Mythical Era: My Evolution into a Celestial Beast

Roar! Roar! Roar!

A series of savage bellows rang out across the sky, and the entire world trembled more violently than before. From within the molten terrain, eight colossal dragon heads, each forged from searing magma, rose high into the air in every direction. Bright lights flickered within their mouths.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Eight breath attacks burst forth, each dozens of kilometers wide and burning with intense radiance. Gold, silver, violet, and blue beams ripped through the heavens.

Empowered by the full force of the world, every stream of breath exuded the energy fluctuations of a peak-ancient-titan-level creature. Wherever they passed, space disintegrated, forming pitch-black passages.

At the exact moment the eight dragon heads unleashed their breaths, time itself seemed to grind to a halt around the Dragon Emperor. In its heightened awareness, time had drastically slowed. The destructive breaths folded space around it, engulfing the Dragon Emperor in an instant.

A radiant sphere of multicolored light exploded in the sky, expanding like a cosmic orb. The energy was so violent that even time and space twisted and shattered around it. As it swelled to over three thousand kilometers wide, the collapsing energy inside finally reached its breaking point.

Boom!

A devastating blast of energy tore through space. Spatial shatter cascaded out in dark tidal waves, layer upon layer sweeping through the magma world. The entire realm teetered on the edge of chaos.

The strike sent invisible waves of energy rippling outward, shaking even the Silver Colossal Dragon and Golden-Blue Colossal Dragon outside the world. They instinctively pulled their heads back from the rift.

Thorsafi, that idiot dragon is actually really strong!The Silver Dragon growled.

The Golden-Blue Dragon nodded solemnly.Not just strong. Terrifyingly strong. This one is even stronger than Aunt Adrienna or Kutadirei.

This Ancient Magma Dragon was likely the strongest colossal beast they had ever seen, excluding the one residing in the river of time. Its power was so overwhelming it could contend with the Dragon Emperor's Dark-Red Form in direct combat.

Only contend, however. The two colossal dragons still held immense confidence in the Dragon Emperor. Even now, as it was engulfed by powerful breath attacks, they remained certain it would emerge unharmed.

After all, they had followed the Dragon Emperor all this way. No one understood its power better than they did. It was utterly invincible in every aspect. Whether in offense or defense, no beast of its level could rival it, let alone break through its defenses.

By now, the blinding light of the explosion within the magma world had finally faded. Chaotic energy howled through the air. The blast zone spanned tens of thousands of kilometers. The space there resembled shattered glass, riddled with immense black rifts. At the center, darkness reigned. It was a swirling, chaotic mass like the origin of creation.

Amid the destructive currents, a crimson giant over fifteen thousand meters tall stood upright at the heart of the devastation. Its scales gleamed brilliantly, and arcs of golden-red lightning danced across its body, radiating an indescribable, annihilating pressure.

How is that possible!From within the magma cavern thousands of kilometers beneath the surface, the Magma Dragon roared. All nine pairs of its crimson eyes were filled with shock and disbelief.

Its attack had fused its abilities, erupted its origin, and drawn upon the full power of the magma world to launch eight combined breaths. That strike was enough to obliterate an entire world, yet that red colossal beast had emerged unscathed. Its defense was even more terrifying than the blood-red breath that had injured the magma dragon earlier.

The Magma Dragon appeared somewhat battered. Many of its scales had shattered, golden flames burned across its wounds, and fine strands of golden-red lightning were being expelled.

The Dragon Emperor slowly lowered its head, its golden vertical pupils gleaming with a frigid light. With every breath, scorching red radiance melted the space around its nostrils. Its savage maw stretched slightly as it let out a low, resonant growl that shook the world.Warm-up is over. Now, face destruction.

The Dragon Emperor released an aura so brutal and ancient it felt like it had descended from the primordial wilds. The violent pressure soared skyward and trembled the stars.

Boom!

