Under the extremely nervous gaze of the old fire dragon and his wife, a golden speck of light condensed on Su Mo's hand and then flowed into the dragon egg he was holding.
An incomparably pure aura washed over the old fire dragon and his wife, making them feel refreshed and invigorated.
Even without knowing what this gift represented, they instinctively realized that it was of great importance to their fire dragon clan.
In just a few seconds, the dragon egg had absorbed all the specks of light. It was only then that Su Mo seemed to remember something and looked up to confirm with the two of them.
"By the way, you two don't mind a small change in your child's race, do you?"
"Huh?" Hearing this, the two were slightly stunned, unable to understand Su Mo's meaning. "A small change in race?"
"What Lord Su Mo means is, do you mind if Sala-chan sheds her status as a draconic sub-species and becomes a pure-blooded dragon?" Canary immediately explained on their behalf, her tone faint.
In truth, there was no need to even ask. She understood the values of Little Garden all too well.
Probably only an existence of Lord Su Mo's level would notice such an insignificant "side effect" and think it would affect their kinship.
In reality, for everyone else, even Sala-chan's parents, their reaction to this news would be only one.
"A pure-blooded dragon?!"
After repeating the name a few times in a daze, the couple's faces instantly lit up with wild joy.
They immediately cast aside their previous composure and knelt on the ground in a grand salute. "Thank you for your gift, Lord Su Mo! We... we are willing to accept this. In fact, please, we implore you to do so!"
Fearing a misunderstanding from Su Mo, they nodded their heads desperately.
In Little Garden, Star Spirits, pure-blooded dragons, and congenital gods and buddhas were born representing the strongest.
To become a powerhouse in Little Garden, aside from accumulating one's own merits and continuously improving one's Divinity, the most effective method was actually to elevate one's race.
Of course, for an individual, their race could not be easily changed, but for a community, the mechanism of birth could be used to improve the strength of their heirs.
That was why the god-groups of Little Garden had tried to have divine spirits and humans interbreed to create demigods.
That was why all of the leader's marriages had been chosen from among other draconic beings, all for the sake of increasing the draconic factor in their offspring as much as possible, bringing them as close to pure-blooded dragons as they could.
The more atavistic the lineage, the stronger they were.
It was only out of respect for the community's founder that the members hadn't started complaining about why their pure-blooded dragon ancestor had married an ordinary human woman, causing the qualifications of each generation's heir to be unstable.
Now that they had the opportunity to receive a gift that would allow their daughter to become a pure-blooded dragon again, they naturally wouldn't refuse.
Forget about offspring; with the overwhelming strength and long lifespan of a pure-blooded dragon, even if their daughter remained single, she could protect Salamandra for at least ten thousand years!
"Alright, I understand."
Receiving the parents' consent, Su Mo nodded and mobilized the power of the second stellar particle, beginning the final interference with the composition inside the dragon egg.
Transforming into a pure-blooded dragon was something Su Mo had already achieved through Mythological Thaumaturgical.
Now, it was just a matter of fixing that concept onto the dragon egg before him, which was not a difficult task.
However, Su Mo did not use this method he knew would work from the beginning. Instead, he tried to deduce the pure-blooded dragon from the perspective of the Tree of Life by distributing life factors.
In the world of Black Bullet, besides improving his mastery of the Christian theory of the Fall, Su Mo had also deepened his understanding of the Catalog of Life and the Tree of Evolution through the development of the Gastrea virus itself.
With Su Mo's power, he could build pure-blooded dragons from other worlds from scratch by constructing various life factors.
Whether it was the dragons from the world of Campione! or the Draconia species from No Game No Life, they could all be deduced through the Catalog of Life.
But now, only in the world of Little Garden, such a deduction had encountered an obstacle.
It wasn't that he couldn't construct a pure-blooded dragon, but that he could create an existence with strength and lifespan completely equivalent to a pure-blooded dragon, yet he couldn't replicate it 100%.
"There's no difference in biological structure. The problem lies outside the design, related to the source of the Divinity?" Su Mo closed his eyes in thought.
Just as the dragons in the world of Campione! leaned towards being divine beasts, and the dragons in the world of No Game No Life possessed spatial-temporal talents, while the dragons of each world were largely similar, there were still subtle differences, and Little Garden was no exception.
