Chapter 455 What?! Evolved and then broke through?!

Inside the Beast Taming Space.

Little Fire remained coiled at the bottom of the lake in the heart of the lake, its golden flames expanding and contracting with a steady, powerful rhythm.

The dark gold patterns on each of its dragon scales flickered in sync with its breathing, a sign that its Realm was being solidified and stabilized bit by bit.

The ecstasy of breaking through to Purple Gold Rank 6 had settled into a calm foundation; this Little Fire dragon, having just completed its metamorphosis, lay quietly dormant under the shroud of the densest Spiritual Qi, patiently locking every bit of its surging power firmly within its body.

Jiang Yun stood on the lake shore, slowly withdrawing his gaze from Little Fire. Before the smile on his lips could fully form, a sudden energy fluctuation slammed into his perception from the other side of the Beast Taming Space.

He turned abruptly.

Where his gaze landed.

It was the cliff face chosen by Little Skylark.

At this moment, the summit of the cliff had been completely swallowed by a blue-purple storm more than twenty zhang in diameter.

For the past few hours, that wind-thunder barrier had been slowly rotating, extracting, fusing, and converting the energy from the three evolution Materials and the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng wing bone bit by bit.

But now, it was no longer rotating slowly; it was spinning at a frantic, violent, and high speed that was impossible for the naked eye to track.

Countless blue wind blades and purple electric arcs intertwined on the surface of the storm, each collision exploding into a blinding ball of energy that illuminated the entire cliff face, making it flicker between light and dark.

Jiang Yun's pupils constricted slightly.

He had already unconsciously moved closer toward the cliff.

He had just arrived within a hundred zhang of the cliff base when the violent wind-thunder storm above his head suddenly paused.

It wasn't slowing down.

It was as if the entire storm, at the Peak of its high-speed rotation, had been forcibly frozen by some power from within.

Wind blades solidified in mid-air, and electric arcs froze in the air, as if time itself had been pressed on the pause button at that moment.

All sounds... the howling wind, the rumbling thunder, the cracking sounds of energy collisions... had all disappeared, and the entire world was so quiet that only the sound of Jiang Yun's own heartbeat remained.

Then, a crisp, extreme cracking sound rang out.

"Crack!!!!"

A gap split open at the top of the storm.

That was the light of evolution.

A blue-purple beam of light, more brilliant, more magnificent, and more breathtaking than the Breakthrough light pillar from Little Fire earlier, suddenly shot up into the sky from the gap at the top of the storm.

The light pillar was not thick, but the radiance contained within was brilliant to the extreme; that shade of blue was not like ordinary blue, but like that most primitive, most pure azure from the deepest depths of the Ancient firmament.

That shade of purple was not like ordinary purple, but like the first streak of Grandmist Purple Lightning that split the Chaos when the world was first created.

The two colors intertwined, rose, and spiraled upward within the light pillar; the flow of every halo carried a rhythm ancient to the extreme, like some Ancient creature sleeping in the deepest reaches of the river of time was slowly waking up.

And at the very same instant the light pillar shot up, an Aura, completely different from that of the True Dragon but equally breathtaking, burst forth from within the storm.

That was the Aura of the Divine Peng.

No, not just an ordinary Divine Peng.

Jiang Yun could clearly feel that the Aura contained a trace of something completely different from before.

It was more vast, more ancient, and more violent, as if it came from a barbaric era countless epochs older than the current world.

That was the Aura of the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng.

The Divine Peng wing bone that had been fused into Little Skylark's body was completely activated at this moment.

Jiang Yun held his breath, staring unblinkingly at the summit of the cliff.

Inside the light pillar, a slender figure slowly stretched out.

The first things to emerge from the storm were a pair of wings.

Those wings had completely shed the silver-gray luster from before the evolution, replaced by a magnificent color between azure and pale purple.

Every flight feather seemed to be condensed from the purest wind and thunder power; the texture of the feather shafts was as warm and translucent as purple jade, and the edges of the feathers shimmered with a pale blue halo, within which countless fine lightning patterns slowly flowed.

The moment the wings were fully spread, the width of the wingspan made Jiang Yun involuntarily startle.

