At this moment, in the room, accompanied by the cold and mechanical voice of the System echoing in his mind, the slight drowsiness Liu Yuan had just felt vanished instantly.
He opened his eyes wide, a sharp glint flashing deep within them, his consciousness fully immersed in the mission panel within his mind.
"Another special mission?"
Liu Yuan suppressed his excitement and read every word of the mission carefully.
When he finished reading all the information, an indescribable radiance erupted in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up uncontrollably.
This was truly a massive surprise!
According to his original plan, the next god-bestowed spirit ring would require him to diligently check in at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy for three months to obtain it.
Although that was a guaranteed reward, the process was undoubtedly long and full of variables.
But now, the System had unexpectedly released such a simple and direct side mission!
"All I need to do is summon Mega Rayquaza outside Capital City to obtain it? This is a huge win!" Liu Yuan's heart began to beat uncontrollably.
As for the mission itself, to put it bluntly, it was completely effortless.
Compared to the time-limited mission in the Sunset Forest where he had to personally slay the ten-thousand-year Spirit Beast "Black Gold Horned Bull Beast," the requirements for this mission were practically a freebie.
The only risk was that the commotion might be too great, attracting the prying eyes of top experts from the Sun Moon Empire or Evil Soul Masters.
After all, for the current Liu Yuan, his Spirit was still too special, so special that it was the only one of its kind in the entire Douluo Continent.
As the saying goes, people's hearts are unpredictable; until Liu Yuan truly possessed the ability to handle everything, he didn't want to expose something that defied common sense.
He didn't want to be captured and taken to a laboratory for research.
But Liu Yuan thought about it again; when he displayed his Spirit at Shrek Academy, he hadn't been discovered, let alone in a place like Capital City.
He just needed to be quick and efficient.
Thinking of this, Liu Yuan didn't hesitate any longer and quickly hurried out of the hotel.
After leaving the hotel entrance, Liu Yuan headed outside the city.
Along the way, his heart was filled with infinite anticipation for the new skill he was about to acquire.
"I only have one 'Extreme Speed' Spirit Ability now. Although my speed is maxed out, it is not a 'native' skill of Rayquaza, and its power isn't quite enough..."
"If I could get a powerful attack skill of the same type this time, like 'Dragon Ascent,' that would be even better!"
Carrying this burning anticipation, Liu Yuan's figure turned into a faint phantom under the night sky, his speed becoming faster and faster.
In the blink of an eye, Liu Yuan arrived at the mission location.
There was a small forest nearby, but there were no Spirit Beasts inside, and because it was night, there was no one else present either.
He took a deep breath and no longer suppressed the spirit power within his body.
That vast and powerful aura originating from Mega Rayquaza surged into the sky without reservation!
"Come out, Mega Rayquaza!"
Boom—!
In an instant, the wind and clouds changed color, and the firmament trembled!
A divine radiance, interwoven with incomparably brilliant emerald green and gold, erupted from Liu Yuan's body and shot straight into the clouds.
The sparse stars and moon in the night sky instantly paled, as if the entire sky had been ignited by this light.
Following that, a divine figure, so vast it defied description, slowly coalesced within the light.
Its entire body was covered in emerald green dragon scales, as if carved from the purest emerald gemstone, with golden patterns flowing upon them, outlining profound and majestic totems.
Two golden energy ribbons floated out from the "long whiskers" on its lower jaw, tracing graceful arcs in the air, full of sacred and elegant beauty.
Mega Rayquaza, descend!
With its appearance, the exclusive ability "Delta Stream" was activated with a boom!
An invisible, higher-order force of Law instantly enveloped the sky for a hundred miles.
The originally calm night sky was replaced by a mysterious emerald green turbulence; the wild wind howled, yet it carried a strange sense of order, as if even the flow of the wind was bowing down to this King of the Sky.
This earth-shattering scene immediately alarmed the massive city not far away.
"Heavens! That... what is that?!"
Inside Capital City, countless civilians who had just finished their day's work and were strolling on the streets stopped in their tracks at almost the same time, looking up at the sky in the east of the city in horror.
"Dragon! How terrifying!" A child was scared into hiding in their mother's arms, but their eyes were fixed on the majestic figure coiled in the sky, their expression filled with fear and yearning.
"Look! The sky has turned green! What on earth is going on?" More people looked toward the sky with faces full of fear.
Soon, the entire Capital City was completely plunged into immense shock and chaos!
Meanwhile, in the Imperial Study of the Sun Moon Empire palace.
Wearing a golden robe with a majestic face, the Sun Moon Emperor Xu Tianhan was frowning as he reviewed military reports from the front lines.
However, just at this moment, the door to the study was slammed open.
