Dragon God, immortal

It's a pity that she didn't inherit her father's magic, but only her mother's curled ears...

Ah, but Curly-eared pheasants are quite cute, Suju herself thinks so...

Can cuteness be eaten?

No way!

Bai Lan could only shake her head helplessly when she saw Su Ju giving up so much... Juan Hua founded a school, which fundamentally eliminated the inheritance system of the Cat-Eared Tribe and turned it into a situation where only the capable would take over.

A few years ago, not long after Sanhua's grandmother passed away, there were many objections from the older generation of cat-eared people who also came by boat. Some of them were even the mothers of the watchers. In order to prevent those watchers from objecting, Juan Hua even called Jin Ju, the principal of the 'Watcher Academy', over to calm the situation.

However, the older generation is just conservative, promoting the strategy of promoting the capable to power. The beneficiaries are their children, and the only one whose power is damaged is the clan of the "chief".

"I'm tired of the pressure of being the clan leader, so I don't want Su Ju to follow the same path... No matter what she wants to do, I respect her choice." Juan Hua said to Bai Lan.

Bai Lan sighed again: "Let's go for a walk outside. My two children have gone to be watchers. They will probably go back to Tegenqiu Island next spring. If you want to stay, that's fine."

"Well... I also want to go to Tegenkyu Island. Following Lord Shushan, I will never have to worry about food, clothing and shelter!" Su Ju immediately looked up and said.

"But if that happens, you'll have to rely on yourself for food, clothing and shelter. There's no production team on Tegenqiu Island," said Bai Lan.

"That's true..." Su Ju became discouraged again.

If there is no production related magic.

It's a bit difficult to support yourself.

So, Su Ju decided to stroll around Zhangqiu Island. She has reached adulthood this year and her physical fitness is above average. As long as she doesn't run into the deep forest, she will not encounter any danger.

Well, if we walk along Dragon God Avenue—who gave it this name?—it will be much safer, and we don’t even need an adult to accompany us!

. . . . . .

The center of Zhangqiu Island.

Sleeping Dragon Valley.

Well, the name Sleeping Dragon Valley is really good. If this thing wasn't a big hole dug out on the ground by a drunk earth dragon god for sleeping... it would probably be more impressive.

Su Ju's furry curled ears fluttered in the wind, and her pure white hair was stained with the afterglow of the setting sun, but her eyes reflected the tall silhouette...

It was a tall tower. No, it was not accurate to call it a tower, because Lord Shushan called it a blast furnace!

"This one is as tall as Master Shushan, right?"

Su Ju was deeply shocked.

Shushan is now 100 meters long. If he stands on all fours, he would be about 50 to 60 meters tall. The building in front of us is as tall as Shushan! Incredible!

"Wow! Suju! I didn't expect you to really come?!" A cat-man covered in black hair like a charcoal ball excitedly waved his hand to greet Suju.

"Eh..." Su Ju didn't recognize the person in front of her at first glance, but she saw the round ears at the second glance... There were many people with round ears in the production team, but there was only one person with black hair and round ears, and that was her father Hei Song. "Dad? It's so dirty! What happened!"

"Sorry, sorry. I heard Bai Lan say some time ago that you might come over, but I didn't expect you to actually come here alone... Are you not hurt? Didn't you encounter a grizzly bear on the way? If you encounter a grizzly bear, just throw the food out. They won't attack cat people..." Hei Song kept chattering, keeping a step away from Su Ju... Well, he was worried that the dirt on his body would get on his daughter.

Su Ju put her hands on her hips and looked up, staring at Hei Song.

The latter shut up angrily.

"Well, I don't miss you as much as your mother does. Come on! Dad will take you to see the masterpiece of our production team!" Heisong cleared his throat and pointed proudly at the blast furnace.

"Blast furnace...what is a blast furnace used for?" Su Ju was still amazed at the building in front of her. It was the tallest thing she had ever seen, except for the tree mountain, 'trees' and 'mountains'!

“Hehe, hehe, hehe…” Hei Song crossed his chest and smiled proudly, “My pure white little flower, have you ever seen the furnace that refines green stones in the tribe?”

"A furnace that burns green stones. I have seen it before..."

Su Ju thought for a moment and nodded.

The technology level of the cat-ear tribe is still in the Stone Age, but there are two cat-people of the older generation who know how to smelt copper. They recognized the copper ore called malachite, and then...

There is no more. A skilled watcher can manipulate sharp crystals. In the most extreme case, one person can cultivate 50 acres of land a day! When you have such a powerful productivity as magic, who would care about fragile bronze?

Oh, Shushan actually likes the malachite copper mine very much. It tastes very good. It’s a pity that he has almost eaten it all and the copper mine has been mined out.

And that day, Shushan, lying in a daze in the Sleeping Dragon Valley, thought about the future...