With an eruption of black flame energy, the Dragon Emperor's body swelled again, expanding to 35,000 meters. Its bulging muscles pushed out against its scales, like a world-ending colossal beast clad in spiked armor.

Its body overflowed with annihilating power. The entire magma world shook violently, as all color drained from the world. The laws of heaven and earth collapsed, and everything was plunged into chaos.

As rings of dark radiance rippled outward, the chains of red flame principle that once crossed the heavens crumbled, and the burning magma was extinguished. From deep within the void, mysterious murmurs began to echo—"End, Destruction, Supreme Ruin"—spreading an intangible pressure and the aura of an apocalypse.

Crack! Crack!

From the far reaches of the void came the sound of the world's barrier fracturing, as if it could no longer carry the weight. In that instant, whether it was the Magma Dragon, or the Silver Dragon and Golden-Blue Dragon watching from outside the realm, all fell silent, their eyes fixed in awe upon the world-ending beast standing amid the chaotic darkness.

However, while the Magma Dragon trembled in terror, the Silver and Golden-Blue Dragons were bursting with excitement at the sight of the Endbringer Dragon Emperor.

Ao Tian is so powerful! Thorsafi, did you see that?The Silver Dragon exhaled waves of hot air, its eyes fixed firmly on the Dragon Emperor's awe-inspiring form of the. Under that terrifying pressure, its legs trembled instinctively, and its tail stood high and stiff in the air.

So this is the true power unlocked after Thunder Fiery's breakthrough... So strong, unbelievably strong!The Golden-Blue Dragon wasn't faring much better. All four claws clutched desperately at the space beneath it as it stared, eyes blazing, at the beast cloaked in black flames.

Too strong. Too strong! Ahhh... How could such a powerful draconic colossal beast even exist in this world?

Outside the world, the two dragons' tails stood straight and wagged wildly from side to side in sheer excitement. Then, the Dragon Emperor moved.

Boom!

As the Dragon Emperor stirred, even time seemed to quake with it. The aura it radiated pressed down so heavily on the Magma Dragon that it reeled in panic.

S-Surre—

Just as the magma dragon's nine heads began roaring in panic, a dragon claw wreathed in black flame descended from the sky.

Boom!

With that single strike, everything shattered. The domain of principles surrounding the Magma Dragon collapsed. Five of its heads exploded. Half of its true form was torn apart, and its massive frame was smashed deep into the void.

—nder.

The remaining four heads tried to roar in submission, but without a sound, a black-flame-wrapped tail blade swept sideways across the sky. Infused with the power of the Endbringer Annihilation, the four remaining heads turned instantly to ash.

Roar!

The Dragon Emperor bellowed as it gripped the magma dragon's shattered shoulders. Its razor-sharp claws pierced through dense scale, into flesh and bone.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Inside the magma dragon's body, golden blood flowing at over ten million degrees Celsius surged wildly. It burned in an attempt to repel the invading claws, but couldn't even shake them.

I am the end!The Dragon Emperor roared to the sky. With explosive force in both arms, it ripped downward.

A tortured shriek burst from the Magma Dragon. Its heavy, fortified scales fractured, and its dark-golden muscles tore apart with a sound like a nuclear detonation.

Boom!

Overwhelmed by tyrannical power, the late-stage magma dragon was torn apart. Boiling golden blood sprayed through the void, dyeing half of its body in gold.

It was brutal, savage, and absolute.

After tearing the Magma Dragon in half, the Dragon Emperor didn't follow up with its usual devouring. Instead, it stopped.

Boom!

It loosened its claws and casually flung the two halves of the ten-kilometer-long body aside. With heavy steps, it began walking slowly into the distance, every stride causing tremors across the void.

Wherever it passed, space collapsed. The blackened rock left behind from extinguished magma dissolved into nothingness.

Deep within the void of the magma world, the World Star Core, nearly a kilometer wide, slowly rotated. Its surface was riddled with cracks, and scorching magma oozed from the rifts. When the Dragon Emperor approached this blackened Star Core, a crushing aura surged to meet it.

