I Became an Evolving Lizard in a Martial Arts Novel-Chapter 294

I was never a part of this world to begin with.

I was just an ordinary person browsing the internet, a pitiful human who died unjustly without committing any crime.

When I opened my eyes again, I was inside a pure white egg. After breaking out of it, I lived the life of a lizard.

Technically, this would be called a past life.

For someone like me, parents didn’t exist.

But that didn’t mean I had no biological parents.

After all, I hatched from an egg, and there were plenty of broken eggshells scattered around me, likely belonging to my supposed siblings.

There must have been a creature that laid me.

I knew that much, but I never actively sought them out.

Survival was my priority, and some unknown parents were of no importance to me.

I won’t deny that as I grew stronger and built my own forces, I did become a little curious about them.

But it was never anything serious.

Even if I found them, I only intended to protect them—just like I had protected the centipedes and venomous insects.

I had no intention of suddenly acting like their child, and reptiles weren’t creatures that behaved that way to begin with.

Still, if I ever got the chance, I wouldn’t have minded meeting them at least once.

I wanted to ask them.

Who am I, really?

Out of all the people in the world, why was it me?

And why was I reborn in the body of a lizard?

Of course, they wouldn’t know the answer.

This wasn’t something science could explain, and a pair of mere lizards certainly wouldn’t have the answers.

But at the very least, I could have asked.

Even if their answer was meaningless, it might have lifted the weight that had been buried deep inside me.

That was what I thought.

But now, I would never get the chance to ask.

Because my parents were dead.

The wyvern’s words had only been fragments of information, and there was no proof that the gecko that died was my parent.

But instinctively, I knew.

That lizard was the one who gave birth to me.

I recalled how I looked when I first arrived in this world.

Green scales and a long tail were distinguishing features, but there were others as well.

Like my eye color.

At first, they were red.

Then they became teal.

Finally, they turned blue.

My eyes were blue now, but back then, they had definitely been red.

And anyone who knew of the previous Gomodo had said the same thing—that they all had red eyes that glowed.

Could that really be a coincidence?

There was no doubt that I and the lizard that gave birth to me were related to Gomodo.

Perhaps by blood.

A True Dragon always had at least nine children, but there were many offspring that didn’t belong to the Yongsaengguja.

If even the legendary spirit beast Gomodo had no children, that would be strange.

Given how it behaved, it was just as much of a womanizer as a True Dragon.

Of course, it would have had descendants.

But never once had I seen anyone claiming to be its descendant, nor had I heard of such a thing.

The reason was obvious.

In the end, Gomodo vanished, and the True Dragon won.

Everything related to Gomodo was erased.

Its descendants either died or had to live in hiding.

It seemed they had barely managed to avoid extinction, passing down their bloodline in secret.

But without their ancestor’s power, they must have grown weaker over time.

Just like how the Ice Dragon and the Thunderbird would have slaughtered anything bearing a trace of Gomodo, its descendants would have been hunted down.

Naturally, their strength would have faded.

Generations passed, and eventually, they degenerated into mere lizards rather than dragons.

And in the end, that led to me.

Unlike my ancestors, my body grew stronger as time passed, making me the perfect vessel for the previous Gomodo.

That was why it kept trying to take my body.

Shimma said nothing.

It wasn’t mocking me, nor had it fallen asleep.

It simply remained silent.

“...Divine Beast, are you okay?”

The Red Dragon looked at me worriedly, noticing my expression.

“Gekek.”

I responded as usual and nodded as if nothing was wrong.

I had no intention of playing the role of a child or treating them as my parents now.

There was no reason for me to be emotionally shaken over some lizards I had never even met.

I had heard enough about the past.

It was time to focus on the future and the present.

Instead of getting caught up in useless emotions, I needed to think about how to deal with the Ice Dragon.

Reading my intent, the Red Dragon shifted the topic.

“...So, do you know where the Ice Dragon is right now and what it’s doing?”

She must have been even more unsettled than me, yet she was acting more like a Divine Beast than I was.

I felt a little guilty about that.

