Chapter 183 The Rise of the Dragon Clan is Not about Cultivation
Chapter 183 The Rise of the Dragon Clan is Not about Cultivation
Seeing the big hairtail in a daze, the little hairtail quickly said, "Father, this makes sense. If these two stoves can solve the parasitic disease that has plagued the aquatic race for tens of thousands of years, they should be promoted vigorously."
Princess Ao Lan is much more down-to-earth than Dragon King Ao Guang. She does not have so many social engagements, nor does she need to go to heaven regularly to pay her respects to the Jade Emperor morning and evening.
This dragon princess often transforms into the appearance of an aquatic creature and observes the people's sentiments in the four major sea cities. She feels the harm of parasites much more deeply than the Dragon King.
Parasites in the ocean can only bring harm and will not bring any benefit, even if they have reached a high level of cultivation or even become immortals.
Aquatic creatures infected by parasites will live in pain all their lives. After their nutrients and spiritual energy are sucked away, they will gradually become weaker and their reproductive capacity will decline.
Of course, there are many ways of parasitic infection. Eating cooked food can only avoid the infestation of some intestinal parasites, but it can already alleviate the pain endured by many aquatic animals.
From this perspective, the Dragon King should not only not ban new stoves, but should vigorously promote them. This is a benevolent policy that benefits the people.
"Alas, the Chamber of Commerce deserves to make this money."
The big hairtail smiled bitterly and said, "Fortunately, the price is not too bad. Master Wen really knows how to do business."
The mermaid girl smiled slightly and said, "Our boss said in the training class that only mutual benefit and win-win can lead to long-term cooperation."
She gracefully turned sideways, made a "please" gesture, and continued, "If the two distinguished guests are not interested in this underwater kitchen, you can follow me to see the underwater smelting furnace."
After looking at the two oarfish, the little girl said thoughtfully, "You two are deep sea creatures, so you should be able to collect a lot of rare spiritual gold ores on weekdays. However, the water temperature near the underwater volcano is too high. Without a good fire-avoiding magical power, it is impossible to smelt it into metal ingots, let alone forge it into weapons and armor."
As she spoke, the mermaid girl led them to a furnace with many coils surrounding it.
Pointing at the furnace, the girl explained, "The electromagnetic smelting furnace can solve this problem. Even without the water-repellent beads, smelting can be done in a sealed cabin. Because this furnace does not need to burn carbon, it will not consume a lot of oxygen, but it can still generate extremely high temperatures to melt ore and refine metals."
The deeper the sea water, the lower the oxygen content in it. The water-repellent beads can indeed push away the water flow to form a waterless space, but they cannot create oxygen out of thin air.
When the monks activate the Water Avoidance Technique, they will also enter a state of inner breath, and can survive without breathing.
But the fire could not burn, and metallurgy requires continuous high-temperature calcination. Even if enough fuel could be collected, there would not be enough oxygen to ensure sufficient combustion and produce high temperatures to melt the metal.
After searching through the ancient world, there is no such spell or magic weapon as "Oxygen Production Technique" or "Oxygen Beads".
If the Dragon King wants to refine weapons, he can summon fire-type water cultivators to smelt the ore using fire-type magic or skills.
Ordinary aquatic animals do not have this condition.
After all, most of the aquatic creatures are born with water bodies, and there are only a very small number of fire monks. These monks have serious production capacity shortages compared to the mineral reserves in the vast ocean, and are just a drop in the bucket.
The Dragon King had no idea what oxygen was, but he knew that it was very difficult to start a fire in water. Even in the waterless space created by the water-repellent beads, it was difficult for flames to burn.
According to the theory of the five elements, it can only be attributed to the fact that water can overcome fire.
Even though the water-repellent beads blocked the water flow, the flames still could not burn. It was understood that there was too much water vapor on the seabed, which suppressed the fire system, so the flames could not burn.
Forging can be done by cold forging, extracting metal from ore, but without fire, it would be extremely difficult.
Either use the fire-related magical power to create a strong fire against the current and forcibly calcine the ore on the seabed, or use the gold-related magical power to directly extract the metal atoms.
It's a pity that the great gold-related magical power "Elemental Magnetic Control Gold Art" that can directly extract metal atoms is only mastered by the Jinling Sect in the world, and the water tribe monks don't have this ability. The mermaid girl explained and demonstrated that the furnace was showing a red-hot liquid spiritual gold melt.
"Smelting is possible without fire? What's the principle behind this?" Ao Guang couldn't help but frown.
Dragon girl Ao Lan fell into deep thought, recalling the knowledge she had learned from the "Jiejiao Nine-Year Compulsory Education Series", and seemed to have seen a related chapter in the book "Physics".
She muttered, "This seems to be the secret method of Jiejiao to convert electrical energy into thermal energy. The principle is similar to the cooking stove we saw before..."
"Has Sister Daiyu also read Master Tongtian's set of creation books?"
The mermaid girl said excitedly: "Master, you are truly amazing. You are worthy of the wisdom of a saint. You can actually pass on the power of creation to ordinary beings to use, and give our aquatic race a glimmer of hope in the abyss of the sea."
The two big cutlassfish looked at each other, and a lot of information was conveyed in their eye contact.
"Dear guests, are you interested in trying out the products?" the mermaid girl asked expectantly.
She could get a commission from the goods sold, so naturally she expected to make some money from this reception, and she demonstrated a very high level of service attitude and professional skills.
The Dragon Girl thought for a moment, took out several hundred spirit stones from her bag, and said, "I'll get a set of each type of stove."
"Thank you for your patronage!" The merman girl happily took the spirit stone and asked, "Please leave your address. We will deliver the metal puppet to your door and install it."
"Just send it to Dragon Palace Square, and someone will pick it up there."
After saying this and leaving the mermaid girl with a look of surprise, the two cutlassfish turned around and walked out of the experience hall.
The Dragon King and his daughter swam above the abyss sea city, overlooking the brightly lit city below, and remained silent for a long time.
Ao Guang said in a deep voice: "Ao Lan, since you have already joined Jiejiao, why don't you go to Lishan and join the Jinling Sect."
Ao Lan hesitated and said, "Father, if a disciple of the royal family of the Dragon Clan joins the Jiejiao sect, I'm afraid it will be detrimental to your service as an official in the Heavenly Court..."
"There is no word 'living beings' in the teachings of the Chan Sect." Ao Guang said meaningfully: "The Chan Sect teaches people based on their talents. In the eyes of the Chan Sect saints, are our dragon race really 'talented'?"
"Although the lower limit of our dragon race is high, the upper limit is far from enough. We will not give birth to saints, and it is even difficult to cultivate to become a Hunyuan Jinxian."
"The most powerful person in our clan, Huang Long, is a proof of this. During the Conferred Gods War, even Ma Sui, a member of the unknown Jiejiao sect, was able to easily subdue him."
"From now on, if the dragon race wants to change its declining appearance of being bullied and humiliated, they can just practice blindly. I am afraid that the more they practice, the weaker they will become."
"Fortunately, you are a female dragon, and you cannot be the legitimate heir of the Dragon King. You can tell others that you were rebellious and were seduced by Wen Rui's beauty. Perhaps this will conceal your true identity, and the Heavenly Court will not investigate further."
"If I can learn the secrets of Jiejiao in the future, my water tribe may be able to rise with it."
The Dragon Girl looked at Ao Guang in great surprise. She seemed to have reacquainted herself with her father, who was known in her impression as reckless and weak. She never thought that he could say such words.
(End of this chapter)