I Can Feed You

(I'll do ten thousand words today.)

Fang Zheng's gentle voice, filled with apology and guilt, came through:

"Then I'll remember you forever, burn paper offerings for you every year, and I can even write you a letter of guarantee and burn it for you, promising that I'll never use Spawn Eggs to create intelligent creatures again."

Mm!

"Huh?" The Flood Dragon who had just voiced his dissatisfaction was stunned by this bizarre train of thought.

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

The Flood Dragon, who had just sounded furious, became somewhat flustered. "Th-this... that won't be necessary."

The intelligence granted by his innate inherited memories was still immature. His voice trembled as he hurriedly said:

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

At that moment, the remaining Flood Dragons also spoke up one after another:

"Just let us go free. You don't have to kill us all. We were just born—we don't want to die!"

One of them rolled around directly on the table. "I want to eat. I haven't eaten anything since I was born. At least let me have one full meal before I'm willing to die."

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

The personalities brought by inherited memories were hardly mature. Upon hearing Fang Zheng's words, the Flood Dragons immediately became noisy, constantly arguing among themselves and making demands for what they wanted before death.

"Then..." Watching their childish behavior, Fang Zheng asked somewhat conflictedly, "Didn't you just say that you wanted to eat flesh and blood? If I let you go, will you eat people? Will you eat other intelligent life?"

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

Hearing that answer, Jiang Wen and the others beside him revealed strange expressions.

They seriously doubted whether these Flood Dragons had brains at all.

Someone had already said that if they wanted to eat, they would be killed, yet they still insisted that they wanted to eat people.

Having only just been born, with inherited memories but no life experience, the Flood Dragons did not know what lying was.

He continued answering honestly, "My bloodline inheritance tells me that if I want to keep cultivating and advancing, if I want to keep purifying my dragon bloodline, if I want to keep growing stronger, then I have to keep eating!"

"I have to eat all kinds of heavenly treasures and the flesh and blood of powerful enemies."

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

"If you don't let me eat, I won't be able to evolve or purify my bloodline."

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

"Then what if I can feed you?"

"If I feed you until you're full, then you won't go eat people or the flesh and blood of intelligent life anymore, right?"

"You want to feed us?" Several Flood Dragons looked at one another. Their inherited bloodline memories told them that they seemed to have suffered some kind of enormous humiliation.

Though they did not quite understand it, according to their inherited memories, this seemed like the time when they should give everything to defend their dignity.

Thus, after several Flood Dragons muttered among themselves, they all roared furiously:

"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 as pet—"

Crack! Crack!

The strange sound of space shattering began to spread.

Before their roars had even ended, Fang Zheng had begun placing blocks beside them as if nothing had happened.

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

Then, in the hollow at its center, Fang Zheng placed a bucket of Essence Blood that the revived Taiyin Human Emperor had personally refined from his own body earlier on the Immortal Ascension Road.

One had to know that the more powerful a cultivator was, the scarcer the Essence Blood within their body became.

For the Taiyin Human Emperor, whose manifested form could span tens of millions of light-years, the Essence Blood he had extracted from himself with all his strength could only barely fill an Iron Bucket if kept in its normal state.

However, as long as there was enough for an Iron Bucket to collect, it meant that Fang Zheng would have an inexhaustible supply of it.

As Fang Zheng began placing Bedrock blocks, Jiang Wen beside him revealed a strange expression. "What bizarre material. It seems utterly incompatible with space-time, as though it has never been touched by the Great Dao of heaven and earth."

The instant that pool of Essence Blood appeared within the Bedrock, the expression on Jiang Wen's previously gentle old face twisted drastically.

In an instant, heaven and earth changed color throughout the entire Secret Realm, with thunder roaring and lightning flashing.

Dense, spiderweb-like cracks in the void spread across heaven and earth, and a faint trace of Extreme Dao imperial might leaked out.

