Chapter 113: Spurting Smoke Dragon Transformation
Wisteria Store.
Yan Yi was lying on the sales counter, his lightless eyes gazing at the store’s door.
There was barely anyone there.
Inside the store, the salesclerks were also idle and the stocked medicine shelves were of no interest to anyone.
Due to the Green Hat Healing Potion and Sweet Blood Potion, the shore had a great resurgence, but now, things have grown dark again.
The biggest cause was the ruckus that slandered the Green Hat Healing Potion, saying it had serious side effects.
Reputation was always important, especially for new medicine.
Regardless of whose idea this was, it was a sinister trick equivalent of a serpent striking a vulnerability with a fatal blow.
The salesclerks were depressed and grieved.
They knew there were no issues with the Green Hat Potion.
All of them were speculating whether a great merchant alliance was behind this. Against such excessive methods, one didn’t have any chance to rise.
A salesclerk was unable to hold themselves back and he went to Yan Yi, “Store manager, I heard those two potions were given to you by the elders. Can you not contact them and have them think of something to do?”
“The potions have an expiration date; things can’t continue like this.”
“Right, if we don’t act, the outside will really think our Green Hat Healing Potion has a problem!”
The salesclerk echoed one after the other.
Yan Yi coldly snorted, “Do it yourself!”
He chased away the salesclerks.
Wouldn’t he have contacted them due to such a big matter?
But he got nothing back.
Besides the genuine potions before him, Yan Yi was in a state of misconception, was everything a dream?
The two level seven elders appeared mysteriously and disappeared suddenly.
Originally, he thought they wanted to seize market share; these two potions were part of the Wisteria Merchant Alliance’s leadership’s strategy to use Two Eyes Island as the first step towards their reemergence.
But in the end….was everything ruined?
You won’t budge even after being defamed?
This is but a minor setback!
In Yan Yi’s eyes, there was a way to solve this completely.
Wasn’t it just reputation?
Two Eyes Island had a silver level alchemist, they should seek his endorsement.
If he didn’t want to, they would beseech the feudal lord and work with Hun Tong!
If neither was possible, then there was still one big option left. Cutting the price.
These two potions had a profit margin to spare.
Plenty of space to discount the price.
If the price was cut, a low cost and quality product, despite rumors of side effects, will generally be used by people taking a risk out of desperation.
As time went on, everyone would find no problems with it.
The rumors about side effects would be discredited.
However, the level seven elders didn’t do anything and took no action.
They just vanished!
Hey, we were just playing around.
Yan Yi had a profound feeling that he had been toyed with.
What happened beforehand?
Why did you toss me these two potions?
The two potions sold so remarkably at the beginning!
It gave people hope, then made them despair.
Yan Yi had a question for the Wisteria Merchant Alliance elders: what are you up to? What do you really want?
Isn’t this conduct a bit crass?
Yan Yi did not know that as a matter of fact, Cang Xu and Zi Di had gone to the shop personally, and wanted to resolve this problem.
But something unexpected happened during it, leading to a series of events beyond their expectations.
Nowadays, Zi Di and Cang Xu had temporarily abandoned the medicine business to the back of their minds.
The reason why the two potions were given was to make a profit.
It incidentally helped the Wisteria store too.
50,000 gold coins was a huge sum. With that money, the medicine business problem appeared insignificant.
Cang Xu and Zi Di now had more important things to do.
That was the medicine database!
As long as the medicine database was constructed, they would be able to test their members’ bloodlines.
After bloodline testing, they could use the Bloodcore to absorb the corresponding lifeforms then make use of them with the Bloodline Purification Formation…
When that happens, the survivors will begin to develop rapidly!
Those whose potential and talent are raised will improve and turn the heavens and earth upside down.
With potential and talent, those stagnant will be able to continue cultivating and the shackles that bound the survivors’ limits will completely disappear.
With time, the survivors would become gold levels, saints, and legends!
When that happens, who would dare slander the survivors’ potions?
In the end, this was the world of the strong.
The strong were respected, this was the world’s greatest rule.
Before that was impossible, but with the Bloodcore, with the Bloodline Purification Formation, the survivors had hope.
The dragonman youngster possessed admirable tolerance. He candidly gave the secret of the Bloodcore out, and those that knew about it worked to their limits with the greatest energy and passion they could muster towards the completion of this plan.
Medicine and formations was set aside for magicians to work on.
The dragonman youngster now found himself alone in a ship cabin sizing up a dragon corpse before him.
The dragon corpse was 5 meters long, 4.2 meters wide, and 3 meters tall. The dragon’s feet were shaped similarly to a pterosaur, its dragon skin was red, it didn’t have dragon scales, and its dragon eyes were orange yellow.
This was one of the items Zi Di and Cang Xu had bought ahead of time – a spurting smoke dragon corpse.
The spurting smoke dragon lived near volcanic craters and often lived in large groups. Their life level went from bronze to gold level.
This spurting smoke dragon was silver level.
The spurting smoke dragon’s most prominent exterior feature was the ring mounds across its body. These mounds slightly bulged above the skin and were of unequal height.