Thirty meters, at least thirty meters.

The giant wings that blotted out the sky merely flapped gently, and the air within dozens of zhang was stirred by an invisible force into a vortex visible to the naked eye.

Immediately after, Little Skylark's entire body fully emerged from the storm.

Its body length exceeded fifteen meters, slender and full of power.

Its head retained the basic outline of the Storm Thunder Sparrow, but every line had become sharper and more fierce.

Three purple plumes stood high on the top of its head, their length having doubled compared to before the evolution; the tips of each plume flickered with tiny purple electric arcs, which spread downward along the plumes, outlining faint lightning patterns on its slender neck.

Its eyes remained pale gold, but a mark of thunder had appeared deep within its pupils.

It was a miniature, extreme thunderstorm pattern slowly rotating in its pupils; every rotation made its gaze sharper and more penetrating.

Most striking were the roots of its wings.

There, originally, one could only vaguely see a few light purple down feathers.

But now, those few down feathers had completely transformed into two clusters of long, ribbon-like blue-purple tail feathers.

These two clusters of tail feathers naturally hung down from the wing roots, fluttering in the wind behind it; the light flowing on the tail feathers echoed the wind-thunder patterns on the wings, and every movement left a pale purple afterimage in the air, within which tiny spatial fissures could be faintly seen appearing and vanishing.

And its claws.

Before the evolution, Little Skylark's claws were sharp, but still carried a certain delicacy characteristic of avian Beast Taming creatures.

Now, those claws had completely transformed into blue-purple eagle claws; each toe was as thick as an adult's arm, and the tips of the claws shimmered with a cold, metallic glint, making one feel that force of sharpness capable of tearing everything apart just by looking at them.

The backs of the claws were covered with a layer of fine blue-purple scales, on the surface of which naturally grew lines of wind-thunder patterns, identical to the patterns on its wings.

Wind-Thunder Sky Sparrow.

This was the brand-new form of Little Skylark after evolution.

Wind-Thunder Sky Sparrow.

Jiang Yun looked up at the beautiful giant bird circling and stretching at the summit of the cliff, unable to take his eyes off it for a moment.

If the pre-evolution Little Skylark was an agile and fierce hunting falcon, then it was now a hegemon of the firmament truly standing at the very top of the sky's food chain.

The nobility and fierceness that permeated from its bones, the Aura that made the Spiritual Qi of the entire space submit just by spreading its wings, was no longer something an ordinary bird of prey could possess.

"Chirp!!!"

Little Skylark. No! At this moment, it should be called Wind-Thunder Sky Sparrow!

It raised its head and let out a cry that was clear to the extreme.

The cry pierced through the layers of Spiritual Qi in the Beast Taming Space, pierced through the warm light of the Myriad Spirit Origin Bead, and shot straight into the clouds like an invisible sharp sword.

The wind and thunder power contained in the cry made the entire cliff tremble slightly; gravel rolled down from the cliff, splashing into the lake and creating ripples.

It flapped its wings violently.

The thirty-meter wingspan fully opened, and blue-purple wind and thunder light erupted from the wings, dragging two brilliant light trails behind it.

It leaped from the cliff, its massive body tracing an arc of extreme fluidity in mid-air, circling and flying around the dome of the Beast Taming Space.

Every flap of its wings stirred up a violent wind-thunder vortex, and every turn left a pale purple afterimage trail behind it.

It soared, rolled, dove, and climbed freely in the air, as if declaring its rebirth in this unbridled way.

Jiang Yun could clearly feel the ecstatic emotion transmitted from the contract.

That was a pure joy and pride after a rebirth, the way Little Skylark was announcing its good news to him in its own way.

However, just when Jiang Yun thought this was all the surprise, a bigger surprise hit him without warning.

The Aura around Little Skylark, circling above the dome, suddenly shook.

A spiritual power fluctuation even more violent than the evolution light burst forth from within its body, shattering all the surrounding wind-thunder vortices.

