Sure enough, horses only fatten when they eat at night, and men only grow rich through sudden windfalls. Looking at the more than sixty thousand dragons inside the Green Fruit Barrier, Lu Xiaotian could not help sighing. He had spent thousands of years building things up bit by bit, yet the number of dragons in his secret realm had only barely risen to over ten thousand, of whom merely a few thousand could truly be sent into battle.
Even those remaining would need a long time to mature. It took ten years to grow a tree and a hundred years to raise a person, while dragons required an even longer time to grow. There were no shortcuts.
Fortunately, nearly fifty thousand dragons under the East Sea Dragon King had now been brought into the Green Fruit Barrier, and Lu Xiaotian could not help feeling as though he had grown rich overnight.
Although these dragons were relatively weak overall, and fell far short of the Dragon Wolf Riders, what Lu Xiaotian lacked now was the number of dragons. Everything else could be improved. The reason the dragons under the East Sea Dragon King were so weak was nothing more than the result of the Heavenly Court's long-term suppression.
Their cultivation techniques were too poor, the resources they had previously received were insufficient, and there were many other such factors. Inside the Green Fruit Barrier, none of these were problems.
After entering the Green Fruit Barrier, these dragons each let out cheers they could barely hold back.
Besides these dragons, more than seventy thousand sea demons also entered the Green Fruit Barrier one after another, filling it out to a considerable extent in one stroke.
The Green Fruit Barrier, which had originally seemed exceedingly empty, was now much livelier.
"Several thousand years