Shushan was wondering, how was steel made?

I was thinking, if steel is not easy, is iron very difficult?

So, under Shushan's call, he led a group of cat people to build a furnace and burned some iron ore according to his intuition! On the day when it was finished! Looking at the small iron beads on the ground, Shushan realized that iron was not easy to refine...

Iron smelting requires high temperature, coal, furnace, lime... It's not as simple as imagined. He thought it was as easy as written in "Essential Skills for Time Travelers". Bullshit, the person who wrote that book has never traveled through time! He has never even been to an ironworks or a steelworks!

The unyielding Shushan, after struggling in the Sleeping Dragon Valley for a while, finally used the red soil in the west to burn refractory bricks, and used the sticky juice of the [Earthbound Roots] to burn into glue, and built a toy-sized blast furnace.

Well, a height of ten meters is indeed a toy for him.

Rough and not resistant to grass.

Now that you have a furnace, coal and high temperature are not that difficult to get. For the former, you just need to chop down trees and burn them into charcoal, and for the latter, you only need [Flame Flower]!

After a month of hard work, he successfully made a pot of iron! Although it was just ordinary pig iron! But he did succeed in turning iron ore into iron!

"Pure metal, on the contrary, doesn't taste good. It's a bit sticky after crunching..." Shushan said after tasting it. The pig iron didn't taste very good. "But this slag, oh my god, this taste... Hey, come on, it's quite delicious?"

The smell and texture of the slag reminded Shushan of his first meal in his life, which was his eggshells.

Cooked food tastes better than raw food, and complex minerals taste better than pure metals...

This is the conclusion Shushan came to after tasting it himself...

Who says slag is not a mineral!

Chapter 24: The Deep Blue Sea of ​​Death and the Islands in the Sea

Infrastructure engineering is never easy.

Heisong has a deep understanding of this.

The blast furnace in front of us took many years to build... Before this blast furnace, the production teams built a brick kiln factory with the ten-meter furnace built by Lord Shushan as the starting point.

With the brick kiln factory as the center, a charcoal burning factory was built around it to burn specific wood into charcoal. After two years of burning bricks and charcoal, the blast furnace was built...

Thanks to the help of magic, the cat-eared people no longer need things like cranes. The production team members who are proficient in using magic can directly move refractory bricks weighing ten times their body weight to high places.

Well, each of these players is a heavy machine.

The productivity of magic cannot be underestimated!

"In fact, before you were born, we found iron ore and tried to smelt iron..." Hei Song and Su Ju sat in the distance, looking at the cat-eared people busy under the blast furnace, "But we failed very successfully! Um, it's totally impossible! We don't have the knowledge!"

"Oh, so they started burning green stones to refine copper, but copper tools are not as useful as magic tools..." Su Ju said, tapping her chin. She had seen those bronze tools, but to be honest, they were only good-looking but not practical.

"That's right. We can use [Polymerization Mud Magic] to make quartz sand, and we can also make quartz sand into crystal embryos. The hardness of crystal is very high, but its toughness is too poor and it will break..." Hei Song nodded. Bronze has a low hardness but it is still enough for mowing. "But later, we will still refine copper farm tools."

Bronze farm tools were not strong enough.

In the long run, it is still more durable than crystal.

After all, even if the metal blade is bent, it can still be used after being sharpened...

But once the crystal is cracked, it needs magic to repair it...

There are also watchers and production teams, all of whom need magic power to cast spells, and there is not much magic power available to make crystal embryos every day...

The most important thing is that not everyone in the cat-ear tribe is a wizard, and not everyone can cast magic. Only 30% of the cat-ear tribe can cast a spell in a day... Only 10% can use magic for production...

"Magic is the primary productive force." Hei Song stretched out his hand to touch Su Ju's head, but gave up the idea when he saw the dirty palm. "But we can't rely on being the first in everything. The cat-ear tribe without magic is definitely not a vassal of the wizard. I hope that the cat-ear tribe can rely on other things and stand shoulder to shoulder with Lord Dragon God even if there are no wizards in the future."

"Standing side by side with the Dragon God... and Lord Shushan?" Su Ju blinked and looked up at the blast furnace.

"Dad, I'm not trying to persuade you to join the production team, but I hope you know what we are working hard for now."

If you stand on top of a blast furnace...

Then I can look Lord Shushan in the eye, right?

. . . . . .

Shushan woke up from his dream, and he had that dream again, the dream that there was a dragon egg hidden in the spiritual world above the snowy mountain.

Hmm... the Dragon God, who almost never dreams, has a dream once or twice every year, which is enough to explain something.

"The Fire Dragon God of Light and Heat, the Dragon God of 'Light and Heat'?" Shushan opened his eyes.

He saw his sister's name.

Longshen Solar Thermal is expected to hatch within a few years.

