The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

For half a year, a full half year, Artie Lan worked tirelessly, day and night, racking his brains to research the synchronization of the water and fire dragon's magic, finally, with the help of the powerful Nine-Colored Dragon Fruit Tree.

He extracted a wisp of the power of the Water and Fire Dragon God!

With such high-intensity labor, Artie Lan felt he had lost more than a few pounds.

He was just about to ask Rainbow Dragon to get him some top-quality steaks from his old brother.

Artie Lan embarrassedly discovered that he thought refining the Dragon God's power for half a year was a period of arduous struggle, but he had actually gained three circles!

His dragon body experienced what it meant to be bloated for the first time.

He looked at Rainbow Dragon in shock.

"Why have I become a fat worm?!"

Rainbow Dragon shrugged and retorted teasingly:

"Wasn't it your own theory that to carry multiple dragon veins without conflict, you need a strong enough dragon body? In the process of refining the Dragon God's power, you unknowingly verified your theory."

"From the results, your theory is indeed correct."

Rainbow Dragon pointed to the Dragon God fruit on the tree.

"If you've already eaten the fruit, then it's really not easy. With your current situation, high-intensity training or combat can re-forge your bloated dragon body to be solid again."

Artie Lan immediately got up.

"Then let's do it!"

Rainbow Dragon shook his head and said:

"No, no, no, my fine control of power isn't good enough. The power gap between us is too big. I can't control the strength of my attacks well enough to properly temper your dragon body."

"You should find someone whose strength is similar to yours, or stronger than you, but who can finely control their power to temper you appropriately."

Artie Lan suddenly clapped his hands.

"That's right! I can find my master!!"

Old geezer, I miss you!

Although he planned to go back and have the Bear-man help him use his Thunder Iron Fist to re-forge Artie Lan's bloated dragon body, before leaving.

Artie Lan felt it was still very necessary to have Rainbow Dragon, the thickest and most powerful thigh he had access to, briefly answer the difficulties and doubts he was currently facing.

"It's like this, we have a bug that evolved by absorbing the power of a God of Calamity, and we plan to use the seven elemental powers of wind, thunder, water, fire, earth, light, and darkness, using the bug's ability to evolve when attacked."

"We're trying to get it to condense a divinity containing seven elements with the help of the Calamity God's power. Do you think our plan will succeed?"

Rainbow Dragon's expression was a little strange.

"Actually, I think what you need to consider isn't whether the plan can succeed, but what you'll rely on to recover the elemental divinity within this Calamity God bug after the plan succeeds?"

"The power of a Calamity God cannot be taken in the usual way, let alone this kind of elemental divinity that seems normal but is actually extremely evil."

"The distorted life essence of the Calamity God determines that this Calamity God bug can smoothly contain the divinity you need, but taking it is already very difficult."

"What's even more difficult is, how do you ensure that after absorbing this elemental divinity, you, or your friend, won't be affected by the divinity and distorted into a Calamity God?"

"Or have you already retrieved the memory and knowledge of transforming a Calamity God into a god?"

Rainbow Dragon looked at Artie Lan suspiciously, not thinking that Artie Lan looked like he possessed such advanced knowledge.

"Not yet, that friend of mine is only one step away from condensing elemental divinity. I was thinking of using the Calamity God bug to stimulate his magic with the aura of elemental divinity to transform it."

"It's not necessarily a must to absorb the divinity of the Calamity God."

If he can't eat the ginseng fruit, smelling it is fine, right?

Only then did Rainbow Dragon nod.

"The power of a Calamity God is not so easy to provoke. Ordinary humans are fine, but stimulating themselves with elemental divinity transformed with the help of Calamity God power is already the limit."

"Even a glance at a powerful Calamity God will be affected by the Calamity God's power, and the essence of life will be transformed."

Suddenly, Rainbow Dragon sized up Artie Lan.

"It's you though…"

Artie Lan felt a chill down his back and couldn't help but back away from Rainbow Dragon.

"What do you want to do?"

"Although I can't help you temper your dragon body, I'm confident that I can condense the divinity of blacksmithing, magic potions, planting, hunting, flames, and clean water according to your ideas with the divinity in your body."

