Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 319 Uriah’s Perfect Evolution

"Ha-ha-ha! You are defeated now, young man! I am the winner!" Dunn laughed loudly and proudly.He looked at Rocky's beaten state and felt really proud of himself. Beating Rocky felt like a hugeachievement to Dunn; a seemingly insurmountable mountain that he was able to climb despite theodds. "Rocky is seriously injured after getting hit by my spiritual power. He will not have the strengthleft to even stand back up, ' Dunn thought.

To Dunn's surprise, Rocky started to move and got himself up to a semi-standing position with thehelp of his hands. Rocky was standing shakily as if the slightest wind could knock him back down.The mere action of standing up seemed to have drained Rocky of all of his remaining strength. Buthe did it. Beyond Dunn's expectations, Rocky was able to stand up again.

"That is impossible! How are you still standing even after my deadly attack!? I am sure that I haveinjured you severely and you have almost no spiritual power left!" Dunn said as he tried to get overhis initial shock. Dunn stood mute and shocked as he tried hard to rationalize what had happened.He was sure that Rocky should now be so close to death that the slightest of movements would beimpossible for him. He attacked Rocky with full force mere moments ago. Any other spiritmanipulator would have died or would be in a coma from that last attack. To stand up once moreafter that attack was something that was beyond impossible.

But Rocky was able to do the impossible many times before. After he got hit by the maximum forceof Dunn's attack, Rocky was able to stand up once more beyond the expectations of everyone whowatched the battle unfold before them. A hundred questions crossed Dunn's mind regarding Rocky.Questions that were brought by Rocky's ability to survive an attack that could have easily killed anyother spirit manipulator.

"Never be too sure of anything. A situation can change at any time. You are not the winner. No, notyet. The true battle is just about to begin!" Rocky said coldly with a smile of contempt. He wiped theblood from the edge of his lips and gave Dunn a challenging stare that made Dunn feel like Rockywas belittling him,

"Don’t worry. My next attack will kill you and end this battle completely!” Dunn was brought into astate of anger by Rocky's arrogant statement. His face was flushed red with anger and frustration.He wanted to just reach for Rocky's neck and strangle the life out of him. He felt so angry at Rockyright now that it was all that he could do to hold it all back.

Rocky stood unsteadily as he stared at Dunn. It looked as if he would lose his balance at any timeand fall over. Rocky looked as if he exerted all of his strength just to stay standing. Everyone whowatched the confrontation was sure that Rocky would be completely defeated or even killed byDunn's next attack

The people who watched the developments of the battle through the Illusory Mirror, were at thevery edge of their seats. They all admired Rocky's tenacity. Even though he displayed great staminathroughout the final round, everyone was sure that Dunn would win the final round. There was agreat difference in strength between Rocky and Dunn and everyone was convinced that the gamewas already decided. They all felt pity for Rocky for losing to Dunn.

But Rocky had constantly displayed an outstanding willpower. He was brave and resourcefulthroughout all of the three rounds of the competition. He was definitely not an ordinary personeven though he seemed to be one at first glance. Everyone was astounded by his incredibleperformance in the contest and they regarded Rocky differently now than before the start of thecompetition.

Everyone felt that Rocky was doomed to failure because of the difference in the strengths of Dunnand Rocky. They felt that Rocky's strength was not as strong as Dunn's nor was it even close.

Isis and Marin glanced at each other. They thought of Rocky's true identity and the truth about hishidden strength. They knew that Rocky had concealed a great deal about his true identity and manyother important things. It was because of Rocky's secretive nature that Isis felt it hard to trust Rockycompletely. And Marin felt the same. They both felt that Rocky was annoying because he was alwayssecretive. But they too, after they witnessed Rocky's outstanding performance and excellentcharacter in the three fierce rounds of the competition, had changed their impression of Rockyunconsciously. And they had not noticed this change in themselves at all.

"And now everything must come to an end!" Lance was calm and collected. He was very pleasedwith Rocky's performance in the three fierce rounds of the competition. He never planned to put alot of weight on the outcome of the third round. The single important thing for Lance was knowingthat Rocky was a truly talented young man. Although he started as a mere beast breeder in thenortheast military camp, Lance felt it was wise to harness and cultivate Rocky's potential.

Lance slowly raised his hand to give the order to end the third competition. When his hand washalfway up, a huge, deep red flame burst forth and shot into the sky. The bursting flame shot forthin a pillar of fire that radiated great heat energy.