After examination, Su Mo quickly determined that the pure-blooded dragons of Little Garden were not a simple biological classification but contained a certain unsolved puzzle.
With his current power, he could easily review the past history even in Little Garden and find the information he wanted in the long river of time.
But even so, there was one area that Su Mo found temporarily difficult to investigate clearly: the unobservable domain related to the development of human history.
It wasn't because Su Mo's strength was insufficient to break through Little Garden's blockade, but because this period of time itself was in a state of not yet having a final draft.
The future itself was uncertain, so it was naturally difficult to observe.
Unfortunately, the source of the pure-blooded dragon Divinity was in this unobservable domain. A look of keen interest appeared in Su Mo's eyes.
In Little Garden, pure-blooded dragons were indeed like an alien life form, not born but suddenly appearing.
Not only did they not belong to any known evolutionary tree, but they were also hailed as independent third-party observers completely unrelated to human history.
Su Mo naturally scoffed at such a statement. The entire Little Garden was a large-scale self-observation mechanism for human history.
There could be no existence completely unrelated to human history.
Behind the pure-blooded dragons, there must be a secret highly related to human history, and this secret was the reason why he couldn't replicate them 100% through the Catalog of Life.
"What's wrong, Lord Su Mo? Is there a problem?" Seeing Su Mo silent for over ten seconds, Canary couldn't help but ask. The old fire dragon beside her also showed an anxious look.
Hearing this, Su Mo shook his head and handed the investigated dragon egg to the old fire dragon and his wife. "No, it's done."
In his examination, he had found that there was indeed a certain unsolved mystery within the pure-blooded dragon Divinity.
The source of this mystery came from the center of Little Garden, like the omnipotence paradox that was equally bound to all beings in the Almighty Domain, equally descending upon all pure-blooded dragons.
To solve the riddle, the key was not the pure-blooded dragons themselves, but their relationship with human history.
After reaching this conclusion, Su Mo naturally didn't need to investigate further.
Although he couldn't use the deduction of the Catalog of Life to make the dragon egg in his hand a Little Garden version of a pure-blooded dragon through the Tree of Evolution, Su Mo could use other methods he had already mastered, such as bestowing the identity of a pure-blooded dragon directly through Mythological Thaumaturgical.
As for the puzzle within the pure-blooded dragon Divinity, even if he couldn't solve it now, it wouldn't be difficult to copy and paste it from the mythological projection of the center of Little Garden.
So at this moment, the dragon egg that had received his blessing had truly become the strongest species in Little Garden—a pure-blooded dragon.
"Sala, my daughter, you will be the future leader of our community. The moment you hatch, all of Salamandra will call your name..."
Receiving Su Mo's personal certification, the old fire dragon was even more excited, almost moved to tears of joy.
Whether from the perspective of a father or a leader, what Su Mo had given was an immense surprise.
Especially when he was about to take his daughter's dragon egg and heard a slight "crack," this surprise reached its peak.
Even Canary hadn't expected this development and stared with wide, surprised eyes. "Is... is she about to be born?"
Willa also curiously moved closer. This was the first time she had seen a life being born.
"Lord S-Su Mo, if you have time today, please do us the honor of attending our Fire Dragon's Birth Festival, so that we may have the honor of thanking you for your grace!"
Looking at the crack on the dragon egg, the old fire dragon was extremely excited.
He didn't even dare to take a step forward to take the dragon egg from Su Mo's hand, afraid that if he touched it, the child would fall from a pure-blooded dragon to a draconic sub-species.
"To bestow such a great gift upon us, even though we can never repay it, we hope you can accept the gratitude of our entire community!"
The old fire dragon was truly grateful, even disregarding the undercurrents between the god-groups and making a move that was akin to taking a side.
It was clear how much he longed for such an excellent heir.
Su Mo was about to refuse, as he really didn't care about the stance of such a small community, but he was ultimately persuaded by Canary.
"Anyway, you're going to see Leticia next, right, Lord Su Mo? How about you stay here and have her come for an audience? Otherwise, even if you don't mind, that stubborn Leticia will think she's being presumptuous."
It had to be said, that was a very reasonable point.