Chapter 452: Miaomiao, the Overachiever
Ma Moxi reported the urgent news. Wang Yun had fallen in combat, and Ling Tianlong had been resurrected.
The fallen of Wang Yun and the resurrection of Ling Tianlong alarmed Miaomiao.
Instead of panicking or doing something drastic, Miaomiao maintained his daily life schedule, working 8 hours and sleeping 16 hours a day.
A month later after Wang Yun was thought to be dead, Ma Moxi and two nascent soul experts returned.
However, Miaomiao ordered them not to move out again, which baffled everyone.
He simply gave another order to Ma Moxi and gave him several baskets of strange fruits, which Miaomiao had harvested from Isolation Training Space farms. He added in new fruits, which had been unlocked after Miaomiao had expanded enough farmlands.
"These are Phoenix Dawn Cherries, Iron Vein Strawberries, and Fiery Yang Apples that I obtained from an ancient ruin. I know that you can make pills, so I want you to research or experiment with these fruits. Of course, you will get the royalty payment for the pills that you can come up with."
Ma Moxi was surprised that Miaomiao wanted him to concoct pills instead of going out or assassinating someone. He accepted the task nonetheless since he could enjoy a long break.
As for Zhang Liao and Qu Yi, they were reassigned as Ten Paths of Nirvana Sect's elders, and Miaomiao tasked them to record their cultivation methods and martial art techniques into books so that younger generations could learn from them.
Although the two former Yuan Shaoqing's subordinates were reluctant, they agreed to contribute their knowledge to the disciples. After all, they would receive cultivation resources, which they rarely got from managing their family businesses.
After dealing with Ma Moxi's party, Miaomiao received a piece of new intel from Emerald Hopea and Liu Guang - Their subordinate, a nameless Ant Queen from a Molten Flame Hive, reported to them that Wang Yun had transferred their soul into her General Ant's cocoon. She also expected him to be reborn after a year.
Miaomiao was relieved that Wang Yun, aka the mysterious transmigrator with Mad Mikkelsen's face, managed to survive the ordeal. Although Miaomiao suspected that Wang Yun might be a protagonist, he left the latter alone since the Devil never added him to the Protagonist Hunting list.
He would extract more information about Wang Yun's secrets and his unknown agendas later on.
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Two months passed by, and Miaomiao's armies continued to seize more territories.
Sun Wentai and Zhu Huifang proved their worth as they slaughtered Zhang Ren and claimed the southwest region of Aves Continent. From now on, Miaomiao could allocate his men to this mountain range region.
The Southwest Area was surrounded by tall mountain ranges and plateaus, which peaks were higher than Mount Everest in Miaomiao's world. At the center, the basin was rich with natural resources, such as forests, minerals, wild beasts, and rare herbs.
The Zither Tongue City, located under a plateau and next to the basin river, unconditionally surrendered to Miaomiao after they spotted the army of giant termites.
Fearing that the termites might start eating the local population, Miaomiao ordered Liu Guang to move her forces to Xiangyang next. He wanted her to cooperate with Dian Wei, so they could organize giant spider battalions in preparation to face Ling Tianlong's unknown fiend army.
Xiangyang, which was situated at the center of the Southern Region, might soon be transformed into a battlefield. As such, Miaomiao assembled a massive army of expendable bugs and insects there.
Meanwhile, Ma Moxi had succeeded in what Miaomiao had entrusted them. He created 100,000 Phoenix Panacea Pills, 50,000 Metal Element Pills, and 50,000 Fire Element Pills from the sample fruits.
Metal Element Pills were from the Iron Vein Strawberries, and Fire Element Pills were created from Fiery Yang Apples. Each of them contained enough element Qi for a 5th-stage cultivator to condense an elemental crystal!
As for the Phoenix Panacea Pills, they were remedy medicines, which could heal a cultivator from curses, ailments, or physical disabilities. Even a blind man would be able to see again once he had the pill!
These rare pills were added to the city merchandise list right away, and Ma Moxi got another job to do.
Miaomiao distributed them to his sect's treasury right away. He told Wei Yuan to distribute these pills to 5th-stage cultivators or promising disciples as rewards.
Wei Yuan, however, disagreed with Miaomiao. She sold a few pills in the city auction as an . Then, she made an announcement that Siren City could produce these pills, and those who were interested to purchase some had to pre-order them.
The demand for these pills spiked. Wei Yuan managed to sell each pill for 100 to 500 essence cores, increasing the city's treasury to the brim.
As for the leftover pills, Wei Yuan placed them in the sect's warehouse and set them as exchangeable contribution rewards. Any sect members who contributed a lot for the sect could get their hands on them for free!
