Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 2014 - 2015: Speculation on Domain Awakening

Chapter 2014: Chapter 2015: Speculation on Domain Awakening

As Feng Yuan had expected, that Legendary Level Spirit Beast was indeed the guardian BOSS of this area. Unfortunately, even the academy didn’t anticipate that, through various coincidences, Qi Chen and the others unexpectedly possessed the strength to repel a Legendary Level Spirit Beast.

Although they could only unleash such a powerful attack once today and couldn’t replicate it again, it couldn’t deny the strength of this combination Ultimate Move.

Feng Yuan, though inclined to research the Crystal Field Awakening, knew that now wasn’t the right time for research, at least while the Hao Chun Bird needed to be up front assisting Ah Mu and the others in battle.

Thinking of something, Feng Yuan looked at Veronia and asked

"Can you use Domain Awakening?"

"Hmm? Are you talking about that move the Hao Chun Bird used? Though I’d love to say yes, unfortunately, I can’t. Although I’m a Divine Beast, I’m not omnipotent."

Veronia glanced at Feng Yuan with surprise, regretfully saying. It truly didn’t know how to awaken the Crystal Field, and even the Crystal Field Awakening was just a name they had casually given it.

Normally, the Crystal Field that can last a long time, under the actions of the Hao Chun Bird, they could see that the duration of the field had significantly shortened, yet like a brilliant light momentarily breaking through previous constraints, the Crystal Field Awakening was much the same.

The original minor amplification became a much stronger effect, even altering part of the environment outright at the time.

They were just unsure if that Crystal Field Awakening required Mythical Transformation to take effect. If Mythical Transformation was necessary, the significance of the Crystal Field Awakening naturally wasn’t great, but if not...

Veronia could even foresee a radical change in battles between Beast Tamers. Even though the advent of the Crystal Field had already brought notable changes to Beast Tamer battles, for the time being, no truly significant changes have occurred, merely allowing some Spirit Beasts to become active in the arena.

It’s imaginable that if the Hao Chun Bird inherently possessed the ability to use Forest Domain Awakening, their value would increase once again. After all, the significance of creating a Crystal Field without a Domain Crystal isn’t great, but if Domain Awakening could be conducted, that would be different.

Both Veronia and Feng Yuan had an inexplicable intuition—that perhaps Domain Awakening wasn’t like the Crystal Field, not all Spirit Beasts could use it.

Currently, as far as they knew, only the Hao Chun Bird seemed to possess this ability; however, this made Feng Yuan uneasy, as the Hao Chun Bird’s population was extremely small. If this news got out, who knows what might happen.

With this thought, Feng Yuan looked at Agunas and said

"Agunas, you saw the Hao Chun Bird’s Domain Awakening just now, right?"

Turning to face Feng Yuan, Agunas flicked its tail and asked confusedly,

"Is there a problem?"

"I think that Domain Awakening may not be something all Spirit Beasts can grasp. It might be possible that only some Spirit Beasts can learn this... Ultimate Move? And the Hao Chun Bird is currently known to possibly possess this kind of Ultimate Move."

"It’s unrelated to the Mythical Transformation?"

Agunas asked, furrowing its brows in puzzlement. Before Feng Yuan could reply, Tamur floated by and said,

"It should be unrelated. Mythical Transformation just restores degraded Ultimate Moves to their Mythical Era forms."

Upon hearing Tamur’s words, Agunas furrowed its brow more tightly. It understood what the other meant; the Crystal Field was appearing for the first time, meaning that it had nothing to do with the Mythical Era.

Thus, that thing was scarcely related to the Mythical Transformation. However, the Hao Chun Bird seemed to have used this Ultimate Move by borrowing the power of Mythical Transformation, suggesting that...

"Mythical Transformation likely just provided it with a source of power, meaning its current power might be insufficient to support its use of this Ultimate Move. Additionally, since you haven’t heard of Crystal Field Awakening, it indicates that not many Spirit Beasts can master this ability."

Feng Yuan rubbed his chin and looked at Agunas, saying about the specifics of Crystal Field Awakening; not just Feng Yuan, but even Veronia and they too were unclear about it. Although it seemed related to Mythical Transformation, as Tamur said, Mythical Transformation could not create Mythical Era Ultimate Moves ex nihilo that didn’t exist.

