Chapter 371: Meeting Nero, the Metal Dragon – Part 2 (1/2)
Wei Yuan and many yin slaves had told Miaomiao about the issues of Siren City's unified element spring water, which Mao Xueyan's goblet continued to produce.
The city's reservoir could no longer contain the overflowing spring water and the daily supply of life essence water from the pylon tower. The city also couldn't release the excess water to the blood sea either since it might draw the attention of various super monsters from the Blood Sea.
Thus, Wei Yuan had stored many spring water tanks in her system inventory, hoping to sell them or use them to grow crops that required the special water.
Fortunately, Miaomiao and Wei Yuan could communicate through their systems. He asked his wife to transfer some of the water tanks to his inventory slots.
Wei Yuan was more than happy to transfer all her water tanks, which had been filled to the brim, to Miaomiao. She had enough elixir to fill ten Olympic-size swimming pools at once, and she still had many tanks leftover. She also told Miaomiao that she still had many more in her spatial rings.
With such resources, Miaomiao had no qualm in throwing the precious water away.
After digging one Olympic-size pool for the dragon, Miaomiao filled the hole with the spring water.
”I was planning to give you 1000 cubic meters. I guess 2500 cubic meters is more than enough?”
Miaomiao looked at the water pool and turned to the dragon, ”Is this enough for you? Do you need another pool?”
Nero's massive body alone had already occupied half of the enormous room underground. However, there were enough spaces to place ten swimming pools here.
Miaomiao asked Nero for permission, in case this prideful dragon wanted more.
Nero stared blankly at the pool of precious elixir for a moment, after which he looked at Miaomiao, ”You… who are you? How did get so much dryad's spring water? Did you rob their entire plane or what?”
”Oh? You know about the dryad realm?” Miaomiao was surprised.
”The dryad queen and Firecracker are friends. I heard about the woman through that guy.”
”Firecracker? Who?”
”The owner of your fire dragon bloodline.”
”Oh!”
Nero sighed as he confirmed that Miaomiao didn't inherit his friend's legacy directly, ”What happened to the original bloodline holder? How did you get that fire dragon bloodline?”
”You keep asking me questions, but you haven't given me the promised reward yet.”
Nero's killing intent soared, ”Tell me how you get that bloodline and the water first, and I'll fulfill my promise!”
Miaomiao was blown toward the wall again. He coughed several mouthfuls of blood as the killing intent of this sealed immortal dragon was no joke.
Miaomiao drank a mouthful of healing water before he stood up, telling Nero the truth, ”An asshole with your friend's bloodline tried to kill me. I killed him and absorbed whatever legacies he had. As for the water, it's from my hometown. That's all.”
Nero raised one of his eyebrows and stared into Miaomiao's eyes, checking whether the boy was lying.
Miaomiao's red pupils were as sinister as ever, but they contained light, different from mindless murderers or bloodthirsty demons.
Nero nodded in approval. The light in Miaomiao's eyes was serene and bright, which revealed his honesty side. Even if it hid the bloodlust, greed, and ambition, they were more tamed than other arrogant demons that Nero knew.
”I see that you're honest. Since it's self-defense, it can't be helped.”
”Then?”
The dragon coughed as it was ashamed. He glanced at the elixir pool, ”Well, I don't mind if you can dig a few more pools for me. I haven't had any clean water for ages.”
”Oh, sure. I'll dig more pools for you.”
”…”
…
In the end, Miaomiao made the pool bigger and deeper for the dragon. The pool was 50 meters deep while the width and the length were five times bigger. Though, Miaomiao didn't have enough spring water to fill it to the brim.
Since Miaomiao couldn't fill it, he asked Wei Yuan. She immediately transferred more spring water to Miaomiao's system inventory, allowing him to pour the excess water here.
Nero was overjoyed. He sat in the pool and gulped the water in glee. However, he was sad when he realized that he couldn't swim in it.
”Hey, brat. Can you make it bigger?”
Miaomiao rolled his eyes and pointed at the remaining space in the room, ”If I make it wider, you won't have any place to sit on land. Are you fine with that?”
”… Maybe not. I'm a dry-land dragon, not one of those water lizards.”
”Then, your promise?”
Nero grumbled, frustrated that he had made that oath. Still, dragons never broke promises.
”Fine! I'll fix your meridians after I have my fill! Wait right there!”
…
After the dragon had left the pool, he ordered Miaomiao to sit cross-legged.
Miaomiao closed his eyes and meditated as Nero had said. The dragon started teaching the basics of all basics.
”First off, what do you understand about meridians?”
”Pathways of Qi and Essence?”
”For human cultivators, correct. For us, dragons, you're dead wrong.”
”Huh?”
”The constitution of human cultivators are a lot weaker than us, dragons and demons. Most of the time, they mistake their blood vessels and nervous system as their meridians. However, for us, we can use everything as a medium. Bones, nervous system, blood, muscle fibers, skin, and scales!”
The teaching went against the logic and common sense of humans. As the dragon had said, every human cultivation technique, including some of the demon ones, treated their blood vessels and their nervous system as meridians. Meanwhile, this ancient dragon said every organ could be used.
”Won't the essence pathways be more chaotic if we don't use our blood vessels or nervous system?”
”Nope! It's the nervous system that always makes things complicated. How about this? Try channeling your Qi from your dantian to your fingertip by using your blood vessels.”
Miaomiao circulated his Qi toward his fingertip easily as he had done it a billion times already. Within less than a second, a strand of Qi gathered at Miaomiao's index fingertip.
Nero nodded, ”Now, move it back to your dantian while you circulate a new strand to your fingertip.”
The task was basic. Again, Miaomiao circulated his Qi without trouble.