The blue-purple light around its body surged several times in an instant, the lightning patterns on its wings lit up simultaneously, the frequency of electric arcs jumping on the three purple plumes on its head suddenly accelerated, and the crackling sound of electricity could be heard clearly even by Jiang Yun standing on the ground.

Its Realm Aura began to climb.

gold rank eight peak! Breakthrough! Gold Rank Nine! Breakthrough again! Peak Gold Rank 9! Breakthrough again! Purple Gold Rank?! Purple Gold Rank 1?!

Jiang Yun's pupils constricted to the extreme at this moment.

His mouth opened slightly, his whole body froze in place, and the expression on his face was as if he had been choked by eating three surprises in one breath.

His widened eyes were filled with disbelief, and the raised corners of his mouth still held the smile from watching the evolution just now, but that smile hadn't had time to be withdrawn before it was frozen on his face by a new wave of shock.

However, Little Skylark's Realm climb was not over yet.

After breaking through the Purple Gold Rank, its Aura not only did not slow down, but instead continued to skyrocket with even more ferocious momentum.

Purple Gold Rank 1 Early Stage, Middle Stage, Peak! Then came a crisp energy explosion, directly breaking through the barrier of the first rank.

Purple Gold Rank 2! Rank 2 Middle Stage, Peak! Break through again! Purple Gold Rank 3! Rank 3 Early Stage, Middle Stage! Still rushing! Purple Gold Rank 4 Early Stage!

Then, the momentum of the Aura's climb finally slowly stopped at the Middle Stage of Purple Gold Rank 4.

From gold rank eight peak to Purple Gold Rank 4. It spanned a full six ranks, including the Great Realm chasm between the Gold Rank and the Purple Gold Rank that made countless Beast Taming creatures stop in their tracks.

Such a Breakthrough magnitude, even looking at history as a whole, was only possible for those legendary top-tier Prodigy Beast Taming creatures that had fused with the Bloodline of Ancient Divine Beasts.

Jiang Yun stood in place, looking up at the beautiful giant bird circling the firmament with wind and thunder around it, its wings blotting out the sky; his lips moved for a long time before he let out a low exclamation that was half surprise and half disbelief.

"Evolution... and then a Breakthrough too?"

He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the ecstasy in his heart, and the blue light in his eyes had already uncontrollably lit up.

He wanted to know too much; with evolution plus a Breakthrough, exactly how many new abilities did Little Skylark have now.

Entry Manifestation talent fully activated.

Dense information appeared beside Little Skylark.

[Race]: Wind-Thunder Sky Sparrow (Wind/Thunder dual attribute)

[Realm]: Purple Crystal Level 4

[Aptitude]: Radiant Sun Peak (Originally diamond rank peak, grade leaped after fusing with the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng Origin Bloodline)

[Bloodline]: Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng Bloodline (Fused with a piece of Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng remnant bone, the integrity of the Divine Peng Bloodline has been greatly improved, and the Divine Peng's Innate Talent Skill has been initially awakened. It has an Innate Bloodline suppression effect on low-level Beast Taming creatures, avian Vicious Beasts, and low-level Bloodline Vicious Beasts; the suppression effect increases with the improvement of Bloodline integrity)

[Equipment]: wings of the firmament (Radiant Sun-Level treasure, speed bonus has been stacked with the Divine Peng Bloodline speed, comprehensive speed significantly improved compared to before evolution)

[Innate Talent Skill]: Wind Rush (Rare): Passively significantly increases flight speed.

Thunder Claw (Rare): Sharp claws imbued with wind and thunder power; after reaching the Amethyst Rank, the claw strength includes a thunder erosion effect.

Wind and Thunder Body Protection (Excellent): Wind and thunder defense, reflection effect, defense strength doubles with Realm improvement.

Thunder Strike (Supernatural): Terrifying thunder attacks fall from the Void Realm; after reaching the Amethyst Rank, the thunder impact point can track targets within a small range.

Storm Wings (Supernatural · Passive/Active): Wings transform into wings of storm and thunder.

Summon Thunderstorm (epic): Invoke the wind and thunder power of heaven and earth, area thunderstorm strike.