Hearing Rainbow Dragon say the divinity he wanted one by one, Artie Lan's saliva almost drooled out.

"Really?"

"Of course, the process will definitely not be easy. If you're not in a hurry to condense elemental divinity, you can go back and temper your dragon body, and by the way, tell them about this situation."

"Let them wait until you upgrade the Gourmet Divinity to its complete state, and you'll be able to absorb the elemental divinity of the Calamity God bug to a limited extent. You can also use the Gourmet Divinity to break up the parts you can't absorb."

"To avoid the balance of the Elemental Dragon Realm being affected by the divinity with Calamity power."

After saying that, Rainbow Dragon glared at Artie Lan.

"Don't you see where this is? How can you do such dangerous experiments in your own territory? I think you've reincarnated and turned your brain stupid."

That's right, the Elemental Dragon Realm is his. It's really not appropriate to do Calamity God-related experiments here.

But…

The bad water in Artie Lan's stomach began to slosh around.

"Tell me, next time I get a few Calamity God bugs out, use the seven elemental dragon veins to enlighten the Calamity God bugs, and then throw them into the worlds controlled by the gods, using the resources of the gods to cultivate the Calamity God bugs."

"When the crisis comes, I'll come out again to save the world and harvest the elemental divinity. What do you say?"

Rainbow Dragon shook his head in disdain.

"Although you still have twenty chances to reincarnate, you can't waste them like this. When you arrive at a planet carefully laid out by the gods, do you think you can develop peacefully like you are now?"

"Exposed in their eyes, you won't have a peaceful life. Guess how you died in your first seven lives?"

"You are indeed better at hiding your tracks than half of the elemental dragons, but when there are too many condensed elemental dragons, it's like a sharp awl in a pocket, it will pierce the pocket no matter what."

"You should still think about how to provoke a god war between the Earth Keepers and the Surrenderers. If they fight, you can at least live a little longer."

"Or cultivate a few stand-ins with multiple elemental dragon veins, let them help you attract the attention of the gods and buy you time to develop."

"I remember you mentioned a Steam Dragon before. His talent and personality are quite suitable for cultivating into a water, fire, and thunder three-element dragon, barely considered a qualified stand-in."

"Pass on your outdated Original Dragon Mark to him, and help him condense his dragon pearl."

Artie Lan blinked, Punk is his beloved friend and relative~

"Is that all? Will the gods believe it?"

"Therefore, the elemental dragons, dragonkin, and dragon people suspected of being reincarnated elemental dragon gods will not be left alive, and even after killing your reincarnation, they will erase all life in that world with the power of elemental dragon veins."

Rainbow Dragon shrugged.

"Who told you to have a dragon vein reincarnation technique? They are worried that it will allow you to accumulate more growth resources and erode more of the universe's share."

Artie Lan looked at Rainbow Dragon in shock. In that case, once he is exposed and dies, all the elemental dragons gathered around him now will die!

Damn it, these gods are really leaving no one alive.

Who told him that the ingredients cultivated in his magic farm have some power of the elemental dragon veins to varying degrees.

"But if they do this, isn't it killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of their own?"

"Although the grain planted in the land cannot be harvested, the land is still there, and it can continue to be planted next year. If the land becomes yours, you can't continue to plant grain."

Intelligent life in the material world is just wheat and cattle and sheep in the eyes of the gods. It is most important that heretics do not exist.

"I can't go to the worlds controlled by the gods, so what about the Feywild?"

Rainbow Dragon waved his hand.

"You can go. Although Oberon is colluding with the Surrenderers, he still hopes to ensure the autonomy of the Fairy Court and has not allowed the gods' eyes and ears to enter the Feywild."

"You can take this opportunity to extend your tentacles to the Feywild and rescue the Fairy Queen. The four regions of the Feywild, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are suitable for leaving at least four types of elemental dragon veins."

Looking at Rainbow Dragon's serious planning, Artie Lan couldn't help but joke:

"Why do I feel like you're more serious than me? Could it be that I have the ability to separate a clone from the main body and become an independent life?"

A strange light flashed in Rainbow Dragon's eyes.