Unlike the World Star Core Fragments Chen Chu had once refined, this one was whole. It was a core of a complete world, brimming with unimaginable energy. More importantly, within it lingered remnants of the world's origin, infused with a full principle resonance. Once devoured and refined, it could not only elevate the Dragon Emperor's power by leaps and bounds, but also enhance its bloodline.

Every ancient titan possessed a monstrous body tied to a world's essence. Their flesh was not mere biology; it contained world traits. Unlike demon gods and divine kings, whose internal worlds straddled illusion and reality and required nurturing, the bodies of ancient titans were themselves worlds.

In other words, these beasts inherently bypassed the step that demon gods and divine kings needed, fusing their true form with their internal world upon reaching the peak of cultivation. It was this natural advantage that allowed colossal beasts to more easily approach the threshold of the ancient titan level.

Boom!

A black-flame-clad claw reached out and grabbed the Star Core. Instantly, the Dragon Emperor felt a terrible weight sink into its grip. Its massive body was enveloped in an invisible, crushing force.

The pressure was so immense that even it found it hard to lift the core, much less carry it away. The Star Core seemed eternally fixed in this exact place, releasing an endless stream of magma and energy as it slowly rotated along a predetermined path.

So heavy! No wonder this it's remained untouched and unrefined here for so many years.

The Dragon Emperor drew in a deep breath. Its savage mouth opened wide, fanged and monstrous, while deep in its stomach, a powerful spatial devouring energy ignited.

Boom!

As its Dark Realm Devourer ability erupted, the space within a hundred-kilometer radius vanished completely, erased by some unspeakable power. What remained was a pitch-black void. The Star Core disappeared into it as well, and at the very moment the Dragon Emperor swallowed that section of space and the core with it, an eruption of searing energy surged from its abdomen.

Boom!

The torrent of energy raged like a mountain collapsing into a tidal wave. Every cell in the Dragon Emperor's body responded with ravenous hunger, greedily devouring and absorbing the influx.

Crack! Crack!

Its muscles swelled, scales bulged, and bones expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye. However, at the same time, a gravitational force—black-hole-like and space-rending—exploded outward as the Star Core began to be refined, enveloping the Dragon Emperor's entire frame.

The pressure was tens of thousands of times greater than before. Even with the Dragon Emperor's immense might in its current form, its muscles began to tear. Its bones groaned, threatening to snap. Scales across its body collapsed, leaving craters tens or even hundreds of meters wide, from which even fiercer black flames erupted.

Across the broken land beneath the Chaotic End's domain, the mangled remains of the Magma Dragon began to stir. Torn flesh squirmed and knit together. From where its nine necks had once been severed, new tissue began to regenerate. Soon, nine savage heads grew back.

Huff... huff... I nearly died...

The Magma Dragon, its true form in ruins and its scales shattered, panted heavily. It glanced warily toward the void and the red colossal beast now cloaked in black flame.

Any rational beast would have noticed the signs. The Dragon Emperor's body was cycling through phases of expansion and collapse. Its state was clearly unstable. However, the Magma Dragon had no intention of attacking. Its nine newly regrown heads were filled only with awe.

That brief clash just now had utterly shattered its confidence, and the Dragon Emperor's overwhelming strength had left it terrified. That sense of despair was not something it ever wanted to experience again. More than that, it had a distinct premonition that if the Dragon Emperor had truly intended to kill it, it would already be dead.

Roar!

Suddenly, the colossal beast hidden deep within the void let out a sky-shaking howl. A far more terrifying aura burst from its body, and the streaks of golden-red lightning dancing across its surface now flickered with ominous black light. They distorted everything they touched, drawing in even the faintest rays of light from the Dragon Emperor's surroundings.

In that instant, the Dragon Emperor's aura grew even more dreadful, as if some monstrous power within its body had begun to awaken. Its body also began to expand at a much faster rate.

36,000 meters. 37,000 meters...