Divine Roc True Form (Legendary): Stimulate the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng Bloodline, manifest the Divine Roc True Form, all attributes significantly improved, life level sublimated, absolute Bloodline cleansing against low-level Beast Taming creatures.

【 New Skill · Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain (Legendary · Domain Skill) 】: Using Little Skylark as the core medium, it deploys a Wind-Thunder dual-element Domain covering a radius of several hundred zhang. Within the Domain, violent winds act like blades, and ten thousand thunders roar in unison. All enemies suffer continuous damage from both wind blade slicing and lightning strikes.

During the Domain's deployment, Little Skylark's flight speed within the Domain is unrestricted, and all Wind-Thunder attribute skills have their power doubled and consumption halved.

For every enemy killed or severely injured, the Domain absorbs their dissipating Spiritual Power, converting it into Wind-Thunder energy to nourish Little Skylark, extending the Domain's duration and increasing its damage.

This Domain skill is the Innate Talent Skill awakened after Little Skylark's second evolution, existing in deep resonance with the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng Bloodline.

【 New Skill · Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash (Legendary · Bloodline Skill) 】: An Innate Talent Skill awakened after the successful Fusion of the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng wing bones.

The wings cross to slash out two overlapping blades of Wind-Thunder light. The blade light contains a faint trace of Ancient Void tearing power, which can ignore 50% of the target's defense and act directly on their Physical Body or Spiritual Power core.

Space shatters wherever the blade light passes, and the speed is so fast that it is almost impossible to dodge.

This skill's power doubles in Divine Roc True Form form, and each use consumes the Ancient Wind-Thunder energy accumulated in the wing bones, requiring time to recover.

【 New Skill · Wind-Thunder Heavenly Feathers (epic · Evolution Skill) 】: The Wind-Thunder Sky Sparrow transforms its own divine feathers into a sky full of Wind-Thunder flying feathers, shooting them indiscriminately in all directions. A single feather has medium power but covers an extremely wide range, suitable for large-scale area clearing and crowd control.

After hitting a target, the flying feathers can continuously attach to the target's body surface, continuously releasing weak lightning erosion and wind blade cutting effects. When multiple feathers hit the same target simultaneously, the effects stack, up to a maximum of ten layers.

This skill has low consumption and can be used multiple times in battle.

【 New Skill · Annihilation Thunder Prison (epic · Advanced Skill) 】:

An area control skill awakened upon advancing to Amethyst Rank.

Using the power of thunder, a small Thunder Prison is laid out in a designated area. Within the prison, ten thousand thunders fall simultaneously, imprisoning all enemies within the range to continuously endure lightning bombardment.

While the Thunder Prison lasts, trapped enemies cannot use space-type skills to escape, and every time they are struck by lightning, their movement speed and attack speed decrease by 10%, up to a maximum of 50%.

When the Thunder Prison dissipates, it will trigger a final explosion, causing additional damage to all enemies within the range.

...

Jiang Yun's gaze swept line by line over the Entry information, his breathing becoming more rapid the more he read. By the end, he could not help but slap his thigh hard.

Four?!!

Four whole new skills?!!

A Legendary-rank Domain skill, Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain!

A Legendary-rank Bloodline skill, Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash!

An epic-rank area clearing skill, Wind-Thunder Heavenly Feathers!

An epic-rank area control skill, Annihilation Thunder Prison!

Added to the Divine Roc True Form and Summon Thunderstorm that it already possessed before evolving, Little Skylark's current skill configuration could be described as luxuriously outrageous.

The Domain suppression of the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain, combined with the defense-ignoring armor-breaking of the Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash, and then stacked with the area imprisonment and deceleration of the Annihilation Thunder Prison—under this set of combos, opponents would be trapped to death in a Wind-Thunder purgatory before they could even react.

And if the opponent tried to use human-wave tactics, the large-scale feather coverage of the Wind-Thunder Heavenly Feathers would allow all the minions to taste the feeling of being pierced by ten thousand arrows.

What is even more deadly is that the Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash skill actually ignores 30% of defense.

Although the Azure Ancient Dragon's Reverse Scale Protection has astonishing defense, in the face of the defense-ignoring effect, the damage reduction of the Reverse Scale Protection would be brutally slashed by a large chunk.

