Chapter 49 (1/2)
Translated by Mianbao
Edited by RED
“This was supposed to be Heiya’s opponent…” Zhu Minglang coughed. He was in an awkward position. He didn’t mention it beforehand.
Baiqi dispersed all the frost, looking uninterested as usual as he returned to Zhu Minglang’s shoulder. When he landed, his body slowly shrank, their surroundings full of snow-like feathers melting in the air.
“Let’s look for our next prey. At least we have a better lure now,” Zhu Minglang consoled Heiya.
“Ouou…” Heiya felt wronged. Truth be told, he’d suffered a blow, too.
An opponent he had recognized as an equal was killed so easily!
Zhu Minglang approached the horrible-looking pseudodragon corpse. Truthfully speaking, he hadn’t even gotten a clear look at its appearance.
Extending his palm, Zhu Minglang began harvesting a soul pearl once more. This was a demon spirit whose strength was close to Dragon Child rank. The pearl harvested might be a dragon pearl.
He’d be rich if that turned out to be true!
Dragon pearls had a certain chance of allowing spiritlings with dormant aptitudes of a dragon to dragonize. To creatures that had already become real dragons, they were similarly valuable as great nourishment. It was possible to Awaken their bloodline power or innate abilities with one.
Little Baiqi’s Azure Dragon Mystic Art remained dormant. It was highly possible his Starwind Ice Dragon’s bloodline had diluted his Silvermoon Winged Dragon bloodline a lot. After all, most of the abilities he currently controlled were from a Starwind Ice Dragon…
Even so, Baiqi’s main bloodline was that of a Silvermoon Winged Dragon. His potential from the Azure Dragons and their relevant Mystic Arts should be even more powerful abilities!
If those powers weren’t Awakened by feeding, Zhu Minglang had to consider relying on dragon pearls for support!
However, dragon pearls had always cost a fortune… especially given the fact that Baiqi was a Dragon General.
“Strange. Why is this pseudodragon’s soul even fainter?” Zhu Minglang noticed the brown soul aura.
That soul aura was so faint it was about to turn into fog. Zhu Minglang was trying very hard to harvest it, and in the end, he only managed to condense a pseudodragon pearl that was of even lower quality.
A pseudodragon pearl could also be sold for some money, but its quality was so low that Zhu Minglang felt like it would have scattered to the wind by the time he brought it back to the Academy.
“Why is this happening?” Zhu Minglang grew suspicious.
Why would the soul pearl of a pseudodragon whose strength was close to Dragon Child rank and had five hundred years worth of cultivation be so poor? There was clearly no problem with his technique.
Immediately, Zhu Minglang flipped the book regarding harvesting soul pearls he brought along open. However, after looking through the whole book, he didn’t find anything that mentioned the situation he was in…
“Could it be that its soul was scattered by Baiqi? That pseudodragon soul I saw looked torn apart…
“Does that mean higher level creatures will easily destroy the bodies and souls of lower level creatures with their overwhelming strength, and with the souls too broken up, the soul pearls harvested by the Dragon Tamers will be especially poor in quality?…
“In that case, when I come across good prey, it’s best to not overwhelm them with a higher rank.”
Zhu Minglang’s comprehension was pretty high. After reviewing some fragmented records in the books, in conjunction with the situation he came across, he made such a conclusion.
The art of dragon taming was a vast field of knowledge. Zhu Minglang felt like there were still plenty of things he needed to learn.
In the past, be it the art of armor casting, or dragon taming, they were all Zhu Minglang’s supplementary studies. He didn’t put them to heart at all. Now, he was starting to regret it.
Not working hard in your youth would only disadvantage you in the future.
How could you only eat rice? Wouldn’t it be better with a few dishes to go along with it?