Chapter 270: He’s Back!
After searching for quite a while in the desert, Jié Jié finally found an oasis.
Placing the Dragon God Jade into the water to wash away blood foam and sand dust, he watched as sacred light filled the pond.
Then he carefully examined it, seeing with his own eyes the energy radiating outwards in glowing droplets, emanating miraculous colors.
He raised his claws left and right, aligning them with the falling wings, using the blood-filled mouth of the Hōng Lóng to swallow the Dragon God Jade.
Golden light enveloped him from within, spreading throughout the oasis.
The surrounding light shattered, and the Hōng Lóng’s body began to further expand.
The miracle jade from nature allowed him to break through his current size limit, inching closer to thirty meters.
The increase in size brought a more robust skeleton and greater muscle potential, making the Hōng Lóng’s shell even hungrier, quickly consuming the accumulated energy produced by the geothermal vein crystals.
Perhaps other forms would have similar effects; now he needed to find something to eat.
The nearest large monster was approaching, rolling like a ball. Jié Jié soon recognized it.
It was a Red Shell Beast.
Don’t come over here!
Clapping his claw against the ground, the rising soil instantly rolled into clumps under the push.
The Red Shell Beast, driven away, stopped rolling and looked up, its brain almost as big as its whole body, having never seen such a huge Hōng Lóng.
Instantly releasing visibly colored gas from its buttocks, it used the thrust to curl back into a ball and roll away.
I’m rolling JPG.
“Phew.”
Jié Jié sighed in relief, slapping his claws and jumping back to avoid the smell, then simply transformed into a Fire Dragon and left the area.
Speaking of smells, there was still a strong scent of dye balls on him. He had to get rid of it to avoid being hunted by hunters.
But how?
There wasn’t enough water in the Great Desert, but isn’t the sea of sand also a kind of sea?
Looking down at the sea of sand beneath him, Jié Jié confirmed there was no one around and began diving.
His figure continuously expanded during the dive.
With the change in volume and weight, the inertia caused by the dive ultimately couldn’t match the equally increasing gravity due to the increased weight.
And while falling under the capture of gravity, the brownish-yellow monster continued to inflate like a balloon.
He was still in the process of transformation, needing more time to grow from over twenty meters to a hundred meters compared to ordinary transformations.
But the swirling sandstorm still drove all nearby creatures away or buried them under the sand.
The newly born Spirit Mountain Dragon lay sprawled on the desert, its body not roughened or worn by the ceaseless Dragon Charge.
Jié Jié began trying to adapt to his new limbs.
Without wings, the hind legs only had some fins protruding, and the forelimbs were just longer fins.
But the muscles in the waist and abdomen were extremely developed, and with the precedent of the Snare Serpent Dragon, he quickly learned how to swim freely in the sea of sand.
But the emptiness in his stomach was also amplified, and swallowing sand indiscriminately made him feel uneasy. Jié Jié could only transform back into a Fire Dragon and continue flying in search of food.
The feeding method of the Spirit Mountain Dragon was endless swallowing of sand in the Dragon Charge, filtering nutrients through internal organs. This mode of activity was hard for him to adapt to.
Eating everything without tasting anything, no pursuit at all!
The time required to transform into a hundred-meter giant monster also left him somewhat regretful, because the Spirit Mountain Dragon lacked six limbs throughout its transformation, lacking counterattack ability during the transformation.
Another situation was that during the transformation, the shell had not fully hardened, exposing vulnerabilities. This was usually not obvious due to the small difference and time consumption in switching sizes during battles, but it did exist.
If you want more falling time, you need a higher height, and with the size and weight of the Spirit Mountain Dragon, falling from the air—
The picture was too beautiful, he couldn’t bear to imagine.
The Spirit Mountain Dragon wasn’t completely solid!
Perhaps the impact force of the Spirit Mountain Dragon’s Dragon Charge was enough to defeat most enemies, but the limitations of the sand sea environment and the shortcomings when facing flying monsters meant he almost wouldn’t use it in actual combat.
And the Spirit Mountain Dragon’s lack of taste in eating habits meant he wouldn’t use it in daily life either.
The breakthrough in size limit brought by the Spirit Mountain Dragon already satisfied him greatly, after all, bigger is better.
Catching a Horned Dragon among the cactus group, transforming its joy of eating into his own, Jié Jié turned into a Horned Dragon and constantly traversed the sand sea, trying to rinse off the smell of the dye ball with sand.
Maybe because the New Continent Survey Corps had heavy pioneering tasks, they didn’t use dye balls much, so he had become a bit negligent.
Dye balls are really annoying!
Sniffing the surface after emerging from the sand, the smell had only slightly faded but still lingered.
Jié Jié didn’t know that the dye ball he was stained with was a special enhanced version for flying dragons, just thinking about how widespread dye balls were, washing them off this time might still result in contamination next time.
But following the traces of moisture in the desert, he had reached an oasis rich in water sources, so let’s wash first.
Transforming into a Smoky Snow Weasel, taking advantage of the dye ball’s smell not reacting fast enough, he directly dived into the pond, then transformed into a smooth-skinned fish, relying on the ability to control water currents to scrub his body.
Taking advantage of the odor molecules floating in the water not reacting fast enough, he broke through the water and flew into the sky.
This time the smell was much lighter, but inevitably still existed faintly.
No longer caring about the smell of the dye ball, Jié Jié flew towards the direction where the Spirit Mountain Dragon lost its ability to resist, intending to retrieve his lost Strike Dragon Gun.
A Strike Dragon Gun looks like something a dragon would use.
And as a natural wonder, the Spirit Mountain Dragon with powerful vitality immediately resumed diving upon regaining mobility.
At this point, many hunters and sand ships had gathered there, spreading laughter and joy of harvest.
Even if the massive Spirit Mountain Dragon fell, it wasn’t easy prey.
But the Spirit Mountain Dragon’s immobility and lack of resistance made it easier for hunters to collect minerals and materials, resulting in a bountiful harvest for almost everyone.
Compared to the hunters’ cheerful laughter, the atmosphere on the Peak Mountain Ball was not so relaxed.
An unknown super-giant flying Ancient Dragon hadn’t shown up, and a new intelligent and powerful Ancient Dragon had hunted the Spirit Mountain Dragon.
That was something to consider in the long term, but for now.
The fact that the Strike Dragon Ship was dismantled for the Strike Dragon Gun, and the monster used the Strike Dragon Gun better than they did, was enough to give them a headache.
Typically sized unknown Ancient Dragons stealing Strike Dragon Guns and using them to knock down Spirit Mountain Dragons—would anyone believe such a report?
The commander’s head hurt, but just then, another report from the sentry came.
“An unknown Ancient Dragon is approaching, and its size… has expanded by a circle!”
Chapter 271
