Chapter 268: Without Chi Wood, a Dragon Cannot Ascend to the Heavens

Without a doubt, this was a microscopic molecular-level ability!

It was also Baichuan's second microscopic ability, apart from the Blood Worm ability.

However, compared to the Blood Worm ability's freedom, this one was more like a program — it didn't require the ability's host to understand it; one only needed to follow the rules and run it directly to use it.

If Baichuan hadn't possessed Microscopic Vision and observed the entire process of using the ability, he might truly not have discovered the principle behind it.

Having understood for the first time the principle of an ability obtained in this otherworld, Baichuan also fell into a rare state of excitement.

Because since coming to this world, the knowledge he had gained in the past had already been frustrated countless times in this world; now he had finally once again felt the benefits that past knowledge brought.

What a pity — currently he only understood the ability's manifestation principle, but still didn't know how it operated, what the driving force was, or by what method or medium it ran.

After the excitement, Baichuan also felt a bit of regret.

Because right now, even if he could understand the principle, it was of no use.

He still didn't understand by what method this force had accomplished all of this.

The general process was: his will moved, then his stamina vanished, his dragon horns flickered, and the ability took effect.

The only thing he could understand was that dragon horns were extremely important to dragon-kind.

Because whether it was the previous 【Atmospheric Shuttle】 or the current 【Cloud-Raising and Rain-Making】, both were used under the flickering of the dragon horns.

Then, was the 【Dragon Breath】 ability the same?

Doubt rose in his heart, and Baichuan directly tried out this ability.

Along with his will to use this force, in an instant, with a large amount of stamina vanishing and the blood within his body surging rapidly, the dragon horns on his head once again underwent a miraculous change.

Baichuan only felt that the dragon horns at this moment seemed to have transformed into an intense vortex, seemingly absorbing some unknown energy or substance from the atmosphere; beneath this, an extremely surging sense of power slowly emerged from the deepest layer of his body, ultimately gathering slowly at his throat.

Then he understood — an extremely scorching breath was already poised at his throat, ready to be unleashed.

He didn't suppress it either, but following his instinct, he directly spat it at a spot on the ground in the distance.

Boom——!!!

In an instant, the Pseudo-Dragon spat, and a black-purple, raging torrent of flame directly surged forth, heading toward the direction Baichuan had aimed at.

However, a strange thing happened.

There was no explosion — not a single explosion appeared in the places the Dragon Breath flame swept over, and not one thing in the surroundings was ignited by this flame; it seemed this surging blaze was illusory, possessing no killing power at all.

Faced with this peculiar situation, Baichuan, who was accustomed to the destructive power of flames, was also stunned, and immediately couldn't help but stop this breath.

As the black-purple flame gradually vanished, he then saw, on the distant path the flame had swept over, a primate animal resembling an ape quietly lying there.

What was this?

In his surprise, Baichuan also directly swam over to approach it.

Very strange — its body still showed signs of life, even appearing quite healthy, yet there was no movement whatsoever; was it sleeping?

After carefully scooping it up and observing it, Baichuan arrived at a conclusion he himself could hardly believe.

The strange, powerless Dragon Breath flame, and the ape currently swept by the flame and bizarrely sleeping without any reaction.

At this moment, Baichuan abruptly thought of a guess.

To verify this guess, he directly and gently scratched this supposedly sleeping ape with his claw tip.

In an instant, along with a waft of fishy smell, scarlet blood began to slowly flow and drip down.

Yet even under such circumstances, that ape still showed not the slightest reaction, not even a grunt — extremely tough.

After thinking for a moment, Baichuan directly released a large number of energy Light Points, arranging them around the ape's body in preparation for observation.

After finishing this, he then violently cut off one of the ape's limbs.

Yet none of the situations he had imagined — the ape waking in shock, screaming, struggling, or even punching and kicking him, or begging for mercy on the ground — appeared at all; there was only the instinctive reflex of spasms and convulsions caused by the ape's sleeping body receiving external stimulation.

It seemed he was about to obtain an incomparably powerful ability.

At this moment, having already reached a conclusion, Baichuan, amid his delight, tossed this ape aside and looked around once more.

