Chapter 442 — An Enviable Reward

Those demigod powerhouses were utterly silent. A mythic species—if given to them to raise, their nation would undoubtedly gain another great general!!

These demigod powerhouses, though not beastmasters and thus unable to contract pets, were all cultivating subordinates and enriching their influence.

Take the Totem King Yun'an of a thousand years past—while being a demigod himself, he also commanded twelve great generals of totem-level strength.

It could be said that if not for the other powerful beastmasters and guardian deities of the Martial Emperor Dynasty, the Martial Emperor alone could never have dealt with the Yun Clan.

King against king, general against general—ancient or modern warfare, it has always been this way. So even a totem nation was intensely eager for a cub with mythical potential, eyes burning with envy.

Shi Tan's announced reward once again drove everyone into a frenzy of jealousy.

"What's this?" Lie Shanjun narrowed his eyes. "From the look of you, you're not satisfied?"

"No, very satisfied." Shi Li—never mind, better to have something than nothing. Better see what it is first.

"Your lucky day. That god-tier cub comes from the demon race, a god-tier species. Its potential is extraordinary."

"Come, follow me." Lie Shanjun let out a great roar, and the mythic ruin where it slumbered split open directly.

A rift in the void was torn open, and Lie Shanjun entered straightaway, gesturing for Shi Su to follow.

The demon race!

At that moment, Shi Qi watched the ripples in space, his expression shifting slightly.

Meanwhile, in the outside world, hearing Lie Shanjun's words, the demon nation's demigod and the Fallen Angel Prince were both struck with disbelief.

On the side of the Nation of Glory, the Hero King, the Holy Maiden of the Church of Light, and the others could scarcely accept it.

The demon race!!

This god-tier cub that Lie Shanjun had sealed in stone actually came from the demon race?

On Blue Star, humanity currently knew of five god-tier species from the Mythic Era: in the East, the dragons, phoenixes, and qilin; in the West, dragons, angels, and demons.

Among these, the dragon species were considered to share a single origin and counted as one people.

Angels and demons were renowned in the West, and the demon race in particular was synonymous with evil, darkness, disease, and calamity—the enemy of all races!

"The demon race is the demon race. Is there a problem?"

Over on Donghuang's side, they were rather open-minded about it. The Shenyuan Legend laughed heartily; at the thought of Donghuang gaining another being with god-tier potential, he was overcome with excitement.

Shi Jin had even taken the Abyssal Demon Duck into the second team—so what was one more demon?

The demon race might have a foul reputation, but with proper rearing, what did that signify? The mechanical attribute was reviled in the totem nation too, was it not?

Just then, as Shi Jin followed Lie Shanjun into the mythic ruin, the assembled gods, with the World Tree at their head, all fell silent. Among them, the Demon Dragon's eyes swirled for a long while before it exhaled a gout of dragon breath.

"This is dull. Are we still waiting for that Jiaqi to finish searching for godstones? To finish inspecting the mechanical attribute? Can my trial begin first?"

Inside Lie Shanjun's mythic ruin.

This place resembled rolling ranges of great mountains, a landscape entirely of rock.

After Shi Jin followed Lie Shanjun inside, he immediately caught sight of the colossal Godstone before him.

It was reddish-brown throughout and looked utterly ordinary; apart from bearing intense traces of time, Shi Jin could see nothing special about it at all.

Lie Shanjun stood beside the enormous red-brown godstone and said, "Wait a moment for me while I revive this godstone."

"That way, even without waiting for the Mythic Revival, once it has adapted to this era, it can break out of the stone."

"Lord Lie Shanjun, you said just now that it is of the demon race?" At this, Shi Jue could not help but take some interest.

"A fallen angel??"

"No." Lie Shanjun placed its massive tiger paw on the red-brown godstone. "Fallen angels are merely angels who have fallen into the demon race—just one member among the many of the demon race."

"Just as the wind qilin is but one branch of the qilin species."

"This Jiaqi, if classified by attribute and species, should count as a poison-type demon." Lie Shanjun's mouth split in a grin. "That branch, using the cosmic virus from the meteorites beyond the sky, completed a new evolution—a mutant strain within the demon race, you might say." … "Poison-type?" Shi Zhuo was slightly taken aback. "Could it be connected to the Abyssal Evil God?"

If that were so, it would be even more out of the question to keep it. One Duckie was already enough to give Susu a headache.

No—even if it were unrelated, Susu probably would not care for poison-types.

"Unrelated. The starry sky is full of vast secrets; not everything has to do with the abyssal races," Lie Shanjun said.

"Speaking of which, you humans seem to be visitors from beyond the heavens. Though you have been remade into a native species, that gift of yours is truly remarkable."

"No wonder the will of the planet favors you."

Lie Shanjun's gaze burned bright. Ah, what a pity it was unsuited to waging war across the starry sky—otherwise it would never have slumbered, but would have left Blue Star with another batch of Jiaqi.

Splash.

At that moment, after hearing Lie Shanjun's words, Shi Jin's heart gave a violent throb.

For an instant, he had nearly thought Lie Shanjun was calling him a visitor from beyond the heavens—had seen through his identity as a transmigrator—and it gave him a fright. After all, even the World Tree had not noticed. But listening on, he realized Lie Shanjun meant the human race—the entire human race were visitors from beyond the heavens.

had been remodeled into a native species of Blue Star.

Shi Jin's expression grew slightly grave, frozen, as he looked at Lie Shanjun and said, "What... what did you just say??"

"The human race wasn't originally a native species of Blue Star??"

"You didn't know?"

Lie Shanjun was taken aback. Seeing Shi Jin's astonished expression, it immediately shut its mouth, but then the corner of its mouth twitched as it said, "Ah, never mind. It's probably not something worth hiding anyway. I don't know much about it myself—go ask the World Tree. Just don't say I told you."

"If you can obtain the World Tree's blessing, it should tell you."

At this moment, Shi Yingxin was not calm at all—suddenly, she was rather shocked. Wait a moment. If humans were not native to Blue Star, then where did the first generation of humans come from?

From the starry sky? Or from Earth?! Or perhaps Earth also existed somewhere in the starry sky, a starry-sky secret realm similar to Blue Star?

Could the divine beasts of Blue Star have even been to Earth? Or was Earth not so simple after all—did gods exist on Earth and descend upon Blue Star?

Thinking carefully, Blue Star and Earth were indeed bound by countless threads of connection. Many myths were shared between them. Even Shi Yingxin's soul domain had only been cultivated thanks to the wondrous relics of Earth—not to mention the characters resembling the Iron-Eater's inscriptions that had been seen on Earth.

"Perhaps the World Tree really does know the connection between Earth and Blue Star." Shi Jin's expression turned solemn. This was the thing he most wanted to understand since his transmigration.

After the World Tournament ended, he hoped to obtain more intelligence from the World Tree. If a connection existed between the two worlds, he wondered whether he might still have a chance to return to Earth and take a look. With his current abilities, he should be able to explore all of Earth's ruins in a very short time.