Chapter 580 — The Hidden Insider
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
"The Dark Water Dragon Pearl is of water, the Qilin Pearl of fire — can Fat Dragon be of both water and fire attributes...?"
Shen Mu was dumbstruck. He had known only that the Dragon Qilin loved to eat fire-attribute spirit pills, such as Crimson Fire Spirit Pills and Fire-attribute Spirit Essence Pills; he had never imagined it was of both water and fire!
And moreover, one of the two pearls was too large and the other too small — plainly the result of its picky eating!
The Black Tiger God was smug. "Junior brother, Fat Dragon ate far too many spirit pills; they congealed in his body and made his flesh fat. And the wretch is lazy beyond belief, and has no cultivation method — he only eats and cultivates by instinct, so the more he eats the fatter he grows. This time I took him to the demon lands and had him fight the little demon brats, forcing his potential out; only then could he refine pills into pearls and produce two of them, and he has grown a bit thinner too. Fat Dragon is returned to you. These days, dragging them about, I never once got to go hunt a demon god and kill to my heart's content!"
Shen Mu was deeply grateful. "I have put you to great trouble, senior brother."
The Black Tiger God laughed. "I am off! Do not stir up trouble these days; stay here honestly and wait for my return! Ah, yes — do not feed Fat Dragon any more Crimson Fire Spirit Pills or Fire-attribute Spirit Essence Pills. The energy of the pills is still congealed in his body; once he refines it, I daresay the Qilin Pearl will grow three or five rings larger!" With that he leaped up and vanished.
Seeing him go, the Dragon Qilin choked and wept, unable to speak.
Shen Mu was greatly moved. "Fat Dragon missed me — he is so overcome he has burst into tears."
Snow Fox hesitated, then said softly, "Young master, Fat Dragon is hungry, and he has been drilled by the Black Tiger God. These days the spirit pills you left behind were eaten up long ago, and he does not care for anything else. The Black Tiger God kept making him fight the demon experts without a moment's rest; now that he has gone, Fat Dragon is so aggrieved that he has cried out."
The Dragon Qilin nodded again and again.
Shen Mu took out medicinal ingredients and began refining pills, saying with a laugh, "I knew you must be starving, so I bought a great many spirit medicines on my way back. But my greatest gain this trip was finding a cultivation method for Fat Dragon! Still, Fat Dragon also has qilin bloodline; the Ancestral Dragon Grand Mystery Art may not fully awaken his potential."
He swiftly refined a furnace of spirit pills and gave them to the Dragon Qilin — Water-attribute Spirit Essence Pills, the same as those he had given Jiang Miao.
The Dragon Qilin licked one pill, found the taste wrong, ate a single one with tears in its eyes, and put the rest away.
Snow Fox asked curiously, "Fat Dragon, why don't you eat them all?"
"I have been frightened by hunger; I will hoard a few more. And besides, these pills do not taste right — they are not Crimson Fire Spirit Pills."
The Dragon Qilin said cautiously, "Sect Master, could you refine a few pecks of Crimson Fire Spirit Pills?"
Shen Mu turned a deaf ear and called Jiang Miao over. "Junior brother Jiang Miao, you teach Fat Dragon the Ancestral Dragon Grand Mystery Art. I will refine more Water-attribute Spirit Essence Pills and divide them among you."
Jiang Miao assented and taught the Ancestral Dragon Grand Mystery Art to the Dragon Qilin, explaining the difficult points to him.
The Dragon Qilin's comprehension was not bad at all; it was only too lazy. But this time the Black Tiger God had given it a thorough lesson, and it dared not slack, so it soon got the hang of it.
Shen Mu refined several more furnaces of Water-attribute Spirit Essence Pills and divided them between Jiang Miao and the Dragon Qilin.
"Sect Master Shen, you are back!"