Chapter 1824: Chapter 366: Accelerated Crystal Dragon Metamorphosis
This is also what makes Ian sigh. It is only when the granaries are full will people know propriety. If living creatures cannot even secure their right to survival, it is absolutely impossible for them to have any peaceful, benevolent, or noble desires.
Yan Sea retreated to seek its ally on Far Shore Island.
After all, they were a small part split from the Conscious Sea back in the day, and they vaguely sense that apart from Ianâs formidable power, there is also an aura about him that instinctively calms them down.
He is the first to actively sense the aura of the Rites of the Star Gods at the Fourth Energy Level. Although it is also due to Ian not hiding it, as Ian grows stronger, the sublimation of the Rites of the Star Gods will become increasingly apparent, to the extent that even hiding it will be difficult in the end.
Ian is not afraid of such a future and even looks forward to such a powerful future.
With a sense of despair and resignation, he flew together with Xike, who no longer resisted, to the Ironcloud Mountains, the resting place of the Glazed Crystal Dragon.
By now, the clashes at the Crystal Sanctuary between Far Shore Island, the Great Beast Kingdoms, and even the Fiery Flame Land and other continental forces are about to erupt, and the Crystal Dragonâs metamorphosis still needs roughly half a year, which obviously wonât catch up.
Although Ian could disguise his Fairy Body as a local Magical Beast or Fae to fight, if he wants his âCrystal Dragon Bodyâ to become the âNew Continent Crystal Dragon Kingâ or even the âNew Continent Dragon Godâ and prepare for gathering support in the future, it is best to use the Crystal Dragon.
So, how to speed it up?
Originally, Ian thought of abandoning part of his flesh, directly using mechanical modification on the Crystal Dragon Body, transforming it into a half-Mechanical Dragon, half-Crystal Dragon entity. With the ores already prepared in the Ironcloud Mountains, this is not difficult, at most just spending extra time later to convert the mechanical parts into a super-organic battleship form like a True Dragon.
But the Boundless Progenitor Worm bloodline within Xike offered Ian another choice.
As one of the supreme bloodlines of the Fiery Flame Land, the Boundless Progenitor Worm can achieve ultra-fast metamorphosis and adaptive evolution by consuming its own vitality and aether... Though powerful, it essentially fights by burning life and is not considered the âTop Seatâ.
What truly makes the Boundless Progenitor Worm worthy of being called the Top Seatâs Blood is the Fiery Flame Landâs special âHeritage Oddityâ. As the core of the various bloodlines in the Fiery Flame Land, the Heritage Oddity, in Ianâs eyes, is essentially an external plug-in, similar to the Dragonâs Star Core and Aether Crystal within himself.
The Heritage Oddity in Savagaâs possession allows the Boundless Progenitor Worm to disregard the condition of âvitalityâ for metamorphosis, and it speeds up the process tenfold.
This is why the Pupationer only needs to spend accumulated aether to evolve and metamorphose freely, becoming the source of countering any enemy.
If Xike had a Heritage Oddity, he would adapt to Yan Seaâs psychic attacks entirely within ten minutes and attain near-complete immunity for a significant time, at least until Xike encountered more varied attacks and had to shed the mental defense aspects.
But he doesnât â even by burning life, he merely takes over a hundred minutes to become immune to Yan Seaâs aggression and is utterly unable to respond to Ianâs surprise attack.
Ian cannot fully utilize all the advantages of the Boundless Progenitor Worm... but he can extract the aspect of ârapid metamorphosisâ from the Boundless Progenitor Worm within Xike, consuming the vitality of the Crystal Dragon to accelerate its metamorphosis.
And the lifespan of the Aether Crystal Dragon?
Ha, this kind of Crystal Dragon, with ancestral bloodline of a cosmic super life form âEther Stardust Dragonâ, even at the Third and Fourth Energy Levels, the lifespan counts in millennia. The New Continent Crystal Dragon King in the Abyssal Sea has lived sixteen hundred years and is still vigorous!
There is plenty of lifespan!
As for whether this counts as ingesting someone to train...
Ian thinks itâs, at most, malicious biological experimentation. He didnât consume it himself; it was the Crystal Dragon that utilized the bloodline traits, essentially refining Xikeâs bloodline into an apparatus for catalysis.
Even if it were truly consuming, this is the Crystal Dragon doing it â could it be called consumption? This is called the cycle of nature!
In this respect, Ian indeed has no boundaries. Whenever needed, he will do it.
Very soon.
As Fairy Ian, carrying Xike, transformed into a stream of light, entered deep into the Ironcloud Mountains.
An hour later, accompanied by a subtle tremor through the Ironcloud Mountains, and a heaving of the majestic Floating Mountains, akin to an airborne earthquake reverberating unceasingly.
A straight azure radiance shot into the firmament, and a profound Dragonâs Chant echoed across the sky and earth.