And the Crystal Field wasn’t a product of the Mythical Era, indicating that the Hao Chun Bird’s Domain Awakening was likely its innate ability, but why it couldn’t be used before the Mythical Transformation, Feng Yuan guessed it was due to its own lack of energy.

After all, the awakened Crystal Field had even begun permanently altering the environment, something entirely impossible for a Crystal Field to do. With such a powerful effect, having extra restrictions seemed unsurprising.

Unfortunately, Feng Yuan also couldn’t determine what the specific situation was. At least for now, understanding Domain Awakening would require the Hao Chun Bird’s cooperation.

While Feng Yuan, Agunas, and the others were discussing Crystal Field Awakening, Qi Chen and the others successfully advanced to stand before that fire-red pearl.

The enormous fire-red pearl, with an estimated diameter exceeding one meter, quietly hovered in the air. The closer they got to the fire-red pearl, the higher the air temperature became, even causing Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound to avoid approaching the fire-red pearl.

"Is this the Lava Mother Pearl?"

Dou Yanlan and Feng Yuan said in surprise simultaneously. Around that fire-red pearl was a colossal shell phantom characteristic of the Lava Mother Pearl. Though the shell phantom appeared illusory, it actually possessed Legendary Level defensive power.

Compared to the Heart of Nature, attempting to move this thing without special means was futile.

After all, it could anchor itself in space, and coupled with its robust shell and the freely released lava barrage, even though it is classified as a special non-living matter, it wasn’t something an ordinary person could approach.

Perhaps this was why the academy dared to fix it in place. After all, for a group of students to try to move this thing, the difficulty was no trifling matter.

"This... special non-living treasure is indeed... incredible."

Qi Chen marveled at the fire-red shell that closed and solidified upon someone’s approach and the lava flow that spontaneously erupted around the shell.

A special non-living matter is a name given by humans to this type of special substance because human and Divine Beast analyses determine these do not belong to living organisms, not even to unintelligent but living plants.

Yet, despite lacking life characteristics, they still possessed some form of biological reaction in a highly specific manner.

For instance, the Lava Mother Pearl’s main body was the fire-red pearl, and both the outer shell and the surrounding lava were energy condensates it released.

As living beings approached, the Lava Mother Pearl would exhibit a defensive reaction akin to a creature confronting an external threat. Initially, some suspected it was a particular life form, but after multiple tests, it was found unrelated to life reactions.

Rather than a life reaction, it’s more about the energy rules constituting its structure reacting and counterattacking according to natural principles.

Because its actions are more akin to performing a constant, particular counterattack Ultimate Move, it was categorized under special non-living matter.

"Strange, where’s the reward? Surely it doesn’t expect us to smash the Lava Mother Pearl? Even though it’s just the energy shell from the Lava Mother Pearl, repeated breaking could affect the Lava Mother Pearl’s quality."

Rubbing his chin, Feng Yuan puzzledly said as the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound glanced at him and braved the heat to take a few steps forward. At that moment, something in the surrounding lava pool was brewing, and in the next moment, numerous fire pillars erupted from the lava pool.

Watching the erupting lava pillars around, Feng Yuan said with a peculiar expression,

"This kind of looks like fireworks, huh? Could the reward here be a special firework display?"

"It doesn’t seem like it. Look over there."

Veronia pointed to the front-left, where a fire-red gemstone emerged from the lava pillars. Feng Yuan restrained the eager Fluffy Fire Wolfhound and calculated the landing point, saying,

"So we need to figure out how to catch this thing? That’s quite a challenge."

Although saying this, Feng Yuan wasn’t too troubled. With a wave of his hand, an energy-formed black glove borrowed from Xiao Ji shot out and caught the quickly falling gemstone.

The gemstone, radiating high heat, attempted to melt through the glove, but fortunately, the glove was an energy condensate, and mere ordinary high temperatures couldn’t defeat it.

On the contrary, the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound beside Feng Yuan felt a pang of fear, realizing that if it had rushed up to grab that gemstone, it might not have...