Chapter 1: Black Cannon? Dark Holy Dragon Hatchling
Heaven Dou Empire,
Five hundred miles away from Heaven Dou City, the center of the Heaven Dou Plains, lies a continuous range of spectacular and beautiful mountains. Shrouded in mist, it looks like an isolated fairyland.
Nestled within these mountain ranges are hundreds of simple and elegant houses, arranged in an orderly fashion along the slopes. Their presence is as grand as a rainbow, resembling a swimming dragon coiled in place.
This very place is the home of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, one of the Upper Three Sects, renowned for possessing the World's number one Beast Spirit.
At this moment, the annual Spirit Awakening Ceremony is being held in the main hall atop the Sect Master's peak. Looking across the hall, over 80 core disciples of the Sect are lined up in an orderly fashion.
"The Awakening Ceremony begins now."
Standing at the very end of the line was a six-year-old boy with a thin frame, a sallow complexion, and standing half a head shorter than his peers.
The boy's name is Long Qianming, also known as Yu Qianming. He is a transmigrator from another World. Originally the youngest practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, perhaps the heavens were jealous of his talent;
While out on a house call, he was struck and killed by an out-of-control truck, eventually arriving in this familiar yet foreign World.
What a pity! Long Qianming is the illegitimate son of the current Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect Master—Yu Yuanzhen—born from a drunken mistake with a maid. He is even the eldest son.
Since the day he was born, he has been loathed and abandoned by Yu Yuanzhen, deemed unworthy of even a proper name or generational rank.
Knowing that his mother suffered from a severe postpartum illness, Yu Yuanzhen not only refused to provide medicine but also indulged his wife in her frantic physical and verbal abuse of both his mother and himself.
Finally, when Long Qianming was two years old, his mother passed away, unable to endure any more pain.
Alone and without support, possessing no cultivation resources and carrying old injuries, Long Qianming relied on doing manual labor to trade for daily food and barely scrape by.
Despite the hardships, Long Qianming refused to give up. Relying on his meager and unpresentable status as an illegitimate son,
He brazenly secured an opportunity to enter the side hall of the Sect's library every three days to browse books on Spirits and Spirit Beasts for one hour.
And if Yu Yuanzhen hadn't suddenly remembered he had such a son today, this Awakening Ceremony likely would have had nothing to do with him.
"Young Master, you go first!"
As the gentle voice of the Clan Elder in charge of the awakening faded, the elegant and noble-looking Yu Xiaogang walked to the center of the Awakening Formation.
"Young Master, stay calm. Don't be nervous."
"Spirit Possession."
A phantom of a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon appeared behind him, majestic and vivid. Six standard-configuration spirit rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black—emerged one by one. The Clan Elder injected a stream of pale blue spirit power into the Awakening Formation.
In an instant, the Awakening Formation burst with dazzling golden light. A Spirit that looked like a cross between a pig and a dog—purple all over with large ears—transformed from phantom to reality, circling frantically around Yu Xiaogang.
"Luo, luo luo—"
The pig-like squeals echoed through the hall, and the children present burst into laughter.
"It's a stupid pig. This kind of mutated Spirit is incredibly weak."
"Silence."
The voice echoed through the hall, and the noisy room immediately fell into a solemn silence. At this moment, Yu Yuanzhen, sitting upon the Sect Master's throne, was seeing a Beast Spirit that could manifest outside the body for the first time. Although his son hadn't awakened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, this Spirit that could leave the body was truly unique.
Could it perhaps bring him another kind of surprise?
Under Yu Yuanzhen's instruction, the Clan Elder continued the unfinished spirit power test. However, the crystal ball used for testing spirit power only emitted a tiny flicker of light.
"innate spirit power... half, half a rank."
Yu Xiaogang, the person involved, suffered a mental breakdown. Why? Why was it like this? He was clearly the most pampered disciple in the entire Sect with the most cultivation resources, and the future Young Sect Master, yet he had awakened a trash Spirit.
He looked down at the tail-wagging Luo San Pao with extreme disdain.
Yu Yuanzhen also hadn't expected that his biological son's unique mutated Spirit would be such garbage, not even reaching innate spirit power rank five.
