Chapter 483: Sheng Xi Awakens, Legendary Giant Dragon

Chapter 483: Sheng Xi Awakens, The Legendary Dragon

Ever since the Chrono Dragon Egg began its transformation, Levi and Gwendolyn had kept their gaze fixed upon Sheng Xi's condition.

Realizing she would not wake anytime soon, they interlocked their cultivation with vigil, watching over her.

Only after days of patient waiting did the moment of Sheng Xi's awakening finally arrive.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

As Levi cultivated, a sharp, fracturing sound echoed from outside his meditative focus.

He instantly broke his trance, opening his eyes to see the temporal energy shrouding Sheng Xi dissolving into mist.

A moment later, Gwendolyn stepped up beside him.

The pair stared intently as the fading chronomantic forces revealed Sheng Xi, who had held a single, motionless posture for eight long years, finally stirring.

The dragon's claw twitched ever so slightly, as if pressing an invisible master switch, and then her entire body began to rouse.

Levi studied Sheng Xi, suddenly murmuring, "Is it just my imagination, or is Sheng Xi's body expanding?"

Gwendolyn shook her head, her voice tense. "It is no illusion. She truly is growing."

For the past eight years, Sheng Xi had remained utterly unchanged.

Yet in the exact instant of her hatching, her physique began to undergo a violent, unmistakable metamorphosis, maturing at a staggering speed.

Sheng Xi's body length had originally measured less than three meters.

In the blink of an eye, right before Levi's eyes, she swelled into a behemoth spanning over thirty meters.

The entirety of the Chrono Mystic Realm was instantly crowded by her massive form.

Sheng Xi slowly opened her eyes, shifting her body uncomfortably, finding the surrounding space far too cramped to even stretch her limbs.

With a helpless sigh, she abandoned all attempts to move.

To Levi and Gwendolyn, only eight years had trickled by inside the Chrono Mystic Realm.

But for Sheng Xi, cradled within the temporal egg and subject to the direct currents of chronomancy, her growth span had already reached a millennium.

She had surged directly from infancy into adulthood.

Skipping the entire juvenile stage of her life.

Sheng Xi had inherited the sheer, indomitable might that belonged exclusively to an adult Divine Dragon.

A Divine Dragon attaining adulthood was nothing less than a Legendary-tier Dragon.

Even as Sheng Xi's form altered, Levi's own body began to experience a breathtaking transformation.

He felt an incomparably vast torrent of power pouring into his veins.

The terrifying vitality of a Legendary Divine Dragon surged like a vast ocean into his modest vessel, making him feel as though he might burst apart at any moment.

Alongside that vitality came the terrifying arrays of abilities inherent to a Legendary Divine Dragon.

Yet, restricted by Levi's own current power level.

He did not inherit every single capability of the Legendary Divine Dragon.

Even so, the few transcendent traits related to the Divine Dragon he had previously acquired underwent a cataclysmic evolution.

[Divine Dragon Life Sharing (Legendary)] Longevity increased by 30,000 years. (Infancy, a Divine Dragon's lifespan increases with its growth, reaching its zenith at maturity and declining in old age.)

[Body of the Sacred Dragon (Legendary)] Grants immunity to all negative status effects below the Legendary tier, including curses, toxins, petrification, paralysis, burning, and stun.

[Draconic Might (Legendary)] Grants the strength and physique of a Legendary Divine Dragon. (Infancy, scales with the strength of the contracted dragon kin, yet restricted by personal level and unable to unleash full power.)

[Sacred Power (Legendary)] All attacks are imbued with Legendary-tier Sacred Power, ignoring all forms of defense.

All four epic-grade transcendent traits had successfully ascended to the Legendary tier.

Because of the restrictions imposed by his own level, the Draconic Might could not yet manifest the true power of a Legendary Divine Dragon.

Once Levi's own level advanced, his physique and strength would gradually converge toward that of a Legendary Dragon.