"I don't know if it was possible before, but it can be possible in the future."

Artie Lan looked at him in shock.

"You really want to break away from Rainbow Dragon!"

Rainbow Dragon shrugged.

"Now I am a clone. You help me return most of my power, only retaining a bit of the origin to condense a dragon egg. I will be considered his son even if I transform from a clone."

"For your sake, he will always leave me, his rebellious son, at most to fend for myself."

Artie Lan's expression was strange. It seems that the transformation from clone to son should be very normal in the eyes of beings at the level of gods, right?

After all, they can shape a large number of lives with a few drops of blood.

Roughly speaking, those can also be considered their blood descendants.

It's just that gods generally have a weak sense of humanity and don't care about their descendants.

"Since we can be considered accomplices, shouldn't you let me take some souvenirs back with me this time? I can't lose the face of you, the son of the Wild God."

"You agree, right?"

Looking at Artie Lan winking, Rainbow Dragon waved his hand directly.

A gust of wind threw him away.

"Go choose yourself."

Artie Lan felt dizzy for a while, and his butt quickly touched the soft grass, and his nose felt a burst of floral fragrance.

A gentle voice sounded.

"Are you alright, examinee?"

Artie Lan looked up and saw a young man wearing a blue dress, wearing a cape, with medium-length blue and white hair, looking at him expectantly with a faint gentle smile.

"I'm fine. You are the gatekeeper who likes medicine, right? Your blood-replenishing cuisine tastes very good and works great. Can you teach me how to make it?"

The gentle gatekeeper nodded.

"Of course. I just wanted to ask, you saw the master before, right? That's why it took you half a year to come and participate in my seventh level assessment."

"Master?"

Artie Lan suddenly realized and clapped his hands excitedly.

"You are the Second Rainbow Hero that the Snowman said was too silly and naive, betrayed by his brother, and died a violent death?"

An angry voice sounded behind him.

"Master is not stupid, he is kind!"

Artie Lan turned his head and saw that it was the unlucky Snowman.

"You're not dead either?"

The gatekeeper smiled and waved his hand indifferently.

"It's okay. The events of the past happened ten thousand years ago. I've almost forgotten them. Let's get down to business. Do you need to accept my trial?"

Attilan nodded.

"Of course. I am very willing to learn the medicine used by the gatekeeper, especially medicinal cuisine!"

"Then let's begin."

Attilan processed the herbs and asked curiously:

"To become a Rainbow Hero, do you need to master this knowledge like you?"

If it really was necessary, Attilan would favor the General the most out of the trio.

Medicine requires the most patience and interest.

Of the trio, the General is the most interested in healing the sick, saving people, and helping the weak. He best meets the requirements of a righteous Rainbow Hero.

The gatekeeper shook his head.

"It's needed, but you don't need to reach my level. You only need to be able to use ordinary materials to make medicinal cuisine that nourishes ordinary people's bodies and treats common illnesses."

"After all, the Rainbow Hero mainly helps villagers who are at most bothered by ordinary magical beasts. Most of them won't suffer from illnesses that the Rainbow Hero can't treat."

Attilan nodded in agreement.

Learning this knowledge is ultimately applied to strengthening the Rainbow Hero's own power.

"Using materials condensed from a lower level of power, and sublimating the power of the materials in the form of medicinal cuisine, can maximize the development of the Rainbow Hero profession."

"After all, top-level materials are always scarce in this world. I've cultivated them for tens of thousands of years, and the top-level materials I've cultivated are few and far between."

"I can only think about how to improve the utilization efficiency of the materials. Fortunately, among the methods passed down to me by my master, there were the methods of a magical chef, and I extended along this line of thought."

"And that's how the medicinal cuisine you see now came to be."

Attilan nodded. After all, the Rainbow Hero is a profession that helps others and brings joy. Production is not his specialty; he is good at utilization.

In just one week, Attilan mastered the medicinal cuisine knowledge that the Rainbow Hero had researched for thousands of years. It really is harder to innovate than it is to imitate.

"I have nothing more to teach you. Where do you plan to go? I'll open a door for you."

