I Can Provide Food

(A 10,000-character update today!)

A gentle voice, filled with apology and guilt, came from Fang Zheng:

"And then, I'll remember you all forever. I'll burn offerings for you every year, and I can also write you a letter of guarantee to burn, promising that I'll never use spawn eggs to create intelligent beings again."

"Huh!"

"Huh?" The Flood Dragon, who had just expressed its displeasure, was stunned by this peculiar line of reasoning.

"Huh?" Jiang Tingting, Jiang Yifei, and Jiang Wen were also stunned.

The Flood Dragon, which had been speaking with an angry tone moments ago, became flustered: "Th-this... there's no need for that."

Its intelligence, gained from innate inherited memories, wasn't yet mature. Its tone was flustered as it quickly said:

"I was just a little unhappy about not having parents; I don't regret being born."

At this moment, the remaining Flood Dragons also chimed in:

"Just let us go free, you don't have to kill us all. We've only just been born, we don't want to die!"

One of them rolled around on the table: "I want to eat something. I haven't eaten anything since I was born. At least let me eat my fill once before I'm willing to die."

Another slapped the first one on the head with its tail. "Idiot! Don't listen to him. I want to eat several meals, at least ten meals!"

The personalities brought by inherited memories were not mature things. Hearing Fang Zheng's words, the Flood Dragons suddenly became lively, arguing with each other and constantly stating their demands before death.

"Then..." Looking at their childish behavior, Fang Zheng asked with some hesitation, "Didn't you just say you wanted to eat flesh and blood? If I let you go, will you go eat people, eat other intelligent beings?"

Hearing Fang Zheng's question, the leading Flood Dragon answered without hesitation: "Of course, we will!"

Hearing this answer, Jiang Wen and the others beside him showed strange expressions.

They seriously doubted if these Flood Dragons had any brains.

Others had already said that if they wanted to eat, they would kill them, yet they still insisted they would go eat people.

Having just been born, with only inherited memories and no life experience, the Flood Dragons didn't know what lying was.

He continued to answer honestly: "My bloodline inheritance memory tells me that to continuously cultivate and improve, to continuously purify my dragon bloodline, and to continuously become stronger, I must constantly eat!"

"I must eat all sorts of rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and the flesh and blood of powerful enemies."

"Only by constantly eating, constantly consuming the flesh and blood of powerful enemies, can I continuously evolve!"

"If you don't let me eat, I can't evolve or purify my bloodline."

"Is that so..." Fang Zheng hesitated.

"Then, what if I provide for you?"

"If I can feed you and fill your stomachs, you won't go eat people, eat the flesh and blood of intelligent life, right?"

"You want to feed us?" The Flood Dragons looked at each other. Their bloodline inheritance memories told them that they seemed to have suffered a great humiliation.

Although they didn't quite understand, according to their bloodline inheritance memories, at this moment, they should fight with all their might to defend their dignity.

Thus, after muttering a few words together, the Flood Dragons roared in unison:

"You merely created us, how dare you insult our noble dragon blood like this! You want to feed us! Are you trying to treat us like pets..."

Crackling...

The sound of space cracking spread.

Before their roars had even finished, Fang Zheng had already begun to set up blocks beside them.

A simple container made of several pieces of Bedrock was placed down.

Then, Fang Zheng placed a bucket of essence blood, personally refined from his own body by the resurrected Taiyin Human Emperor on the Immortal Ascension Road, into the sunken area in the middle.

It should be known that the more powerful a cultivator, the rarer the essence blood within their body.

For the Taiyin Human Emperor, whose body could span tens of millions of light-years after unfolding his Dharma Image, the essence blood he refined with all his might could only barely fill an iron bucket if he maintained his normal state.

However, as long as the quantity was enough to be collected by the iron bucket, it meant that for Fang Zheng, it would be inexhaustible.

As Fang Zheng began to place the Bedrock blocks, Jiang Wen beside him looked on with a strange expression. "Such peculiar material, seemingly out of sync with space-time, as if untouched by the great Dao of heaven and earth."

And the moment that pool of essence blood appeared within the Bedrock, Jiang Wen's usually gentle old face contorted and changed drastically.

The entire Secret Realm instantly saw the heavens and earth change color, with thunder and lightning flashing.

