Chapter 370: Meeting Nero, the Metal Dragon – Part 1 (1/2)
Vital Yin Core (Completed)
As dual-cultivators usually exchange, steal, or plunder their partner's Qi, blood, and essence to nourish themselves, their foundation and physique are usually fragile.
Vital Yin Core, which can be cultivated by collecting the purest energy of 1,000 virgin maidens, is necessary for dual-cultivators to enhance their weak foundation and meridians.
Men didn't need Yin Essence. But for weak dual cultivators, Yin Essence is a necessary medium to increase the cultivator's combat prowess. As the Yang Essence you have been cultivating during sex can be chaotic and untamable, this core can serve as a stabilizer, allowing you to control your Yang Essence more efficiently.
Secondly, Vital Yin Core can beautify men. With it, your outward appearance will be less masculine while your face will be as pretty as an attractive woman.
Effect: Massively Increase Daily Qi and Essence Regeneration Rate.
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Vital Yin Core, the old quest reward that Miaomiao had ignored, had been completed because of Dian Wei's 2,500-year-old virginity and her strength.
Based on the system information, Miaomiao didn't need it anymore since he already had something superior, such as Life Essence, sturdy physique, and unique bloodline.
In short, he didn't need a Yang-Essence Stabilizer! Though the daily life essence regeneration might be useful in the long run.
Still, Miaomiao was glad that this old quest was out of the way since it occupied a quest slot for ages. He could move on and get more profitable quests, which might offer Luck Points as rewards.
For now, he had to shove everything to the back of his head.
Miaomiao didn't pay attention to the surroundings when Dian Wei brought him to the underground levels. Strangely, the further she descended, the taller the ceiling.
Now, the underground ceiling was at least 200 meters, and a gigantic monster had been living inside.
By the time they reached their destination, Miaomiao finally snapped back to his senses.
In front of Miaomiao, a colossus black dragon with glowing eyes had been resting in his massive cave, but one of his eyes stared at him.
The dragon scale reflected the dimmed light from the glowing gemstones on the ceiling, shining like refined black diamonds. Even the four wings behind its back were made of thick dark gemstones.
Spike-like dragon spines, barbed tail, and massive long neck of the dragon resembled intimidating evil dragons in RPG games. Four curvy horns on its head became its crown, but they emitted strong metal element Qi.
No matter where Miaomiao looked, this metal dragon was scary. Moreover, he couldn't measure this monster's cultivation base or strength!
Although shocked, Miaomiao was confused about how a monster of such size had been living in an enclosed space. It should have broken out of this hell hole and let loose long ago.
Dian Wei whispered, introducing her master to Miaomiao.
”That is my master, Nero. He rescued me from the hands of evil humans and taught me several cultivation techniques. I also got his bloodline after I ran an errand for him for… I don't know how long.”
”… Wow.”
Miaomiao was impressed. Since Lu Fengxian recommended that he should stay here for a while, he suspected that the ex-immortal might have known something about the dragon. Also, Miaomiao wondered how strong the dragon really was.
”Most importantly, don't piss him off. His cultivation might be suppressed to the 9th-stage, but his real strength is on par with the Immortal King Realm cultivators. Make sure not to rub him the wrong way.”
”Immortal King-What? How strong is that compare to the 9th-stage?”
Miaomiao was clueless about the realms beyond the mortal realms. Hearing the term, ”Immortal King”, he was interested in the cultivation tiers in the higher realms.
But his curiosity was interrupted.
The dragon stared at Miaomiao with its jewel-like eyes. Then, it snorted as if it disliked something.
”What a waste. Why did Firecracker allow this trash to inherit his bloodline? He can't even utilize his Qi and Essence properly. The legacy is a waste in his hands.”
”Err, what?” Miaomiao was confused about what the dragon had complained about.
”Hah! Did you steal the fire dragon legacy from that dying lizard!? Didn't he tell you to open your meridians properly!? I don't know how the hell you manage to survive up until now, but you'd better find a successor to inherit your dragon bloodline before you get yourself killed! A trashy demon like you will never ascend to the 8th-stage in your lifetime.”
”…”
Ignoring the insult, Miaomiao finally figured what the black dragon had referred to.
It was the fire dragon bloodline that Miaomiao had gotten from Xie Tian's clone! Now, he knew why the dragon disliked him.
While the dragon had been complaining and insulting Miaomiao, Dian Wei bent her legs as if she bowed to the dragon.
”Greetings, master. I've brought a guest here to request your help. This is… what's your name again?”
Miaomiao almost slipped off Dian Wei's back. They had marathon sex for a day, but they didn't even know each other's names.
”Mao Miaomiao.”
”Okay. Master, his name is… err… what was it again? Oh, right! Cat Meow-Meow.”
”…”
Miaomiao facepalmed, but he didn't bother correcting the name.
The dragon sneered, ”It doesn't matter what his name is. You want me to fix this little bastard's meridians, I assume.”
”Correct, master.”
”Why should I?”
”You should have noticed. I need him to fertilize my eggs. So far, I'm quite disappointed that his strength is too weak. My children would have gotten a lot stronger had his cultivation base been on par with me. But as he currently is, he won't be able to advance to the 8th-stage no matter how hard he tries. Could you help him get stronger, so I can breed stronger children? I want to raise an army to hunt humans out there.”
Miaomiao had a wry smile on his face as he was offended. Yet, he kept quiet to listen to the conversation as it related to the advancement to the 8th-stage.
The dragon smirked and snorted, ”I refuse.”
Dian Wei was shocked. She stood up and accidentally knocked Miaomiao off her back, ”Why, master!? You only need to spend a bit of your Qi and time, then you can easily fix him as you did to my meridians.”
”Had he been an ordinary demon weakling, I would have helped him. But this bastard stole the bloodline of my comrade! I won't help his successor even if he's a lowlife wastrel or one-in-billion genius!”
The killing intent of the dragon exploded, causing the ceiling and walls to dent, expanding the size of the cave. Even Dian Wei and Miaomiao were blown away to a wall.
Surprised by the sudden attack, Miaomiao transformed into a lizard-like dragonewt and spread his fire dragon wings to protect himself. He also brought out a bottle of spring water to drink to heal his internal organs.
As soon as Nero sensed the unusual aura of Miaomiao's medicinal water, he receded its killing intent.
”BRAT!!” The dragon roared.
Miaomiao coughed and spat some of the spring water out, ”Yes, sir.”
”WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WATER!?”
”Err, the dryad realm?”
”GIVE IT TO ME!!”
”… Okay.”
Miaomiao tossed the half-full bottle of spring water toward Nero. The dragon gently grabbed the glass bottle with his mouth and drank it. Then, he spat the glass bottle back toward Miaomiao.
”Do you have more?” Nero licked his mouth.
”Sure,” Miaomiao looked at his system inventory slots and Wei Yuan's inventory slots, which had stored many containers of excess spring water from Siren City.
He took out a hundred canteens of spring water and arranged it on the ground in front of him.
Nero widened his eyes in delight. He manipulated the canteens with his Qi, bringing them to his mouth, and began chucking the water.
A minute later, Nero burped.