The legend of Liu Xiaoxiao in Douluo mainland

"This Ice Moon Wine tastes really good," Zheng Bei exclaimed, holding up his wine glass. "Paired with the meat of this Snowflake Dragon, it's absolutely a delicacy."

"It's not just that, is it?" Da Bao forked a thin slice of meat. "This meat contains the chef's emotions. It seems the chef really lives a comfortable life. I originally thought that this kind of fully automated customer service shop would also have fully automated food preparation, but it seems that's not the case. The chef must be a famous chef. No wonder it's Ice Moon City."

"It is my honor to receive your praise." Just then, a middle-aged man wearing a traditional chef's hat and a white chef's uniform walked over. "Ice Moon City is, after all, the capital of a country and is not far from the Holy Land Ice God Tower. It has always been a first-tier city of the God-Looking Alliance. If I want to establish myself here, all I can rely on is my skills."

"So you're an ice-type divine descendant. I never expected such an important figure to be working in a small shop." Wang Haochen looked him up and down.

The person in front of me appeared to have some dwarf blood, but he didn't have the stereotypical image of a thick beard. He didn't have a single stubble and looked very clean.

"I became a Divine Descendant when I was over six hundred years old, so I'm not exactly a genius," the middle-aged man chuckled. "I've tried many professions in my life, and I even studied at the Magic Chef's Hall, but in the end, I chose to open my own shop. At first, however, I didn't have the financial resources to open a large shop in the incredibly expensive Ice Moon City, and I didn't dare hire helpers, fearing they might be careless and ruin the taste of the dishes. Later, although I made money and could have expanded the shop, I grew accustomed to this small shop and developed an attachment to it. Besides, with fewer customers, I have more free time to try and develop new dishes. For a true chef, innovation is a lifelong pursuit."

“Even within Ice Moon City, it’s probably rare to find someone who can infuse their emotions into their cooking,” Chen Long said.

"The most famous person on this planet is, of course, the legendary Ice and Fire Chef. He brought peace and prosperity to the world and was an extraordinary, legendary magician, but his true profession was a chef. Since then, the profession of chef has been sought after by many, but ultimately, only a small number of people can truly achieve success," the middle-aged chef sighed. "For most people nowadays, using magic in cooking is no longer difficult, but to infuse emotion into it requires a much higher level of skill."

Then, the man changed the subject, "You don't seem to be locals. Did you come to Icemoon City for sightseeing?"

“We heard that the annual auction of Bingyue Auction House will be held in the next few days,” Qi Xiaomin said.

"As is customary, the Ice Moon Auction begins this afternoon and will last for three days. However, reservations are required for entry. Are you all VIPs of the Ice Moon Auction House?" the chef asked.

“Someone has already made a reservation for us,” Qi Xiaomin nodded slightly in response.

The person who made the reservation for them was naturally a member of the Rong family, who were local strongmen; to be precise, it was Rong Luoyun.

"The annual auctions of the four major auction houses in the Yangshen Alliance are basically held every three months. However, the Ice Moon Auction House has the most good items. After all, the items auctioned at the Ice God Tower are usually consigned by the Ice Moon Auction House," the chef chuckled. "I also plan to close the shop this afternoon and go to the auction to take a look."

The group were all gods, so eating as much as they wanted was no problem. They ate from morning until afternoon, and only paid the bill and left when the auction was about to begin.

The amount on the bill was naturally quite high, but it was nothing to them.

The group arrived at the auction house and followed the holographic guide until they reached their private box.

Ice Moon Auction House does not usually provide a list of items for its annual auction, but with the connections of their Ten Sages, they can still obtain one.

“The Dragon King’s broken horn… the original blood of the Vampire Queen… the holy sword of the Light faction… the box that seals the Underworld Witch…” Qi Xiaomin swiped the screen with his divine sense, “It looks like there’s quite a variety of them.”

While browsing the screen, Little Fatty said, "They even sell Starry Sky Divine Beasts! This Ice God Tower is really something. And they're even juveniles! I could take them home and raise them."

"I know about Starry Sky Beasts, those are beasts that don't originate from their own plane but are born in the cosmic environment, right? What about Starry Sky Divine Beasts?" Zheng Bei asked curiously, "Do they become divine beasts when they reach adulthood?"

Little Fatty shook his head. "As long as you have the bloodline of a divine beast and your ancestors produced a divine beast, you can be considered a star beast. But whether you can become a true divine beast is another matter. If you don't have a suitable environment, then it's normal for you to only reach the eighth or ninth level when you reach adulthood, just like the dragon race."

