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Chapter 191 - 191 190 The Pearl is Formed

Chapter 191: Chapter 190: The Pearl is Formed Chapter 191: Chapter 190: The Pearl is Formed “Gah!”

The familiar cry sounded in the Gloomy Dreamland; three nights had passed since the Little Dream Dragon had digested the Ice Soul Pearl and it appeared as expected.

“Ice Cream, my good partner!”

“Gah!”

“Sword Butterfly, Thorn, you guys too.” Russell happily greeted the Little Dream Dragon and the two amber worms.

Then he mounted the Little Dream Dragon: “Let’s set off, the first thing we’ll do is measure the range of the Gloomy Dreamland… I ate an Ice Soul Pearl when visiting Grandpa’s house and now I’ve eaten another, that’s four Ice Soul Pearls in total, let’s see what changes have occurred!”

The initial Gloomy Dreamland had a radius of one hundred meters, a little over forty-seven acres in area.

He had successively devoured a batch of Ice Pellet Pearls and then three Ice Soul Pearls in a row. By the time they reached the Tributary River Mouth territory, Russell found an opportunity to measure it.

The radius had reached two hundred and seven meters, and the area had grown to two hundred and two acres.

Now, Russell rode the Little Dream Dragon along the “ruler line” continuously forward, eventually stopping at two hundred and thirty-one meters—The ruler line was something he had crafted using pebbles, pulling a straight line from the center of the bed, placing a pebble every meter.

By counting the number of pebbles outlined by the gloomy lines on the ground, he could determine the radius of the Gloomy Dreamland.

After some calculations.

Russell concluded, “The Gloomy Dreamland now spans two hundred fifty-two acres, which is an increase of fifty acres from before! The first time devouring two Ice Soul Pearls added a hundred acres, the second time one pearl added fifty acres, and this time again fifty acres.”

Russell could basically deduce that the Little Dream Dragon, with each Ice Pellet Pearl consumed, could expand the Gloomy Dreamland by fifty acres.

“Hmm, Wuyao Snake Manor has twenty thousand hectares or three hundred thousand acres… One Ice Soul Pearl adds fifty acres, which means it would take six thousand Ice Soul Pearls to fully expand the Gloomy Dreamland to encompass the entire Wuyao Snake Manor,” Russell mused with a smack of his lips, “Only six thousand Ice Soul Pearls, just six thousand Blue Skins, or even just five thousand… Eat one and sleep for three days, eat six thousand and it’s eighteen thousand days of sleep. How many years is that?”

Without doing the math, one wouldn’t realize, but upon calculation, it was truly frightening.

Nearly fifty years!

“Never mind, Ice Cream, we don’t need the Gloomy Dreamland to get that much bigger, right? It’s enough for now after all, considering we still have the amber worms,” said Russell. “Besides, as you grow slowly, the next time you eat an Ice Soul Pearl, you might not need to sleep.”

“Gah!” The Little Dream Dragon thought this made sense.

“Come on, let’s see how your speed has changed!” After measuring the area, Russell immediately urged the Little Dream Dragon to sprint at full speed.

After some rough estimation devoid of a standard, Russell felt that the Little Dream Dragon’s speed had increased by another five kilometers per hour.

It had now reached thirty-five kilometers per hour.

“Not bad at all, once we’re in the Snowfield, the search radius will be able to expand a lot!”

“Gah gah!”

“Don’t be in a hurry to stroll about, come, let’s go to the clam pond and take a look first.” Russell was still eagerly thinking about his pearl farming plan.

A man and a dragon landed beside the pond, and Russell searched carefully in the water.

Suddenly, a faint light flickered in the dark pond, barely noticeable, but Russell caught it accurately.

“Magic Light!”

Mounted on the Little Dream Dragon’s back, he laughed heartily, “Success, success, I knew it, artificial cultivation of pearls can work!”

He searched carefully again and found that in this pond, there were three faint points of Magic Light, meaning that three clams were nurturing pearls.

