With a powerful soul bestowed by the Creator, Aten successfully reincarnated into the Mountain and Sea Realm.
However, the situation seed a tad bit different from what Aten had imagined...
No pregnancy, no childbirth, not even a complete birthing process.
As soon as Aten opened his eyes, he saw his parents of this life through his complex compound eye structure—a pair of giant beetles.
The male beetle bore massive horns like a rhinoceros beetle, easily capable of toppling a hundred-year-old tree.
The female beetle had a pair of elytra spread like gold, reflecting the blazing brilliance of the sun.
Upon seeing Aten open his eyes, the faces of this beetle couple showed a human-like smile and joy.
"See, I told you I could fulfill your wish!"
Just when Aten was wondering what exactly was going on, a wisp of faint pink mist appeared behind the beetle couple.
Following that, a Genie with six cicada wings manifested, speaking in a tone almost gloating.
"It's just helping you have a child? Piece of cake!"
Listening silently to the Genie's chatter, a thousand grass mud horses galloped through Aten's mind.
Unfortunately, he was now just a newborn beetle, with even his shell not fully hardened.
So, Aten could only watch helplessly as the female beetle extended her foreleg antennae, lifting him up like a child.
"Is this the child who inherits our bloodline and power?"
Unlike the female beetle's display of affection, the male beetle, while happy, couldn't help but have doubts.
The male and female beetles were Mountain and Sea People transford from Epic Creatures.
Despite having received an education from the Mountain and Sea Civilization, they didn't reject using various implants and technological products to enhance themselves.
Yet, due to habits from their forr lives, the beetles still preferred residing in the mountains and forests rather than staying long in artificially marked cities.
Plus, reproduction among Epic Creatures is inherently difficult, with no possibility of several offspring like ordinary creatures.
Under such circumstances, ensuring the female beetle's successful conception beca a massive challenge.
Initially, the male beetle thought if all else failed, they could return to the city hospital, believing the Skeletons there would have a solution for their fertility issue.
However, before the male beetle could suggest this to the female beetle, they discovered a Nether Lamp in an unknown ancient tomb.
It was an extrely abandoned tomb relic, possibly dating back hundreds of years.
The beetle couple lacked strong aesthetic sensibilities, unable to determine the original owner's identity from the tomb's decor and burial style.
Fortunately, figuring out the tomb owner's identity didn't require much research.
After all, throughout the Mountain and Sea Civilization, who else would decorate their tomb so lavishly and ostentatiously hang a pink Nether Lamp at the entrance?
Aside from the Mountain and Sea Civilization's acknowledged "Dog Rich"—the rfolk, there was no other potential suspect.
The only puzzling part was why the rfolk, who lived at sea and cherished sea burials, would build a tomb on land so far from the ocean?
Truth be told, the beetle couple never bothered to comnt on the rfolk's aesthetics, nor did they intend to delve into the origins of this tomb.
Yet, as they passed by the ancient tomb,
The gust of air generated by the female beetle's wings coincidentally blew the pink Nether Lamp hanging at the entrance.
And so, the pink spirit claiming to be "Batis" appeared, declaring it could fulfill any wish the beetle couple had.
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"We have no more wishes to fulfill..."
Carried on the back of his mother in this life, Aten listened to the conversation drifting with the morning sun.
By now, Aten had largely accepted his fate of reincarnating as a beetle.
Though he hadn't been born through normal ans, he truly inherited the beetle couple's bloodline and abilities.
The female beetle was an Epic Creature capable of absorbing Sun Essence to strengthen itself.
Thus, Aten also inherited this ability, with his exoskeleton hardening the mont his body was bathed in sunlight.
Moreover, when Aten tentatively unfurled his elytra,
The golden light, remarkably similar to the female beetle's, transford him into what seed like a Sacred Beetle crafted from gold.
Aten could feel the heat of the sun gathering on his elytra.
Though he couldn't yet emit high-temperature rays like the female beetle,
He could easily act as a temporary magnifying glass, concentrating the sun's heat to a point.
Perhaps due to mixed blood or this special trait's influence,
The male beetle's characteristics, which should've appeared only after reaching adulthood, showed early in Aten.
With horns resembling those of a rhinoceros beetle, the male beetle prided itself most on its formidable brute strength.
The stout exoskeleton makes the male beetle fearless of any harm...
The terrifying brute strength gives it confidence against any predator...
Even if faced with an adult Canglong, the male beetle could topple it.
Not long after basking in the sun, Aten's hardened exoskeleton exhibited a similar display.
Unyielding mandibles, paired with force a hundred tis his size...
Aten easily chewed through the tal ores fed to him by the female beetle, once again attracting the male beetle's astonished gaze.
Yet the male beetle's gaze didn't linger long on Aten before being diverted again by the pink spirit—Batis.
"No, you must make three wishes!"
The pink Nether Lamp hung on the female beetle's singular horn while Batis itself flew around the male beetle, trailing a pink smoke tail.
Batis had long discerned that the male beetle was the decision-maker in the couple.
Following the most primitive insect instincts, the female beetle had an expectation only for reproduction, uninterested in anything else.
"Even so...we really don't know what wishes to make..."
Clearing the path for the female beetle, the male beetle briefly responded to Batis.
Unlike other Mountain and Sea People, Epic Creatures transford from insects are indeed the least desirous.
Not to ntion, even among the Insect Race, the beetle couple possessed particularly pure and desireless personalities.
"In that case! I will just follow you!"
"Until you make all three complete wishes!"
With an indignant glare at the male beetle, Batis vanished back into its Nether Lamp in a flash.
"..."
Aten, witnessing everything in silence, instinctively opened his mouth.
The next second, his sharp mandibles once again crushed the unknown tal fed by the female beetle.
With the help of these tals, Aten's physical strength began to increase visibly, showing signs of surpassing his parents.
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