“Depending on their species, some Starry Sky Beasts feed on nebulae, some need to devour large amounts of gas from gaseous planets, and some can directly absorb spatial power. Some are beasts, some are plants, and some can be classified as elemental spirits. However, Starry Sky Beasts are still quite rare, after all, life attributes are often concentrated in the prime plane.” Just then, Liu Xiaoxiao and He Qiang appeared before them, and it was Liu Xiaoxiao who spoke, “Compared to naturally bred Starry Sky Beasts, there are even more artificially bred or cloned Starry Sky Beasts. Some large-sized Starry Sky Beasts are often used to build ecological warships. They can be further classified based on whether the Starry Sky Beast itself is alive or not.”

“I’ve heard that there’s a supreme god-king of a star beast in the Ten Thousand Demon Empire,” He Qiang said.

Liu Xiaoxiao nodded. "The Myriad Demon Empire regards Starry Sky Divine Beasts as its own kind, but only within the category of beasts. That Starry Sky Divine Beast doesn't seem to be the one in charge of the Myriad Demon Empire, but rather a guest or worshipper, and has gathered quite a few Starry Sky Divine Beasts under its command."

"This time, the Starry Sky Divine Beast was found by the Ice God Tower near a black hole. It seems to possess attributes of spacetime and darkness." As he spoke, Rong Fengdong walked in from outside the door.

"Time and space, darkness, their bloodlines seem extraordinary." Liu Xiaoxiao stroked his chin. "Looks like we'll have to go all out."

"It's just a juvenile Starry Sky Divine Beast, how expensive can it be?" Little Fatty shook his head. "Starry Sky Divine Beasts generally have very long growth cycles. This one has spacetime attributes, so it won't grow up in less than tens of thousands of years. Even when it grows up, it'll only be a Title Douluo, and the probability of becoming a god isn't high. On this planet, how many people would be willing to buy it? To buy it and keep it as a family heirloom?"

“You don’t understand.” Liu Xiaoxiao shook his finger. “The biological technology of the Yangshen Alliance is quite advanced. They only need to obtain some hair and flesh to study the genome based on its tissue samples. Then they can apply the bloodline of the Starry Sky Beasts to different applications, and may even be able to directly clone a large number of Starry Sky Beasts.”

“The resources needed to raise a Starry Sky Beast are astronomical,” Little Fatty chuckled. “Besides, the Ice God Tower must have already obtained some gene samples and is preparing to sell them secretly later.”

"Speaking of which, what exactly is the type of Starry Sky Divine Beast being sold this time? There's no record of it here." Qi Xiaomin waved the screen in his hand at Rong Fengdong.

"It's said to be a creature that looks a lot like an octopus or squid," Rong Fengdong recalled. "Its intelligence is comparable to that of a young human, not particularly high, but since it's a juvenile, its adult intelligence should be comparable to that of a human. It's about twenty or thirty meters long, and as an adult, it could easily be several hundred or even a thousand meters, depending on the nutrients it receives during its growth period. Although it can survive by absorbing dark elements and spatial power from the universe, it should become even more powerful if nurtured with rare and precious materials. If its bloodline is evolved through spiritual objects, it could probably be guaranteed to reach godhood. Moreover, I remember it has inherited memories."

"Inherited memories?" The group was somewhat surprised.

The so-called inherited memory refers to the memory that an organism receives from its mother, passed down from its ancestors. This includes various experiences in the universe, as well as knowledge related to magic arrays.

In other words, it was not directly conceived by a black hole, but rather its ancestor was conceived by a black hole, and then this organism would reproduce in the same environment.

"How many generations and how many years of inherited memories?" Liu Xiaoxiao asked excitedly.

“I don’t know about that. After all, it’s still a juvenile. Even if it has a lot of memories, its intelligence is quite limited. It’s not easy for us to communicate with it.” Rong Fengdong shook his head.

"Has its mother been found?" Little Fatty asked.

“No, it looks like its mother left a long time ago. She was probably the kind that gave birth but didn’t raise it,” Rong Fengdong said. “After all, these kinds of star beasts, as long as they don’t have bad luck and encounter a highly advanced interstellar civilization, can naturally grow to the point where they have the ability to protect themselves if they survive near a black hole.”

"It seems I have no choice but to buy it." Liu Xiaoxiao pondered. "Now that things have come to this, I don't need to use the method of possession. If it's just a young body, it's still easy to probe its memories."