“This pond was all planted using fragments of old clamshells, looks like planting with clamshells is indeed effective…” Not resting for a moment, Russell headed to the next clam pond, and after some observation, he also found a glimmer of light.

In this pond, the clams had all been planted in clay granule beds: “Clamshell fragments work, and so do clay granules.”

He then searched through several more ponds one by one, all displaying bursts of Magic Light.

However, it was clearly visible that the pearl cultivation success rate of clams planted with shattered shells was significantly higher than those planted with clay particles.

“Unfortunately, there are still too few clams that have successfully conceived pearls. I had Rib Jimmy release thousands of clams, and almost all of the clams downstream of the Glowing River were taken by Rib Jimmy. In the end, less than twenty had successfully cultivated pearls.”

The probability was indeed a bit low.

No matter how much this cultivation efficiency is scaled up, it can’t compare to the output of a bipedal flying dragon, but the costs are definitely recoverable.

“In any case, this will be the specialty product of my territory… Pearls, since they are rare, they are valuable. A marble-sized pearl selling for dozens or even a hundred gold coins shouldn’t be difficult,” Russell thought as he stroked his chin, “At worst, I’ll have my mother and the noble ladies bring them along during their gatherings to help with sales.”

The pearls harvested earlier had magical effects that could whiten and nourish the skin, and once introduced to the market, they were certain to be welcomed by noblewomen, socialites, and ladies.

“Let’s go, Ice Cream.”

Russell did not linger by the pond.

He quickly rode the Little Dream Dragon, following the widened Charcoal Dust Road all the way to the small marketplace, and in the officials’ residential building, he found the Katie Sisters.

No human silhouette, only the fragmented light of Battle Qi.

“This is Catherine’s Battle Qi. It’s quite sparse, having carved out only three main channels of energy, all incomplete,” Russell shook his head as he looked towards another room with even dimmer light of Battle Qi, “This is Katie.”

Originally, Katie had carved out six incomplete main energy channels.

But now, the light of Magic Power emanating from her Battle Qi inside her body was so dim it was almost negligible, a result of the reconstruction process.

On the nightstand beside, there were eleven faint glimmers, the light emitted by the Magic Elixirs.

“Drank a healing potion, huh…”

Muttering to himself, Russell scrutinized Katie’s light of Battle Qi closely, using these lights to assess the damage to her energy channels.

Firstly, he planned to come over daily to observe and record the reconstruction of Katie’s Battle Qi, which could be summarized and utilized in the future.

Secondly, he also wanted to see if there was anything he could do to help Katie rebuild her Battle Qi and become a Knight.

“If successful, it would also make for a good story.”

After recording Katie’s condition of energy channels and residual Battle Qi, Russell temporarily found no way to help and continued riding the Little Dream Dragon for a stroll into the distance.

No gains along the way.

Suddenly, Russell thought of something, “Ice Cream, let’s go. Let’s fly towards Grotto Village and from there keep going south to see if we can reach the snowfield!”

The snowfield areas around Glowing Valley had been thoroughly scoured by Mr. Roman and the Knight Regiment. With the warm season arriving and the power of the Snow Demons declining, there were virtually no Snow Ghost herds left, unquestionably safe.

But Russell wanted to see if there were any lone Green Skins or Blue Skins wandering around the snowfield outside Grotto Village.

“If we could find them, it would also be good to enjoy a feast, right, Ice Cream?”

“Gah.”

“Speed up, let me see your top speed!”

“Gah!” The Little Dream Dragon flapped its short wings vigorously, desperate for a bite to eat, it exerted itself to the fullest, flying forward.

Unfortunately, the speed was still thirty-five kilometers per hour, not much of an improvement.

By the time they reached the snowfield, before they could begin a thorough search, Little Dream Dragon suddenly yawned unexpectedly.

Then its eyelids began to droop, “Gah…”

“Is it time already? Then goodbye for now… when I get the chance, I’ll come to camp over at the shaft in Grotto Village, and then from the shaft, we can fly to the snow…” Before he could finish, Little Dream Dragon had already plunged into the pitch-black world.

Russell’s consciousness also faded with it.