Attilan planned to visit the two gatekeepers of archery and pet raising next time. The knowledge and materials mastered by these seven gatekeepers that he had passed through,

Attilan felt were very suitable to bring back as souvenirs.

When he returned to the forging gate, Attilan unexpectedly encountered the swordsmith who was hammering away at the iron.

"You little brat, you actually made it to this gate. Which gate is this for you?"

"The sixth gate. What about you?"

Attilan shrugged.

"I failed the assessment and can't inherit the power of the Rainbow Hero, so I plan to go back. If you forge the Rainbow Heart Divine Sword at this gate, you can learn about the Rainbow Hero, this legendary profession, at the next gate."

"How is it? Are you happy?"

The swordsmith's movements didn't change at all.

"Forging divine swords is my hobby. Let that taciturn guy be the Rainbow Hero. I think he likes being a hero and doing good deeds."

"I think a true Rainbow Hero shouldn't need to forge his own divine sword, right?"

It seemed so. Attilan waved his hand.

"You slowly hammer away at the iron. I'll go find the gatekeeper first."

Unexpectedly, after seeing the gatekeeper, he directly took out a large package of materials and handed it to Attilan.

Of course, there was also the Sea Emperor Tooth that Attilan had given him to upgrade.

"Look, the Sea Emperor Tooth after my upgrade. Do you like it?"

Attilan stroked the azure blue sword body and the light golden patterns on the sword.

"It's very beautiful. I like it!"

The gatekeeper widened his eyes excitedly.

"Don't just look at the surface. You have to carefully sense the power of the Sea Emperor Tooth!"

Attilan waved his hand.

"I am a dragon, and my most powerful weapon is myself. The Sea Emperor Tooth is just a ceremonial sword, which means it's just an ornament. The most important thing is that it looks good."

"In my dragon-human form, with the Sea Emperor Tooth upgraded by your technology, I believe it can help me deal with most enemies."

"For enemies that I can't handle in dragon-human form, I think using the Sea Emperor Tooth in dragon form would not only be inconvenient but would also make me seem unconfident."

The forging gatekeeper nodded appreciatively.

"I didn't expect you to actually be a dragon of the original body faction."

Actually, Attilan wasn't originally of the original body faction. It was mainly the teachings of the bear-man that gradually made him accept this philosophy of relying on oneself and strengthening oneself.

Once one gets used to borrowing the power of external objects, it becomes very difficult to endure the hardship of tempering one's physique again.

When he arrived at the herb gate, Attilan didn't see the gatekeeper but saw a pharmacist girl squatting on the ground digging for herbs like a groundhog.

"Cough cough!"

The ash-covered girl turned her head.

"Oh, why are you here?"

Attilan smiled and waved hello.

"The fifth gate, right?"

The girl exclaimed in surprise.

"How do you know?"

"I was eliminated and am about to leave. You work hard to pass the gate, and the next gate will allow you to boil the Rainbow Crystal Potion and fulfill your dream in this life."

The girl excitedly quickened her pace of digging for herbs.

"You're so violent. You'll damage the roots of the herbs, greatly reducing their effectiveness. If you keep doing this and damage the herbs I've worked so hard to plant, don't even think about passing my assessment!"

The girl shrunk back and carefully dug up the herbs.

The gatekeeper coldly threw a bag of herbs to Attilan.

"This is what the master promised to give you."

All the way out from the seven gates, Attilan didn't encounter the General, nor did the gatekeepers encounter him.

It seemed that the trial route of a true Rainbow Hero was completely different from the three of them. It should be at other gatekeepers that Attilan didn't encounter.

For example, archery and pet training.

Back in the forest, the bear-man looked at Attilan in surprise.

"Why has your vitality expanded to five or six times its original state, and there's also a feeling of floating? What did you eat?"

Attilan took out a Thunder Dragon Fruit and handed it to the bear-man.

"It's this."

The bear-man took the fruit and examined it carefully.

"Very good. Eating too much will indeed make your vitality float, so you came to me as soon as you got back because you wanted me to help you temper your vitality and restore your dragon body to its slender form."

Attilan widened his eyes.

"Master, as expected of Master, I haven't said anything yet, and you've already understood."