The sect members and their relatives were thrown into an uproar when treasure pills became their sect's contribution rewards. Strong children got motivated and cultivated harder while workers, deacons, and non-disciples never stopped working.
Ma Moxi also got busier as he received a lot of royalty payments from the profits of the pills. He asked Miaomiao for more pill ingredients and mass-produced more elemental pills.
Because of Wei Yuan and the pills, Siren City became busy once again. More powerful cultivators were attracted to Siren City to purchase the elemental pills.
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A month later, Jia Wenhe also reported that he had finished his research, and he came up with five new pill recipes, which he could use with Phoenix Dawn Cherries.
One was the Phoenix Panacea, which Ma Moxi had made. The second was a Light Element Pill recipe, and the third one was a Fire Element Pill recipe.
The fourth one was troublesome since it was difficult to make. It was a Holy Element Pill, which required Durians from Cernun Tree as one of the main ingredients. Also, Jia Wenhe had to concoct it under the world tree as he needed the radiation from the World Tree.
And the last one, which might win Jia Wenhe a Nobel prize. The recipe required a gallon of Elixir Water from Siren City, a golden leaf from Cernun Tree, a drop of Cernun's morning dew, a liter of dryad's tear, and the drop of Fire Dragon's Blood Essence.
The unlikely ingredients that contradicted each other could harmonize and suppress the raging power of the fire dragon while they could enhance it to another level.
It was the Fire Dragon Bloodline Pill, which Jia Wenhe had already succeeded in making it!
Unfortunately, with his strength, he could only make one with a low quality. Its power diminished by 90% of what Jia Wenhe had envisioned.
Still, the recipe was enough to satisfy Miaomiao.
In the yin slave mansion lobby, Miaomiao gazed at the Fire Dragon Bloodline Pill in the sealed glass box and glanced at Jia Wenhe's proud expression.
"Wanna eat it, father-in-law?"
Jia Wenhe snorted, "Nope! Fire Dragons are not my things!"
"But your fire element will improve by a lot. Your alchemy fire will also get stronger."
"I prefer your Holy Fire, Miaomiao. Instead of giving me this shit, why don't you condense a Holy Fire Element Crystal with your element Qi, so I can inherit it."
"I'll become a dry mummy for years if I do. Heck, how many drops of my blood essence do you think I need to use!?"
"Why not? You can instantly regenerate your lost blood, no? A cockroach like you should do something useful other than eating, sleeping, and having sex for once. Come on, just create me an element crystal. I'll give you the pill, okay?"
"..."
Miaomiao rolled his eyes and put a vial with two drops of Fire Dragon Blood Essence on the table.
These were the rewards for killing Xie Tian at 600% and 700% difficulty. Miaomiao still had other items and skill books, which he had gotten from Xie Tian's clones.
Then, he stared into Jia Wenhe's eyes, "I have two extra drops of the blood essence, and I'll give them to you. Make me the perfect Fire Dragon Pill, and I'll condense a Holy Fire Element Crystal for you."
"Haha! Challenge accepted! Consider it done!"
Jia Wenhe laughed in joy as he took the vial of the dragon blood in glee. He also left the low-grade Fire Dragon Bloodline Pill on the table.
Miaomiao sighed and picked up the glass container to examine the pill. Even though it was low-grade, Miaomiao could still feel the tyrannical power of a fire dragon.
'Who should I feed this to? I still have two Fire Dragon Swords of Xie Tian with me... Meh, I'll just shove it to Wei Yuan and let her do the complicated job.'
So far, Miaomiao had one-shotted Xie Tian's clones with Holy Flame of Life. However, he failed when he challenged the 800% one, who was immuned to the Holy Flame power.
Also, there were other rewards, which he had obtained from Lu Fengxian's clones from the Protagonist Rematch Mode!
But Miaomiao felt like the items were not suitable for ordinary cultivators. Most of them had been handed to Ma Xingjuan, who inherited Lu Fengxian's will, memory, and knowledge.
'It's about time I condense more continents. I have to hurry and get stronger!'
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At night, Miaomiao returned to Isolation Training Space for another long year of training.
So far, he had lost count of how many years he had spent in this place. He felt like he already lived several lifetimes already, yet his physical body remained young forever.
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[Basic Information]
Name: Mao Miaomiao
Cultivation Rank: Mid 5th Stage (Foundation Establishment Realm)
Potential Percentage: 69%
[Energy Pool]
Current Life Essence: 3.5 Quadrillion Liters
Dantian Capacity: 3.5 Quadrillion Liters
[Daily Energy Regeneration Rate]
Two Percents of Max Dantian Capacity per Minute
[Element Crystal Level]
Holy Flame of Life (Continent): 50/50
Dragon Metal (Continent): 50/50
Dragon Wood (Continent): 50/50
Holy (Advanced): 25/25
Dark (Advanced): 25/25
Gold (Advanced): 25/25
Poison (Advanced): 25/25
Blood (Advanced): 25/25
Chaos (Advanced): 25/25
Water (Primary): 10/10
Lightning (Primary): 10/10
Earth (Primary): 10/10
Wind (Primary): 10/10
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So far, Miaomiao managed to condense extra element crystals as he had absorbed elemental Qi from Wei Yuan and vampire girls.