This meant that Little Skylark's output was no longer just tickling it, but could truly deal effective damage.

What surprised Jiang Yun even more was that the piece of Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng wing bone had actually fused successfully, and it had even brought Little Skylark such a powerful Bloodline skill.

He had originally just held a "let's try it" attitude when letting Little Skylark fuse the wing bones during evolution, never expecting the effect to be better than he had imagined.

Moreover, the Entry mentioned Ancient Void tearing power, which indicated that the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng's Bloodline itself contained a fragment of space attributes. If Little Skylark had the Opportunity to dig deeper into this aspect in the future, it might be able to develop more skills related to space.

"Too strong... really too strong..."

Jiang Yun muttered, the smile on his lips completely out of control, stretching to his ears.

"Four new skills, two Legendary-rank, two epic-rank. Domain, armor-breaking, area clearing, control—all set. That Azure Ancient Dragon is really in for it this time."

He raised his head again, looking at Little Skylark circling happily in the firmament, his mind already beginning to calculate rapidly.

Little Fire is Purple Gold Rank 6, Nine Flames Burning Heavens combined with Water-Fire Dragon Domain, dual suppression plus the Burning Heavens Furnace.

Little Skylark is Purple Gold Rank 4, Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain stacked with Annihilation Thunder Prison plus Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash, Domain suppression plus control imprisonment plus defense-ignoring armor breaking.

Although the Realms of the two beasts were still a few minor levels lower than that Diamond Rank One Azure Ancient Dragon, in terms of skill configuration and coordination, they already possessed the confidence to confront it head-on.

Even if coordinated properly, under the overlapping suppression of dual Domains, it was not impossible to overpower that remnant Soul phantom.

Little Fire would take the pressure head-on, deploying the Water-Fire Dragon Domain for attribute suppression and firepower containment, using Golden Scale Protection to precisely block the opponent's fatal attacks.

Little Skylark would roam at high speed, searching for flaws in the gaps of the dual Domains, using Divine Roc True Form's slash to continuously reduce the opponent's defense and HP, using Annihilation Thunder Prison to limit the opponent's movement space, and then seizing the right moment to release the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain and Water-Fire Dragon Domain in overlapping fashion.

With water, fire, wind, and thunder attributes, two Domains suppressing simultaneously—even a True Dragon remnant Soul would have to kneel.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yun took a deep breath, a sharp light flashing in his eyes.

Now, he was just waiting for Nether Abyss to completely refine that dark-attribute origin law crystal.

By then, with all three beasts ready, he would take this reborn team to fight again and have a good showdown with that Azure Ancient Dragon.

Meanwhile, outside the Star Pavilion.

In the square, the dense crowd was still looking up, staring dumbfounded at the green-purple beam of light piercing out from the top floor of the treasury.

In the beam of light, the phantom of the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng had fully taken shape.

It was a giant Peng phantom with a wingspan of over a hundred zhang, composed entirely of green-purple Wind-Thunder light. Its wings were covered with ancient and profound patterns, and every flap of its wings stirred up a heaven-destroying Wind-Thunder storm within the light beam.

The giant Peng phantom circled and danced in the light beam, emitting silent cries. Although no sound came out, every Liu family Disciple looking up felt a shiver from the depths of their Soul, as if their Souls were being looked down upon from ten thousand zhang in the sky by that ancient giant Peng.

"Ancient Divine Peng... it really is the phantom of the Ancient Divine Peng..."

"This beast is also breaking through! No, this is not a Breakthrough! You all look closely at the form of that phantom, it is transforming! The life form of the entire beast is transforming! This is evolution!"

"Evolution?!! Evolving in the treasury?!! Grand Tutor Dongxuan's beasts are breaking through and evolving one after another in the treasury. What kind of monsters is he raising?!!"

In the crowd, the exclamations of the Liu family Disciples rose one after another.

They had changed from their initial shock to a state of near numbness, but whenever new movement came from that green-purple light beam, their nerves would still be fiercely yanked up and then dropped.