“Then it’s settled.” He Qiang looked at Rong Fengdong. “Let’s withdraw this item from the auction. We will purchase it at three times the starting price.”

Rong Fengdong nodded. After all, the list of auction items was not made public, so it was easy to change the items at the last minute.

For Liu Xiaoxiao and his group, attending the auction was just for fun. If they encountered something they really needed, they naturally wouldn't participate in the auction. Who knew what unexpected things might happen later? It was the normal choice to intercept it in advance.

"We'll go check on the goods, you two continue with the auction," Liu Xiaoxiao said, standing up, and Xiao Pang followed him out.

The two followed Rong Fengdong all the way to the auction item storage room of Bingyue Auction House.

For auction houses, storage rooms are often categorized, with different categories of auction items stored in different sections. Each section has a large number of rooms for separate storage, and each room has a different storage environment created according to the type of auction items temporarily stored. Of course, only auction houses that handle a large number of high-level auction items can afford to build such luxurious storage rooms.

The storage room for living beings is located at the deepest part, but Rong Fengdong has the authority of the honorary tower master of the Ice God Tower, so he can pass through without any obstacles. The Ice Moon Auction House is an industry under the Ice Moon Chamber of Commerce, which is actually an industry of the Ice God Tower, essentially an outer sect used to obtain cultivation resources.

Liu Xiaoxiao could sense that they were gradually approaching the underground, and the temperature was gradually decreasing. This meant that the target needed to survive in a low-temperature environment. After all, they were space creatures that lived near a black hole, and only the underground could effectively insulate them from the temperature and ensure that the environment was dark enough.

The source of the cold is not a change in some substance, as that would not achieve a low enough temperature. To obtain an ultra-low temperature environment of minus 270 degrees Celsius, four 12th-tier ice-attribute magical beast crystal cores are used in conjunction with a large-scale magic array to maintain such an ultra-low temperature.

Instead of opening the gate, they lifted the one-way restriction on spatial teleportation and teleported directly inside.

It was pitch black in front of him, but Liu Xiaoxiao could still see the creature in front of him.

It was a completely black creature, like a black hole, reflecting no light whatsoever.

It is a cephalopod life form, somewhat similar to the Evil Eye. Its head has a very high density, but not enough to significantly distort space. However, the surrounding space is still curved to a certain extent, which means that it possesses spatial properties.

Possessing the attributes of darkness, space, and time, it is already quite powerful. Moreover, although it was born not long ago, it already has the energy strength of the sixth rank, which is quite good among the star beasts. It is even more powerful than the first-level bloodline of the soul beasts.

Its spiritual power has also reached the high level of the Spirit Abyss Realm. According to Liu Xiaoxiao's speculation, although it is only at the sixth level, it is probably equivalent to an eighth or ninth level human.

The standard he used for evaluation was naturally the Soul Master's Soul Rings. In other words, this kind of creature could rival a Title Douluo not long after birth.

Liu Xiaoxiao released his divine sense and emotional fluctuations to gently soothe it. At the same time, his divine sense made light contact with it and, without being rejected, easily reached the depths of its spiritual sea and touched its spiritual origin.

There, Liu Xiaoxiao saw the inherited memories of generations past, spanning hundreds of billions of years, proving that this creature was originally born in the Hidden Life Era, and in a sense, it can be considered an innate spirit.

Its memories spanning hundreds of billions of years entered Liu Xiaoxiao's sea of ​​consciousness. To Liu Xiaoxiao, this kind of creature spent most of its time living in the void of the universe, near black holes, with nothing new or interesting. It was truly boring and dull, not as interesting as Hermes's billions of years of petty theft.

The progenitor of these creatures called himself the Black Abyss, and also named the race the Black Abyss. They devour light and transform it into darkness, using the evolution of light and darkness to shape spacetime. They are an extremely powerful life form, but their population is small, and no god-king has ever appeared. At most, there have been Black Abyss beings at the super-god level.

However, Liu Xiaoxiao noticed that in the memories of a certain generation, at a certain point in time, a segment seemed to be missing.

It's not that it's truly missing, but rather that it's sealed away. It seems that specific conditions are required to unlock it. It appears that the Black Abyss of that generation or later sealed that memory. Without breaking the seal, it's just a seemingly chaotic signal that's extremely difficult to decipher.

Liu Xiaoxiao didn't know what conditions were required; perhaps it was age, perhaps a specific environment, or perhaps meeting a particular person.

But Liu Xiaoxiao was very clear about one thing: that period of time might be related to the mystery he had been pursuing, and to the era of the Four Divine Beasts.