And he could happily be a gambling addict again.

The little White Dragon—whoever wanted it could have it.

"What a pity." The Sea Dragon King also sighed with feeling.

"Then let us see whether there is a suitable match at the Dragon Palace Banquet," it said.

"All right." Shi Heng nodded, having had exactly that in mind, and would take another look then.

Yeah, just now there had been a whole pile of shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and he had not had time to look at them.

He had to go see them all!

"By the way, you said just now that you came to visit me at the request of that butterfly—was there some matter?"

The Sea Dragon King suddenly realized and asked.

It had not been in contact with that butterfly for a long time either; it had left the other a token, but the other had never used it, nor come to visit. Now giving the token to someone else—what did that mean?

"This..." Shi Zhuo was slightly taken aback, then said: "Actually, I have a beast that completed its evolution under the Butterfly God's blessing. Before evolving, that beast accidentally swallowed a dragon pearl, which caused some abnormalities during evolution. Even the Butterfly God could not figure out who the owner of that dragon pearl was. It thought Lord Sea Dragon King might know, so it had me come ask."

"Hm?" The Sea Dragon King was startled.

"One that could be blessed by it to evolve... your beast, is it a Green Silk Worm?"

"Yes, at first it was a Green Silk Worm, but now, thanks to the dragon pearl, it has evolved into a butterfly-type."

"Can you summon it so I can take a look?" said the Sea Dragon King.

"Sure." Shi Heng nodded.

The next moment, a massive blue ripple of void appeared behind him, and Chongchong was summoned by Shi Jin in its normal form.

"Mmm~~~" The incomparably magnificent Butterfly of Reverie appeared, its whole body radiating a faint dragon might, which instantly drew the Sea Dragon King's entire attention to it.

At that, its heart gave a violent jolt.

Though it was only a cursory observation, somehow it felt as though this butterfly was even stronger than the son it had carefully nurtured...

How could that be?

"Mm-hm~ (Lord Sea Dragon King, Dragon Mama.)" After emerging, Bug Bug also greeted the Sea Dragon King and the Frost Dragon.

Frost Dragon: ?

Sea Dragon King: ???

"Scram! Who's your mother? From now on you're not allowed to use my dragon whiskers to shapeshift into nonsense again!!" the Frost Dragon roared.

The Sea Dragon King did not understand, but it was profoundly shaken, and could only feel that this circle was truly a mess.

Fortunately, Little Crimson Eye had not been summoned out by Shi Jin; otherwise, one more cry of "Mama," witnessed by the Sea Dragon King, would have shaken it for a whole year.

"Bug Bug," Shi Jin called out. The next moment, Bug Bug nodded and immediately activated Dragon of Imagination. Thereupon, the surrounding space split open, and countless spatial rifts surfaced.

Among the clouds in the secret realm's sky, a colossal phantom of a body flickered in and out of view, gradually coalescing into the form of a divine dragon—an enormous Eastern divine dragon with a serpentine frame covered in blue-white scales, ceaselessly drifting and coiling in the sky, its scales glittering so brightly as to dazzle the eye.

Beneath its gaze, across from it, the Sea Dragon King was instantly struck dumb.

The next moment, with a mighty roar from the divine dragon, the peerless phantom flew in an instant toward Bug Bug and coiled itself behind it. At this very moment, the Imaginary Butterfly—which in the Sea Dragon King's perception had been only slightly stronger than its own child at the same growth tier—saw its aura surge in an instant, as though it could now effortlessly crush the White Cang Dragon.

This transformation made the Sea Dragon King find the situation even more absurd.

It seemed... the White Cang Dragon had not told the Sea Dragon King about being humbled before the four beasts—Eleven, Bug Bug, and the others.

"Lord Sea Dragon King, this is the phantom of the divine dragon materialized after my beast activated the power of the dragon pearl," Shi Jin said the moment Bug Bug used Dragon of Imagination.

At this moment, the Sea Dragon King gazed at the enormous divine dragon body enveloping Bug Bug and sank directly into deep thought.

"This..."

Its mind raced through its memories, and it could not shake the feeling that it had sensed a similar power fluctuation somewhere before.

"Lord Sea Dragon King, can you recognize the race of the dragon pearl's owner?"

"Could it be..."

The Sea Dragon King stared fixedly at the Dragon of Imagination, its expression growing graver and graver, until at last it said in disbelief: "Could it be... a Shen Dragon??"

"A Shen Dragon???"

Shi Jin was stunned. Wasn't the Shen Dragon covered in golden-green scales???

Wait... the Shen Dragon in his memory was probably the Earth version of the name; better hear the Sea Dragon King out first.

The Sea Dragon King said: "It is a mysterious, powerful, and haughtily self-regarding clan of enigmatic dragons. It rarely shows its true face, preferring instead to remain in the forms of low-key birds, shells, or even dragon pearls."

"The Shen Dragon is a race extremely close to mythical creatures, possessing tremendous brute force. But what the dragon clans truly revere about the Shen Dragon is its endless and profoundly esoteric magic. Through this magic, it can effortlessly create illusory worlds that deceive all living beings, and just as easily alter the weather."

"Thus it is also called the Phantom Divine Dragon. Most importantly, the reason I know so much is that the Shen Dragon was, in the Totem Era tens of thousands of years ago, a Dragon God of a certain generation of Shenyuan City. It left the will of a Dragon God imprinted within the Dragon God Ruins. I have been to the Dragon God Ruins, and even clashed with the will of the Shen Dragon God, so..."

"But how could that be..."

It looked toward Cen Yu and Bug Bug and said: "That dragon pearl it absorbed—how could it possibly belong to the Shen Dragon God? How could a Dragon God's dragon pearl have been lost out in the world?"

"Holy shit." Once the Sea Dragon King finished speaking, though the Frost Dragon did not fully understand what was going on, it too now stared at Bug Bug in shock. This little thing had evolved by absorbing a Dragon God's dragon pearl???

Though Shenyuan City might have had a hundred generations of Dragon Gods, whichever generation it was, each had been a demigod-level super dragon clan. Their dragon pearls... were treasures beyond price, second only to mythical-grade resources.

"This..." Hearing the Sea Dragon King's words, even Shi Jin and Bug Bug were momentarily stunned.

Holy shit.

The dragon pearl of a certain generation of Shenyuan City's Dragon God???

Mother of god.

When the Gem Cat obtained this dragon pearl, its energy had already withered to nothing, degrading into a tier-four resource. But the pearl's original owner was this incredible? A demigod-level existence on par with Yun'an?

"Mm~~" As it listened, Bug Bug grew exhilarated. No wonder it had gained such a powerful skill as Dragon of Imagination—so the pearl's owner was a Dragon God versed in illusion arts?

"So even you do not know how the Shen Dragon God's dragon pearl came to be lost in the outside world..." Shi Jin said.

"No idea. The reign of the Shen Dragon God dates back at least nearly a hundred thousand years. Who could remember matters from that long ago? In the interim, who knows how many generations of Dragon Gods have changed. However, the will of the Shen Dragon God does exist within the Dragon God Ruins... this much I can confirm..."

"When Senior Frost Dragon enters, perhaps it can search carefully and see." The Sea Dragon King looked toward the Frost Dragon.