Divine Beast Creator

The good news Najia brought made Feng Yuan and his party, who originally wanted to celebrate, heavy-hearted. Qi Chen and the others were somewhat better off, as this matter was beyond their involvement, but they too were worried about Feng Yuan.

This matter had become increasingly bizarre, causing them to doubt whether a conspiracy far grander than the scheme devised by Quine was afoot.

No, if even time couldn’t leave a trace, then it might not be a conspiracy anymore; it should be called an overwhelming force that could not be resisted. Even for the Divine Beasts, changing the outcome would be fraught with difficulties.

"What exactly have they done... In Kui Shan Town, there shouldn’t be anything worth investigating, yet there’s still so much missing."

Feng Yuan pondered this, rubbing his chin. He had suspected more than once that this change was related to those people, but now there was no evidence pointing directly to them.

An analysis of the situation learned from Najia showed that the abnormal time occurrence coincided almost exactly with when Qi Chen and the others discovered the change in potion properties.

Because of this, he could determine that the point of mutation should be around the time before their final assessments.

However, the changes in Kui Shan Town had already begun before the National Day. If it really was them, this timing seemed a bit late.

Thinking of something, Feng Yuan looked at Najia and said,

"Could you help inquire if any other Divine Beasts like Nagna have experienced a situation similar to yours? If such instances exist, when did they initially occur?"

Najia nodded and began inquiring within the Divine Beasts’ information network while Veronia glanced at Feng Yuan and said,

"Are you planning to determine if it’s related to those people based on time and area?"

"Yes, if it’s just the potion, that method wouldn’t work. However, since even the Divine Beasts are affected now, if I guess correctly, similar beings to Nagna should also exist. They are a key clue in tracing the origin."

Agunas shifted attention over here, flicked its tail, and also entered the Divine Beasts’ information network.

It understood Feng Yuan’s intention; unlike potions, even non-Time Series Divine Beasts are inherently immune to some extent of temporal corrections. This means they would not be affected by temporal corrections to have a false perception of the time of changes.

As for the scope, it was simpler.

Beings like Najia, with dual nature, have examples like Nagna. As a Divine Beast of life, its overly singular traits give it duality similar to Najia’s.

In other words, it can switch between two forms, each with different behaviors.

This is a feature of Life Divine Beasts. Unlike unique world-level beasts like Agunas, Life Divine Beasts belong to specific regions—each region can only have one, yet each region will have one.

Based on their feedback, the initial mutation time and approximate region can be determined.

Although precise determination down to a country or area is impossible, it can serve as an important reference.

Amidst the group’s anxious mood, Agunas and Najia quickly grasped the rough situation. Although Veronia didn’t speak, she continued to pay attention to the messages in the Divine Beasts’ information network.

Precisely because this matter was significant, what used to be a constant stream of messages in the information network now only contained communications and summaries from Agunas and the others.

"At the same time, changes happened in all regions. It doesn’t seem like it’s them,"

Veronia glanced at Feng Yuan and said, stroking her chin, while Feng Yuan replied,

"The accuracy of time shouldn’t be so high. After all, different beasts have different sensitivities to changes. However, the error margin isn’t large. If global changes occur at the same time, even if it’s not them, it’s a very dangerous presence."

"Exactly, at least we can’t change the rules of the world so quickly."

Veronia nodded, not saying more. Though they gained some important clues, deducing anything merely from those clues was nearly impossible.

As for whether it could be changes originating from the world itself, neither Veronia nor Feng Yuan believed that probable.

Because any change within the world requires a necessary reason.

Just like the emergence of Meteorite Spirit Beasts, which was guided by the world itself after long preparation. Their presence enriches the composition of Spirit Beasts and effectively alleviates meteorite issues brought by the Starry Sky.

The Data Domain, on the other hand, is a newly constructed world defense line, specifically to deal with external threats. As for the recently contentious Crystal Domain, it significantly impacts Spirit Beast battles.

These occurrences aren’t without reason, at least there’s a reason for their emergence. However, the differentiation in potion properties and dual nature shows no necessity.

On the contrary, such changes would disrupt the world order since beings like Najia usually have dual nature split between good and evil. Without division, good prevails and can curb evil-induced chaos. But if separated, who knows what evil might cause.

The havoc wrought by rampaging Divine Beasts isn’t small.

Compared to potion changes, disturbances from such mutations in Divine Beasts cause greater troubles as there are many similar beings, especially regional ones, making them even harder.

Likewise, such a massive upheaval is unlikely the doing of a Divine Beast, not having the strength and typically unable to cover world rule alterations in short order.

Gazing at Feng Yuan, Veronia said,

"I don’t have any suspect in mind. On reflection, those people probably don’t have the capability."

This instantaneous rule-changing power exceeds what’s possible within the world, and even typically, Veronia and the others couldn’t achieve this, nor stronger beings.

Regarding external powers, they might have the means, surpassing the world’s own limits potentially allows this.

Yet, they lack a motive, being entities the world rejects, permitted life only because the world allows. Such acts only make them the world’s adversary, rendering it unfeasible to act so.

As for those people? Despite the tech and power gifted by Feng Yuan, it’s inconceivable to Veronia they could modify world rules in one go.

"If not them, perhaps Agunas might be capable."

Feng Yuan murmured, glancing at Agunas, though he did not suspect it truly.

Flicking its tail, Agunas replied,

"I understand you, you mean temporal rupture, right? If it were that, it could be done, but you know how disruptive it is, if anyone tried it, we’d know."

Agunas knew Feng Yuan wasn’t suspicious, but temporal rupture is Time Divine Beast ability, creating large disturbances in the Time River during use, none could hide it.

Agunas doubted anyone employed temporal rupture here.

"Just citing possibly feasible means, nothing seems likelier than this."

Feng Yuan smiled, seeing Yang Hongzhi and others bewildered, then glanced about, seeing no eyes here, lowered his voice saying,

"Temporal rupture, a special ability of Time Divine Beasts, allows the merging at all points within the Time River, creating extreme power bursts in brief times."

"However, like Agunas said, this gathering of all-time point energy creates massive storms in the Time River. Normally, no one could use it unnoticed by us."

"Isn’t this supposed to be confidential?"

Dou Yanlan puzzled, not understanding why Feng Yuan explained this as such techniques can be inferred even without his details.

Shouldn’t such methods remain secret?

Shrugging, Feng Yuan replied with a helpless face,

"Without sharing basic info, how could I expect you to help analyze the situation?"