Even if she didn’t show it much, to someone who knew me well, my earlier reaction must have seemed out of character.

“Ugh, this is ruining my mood. So, what’s the Ice Dragon’s goal?”

“The Ice Dragon... is preparing to invade the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.”

“Yeah, that much was obvious.”

The Red Dragon’s eyes demanded more than just that.

Luckily, it seemed like the wyvern we had captured possessed quite a bit of information.

It had served as a messenger, and judging by how it had been chatting with a carriage in the middle of all this, it must have held a certain level of authority.

Lower dragons might not mean much to us, but in terms of all spirit beasts, they weren’t exactly weak.

If we wanted to play it safe, the best option would be to extract all the information we could and turn it into a core afterward.

But it seemed useful enough.

If I tricked it into thinking it was infected with Go Poison and fed it some of my own venom, I’d have a loyal wyvern under my command.

At the very least, its ability to fly would come in handy.

I could use it to transport followers in emergencies.

Perhaps sensing my thoughts, the wyvern shivered slightly.

“It’s setting up strongholds and creating an environment to invade the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.”

“An environment?”

“The Ten Thousand Great Mountains is a place where all sorts of power gathers, naturally strengthening both humans and spirit beasts. While our forces do grow stronger there as well, we can’t compare to those who are native to it.”

That was something I hadn’t known, having grown up in these mountains.

But it made sense.

If places like Dragon Gate could appear within the mountains, there had to be something special about them.

Maybe the reason I had grown so much in just two years was that I had absorbed the spiritual energy of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.

“That’s why they’re trying to create an environment more favorable to the spirit beasts of Kunlun. Even if they can’t completely shift the balance, simply weakening the power of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains would be beneficial.”

The wyvern spoke cautiously, checking my reaction.

It was spilling information with ease now.

Believing it had consumed Go Poison, it had no choice but to comply.

I pried out a few more details.

I wanted more information about the Thunderbird, but unfortunately, the wyvern didn’t know much beyond what I had already learned.

At least I confirmed that the Thunderbird wasn’t here at the moment, so I needed to use that to my advantage.

“A-are you really going to fight the Ice Dragon? I-if you two die, then the Go Poison— Kyaaah! I mean, it’s just that the Ice Dragon is really strong!”

The wyvern worried about useless things.

It didn’t need to think about anything beyond its new role as a slave of the Gae Gak Sect.

Tonight, the Ice Dragon would die—by my hand and the Red Dragon’s.

*

As we walked in the direction the wyvern had indicated, we reached an area thick with an ominous chill.

The Ice Dragon hadn’t fully established its domain yet, but the energy lingering in the air was already on a different level.

If it truly wanted to, it could freeze this entire region in an instant.

We couldn’t allow that to happen.

The task before me and the Red Dragon was obvious.

Destroy this environment completely.

“Are you ready, Divine Beast?”

I gave a small nod in response to the Red Dragon’s words.

She had already transformed into her full dragon form.

We needed her maximum firepower—the greatest destructive force in Gae Gak Sect.

Sssssss.

I took in a deep breath.

My chest expanded, and the Red Dragon’s massive torso swelled in tandem.

This was a dragon’s innate ability—Breath.

A technique so absurdly powerful that even a simple exhalation was incomparable to any ordinary attack.

A dragon could fire multiple breath attacks in succession, but when given enough time, its power could be pushed to the extreme.

After all, a dragon’s breath was quite literally its essence.

I couldn’t use Breath, but I had something similar.

Kwarururung!

A beam infused with the power of thunder shot toward its target.

Kwoooom!

The searing heat melted the frost-covered ground, and in the same instant, an overwhelming surge of plant life burst forth.

Crrrack!

A dense forest sprouted in an instant.

But we weren’t done.

Our goal was destruction.

Fwoooosh!

From the Red Dragon’s maw, scorching dragon flames erupted.

Fire was at a disadvantage in this terrain, suppressed by the surrounding moisture.

After all, water naturally extinguished fire.

But at the same time, fire was born from wood.

Fwoooosh!

The vegetation I had planted in advance became fuel, amplifying the Red Dragon’s flames even further.

