Chapter 96: A Planet's Flood Dragon Has Been Raised (Part 1)

He watched with his own eyes as the monster truly departed, only then nimbly standing back up, glancing around in terror before tiptoeing away at a brisk pace.

However, he did not see, in the distant air, a pair of cold, sharply amused eyes.

Had he seen them, he would likely have been scared soft on the spot and fainted dead away.

That day at noon, the sun hung high.

Baichuan returned to the surface and entered stealth mode, tailing this suddenly appeared human to a tribe — an extremely primitive tribe.

He examined it carefully, and ultimately discovered in disappointment that this was a tribe in the most primitive of eras, not yet having formed any city-state-like civilization, and he found not a single trace of any special power within it.

Faced with this, he could only leave in disappointment.

After this encounter, he spent half a month soaring through the skies of the entire continent, observing in detail the various specific conditions of this vast region.

This allowed him to confirm one point: this land belonged to a wild and desolate era!

Faced with this, he no longer hid himself, and began madly plundering the ability models of the creatures here across this vast continent, along with massive amounts of flesh and blood to fuel his own growth.

Time flowed slowly, and a year passed just like that.

And after a year of growth, his body size had finally reached fifteen meters, and at the same time he had finally shrunk his bat-wings, purely converting them into auxiliary wings used to change direction and assist gliding.

Taking their place was a pair of enormous feathered wings with a thirty-meter wingspan; with the aid of these massive wings, he truly traversed every single place on this continent.

Any creature he saw with a somewhat large body was absorbed into his ability structure repository without exception, and for a time he became the nightmare in the hearts of all living beings on this continent.

Wherever he appeared, wind and thunder accompanied him as his enormous shadow swallowed the ground; wherever he passed, all beasts submitted without exception, allowing themselves to be slaughtered.

Even the lion, king of the grasslands, was no exception — elephants, rhinoceroses, hippos, and so on were likewise so, ultimately unable to escape Baichuan's deadly grasp.

In fact, because of his ever-growing massive body and the need for vast amounts of flesh and blood to fill his stomach and accumulate points.

These creatures with enormous body sizes directly became his favorites, and for a time he ate them to the point where a small tribe nearly faced extinction.

Fortunately, he came to his senses at this point and reined himself in, narrowly avoiding causing the extinction of an elephant herd and a hippopotamus herd.

Speaking of which, the reason he was able to increase his body size so rapidly was precisely because of the elephant's ability "Ju Da Hua LV2."

As his body grew ever larger, Baichuan also began to discover that his body size, growing purely through natural increase, was becoming slower and slower — this might be because he had broken through the limits of his own species.

At the same time, he had also accomplished his initial goal — finding the bombardier beetle.

Therefore, he successfully gained the ability to spray fire, though the manifestation of this ability was rather special.

Instead of generating a pouch at the neck for storage, three pouches were generated inside his chest cavity, roughly at the location of his claws and wings.

The two largest of these respectively stored hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone, flanking the relatively smaller high-pressure ejection sac in the middle.

And their operating principle was:

Wanting to spray (sending a signal) — the body begins to react (receiving the signal).

First, as Baichuan's signal was sent, his body would begin to secrete a special catalytic enzyme into the high-pressure ejection sac, while the pouches storing hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone also began to transport the liquids through ducts into the ejection sac.

Once these three special substances came into contact, they would mix within the ejection sac to produce Benzoquinone Solution, which would then, under the powerful compression of the ejection sac, be sprayed out through the throat along the generated duct.

And at this point, he only needed to instantly produce an Electric Discharge to create a spark, which could ignite the liquid into raging flames.

Unfortunately, this fire-spraying ability did not quite match his original purpose — it could not create heated air over a large area to form updrafts capable of lifting him.

Because his flames were produced by igniting liquid, they easily scattered in the high air and could not gather together.

However, it could produce an attack like a ball of toxic fire.

Perhaps only that kind of hot-wind type ability could meet his requirements?

Baichuan silently speculated.

Fortunately, his current self was no longer entirely dependent on the bat-wing stage that required updrafts, but had truly transformed into the likeness of a Yinglong or a Quetzalcoatl.