Wei Yuan contributed the most since she had such an interesting elemental power, which could distort or twist the laws of the world. However, its usage conditions were troublesome.
Miaomiao had to transform into an incubus first before he could use the Chaos Element Power.
Secondly, each usage always consumed more than half of his Life Essence Tank, including other element Qi in his dantian. Not only it drained his Qi, but it also consumed his luck energy, too!
And most importantly, Miaomiao didn't have the constitution and the natural talent of Wei Yuan. He couldn't fully recycle Qi and Chaos Element Power to refill his lost energy during combat like her.
Miaomiao concluded that this elemental power was exclusive to Wei Yuan or Oni Race since his affinity with the Chaos Element was lower than hers. Still, he had another way to improve his affinity with other elements.
The answer lied in his potential percentage and his new feature, which was recently unlocked after the nasty tribulation.
Miaomiao gazed at his Protagonist Rematch Menu. Currently, there were many names on it.
Xie Tian
Liu Bian
Lu Fengxian
And Mao Miaomiao!
He could challenge himself in this mode!
So far, Miaomiao only used his monthly quota to fight Xie Tian as he wanted the time-and-space power.
This month as well, he already challenged Xie Tian at 800% difficulty, but he utterly failed.
Yet, his clone's name was still lighted in green, showing that Miaomiao could still challenge his own clone in combat.
There was a new description in the menu as well.
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Mirror Match Rules
Unlike other Dead Protagonists, you may challenge yourself as many times as you need. However, the difficulty settings are locked at 100% until you can defeat him.
Defeating your clone in this mode will reward you a potential percentage instead of skills or items like other protagonists. However, by increasing your potential percentage, your affinity with various elements, skills, cultivation methods, cultivation speed, and abilities will drastically improve.
Current Potential Percentage: 69% (You suck!)
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Miaomiao closed his eyes to heighten his focus. He took several deep breaths as he used the second ability that he had gotten from the tribulation.
Battle Simulation Mode
This ability allowed Miaomiao to create a hologram image to simulate a fight between him and the opponents that he once met, fought, or conversed. Strangers couldn't be added to the simulation fight.
Miaomiao had already fought his clone once, and he lost miserably. Different from the tribulation time, the shadow showed him no mercy and destroyed him within five minutes.
Since he had lost once, Miaomiao tried to find a weakness of the clone. He tested it in the Simulation Mode.
He set up his representative's strength as 100% potential, and he summoned the Shadow Clone from the Mirror Match.
The hologram image of himself showed up, and the Shadow Clone with 100% potential appeared.
As soon as both sides were ready, they rushed at each other in close combat.
Unlike the fight between him and the shadow previously, both clones exchanged their skills and fought on equal ground. They sent flashy Death Fortress Sword Word Formations around while they distorted the nature law with their chaos element Qi.
Miaomiao simply sat there, studying the fighting style of both clones.
'To condense Chaos Element Continent, I need to increase my affinity with the element. To increase the affinity, I have to defeat my mirror clone. And for the sake of beating my mirror clone, I have to study the simulation match!'
He massaged his forehead and stared at the hologram, memorizing their tactics, strange movements, and combinations that he had never used.
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At a distance, Xu Chu spied on Miaomiao, wondering what he had been doing.
Upon seeing that Miaomiao was studying hologram combat, she shook her head.
Xu Chu had already learned some of Miaomiao's secrets and hidden power, and she knew about the clone combats. She even fought some of the stray clones whenever the yin slaves had a war game in here.
"Providence Bearers or Fate Bearers are not that strong, Miaomiao. They are just tougher and luckier than ordinary cultivators. What are you trying to achieve by condensing every freaking element into crystals!? Like, why are you stalling your advancement when your foundation is strong enough to support your immortal ascension. Chaos Element is exclusive an element of Primordial Beings, War Droids, and Ancient Entities. A human can't possibly master it, Miaomiao..."
Suddenly, Miaomiao turned around and glanced at Xu Chu as if he heard the remarks. His face turned dark as he imitated Anakin's expression.
"You underestimated my power..."
"... Okay."
Xu Chu rolled her eyes. Next to Xu Chu, Diaochan approached the former and giggled, "Let's watch him join the dark side, senior. Soon, he will evolve into something great."
"..."