase, Peak Phase, Decline Phase...

These seven stages aligned with the growth path of most dragon species.

Typically, dragons would naturally transition to the next stage once they reached a certain age.

Their power levels would rise accordingly.

The Dragonling Phase referred to when they were still in the egg or had just hatched, unable to survive independently.

This stage mainly consisted of the time spent unhatched within the dragon egg.

Once dragonkind broke free from their shells, they quickly mastered survival skills—in some cases within hours, in others taking only a few days.

Dragons possessed inherited bloodline memories, granting them the survival instincts of their ancestors directly.

During this phase, dragons typically ranged from first to third stage in power.

Different dragon species showed vast differences in strength upon hatching.

Sacred Dragons belonged to those who could reach the third stage immediately after breaking shell.

Thus, their infancy began at the third stage.

Sheng Xi had already grown to the fourth stage, not far from the next Juvenile Phase.

Once entering the Juvenile Phase, Sheng Xi’s strength would rapidly increase.

Upon reaching a certain point, she would then enter the Mature Phase.

During the Mature Phase, the rate of strength improvement slowed, and this period lasted longest throughout a dragon's lifetime.

A dragon that lived five thousand years might spend three to four thousand years in its Mature Phase.

Most dragons stopped progressing beyond this point,

skipping directly past both the Perfect Phase and Peak Phase into the Decline Phase.

Fully mature dragons were terrifyingly powerful—even weaker dragon species, once achieving full maturity, could overpower mature individuals of stronger breeds.

The strength of a fully mature dragon roughly equaled the eighth stage.

If one advanced early from the Mature Phase to Full Maturity, that peak period could last extremely long—essentially matching the duration of the Mature Phase itself.

Following the Full Maturity came the briefest span in a dragon's entire existence:

the Peak Phase.

(End of Chapter)