And thanks to this, he had left countless legends about himself across this primitive, wild continent.

Now those primitive human tribes practically worshipped him as a deity, searching for traces of him across this wild, primitive continent, praying to receive his protection.

And thanks to this, he had truly come to possess a statue of his own.

Some even specifically sought out the shed exoskeletons he had left behind, gathered them together, and placed them before his statue to hold various offerings to worship him.

Unfortunately, he needed no one's faith. In this ordinary world, he had not yet discovered that faith had any effect.

With his mind set solely on transforming into a dragon, he did not wish to concern himself with anything unrelated to him.

He knew well that a person's energy is limited; if he, already not very clever, were still so indecisive and half-hearted, would he truly have a day when he transformed into a dragon?

He was not sure, and did not wish to gamble on it.

During this year, many of his own abilities also began to undergo updates and iterations; the abilities previously gained from the caiman were all replaced with those from the largest crocodile on that continent — the Nile crocodile.

Naturally, with the crocodile abilities all replaced, others such as shark abilities and the Bianseyong's environmental simulation were likewise replaced with the more powerful great white shark's abilities, and the more powerful mimic octopus's stealth ability.

The abilities replaced here were far too numerous to list one by one.

His current self could truly be said to have achieved a thorough, complete upgrade.

In an instant, he gained a large batch of LV3-level abilities — though most were only at the "Banzhu" level, with only a few reaching the "King" level.

He just didn't know whether there was anything stronger above the LV3 level, or whether it jumped straight to LV4.

Baichuan couldn't figure this out for now either.

……

The same year, the Great Zhou region.

The leader of the uprising army, formerly known as A Niu and now named Zhang Rang, had also somehow gathered a terrifying batch of soldiers averaging five limits each.

In one surprise attack, he completely seized two great provinces from the hands of Great Zhou, truly beginning to form a massive force in preparation to overthrow the tyrant Zhou.

For a time, the popular momentum was tremendous; large numbers of common folk who had fallen into disaster refugee status due to frequent disasters everywhere began to regard him as a savior, a true worthy lord.

As the True God descended from the heavens, the great Bodhisattva who came to the sea of suffering to rescue the suffering and aid the distressed.

At this point, this also meant that all of this was no longer mere small-scale skirmishing, but had finally truly entered the eyes of the highest ruler of this land — Zhou Tianzi.

……

And at this moment, Baichuan, having plundered all the resources across the entire continent, was not in the slightest bit satisfied.

Because he had never discovered the slightest trace of any mysterious power existing on this continent.

Everywhere he passed, there were only ordinary creatures, not a single trace of the extraordinary — which undoubtedly matched a guess he had been harboring.

To verify it, and also to acquire more ability models to promote his growth and development.

At this moment, he prepared to once again leave this continent and head for the other continents on this planet.

Regarding this, if all the living beings dwelling on this continent — which Baichuan had named Man Huang Da Lu — were to learn of it.

Especially the elephant herds, the hippopotamus herds, and the like, they would perhaps burst into a frenzy of excited rejoicing.

It meant that this baleful star, this demon, this terrifying existence that fed upon them — the true sovereign of this continent — was finally about to leave!

And the continent he headed to next was not far away either, also situated in the vicinity not far from the Da Zhou continent.

……

And with that departure, another year went by.

During this year, his body size had once again reached eighteen meters, with a wingspan of thirty-six meters.

Clearly, the growth of his body size was slowing more and more, increasing by only about three meters.

At the same time, he also began to notice that as his body size grew, his own reactions had begun to slow down a touch.

He had discovered this point during one instance, while he was teasing a little bird.

He had clearly, with the aid of his extraordinary vision, seen every movement of that little bird, and had already calculated the reaction it was about to make.

Yet when his body responded to his thought, it was a touch slow, allowing that little bird to get away successfully.

At this moment, this let him know that his reaction speed had slowed, because his body had grown too long, thereby causing the time required for nerve-signal transmission to lengthen.

This was perhaps the consequence of exceeding the limits of his species without optimizing the body's structure……

(End of this chapter)