Snow mountain, snow mountain? The Fire Dragon God was born in the snow mountain. This is fucked. That kind of place is definitely a disaster for fire dragons. The extremely low temperature will make all fire dragons feel uncomfortable...

"No, it's not extreme..." Shushan squinted his eyes, recalling some scenes in his dream, "Under the snow, there are a lot of igneous rocks such as granite and obsidian... Could there be a volcano there?"

As the Earth Dragon God, Shushan’s perception of rocks is never wrong.

The surface rocks can be roughly divided into three categories:

Volcanic rock formed by the cooling and solidification of magma;

Sedimentary rocks that have been eroded and condensed by accumulated water;

And metamorphic rocks that are formed after the above two undergo qualitative changes due to geological changes.

What Shushan saw in his dream was glassy obsidian formed by the rapid cooling of magma, which means that there had been volcanic activity there not long ago - at least within a thousand years.

It makes much more sense to think this way. For the Fire Dragon God, it can only be considered a somewhat bad living environment, but not a desperate situation... I believe that the Fire Dragon God is just like the Earth Dragon God. As long as he relies on certain places that meet his characteristics, he can survive.

Even if Shushan doesn't eat or drink, as long as he stands on the ground, he won't starve to death. Even if he stands on the bottom of the sea, he won't suffocate to death. This is his power as the Earth Dragon God...

"So, Guangre was most likely arranged to be born there, so that she could rely on the volcano to grow up, right? Hmm... don't our parents have a bit of bad taste?" Shushan sighed. They are not orphans, but are worse than orphans!

Of course, he himself is not much better!

The Earth Dragon God was born on an island?

What a joke!

Shushan climbed out of the valley angrily. Ever since he tried the feeling of sleeping buried in the ground, he couldn't leave this comfortable bed.

Although he was indignant, Shushan understood the arrangement after a little thought... If he were asked to arrange the birth of the Dragon God, he would also arrange for himself to be born on this island.

The reason is that Dragon Gods are real beings that possess divine power, and their every move affects the natural environment. Newly born Dragon Gods are even worse, as they cannot control their own power, so it is not an exaggeration to call them moving natural disasters.

If Shushan had no self-control and was born on a continent, well, disasters like ground fissures, earthquakes, and soil inactivation would be enough to wipe out all life on a continent.

But if the Earth Dragon God were to be born on an island, he would only stay on the island, as he hated sinking to the bottom of the sea, until he had the ability to travel far away from his birthplace… Even if he destroyed the entire island, it would not be a big problem compared to the entire world.

Presumably, the Fire Dragon God is the same. He will jump into the magma as soon as he is born. Even if it causes a volcanic eruption, it will at most destroy the area around the Great Snow Mountain... Of course, the premise is that the explosion cannot be too severe.

"Well, do you want us to reduce the mess we made when we were young?" Shushan sighed and scratched his mossy cheek...

forget about it.

Let’s have breakfast!

For humans, a perfect day starts with breakfast, but Shushan is a dragon and he only eats four meals a month, so... well, it should be okay to call the first meal of the new moon breakfast, right?

Tegenkyu Island is now self-sufficient. It's not that it couldn't be self-sufficient before, but now it has surplus production capacity. The annual food output is enough for Shushan to eat for a year and a half. Even if there is a risk event like the rust fungus again, it can survive safely...

But even so, Shushan still felt a little uneasy. If a large meteorite fell from the sky and hit here, would his Hand Root Ball Island still be safe?

“No, no, no, no matter what, such low-probability events are just groundless worries!” Shushan patted his chest lightly and felt the thick moss. “It’s better to worry about storms and tsunamis, haha… haha…”

As Shushan was thinking this, he saw a large dark cloud in the distance.

Bah! Crow's mouth!

What you fear will come true!

Shushan quickly quickened his pace and found Jinju and Jinxiaoju. Needless to say, the former had already started to build wind and rainproof facilities, and the latter...

The orange chinchilla tilted its neck. No, it didn’t have a neck, so it just tilted its head... The newborn fairy had never seen such a scene!

"Jumju, has the flood control channel been dug?" Shushan asked a little anxiously. Even though he knew Jumju's work efficiency, he was still a little worried.

"It's almost done here. The canals outside will be handed over to other watchmen," Jinju wiped the sweat off her face. She was already middle-aged and her physical strength had indeed declined. "But there's nothing we can do about the crops in the fields. Should we rush to harvest them?"

"Yes! Hurry up! I'll come and help too!" Shushan nodded quickly. That was his own field and his own seedlings, so of course he was more nervous than anyone else!

The chinchilla Jin Xiaoju was still in a daze, looking as if he had no idea what was going on.

Shushan thought about it, turned around and used his tail to pick up the chinchilla and said, "You've eaten so much of my corn, you should come and help me too!"

"Ouch!!" Jin Xiaoju protested while hanging on the dragon's tail.