Chapter 172: Lord of Ice and Ocean

During this year, he returned once more to Man Huang Da Lu and began creating the herbivorous dragon species in the place where vegetation was most lush and untouched by the earlier Meat Dragon incident.

Now he perhaps somewhat understood what use that ability-fusion panel function had.

Integrating all the abilities of a creature into a single ability template and evolving it all at once for his chosen target.

Don't look at how unremarkable this function seems, but as his abilities grew more numerous, searching for one became increasingly tedious, and this function saved him Time.

For Baichuan, who was in urgent need of Time at present, this was simply incomparably convenient.

In a certain sense, calling this function's integrated ability template a bloodline wouldn't be an exaggeration, would it?

Afterwards, after Baichuan guarded these newly born herbivorous dragons until they truly began to reproduce, he finally turned to the young dragon that had already grown wings... no, perhaps it could no longer be called a young dragon.

Because at present it had, for the time being, entered the dragon's adolescent stage, at least judging by its size.

The current tongue beast had reached a size of four meters, had successfully grown a pair of broad fleshy wings, and its head had also changed considerably from a tiger-like skull.

Although dragon horns had not yet grown, it already possessed a hint of a dragon's appearance; viewed from afar, set off by the red patterns flickering across its entire body, it could be called overwhelmingly majestic.

And after completing the deployment across Man Huang Da Lu, Baichuan once again impatiently rushed toward another landmass he had previously only briefly set foot on, and once again created the herbivorous dragons there.

Afterwards, while waiting for the herbivorous dragons to grow, he continued to instruct the tongue beast, his first sovereign beast.

And at this very moment, Baichuan's second Juanzhu was thoroughly born.

Unlike the first great dragon, the tongue beast, which governed flame and metal, the second great dragon was given by Baichuan the abilities of ice and water.

Although in terms of destructive power it might not compare to the tongue beast, whose Burst was the strongest, because the first dragon Baichuan had given the task of guarding the Heavenly Capital Flying Realm — a mission only the strongest, most terrifying Burst-wielding dragon could fulfill.

Flame, in nature, was already the most common and most lethal form of energy.

But once this dragon governing ice and water was in the ocean, it was not afraid of the tongue beast's power either...

The appearance of this great dragon also signified that Baichuan's understanding of ice had deepened further.

Of course, to be precise, his application of the various gases in the atmosphere had reached a new level, no longer confined to the previous ice element, but capable of producing even colder temperatures.

As for the water portion of its power, Baichuan could only say he had used a clever workaround — once this ice-and-water... or rather, ice-and-ocean great dragon left the ocean,

its water power would drop sharply, leaving only the Ice Frost that was unaffected by any environment.

In the end, it was still because Baichuan's knowledge was insufficient, and his foundation in power was not particularly deep.

At the same time, this ice-and-ocean great dragon, in appearance, was not as majestic, rugged, and domineering as the tongue beast; Baichuan, who now had some experience, directly chose a more gorgeous, beautiful, even somewhat luxurious crystalline and noble design.

This was a beautiful ice dragon!

As for the name, he, who had no talent for naming, directly took one character each from the two powers it controlled — Ice Frost and ocean — and named it "Ice Sea Dragon."

The birth of this Ice Sea Dragon, in a certain sense, meant that from this moment on he would be raising two hatchlings.

If the first Juanzhu hadn't already grown quite a bit, Baichuan would truly have been at his wit's end; who would have thought that he, a single aristocrat in his previous life, upon transmigrating into a dragon, would first experience... raising children.

However, this experience also taught Baichuan that before he had a single adult Juanzhu that could help him care for the other juvenile ones,

he absolutely could not too quickly manufacture too many Juanzhu at once — though in fact, even if he wanted to rapidly create several at once, he couldn't.

Although he had mastered this light-cocoon technique, it didn't mean his success rate was one hundred percent; during the creation of one, he absolutely had no Vital Essence left to begin creating a second.

The adjustment, placement, and condensation of those structures — even with what seemed like infinite computing power — he couldn't get it perfectly right every time, and one mistake meant all his previous work was wasted, requiring him to start over from scratch.

Time passed slowly, and another five years went by in the blink of an eye.

At this point, Baichuan had also thoroughly completed all preparations, and beside him now followed not just the original two great dragons, but a full seven.

Of these seven, the first six governed respectively: flame, Ice Frost, lightning, stealth and venom, sound waves and gale, extreme physical body, and terrifying Regeneration.

As for the last one, the final dragon created, its power was not so terrifying.

Because Baichuan had initially only created six, which were enough to help him watch over the world.

The seventh was created by Baichuan purely out of imitation of water, his own form, and the postures of certain special creatures.

So Baichuan gave it no task; its mere existence was already a matter fraught with difficulty.

It was created purely out of Baichuan's whim, to see how one might truly obtain the power of water.

Its body took the form of a swimming dragon, with various ribbon-like fins floating around its entire body, while its internal structure referenced that of a dolphin — it could inflate its slender, gorgeously fluttering ribbon fins into a cloud-like form, spreading beautifully across the sky.

And with this kind of structure, to achieve Flight, aside from using the collision of hot and cold to create cloud layers to support it, it could also inflate itself by absorbing large amounts of water and decomposing it into hydrogen, thereby flying.

This was also the only Flight mode with any feasibility that Baichuan had considered before obtaining electromagnetic Flight.

And this was also Baichuan's purpose in creating it — to see whether, over a long span of Time, it could find a better method of Flight, as well as truly produce water.

Hot-and-cold collision was ultimately a workaround; what he wanted was to obtain the power to directly produce water, not such a workaround.

But he didn't have much Time left, so he could only gamble and entrust it to his Juanzhu, waiting through long ages for it to be perfected.

In thought, Baichuan, having completed everything, stood atop a cloud-wrapped mountain peak with a full seven Juanzhu, each already reaching a size of twenty meters.

The time had come; once the final entrustment was complete, it would be time to open a new era.

Ignoring his seven Juanzhu, each with its own bearing, he pondered for a moment, then slowly spat from his mouth a sphere a full meter across.

The moment this sphere appeared, it radiated dazzling brilliance and spun ceaselessly.

(End of this chapter)