Dense, spiderweb-like cracks in the void spread across the heavens and earth, and a faint Extreme Dao pressure emanated.

If not for the Taiyin Moon Blade at Jiang Tingting's waist immediately suppressing this Extreme Dao pressure within the essence blood, the mere terrifying Extreme Dao pressure it exuded would have been enough to shatter this entire Secret Realm, crushing the other two people and five Flood Dragons present, besides Fang Zheng and Jiang Wen, into nothingness.

Even Jiang Wen, who possessed the cultivation of a Quasi-Emperor Third Heaven, had to face this essence blood, which had its outward power suppressed as much as possible during the refining process, with its essence contained and only a trace of residual imperial pressure left. He had to prepare for battle and fight desperately to escape.

If he wasn't careful, even that faint imperial pressure, like a lingering scent, could crush Jiang Wen to death.

Everyone and every Flood Dragon present, except for Fang Zheng, looked on in terror. Even the Hengyu Furnace waiting outside the passage was so startled it almost reacted instinctively.

Fang Zheng continued to speak, his voice as gentle as before, "Can I feed you this?"

With a gulp, the Flood Dragons that had been roaring moments before now lay by the edge of the stone table, their gazes fixed on the crystal-clear blood, unable to utter another roar.

Staring at the crystal-clear blood, the immense Blood Essence and divine energy contained within, which overflowed with enough power to swallow a galaxy, was palpable.

The five Flood Dragons and the three members of the Jiang Family were all stunned, sweating profusely, unable to speak for a time.

"How's it going?" Fang Zheng asked, continuing to place blocks.

At 120 frames per second, Fang Zheng could place a maximum of 120 blocks per second.

Using Bedrock as the material, in mere seconds, a container resembling a large swimming pool, yet indestructible, was formed.

Fang Zheng placed hundreds of new Blood Essence barrels around the pool's edge. The ruby-like blood surged forth, exuding Extreme Dao Pressure.

In the blink of an eye, a Taiyin Human Emperor Blood Essence pool was born.

Such a vast amount of Blood Essence, if Fang Zheng weren't here, even if a thousand or ten thousand Taiyin Human Emperors at their peak burned their lifespans, squeezed out their Primordial Spirits and Blood Essence, they wouldn't be able to fill even 1/10th of it.

Gazing at the five Flood Dragons with their mouths agape, Fang Zheng tilted his head and pondered for a moment before softly saying, "By the way, can you get full just by drinking blood?"

"I'll add some more food for you guys."

Fang Zheng turned his gaze to Jiang Tingting, who stood nearby, enveloped in radiant moonlight.

At this moment, Jiang Tingting was surrounded by bright moonlight, her Taiyin Physique resonating intensely with the Taiyin Human Emperor blood filling the pool.

This blood contained immense Taiyin Power and related laws.

In just a moment, this powerful resonance propelled Jiang Tingting's cultivation, which had just entered the Immortal Platform Second Realm, to the cusp of the Immortal Three Dao Slaying realm.

As long as she grasped that crucial step, she could break through on the spot.

And that wasn't all; this massive blood pool brought tremendous benefits.

The expert's Blood Essence, possessing the same physique but far surpassing hers in quality and quantity, was causing the origin of Jiang Tingting's Taiyin Physique to grow wildly through a mystical bloodline resonance.

While her realm still required comprehension and the Secret Realm needed exploration, her physical body and Primordial Spirit had, in mere moments, rapidly soared to a level approaching that of a Quasi-Emperor. Even a legendary Chaos Physique wouldn't have a more potent bloodline origin at the same realm.

If not for the Taiyin Moon Blade releasing light to suppress her physical body, she would have already exploded.

Fang Zheng said to her, "Right, take out some of those golden mushrooms you put away earlier. I need them for something."

It seems readers have felt the plot has been developing too slowly these past few days, but I was mainly worried about not getting a recommendation slot, so I didn't dare to push it further.

However, it's been confirmed that I'll get the third round of recommendations. I don't think I can count on the fourth round because there isn't enough time.

So, to minimize the discontinuity in the next few chapters as much as possible, I'll release more.

I originally planned to finish this small plot arc entirely, but my backlog of drafts is insufficient.

Therefore, today and tomorrow will still only be 10,000 characters.

Sigh, I need to work hard to build up my drafts.