Dimensional Tycoon: I Make Trillions in Every World
Chapter 86: Slime and Eternal Qi River

Chapter 86: Slime and Eternal Qi River

Noa had left the slime to see what would happen after it basked in a strong amount of qi.

The binding room worked on beasts.

So he wanted to test if the slime would be affected by it.

As Umbu lay in his spot, belly up and tail moving around uncontrollably, he neared the second cocoon.

The slime—or at least what remained of it—sat silently.

When he had seen it the last time, it was just a blob of mass containing all seven elements.

It even absorbed qi just like Umbu.

Now, this was no longer the case.

At first, the slime trembled under his gaze, each element stirring in colorful layers—fire, water, wind, lightning, earth, shadow, and ether.

Its shape looked almost unchanged.

However, Noa noticed that it seemed fuller, with a tinge of energy moving around its surface.

The elements.

The energy...

It couldn’t contain any more. It was leaking power.

Qi flowed in and out of the slime like it was nothing, forming what looked like an eternal qi river with infinite energy.

Umbu wasn’t blind to this phenomenon either.

He, while continuing to devour two different energies, looked at Noa.

Then he pointed his tiny claws at the slime, as if announcing, "Look what that bastard is doing!"

Noa chuckled at his reaction.

But his eyes didn’t leave the slime, narrowing to better read the situation.

"It’s... It’s evolved," he muttered.

Seeing the slime in its current condition, Noa finally understood what benefits it could bring to him and his store.

First and foremost, it actually operated like a qi river.

The slime excluded potent, clean qi and could increase the cultivation speed.

Prolonged exposure to its effects would naturally refine the body.

Noa wasn’t an exception.

He, too, would be affected by it, and though slowly, his body would still gain more vigor and health.

It wasn’t like a cultivation.

Just qi influencing his body from the outside, without even touching his meridians.

[Allow me,] the system decided to chime in.

Noa nodded, knowing that it could explain better than he could guess.

[Your idea of its first use is correct. But there is so much more. The slime can be a chaotic qi collector to refine it into usable qi across all elements.]

He was listening attentively when the system paused.

It was drawing words from somewhere, speaking slowly with a familiar robotic voice.

Yet the improvement was still there.

And each time it conveyed something, Noa was overwhelmed with a weird sense that he was conversing with someone with a sound mind.

It no longer felt like a mechanical entity.

And it continued explaining

[Prolonged exposure to the slime’s leaked power would lead to harmonizing conflicting elements within one’s body. That’s not all. It can also act like a mobile qi battery and power small chambers and constructions.]

"Like a power supply," Noa said. "But with every element."

The system had no means to nod at his words, but it didn’t argue, agreeing silently.

[Cultivators can drink the power he leaks to awaken their dormant bloodline or enhance an already existing elemental affinity. However, it won’t stop with humans.

Items soaked in its qi may mutate or evolve, and it’s up to you how you turn that into profit.]

As the system completed its long explanation, Noa stared at the slime.

Everything he had just heard proved how useful this little creature could be for him and his business.

He would be dumb not to use this opportunity.

But as a tycoon, he had no intention of killing the golden goose for a day’s worth of meat.

He would squeeze money out of the slime.

However, he would do it moderately.

Noa wasn’t some emotionless being who would torture this adorable slime just for him to fatten his wallet.

It was already leaking enough energy as it was.

There was no need for him to use it like a slave.

So he extended his hand to touch the slime, expecting a familiar coldness with it. To his surprise, more than one sensation assaulted his fingers.

Yes, the coldness was there.

But it was only part of the whole picture.

The warmth?

It was also there but the slime stung his every other receptor as well, sending pulsing waves through his every bone.

"What the?!" Noa could only exclaim.

Yet, instead of stopping, he extended his other hand.

Slime, with its blobby texture, covered his fingers.

Now it was time for him to experience brand new sensations, as his eyelids began to tremble in colors.

One for each element that flowed from his fingers to his blood.

Of course, they couldn’t reach his unawakened core, stopping because of his clogged meridians and dissipating without a trace.

"What was that?" Noa asked himself and the system.

[That’s weird.]

An answer came.

"What do you mean? Did he attack me or something?" Noa questioned again.

[No. It just left its mark on you... like an imprint. But his intelligence should be lower than that.]

"All good then. Perhaps he evolved further than expected," Noa said.

He sighed in relief and watched the two beasts before him.

One, as always, acted like his stomach was bottomless, devouring two different energies with ease.

Umbu watched the scene with amusement.

He even made fun of Noa as his hand was covered with sticky stuff, almost binding his fingers together.

The second one was the slime itself.

It still had lower intelligence than the dragon, but its eyes looked strangely friendly.

Funnily enough, they resembled curved strokes of ink.

And even though they remained joyfully closed, his pure and innocent smile gave an impression of a creature that had never known stress.

It quickly slithered on Noa’s hands, reaching all the way to his shoulders.

The moment Umbu saw this, he jumped out of his shell and leapt at Noa, glaring at the slime for daring to take his place.

"Stop it, you two," Noa said, trying to calm them down.

Then he stepped out of the room, walking into the store.

But the scene he saw with his employees and the guards went beyond everything he had in mind.