Everyone who watched the battle through the Illusory Mirror had a hand or two up in front of theirfaces to shield their eyes from the fierce bright red glow of the flame pillar. They couldn'tunderstand what just happened. The flame pillar moved suddenly as if it was controlled bysomeone. It swiftly changed direction and flowed like a huge tentacle that was controlled by asentient mind. It then moved and shot directly towards Dunn just as Dunn was about to attackRocky.

Dunn was surprised when he suddenly felt an intense heat that grew hotter with each passingsecond just as he was about to launch another attack at Rocky; an attack that he planned to killRocky with. The red flame pillar charged towards Dunn in a terrible blast of fire. Dunn was shockedand he felt cold sweat all over his body even though the temperature in the area rose into asweltering heat. Only his battle experience and strength saved his life. Dunn stopped advancingtowards Rocky and the red violent flame also stopped attacking Dunn and moved towards Rocky'sside.

"Great job, Uriah! I knew you could do it!" Rocky exclaimed excitedly. He smiled proudly as helooked at Uriah. No one had any clue what Rocky had truly planned.

Dunn fixed his eyes on the deep red flame blast and realized that it came from a beast. The beastnow glowed with reddish-brown scales from head to the tip of its tail. Small flames burned steadilyfrom the gaps between its scales. It looked like a scaled beast that was made of flame.

"It appears that the spirit-manipulated beast has reached the third grade of the three-star level. But,how is that possible!? How did it evolve all of a sudden?" Dunn was surprised as he recognized thebeast with reddish-brown scales. It was Uriah. He felt his hope of beating Rocky slowly burnedwithin the fires of Uriah's body.

Uriah emitted an energy sheath that was stronger than the Razor-claw Wolf Bear which was also ofthe third grade of three-star level. Uriah's unexpected evolution transformed it into a more powerfulspirit-manipulated beast. And this change took everyone by surprise.

Dunn was not the only one who was surprised by Uriah's sudden evolution. Even Lance andeveryone else who was watching the developments of the third round were totally caught bysurprise. They all thought that Rocky was truly defeated but Uriah's evolution at the last crucialmoment suddenly shifted the tide of the final round. No one expected anything like this wouldhappen.

It was normal for beasts to have physical changes after their evolution; claws grew longer andsharper, limbs became stronger and more agile, they could run faster and so on. All were partialchanges to the beast's body. Everyone present, including Lance who had a deep experience withbeasts, had never seen any spirit-manipulated beast that had its entire body transformed after itsevolution.

Uriah was obviously an exception. It transformed its entire body when it evolved from the secondgrade of the three-star level to the third grade of the three-star level. And this surprised everyone.They called this kind of evolution as mutation

Mutations of spirit-manipulated beasts were always related to their natural body. People thoughtthat Uriah's mutation occurred normally when it reached a higher star level. When spirit-manipulated beasts reached a higher star level, they could transform their body into a new shape.They might get one more head, or two more limbs, or another tail and so on. Some spirit-manipulated beasts could get wings, and in very rare circumstances, some changed their entirebody into a completely new form. There were some spirit-manipulated beasts that transformed theirinner body; they could get an extra lung or an extra heart and so on.

However, it was not possible for the general evolution of a spirit-manipulated beast to cause amutation. But Uriah was able to achieve a mutation. Uriah turned the impossible into the possible. Ittransformed its entire body into a higher grade as it evolved into a higher star level.

Rocky was sure that Uriah had the ability to bear and refine the spiritual power of the red spiritualcrystal. He knew that Uriah's body constitution was different from other spirit-manipulated beasts.So Uriah ate the whole red spiritual crystal as instructed by Rocky.

It was a risk to have Uriah do so. But now Uriah was almost of the third grade of three-star level. IfUriah refined the red spiritual crystal, it would grant Uriah enough spiritual energy to reach the thirdgrade of three-star level. And Uriah's strength would match that of the Razor-claw Wolf Bear. Onthe downside, another possibility was that Uriah's fighting capacity could be destroyed completelyby the spiritual power of the red spiritual crystal.

What Rocky did was akin to gambling. The only difference was that Rocky had faith that Uriah wouldbe able to achieve the impossible.

Because of this, Uriah was able to achieve evolution at that crucial moment, and the evolutionallowed it to transform its body into a completely new form.