Starting with watering the World Tree for otherworldly survival

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In the original Monster Hunter World game, Xeno'jiiva couldn't properly control ley line energy. But after being baptized by Celeste's divine power, she quickly mastered how to manipulate the ley line energy within her body.

His entire body radiated blue flame-like earth vein energy, and in his almost transparent chest, the semi-perpetual flames of his internal combustion organs shone and pulsed.

Her body, resembling a dragon made of crystal, was almost as beautiful as her mother's, yet possessed a completely different and strange texture.

On the top of the dragon's head, between the pair of translucent giant horns, six orange compound eyes flickered.

"my daughter……"

Unexpectedly, her attempt to accelerate the hatching process led her daughter to become a chosen dragon far exceeding ordinary Netherworld dragons.

The newly hatched Netherworld Dragon already possessed a body length of approximately forty-two meters, even larger than Qin He had anticipated.

Kulve Taroth is only 45 meters long, while Safi'jiiva is 47 meters long.

Before undergoing metamorphosis, Xeno'jiiva does not use the surname common to Safi'jiiva—Mephittoshiva (meaning pure soul).

Instead, they use Genoshiva, which is the "heterogeneous soul" that Kulve Taroth just mentioned, as their name or surname.

Of course, the vast majority of Gu Long's characters never used their own names or surnames in their entire lives. They were part of nature, living the wildest of lives.

"Hmm...Mom?"

Instinct, ingrained in its blood, made the Netherworld Dragon immediately aware of its mother's presence. Hua Chi transformed back into its true form as a Crimson Dragon, using its wings to envelop its daughter's newborn, transparent, crystal-like body.

“My daughter, from this day forward... you are Hua Deng Jienoshiva.”

After giving his daughter a human name, Hua Chi concealed his form and transformed back into his dragon girl form.

"Come, be like your mother."

The Netherworld Dragon before them possessed beauty in no way inferior to its mother, and naturally also had the ability to transform.

A loli girl with features resembling a Netherworld dragon stood before them, her body glowing with the light of leyline energy. Her entire body was a translucent, shimmering blue crystal, yet no bones or organs were visible beneath her skin.

Aside from the internal combustion organs that provide energy, and the scorching flames emanating from the center of her not-too-full breasts, there was her lower abdomen…

That was the small cavity of the tender uterus, and a gap with layers of delicate folds.

It was also perfectly connected to the completely naked, delicate, and moist flesh of the honeyed orifice beneath the bright lights, which resembled a hare's lip.

Because they don't need to consume anything other than leyline energy, they never excrete. The Xeno'jiiva's body... seems to only have these two visible organs?! No...

Looking at Xiao Hua Deng's slender, translucent waist, Qin He realized that she... was straightforward.

Qin He saw the entire path parallel to the tender crevice of the honey hole, so transparent that the smooth intestinal buds could be clearly seen inside.

"???"

You don't need the back part, so what's the point of growing these intestines?

Xiao Huadeng reacted when she noticed Qin He peeking at her body.

"Om-!"

As her long, crystalline blue hair danced, the earth's ley line energy erupted from her body for the first time. However, this energy wasn't used for breathing; instead, it caused a peculiar change in Hua Deng's newly formed, delicate body.

The rear path, whose purpose was unknown, could be freely expanded and contracted under the influence of the earth's energy!

Even the front cavity was actively expanding and tightening, repeatedly stimulating the translucent and smooth flesh inside.

Before long, the two holes in front and behind the lamp began to rotate and twist like a towel!

This frequency and feasibility are probably only achievable by women who are born slimes, and by characters like Zhong Liuxiu and Luxia.

Looking at the translucent belly illuminated by the streetlights, and the two tightly packed, rotating suction tunnels inside, Qin He suddenly felt like he had gotten an incredible bargain.

"Stop staring blankly. I can do that too, can't I? Your dragon bodies can't even do something like that?"

Upon hearing Hua Chi's complaint, Qin He immediately raised an eyebrow.

So all of you Safi'jiiva family are this high-performing?

"Let's not talk about that now, let's go to the demiplane."

Chapter 402 Green Scales (Part 1)

After bringing the mother and daughter Netherworld Dragons back to the demiplane, Qin He arranged a suitable habitat for them. Since Hua Deng was a newly born Netherworld Dragon, Hua Chi planned to keep her with him for a while.

We'll consider letting Xiao Huadeng go out on her own when she reaches near-adult age. Of course, this process will take at least several thousand years—the "loli shelf life" of the Netherworld Dragon is still very long.

"The problem with the Safi'jiiva has been resolved, and the Shadow Dragon that ascended to godhood is completely out of the question."

The Shadow Dragon, which had been lurking in the shadows, now has no chance of competing with Qin He for the Dragon Abyss Divine Kingdom. The Crimson Dragon is fully capable of completely annihilating it.