However, the specifics still needed to be verified multiple times.

Baichuan turned his gaze toward the other creatures in the mountains.

……

An hour later, the mountain that had been rustling with sounds finally quieted down again, replaced by over a dozen various animals quietly "sleeping" on the ground.

"I never expected that merely an LV3-level ability could touch upon the level of Spirit consciousness…"

Looking at the animal corpses scattered across the ground, Baichuan also chuckled lightly — the pleasant surprise had come too suddenly.

He, who in the past could only act upon the physical body level of living beings, had finally gained a means to deal with another level.

It was just unknown whether the effect of this Dragon Breath flame varied from person to person, or whether all dragon-kind were the same?

The legendary dragon had truly shocked him once again.

But merely LV3 level, and it could touch upon this level?

However, at this moment he truly confirmed that the dragon horns — this body part — were extremely important to dragon-kind!

This was beyond doubt.

Because in the process of using all the abilities he currently possessed, the dragon horns — this organ — had participated in the entire process.

However, this point reminded him of a record about dragons from his previous life: "On a dragon's head there is an object, shaped like a Boshan mountain, called Chi Wood. Without Chi Wood, a dragon cannot ascend to the heavens."

But upon thinking of this point, even denser doubts followed one after another.

His previous life — why did that world know clearly the importance of dragon horns, that is, Chi Wood, to dragon-kind?

And the Dongfang Quyu of this world — everything about it gave him a sense of familiarity, as if it were the ancient times of his previous life's world?

Was it coincidence? Or something deeper?

Baichuan didn't know, but he knew he couldn't think too deeply about it.

This was not something the current him should be able to know; regarding this vast, boundless world, he ultimately understood far, far too little.

He should consider the present — for example, going to make contact with the ruler of that Dalong Dynasty.

Thinking of this, he silently took flight, preparing to fly toward...

Speaking of which, where was he supposed to fly to?

Where exactly was the capital of this Great Long Dynasty?

Only at this moment did Baichuan realize a problem — it seemed that since arriving in this world so long ago, he had never truly understood the regional divisions of this dynasty...

Forget it.

Shaking his head, Baichuan, who didn't know the location, prepared once again to seek out that Old Dragon Ao Qing.

Because what he knew about the dragon race was far too little; he wanted to systematically understand the history of the dragon race, and see whether there were any techniques or the like.

In the end, Ao Qing was, after all, the Dragon King personally conferred by Great Long, so he would certainly know where this dynasty's capital was.

But speaking of techniques, Baichuan, having absorbed everything on the two panels, only now recalled that pile of techniques the Old Dragon had given him before.

Because there was the excuse of having slept for so long and wanting to understand this world, combined with his own special status and that Old Dragon Ao Qing's deliberate attempt to get close.

So that Ao Qing didn't hold back at all, directly handing over to him all the various techniques he had collected over the years that didn't touch the Core.

Among them were various human ones, demon ones, and even some unorthodox ones.

So then, the question came — go find the Old Dragon first, or study the techniques first?

Baichuan only briefly considered it for a moment before deciding the techniques were more important.

After all, his reason for wanting to seek out the Old Dragon was merely to make contact with the dynasty's controller and obtain information about the one behind the scenes.

The root of all his purposes was to clearly understand the situation of this world — what was the essence and source of this Spirit Qi power, and whether it could be controlled by him, thereby making him even stronger.

But now that he already had various techniques for utilizing this Spirit Qi energy, how could he abandon what was close at hand for something far away?

All knowledge and treasures, once eaten into his mouth, truly belonged to him; rather than that, why not seize this chance to grow a bit stronger.

Anyway, that one behind the scenes was right there; he didn't need to rush.

With a still fairly long lifespan, and being so incredibly young, he could afford to wait.

Thinking of this, Baichuan directly pulled out several technique manuals and began examining them.

Time, at this point, began flowing once more.

Now considered powerful, he had long since lost the physiological activities ordinary creatures should have; as long as there was energy, he neither needed to eat nor drink.

So under these circumstances, Baichuan began day and night, ceaselessly, drawing on boundless computational power to start his investigation.

