Dragon Tamer

Chapter 399: Chapter 401 Can’t afford to pay and still not running?

Zhu Minglang had wandered here before.

He remembered that the entrance to this small peninsula was guarded by students, and it seemed one needed some kind of credential to enter.

It must be a small cultivation altar, designed to maintain the abundant spiritual energy here by limiting the entry of students, who could exchange credits to gain access.

Zhu Minglang’s cultivation speed with spiritual energy was now at a hundred and twenty-fold.

But not all Dragon Shepherds had such generous Spirit Realms to nourish them. Those with less powerful Spirit Realms could enhance the cultivation speed of the dragon beasts in their domains by entering such small cultivation altars.

Unfortunately, this peninsula’s Holy Pool didn’t offer much benefit to Dragon Shepherds like himself who already had a Spiritual Spring Realm; it was estimated that it could only increase his cultivation speed to a hundred and twenty-five-fold at most.

The efficiency improvement was minimal, and it would cost a lot of credits for the privilege of entry, which just didn’t seem worth it for Zhu Minglang.

“It seems I could bring Little Wild Jiao here to cultivate, but unfortunately, I don’t have enough credits right now,” Zhu Minglang thought carefully, realizing that these external Spiritual Spring Realms were evidently more beneficial to Juvenile Spirits.

There was no one guarding the place.

Could it be that the guards had run off to catch the White Moths at sea?

After all, a White Moth was as valuable as a piece of Gold Sand; the safety floating above the sea was like nature’s bounty of gold scattered everywhere, and it was difficult for ordinary people to resist such temptation.

The peninsula was small, a full circle around it took less than ten minutes, and in the center was a small pool.

It was said to be crafted by some powerful builders; the reefs surrounding the peninsula could draw the spiritual energy from the tides into the peninsula, and like brewing wine, eventually produce a pool of Holy Altar Seawater.

Soaking in it, one’s cultivation speed could greatly increase.

Regardless, this specially crafted small peninsula was like a small Spirit Vein owned by the Dragon Taming High Court, providing decent benefits for Dragon Shepherds with lower cultivation bases.

When Zhu Minglang caught up with the rolly-polly guy, Little Glow Spirit had already plunged its head into the Holy Pool.

It didn’t eat food.

But it needed to absorb Spiritual Energy.

Zhu Minglang had been leading out the Spiritual Spring from his own domain these past few days to feed Little Glow Spirit.

But the Little Glow Spirit was never fully satiated, and the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon also had some complaints these past few days; why was the spiritual energy in Zhu Minglang’s realm a bit thinner?

“Blob blob blob~~~~~~~”

As Little Glow Spirit soaked in the Holy Pool, it let out a comfortable cry. Suddenly, its fluffy fur began to absorb the surrounding dense spiritual energy like a bunch of soft, fine tubes!

Though the water in the Holy Pool remained still, Zhu Minglang could see with his Spiritual Sense how the spiritual energy, like threads, surged out of the brewed Spirit Qi Seawater and was all funneled into Little Glow Spirit’s fur.

Little Glow Spirit’s fur was like an endless sponge…

The sheer quantity of spiritual energy was so immense that even Zhu Minglang had to sit down and digest it slowly, guiding it in gradually, yet Little Glow Spirit stored it all at once in its blue fluff!

In an instant, a large pool of Holy Pool water turned into just an ordinary puddle of seawater, lacking any special radiance.

Zhu Minglang was stunned.

“Blob blob blob!!!” Little Glow Spirit was not satiated at all, and its fluorescent fur spread out around it like static, drawing continuous trails of spiritual energy from the filtering rocks…

This Holy Pool naturally stored some seawater to ensure that students could use the pool even when there were no tides, so the Spirit Qi Seawater that was brewed would always be saved underground on the island. Once the spiritual energy of the surface pool was absorbed or dispersed, more would flow up.

Now, Little Glow Spirit was sucking up the Spirit Qi Seawater stored by the Academy, and the amount was astonishing, much more than ten times the capacity of the surface pool!

Zhu Minglang couldn’t stop it even if he wanted to.

Little Glow Spirit was gathering spirit so quickly that it scared itself.

When Zhu Minglang was in the Dragon Country of Clouds, he witnessed a Spirit Qi Cloud Eye and learned to use the motion of spiritual energy itself to drive the surrounding breath, allowing him to accumulate Spirit Origin from the world faster and keep his own Spirit Realm supplied with a Spiritual Spring.

But Little Glow Spirit was gathering spirit even faster than he was!

No, this little creature wasn’t just gathering spiritual energy, it was more like it was siphoning off spiritual energy!

Normally, gathering spiritual energy is orderly and slow; through the operation of one’s spiritual sense, one slowly guides the Spirit Origin of the world into one’s body, like a waterwheel by a pond, gently drawing and irrigating water while the world’s spiritual energy replenishes itself in this orderly rhythm.

When it came to extracting spiritual energy, Little Glow Spirit was simply like a giant behemoth holding up the sky, guzzling the pond’s water with a few glugs, and it drank the entire pond dry!

After all, it was a small Spirit Vein!

In an instant, the spiritual energy dried up!

Zhu Minglang looked at the small Holy Pool, then glanced at the tidal rocks standing in the seawater around him…

“Pop pop pop!!”

Little Glow Spirit happily jumped out, looking very satisfied, with its pointy ears swaying too.

Zhu Minglang’s face turned dark!

The small Spirit Vein of the High Court, which had nourished so many Dragon Shepherd Students for so long, was just drained by Little Glow Spirit in one go!

“Zhu Minglang, do you think you can afford this loss?” Mr. Jinli asked with a grave expression.

“I can’t afford it,” Zhu Minglang said.

“Then what are you spacing out for, run!” Mr. Jinli, with his old cunning, shouted, “Before anyone notices!”

No way.

Should I really do something so treacherous?

I’ve always been a man of integrity. It would be unseemly and at odds with my upright image to clean out someone’s small Spirit Vein and then run away.

“Slow down, you rascal, slow down and let me get on your back first!” Mr. Jinli, who did not want to end up pickled with chopped chili by the elders of the High Court, quickly turned into a beam of colored light and transformed into a Jinli embroidery, attaching himself to Zhu Minglang’s clothes.

Zhu Minglang didn’t look back.

Luckily he was wearing rain boots, which didn’t stick in the mud as he ran.

Actually, it didn’t matter what shoes he wore, Zhu Minglang was running so fast he could practically take off!

…

Thanks to those floating White Moths, truly the most beautiful little spirits in the world, which attracted the entire academy’s attention, Zhu Minglang had a perfect environment for his crime.

After running out of the peninsula, Zhu Minglang blended into the crowd catching moths in the rain. Committing a guilty act can make one especially nervous when alone, but by doing the same as the crowd, he felt much more relaxed.

He sneaked a peek at the Little Glow Spirit in his arms.

It was sleeping very sweetly.

Holding its somewhat damp fur, the vast spiritual energy it contained was almost hot to the touch.

Fortunately, Little Glow Spirit was naturally a magnetic plush that stores spirit, seemingly able to store any amount of spiritual energy.

“With this capacity for storing spiritual energy, I guess it could be enough for a Thousand Year Demon Spirit to break through to the Cultivation Base of a Ten Thousand Year Saint Spirit, right?”