Qin He is now taking Zhong Liuxiu with him as they head deeper into the eighteenth level of the underground city—

The geological strata are extremely vast, and even the Valley of the Dark Crimson Dragon, which inhabits the area, only occupies a small portion of them.

During their journey, Zhuang Daihua and Qin Lan also secretly sneaked into the underground mine tunnels of Shallow Water City.

Today is the miners' day off, and only a few workers volunteered to work overtime. They stayed in the mine tunnels with some golems equipped with automated mining modules.

This means that even if Zhuang Daihua and Qin Lan reveal their true forms, they will hardly encounter any living people.

Qin He had specifically investigated and found that the average skill level of the workers in these mining areas of Shallow Water City was basically that of ordinary people without any cultivation.

Even if one or two strong individuals manage to reach the first rank, they are merely small fry. Qin Lan could easily take them down with her hypnotic breath.

After Zhuang Daihua's abilities were bound to Qin Lan's, she also gained resistance to hypnosis and paralysis effects. Naturally, she would no longer be affected by Qin Lan's breath.

"If the workers in the mine are ordinary people... does that mean that those golems are all very powerful?"

Mithril mines are incredibly valuable wherever they are, and it's impossible for them to be left unguarded.

"No, their performance is average, only at most Tier 3. However..."

Qin He sent Zhuang Daihua a map of Shallow Water City as an image.

“Once these things detect anything unusual, they will alert the guard regiment near the mine. If we get surrounded by the army of Shallow Water City… that’s no joke.”

Qin Lan secured the spatial anchor point of the demiplane to her back and used the Iron Dragon's innate shapeshifting ability. Without alerting any miners, they easily entered the underground mine tunnels of Shallow Water City.

Of course, Qin Lan had reservations about this method of transformation and infiltration. The reason was quite simple—

The form she took after entering the mine was a rodent, which she transformed into using her abilities. Because she was so averse to becoming a rat, she used the appearance of a hamster with an extremely short tail.

Although Shallow Water City has monitoring magic to ensure the environmental values ​​inside the mine.

However, many mining areas lacked monitoring magic and relied on rather simple, rudimentary methods, such as observing the behavior of rats and birds to determine the condition of the mines.

Obtaining iron ore is generally not a problem. Even without an entire iron ore vein as a reward for completing a quest, Qinlan can locate the iron ore using the innate metal perception ability of the sub-iron dragon.

"Qin Lan, do you need a lot of iron ore for it to grow successfully?"

Inside the demiplane ring, Zhuang Daihua was quite curious about Qin Lan's diet.

Compared to gold and bronze dragons who treat pearls and gems as snacks and only occasionally eat a few cartloads of them, iron dragons have a much higher demand for iron ore, while amethyst and crystal dragons also consider gemstones and minerals as their staple food.

With the ability to sense metal, even when young and wandering, Iron Dragons can obtain enough iron ore to sustain themselves as food.

Gold, silver, copper, adamantite, mithril, and platinum are not within the detection range. After all, giving dragons the ability to detect valuable metals around them at all times is tantamount to a disaster.

Imagine if metal perception included these precious metals. Then Qin Lan could sense pedestrians on the street and the money in their pockets even with her eyes closed.

Knowing that wealth exists but not wanting to obtain it is a torment for most dragons.

"Yes, it's absolutely impossible without iron ore. If I hadn't been an abandoned dragon egg, my mother would have provided me with iron ore from the moment I was born to help me grow..."

Using her ability to sense metal, Qin Lan quickly noticed the nearby golems. Avoiding the moving metal objects, she swiftly slipped towards an area where mithril ore might be present—

This is a mining area quite deep underground, and you can see that this part has just begun mining operations.

Some iron ore exposed between the strata, and mithril ore that Qin Lan could not "perceive" but could clearly identify with the naked eye.

All these open-pit mithril mines combined probably wouldn't be as big as half a brick. If it weren't for the fact that they shone even brighter than silver in the dim firelight of the mine, they wouldn't have stood out.

"This is it."

These open-pit mines are quite a distance from the golems in the mining area.

Furthermore, Zhuang Daihua could use the Banshee's Blessing to condense an energy blade, making it quite easy for her to cut off and take away these exposed mithril ores.

They possess the magical reserves of a young purple dragon, a young iron dragon, and Zhuang Daihua herself. In a few days, the purple dragons in Qin Lan and Zhuang Daihua's rings will also reach the level of the lower fourth tier.

Zhuang Daihua's current strength is definitely not as simple as one plus one equals two.

The Banshee's Blessing itself was stronger than unprocessed mithril. Amplified by the molten embers and the Banshee's Blessing, the energy blade began to cut with near-silent precision, much like a laser scalpel.

With a flash of sparks, the mithril ore, which shone even brighter than ordinary silver, revealed red-hot cutting marks as it was gently sliced ​​off and picked out by the Banshee's Blessing.

