Chapter 171: The Abandoned Remnant Spirit

Baichuan roughly calculated that at the current juvenile dragon's plundering speed, it would take about a week, so he could go eat first.

After this round of creating this little juvenile dragon, the energy stored within him was once again nearly exhausted.

Originally, under normal circumstances, having devoured the entire Man Huang Da Lu's stock of Meat Dragons, his energy shouldn't have been depleted so quickly.

But he couldn't help performing an act of restoring the vitality of the entire continent, and in this process, he used nearly half of the total energy obtained from the Meat Dragons.

All this energy was transformed by him into Light Points and scattered; either swallowed by birds or attached inside seeds and buried in the soil.

Afterwards, he once again went through a long Time of neither eating nor drinking, frantically studying, and several more years of constantly experimenting with creating life; through repeated failures, until he fully mastered the knowledge of creating life.

That his energy could last so long was already extremely inconceivable; one must know that creating a light cocoon is exceptionally energy-consuming.

And his previous failures numbered no less than a hundred, and each time a failure occurred, it meant that light cocoon had already begun to fall into death and disintegration.

Moreover, the entire process was irreversible and could not be separated for recovery, just as those Light Points had become a whole, a life, the moment they transformed into a light sphere.

It's just that this life, before its final birth, was accidentally caused to die young by its creator.

Perhaps after those Light Points died, some remnant Spirits might be left behind, but those remnant Spirits filled with negative emotions were completely useless and would only pollute the normal pure Light Points.

So every failure forced him to start condensing the light cocoon anew from zero.

Thinking of this, Baichuan seemed to recall the back mountain he had previously treated as a garbage dump, and felt a bit embarrassed; it was piled full of all kinds of garbage he had produced over these years, both remnant Spirits filled with negative emotions and all sorts of bones…

Fortunately, all of that was in the past now; he paid it no more attention.

He began focusing his attention within his perception range, searching for where herbivorous dragons were most numerous, and then devoured all the herbivorous dragons there.

Of course, throughout the entire process, he still maintained a path of sustainable development, with absolutely no thought of draining the pond to get all the fish.

Time passed just like that, seven days went by amid Baichuan's eating and drinking…

And then one day, as the giant tiger's body lying quietly on the ground moved, Baichuan also came back to his senses; looking at the giant tiger whose eyes had changed with a spiritual light, he smiled slightly.

Then the white Light Points binding it slowly disappeared, and at the same time his claws grabbed over a large herbivorous dragon.

After a full seven days of devouring and replacing, the current juvenile dragon had fallen into its most energy-depleted state; not only its Spirit body, but its current flesh container as well.

Because all the energy it absorbed throughout the entire devouring and replacing process came from the giant tiger it plundered; thanks to this, the giant tiger's previously accumulated thick fat had completely vanished, and its entire body was now extremely emaciated.

But such an emaciated body actually emanated a terrifying aura.

This came not only from the faint red flame-like patterns beginning to appear on the tiger's body, but also from those terrifying eyes.

This giant tiger's body had already begun entering a rapid evolution and mutation, which was the path Baichuan had envisioned when he previously created this Juanzhu.

A Juanzhu that was itself semi-energetic; the body it plundered at the start naturally could not be changed in an instant into a form like a Spirit body.

It required a slow process, step by step Assimilating or evolving the flesh body to match its own Spirit body's form.

Only then could it be called a true ancient dragon!

And the first step of this transformation was to grant it the power of self-protection, that is, the appearance of flame-like patterns on its body surface; those patterns were used to store high temperature.

Because it was a giant dragon that governed flame and metal, once flame patterns began to appear on its body surface, the second step would naturally be the birth of wings capable of Flight, and the third step would be gradually making minute changes to the form of its entire body, until it completely transformed into the appearance of a Spirit body.

As for its other ability, metal, it would either accumulate iron elements bit by bit through eating, or learn from him, Baichuan, by directly seeking out metal-rich ores and gnawing them raw to quickly form it.

There was no other choice, because even he, Baichuan, still needed to proceed step by step; how could his Juanzhu create something from nothing!

Isn't that nonsense?

Watching the juvenile dragon wolf down its food, Baichuan directly scooped it up; he needed to leave this place again.

The purpose of this trip was, without destroying the environment, to obtain enough energy to allow him to once again create siblings for this juvenile dragon; one Juanzhu alone was completely insufficient.

The world was so vast; he needed several more Juanzhu to be able to keep watch over this world.

Besides this, he also needed to go to other continents to modify and create the herbivorous dragons, this complete base-level species; currently, herbivorous dragons only existed on Yuanshi Dalu.

This wouldn't do; once he began the full-scale evolution frenzy, he could ignore how other creatures evolved and mutated.

As long as they mutated useful abilities for him, that was fine; but herbivorous dragons could not be neglected, because they were the cornerstone of everything.

If other continents lacked their presence, then no matter how powerful the creatures that mutated on those continents, they would be like rootless duckweed and fall into death, or perish after destroying the ecology.

This was because there was no food to support their consumption, exactly like Baichuan's previous situation; the only difference was that he had intelligence and knew how to screen and restrain himself, but those creatures could not do that.

If that were the case, his initiating global evolution would be nothing but a joke.

Therefore, the existence of the base-level herbivorous dragon species was a race equally important as his Juanzhu; they were the foundation of the entire extraordinary world, at least for now!

Only in this way, after he fell into slumber, as long as the base-level herbivorous dragon species existed, no matter how the entire ecology changed, it would not collapse.

Even if other mutated powerful species capable of destroying the ecology appeared again, those creatures that needed to be dealt with would naturally be handled by his Juanzhu.

It could even be said that one of the purposes of him creating Juanzhu was precisely this.

Thinking of this, Baichuan once again flew toward the distance; and to avoid this juvenile dragon being accidentally killed by the terrifying surface electric currents on his body, he could only, amid its confusion and teary eyes, use Light Points and cloud layers to carry it.

This juvenile dragon had this one flaw—it was too attached to him.

Regarding this, Baichuan was also a bit headache-ridden, always feeling as if he had become some kind of nanny.

Shaking his head helplessly, Baichuan paid it no more attention and flew toward the seas beyond Yuanshi Dalu.

At this point, Time once again began to flow rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, another year had passed…

(End of this chapter)