An Lin was very friendly toward everything within his sea of vital energy.
This was an instinctive reaction as these things were being nurtured in his sea of vital energy.
He felt maternal benevolence toward them…
No! This was paternal benevolence!
An Lin felt like he was the father of the little whale, An Kirin, and the little Vermilion Bird!
“Could it be that three more little rascals are about to be born?” An Lin’s heart was filled with excitement.
He turned his eyes that were filled with paternal love and benevolence toward his sea of vital energy.
The cracks on the three eggs elongated further and further.
These eggs were obtained after An Lin used his engulfment spell technique to absorb the essential divine intents of the Holy Beasts. Hence, they would most likely hatch things that were related to the Holy Beasts.
The Holy Flame Vermilion Bird seemed to have also realized that something was happening, and it circled up above and let loose cries of excitement. At the same time, white flames exploded up above, lighting up the entire sea of vital energy.
An Kirin’s eyes widened as he stared at the three eggs like Curious George.
Crack…
A crisp crack sounded within the sea of vital energy.
Immediately afterward, the dark green eggshell broke first.
A small beast with a dragon head, turtle body, and snake tail crawled slowly out of the egg. Its head was green, and its turtle shell was a very mundane brown, but there were all types of extremely intricate formations carved upon it.
Its emergence immediately sent a holy, ethereal aura permeating through the sea of vital energy.
An Lin needed no introduction to figure out what this was.
This was one of the four Holy Beasts, Xuan Wu!
An Lin was still in shock when another crisp crack sounded.
The pristine, white eggshell cracked.
“Roar!”
A tiger’s roar swept up massive waves in the sea of vital energy.
A small yet intimidating tiger with four stubby little legs, a pair of small wings, and white fur all over its entire body emerged from the egg before roaring at everything around it.
It roared at An Kirin, it roared at the little whale, it roared at the Holy Flame Vermilion Bird, and it roared at Xuan Wu. It was extremely aggressive and was immediately picking fights from birth.
These were wordless roars, but they all conveyed one meaning: Come fight me!
This was one of the four Holy Beasts, White Tiger!
The black egg with intricate patterns on it was the last one to crack open.
A small, black dragon squirmed out of the egg like an eel!
The small dragon had nine paws and a lithe and elegant body. Its scales shimmered, and its eyes were of a pure golden color as the most essential dragon might emanated from its body.
It immediately sprang into the air before looking down upon everything.
The Azure Dragon of the four Holy Beasts had emerged!
An Lin suddenly discovered that all four Holy Beasts had somehow been gathered in his sea of vital energy.
The Vermilion Bird cried, Xuan Wu dived into the sea, the White Tiger roared, and the Azure Dragon surveyed everything from up above.
A series of holy, ethereal auras surged through the sea of vital energy.
Even An Kirin and the little whale were too scared to move upon seeing this.
Just one Holy Flame Vermilion Bird was already this badass, how were they supposed to deal with three more?!
An Kirin and the little whale decided to lie low for now.
Meanwhile, An Lin was getting a little excited. If he could use the power of the three Holy Beasts, wouldn’t he become even more powerful?
He immediately tried to contact the three Holy Beasts, only to find that he was unable to do so, as if they didn’t even belong to him.
However, during the process, An Lin discovered something quite strange.
The little black dragon gave him a sense of familiarity for some reason.
Furthermore, the little black dragon was clearly not as disoriented as White Tiger and Xuan Wu. Instead, it was surveying its surroundings in a very calm manner. It then turned to meet An Lin’s gaze, and a faint smile appeared on its face.
“This!”
An Lin’s heart jolted upon seeing this.
He knew what this little black dragon was. This little black dragon was the true Holy Beast Azure Dragon who had hidden itself away in his mind!
Had this Azure Dragon somehow managed to be reborn through this egg?
In the past, the Azure Dragon had destroyed the Dark Sorcery Ghost and engulfed its True Dragon divine tool, but it had to expend An Lin’s power in the process and was quite dependent on him.
However, the Azure Dragon seemed to have become a completely independent life form ever since it was hatched from that egg.
An Lin was feeling a little unsettled.
Right at this moment, the little black dragon in his sea of vital energy suddenly spat out a series of strange syllables.
Litte black dragon: “─=≡Σつωつo^-^ミ☆”
The other three Holy Beasts all gave responses upon hearing this.
“Chirp!”
“Roar!”
“Hiss…”
An Lin didn’t know what was going on.
Right at this moment, a burst of power somehow transcended beyond his sea of vital energy and settled on his ring.
Boom!
An immense amount of black light suddenly erupted from his ring.
“This is the azure dragon ring from the Vermilion Bird Trial Grounds?” An Lin’s expression shifted drastically.
Meanwhile.
In the eastern region of the Kingdom of the Nine States.
At the snow maidens’ camp.
Shangguan Yi was meditating on a dark ice bed and was making a series of peculiar hand seals as boundless frost energy revolved around her like dragons, refining her body in the process.
At this moment, a burst of brilliant blue light suddenly erupted from the blue ring on her index finger.
“What’s going on?” Shangguan Yi was confused.
However, before she had a chance to react, her entire body was enshrouded by a blue light, and she was carried straight into the clouds by the ring…
The snow maiden camp instantly erupted into disarray.
“My God, what is that blue light?”
“Crap, High Priest Shangguan Yi has risen up into the sky!”
“Ice Matriarch!”
“We have to save the Ice Matriarch!”
On the eastern front of the Kingdom of the Nine States.
Mo Hai was half-naked and surrounded by a dozen or so core disciples in crimson robes, all of whom were unleashing powerful fire-type spell techniques on Mo Hai’s body with all their might.
Mo Hai was completely unfazed as he endured the fire attacks.
“Hahaha… You have to try harder!
“Did you not eat breakfast? Even mosquito bites hurt more than these flames!”
Mo Hai chortled as flames exploded on his body, scorching his skin bright red.
All of the disciples were extremely embarrassed to hear this and injected even more power into their spell techniques.
He was just standing there and letting them attack him, but they were still unable to do anything… How humiliating!
One of the disciples was extremely enraged and unleashed an extremely powerful spell technique.
Boom!
Mo Hai suddenly screamed before a pillar of crimson light rose into the sky, and he disappeared on the spot.
Silence ensued.
Everyone turned toward that enraged disciple.
The enraged disciple’s face was now deathly pale as he shook his head over and over again. “It… it wasn’t me!”
Four Nine Immortal Sect.
Within the palace where An Lin kept himself in seclusion…
Four massive formations suddenly appeared beneath his feet.
The four Holy Beasts were becoming quite restless in his sea of vital energy.
Before he figured out what was happening, screams suddenly erupted overhead.
Boom boom boom…
The roof of the palace was shattered by pillars of light.
Three people fell from the sky.
They were Yang Yuan, Mo Hai, and Shangguan Yi.
All of them were cultivators that possessed one of the Holy Beast rings.
Shangguan Yi fell from the sky and was very unlucky to have fallen onto An Lin, not that An Lin was complaining about having her soft, delectable body in his lap.
An Lin was completely dumbstruck.
Did collecting all four small Holy Beasts allow him to summon these friends who also wore Holy Beast rings?