Whenever a spurting smoke dragon accelerated in flight or did battle with a powerful enemy, these ring mounds would spurt out dense black smoke with an explosion of splattering flames.
It was precisely because of this trait that scholars named it the spurting smoke dragon.
Why did they purchase this dragon corpse?
The reason was very simple.
According to bloodline relationships, the spurting smoke dragon’s bloodline was descended from the Flame Dragon King.
In other words, the spurting smoke dragon’s ancestor was the Flame Dragon King.
Therefore, by absorbing the spurting smoke dragon, the dragonman youngster could acquire the Flame Dragon King’s bloodline.
Of course, this was just a theory.
Specifically, how much could be absorbed depended on many practical factors.
After determining for sure that he was alone and that his surroundings were secure, the dragonman youngster activated the Bloodcore in his heart.
The Bloodcore emitted a red light.
The red light bubbled out and covered the dragonman youngster’s entire body. Soon after, the red light launched into the dragon corpse.
A moment later, the dragon corpse faded into a pile of fine ash.
The red light swelled into a ball, then went back into the dragonman youngster’s body.
The red light increased the bloodlines in the Bloodcore.
Spurting Smoke Dragon bloodline concentration – 35%
Flame Dragon King Bloodline concentration…1.03%!
After the dragonman youngster detected this, he quickly flashed a smile.
Before, his Flame Dragon King bloodline concentration was almost 30%, but now it is above 30%.
1.03% seemed like a low number, but it had actually exceeded the dragonman youngster’s estimations.
He knew that when he absorbed the legend level Flame Dragon King, he only got around 30%, that’s all.
The spurting smoke dragon was a only silver level lifeform. Of course, in light of this, the dragonman youngster now calculated, “Since it had this kind of Flame Dragon King bloodline concentration, that indicates that its potential was very high, it still had room to grow and might have grown into a gold level spurting smoke dragon in the future.”
The increased bloodline concentration cause the dragonman youngster’s height to grow by 5 centimeters and his body to bulk a bit too.
Although his appearance didn’t change too much, the Life Scorching Dragon Breath’s cast time had been reduced by 0.5 seconds.
Before, when the dragonman youngster had trained this racial magic, he had shortened its cast time to 3 seconds.
Now that another 0.5 seconds was gone, the racial magic’s casting time was now 2.5 seconds, and its actual combat value had dramatically risen.
“Hold on, I can also do a hybrid transformation.”
The dragonman youngster’s spirit stirred and the Bloodcore activated again.
Red light flashed across his body, then faded away.
The dragonman youngster’s elbow had a pair of bulging ring mounds.
These two circular mounds were analogous to the ones on spurting smoke dragon.
The dragonman youngster tried to use these brand new organs.
Very quickly, the temperature inside the ring mounds soared and they began to emit orange red flames. Then, with a crack, a strand of black smoke spurted from them.
The dragonman youngster sensed that hidden within his elbow, there was the power of a restless warhorse ready to stride forth with its great legs and hooves!
The powerful strength in the backside of his elbow was brewing.
The dragonman youngster carefully released this strength, and a moment later, his elbow suddenly swung upwards.
His fist nearly hit his face.
At the same time, his upper arm ferociously smacked his cheek, bruising the flesh slightly.
The ring mounds exploded with such strength that the dragonman youngster couldn’t control it with his first attempt.
The dragonman youngster staggered back, slowly relaxed, lowered his arm, and loosened his muscles and bones.
“Every time the ring mounds are used, they erupt with motive power.”
But this kind of organ structure fits a spurting smoke dragon very well. To use this in human form I need constant trial and error, along with a lot of training to make use of it properly.”
“Wait a minute, can I use the Surge battle skill with the ring mounds as my base?”
The principle behind the Surge battle skill was that by using Bursting Explosion battle qi to produce micro explosion to produce thrust, a fighter could push their body forward.
Nowadays, the dragonman youngster had trained the Surge battle skill to the point where he had perfect command of it, like it was a fundamental instinct to him, and he could direct the intensity of its power as he pleased.
What would happen if the Surge battle skill’s thrust was added to the spurting smoke dragon’s round ring mound organ?
The dragonman youngster’s expectations increased the more he thought about it.
He decided to try it.
A few minutes later.
Bang.
With a loud noise, ship planks were blown up.
The dragonman youngster’s figure crashed outwards and landed into the seawater around the port.
The commotion immediately attracted a circle of onlookers.
“What just happened?”
“Did someone attack us?”
“No, it’s the commander. The Lord Commander fell into the water!”
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps was shaken.
The dragonman youngster awkwardly swam back up to the surface and climbed back on deck, “No need to panic, I was just trying a new battle skill.”
“Get someone over here.”
“I need to mend a hole in my ship.”
“Understood, Lord Commander!!” Mu Ban loudly responded as he lifted a set of carpenter tools and ran over.
The dragonman youngster returned to the captain room and was about to continue his research when he received urgent news from the Deep Sea Monster Fish.
In the seafloor depths, a massive school of fish was headed towards Two Eyes Island!
An oceanic beast tide was about to roll up on Two Eyes Island.