Chapter 148: A Flood Dragon Goes Forth, and Wind and Rain Follow

Having regained his composure, Baichuan's heart was now filled with doubt.

Recalling the flight just moments ago, he had been perfectly fine right up until he lost consciousness.

But why had he fainted outright at that final moment?

Baichuan was somewhat puzzled—could it be that some kind of No-Fly Zone existed on this planet?

No, that couldn't be it.

The moment this doubt arose, he dismissed it himself, recalling the situation from before.

That kind of faint didn't seem to be caused by an external force, but rather by his own body being unable to bear it, as if he were suffocating from a lack of oxygen…

Yes—Baichuan, suddenly reacting, immediately understood this feeling.

Then, under the push of vast computing power, Baichuan instantly grasped the reason.

Of course—at an altitude of over three thousand meters, the air there had already begun to grow thin.

And he himself, as what was likely the largest creature in the planet's history, required no small amount of oxygen to fuel such a massive, powerful body.

If he were suddenly placed in an oxygen-poor environment, he would inevitably suffer a far more severe "altitude reaction" than other creatures.

It seemed yet another "tiger in the road" was trying to block his Flight.

After understanding the cause, for Baichuan, who now possessed what seemed like inexhaustible computing power, it took only an instant to figure out how to solve the problem with his existing abilities.

Use heat waves to scorch the air and form updrafts, while simultaneously releasing cold air so that the cold and the heat waves collide to produce large amounts of water vapor and ice crystals, thereby artificially creating clouds.

While flying, gather the clouds to wrap around himself, then use the power of lightning to electrolyze the water droplets within the clouds into large quantities of oxygen for his breathing.

At the same time, the extremely light hydrogen could also buoy up part of his body, making his flight easier…

Wait—why does this seem more and more like some kind of creature…

Considering this, Baichuan felt an even stronger sense of déjà vu, then suddenly realized.

Isn't this exactly the clouds and rain that those legendary dragons always bring when they appear?

This discovery not only made him sigh—he seemed to have unknowingly taken yet another step closer to a dragon; not only could he fly, but he now carried clouds and rain with him on his flights.

What would you call this?

A flood dragon goes forth, and wind and rain follow?

Baichuan couldn't help but chuckle at the thought.

But whether it would actually work still needed to be tested.

Thinking of this, he directly Burst forth a large number of Light Points once more, along with the familiar radiance.

The flood dragon, whose jet-black scales once again radiated a blue-purple glow within, took to the air once more.

At the same time, accompanied by rolling heat waves, the flood dragon flew somewhat faster than before.

As the flood dragon soared skyward, large amounts of cold air immediately began radiating from above.

In an instant, heat waves rose and cold air descended, colliding to stir up vast white mist, which then slowly enveloped the flood dragon.

After only a few breaths, centered on the flood dragon, a great mass of clouds appeared within a one-kilometer radius.

The clouds began to move rapidly, and within those slightly darkened clouds, countless bolts of electricity flickered as a long, sleek, vigorous figure swam ceaselessly within.

From Time to Time, a dragon head, a dragon body, or that enormous tail fin would emerge; at this moment, the flood dragon's faintly visible form, seen from afar, finally carried a hint of mystery.

After testing and confirming this idea was a success, Baichuan did not hesitate, and directly surged toward the previous maximum altitude of three thousand meters.

As Time passed, Baichuan quickly surpassed three thousand meters and reached four thousand meters, yet the previous symptoms of fainting still did not appear.

Clearly, this time he did not pass out again—this fact proved his earlier speculation was correct: he had indeed fainted because his "altitude reaction" had been too severe.

With this, it was declared that Baichuan had completely mastered wingless flight; from this day forth, he would become a flood dragon with wind and rain at his side.

Of course, except in special circumstances, he did not intend to summon wind and rain during low-altitude flight.

At the same time, Baichuan did not continue to climb higher afterward.

It wasn't that he didn't want to, but after this whole ordeal, nearly all the energy within his body was exhausted; he could already feel waves of hunger emanating from within.

That hunger drove him to eat, to eat!

Sure enough, the flood dragon's greatest enemy had now become hunger—thinking of this, Baichuan couldn't help but discover this sad fact.

Baichuan, who had once again swung his body and descended to the ground, thought silently to himself; then his hunger-glazed eyes gazed toward the distance, where a herd of elephants happened to be passing by.

Instinctively, Baichuan licked his chops—he seemed to have already recalled the taste of elephant flesh and blood.

And this greedy gaze caused the targeted elephant in the distance to give an immediate start.

As if some terrifying beast had its eyes on it, it slowly stopped feeding with its long trunk and turned to look.

And upon looking, it discovered a terrifying flood dragon flying rapidly toward it.

"Moo—!"

In the end, the last words this poor elephant left to the world were a cry of terror.

Amidst the rolling dust, the enraged elephant herd, after having two more elephants split apart by the flood dragon's tail fin, finally began to flee in terror.

Regarding this, Baichuan did not, as before, choose to let them escape.

Now he was one who would refuse nothing—as long as it was food, he could eat it all down, converting it into vast stores of energy without affecting himself.

Thus, to him, who was currently in desperate need of energy, this herd of elephants was nothing less than a group of alluring, mobile energy packs.

In an instant, amidst the rolling dust, the earth shattered—caused by the flood dragon's massive body slamming a claw into the ground—and then, under the terrified gazes of the elephant herd, Baichuan tore off their heads one by one, holding an elephant in each pair of claws as he began to tear into them.

The terrifying sounds of swallowing began to echo far across this grassland—the sound of a flood dragon feasting heartily.

Half an hour later, a full nine elephants had been completely eaten by Baichuan, yet even so, he still felt it wasn't enough; the energy these few elephants provided him probably wouldn't last a single hour of wanton expenditure.

"It seems I need to engineer a group of creatures that combine fast reproduction with large bodies to serve as food."

After smacking his lips and licking the blood from them clean, Baichuan murmured to himself.

So then, what animals currently met his requirements?

None.

Baichuan thought for a while and realized that such a creature truly did not exist in nature, so he could only create one himself.

He looked out over the boundless grassland, preparing to pick one lucky species as the subject of his first experiment.

At this moment, all manner of animals on the grassland struck every conceivable pose—herds of cattle gathering to graze, lions lying in ambush about to hunt, and even the sovereigns of the sky descending to the ground to seize prey.

So which animal species best suited the protagonist of his idea? Elephants?

The moment that thought arose, Baichuan dismissed it first.

Elephants' mode of reproduction meant they could never produce too many offspring in one go.

What he wanted, he figured, was best found among ordinary creatures that bred quickly and in large numbers, that grew fast, and that ate grass.

Otherwise, once they started fighting each other, where would any meat be left over for him to eat?

After much thought, for Baichuan, whose biological knowledge was thin, he discovered that among all the abilities he had currently recorded, only the rabbit satisfied this point.

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(End of Chapter)