Standing beside Levi, Gwendolyn felt the overpowering aura radiating from his person, and her heart trembled with a sudden, instinctual dread.

It was not out of fear that Levi would harm her, but rather the primal reverence a lower lifeform harbored toward a higher tier of existence.

To put it precisely, Levi's body had begun to involuntarily project a Dragon Fear capable of cowing all other living things.

"Phooey!"

Sheng Xi lowered her massive head, nudging it right in front of Levi.

"Levi, this place is so small. I feel so uncomfortable." "Ah, why have you become so tiny?"

Sheng Xi blinked her golden draconic eyes, which were larger than Levi's entire head, her voice filled with bewilderment.

Her voice had transformed from the babbling tones of an infant into the clear, melodious ring of a young maiden.

Levi patted her snout, her head was simply too massive for him to reach the crown.

He chuckled softly and said, "It is indeed too cramped here. Let us go outside."

Now that Sheng Xi had finished consuming the temporal energy, Levi could clearly perceive that the Chrono Mystic Realm was beginning to fracture.

It was high time they left this temporal domain.

Hearing his words, Sheng Xi did not dwell further on why Levi had shrunken.

She lifted her head, closing her eyes in deep concentration for a brief moment as the iridescent reverse scale of the Chrono Dragon on her brow flared with light.

The Chrono Dragon's reverse scale had completely fused with her essence.

Sheng Xi had claimed a sliver of the Chrono Dragon's absolute authority over time.

She could command the Chrono Mystic Realm with effortless ease.

Sheng Xi could feel that now that she had swallowed the last remnants of the temporal energy left behind by the Chrono Dragon.

This entire pocket realm was beginning to dissolve into nothingness.

The flow of time within was rapidly aligning with the reality of the outside world.

An iridescent glow erupted, enveloping Sheng Xi's colossal form alongside the silhouettes of Levi and Gwendolyn.

The light vanished, and the three figures disappeared from the Chrono Mystic Realm.

This temporal domain, which had left so many legends across the snowfields, was about to vanish for all eternity.

Suddenly, a shadow flickered across the currents of time, and the dissolving realm seemed to turn back its own clock, reverting to the exact state it was in when Levi and Sheng Xi first entered.

Fortunately, this anomaly did not hinder Levi's departure from the mystic realm.

Deep within the pitch-black, sunless abyss of the extreme frost, a sudden burst of iridescent light tore through the gloom.

Immediately following, a massive silhouette materialized within the biting cold of the abyssal depths.

"Achoo!"

The freezing air made Sheng Xi's nose itch uncomfortably, and she let out a colossal sneeze that visibly altered the airflow around them.

Gwendolyn tightened her thick, fur-lined magus robe around herself.

Despite the blessings of the frost sprites, she still felt a sliver of the piercing cold seeping into her bones.

After obtaining the legendary body of a Holy Dragon, cold had lost its effect on Li Wei, unable to influence him in any way.

He would only feel slightly uncomfortable.

Just like how Saint Xi would sneeze when suddenly encountering cold air.

A thunderous "growling" sound emanated from Saint Xi's belly.

She looked down and complained, "Li Wei, I'm so hungry, I'm starving to death."

Li Wei patted her foot and said, "Endure it a bit longer, once we get out, I'll let you eat your fill."

Saint Xi's physique had undergone tremendous changes. Although part of the energy was provided by the power of time, the massive energy demand brought about by the physical transformation still caused Saint Xi intense hunger.

Upon hearing this, Saint Xi had no choice but to extend her claws, dig out a piece of ice harder than steel, and throw it into her mouth.

There was nothing else to eat now, so she could only gnaw on ice blocks.

Fortunately, the ice blocks in the Abyss of Extreme Cold also contained considerable ice-elemental magical energy.

For Saint Xi, it was like eating frozen syrup blocks.

Better than nothing.

(End of Chapter)