[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-vegetable-growing-skeleton-s-foreign-land-re":3,"chapter-the-vegetable-growing-skeleton-s-foreign-land-re-the-vegetable-growing-skeleton-s-foreign-land-re-chapter-41":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Vegetable-Growing Skeleton's Foreign Land Reclamation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2351522,4600,"Chapter 41: Growing a Dragon","the-vegetable-growing-skeleton-s-foreign-land-re-chapter-41",41,"\u003Cp>The others ran off in a panic, leaving Ang idle; he picked up the brass dragon scale and asked, “How do you use it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you mean, how do you use it? You want to use my scale how? Grind it into powder and drink it, or make a plaque and hang it on the wall!” Nagris bellowed in anguish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing is sadder than witnessing your own corpse with your own eyes—and even sadder when only a tiny fragment remains, where did the rest go?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only this small piece left, and Ang still wants to ‘use’ it?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh.” Ang turned and found a basin, placing the brass dragon scale inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nagris exploded: “Ku Ba Da! I was just joking—you actually plan to soak it in water?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ang poured a bottle of essence liquid into the basin, just enough to cover the scale, then crouched beside it to observe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh, soaking a dragon scale in essence liquid—how extravagant, thousands of magic crystals wasted like this.” Nagris sneered, furious at Ang’s reckless handling of his scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Ang couldn’t care less about sarcasm; after observing for a while and seeing no change, he picked it up and shone purification light upon it—still no effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking it over, Ang cast purification magic again, but this time not the basic version—it was Lisa’s modified Purifying Beauty Spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nagris finally realized: Ang wasn’t planning to soak his scale in water—he was conducting deliberate research. “What exactly are you doing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ang pointed at the angelic skeleton: “Grow it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nagris understood now—Ang hoped to make his scale regenerate his body like the angelic skeleton’s bones had regenerated under holy light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you dreaming? I’m not an angelic skeleton—do you think a touch of holy light will make me regrow?” Nagris thought Ang’s idea absurd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Only angels resurrect under holy light—they’re not living beings at all, but combat weapons created by the gods of the Church of Light to exterminate heretics, utterly unlike natural life. Trying to revive someone with a dragon scale is like trying to resurrect a person with their ashes… uh…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Nagris muttered to himself, the scale suddenly sprouted a thin layer of new tissue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can this even work? What is that?” Nagris shrieked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ang kept shining holy light—the growth thickened rapidly, soon reaching about a millimeter in thickness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s still thin, but clearly dragon dross—Ku Ba Da! You really restored my skin from a single scale? Impossible! Unreasonable! How could this happen? No theoretical basis! Do I have knowledge blind spots? What nonsense—I’m the God of Knowledge!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bizarre phenomenon shook Nagris deeply, plunging him into self-doubt as he rambled uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the dragon dross reached three millimeters, a distinct layer of skin tissue emerged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I get it—it’s the ‘holy’ light! The holy light you cast carries your will, so it enables regeneration even in ordinary living beings.” Nagris racked his brain and finally—forcefully—concocted a plausible explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In holy magic, “holy” means will—the divine power is the god’s will. Like the Church of Light: when they declare undead as heretics, their holy magic inflicts extra damage upon them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Ang, using the same holy magic, could give a lich a facial treatment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ang himself possesses a soul network and faith energy—this is the foundation of “holy.” Lisa’s Purifying Beauty Spell requires Ang’s power to produce any “holy” effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Ang believes the scale can grow into a “dragon,” the holy light obeys his will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the only plausible explanation Nagris could devise—regardless of whether it was correct, he’d apply it and test it later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath the scale, dragon dross, keratin, epidermis, dermis—layer after layer grew, until reaching two fingers thick; no matter how hard Ang pushed, it stopped growing, and the surface began to shrivel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, Nagris felt a quiet relief in his heart, and said aloud: “See? I told you it wouldn’t work—trying to revive a whole dragon from one scale? Dream on.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ang wasn’t discouraged—he placed the shriveling scale and skin back into the essence liquid; after soaking, the shrunken parts expanded again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ang resumed casting purification magic—the scale resumed growing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nagris didn’t know what to say—why hadn’t he thought of this himself?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wounds severed from limbs could regenerate when soaked in essence liquid—so theoretically, placing severed limbs in essence liquid could regrow an entire person. But no one ever had enough essence liquid; even if someone imagined it, they couldn’t test it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merely possessing essence liquid wasn’t enough—it only prevented shriveling. To keep growth going, purification magic had to be cast continuously, and only Ang’s holy purification magic, infused with his will, worked—Lisa probably couldn’t replicate it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he kept going, Ang’s purification spell suddenly brightened several times over, becoming a massive version.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this… a level-up? No way—there’s a Level Two Purification Spell?” Nagris nearly leapt out of Ang’s body to study the massive spell himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Purification magic is a Level One holy spell—it’s Level One, period. No Level Two Purification exists; higher tiers are Group Purification and Holy Radiance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, Holy Radiance is essentially an upgraded Purification Spell—in theory, when purified to its extreme, it becomes Holy Radiance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Ang’s massive Purification Spell had nothing to do with Group Purification or Holy Radiance—it was simply Purification strengthened, its holy light intensity multiplied several times over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Level Two Purification boosted efficiency—the scale grew faster: half a day to a fist-sized lump, a full day to the size of a watermelon, two days to full form. By then, Ang’s entire twenty liters of holy nutrient fluid were exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Ang lay a half-meter-long brass dragon—like a brass sculpture… a corpse. Indeed, a corpse: though it looked vivid, its heart didn’t beat, its blood didn’t flow—it was dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, Nagris was at a loss. Ang had truly grown a dragon—but not the brass dragon Nagris once was. Instead, a tiny brass dragon. Had he looked like this as a child?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What now? Should we revive it? Try shocking it?” Nagris suggested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shock?” Ang tilted his head, puzzled: “Cook it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cook your head! Electric shock causes muscle spasms—heart muscle has a chance to restart if shocked. Shock it—right on the heart.” Nagris said. At this point, treat the dead dragon as if alive—otherwise, creating a dead dragon was pointless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty liters of holy essence—by human-world prices, that’s two hundred thousand magic crystals. 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