First, he rapidly read and recorded the information and key points of the various techniques, then extravagantly built a dedicated technique model for each one, collecting all the various information and Characteristics within them; afterward began a lengthy comparison, searching for common points.

Because Baichuan believed that as long as these techniques utilized this Spirit Qi energy, then no matter how they changed, there must exist a common point.

And once he found this common point, he would be able to understand exactly how Spirit Qi was born, and at that time he could use this point to find out how the related abilities he himself had evolved during Spirit Qi's birth process operated, and where they were positioned.

At first, the computational power required throughout the entire process wasn't that great; even his own computational power was sufficient. But as the techniques multiplied, the complex Characteristics between techniques, and the need to personally witness the changes of a certain technique firsthand...

Even Baichuan had no choice but to begin, step by step, releasing a large number of Light Points, keeping them constantly floating in the surrounding environment.

Because only in this way could he solve the problems of insufficient computational power and computational stability, while at the same time using this power, without his main body moving, to draw large numbers of living creatures from the surrounding environment for research and observation.

That's right — in order to parse out the birth of Spirit Qi, Baichuan had also slightly relaxed the restrictions on his use of Light Point energy.

Thus, under these circumstances, five years later.

A strange, beautiful, mysterious kingdom was born in these once-uninhabited deep mountains — a demon kingdom possessing countless beings with extraordinary wisdom potential.

Within this kingdom, all manner of precious rare flowers and exotic herbs, and brilliant, crystalline, beautiful Crystal Stones containing mysterious energy could be found everywhere; only the few that possessed Spirit or even activity, containing incomparably powerful medicinal efficacy, could be called Treasure Medicine. Apart from these, even precious plants capable of enhancing bloodline ability could only be considered ordinary here.

Any spirit or demon living in this kingdom knew that in the very central region of this kingdom, there existed three great demons with terrifying auras and extraordinary potential — they were the true masters of this kingdom.

However, the deepest secret was known only to those three great demons.

How could they be the true masters of this kingdom? In the end, they were merely extremely lucky to have been chosen by that mysterious lord in the early stages, and then in the subsequent rounds of experiments, they had luckily survived, only thus gaining a seemingly imposing status before other spirits and demons.

But they knew clearly that they were actually no different from the ordinary spirits and demons on the outer layer — they were all that lord's "white mice." Yes, white mice.

Although they didn't know the true meaning of this word, why they were called a type of mouse, they knew that that mysterious lord liked to address them this way.

So, they simply went along with that lord's wishes, proclaiming themselves to be the Epic-level White Mice standing at the very top of the entire brilliant kingdom!

The term "Epic-level" was naturally also bestowed upon them by that mysterious lord.

And all of this was naturally caused by Baichuan.

After five years of Time, he had finally found the essence of Spirit Qi, and how it was born from within him.

And this kingdom now spread throughout with brilliant Crystal Stones and inhabited by all manner of spirits and demons was naturally born unintentionally during his exploration of Spirit Qi.

After all, compared to Dragon Transformation — that extraordinary system that appeared to adapt to the environment and strengthen itself — the energy system he originally obtained from the blood worm relied on transforming the surrounding environment to strengthen itself.

Although in the end the paths converged on the same goal, both being to strengthen oneself.

But the former had low demand on the environment — it changed and evolved itself, then transcended; the latter had a slightly greater demand on the environment, and while strengthening itself, it would unintentionally transform the environment to keep up with its own changes, constantly complementing the environment to make itself stronger.

Generally speaking, it should be said that Dragon Transformation took the lone-wolf path of growing stronger, since it only needed to increase the purity of Dragon Blood. The blood worm took the farming-in-place path of ceaseless strengthening, constantly spreading its own power throughout the entire world and then transforming the world.

This point won't be elaborated on further.

He had now initially understood how Spirit Qi changed living creatures, and how it was born within their bodies; what he still lacked was how the Spirit Qi of this world reacted with living creatures to be born.

As long as he further understood the mystery of that external-source Spirit Qi's birth, then looking at the entire Spirit Qi system as a whole, the most Core part would hold no more secrets for him, and would be completely under his control.

As for afterward, under his grasp of the Core, all the foundational achievements this world had expanded would become his resources.

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(End of Chapter)