And those who truly saw what was happening were the two Grand Tutor Level masters standing at the forefront of the crowd.

Old Mo's turbid old eyes were shining brightly at this moment. He stared fixedly at the giant Peng phantom in the light beam, as well as the slender bird shadow slowly transforming within the phantom, a Rare look of solemnity appearing on his aged face.

"No, this is not a Breakthrough."

His voice was not loud.

But it made all the surrounding Elders and stewards quiet down.

"This Aura contains an extremely dense Aptitude Origin that is rapidly transforming. You all feel it carefully, the life level of that beast is undergoing a qualitative leap. It is not an improvement in Realm, but an all-around reshaping of Bloodline, Aptitude, and life essence. This is evolution, and not an ordinary evolution, but a deep evolution that has fused with some kind of ancient Divine Beast Origin item."

Grand Master Master Fu Shan nodded heavily on the side and added: "Old Mo is right. This old man can feel a trace of ancient relic Aura in that light beam. Grand Tutor Dongxuan's Divine Peng beast also fused with a supreme treasure closely related to the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng when evolving. The giant Peng phantom in the light beam is the phenomenon manifested after the remnant Ancient Divine Peng will in that treasure was activated."

"Evolution plus Fusion with an ancient relic?"

A Liu family Grand Elder beside him gasped, his beard curling up from the intake of air.

"How many trump cards does this Grand Tutor Dongxuan have? First, the True Dragon broke through six levels in a row, and now the Divine Peng is evolving and has even fused with an ancient relic. Is he trying to defy the heavens?"

The surrounding Liu family Disciples, after hearing the words of the two Grand Tutor masters, exploded into Chaos.

"Evolution! It really is evolution! That Divine Peng beast is evolving!"

"Fused with an ancient relic? Grand Tutor Dongxuan actually has a treasure of this level? That Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng is a Legendary-rank ancient Divine Beast, right? He actually has the Divine Peng's relic?!!"

"No wonder there is a Divine Peng phantom in that light beam! That is the remnant will of the Ancient Divine Peng! Heavens, what kind of Opportunity does one need to get something like this?"

And in the Grand Elder area, the expressions of Supreme Elder Liu Yunshan and the others had completely changed.

Supreme Elder Liu Yunshan's originally calm expression was now completely replaced by shock.

He looked at the green-purple light beam piercing the sky and muttered:

"Evolution... this beast is also evolving... First the True Dragon broke through six levels, now the Divine Peng is evolving. How is it that every one of this Dong Xuan kid's beasts is more monstrous than the last? Is he treating our Liu family's treasury as a training ground?"

Liu Lie's expression was even more colorful to the extreme.

He had just been shocked by Little Fire's continuous Breakthroughs, and now he was seeing a second beast evolving. That feeling of being slapped in the face came one after another, and it could not stop.

He opened his mouth to say something, but found his throat seemed to be blocked by something, and he could not spit out a single word.

The teacup fragments under his feet were still lying on the ground. The words he had just said about eating the teacup were still echoing in his ears, and now the second wave of shock had smashed down on him, and he did not even have a chance to make up for it.

As the family head, Liu Qingyun's expression was no better than Liu Lie's at this moment.

The corners of his mouth were twitching, his eyes were twitching, and even the fingers in his sleeves were trembling slightly.

He looked up at the giant Peng phantom circling in the green-purple light beam, and the last shred of luck in his heart was collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A Purple Gold Rank 6 True Dragon was not enough, and now another evolved Divine Peng was added.

With the two beasts joining forces against that Azure Ancient Dragon.

Although he was unwilling to admit it, reason told him that there was probably a real chance of winning.

Just as Liu Qingyun was feeling uneasy and overwhelmed, a burst of exclamations even more intense than before suddenly erupted in the crowd.

"Look quickly! That light beam has changed again!"

"It seems like the Aura is skyrocketing! That Divine Peng's evolution is not over yet! It is breaking through! After evolving, it is breaking through again!!"

"It broke through! After Grand Tutor Dongxuan's beast finished evolving, it started breaking through again!"

"What? Evolution was not enough?!! Now it is going to break through and Advance?!!!"