Had the Extreme Dao Pressure in that Essence Blood not immediately been suppressed by the Taiyin Moon Blade at Jiang Tingting's waist,

the terrifying Extreme Dao imperial might it released alone would have been enough to shatter the entire Secret Realm and grind the other two people and five Flood Dragons present, aside from Fang Zheng and Jiang Wen, into nothingness.

Even Jiang Wen, with the cultivation of the Quasi-Emperor Third Heaven, had to remain on guard and prepare to flee for his life when facing this Essence Blood, whose power had already been suppressed as much as possible during refinement, its essence contained within so that only an insignificant trace of imperial might remained.

With the slightest carelessness, even that faint imperial might, like a lingering scent, could crush Jiang Wen alive.

Everyone and every Flood Dragon present, aside from Fang Zheng, wore expressions of terror. Even the Hengyu Furnace guarding the passage outside was nearly startled into a violent reaction.

Fang Zheng continued speaking, his gentle voice the same as before. "Can this feed you?"

After swallowing hard, the Flood Dragons who had just been roaring crawled to the edge of the stone table. Staring fixedly at the crystal-clear blood, they suddenly could not roar anymore.

They gazed at the crystal-clear blood, within which were contained overwhelming vitality and divine power. Even the slightest leakage was enough to engulf a starry sky.

The five Flood Dragons and the three members of the Jiang family all looked dazed, drenched in sweat, unable to speak for a while.

"How about it?" Fang Zheng asked as he continued placing blocks.

At 120 frames per second, Fang Zheng could place up to 120 blocks per second.

Using Bedrock as material, in only a few seconds, an indestructible container resembling a large swimming pool had taken shape.

Fang Zheng placed hundreds of new buckets of Essence Blood around the pool's edge, and ruby-like blood filled with Extreme Dao Pressure surged forth.

In the blink of an eye, a pool of Taiyin Human Emperor Essence Blood had been created.

If Fang Zheng had not been there, even if a thousand or ten thousand Taiyin Human Emperors at their peak burned away their lifespans and drained their Primordial Spirits and vitality dry, they still could not have filled even one-tenth of it.

Staring at the five Flood Dragons standing there with their mouths open in a daze, Fang Zheng tilted his head and pondered for a moment before suddenly saying softly, "Come to think of it, can you get full just by drinking blood?"

"I should add some food for you too."

Fang Zheng turned his head, his gaze landing on Jiang Tingting, whose entire body was radiating moonlight.

At that moment, Jiang Tingting was surrounded by brilliant moonlight. Her Taiyin Physique was resonating madly with the entire pool of Taiyin Human Emperor blood.

That blood contained overwhelming Taiyin Power and the Dao laws related to it.

In only a brief moment, that powerful resonance caused Jiang Tingting's cultivation, which had only just entered the Immortal Platform Second Realm, to rapidly rise to the threshold of the Immortal Three Dao Slaying Realm.

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

And that was not all. This enormous blood pool brought unimaginable benefits.

Through that intangible Bloodline Resonance, the Essence Blood of a stronger being with the same physique—one that surpassed hers enormously in both quality and quantity—was causing the origin of Jiang Tingting's Taiyin Physique to swell wildly.

Aside from her realm, which still required comprehension, and her Secret Realm, which still needed development, the strength of her body and Primordial Spirit had skyrocketed in an instant to nearly the level of a Quasi-Emperor. Even the legendary Chaos Physique could not possess a bloodline origin more powerful than hers at the same realm.

If the Taiyin Moon Blade had not released its radiance to suppress her body, she would already have exploded.

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

Recently, readers seemed to think that the plot was progressing too slowly, but I was mainly worried that I would not get recommendation slots, so I did not dare write more.

However, it has now been confirmed that I can get the third round of recommendations. I do not think I can count on the fourth round, because there is not enough time.

So, in order to avoid the plot over the next few chapters feeling too discontinuous, I'll release a little more.

I originally planned to finish releasing this entire little plot arc, but I really do not have enough saved chapters.

So, today and tomorrow will still only have ten thousand words each.

Sigh, I need to work harder on building up my chapter backlog.