The bear-man solved the Thunder Dragon Fruit in two or three bites and clapped his hands.

"Let's begin."

Attilan hurriedly waved his hand and said:

"Master, you see, I just got back. Can't you let me rest for a while?"

"I see that you're panting heavily even after flying for a long time. Don't worry, I'll help you lose weight. In a month, I guarantee I'll temper your vitality back to its solid state!"

The bear-man grabbed Attilan's shoulder.

They teleported directly to a barren land outside the forest.

"We both have divinity, and fighting would cause too much damage to the environment. This place is more suitable for us. The energy brought about by our battle will instead stimulate the dead land to recover its vitality."

After all, they were both divinity on the side of life, which was very helpful for the recovery of the earth's vitality.

The bear-man roared like a bear, and in the blink of an eye, accompanied by dazzling silver-white lightning, he had transformed into a forty-meter Thunder Giant Bear.

"This is the largest form I can transform into. I don't know how many more years I can help you temper your physique."

If the size difference is too large, the effect of tempering the body will be discounted.

Attilan smiled and transformed into a forty-meter emerald green dragon.

The bear-man was somewhat surprised and delighted.

"I was wondering why your vitality had expanded so much. It turns out your body has developed again. Is it because of your adolescence or because you ate the dragon fruit?"

"It's the dragon fruit."

If his adolescence had started to develop, he would only need to exercise himself to make his floating physique solid again.

Attilan's face turned pale.

That's right, his adolescent development period was coming soon.

There was no need to come back and get beaten up!

Mad, Rainbow Dragon, you Barbar!

You just heard me mention the bear-man's methods of training me and deliberately made me come back, didn't you?

As expected of my good friend.

The bear-man's fist came again. Attilan had no time to continue thinking and could only raise his dragon claws, use Life Control, and fight back and forth with the bear-man.

Calling it a fight is flattering Attilan. At this size, he was purely being beaten.

Because Attilan had eaten too many dragon fruits, a large part of his vitality had actually accumulated in his body without being released.

The tempering time exceeded the month that the bear-man had thought.

At the same time, the effect of this tempering also exceeded the bear-man's expectations.

"How could your Gourmet Divinity also be tempered and improved so much?"

After being beaten for a month and a half, Attilan's expression at this moment also had some strange joy.

"My forging divinity, which is subordinate to the Gourmet Divinity, was actually hammered out by you, Master. It seems that it's different from the non-life forging divinity I expected. This time, I condensed the life forging divinity."

"This kind of divinity can be closely linked with the Gourmet Divinity. It's indeed more suitable than non-life forging divinity."

The bear-man asked curiously:

"Will that help you forge weapons?"

"Of course, the Food God Flame is used to cook ingredients. Don't I also use it to cook materials and forge tools? This success shouldn't just be because of this training between the two of us."

"My old friend probably also secretly contributed."

When the Rainbow Dragon said he would help him upgrade his Gourmet Divinity, he probably had already been doing it before he said it.

Evelee suddenly appeared in the training ground, her face not looking too good.

"Where's my rag doll?"

Attilan handed it to her awkwardly.

"I was so focused on training that I forgot. You also know that it's ugly to be fat, so I thought I'd go find you after I turned back into a handsome guy."

Evelee smiled.

"Actually, you don't need to rush to lose weight so much."

After saying that, Evelee turned and left.

The bear-man patted him on the shoulder.

"Alright, after you lose weight, go back and continue to improve your divinity. Gourmet Divinity is crucial to you. I and Old Rascal will keep an eye on the Zerg King's side."

"Be sure to wait for you to come back before condensing the elemental divinity."

Back in the Rainbow Treasure Vault, Attilan was directly teleported to the Rainbow Dragon's room.

As soon as he came in, he saw a super big pot.

"A forty-meter big pot, are you going to stew me?"

"Since it's the ultimate upgrade of the Gourmet Divinity, naturally we have to use the methods of gourmet cooking. I haven't been idle for more than a month since you left."

The Rainbow Dragon patted the big vat.

"It wasn't easy to make this divinity upgrade device! Alright, sit inside. We'll start condensing the flame and pure water divinity now."