Changing into a black robe that completely concealed her figure, Zhuang Daihua felt very uncomfortable in the mine environment.

Although her physical strength has increased significantly, her physical structure is still human. Unless she uses the Dragon Ring to enter a half-dragon state.

On the other side, Qin Lan was also struggling with the large expanse of iron ore. Although she couldn't mine mithril ore yet, she was more than capable of dealing with other iron ore.

The problem is that the Iron Dragon makes a lot of noise when mining iron ore. It either bites the ore apart with a deafening roar, or it smashes the ore with its claws, wing hooks, and headbutt.

Either way, it generates significantly more noise than a regular miner's operation and could very well attract a golem.

"Qin Lan, don't panic. Use the Iron Dragon's digging ability to soften the soil and pull the iron ore directly out of the strata."

Previously, Qin Lan didn't have enough power to "pull" large swathes of iron ore out of the earth's strata. But now she's a twelve-meter-long boy dragon, capable of easily overturning a small car on Earth.

If the ability to excavate through softened soil is utilized, and only relatively small iron ore pieces are selected, then accidents such as mine tunnel collapses will not occur after the ore is pulled out of the strata.

In this respect, Shallow Water City did a pretty good job. The mine tunnels were sturdy and wide, allowing Qin Lan to crawl through them.

As the soil around the ore softened, Qin Lan pulled the iron ore out of the strata one by one. She could also dig out other small pieces of mithril in the same way.

Mithril is ten times the price of an equal volume of gold, and a piece of mithril inner armor suitable for a mage could be worth enough to buy an entire city.

The mithril mines in Shallow Water City are all intended to supply specific buyers.

The city's guard, composed of elite soldiers, includes powerful individuals of around the seventh rank. In the event of a large theft of mithril, the city lord of Shallowwater will seek assistance from surrounding duchesses.

Therefore, even though the mithril mine was right in front of them, Zhuang Daihua and Qin Lan only took a very small portion.

The green dragon and that mysterious, unidentified dragon were also eyeing the enormous profits of the mithril mine, searching for a golden opportunity to make a fortune...

……

"Hehe! Those damned humans would never have imagined that we could sneak in using transformation scrolls."

On the other side of the mine tunnel where Zhuang Daihua was, there were two sparrows that weren't in their cages. Hearing them speak in human language, it was clear that these two creatures were definitely not ordinary sparrows.

The transformation granted by the scroll was temporarily canceled, and the two green dragons, each nearly fourteen meters long, revealed their true forms in the mine.

"Hurry up, the mithril mine here hasn't been mined yet. After we get out of here, be careful not to let 'that guy' find us."

The "that guy" the young green dragon was referring to was naturally their "older sister," the seventh-tier mid-level adult green dragon, Golia, who was stationed outside the city.

"Gollan... keep your movements small! Our only objective is mithril. If we attract the soldiers and the 'watchdogs' of the mines in the city, you're as good as dead!"

The griffin riders alone in Shallowwater City were enough to keep the two young green dragons busy. Not to mention... besides golems and soldiers, Shallowwater City had other terrifying trump cards.

"Hmph... Goethe! Look at your cowardly appearance. This place has long been thoroughly investigated by our detection magic. Those foolish golems will have their mithril in my pocket before they even discover us!"

The two young green dragons bickered as they transformed into their respective human forms.

Not every dragon has an outstanding appearance; these young green dragons are quite ordinary-looking.

Like the whitewashed walls at a noble banquet, it gives people a clear understanding of the superficial work the two green dragons put on their faces.

Grand used magically cultivated plant seeds to summon resilient enchanted vines, temporarily sealing off the mine tunnels. Then, two humanoid green dragons wielded specially made pickaxes, mining mithril under conditions of complete sound isolation.

"Can you smell the iron?"

Goethe suddenly sensed something unusual in the air, but feared it might be his own hallucination.

"Are you out of your mind? There's so much iron ore here, why do you need to ask?"

The young green dragon, who had no dietary needs, had no interest in iron ore. As Golan further mocked her sister, Goethe instead folded his wings and crouched down.

"No, shut your incessant mouth, that's a different taste from iron ore! It tastes a bit awful... and a bit like a dragon."

Like the scent emanating from a dragon, this message made Golan hunch his back.

"What is this? You're probably trying to trick me into digging up more mithril for yourself, so you're stirring up this weird stuff here, aren't you?"

Faced with his sister's repeated taunts, Goethe finally began to bare his fangs:

“I said… shut your incessant mouth! Smell carefully through your nostrils. There are other dragons here besides us!”

Dragons have an exceptionally keen sense of smell, especially when it comes to stealing mithril ore, where the slightest mistake is unacceptable. They are extremely vigilant in everything they do.

"...It really exists! Could it be 'that thing'? It can infiltrate Mithril City?!"