Vmmm!

The Fox Marble trembled slightly.

The sight of a massive wildfire consuming the newly grown forest was already spectacular, but I wasn’t satisfied just yet.

Kwakakakakang!

A raging storm surged forth.

The wind, born from the element of wood, fed the flames, fanning them into an inferno.

Fwoooooooooosh!

The once-frozen land melted away in an instant.

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Even for the Ice Dragon, reconstructing this environment would require a significant amount of internal energy.

At the very least, we had accomplished our initial goal—enough to retreat if necessary.

A gradual war of attrition would be the most effective strategy.

But neither I nor the Red Dragon intended to retreat.

To her, the Ice Dragon was a sworn enemy.

And as the Divine Beast of Gae Gak Sect, I couldn’t afford to let it go either.

Crrrraaaack.

At that moment, the ground began freezing over once more.

I knew instinctively.

The master of this domain had arrived.

Ssssssshhhh!

An immense wave of cold air surged forth, nullifying our combined assault.

The entire area was soon shrouded in white mist, forcing me to halt my attack and reassess the situation.

Click.

Through the mist, a figure emerged.

A woman with a frigid expression stepped forward.

Light gray—perhaps even pale blue—hair.

Golden eyes that could belong only to a dragon.

An outfit foreign to the Central Plains.

Even without Dragon Eyes, it was obvious who she was.

【Ice Dragon LV???】

She scanned the devastated land with an indifferent gaze before speaking in a voice filled with incomprehension.

“Why do you do this?”

There was sorrow in her eyes.

Her expression twisted slightly, as if in pain.

“Why, you ask?”

The Red Dragon scoffed in disbelief.

“Why would spirit beasts as powerful as you commit such senseless cruelty?”

“...Cruelty?”

A dry laugh escaped the Red Dragon.

“You’ve done far worse than this, and now you call this cruelty? You sure have a lot to say for someone with a mouth.”

The Ice Dragon’s eyes widened.

“...Could it be...?”

Her voice trembled with disbelief.

“Oh, do you recognize me now? You miserable bastard, even eating you alive wouldn’t be enough to make up for what you’ve done.”

Murderous intent surged from the Red Dragon, pure and unfiltered.

The Ice Dragon’s eyes locked onto her, as if I didn’t exist.

As if this space contained only the two of them.

“...Ah... Ahh....”

Tears welled up in the Ice Dragon’s golden eyes as she stared at the Red Dragon in silence.

It made no sense.

Why was she crying?

“...I’m sorry. I made a mistake.”

The Red Dragon’s expression contorted in confusion.

I couldn’t understand this situation either.

Was she about to claim she had been good all along?

“A mistake? That was a mistake? Freezing my little sister, freezing my heart—that was a mistake?”

The Red Dragon’s flames flickered wildly.

She was barely holding herself back.

If she lost her temper any further, the battle would begin instantly.

“I should have killed you back then. But I let you go by mistake.”

Of course.

“This bitch is insane.”

She was obviously unhinged.

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Just look at those eyes.

The eyes of someone... missing something essential.

“But I’m glad. Since you came to find me, I can finally set things right.”

A tear trickled down her cheek, crystallizing into a delicate snowflake before falling to the ground.

There were no more tears in her eyes.

Kwakakakakang!

A blizzard erupted instantly.

Even in a domain that wasn’t her own, she could alter the weather.

It was undeniable proof of her dragon’s authority.

“Child of the Fire Dragon, I shall save you from this purgatory.”

She discarded her human form, shifting back into her full dragon form.

Her body twisted, expanding in size.

Yeah.

I had a rough idea of what kind of creature she was now.

She had simply lived for too long—her mind had snapped.

The fact that she hadn’t paid me any attention despite the situation made that clear.

Should I be thankful for that?

Kwarururururung!

A deafening roar of thunder crashed down in rapid succession.

Kwoooooooom!

Normally, attacking while someone was transforming was a dirty move.

But this was an exception.

The hunt for the Ice Dragon had begun.

...With a preemptive strike.