"Father! Father! Hurry out and look!"
The Sun Moon Empire's princess, Xu Tianzhen, ran in holding up her skirt, her face full of panic, and her expression written with disbelief.
"Outside... there is such a huge, huge Spirit Beast outside!"
"Tianzhen, stop being mischievous! Don't you see your father is handling official business?" Xu Tianhan frowned and reprimanded in a deep voice.
"It's not, Father! It's real!" The little princess was so anxious she was about to cry. "You have to go look!"
Seeing his daughter's expression of genuine terror, Xu Tianhan's heart stirred. He put down the vermilion brush in his hand, stood up, and walked to the window.
With just a casual glance, his majestic face, which never changed in ten thousand years, instantly froze.
What did he see?
A giant dragon, so vast it blotted out the sky, coiled under the night curtain to the east of Capital City.
Its majesty, its sanctity—even from such a great distance, it made Xu Tianhan, an emperor accustomed to countless grand scenes, feel a tremor and insignificance from the depths of his Soul.
"This... what kind of Spirit Beast is this?"
Xu Tianhan's voice trembled uncontrollably:
"Such a physique, such spirit... One hundred thousand years? No, ordinary one-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts are like infants before it! This is definitely a Vicious Beast with a cultivation of over two hundred thousand years!"
"But... why, why is it that in my memory, or even in all the Vicious Beast rankings recorded by the royal family, there has never been any record of this kind of Spirit Beast?"
That pressure, which stood above heaven and earth, and that terrifying ability to change the weather, had completely exceeded his cognitive scope!
"Someone, come!" Xu Tianhan turned around abruptly and shouted sternly toward the door, "Pass on my decree! Dispatch the Soul Engineers from Mingde Hall! Immediately head to the east of the city to investigate! You must find out exactly what sacred being that is!"
At the same moment, in the residence of Jing Hongchen in Capital City.
In the dining room, the lights were bright, and the scene was one of harmony.
The grandfather and his two grandchildren, Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen, were sitting around the dining table, enjoying a sumptuous dinner.
At the dining table, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were enthusiastically telling their grandfather about their experience of meeting Liu Yuan in the Sunset Forest, and about Liu Yuan's stunning, Genius-level talent.
"Grandfather, you didn't see it! Brother Liu Yuan killed three Evil Soul Master Spirit Kings and one Evil Soul Master Spirit Emperor in a single encounter!"
"Shrek's Xuan Zi is truly blind and senile; he actually kicked out such a peerless Genius just because of some personal grudge!"
Xiao Hongchen's tone was filled with disdain for Shrek and admiration for Liu Yuan.
Jing Hongchen held a wine glass and listened quietly, sharp light flickering in his aged eyes.
When he heard Xiao Hongchen finish, he slammed the wine glass onto the table with a crisp sound, his face full of irrepressible joy:
"Good! Good! I didn't expect that you two would meet such a Genius on this trip and even bring him back to our Sun Moon Royal Academy?"
"Xiaoer, Meng'er, you have made a tremendous contribution to the academy this time!"
He sneered and continued: "That bunch of idiots at Shrek, they are truly ignorant, actually giving up a prodigy destined to shake the continent in the future. Stupid! Simply stupid to the extreme!"
"Exactly, exactly!" Meng Hongchen quickly agreed. She shook Jing Hongchen's arm and said coquettishly:
"So, Grandfather, you mustn't be as foolish as Shrek and treat a talented Disciple badly! Brother Liu Yuan is so amazing! You must give him the best treatment!"
Jing Hongchen was amused by his granddaughter and laughed, dotingly scratching her nose: "Don't you worry, Little Meng, do I look like that kind of fool?"
"For a true Genius, our Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy has never been stingy with any resources!"
The family continued to eat.
It was also at this moment that a sudden change occurred!
An indescribable, terrifying pressure came sweeping over from the east of the city like an invisible tide.
This pressure was not just a simple suppression of spirit power, but a deeper, absolute suppression that seemed to come from the level of Law!
The lights in the dining room flickered violently, and the cups and plates on the table emitted a faint humming sound, as if they were afraid of something.
The smile on Jing Hongchen's face froze instantly, replaced by shock and horror.
He stood up abruptly, strode to the window, and looked at the sky that had been dyed emerald green, and at the sacred and majestic figure in the sky.
"This... what's going on?" Jing Hongchen muttered, his body trembling slightly with excitement, "This aura... this kind of power... to actually be able to trigger the Laws of Heaven and Earth! What is going on?"
He turned around abruptly and shouted in a deep voice to his grandson and granddaughter, who were also full of shock: "Xiaoer! Meng'er! Quick! Come with Grandfather to take a look!"