Wasn't this a slap in his face, saying he was incompetent?
"Xiaogang, go stand to the side for now."
Yu Yuanzhen's eyes were full of disappointment. It seemed he would have to have another Child to inherit the Sect Master's position.
But Xiaogang was his first son after all, and he had shown a love for learning since childhood. If he couldn't become a Spirit Master in the future, he would just be sent to manage the family businesses.
Subsequently, the Spirit Awakening Ceremony continued, and one core disciple after another awakened their Spirits.
"Yu Xiaolie, Spirit: Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, innate spirit power: rank six."
"Yu Xiaotian, Spirit: Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, innate spirit power: rank five."
... "Yu Xiaokong, Spirit: Thunder Spider, innate spirit power: rank six."
As time passed minute by minute, the 80 disciples finished their awakenings. Over fifty percent of the children had awakened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul with spirit power no lower than rank five. Even among the five children who awakened mutated Spirits, their lowest spirit power was rank three.
In the eyes of Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yuanzhen, all of this felt like a giant boulder weighing heavily on their chests. Especially for Yu Xiaogang; his fists were clenched, his teeth gritted, and his body felt as if it were being stared at by thousands of terrifying eyes, making him extremely uncomfortable.
However, in the next second, the Clan Elder frowned and called out the last name on the list,
"Yu Qianming."
"Yu Qianming? Who is that? Is there such a person in the Sect?" Many of the children who had finished their awakening looked at each other until their eyes collectively swept to Long Qianming standing at the very end of the hall; only then did they realize his existence.
Long Qianming walked forward. He looked at his peers, whose eyes were filled with mockery, and at the Sect Elders sitting at the front, who were full of disdain for him. He was neither happy nor angry.
"I only want my mother's Bat Spirit, even if it's only rank one innate spirit power. I'd rather not have this Sect's Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul."
Long Qianming prayed frantically in his heart. It wasn't until he stepped into the formation and relaxed his entire body and mind that he felt a moment of warmth.
Yu Yuanzhen looked at the bastard before him. Although he really didn't want this wretched Child to awaken the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and thus defile the Yu family bloodline, now he was the only one who could save his pride.
If he could awaken the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, then as his father, he would reluctantly agree to acknowledge him as a son and allow him to return to the clan.
At this moment, within the Awakening Formation, as spirit power was injected, the dazzling golden light bloomed once more.
A Spirit appeared before Long Qianming—pitch black all over with black eyes and golden pupils, large ears, looking like a cross between a pig and a dog. However, his Spirit was emitting black gas and was lying on the ground as if it were sick, looking particularly distressed.
"Luo San Pao?"
"No, it's Black Cannon!!!"
Seeing this, Long Qianming couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"Jie jie jie—"
His laughter contained both bitterness and endless joy. At this moment, he didn't know what to say, so he withdrew the Spirit back into his body.
Seeing this from the Sect Master's throne, Yu Yuanzhen crushed the stone of his armrest. He stood up in anger,
"No need to test his spirit power. This wretch—"
Yu Yuanzhen, who had almost blurted out the word 'bastard,' paused for a moment, fearing the juniors present would find out he had an illegitimate son, and continued his angry rebuke,
"This trash of a Child, let him—"
Before Yu Yuanzhen could finish, Yu Xiaogang, who was terrified, summoned his courage and stood forward,
"Father, all disciples in the Sect should be treated equally. Although Yu Qianming's Spirit seems weaker than mine, what if his innate spirit power is higher? Wouldn't we be missing out on a potential genius?"
Yu Xiaogang smiled at Long Qianming. He hoped that this disliked Elder brother's awakened innate spirit power would be even lower than his own.
That way, his brother could attract all of his father's anger and the mocking gazes of others, indirectly proving that he, Yu Xiaogang, was not the weakest person in the Sect.
According to the basic theories he had read over the past two years, innate spirit power is proportional to the quality of the Spirit. Since both possessed Beast Spirits that manifested outside the body, his own pig-like Spirit was clearly much stronger than that black pig, so his innate spirit power would definitely be higher than Long Qianming's.